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Corporate Anthems Go Corporate
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)."
HA HA HA HA
SGI's:
"I have a dream, and it's called a graphics pipe/ it really works, and it's not just PR hype".
You have to hear it...
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
Knife goes in! Guts come out! That's what Osaka Seafood Concern is all about!
are available here.
>;k
--
Evan "Until the CFO gets the bandwidth bill - then he'll have company"
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
- Do companies actually pay people to come up with these things?
;)
;)
- WHY do companies pay people to come up with these things??
All I can say is...thank God my company doesn't have its own song. Yet... *shudder*
If we did...they'd probably make us techs sing it to the clients over the phone...
Great...now that thought's gonne give me nightmares tonight...
DennyK
How about paradigm?
*rimshot*
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
...is apparently an imperfect science. Unless the PriceWaterhouseCoopers anthem really does go "...How high can you retch?..." ;-)
;-)
Of course, the *real* stuff some of these songs contain is far scarier...
DennyK
/. editors, do not divulge my IP addy to anyone that may call. Please.
MS Theme song (learn it, love it, live it)
1
We build the future piece by piece
The world depends on us
Never can our endurance cease
In our products they must trust
Refrain:
We dream our dream of dominance
Microsoft, we lead and the world follows
We put the computer on every desktop
And each one runs Windows
2
Our battle is arduous
And our enemies are fierce
But the battle belongs to us
Only we can persevere
Refrain
3
With eagle eyes we see for years
With cheetah speed we race
Our code is Business' gears
And Windows is its face
Refrain
From BASIC to DOS to Windows
Our empire grows ever strong
Microsoft will take the blows
And return them right along
Refrain 2x
Was there ever an Enron song? I know of some punk bands that would love to do a cover.
:-)
Oh dear, I sense one of those "I am company president, but I am really one of you because I play guitar" people
This is like when Tony Blair got into power and the photo-opportunity was him moving in to Number 10 carrying his Fender.
Ian Hislop summed it up perfectly : "Oh god, he looks like a trendy vicar"
Share and enjoy, Share and enjoy
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or girl by your side, let your pal be your guide
And when it breaks down or starts to annoy
Or grinds when it moves and it gives you no joy
Because it's eaten your hat or had sex with your cat
Poured oil on your lawn or ripped up your door
And you get to the point you can't stand anymore
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig
We'll tell you... Go stick your head in a pig!
Makes you wonder how many of these anthems were as a result of some Dilbertism in the workplace... Hmmm.....
The RIAA has a really good corporate anthem!
You can download it from Kazaa, Morpheus or GNUTella.
It is all about piracy or something...
I worked at a corpotation that, through mergers and such, was double-branding their product for awhile. After a certain period in time, they decided to retire an old logo. So, they recorded a song to the tune of "American Pie", and sent it to everyone's voicemail, telling them that we weren't going to use the logo anymore.
I guess the idea must have been (?) that nobody's going to forget about the change in policy after they listen to that. Personally, I had to wonder if our CEO just didn't have enough to do or something.
-- dR.fuZZo
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah I'm the taxman
> I only listened to the SGI anthem, and found
> I couldn't hate it. I'm known for mocking
> stupid music (it's a good/bad habit of mine),
> but I couldn't seem to do it this time.
Listen to the Ericsson theme song ("You Need Intelligence / We Can Get it / Network Intelligence / Come and See"), and you'll learn to hate again.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
When I first read the headline for this story, it creeped me out. There's a scene in one of William Gibson's books (it might have been Neuromancer) where corporate employees are expected to get up in the morning and sing the company anthems in unison before starting work. I know the songs are in jest, but think about it: exactly how far away from this are we?
"Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"