I Wanna Be a Hippy

The song appeared on the mainstream charts later that year, peaking at number one in Austria, Flanders, Germany, and the Netherlands and reaching the top 10 in several other countries.

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.

"[3] 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.

"[4] 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!

"[7] 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.

"[8] Another Record Mirror 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].

"[9] 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.

[44] 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.