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March 21, 2009
By: Hey Paul Krugman! Somehow, this YouTube just seemed appropriate today: (via Calculated Risk, who also notes Dr. Krugman's answer to a similar question.) *** Update: I don't have any idea whether any of you share my interest in utterly weird music -- music that makes you think: someone actually went to some trouble to do this? -- but if you do, and if the idea of companies in the 60s and 70s recording musicals about their products seems at all interesting, you should check out the following links: (a) American Standards' The Bathrooms Are Coming, about bathroom fixtures. I think the two best are 'It's Revolution! Bathroom Revolution!' and 'My Bathroom Is A Very Private Place'. (b) GE's 'Got To Investigate Silicones'. The standout here is 'Paradox'. (c) More. Enjoy -- if that's the right word. ;) —Hilzoy 10:41 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (13)Comments
Y'mean the same folks who liked Corporate Crime Comix would like this kinda music? CCC was a very good, but very short-lived series. I think they managed to get out a whole two issues. Anyway, yeah, the song was cool! Posted by: Rich2506 on March 21, 2009 at 11:40 PM | PERMALINKAt last Krugman has something to put on his iPod without wondering if he actually likes it. Posted by: alan on March 22, 2009 at 12:05 AM | PERMALINKyou guys know about the internet archives? http://www.archive.org/index.php it's got lots of films, long and short, cartoons, music, etc. an intertoobinal repository. very cool stuff. Posted by: karen marie on March 22, 2009 at 1:10 AM | PERMALINKKrugman: READ: "Are you fucking kidding? Who would want that shit job! Too damned hard to take other people's opinions into consideration. I am best at telling you how you should do it though, without actualy having the political pressure or responsibility to do it. Nah, I don't think I need to be humble about how hard it must be at all. You see, I'm not arrogant but I won the Nobel Prize for chrisakes so what I think is more important than what any pissant thinks they know who is actually trying to do the job." Heh... Loved the song, wish it weren't so fuckin' true... Posted by: jollyroger on March 22, 2009 at 5:46 AM | PERMALINKI never heard of the Industrial Music Movement until now. Wow. The Bathrooms Are Coming??? Makes me wonder if American Standard was behind those Farah Fawcett posters back in the 1970s. Are any of the corporations creating this music getting bailout money? If so they need to give it back. Or else they need to be regulated, although one shudders to think what the combination of government regulation over Industrial Music might yield -- From the Bureau of Reclamation: "The Hoover Dam Electric Slide" My father-in-law (86) lead the engineering team that created the IBM 1401 computer and will be honored this summer at the 50th anniversary of its debut. I don't know if they had songs about that machine particularly but IBM created little pep songs that, as I understand, were sang by the guys there at various times, like in the cafeteria before they ate. For real! :D One Thanksgiving Jim was carving the turkey and the topic of these cheery little tunes came up and both Jim and his wife broke out in this little ditty, which was more like a cheer at a football game. It was funniest thing I ever heard. I'll try to get more on these when I go up to Mountain View for the anniversary. Surely these are documented somewhere. Posted by: MissMudd on March 22, 2009 at 7:09 AM | PERMALINKMy personal favorite is the dot-com era "our vision of global strategy" by KPMG http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,2124072,00.htm Posted by: Geoff on March 22, 2009 at 7:50 AM | PERMALINKLoved the song! Can't believe he's writing one song/day! yipes. Well this one, in any event, I thought was really great. Posted by: clem on March 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM | PERMALINKHilzoy - Google "April Winchell" for more such musics. Posted by: ChristianPinko on March 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM | PERMALINKHilzoy, GE should also do a ditty about silicone breast implants. Call it "A Pair a' Ducts." Posted by: pj in jesusland on March 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM | PERMALINK
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