Gnarls Barkley

On January 13th, a cool song called Crazy showed up on my delicious tag fred'spodcast.

I listened to it for a while as it is a really great song, and then forgot about it.

Last night at a fundraiser, my friend Mark said to me, "have you heard the Gnarls Barkley song?"

I remembered it from delicious and said, "yeah, its pretty good".

Mark told me its going nuts on MySpace.  He would know because his company Wiredset has built the Infofilter service that monitors the web for hot entertainment and other products that are "going viral".  Here is the Infofilter MySpace chart for Gnarls Barkley.

So, I decided to put the song back into rotation.  On the way home, I got the latest email blast from Bob Lefsetz.  And Bob's in love with Crazy too.

I smell a hit in the making.  You can hear Crazy at MySpace obviously and also on the Gnarls Barkley website.

I've had a hard time finding the rest of the record on the Internet. It's not out until May 9th. Probably the best place to hear the rest of the record is on the Hype Machine where most of the music has shown up from various mp3 blogs.

The highlight for sure is Gnarls Barkley's cover of the Violent Femmes Gone Daddy Gone.  Awesome!

I am definitely going to get this record when it comes out.

UPDATE: Will Stephens (a reader) pointed me to this story which says that Crazy made it to #1 in the UK charts without ever being released in physical form.  Downloads alone made it #1.  That's never happened before.  But it will again, and again, and again.

Comments

[Brian Breslin]

Fred, great find on this song, love the beat. now to see what pandora thinks is similar to this.

[Jim Van Fleet]

Gnarls Barkley is Cee-Lo Green and DJ Danger Mouse (of Grey Album fame). The most recent project that specs out the same is the Danger Doom record. Especially recommended if you like Adult Swim and/or MF Doom. Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine is also worth checking out, great record.

[Akshay Navle]

Gnarls Barkley will be playing at Webster Hall on May 22nd. Here's an snip from their Promo Info that is sitting in my email.

"Famous for his controversial experimental LP The Grey Album as well as collaborations with MF DOOM, Jemini and the cast of Adult Swim, Danger Mouse lends Gnarls Barkley some of his most resolute, imaginative tracks yet. Cee-Lo, the wild card in the respected Atlanta hip hop group Goodie Mob, spills his complex soul with the passion of the gospel greats and the creativity of a post-millennial Prince or Marvin Gaye. Together, they are invigorating and psychedelicizing the world, and New York will not be left out."

Tickets go on sale today (Wed, Apr 26th) at noon.

http://list.boweryballroom.com/t/6126659/47442210/69613/0/

[TKS]

You have cemented yourself as my favorite blogger with this one.

[rafi]

Aww, no mention? I sent the crazy and gone daddy gone mp3's to your yahoo inbox on april 18!

"I've had a hard time finding the rest of the record on the Internet."

You just need better sources then. It's been around for a while now.

[rafi]

"EXCLUSIVE GNARLS BARKELY CRAZY DAVE GHETTO REMIX APPROVED BY DANGERMOUSE & CEE-LO GREEN."

- Quoted from a message board.

http://www.Counterflow.com/gnarlsghetto.mp3
(the added rap verse inclused some profanity so don't click if that sort of thing bothers you)

[rafi]

Hey Fred how do you get your blog to automatically put the play button in on mp3 links? That's cool!

[Page]

Isn't the reason why downloads only can make it #1 because the measurment system was changed which allowed for that happen?

[Jason Wood]

Fred,

Great recommendation, I was just reading about Gnarls this morning. I presume you have Danger Mouse's album Danger Doom: The Mouse and the Mask? (It's a collabo between Mouse and MF Doom).

In any event, this is a "must own" album of the summer. Cee-Lo is pushing the envelop much the way Outkast did with Speakerboxx/The Love Below.

Keep up the good work, I have to love having a blog to read that covers two of my favorite topics in the world: tech and music.

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[Steve]

Rafi - appears to be the PlayTagger script from del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/help/playtagger

[Kenny]

Great to see Cee-Lo and Dangermouse finally getting more coverage.. in my opinion these are two very underrated musicians..

[Taylor]

In the future, I'd appreciate it if you didn't link directly to MP3s hosted on my personal webspace.

[Mister F]

Hey guys I just found the video for 'Crazy'.... Very Trippy...

http://www.smellybean.com/ViewVid.jsp?VidID=1064

[Brandon]

Yo here is a dope version of Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" by this artist Mateo

myspace.com/mateosongs

[Randall]

Dope version of Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" by artist, Mateo. Click the link below!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSwWu6ZqVho