Rocking

For some reason, the BBC's copy of rocking the casbah has a mobile phone rining on it about half way through. This happens whether it's being played on Radio 2 in Manchester, or on Radio 1 in London, and is probably to do with the fact that a while ago the BBC switched to a digital music system, replacing CDs with digital copies of the music where possible. Of course, this doesn't really explain why there appears to be a mobile phone ringing during the track; nor even why it doesn't sound all that bad in context. Just one of life's little mysteries. A bit like Crazy Frog, I suppose. Except that there's a whole web page here devoted to explaining that annoying sound and its evolution into a crazy frog.. There's even a guardian article about it. Although I did still find it a little disquieting when I was on the subway in New York last weekend, and someone began playing with their phone, and suddenly the familiar strident tones of that sample began playing out...