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That Time Kate Bush Created The Music For Fruitopia’s TV Ads

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That Time Kate Bush Created The Music For Fruitopia’s TV Ads

Fruitopia was a pet project of Coke’s former marketing chief, Sergio Zyman. It was a fruit-flavoured drink introduced by the Coca-Cola Company in 1994 and targeted at teens and young adults, and was invented as part of a push by Coca-Cola to capitalize on the success of Snapple and other flavored tea drinks.

Today I found out Fruitopia had rather unusual commercials despite the simplicity of the product behind them. Along with being inspired by the 1960s feel of hippydom and free spirituality, the background music on several of the ads was provided by Kate Bush.

When Kate Bush took the assignment to do the music for Coca-Cola’s Fruitopia ads, it was indeed free rein for her. Chiat/Day, New York, creative director Marty Cooke and executive producer Andrew Chinich were overjoyed when Bush agreed to do not only one, but all nine of the spots in the Fruitopia campaign. Perhaps the fact that they told her she could do anything she wanted with the scores had something to do with it. In any case, Cooke and Chinich were just glad to get Bush on the job, which she did from London with a bunch of hand-picked musicians. “She said she was interested in providing a lot of variety, from Japanese drummers to Moroccan music… and she came through in spades,” Cooke says.

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Stan Lee on bigotry and racism

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Stan Lee on bigotry and racism

Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies Original Cards

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Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies Original Cards

Oblique strategies is a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt used to break deadlocks in creative situations. Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking. Whenever you’re stuck you draw a card and ponder how it applies to your situation. You may draw as many cards as you wish. In late 1974, Schmidt and Eno combined them into a single pack of cards and offered them for general sale. The set went through three limited edition printings before Schmidt suddenly died in early 1980, after which the card decks became rather rare and expensive. Sixteen years later software pioneer Peter Norton convinced Eno to let him create a fourth edition as Christmas gifts for his friends (not for sale, although they occasionally come up at auction). Eno’s decision to revisit the cards and his collaboration with Norton in revising them is described in detail in his 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices. With public interest in the cards undiminished, in 2001 Eno once again produced a new set of Oblique Strategies cards. The number and content of the cards vary somewhat from edition to edition. In May 2013 a limited edition of 500 boxes, in burgundy rather than black, was issued.

Their website is an online version of the deck, containing many cards from the printed editions.

The Perfect Gift For Any Morrissey Fan Is Here

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The Perfect Gift For Any Morrissey Fan Is Here

Check out this full, graphic exploration of Morrissey’s musical influences, from girl groups to glam rockers, pop idols to obscurities, created by Alejandro De Luna, and available for sale here. This music poster looks at the diverse artists and genres involved and joins them up in a comprehensive, endlessly fascinating infographic.

This unique infographic print features:

  • songs by other artists that Morrissey and The Smiths have covered;
  • every song mentioned in Morrissey’s autobiography;
  • the songs Morrissey features pre-show, post-show and for his stage entrance;
  • lists of Morrissey’s favourite songs from Desert Island Discs, Under The Influence, Singles To Be Cremated With and others;
  • Morrissey’s favourite LPs, such as Raw Powerby Iggy & The Stooges, Horses by Patti Smith and Born To Quit by The Smoking Popes.

Morrissey is a man of idiosyncratic tastes, expressed through the cultural figureheads displayed on The Smiths’ iconic record sleeves, provocative lyrical topics and the many different musical influences reflected in his solo music and that of The Smiths.

There are over 80 artists features in the main body of the poster, with around a further 350 featured in the sidebar text.

Steve Earle on Politics And Art: “The best way to write a political song is to make it about what we have in common and not what drives us apart.”

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Steve Earle on Politics And Art: “The best way to write a political song is to make it about what we have in common and not what drives us apart.”

“Politics and art are not antitheses. Art and politics are both forces of nature. I’m an artist. I’m not a pop singer. It may not be part of the pop mainstream anymore, but I come from the moment in the ‘60s. I was an Elvis fan, Beatles fan, and then gravitated more toward acoustic music, because my dad wouldn’t let me have an electric guitar in the house. So, I listened to those Dylan records, and the Vietnam war was still going on. Politics was always going to be part of what I did. I thought we got past that mind-set a long time ago.

“The best way to write a political song – to write any song is to make it about what we have in common and not what drives us apart. I had a song on my first record about living on the road, separated from my son, ‘Little Rock ‘n’ Roller.’ The first conversation I ever had with Johnny Cash, he told me how much he loved that song. It was a really big deal to me, but two weeks later a truck driver came up to me and told me the same thing. What all three of us had in common is that we loved and missed our kids.”

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Hear The Isolated Vocals Of The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”?

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Hear The Isolated Vocals Of The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”?

“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” was written by Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, and Mike Love for The Beach Boys, and released as the opening track on their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Its lyrics describe a couple in love lamenting about being too young to run off to get married, fantasizing about how nice it would be if they were adults. Tony Asher credits the song’s idea to Brian Wilson: “The innocence of the situation—being too young to get married—seemed to be immensely appealing to him.” Wilson composed the music, while the lyrics were written almost entirely by Asher over the course of one or two days. Mike Love’s contribution was the ending couplet “Good night my baby / sleep tight my baby”.

Photo Gallery: Lights at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall

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Photo Gallery: Lights at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall

All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com

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That Time Elvis Showed America His Spiritual Side In “Yoga Is As Yoga Does”

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That Time Elvis Showed America His Spiritual Side In “Yoga Is As Yoga Does”

In 1964, Elvis Presley’s hairdresser, Larry Geller, introduced him to the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. 3 years later, Elvis performs “Yoga Is As Yoga Does” in Easy Come, Easy Go. This was not an accident, a gentle and deep yearning to expand yogas’s audience to the teen set, but the film – Elvis plays a frogman working for the U.S. Navy dives for buried treasure – wasn’t taken seriously as the two would have liked. According to Peter Guralnick’s Elvis biography:

The inclusion of the musical number “Yoga Is As Yoga Does,” which Elvis performed as a duet in Easy Come, Easy Go, was no accident, Larry felt, but intended, rather, as a direct insult to Elvis’ (and Larry’s) beliefs — but Elvis went ahead and recorded it anyway. Only after the scene in which it was included was shot did Elvis finally react. It was then, in Larry’s account, that Elvis “stormed into the trailer, shouting, ‘That son of a bitch! He knows, and he did it! He told those damn writers what to do, and he’s making me do this.’”

Join Jimmy Jam, Egyptian Lover, Principleasure, Shy Boogs, Marley Marl, Nadus, DJ Jazzy Jeff Share Their Love For The 808

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Join Jimmy Jam, Egyptian Lover, Principleasure, Shy Boogs, Marley Marl, Nadus, DJ Jazzy Jeff Share Their Love For The 808

The Roland TR-808 has featured on countless records and tracks — from chart-topping pop songs to underground classics — and is one of the most revered electronic musical instruments of all time. The booming bass drum, sizzling hi-hats, snappy snare, and that unmistakable cowbell, has formed the rhythmic foundation of many genres with a sound that is engrained in today’s music and culture.

In this video, Roland (the manufacturers) chat about the latest instrument in the Roland Boutique series – the Roland TR-08 Rhythm Composer. They discuss what the numbers “8-0-8” mean to a number of artists; some of whom have a legacy deeply engrained with the TR-808 to a younger generation of producers who look to take the sound of the TR-808 to a bright future.

Join Jimmy Jam, Egyptian Lover, Principleasure, Shy Boogs, Marley Marl, Nadus, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Juan Atkins share their love for the 808 and the new TR-08 Rhythm Composer.

The TR-08 brings the look, sound, and feel of the original 808 — with stunning accuracy — to the Roland Boutique format. From the instantly-recognizable red-orange-yellow-white markings, the shape of the sequencer buttons, switches and knobs are details that have been painstakingly reproduced to match the iconic recreation of sounds. Along with the aesthetic touches, the TR-08 contains new features like 16 sub-steps for fast rolls, independent trigger out track, compression/gain/tune for instruments and a selectable modified “long decay” bass drum for more boom and resonance.

Spider-Man to Spawn, How Todd McFarlane Became the Biggest Comic Book Artist Ever

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Spider-Man to Spawn, How Todd McFarlane Became the Biggest Comic Book Artist Ever

Todd McFarlane opens up about his career as a comic book artist that includes making Spider-Man cooler and creating the Spawn character. He also shares his blueprint to launching Image Comics and McFarlane Toys.

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