by hilzoy
Somehow, this YouTube just seemed appropriate today:
Open thread.
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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. ;)
Some of us Boston-area ObWi folks are getting together for dinner next Tuesday (3/24):
8:30 p.m., Gargoyles On the Square, 219 Elm St, Somerville (we'll be in a private room).
We may also try to meet up for drinks beforehand, but there's no specific plan yet.
If you might be interested, email me at janiemat at myfairpoint.net
:)
Posted by: JanieM | March 21, 2009 at 11:29 PM
No offense to your "standout" there hil, but listening to 'Paradox' made me want to shove two lit blowtorches in my ears just to make it stop.
Posted by: xanax | March 21, 2009 at 11:58 PM
xanax: yeah, I know. But isn't it sort of wonderful, in an utterly perverse way? (All the paradoxes of silicones...)
Posted by: hilzoy | March 22, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Yow, my browser crashed with far too many tabs open, and when it restarted it had "Hey, Paul Krugman!" and "Paradox" playing at the same time. And it took far too long to find the "Paradox" time and close it.
Posted by: KCinDC | March 22, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Hilzoy, you only know me as an occasional commenter, but I gotta tell you this song reached through the flat screen, shook me by both shoulders and made me scream "YEAH!, YES!!" It put to music what I've been thinking for weeks now.
Obama is supposed to be a librul? Hell, we have such financial establishment hacks "masterminding" the "recovery on Wall Street" that it really feels like a continuation of the Bush Administration. Instead of hoes beholden to Goldman, how about some real liberals, true reformers, like Krugman and Robert Reich, running the financial show?
Posted by: Redhand | March 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM
For weird music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTlz3FA-Rjg>Mormon Jesus is hard to beat.
Posted by: Redhand | March 22, 2009 at 01:17 PM
As an aficionado of the Portsmouth Synfonia, I found these tunes to lack 'the common touch'.
They also call to my mind Sondheim, if Dick Cheney held a gun to his head and demanded an opera for Halliburton.
Posted by: Barrett Wolf | March 22, 2009 at 01:18 PM
Thanks, Redhand: Mormon Jesus cracked me up.
Posted by: Jackmormon | March 22, 2009 at 01:32 PM
Oo, have you heard the Bio-Rad PCR song? Bringing the trend back.
http://bio-rad.cnpg.com/lsca/videos/ScientistsForBetterPCR/
Posted by: Salo | March 22, 2009 at 02:47 PM
Great song. Btw, I see he's done a similar song for Nouriel Roubini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMapa6591M4
Posted by: exapologist | March 22, 2009 at 07:24 PM
Was the PCR song ever a trend outside of molecular bio labs?
Posted by: SeeMoreGlass | March 23, 2009 at 11:22 AM
I'm a grad student. As far as I know, there is no outside of molecular bio labs.
Posted by: Salo | March 23, 2009 at 06:33 PM