A recent post over on Adfreak combined with the revelation that companies with DoD contracts are now basically exempt from standard SEC filings got me to thinking about all of the crappy corporate anthems I have heard over the years.
You know what I’m talking about. You work as some cubicle drone for mega global corporation and in order to further implant the idea in your head that the global mega corporation world is a better world and you are a worthless piece of shit they come up with a song to remind you each and every moment of the day. A song that they play in the elevators, on the phone, in the shitter. A song that those who have drank the Kool-Aid like to lip-sync or, even worse, sing, at every corporate outing, or when before you start you company-sponsored calisthenics routine in the morning.
A song that you hum to yourself as you look down forty floors to the traffic clogged streets below, pondering if it was all worth it.
Take heart, my friend. You are not alone.
The 2001 short film Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers by the Swedish duo Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson of Kostr Films. Kind of reminds me of this iconic scene from Jeunet and Caro’s Delicatessen.
You can watch more Kostr stuff on their website.
Delicatessen is finally available on DVD from Amazon
Dodge over at My Old Kentucky Blog has uncovered the secret to getting your band on the map. Cover Joy Division.
Love Will Tear Us Apart – it’s the new Freebird.
Although apparently Where Is My Mind by the Pixies works, too.
Scar Stuff has the entire Pink Panther Punk album for download.
Whuh-whuh-whaaaaaat?
Das right. An entire album of the Pink Panther covering songs that are most certainly not punk.
Here’s a sample:
- Listen to It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
If you really must have this in hard copy, looks like someone’s selling it over on GEMM.
You know how they say “ain’t no party like a Minnesota party, ’cause a Minnesota party don’t stop”? Well, they do. At least, I’ve heard some Minnesota transplants who say it when we compare notes. And if you can get Beight to play at your party, you’d hope the party would never stop. At least until you get hungry for some lutefisk and gravy fries.
Beight is Minneapolis area singer-songwriter Brad Senne, though it looks like he’s got a full band now, too. His music has that lovingly crafted, personal sound that Elliot Smith was so good at. Beight’s debut album File in Rhythm (2005) covers much of the best of pop: slightly dark-sounding pop gems, soaring poppy little brothers of anthems, loping ’60s era pop tunes, and tender shy-shy-shy-shy-shy pop-folk.
I bought this album for one of my favorite reasons: I had to. “Parallels” had been playing in my shuffle and I just had to find a way to send Brad some money to continue making music.
- Listen to “Parallels“
- Listen to “Junior High Smiles“
Send Brad some money through CDBaby, please?