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Six Videos That Can Now Be Looked At As Missed Opportunities For Product Placement

noah | April 24, 2009 6:00 pm
noah | April 24, 2009 6:00 pm

electroluxeI still love this morning’s story about the product-placement deal that was struck between Autograph and Paper-Mate 25 years ago, mainly because it took so long for the obvious-in-hindsight synergy to be noticed by this observer. “With the name Autograph, it’s logical for us to be advertising a pen,” lead singer Steve Plunkett told the Los Angeles Times when the deal was dissected. “It would only be weird and out of place if we were advertising something like a vacuum cleaner or a roach spray.” But what if other videos of the era did work with less, um, glamorous products? Six vintage clips that we can now look at as perfect except for their insufficient monetization, after the jump. Feel free to add your own suggestions–and hey, given the impending doom that car companies are seeing, perhaps some current musicians might want to think about getting “creative” with their own endorsements? More »


Desmond Child: A Loving Tribute

anthonyjmiccio | June 16, 2008 5:30 am
anthonyjmiccio | June 16, 2008 5:30 am

discipline.jpgIn a long-overdue bit of acknowledgement, Desmond Child–the man behind many of the finest in ’80s power ballads, as well as disco Kiss and Ricky Martin–will enter the Songwriters’ Hall Of Fame on Thursday, along with relatively minor songwriting figures as John Sebastian, Loretta Lynn, and Albert Hammond. Child tells the Miami Herald, “It was funny because I had been nominated twice before but I hadn’t made it, and I spoke to the heads of it and they said, ‘Well, we always thought you were too young to get it, but then we recently looked at your bio and realized you are old. You just looked young.” As most of his big-name collaborators are out touring this summer, Desmond Child has been forced “by default” to reunite his late ’70s combo Rouge for the ceremony. While it would be insane to try and list all of his greatest achievements (“Kiss The Rain”? “Born To Be My Baby”? “Shake Your Bon Bon”?), we’ve compiled a list of every ASCAP-registered song of his that features the word “love” in the title. Can you guess how many there are?

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“Time” Lets Hard Rock Fanboy Fawn Over His Idols

noah | October 8, 2007 1:45 am
noah | October 8, 2007 1:45 am

AP050303021682.jpgApparently some Time story got killed at the last minute, because this barely copyedited piece on the recent resurgence of hard-rock bands that can only be described as “odd” for a lot of reasons somehow made it to the magazine’s site. Not only is Don Dokken referred to as “Dan” in the story’s second sentence (ouch!), and not only does Vince Neil’s assertion that Motley Crue is in its heyday right now go unquestioned, and not only was the Rocklahoma festival–which, if anything, was the moment that hard rock could have been claimed as ruling the roost during the just-completed summer concert season–completely ignored (as was the fact that many of these touring bands were full of reshuffled hired guns), the numbers that were presented as evidence of writer/CNN Headline News personality Kris Osborn’s “rock is back!” thesis were subject to some curious inflation:

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Ratt Single Best Describes Weekend of College Football

noah | October 1, 2007 12:15 pm
noah | October 1, 2007 12:15 pm

“But perhaps the Maryland backup quarterback Chris Turner, who led the unranked Terrapins to a victory at No. 10 Rutgers on Saturday, is the best player to symbolize this most improbable of college football weekends. Turner’s father, John Turner, was the original drummer in the hair metal band Ratt. More »


noah | October 1, 2007 12:15 pm
noah | October 1, 2007 12:15 pm

“But perhaps the Maryland backup quarterback Chris Turner, who led the unranked Terrapins to a victory at No. 10 Rutgers on Saturday, is the best player to symbolize this most improbable of college football weekends. Turner’s father, John Turner, was the original drummer in the hair metal band Ratt. More »


Stephen Pearcy Needs To Lay It Down Before He Has A Stroke Or Something

noah | August 20, 2007 11:00 am
noah | August 20, 2007 11:00 am

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