"Damn, we make pretty good catchy little power-pop songs here in our college band as we study to be teachers of young kids, and it certainly helps that some of us already have had band experience before we met here at university. We could keep being a band but there are eight million bands like us in the world, actually."
"I've got it! Forget trying to be a conventional rock band of any sort, let's just be a kid's band, develop a show and concept over time that's like the Monkees meets Pee-Wee on more cocaine but less hallucinogens and become a rite of passage for god knows how many children here and around the world, thanks not only to our wacky ways but our characters like Dorothy the Dinosaur and Captain Feathersword!"
And thus. I only just heard about them this past weekend thanks to my friends' daughter's birthday -- she's two and is already prime Wiggle demographic (a good slew of her gifts were all officially Wiggly). We ended up watching part of the DVDs that were given as gifts as well, and you know, it really does work as described and intended. A lot of the songs ARE very Monkees-like in terms of power-pop singalonga/instrumentation but aimed at a young audience (maybe the Bugaloos are a better comparison?), they clearly know what they're doing and there's enough goofy stuff going on that you avoid creeping Barneydom bastardry.
Also, Jeff of the foursome regularly falls asleep and they have to wake him up. I like this as a character trait/gimmick.
So who here knows about them, in Australia or anywhere else, due to kids they know or early Saturday mornings in front of the TV or their own disreputable pasts in the early nineties? (They're apparently touring America as I type.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
Have you detected the ska influence? They used to be a ska band called The Cockroaches.
Also - I have remixed The Wiggles. It was my proudest moment.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
D-o-r-o-t-h-y the Dinosaur is my favorite.
― luna (luna.c), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
I like that dinosaur I do. We saw bits of the Wiggles movie and she was sad because it seemed that nobody remembered her birthday, aw. But then the magician stole the magic wand!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:51 (twenty years ago) link
They're everywhere. But not in England. Yet. We've got The Tweenies, and (What's The Story In) Balamory, and The Hoobs, who are fucking brilliant...we don't need no Wiggly nonsense.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:56 (twenty years ago) link
I like this because it fits in with my view of what they must be like off-camera -- not on drugs, but definitely like a good drink and partying.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
The remix -it's on The Wiggles Movie Album, track 23 or something - right at the end. It's a medley. It's unmistakable, becuase it's a happy hardcore track based loosely around "Can You Point Your Finger And Do The Twist". I have heard it makes little kids cry. My daughter calls it 'de silly song' and doesn't believe me when I say I did it -'naah, your just twicking me!!!'
My favourite Wiggles song? "Everybody Clap". Also, "Fruit Salad" is a fave.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
This new slang expression (to me) fills my heart with love.
I like the song with the 'take a bow' bit in it because whenever that line came along the above mentioned friends' daughter Emma would stop her happy dancing and indeed take a bow. It was a lovely thing. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:04 (twenty years ago) link
Funny, when I read that I immediately thought, "T-shirt!".
The Wiggles going 'appy 'ardkore is one of the scariest thoughts I've had in a while.
Now The Hoobs feat. Mike Skinner, *that*'d be something.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), August 5th, 2003.
Yes, Ned, that's 'Everybody Clap' - and that's why I like it too. A little three year old taking a bow is the sweetest sight on earth.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Bill E (bill_e), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:41 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
Shitters, you beat me to it.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
also i heard they are to run the wiggles as a kind of franchise deal. so soon there will be german wiggles, japanese wiggles, whatever. i nominate ned as the californian dorothy!!
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff Wright, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
It may be noted that my two-year-old has indeed destroyed my sense of humor, but i don't think so. Destroy Dorothy the Dinosaur. Destroy Captain Feathersword.
De-stroy. Kill all Wiggles.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 03:40 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:03 (twenty years ago) link
"get ready to wiggle""where's jeff""romp bomp a stomp""hot potato""capt. feathersword""the monkey dance""wags the dog, he likes to tango" ("he calls it 'rango'")
my brother in law is learning guitar so he asked me to teach him all my nephews' favorite wiggles songs, it was fun.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 February 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― thee music mole, Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
they should do a split EP!
― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― thee music mole, Monday, 21 February 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
(I chatted to Murray Wiggle at the Midnight Oil secret show the other week)
― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link
The Wiggles "finally" hit the UK full-on...
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Monday, 5 December 2005 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHSbrPZH4A&feature=related
― moley, Thursday, 29 January 2009 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Sailing Around the World! Actually in my itunes library so that I have kids music to appease the nieces with when I'm stuck babysitting them. It's an interesting concept album, at least.
― lyra, Thursday, 29 January 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
― Sarah Jessica Parkour (Batty), Thursday, 29 January 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a Wiggles version of "Brown Girl in the Ring" featuring a bunch of white children dancing in a ring around an OCTOPUS. I mean, it's almost like they're pointedly being dicks about this.
― nabisco, Thursday, 29 January 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
"Brown Girl in the ringsha la la la laBrown Girl in the ringsha la la la la laBrown Girl in the ringsha la la la lawe're pointedly being dicks about thisYES WE ARE!"
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 January 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Schemes!
http://gawker.com/5911293/three-of-the-wiggles-are-quitting-the-band-amid-accusations-of-machiavellian-scheming
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
At first I thought the new girl Wiggle was the girl Anthony was allegedly getting with, but this person appears to be new. But that or some other article claimed that Murry hadn't been touring with the group overseas, but he was totally there (here) last year, though Jeff was in the hospital getting a pacemaker put in.
All I know is that Sam got screwed. My kids are young enough that they don't know the first yellow Wiggle, but they love Sam.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
It's funny, my little girl loves almost any kind of children's show dreck but she doesn't like the Wiggles at all. One time their show came on after one of her cartoons and she said "Ugh, why is this on?"
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
best band ever tbh
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
The original lineup played two benefit shows (for adults) in January, and Greg had a heart attack partway through the first.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
figured one of them got coronavirus when this was bumped
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Funny, just listening to the Guilty Feminist people talking about them.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link