The Wiggles! Yes you heard me, THE WIGGLES!

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No - they do haowever cover a Brian Wilson tune, "Marching Along' I think it's called.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

Inescapable, tho thankfully (?) our 2 yr old has not yet discovered them. Hi-5 thread next, Ned??

― Bill E (bill_e), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

The Hoobs are rocktastic, as Charlie said. How about them? Look out, it's a hoobledangler! Ahhhaaa! Ohhhohho!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

Hi-5 thread next, Ned??

Shitters, you beat me to it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link

a friend says he finds the remix a little strange but his 4 year old totally rocks to it colin!

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

Dude, how fantastic!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

Japanese Wiggles and German Wiggles = must see.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

There's a toddler living upstairs so I know all too well about the Wiggles.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

Regulars on our VCR (we have a 3-year-old). What I like best about them is they're a great antidote to Sesame Street/Barney -- instead of what are obviously big-budget productions with every i dotted and t crossed, you've got four guys in different-colored t-shirts up there in front of these competely cheesy sets and badly costumed characters, and it all works. The DIY aesthetic wins again. . .

― Jeff Wright, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

Now that America has discovered our favourite sons, watch their budgets skyrocket.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link

They're not as good as Ned makes them out to be. They're less obnoxious than B*rn*y, but only just.

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

Captain Feathersword suffers from unipolar(manic) affective disorder, without a doubt.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 03:40 (twenty years ago) link

i get the impression all the extra characters are like relatives of the wiggles. capt fs is obviously anthony's unipolar half-brother.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:03 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

C30

"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

also when the wiggles toured the usa a few months ago, one of the wiggles (not jeff... maybe anthony) stayed down under and had a proxy tour-ready replacement.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:07 (twenty years ago) link

I used to dance with my neice to them, she'd wobble about in front of the TV to Hot Potato etc. It'd drive me insane, I could never have kids haha. Hi-5 is even worse. Ravers dancing for kids? What in the world etc.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link

I never heard of them until a few days ago when I saw several of their videos prominently displayed near the counter at the drugstore. They looked really creepy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

WIGGLES

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 February 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

A friend and I concocted an idea in about 1994,the height of'Appy 'Ardcore in Australia, that we were going to start a kiddy techno act called Fun City (demographic: 3-7 yr olds) and blow The Wiggles off the map. It never happened. *sigh*

― thee music mole, Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

The Wiggles? The Woggles are where it's at.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

architecture in helsinki are the new wiggles. i saw it with mine own eyes

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

AiH aren't quite as colour-coordinated though.

they should do a split EP!

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Architecture in Helsinki ft. Dorothy the Dinosaur, "Wake Up Jeff!" (Colin S. Barrow metal techno remix)

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Wake up Jeff
Everybody's winsome

― thee music mole, Monday, 21 February 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

AIH are playing a freebie on the lawn at Sydney Uni next Thursday arvo/eve, I dare you to stage invade in a skivvy and, um, frenetically bang out some metal techno beats on the side of their tuba

(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

two weeks pass...

He's on Spicks & Specks RIGHT NOW!

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link

anecdotes about Jaymz Hetfield rawking out to a Captain Feathersword cover of Enter Sandman, and seeing Bon Scott's cock as a teenager

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

They have a song called "Wobbly Camel" set to the tune of "Should I Stay or Should I Go"!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

and they dance around in Saddam masks.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

WAKE UP THREAD!!!

The Wiggles "finally" hit the UK full-on...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link

All Europe is at their feet.

― moley, Monday, 5 December 2005 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i've gone off them.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks to Nick Jr Hannah is already a huge Wiggles fan. Now she wants a Wiggles guitar for Xmas.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link

All the U.S. is about the Fatt

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link

the us is 2 months ahead of the rest of the world

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

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 ring
sha la la la la
Brown Girl in the ring
sha la la la la la
Brown Girl in the ring
sha la la la la
we're pointedly being dicks about this
YES WE ARE!"

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 January 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link

three years pass...

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

seven years pass...

best band ever tbh

― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:35 (four 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 (four years ago) link

figured one of them got coronavirus when this was bumped

― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link

Funny, just listening to the Guilty Feminist people talking about them.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link

The original lineup played two benefit shows (for adults) in January, and Greg had a heart attack partway through the first.

wtf, get well soon greg

― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link

figured one of them got coronavirus when this was bumped

the wiggles are too good and pure to get coronavirus, how dare u

― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link

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