Try this on for Crazy
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
The first time I heard of Danger Mouse was when he put out the outstanding Grey Album. A mashup of vox from Jay-Z’s The Black Album & The White Album by the mighty Beatles. The fading giant EMI did not like this one bit and served our little mouse friend who was forced to comply. This again led to some tasty civil disobedience; Grey Tuesday (First Monday piece on this) courtesy of the good people at Downhill Battle. These people think culture has always been made by talented people who got inspired by other talented people, just like science actually. Imagine our world if scientists were not allowed to incorporate each others works. If you can go here. Then I’ll get off my soapbox for a while and just be happy that our little friend is now back with Gnarls Barkley. Their Crazy is appropriately the first single ever to go number one in the UK based just of download sales. Catch a fantastic live performance of it and check out BBC ONE’s bit on them.