I Wanna Be a Hippy

In a 2018 interview with AT5 commemorating 25 years of Mokum Records, Flamman & Abraxas revealed that their remix of the song was meant to be a joke and for the song to get played on the radio. The duo also revealed that when the song first came out, the song was insanely popular at Amnesia, a gabber club the duo opened up in Amsterdam. It reached the point where the song was requested as often as five times a night, leading the duo to contact Technohead about remixing the song due to how frequent it was played. Additionally, they added that despite the massive worldwide chart success of the song, they received no royalties due to a swap deal they did with Technohead. They made this remix for Technohead, in exchange Technohead did a remix for them, but both duo's kept the rights to their song. DJ Dano, who also did a remix of the song that was sold alongside the Flamman & Abraxas remix, didn't get any royalties either because he also made such a swap deal with Technohead.

It was also revealed in the AT5 interview that the song led to the downfall of gabber music in general when "Gabbertje" by Hakkuhbar, also released by Mokum, was released, spurring a wave of "funny gabbers" that made commercial hardcore, which showed similarities to Flamman & Abraxas' style. Despite this, Jeff "Abraxas" Porter joked that because of the remix's success and the string of number-one hits the duo had with the Party Animals, "[They] took over Mokum like Trump took over the Republican Party."{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqyBWTh5Ec|title=How "I Wanna Be a Hippy" Became a Worldwide Hit (in Dutch w/ English subtitles)|date=13 July 2018 |via=YouTube|access-date=13 July 2018}}

Neil Kulkarni from Melody Maker wrote, "Technohead are probably novelty-gabba but it's fun to hear the pompous solemnity of Tresor-hardbeat applied to such determinedly juvenile ends." The magazine's Simon Reynolds described it as "a pop-gabba stampede with a daft nursery-rhyme punk vocal about pot which sounds like Poly Styrene, but is really a sped-up Sixties folkie!"{{cite magazine|first=Simon|last=Reynolds|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53624838962/|title=Albums|magazine=Melody Maker|date=20 January 1996|page=30|access-date=9 May 2024|author-link=Simon Reynolds}} In a separate review, Melody Maker editor Andrew Mueller said, "'I Wanna Be a Hippy' doesn't state much beyond its title, and it states that in a giddy, panicked helium-addled voice that raises the disagreeable spectre of Lene Lovich with a bat up her ballgown."{{cite magazine|first=Andrew|last=Mueller|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53623547861/|title=Singles|magazine=Melody Maker|date=13 January 1996|page=28|access-date=9 May 2024|author-link=Andrew Mueller}} Music Week gave "I Wanna Be a Hippy" two out of five, adding, "Could be a surprise hit along the lines of Rednex's 'Cotton Eye Joe'. Relentless, speedy techno that's proving a hit across the water."

Robbert Tilli from Music & Media wrote, "Just like their hippy predecessors, dance aficionados have already proclaimed a "summer of love"—that was in 1987. Now Amsterdam-based dance project Technohead is reliving the hippy rituals in more detail with its hilarious Dutch number 1 hit single [...] Living up to the city's liberal climate, it is an uncensored invitation to smoke cannabis."{{cite magazine|first=Robbert|last=Tilli|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1995/MM-1995-07-15.pdf|title=Technohead Celebrates Hippy Culture In Dance Era|magazine=Music & Media|volume=12|issue=28|date=15 July 1995|page=11|access-date=19 March 2025}} James Hyman from the Record Mirror Dance Update rated it three out of five, saying, "With blatant references to getting high and smoking marijuana, this novelty gabba-fuelled hit has already been number one in Holland, Germany and Austria."{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hyman |title= Hot Vinyl |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 23 September 1995 |page= 13 |access-date= 12 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-09-23.pdf |author-link= James Hyman}} Another RM editor, Tim Jeffery gave it top score of five out of five and named it Tune of the Week, commenting, "At breakneck speed, this is pop gabba with its tongue firmly in cheek and it's been a massive hit everywhere in Europe except here [in the UK]. [...] Deserved to be number one in the charts, no question."{{cite magazine|first= Tim |last= Jeffery |title= Hot Vinyl: Tune of the Week |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 25 November 1995 |page= 9 |access-date= 15 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-11-25.pdf}}

The music video for "I Wanna Be a Hippy", which uses the Flamman & Abraxas mix, shows three gabbers, who Flamman & Abraxas knew from Amnesia, wearing Mokum Records shirts chasing after a hippy on a bike through Vondelpark{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqyBWTh5Ec|title=How "I Wanna Be a Hippy" Became a Worldwide Hit (in Dutch w/ English subtitles)|date=13 July 2018 |via=YouTube|access-date=13 July 2018}} in Amsterdam with inflatable hammers. The hippy eventually escapes by walking into a funhouse mirror and disappearing. The video was directed by Matthijs Van Heyningen Jr.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9my9XiY62mA|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/9my9XiY62mA|archive-date=21 December 2021|url-status=live|title=technohead – i wanna be a hippy ( viva tv )|date=2 November 2016 |via=YouTube|access-date=16 December 2018}}{{cbignore}} Robbert Tilli from Music & Media wrote about the video, "Anyway, seeing the video with the Benny Hill-like chase will be enough to convince the sceptics that it's only a joke." Record Mirror editor Tim Jeffery commented, "If you get the European satellite music programmes you'll be familiar with this fabulously irreverant track because its brilliantly funny video, featuring ravers chasing a hippy, has been on heavy rotation for ages." In the aforementioned interview with AT5, MC Remsy revealed that after the song become a huge success, Flamman & Abraxas recruited him and the other gabbers featured in the video to form another group, which became the Party Animals.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqyBWTh5Ec|title=How "I Wanna Be a Hippy" Became a Worldwide Hit (in Dutch w/ English subtitles)|date=13 July 2018 |via=YouTube|access-date=13 July 2018}}

• CD maxi-single (Europe, 1995)

1. "I Wanna Be a Hippy" (Flamman & Abraxas Radio Mix) – 3:17
2. "I Wanna Be a Hippy" (Original Mix) – 5:03
3. "I Wanna Be a Hippy" (Speedfreak Mix) – 6:04
4. "I Wanna Be a Hippy" (Zippy Mix) – 4:17
5. "I Wanna Be a Hippy" (Dano No Sweat Mix) – 5:12

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{{Infobox song

| name = I've Got a Little Puppy

| cover = The Smurfs-I've Got a Little Puppy.jpg

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| type = single

| artist = the Smurfs

| album = The Smurfs Go Pop!

| B-side = One Smurfing Party

| released = {{start date|1996|8|26|df=y}}

| recorded =

| studio = Sound Works (Leeds, England)

| genre =

| length = 3:21

| label = EMI

| writer =

• Lee Newman
• Michael Wells

| producer =

• William Jackson
• Barry Corbett
• Frans Erkelens

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| next_title = Your Christmas Wish

| next_year = 1996

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In 1996, the Smurfs released a parody of the song called "I've Got a Little Puppy", which was included on the album The Smurfs Go Pop! as the third track.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-smurfs-go-pop-mw0001182576|title=The Smurfs Go Pop – The Smurfs|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=26 December 2023}} This version was produced by William Jackson, Barry Corbett, and Frans Erkelens and was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 26 August 1996 through EMI Records.{{cite AV media notes|title=The Smurfs Go Pop!|title-link=The Smurfs Go Pop!|author=The Smurfs|year=1996|type=UK CD album liner notes|publisher=EMI Records|id=CDEMTV 121, 7243 8 38289 2 0}}{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=31|date=24 August 1996}} The parody charted within the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number four for two weeks in September 1996.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19960901/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100 01 September 1996 – 07 September 1996|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=13 May 2019}} It was the UK's 54th-best-selling single of 1996 and was awarded a silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments exceeding 200,000 copies.

British columnist James Masterton wrote that "I've Got a Little Puppy" is "ridiculous" yet "so bloody funny", noting that the new lyrics take the track "into a whole new realm".{{cite web|url=https://chart-watch.uk/archives/1996/week-ending-september-7th-1996|title=Week Ending September 7th 1996|last=Masterton|first=James|author-link=James Masterton|publisher=Chart Watch UK|date=1 September 1996|access-date=26 December 2023}} Reviewing The Smurfs Go Pop! on AllMusic, Peter Fawthrop referred to the song as "obscure and delightful as freshly baked Smurfberry pie".

• UK CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=I've Got a Little Puppy|author=The Smurfs|year=1996|type=UK CD single liner notes|publisher=EMI Records|id=CDSMURF 100, 7243 8 83176 2 7}}

1. "I've Got a Little Puppy"
2. "I've Got a Little Puppy" (Xenomania club mix)
3. "One Smurfing Party" (radio mix)
4. "One Smurfing Party" (Fuzz Euro mix)

• UK cassette single{{cite AV media notes|title=I've Got a Little Puppy|author=The Smurfs|year=1996|type=UK cassette single sleeve|publisher=EMI Records|id=TCSMURF 100}}

1. "I've Got a Little Puppy"
2. "I've Got a Little Puppy" (Xenomania club mix)
3. "One Smurfing Party" (radio mix)

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