Going for a select audience there: People with the same name as the artist...
― Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
'Is Your Name Leonard Cohen?'
From time to time you get the feeling that you want to disengage yourself from your life. Because you're no different from anyone else. And because your life is filled with the same love and the same hate and the same beauty and the same ugliness as everyone else's.
You want to withdraw into some kind of solitary contemplation -- a locked room or a quiet corner of your mind just to think about everything for a while. You. Her. It. That. Them.
If you put it all down on paper according to a form of meter and line, you're called a poet.
And if you're a poet who sets it all to music, then your name is Leonard Cohen.
And this is your second album of--for want of a better word--songs.
And these are your songs from a room.On Columbia Records
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
That Frankie ad is fucking great! I love Billy Corgan's, too, the text reads like he is running for county commissioner.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
So glad the Cohen album is not called "Songs--for want of a better word--from a room."
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like there could probably be a great mad men-style show about PR departments at record labels in the late 1960s.
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.worthpoint.com/pmimages/images1/1/0807/22/1_e00baa61c172d2070c1355f0d2f2d94f.jpg
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
tyler be aware that at this moment there are network execs haranguing their drones to "get me the next mad men" and the one that gets it will be a period piece from a different era with readily i.d'able costume/prop scenarios
what I'm saying is given that there could be subplots involving rock stars (more of that costume/character stuff people go nuts for) you should probably draft a pitch and get it to somebody
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 18 October 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember a line from Julian Cope's autobiography where he says something like:
"People naturally assume Record Label people have some sort of respect for the artists on their label. This is hardly ever true"
― Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I think tyler's series should end in 1975 - the year of Fogelberg.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
do you guys think "All Roads Lead To Fogelberg" is a good title y/n
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Dylan Boyz II Fogel Men
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Found this when looking for something else:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NzM2oX8JzJY/TJQEH1Fyv0I/AAAAAAAACdw/ZY4pYbOaiyQ/s400/ad_cassette.jpeg
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
aw, those lil beegees, so cute
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
tyler, aerosmith otm, that could be a great show
― dude (del), Monday, 18 October 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
already have my opening line for the pitch: "'Mad Men' on acid -- literally!!"
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
WOW at that 'but the man can't bust our music' ad
as soon as I get out of this jail, I'm going to go back home and finish listening to my Terry Riley, Walter Carlos, Varese & Stockhausen albums and I think I'll also pick up those two new recordings of music by Charles Ives
(that is still the best recording of the Concord Sonata btw and it is still out of print)
― Milton Parker, Monday, 18 October 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Wish I could find the audio for that old radio spot for the third Velvet Underground album read by WNEW-FM DJ Rosko, the text of which fits the aesthetic of this thread.
― THE BOSS aka the steenspringer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got that file--one for White Light/White Heat, too. I'll see if I can upload them to my site.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually worked:
White Light/White Heat3rd
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool thanks.
― THE BOSS aka the steenspringer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow..."The Velvet Underground...this is you." So Christine O'Donnell's biting from them as well as Antoine Dodson!
― Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"Yet if your name is Mort Cohen, they don't call you a poet.You're just an ad copy man to them. Sure, you bring home a nice check,have a few whiskey sours on the company account after work,fly to Los Angeles for client meetings every now and then,but does anyone recognize your talent?They don't care that you got the Midol accountThe West Village girls aren't interested in how many Band-Aids your last campaign sold.And they don't care that you wrote this adfor a bunch of songsby some jerkoff named Leonard."
― Katy Lied, Lady Died (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i54.tinypic.com/250p3dk.jpg
― shart for shart's sake (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/qp426v.jpg
― shart for shart's sake (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.hollowearth.org/images/the_inner_sleeve/moondog.jpg
― (+) (+ +), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
^^poll that
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/nnty5h.jpg
― shart for shart's sake (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Broken one from initial post:http://anita-russell.com/Anita_pics/BlackBlueAd.jpg
Same album, Different angle:
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/uploads/RobertWhite/2010-02-27_203635_1976RollingStonesBlackAndBlueComicB.jpg
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/e0wa3bkmiy23dl.jpg
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/sg84xqueq4c6s5.jpg
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://file.vintageadbrowser.com/l3hh075f26jw24.jpg
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/epicfull.jpg
http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/fleetwoodmacfull.jpg
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Nugent on Fender
― (+) (+ +), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"That's enough to give my audiences a preview of World War III"
Now he's just on the board of the NRA.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
That Velvets "3rd" one is blowing my mind. "That's because you don't have the new Velvet Underground"
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, that's off that 'promo' single.
I didn't know about the one for the 2nd album.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
That first one for "Black and Blue" gets talked about for a very long time in Pop Music and Morality, the pretty hilarious Mormon-penned book about why most rock is bad. The author made it out to be like the Hustler cover with the hamburger grinder of the music world.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/muddyfull.jpg
― Ballard, Dick (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Great Christmas selection. I love this website so so much.
http://billboardingparty.tumblr.com/page/2
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldpr5n9ICu1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1294318177&Signature=WsIH7p7HVGpKl1FKn2bI31%2FU7gE%3D
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
thought about this thread today, the ads on the tube for the new black keys album are very much in this vein
― straightola, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
This one's a bit eyebrow-raising (not to mention factually inaccurate) but at least it's grabby.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldr2frY12o1qbaq5co1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1294317682&Signature=5Dhv%2B1L4vKXVzFfS%2BfsGmUXh9UE%3D
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
=O
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5040786518_db5f600aee_b.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
That's funny. Whenever I listen to John Denver, I feel like I'm on leave from the revolution as well.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/3457/983c3.jpg
hardly a pleasant mental image
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Thursday, 6 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
So, inspired by this thread and the Billboarding site, I wrote a story about late 60s and 70s advertising in The Word (not online) and spoke to Stan Cornyn (in-house at Warners - did Neil Young, Joni, Randy, Van Dyke, etc) and Marty Pekar (freelance for Columbia - Dylan, Costello, Nick Lowe). I asked Pekar if he had anything to do with the infamous The Man Can't Bust Our Music campaign and he said this:
There was this guy named Jim Fouratt [who later co-founded the Gay Liberation Front) purported to be an expert on hippies. He would smoke marijuana in his office, he was the expert. And he came up with his knuckleheaded campaign and people said, Well Jim Fouratt he knows kids, let’s go with this. I had nothing to do with that. Nothing! It was horrible. I think the stuff he did got ridiculed and they fired him but for six months he was God up there because the executives thought wow, here’s someone really tuned in to today. They didn’t have a clue, the executives, what was going on.
So there you go.
And Stan Cornyn confirmed that Van Dyke was indeed upset by the ad but got over it.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/2ccs7mg.jpg
― axolotl rose (unregistered), Friday, 21 October 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/2aikldu.jpg
― axolotl rose (unregistered), Friday, 21 October 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41axJQ-qTLL.jpg
― Maybe more Danson and Galifianakis would help (Eazy), Friday, 21 October 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu106/1purplehaze1/1963%20CAR%20ADS/1966%20CAR%20ADS/1964%20CAR%20ADS/RS%20ADS%20AUGUST%2025/HERBIEHANCOCKCLASSREUNION.jpg
― Maybe more Danson and Galifianakis would help (Eazy), Friday, 21 October 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
DON MCLEAN THREW IT IN AMERICA'S FACE
http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/825/825396/i-j-multiple-miggs-20071005050429856-000.jpg
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 21 October 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link