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Mumakil
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Topic: Fripp & Eno & Windows Posted: November 18 2006 at 05:59 |
Just installed Vista RTM (final) for testing purposes and there are no 'fripptronics'... In fact, the sounds in Vista are worst than XP's... anyone knows what happened? Did they spend 18 months and dropped the project?
EDIT: I just read on the net that the Vista startup sound is indeed Fripp's...
I'm very very sad to say that, as I love Fripp's work, but it SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!!
I can't believe MS stressed Mr Fripp for 18 months and actually ended up using only 4 seconds... Of course they'll say they wanted 'simplicity', so why did they hire Fripp in the first place? The guy is used to play 20 minute-plus songs, but 4 seconds?!?!?! WHY?!?!?!
Read this "review" for further information: http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/09/another-committee-takes-the-soul-out-of-robert-fripp/
Edited by Mumakil - November 20 2006 at 14:38
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The Whistler
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Posted: November 13 2006 at 02:05 |
I don't know if you guys out there in your other parts of the world understand that which is "public access," but it's a TV station where any old loser can have his show. Today, I say someone interviewing an "actor" who brought in a tape of him singing kariokee to Locomotive Breath...and doing it very, VERY badly...
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 22:59 |
Here here with the golden age comment!
I know that some basket ball team ( san fransisco maybe?) uses DT as their preshow and intermission music.
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I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard
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Arrrghus
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 21:40 |
creation_curve wrote:
How prog has progressed to Windows tunes and adverts...no wonder it is going down the tubes. | WHAT? Fripp is simply doing his job as a hired hand. This is in no way "prog." By the way, prog is not on its way down; it's experiencing a golden age.
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creation_curve
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 21:37 |
How prog has progressed to Windows tunes and adverts...no wonder it is going down the tubes.
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greenback
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 21:05 |
Select the correct answer for this thread:
a) Fripp is Evil
b) it took 18 minutes, not 18 months
c) it takes "BALLS" to proudly talk about this in the news
d) Eddie Jobson should have made this start up sound
e) they just use this as a way to get media attention
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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Terra Australis
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 19:12 |
Single Coil wrote:
Any other prog musicians that you know of that have the "mainstream" in this way? TV commercials, movie soundtracks or any other music that "more people know than know who it is"? |
There was a detective show in the 70s that was very popular (don't remember the name). I was watching an episode in which there was an inevitable chase scene. I reconised the music. It was none other than the end section of 'Fracture'. The music fit the chase perfectly!
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Paradox
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 11:29 |
That's quite an annoying start-up sound
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bhikkhu
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 11:03 |
This is not exactly what you are talking about, but I thought it was cool. Dan Rather quoted Pink Floyd on the "Daily Show" the other night.
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cuncuna
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 10:49 |
¿What about Will Ferrel quoting "Aqualung" on that weird movie about news people?.
Edited by cuncuna - November 11 2006 at 10:49
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aramg
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 08:11 |
Speaking of solsbury hill
here's an entry to a contest called trailer trash, where an editor makes a trailer for a film and attempts to portray it as anything other than what the film really is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z11B9L2awVA
doesn't have much to do with the thread but it's quite clever, in my opinion
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KoS
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 04:12 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor was used in the film 28 Days Later. The Simpsons did an ending with Thick as a Brick(mentioned in another thread.)
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The Whistler
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 00:40 |
I think there was another car commercial with Kansas (Dust in the Wind?).
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KoS
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 00:32 |
well Solisbury hill is on a Cingular comercial
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Nipsey88
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 00:27 |
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't the keyboard player from the mid 70's Yes ripoff band (my opinion only, no flames please) Druid responsible for the Teletubbies theme song?
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Zac M
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 00:21 |
Explosions in the Sky also did music for Friday Night Lights, their stuff is on the television show as well.
Several tracks from SKY (mostly solo stuff from the members) and Anthony Phillips were used on commercials and television, mainly in the UK and AUS. Many Prog artists, believe it or not, are involved in the phenomenon known as library music (AKA music for commercials, jingles, television, films, etc..). It's quite fascinating
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty
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The Whistler
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 00:19 |
Nipsey88 wrote:
The Whistler wrote:
I actually downloaded a Nissan (or some other such car company) commercial in which an instrumental cut of the opening to Thick as a Brick is playing in the background. Does that count? |
LOL
Really don't mind if I lock myself out...
It rides like a whisper, I just want to shout.
(OK not really all that great, but I gets the mad props for the attempt...OK maybe not)
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Hey, I'd buy that car!
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 00:14 |
Explosions in the Sky liscesed their songs Your Hand in Mine and another song off that album for Cadillac commericals, I think
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Nipsey88
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Posted: November 11 2006 at 00:12 |
The Whistler wrote:
I actually downloaded a Nissan (or some other such car company) commercial in which an instrumental cut of the opening to Thick as a Brick is playing in the background. Does that count? |
LOL Really don't mind if I lock myself out... It rides like a whisper, I just want to shout. (OK not really all that great, but I gets the mad props for the attempt...OK maybe not)
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The Whistler
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Posted: November 10 2006 at 23:58 |
I actually downloaded a Nissan (or some other such car company) commercial in which an instrumental cut of the opening to Thick as a Brick is playing in the background. Does that count?
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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