Universal
2005
Crazy Hits
About This Album
Before it was known as Crazy Frog, the European ringtone sensation had a much more accurate name: The Annoying Thing. This helium-voiced, bluish-gray, anatomically correct CGI lump -- which looks and sounds like an amphibious take on Hampton the Hampster -- became a pop culture epidemic in Europe and especially the U.K., with ringtones, TV commercials, pop songs, and other forms of (over)exposure included in its virus-like spread. Crazy Frog's popularity peaked that summer, when the full-length single of the "Axel F" ringtone, based on Harold Faltermeyer's instrumental theme for Beverly Hills Cop, topped the U.K. singles charts for several weeks and kept Coldplay's comeback single, "Speed of Sound," from debuting at number one (which might be reason enough for some to love Crazy Frog). Later that summer, the ringtone and full-length album Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits marked the Frog's arrival in the States, minus his tadpole. The album attempts to repeat "Axel F"'s success by pairing Crazy Frog with a rogue's gallery of pop hits that, in their heydays, were just as omnipresent (and almost as annoying) as "Axel F." "Get Ready for This" and "I Like to Move It" are silly enough in their own right, but with the addition of a little voice chanting "bing bong a ding ding ding," they're pushed into deeply stupid territory.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,5,7,10 and 11)

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