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Nokia ad featuring classic album covers Songspeaks all over the place
This UK ad for the Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic Phone makes a variety of classic album covers come alive by featuring an amusing conversation entirely in Songspeak. Titled ‘Under The Covers’, it stars Matt T and features album covers by Michael Jackson, The Doors, Guns N’ Roses, Elton John, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, David Bowie, and others.The ad is by The 7th Chamber in London.
Tags: 5800 expressmusic, 7th chamber, album covers, cell, david bowie, elton john, guns n roses, kanye west, london, matt t, michael jackson, nokia, phone, pink floyd, stevie wonder, the beatles, the doors, under the covers
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The Wrong Way
Ah, the summer of 1997. I had just graduated from WPI, and was enjoying my first academic free summer.I don’t recall exactly how it happened, but somehow, an impromptu road trip to Cleveland to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was planned. The participants in this trip were myself, Matt, our friend Heather, and Adam D. (now of Killswitch Engage fame).
It's just another brick in the wall, dude
There are many memories of this trip, including Matt getting a flat tire in the leftmost lane of a busy, traffic-laden 4 lane highway just before getting into Cleveland, requiring him to make his way through three lanes of traffic to put the spare on. And then having to bring his car in to get a new tire. Also, much to Heather’s chagrin, Matt, Adam, and I sang along with the entirety of Pink Floyd’s The Wall double album. We also swung through Canada and visited Niagara Falls on the way home.
Being the summer of ‘97, Sublime was just getting popular, and their song, Wrong Way, was being featured heavily on the radio and music video channels (when they still showed videos). So the first time I saw one of those highway signs that said “Wrong Way”, I sang, “Annie’s 12 years old, in two more she’ll be a whore…” I didn’t sing the lyrics with the song title, because it was implied. Adam laughed, and so I started doing it whenever we saw one of those signs, and Adam laughed every time, again, much to Heather’s chagrin. I did it throughout the trip, and although even I was getting annoyed, I had started something that was no longer under my control.That trip to Cleveland was awesome. As Ian Hunter once claimed, Cleveland does indeed rock.
R.I.P. Bradley Nowell. Your band was nothing special, but any song that contains the lyrics, “a cigarette pressed between her lips while I’m staring at her tits” will always hold a special place in my heart.
Tags: 90s music, adam d., adam dutkiewicz, bradley nowell, canada, cleveland, cleveland rocks, ian hunter, killswitch engage, niagara falls, pink floyd, road trip, rock and roll hall of fame, sublime, the wall, wpi, wrong way
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looking back
Pee, Pests, Premieres, Politics, Pink Floyd, Pinky and the Brain
Avast! The week’s past is ye a memory. As we hoist our anchors and set sail for days cometh, let’s recall the waters of the past. Aye, she’s a wiery one. Won’t you scrape th’barnacles of our tired rudders, matey?
What do you want to do tonight, Brain?
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia season premiere
Come on now try and understand… the way I feel, I’m the Orkin Man
Sizzle & Stir with the Celebrities!
Interview with R. Kelly a real pisser
A permanent lapse of Richard Wright from Pink Floyd
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live
And of course our interview with Mr. Andre N. Jones
Tags: amy poehler, cadbury, dark side of the moon, drumming, gorilla, hillary clinton, it's always sunny in philadelphia, Mr. T, pink floyd, pinky and the brain, r. kelly, richard wright, sarah palin, saturday night live, snl, the orkin man, tina fey
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last exit
A permanent lapse of Richard Wright from Pink Floyd
Keyboard player and founding member of Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, died today in Britain after struggling with cancer. He met fellow band members Roger Waters and Nick Mason white attending Regent Street Polytechnic (now The University of Westminster) in 1965 and played on every album except The Final Cut.Though dominated by Roger Waters and later, David Gilmour, Wright had a heavy influence on the band’s sound and wrote songs as well. Some of his more recognized compositions, like “Us And Them” from Dark Side of the Moon as well as his early keyboard and synthesizer work introduced the rich synth sound to other bands in the 60s and 70s.
From the New York Times
A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65. Wright died Monday, September 15, 2008 after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death… He wrote “The Great Gig In The Sky” and “Us And Them” from Pink Floyd’s 1973 “The Dark Side Of The Moon.” He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
Tags: 60s music, 70s music, 80s music, a momentary lapse of reason, dark side of the moon, david gilmour, dead, death, died, nick mason, pink floyd, regent street polytechnic, richard wright, roger waters, sigma 6, synth, sythesizer, the final cut, the great gig in the sky, the university of westminster, the wall
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Five songspeaks in one day… Nice
Sadly, I didn’t grab a screen shot earlier, but MassLive.com had a total of FIVE songspeaks today. FIVE. FIVE SONG. FIVE SONGSPEAKS. Kudos must be given whenever kudos are due.
Showing here is a semi-chopped kind of screenshot showing 4 of the 5.
Here are the five. That editorial staff sure is clever.
Tattoo you – Rolling StonesCareful with that Axe – Pink Floyd
Millions of Peaches – The Presidents of the United States of America
Message In a Bottle – The Police (this story ran earlier in the morning)
Well done, MassLive.
Well.
Done.
Tags: careful with that axe eugene, five, headlines, iggy pop, masslive, message in a bottle, millions of peaches, peaches, pink floyd, real wild child, rolling stones, tattoo you, the police, the presidents of the united states of america, wild one
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