Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Just what the world needs: another top 20 albums of all time list, courtesy of the Y! Radish Music Blog. This list is a bit different from the usual critical assessments because it seeks to be more objective and empirical, weighing factors such as album sales, "critical rating value" ...
Tags: Beatles, Bob Dylan, Doors, George Michael, Grammy Awards, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, rock, Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Van Halen, Y! Radish Music Blog, Yahoo
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
On May 14-15, I helped my employer Avenue A | Razorfish organize its 8th annual Client Summit in New York. Each year at this event, company executives, guest speakers, and clients discuss the state of the art in digital marketing. The theme of the 2008 event was "Rock ...
Tags: Amnesia, Avenue A | Razorfish, Beatles, Charlene Li, Client Summit, Ford, Forrester Research, George Martin, Levi's, Microsoft, Razorfish, rock, Social Influence Marketing, social media, Surface
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Accelerate sounds great but features the worst CD cover art (above) since Robert Plant released Fate of Nations:
And just about as bad as the hideous cover of the otherwise excellent A Bigger Bang by the Rolling Stones:
Why hide one of the most visible and highly recognizable bands in the world ...
Tags: Design, Marketing, REM, Robert Plant, rock, Rolling Stones
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
I would crawl naked across a field of broken glass to attend the December 10 Led Zeppelin reunion in London.
And I have no rational reason to do so.
The band has recorded nothing new since breaking up in 1980. Zeppelin's quickie reunion at Live Aid in 1985 was an embarrassment. ...
Tags: Led Zeppelin, Marketing, rock
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
While the blogosphere was doting on Radiohead's digital release of In Rainbows, the Eagles were making their own attempt to sidestep the recording industry with the release of Long Road out of Eden. But I'm not so sure I get the Eagles' approach. For its first studio recording ...
Tags: Eagles, Marketing, retail, rock, Wal-Mart
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