Crazy
by
Gnarls Barkley
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single
First released:
Mar 13 2006

Overview Edit

"Crazy" is the first single from Gnarls Barkley, a musical collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, and is taken from their 2006 debut album St. Elsewhere. It became a top ten hit throughout Europe, North America and Australia, in the first half of 2006, reaching number one of the single charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand and other countries.

The song was leaked in late 2005, months before its regular release, and consequently received massive airplay on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, most notably by radio DJ Zane Lowe, who also used the song in TV ads for his show. When it was finally released in March 2006, it became the first single to top the UK charts on download sales alone. The song remained at number one in the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks (which no other song had achieved in over ten years, and was only surpassed by Rihanna's "Umbrella" in July 2007) before the band and their record company decided to remove the single from UK stores so people would "remember the song fondly and not get sick of it." In spite of this deletion, the song became the UK's best selling single of 2006.

The song won a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance, and was also nominated as Record of the Year, which it lost to "Not Ready to Make Nice" by the Dixie Chicks. It was also nominated and further won a 2006 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song. The song was also named the best song of 2006 by Rolling Stone and by the Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.

The song was listed at #11 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s. It also was Rolling Stones #1 song of the 2000s. The song is also in the #45 place in the list of the best songs ever of Acclaimed Music. It was also placed at #100 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time.

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5 stars a CRAZY-good single!!
GNARLS BARKLEY's ( from the ST. ELSEWHERE album) first single, "CRAZY", was THE FIRST SONG TO BECOME A UK NUMBER ONE SINGLE BASES SOLELY ON DOWNLOAD SALES (on April 2)!!I recommend checking it out.

First some back story...

...Brian Burton was born in New York & lived in Georgia for a long time where his electronica work under the name Pelican City was released. He re-mixed work by local artists. From 1998 to 2003 Burton also created a series of remix CDs under the stagename D.J.Danger Mouse (i…
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Written by Kevin J. Loria
1 stars Awful
I bought this song for "Crazy". I thought it would be representative of the rest of the CD. I also thought it was a regular length CD. I was wrong on both counts. The other SONG on the CD is garbage.
Written by Elizabeth J. Novick

Track listing Edit

  • CD

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    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Crazy
    3:01
    2
    Just a Thought
    2:41

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2 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Apr 10 2006 in United Kingdom
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