The last time I posted here with a song that I’d gotten stuck in my head, we experienced some mixed results.

Sure, my support caused Amy Winehouse and ‘Rehab‘ to win all sorts of awards, including a brace of them Grammies that musicians like to collect whenever they can.

However, I also made the song sell so many copies that she got too much money and became an Olympic-class collector of rock cocaine, so that she actually did end up in rehab.

I don’t think that will happen with this song from Gnarls Barkley, though Danger Mouse is already pretty damn paranoid. Remix magazine recently had to cancel an interview article with him because he literally wouldn’t tell them anything at all about his gear or working methods. Knowing that I’m paying attention to him might push him over the edge.

And Cee-Lo already has a weight problem spiraling up. I’d hate to make that worse, maybe cause him to have a stroke or something.

I guess we’ll just have to hope for the best…..

Here they are doing a live performance in a galaxy far, far away.

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That’s not the version that’s stuck in my head, though.

It’s this clip from a live performance on Letterman, which resonates more than the album cut for me. It feels like the band on Letterman found the groove better.

Hopefully, Gnarls Barkley’s component guys will somehow survive and prosper despite my blogging about them, because they seem to have some interesting music in them. and they already won a couple of Grammies for the song and album last year without my help.

By the way, their next album, ‘The Odd Couple‘, is hitting the deck next week. Here’s ‘Run‘, the lead cut from it. It’s already a hit, but it doesn’t suck my brain like ‘Crazy’ does.