A cell phone ring tone is expected to top the English music charts!!
Crazy Frog
A cell-phone ring tone appeared set to top the British singles chart Sunday, outselling the new single by the band Coldplay by nearly four to one, a music retailer said.
"Crazy Frog Axel F," a ring tone based on the sound of a revving Swedish mo-ped, is the first tune being used on mobile phones to cross into mainstream music charts according to a Yahoo News article.
Also, the BBC reports on the inspiration behind the frog.
It is kind of sad to see a cell phone ring tone top the charts while our favorite music legends go unnoticed.
posted by Randy Black @ 2:32 AM
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As a younger guy, I realized that we did certain things primarily because it annoyed the older generation. I thought I'd always be hip enough to shake off whatever the future youth would throw at me. Of course, I was wrong. The first thing that bugged me (and still does) is the hopped up car stereos with bass that can be heard for a 5 mile radius. It is especially irksome in Iowa, where young white kids cruise with booming rap that romanticizes a world with which they absolutely no experience. Lately, I've heard the bass in bed as cars drive by on a highway more than a football field away. How silly. But then again, it pisses me off, I'm an old guy, and that's the idea.
The second thing to bug me were cell phones, and the culture that has grown around it. If I drive down town and it is in between classes (at the U. of Iowa) almost all of the girls, and half of the guys are babbling, demonstratively, on their cell phones. They get so caught up in their conversations about god knows what that they walk right in front of traffic. Part of me (the dark part) wants to flip one of these hand-waving ninnies up onto the hood of my car, but I'm sure I'd here "Oh my god, some fat guy just hit me with his car... oh my god... anyway, than Jimmy said he liked me..." I shouldn't just bash the youth, as the older folks screaming out very personal conversations in airports are not much better. This whole ring tone thing is the latest chapter. I bet some really cool melodies from classic rock will be thought of as great ring tones by the next group of kids, with no knowledge of their history (if they're not already known as a commercial jingle). Oh well, I feel better now. Sorry to rant on and on.
Could you imagine a radio station that plays nothing but ring tones. Ha! The cost of ring tones is crazy. One of the cheapest I have seen is $12 a month. I have never even been able to have a cell phone due to its price. (Let's face it. I never made money in radio.) The fact that cell phones charge a family individually and not as a unit makes them non factors for me. However, all my neighbors 7 year olds have them. As for the bass craze. I enjoyed it in early eighties stand up video games only. The only exceptions are Valerie is Sleeping by Stan Ridgway,a track from David Byrne's Feelings (Dance on Vaseline?) and Queen's Body Language. I wish I could influence the media. I could really help the satellite networks. Even they are lacking in formats. Be Cool Beez.
Don't get me wrong, I dig bass, and like some rap. My audio system has a 12 inch sub, and I like the Beastie Boyz and others. It's just the hopped up cars that you can hear a mile away. Your sitting in your home, you're sternum starts vibrating, you wonder if a helicopter is landing on the house, then realize it is a couple of teenagers driving by with 4 long-throw 15 inch subs a blazin... ahh, youth.
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