Posts Tagged ‘Arcade Fire’

Super Bowl Ads 2010

Monday, February 8th, 2010

On the whole this lot of Super Bowl commercials were okay. Some of my favorites were…

This one made me laugh a few times but my buddy Dan roared when the two fun boys slaped each other.

Man, this must be the year of the furry, rodent like animal stealing the spotlight.

I love that this commercials cost nothing yet still managed to evoke emotions.

I got a chuckle out of the vampire joke.

Loved the song placed to the visuals but I played this PS3 demo and it’s just too gruesome for me.

And of course, in space, no one can hear you scream. Yeah, that one joke elicited the biggest laugh from me.

BTW, it was great to hear songs by Grizzly Bear and The Arcade Fire (did you know they donated all their profits from the NFL spots to Haiti relief?) but why are ad executives still using that Blur song? It’s what, fifteen years old?  And what’s with repurposing all those YouTube videos?  Here’s hoping the creators are getting a fat paycheck from this.

And with that I think I’m getting sick so I’m out and apologies in advance if I’m not blogging regularly this week.

The Double Nought Decade in Music

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

So it’s that time of the decade where everyone makes a list of the best/most important albums of the past ten years. After looking at the lists, a lot of the same names start cropping up. For examples, most lists will have…

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Which are all very good but if this is what defines a decade, well, it was often an excellent decade but did any of these albums/songs break new ground or set the world aflame? Personally, I’d have to argue that this was the song of the decade…

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And I think this is the album that defined a decade dominated by music piracy (Napster turned 10 this year) and laptop maestros…

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Okay, some of you will say that I’m being unduly hard on this nascent century or that I’m just a child of the 90s but can we take a look at some of the albums that defined the last decade?

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Yeah, right, I know! Unbelievably great albums.

Okay, let’s see if the 2000’s teen years can kick some ass.