Songs about the Internet
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So why is that any song about the Internet (web, whatever), is really lame. Like Jethro Tull's "Dot Com". Nice tune, dumb song (well, Ian Anderson's lyrics are wierd to begin with, but this one is lame). Anyone know any good songs about the www or the internet? Just curious. And no, "developers", "badgers", "beavers", "Maunders", etc., don't count. ;P Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
almost ... Weird Al Yankovic, all about the Pentiums Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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almost ... Weird Al Yankovic, all about the Pentiums Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
GREAT tune:) ------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.
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So why is that any song about the Internet (web, whatever), is really lame. Like Jethro Tull's "Dot Com". Nice tune, dumb song (well, Ian Anderson's lyrics are wierd to begin with, but this one is lame). Anyone know any good songs about the www or the internet? Just curious. And no, "developers", "badgers", "beavers", "Maunders", etc., don't count. ;P Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Subspace[^] by Funker Vogt[^]. It's about online gaming (Quake et al.), but it's the only one that really springs to mind...
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Well, I don't know of any odes to the hammer or lullabies to the common, garden watering can that aren't lame either. It seems tools and technologies get short thrift from composers. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Feed Henry!
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
I'd mention 'White Hammer' by Van der Graaf Generator as a non-lame musical experience...except it's about metaphorical hammers, not real ones...
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almost ... Weird Al Yankovic, all about the Pentiums Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
I was thinkink about that, though it doesn't really refer to the internet but it's sort of a nerdish tune. The other one that came to mind was The internet is for porn[^] which was posted in the Lounge I think a while back. It's a tune that's been played on Broadway. It's covered by an animation. I don't know who did that. regards, Mircea Many people spend their life going to sleep when they’re not sleepy and waking up while they still are.
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So why is that any song about the Internet (web, whatever), is really lame. Like Jethro Tull's "Dot Com". Nice tune, dumb song (well, Ian Anderson's lyrics are wierd to begin with, but this one is lame). Anyone know any good songs about the www or the internet? Just curious. And no, "developers", "badgers", "beavers", "Maunders", etc., don't count. ;P Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Marc Clifton wrote:
Anyone know any good songs about the www or the internet? Just curious.
Being good is a subjective term, but I know of "Dot Com" by Usher, "Filk" by Ed Halley, and "WWW Dot Memory" by Alan Jackson.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb
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So why is that any song about the Internet (web, whatever), is really lame. Like Jethro Tull's "Dot Com". Nice tune, dumb song (well, Ian Anderson's lyrics are wierd to begin with, but this one is lame). Anyone know any good songs about the www or the internet? Just curious. And no, "developers", "badgers", "beavers", "Maunders", etc., don't count. ;P Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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So why is that any song about the Internet (web, whatever), is really lame. Like Jethro Tull's "Dot Com". Nice tune, dumb song (well, Ian Anderson's lyrics are wierd to begin with, but this one is lame). Anyone know any good songs about the www or the internet? Just curious. And no, "developers", "badgers", "beavers", "Maunders", etc., don't count. ;P Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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almost ... Weird Al Yankovic, all about the Pentiums Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
he also did one called "eBay" parody of "I Want it That Way" by the Backstreet Boys) A used...pink bathrobe A rare...mint snowglobe A Smurf...TV tray I bought on eBay My house...is filled with this crap Shows up in bubble wrap Most every day What I bought on eBay Tell me why (I need another pet rock) Tell me why (I got that Alf alarm clock) Tell me why (I bid on Shatner's old toupee) They had it on eBay I'll buy...your knick-knack Just check...My feedback "A++!" they all say They love me on eBay Gonna buy (a slightly damaged golf bag) Gonna buy (some Beanie Babies, new with tag) (From some guy) I never met in Norway Found him on eBay I am the type who is liable to snipe you With two seconds left to go, whoa Got Paypal or Visa, whatever'll please ya As long as I've got the dough I'll buy...your tchotchkes Sell me...your watch, please I'll buy (I'll buy, I'll buy, I'll buy...) I'm highest bidder now (Junk keeps arriving in the mail) (From that world-wide garage sale) (Hey! A Dukes of Hazzard ashtray) Oh yeah...(I bought it on eBay) Wanna buy (a PacMan Fever lunchbox) Wanna buy (a case of vintage tube socks) (Wanna buy a Kleenex used by Dr. Dre) (Found it on eBay) Wanna buy (that Farrah Fawcett poster) (Pez dispensers and a toaster) (Don't know why...The kind of stuff you'd throw away) (I'll buy on eBay) What I bought on eBay ========================= Very funny tune...one of the songs on my MP3 player :laugh: Steve
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So why is that any song about the Internet (web, whatever), is really lame. Like Jethro Tull's "Dot Com". Nice tune, dumb song (well, Ian Anderson's lyrics are wierd to begin with, but this one is lame). Anyone know any good songs about the www or the internet? Just curious. And no, "developers", "badgers", "beavers", "Maunders", etc., don't count. ;P Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Virtuality by Rush
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Songs should connect to the listeners base emotions to make them interesting. I think singing about technology in general is sort of lame. Technology is usually thought of as cold and inhuman. Even if you sang about an artificial heart that saved a baby's life, the listener can't connect with the heart. You can refer to it, but there's hardly enough emotional depth to connect with to make it worth singing about. You can sing about the baby, though. BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright>I think singing about technology in general is sort of lame. I dunno about that. Back in the 1960's, Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys hit the big time singing about the technology of the times, i.e.: cars. In the late 1970's, The Tubes did an entire album about television (called "Remote Control") which really rocks. Then, there was Alan Parsons Project's "I, Robot", ELO's "Time", Styx's "Kilroy was Here". I'm not even counting the numerous songs about telephones and cameras (among the most famous is named after a trademark: Paul Simon's "Kodachrome").