Artist · chart history
Cuban Boys
Band Torquay United Kingdom Formed 1998
Cuban Boys formed in 1998 in Torquay, United Kingdom. Cuban Boys has 6 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1998–2001. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia”, which appears on 1 list and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Cuban Boys most often is John Peel (BBC Radio 1), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1999.
Cuban Boys came out of Torquay in 1998 as a gleefully magpie-minded electronic outfit and production team, with Ricardo Autobahn and Skreen at the controls. Their records are a sugar rush: breakneck electronic beats, samples stacked sky-high and chopped into cut-ups, and the band's own name dropped into the background of track after track, like a DJ tagging his mixtapes.
John Peel was the man who let them loose, spinning their sample-heavy dance tracks on his BBC Radio 1 show, and the success that followed came by way of EMI. "Oh My God They Killed Kenny", off the Blueprint for Modernisation EP, got them going in 1999. Then came "Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia", the cheeky, hyperactive single from the 2000 album Eastwood, which went all the way to number 4 on the UK singles chart.
Around the same time the Old Skool for Scoundrels EP brought "Flossie's Alarming Clock". Over the years the lineup also took in B.L. Underwood, known as Blu, and Jenny McLaren, Autobahn's sister.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cuban Boys on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia | 1 | #1 | 1 | 1999 | |
| 2 | Oh My God They Killed Kenny | 1 | #6 | – | 1998 | |
| 3 | Drink, Drink, Drink | 1 | #23 | – | 2001 | |
| 4 | Flossie's Alarming Clock | 1 | #28 | – | 1999 | |
| 5 | Vinyl Countdown | 1 | #29 | – | 2000 | |
| 6 | Theme From Prim & Proper | 1 | #34 | – | 2000 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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