Your New Cuckoo

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"Your New Cuckoo"
Your New Cuckoo.jpg
Single by the Cardigans
from the album First Band on the Moon
B-side "Country Hell"
Released9 December 1996 (1996-12-09)
Studio Tambourine (Malmö, Sweden) [1]
Length4:05
Label Stockholm
Songwriters
Producer Tore Johansson
The Cardigans singles chronology
"Been It"
(1996)
"Your New Cuckoo"
(1996)
"My Favourite Game"
(1998)
Alternate cover
Your New Cuckoo 2.jpg
CD2

"Your New Cuckoo" is a song from Swedish band the Cardigans' third studio album, First Band on the Moon . Released on 9 December 1996, the song reached number 35 on the UK Singles Chart the following year.

Contents

Formats and track listings

"Your New Cuckoo", "Lovefool", and "Hey! Get Out of My Way" were written by Nina Persson and Peter Svensson; "Country Hell", "I Figured Out", "After All", "Rise and Shine", and "Sick and Tired" were written by Magnus Sveningsson and Svensson; "Carnival" was written by Persson, Sveningsson, and Svensson.

A1. "Your New Cuckoo" (Hyper Disco Mix)
B1. "Your New Cuckoo" (Super Stereo Mix)
B2. "Your New Cuckoo" (radio edit)
  1. "Your New Cuckoo" (radio edit) – 3:30
  2. "Country Hell" – 2:45
  1. "Your New Cuckoo" (radio edit) – 3:30
  2. "Country Hell" – 2:45
  3. "I Figured Out" (demo '93) – 2:04
  4. "After All" (demo '93) – 2:36
  1. "Your New Cuckoo" (radio edit) – 3:30
  2. "Your New Cuckoo" (Hyper Disco Mix) – 9:24
  3. "Your New Cuckoo" (Super Stereo Mix) – 3:52
  1. "Your New Cuckoo" (radio edit) – 3:30
  2. "I Figured Out" (demo '93) – 2:04
  3. "After All" (demo '93) – 2:36
  4. "Lovefool" (radio edit) – 3:17
  1. "Your New Cuckoo" (radio edit) – 3:30
  2. "Your New Cuckoo" (Hyper Disco Mix) – 9:24
  3. "Your New Cuckoo" (Super Stereo Mix) – 3:52
  4. "Country Hell" – 2:47
A1. "Your New Cuckoo"
A2. "Carnival"
B1. "Rise and Shine"
B2. "Hey! Get Out of My Way"
B3. "Sick & Tired"

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of First Band on the Moon . [9]

Musicians

Additional musicians and technical personnel

Charts

Chart (1997)Peak
position
Scotland (OCC) [10] 30
UK Singles (OCC) [11] 35

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
Japan9 December 1996CD
[12]
United Kingdom25 August 1997
  • CD
  • cassette
[13]

References

  1. Sillitoe, Sue (March 1999). "Tore Johansson: Recording The Cardigans 'My Favourite Game'". Sound On Sound. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  2. Your New Cuckoo (Swedish 12-inch vinyl disc). Stockholm Records. 1997. 571 661-1.
  3. Your New Cuckoo (European CD single liner notes). Stockholm Records, Trampolene Records. 1997. 573 438-2.
  4. Your New Cuckoo (European maxi-CD single liner notes). Stockholm Records, Trampolene Records. 1997. 573 439-2.
  5. Your New Cuckoo (UK CD1 liner notes). Stockholm Records, Trampolene Records, Polydor Records. 1997. 571 661-2.
  6. Your New Cuckoo (UK CD2 liner notes). Stockholm Records, Trampolene Records, Polydor Records. 1997. 571 663-2.
  7. Your New Cuckoo (Australian CD single liner notes). Stockholm Records, Trampolene Records, Polydor Records. 1997. 571 485-2.
  8. Your New Cuckoo (Japanese limited 7-inch EP sleeve). Stockholm Records. 1996. POKP-9001.
  9. First Band on the Moon (CD liner notes). Stockholm Records. 1996. 533 117–2.
  10. "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  11. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  12. "ユア・ニュー・ククー | カーディガンズ" [Your New Cuckoo | Cardigans] (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on 30 August 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  13. "New Releases: Singles". Music Week . 23 August 1997. p. 33.