Corporate Anthems Go Corporate

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 26, 2002 @07:25PM from the telecommuters-can-just-hum dept.

Peter Judge writes: "Corporate Anthems are once again online at ZDNet UK. Last year, the Corporate Anthems page exposed a big bunch of amusing songs composed for corporate promotion. However, the music files had to go offline due to bandwidth limits. Now, ZDnet UK has stepped in, to host the anthems in all their glory. We hope to flush out and publicise new ones, and will be updating the chart in the coming weeks, according to the 'popularity' of different tracks. We have included more lyrics -- transcribed with some effort (and several lines which surely can't be for real)."

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Re:Doesn't anyone else find this CREEPY? by volsung · 2002-03-27 02:53 · Score: 3, Informative

Actually, Gibson assumed in his sci-fi that Japanese culture would eventually come to dominate the future (carried by their corporate success). The scene you describe was probably based upon a similar tradition in Japanese companies (at least in the 80's anyway) designed to build team unity. So people have been doing this for several decades, just not in the US.