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“Busy Child” by The Crystal Method

From the album Vegas (1997)

“Busy Child” by The Crystal Method appears on 24 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1997 and 2022. It was first released in 1997 on the album Vegas. Its best result is #17 on the WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #56 alternative song of 1998, #1,916 alternative song of all time and #287 of the '90s.

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#17best position
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1997–2022years charted

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The Crystal Method - Busy Child

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"Busy Child" is a restless breakbeat single from the Crystal Method's 1997 album Vegas, and it stands as one of the group's most recognizable tracks. Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland wrote it, and the Crystal Method produced and mixed it themselves. It reached No. 17 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

It got the video treatment at least twice. The original 1997 clip, directed by Lance Bangs and Eli Bonerz, leans mostly on computer graphics; the better-known second version, directed by Clark Eddy, cuts live concert footage together with clips from the Lost in Space movie.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1997 81 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 105
1997 93 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1997 99
1998 38 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 107
1998 70 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 91
1998 46 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 106
1998 40 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 101
1998 74 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 100
1998 17 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 102
1998 51 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 268 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 92 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 620 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 46 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 251 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 664 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2004 25 Q101 Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2004 146 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2005 545 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 79 107.7 The End The End Top 107 Songs of the '90s (December 2006) 107
2006 198 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2006 353 Live 105 Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2007 234 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2008 396 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) 500
2022 470 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498

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