man tyler GOOD spot there.
reading ads like the one for Stage Fright makes me wish, as I sometimes do, for a more ambitious mood in rock -- it's like, mainstream rock, its main ambition is & generally has been to reach a lot of people & sell a lot of records, which is fine, but the rhetoric of that Stage Fright ad - "This album is another further step* in The Band's development." (paragraph break) "In the development of our music." (paragraph break) "The music of our age." -- I mean, if that were the norm, the need to deflate it would be & was great, but I feel like there's also value of some kind in Taking It Too Seriously. That framing the presentation in those sorts of terms affects the actual text (i.e. the album)/experience in some way, and maybe also does so before it even gets made - there's this sense that whether the guys making the record are in fact too high to even think right, they're surrounded by this idea that what they're doing is somehow important, which, whether it's true or not (it's not), maybe compels them to aim high.
*lol editor plz
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, like this. S&G "SAY THINGS." lol.
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
From that great Billboarding Tumblr
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not sure what's going on here:
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha amazing.
there are a few quite well known ones that i've never seen like the Randy Newman 'his voice is really something once you get used to it' one and the blondie 'wouldn't you like to Rip Her To Shreds?' one. also unconfirmed but apparantly exist; eccho and the bunnymen's one for Ocean Rain with their own(?) quote on it saying 'the best album of all time'.
― piscesx, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not American, nor were they teenagers.
― Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow, weird.
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Still, a new idea though. Give them points for that one.
― Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Who could forget 1975, the year of Fogelberg?
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Stevie T, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love that America look like The Wurzels in this, terrible ad though it is.
― ithappens, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Going for a select audience there: People with the same name as the artist...
― Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
'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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 16:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
do you guys think "All Roads Lead To Fogelberg" is a good title y/n
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dylan Boyz II Fogel Men
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Found this when looking for something else:
― ok we are pals (Eazy), Monday, 18 October 2010 18:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
aw, those lil beegees, so cute
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 18:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
tyler, aerosmith otm, that could be a great show
― dude (del), Monday, 18 October 2010 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
already have my opening line for the pitch: "'Mad Men' on acid -- literally!!"
― tylerw, Monday, 18 October 2010 18:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
Actually worked:
White Light/White Heat3rd
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cool thanks.
― THE BOSS aka the steenspringer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
"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 (2 years ago) Permalink
― shart for shart's sake (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
― shart for shart's sake (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
― (+) (+ +), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^poll that
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― shart for shart's sake (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Broken one from initial post:
Same album, Different angle:
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nugent on Fender
― (+) (+ +), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 10:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
"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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink
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 (2 years ago) Permalink