Wild Thing

Name: Wild Thing
Duration: 4 min 25 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Country/Date
Official
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Wild Thing	1988 US
1.1	Wild Thing (vocal)	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Wild Thing	1988 DE
1.1	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Wild Thing	1988 US
1.3	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Wild Thing	1988 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Wild Thing	1988 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Wild Thing	1988 US
1.2	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	1989-01-23 US
1.9	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone Loc	Hits of ’89, Volume 2	1989-06-19 -
1.9	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Het beste uit de Top 40 van ’89	1989 NL
1.2	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	1989 US
1.2	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	1989 US
1.2	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	1989 CA
1.2	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	1989 DE
1.2	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	1989 GB
1.2	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	1989 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone Loc	Rap Traxx	1989 CA
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone Loc	Rap Traxx	1989 CA
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone Loc	Rap Traxx	1989 CA
1.2	Wild Thing	4:27	Tone‐Lōc	This Is Delicious: Eat to the Beat	1989 GB
1.3	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Turn It Up: These Are the Hits	1989 CA
1.2	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Billboard Decade of Music, Volume 2	1992 US
2.2	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Double Gold, Volume 2	1992 NL
1.5	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Amongst Friends	1993 US
1.9	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Totally ’80s	1993 US
1.7	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Entertainment Weekly Presents Hot Dance Mix	1994 US
1.9	Wild Thing	4:27	Tone‐Lōc	Sounds of the Eighties: The Rolling Stone Collection 1988–1989	1995 US
1.13	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Strip Jointz: Hot Songs for Sexy Dancers	1996-11-12 US
1.7	The Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Greatest Sports Rock and Jams	1997-03-18 US
1.3	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone Loc	West Coast Collection, Volume 1	1997-03-18 US
2.5	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Donna's Dansfolie 88-89-90	1997 BE
2.4	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone Loc	Magic Hip Hop: The Real Classics	1997 DE
1.6	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Booty Jams	1998-07-21 US
1.7	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Hard Rock Cafe: Party Rock	1998 US
1.5	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Hits of the 80’s: 1988–1989	1998 US
3.8	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	The Eighties: A Decade of Hits	1998 AU
1.16	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Budweiser Presents Frank & Louie’s Greatest Hits	1999-03-30 US
1.2	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Back in tha Day 2	1999-09-21 US
1.4	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	MTV the First 1000 Years: Hip-Hop	1999-11-02 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Delicious Vinyl: Waxing Off: The First Decade	1999-11-23 US
1.9	Wild Thing	4:22	Tone‐Lōc	Party of the Millennium	1999-12-29 US
2.1	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Monsters of Rap	1999 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	New Millennium Hip-Hop Party	2000-04-25 US
1.9	Wild Thing	4:27	Tone‐Lōc	Monsters of Rap, Volume 1	2000-07-25 US
1.4	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Rhino Instant Party: Hot! Hot! Hot!	2001-04-17 US
1.4	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	The Animal	2001-06-05 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Waxing Off: Delicious Vinyl's Greatest Hits	2001-07-03 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Bust a Move: The Best of Old School	2002-05-07 US
1.10	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Rhythm + Grooves	2002 US
1.7	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Ice T Presents Westside	2003-04-05 GB
1.1	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Wild Thing & Other Hits	2003-10-13 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Hip Hop Original Masters	2003 US
2.3	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Hip Hop ’n’ Cool	2004-07-26 GB
1.7	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Ultimate Hip-Hop (30th Anniversary Collection)	2005 US
1.8	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Tommy Boy Presents: Hip Hop Essentials, Volume 6 (1979-1991)	2006-01-24 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Party Starter: Hip Hop Mix	2006 -
1.12	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone Loc	Floorfillers III	2007 AU
2.12	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	RMXXOLOGY	2008-06-03 US
2.12	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	RMXXOLOGY (Deluxe Edition)	2008-11-04 US
2.1	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Alle Hits!: Die 80er	2008 DE
3.3	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Out Come the Freaks! An Island Post Punk Anthology	2009-10-19 GB
1.2	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	2012 US
3.17	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Anthems: Hip-Hop IV	2014-02-03 GB
1.2	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc‐ed After Dark	2014-09-09 XW
1.2	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc‐ed After Dark (expanded edition)	2014-09-23 XW
1.9	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	The Angry Birds Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	2016-05-06 XW
1.9	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone Loc	The Angry Birds Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	2016-05-06 US
1.9	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	The Angry Birds Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	2016-05-06 DZ 2016-05-06 AO (show 138 more) 2016-05-06 ZW
1.27	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	’80s	2016-07-07 XW
1.55	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone-Loc	Throwback: Hip Hop (unmixed + mixes)	2017-06-02 GB
2.6	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Kontor - Top of the Clubs - Electric 80s Vol. 2	2020 DE
4.8	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap (explicit)	2021-08-20 US
2.14	Wild Thing	4:27	Tone‐Lōc	80’s Gold: Club ’80s	- US
1.8	Wild Thing	4:24	Tone‐Lōc	Booty Time
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Hip Hop 2
1.2	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc-ed After Dark	- XE
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Millennium Hip-Hop Party, Volume 2
1.1	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Rap's Biggest Hits
1.9	Wild Thing	4:27	Tone‐Lōc	The 80's Mix	- AU
Promotion
1.2	Wild Thing	?:??	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc'ed After Dark	1989 US
1.3	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	CDNOW Presents Ten 14	1998 US
1.1	Wild Thing	4:26	Tone‐Lōc	Norelco Power Clips	1998 -
Bootleg
1.17	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Dark Angel: The Ultimate Soundtrack
Withdrawn
1.2	Wild Thing	4:23	Tone‐Lōc	Lōc‐ed After Dark	2009 US
(unknown)
1.9	Wild Thing	4:27	Tone‐Lōc	Rock the First, Volume Six	1992 US
1.4	Wild Thing	4:25	Tone‐Lōc	Fan Jams - Fox Sports Radio	2005-10-11 US

Relationships

engineer:	Mario Caldato Jr.
producer and mixer:	Matt Dike Michael Ross
arranger:	Matt Dike Michael Ross

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	The Bicycle Music Company (in 1989)

sampled by:	My Humps by The Black Eyed Peas No Woman No Cry by Bingoboys
samples:	Jamie’s Cryin’ by Van Halen
mash-ups:	Atom Wild Thing (Nari & Milani vs. Tone‐Lōc) by DJ Schmolli Atom Wild Thing (Nari & Milani vs. Tone‐Lōc) by DJ Schmolli Lick It Wild Thing (KISS vs. Tone‐Lōc vs. 20 Fingers) by DJ Schmolli Wyld Ignition Thang (Pocketknife's Oh Pee Pee Masher) by Flagrant Fowl Do Your Thang by E-603 (order: 7)

part of:	VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s (number: 90) (order: 90)

purchase for download:	https://music.apple.com/gb/song/1440904848 [info] https://music.apple.com/us/song/1440804415 [info] https://music.apple.com/us/song/1440904848 [info]
stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/track/0gljI0CtjpdZK6ecidfxto [info] https://open.spotify.com/track/77KVmCUtgeNGoXRzzp7bF6 [info] https://www.deezer.com/track/84364029 [info] https://www.deezer.com/track/88261877 [info]
streaming page:	https://music.apple.com/gb/song/1440904848 [info] https://music.apple.com/us/song/1440804415 [info] https://music.apple.com/us/song/1440904848 [info] https://tidal.com/track/34170340 [info] https://tidal.com/track/35906491 [info]

recording of:	Wild Thing

Wild Thing

writer:	Anthony Smith Matt Dike Marvin Young Michael Ross

later parody versions:	Child King Isle Thing

Wild Thing

Genres: classic rock, easy listening, electronic, pop, pop rap

Other tags: hip hop rap, west coast rap

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Wild Thing

Wild Thing

Genres: classic rock, easy listening, electronic, pop, pop rap

Other tags: hip hop rap, west coast rap

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Wild Thing