In this section of the blog, I analyze music, ads, and PSAs – and perhaps other things as well. This is where the random blog posts live.
PSAs – Ads – Songs from the Radio – Classical Music – Church Hymns – Old Cowboy Songs – Conspiracies
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Public Service Announcements:
Anti-drug “I learned it by watching you!” PSA (1987)
Don’t Lay That Trash on Oklahoma (PSA)
It’s 10PM, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
The Thrill Can Kill: Anti-Crack PSA
You Can Learn a Lot From a Dummy PSA (1989)
Your Brain on Drugs PSA (1987)
Advertisements:
Anheuser-Busch: Whassup Ad (1999)
Grey Poupon Ad Campaign (1981)
I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke (1971)
John West Salmon “Bear” Ad (2000)
Just Do It (1988) – Nike
Monster.com Advertisement (1999)
Pizza Hut: “Right Field” Ad (1989)
Songs from the Radio:
The 5th Dimension
+ Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
A-ha
+ Take On Me
the Alan Parsons Project
+ Eye in the Sky
Alice in Chains
+ Rooster
Audioslave
+ I Am The Highway
The Bangles
+ Manic Monday
The Beach Boys
+ Heroes and Villains
Blues Traveler
+ Hook
Boston
+ More Than a Feeling
Brooks, Garth
+ The River
Charles, Ray
+ Seven Spanish Angels (w/ Willie Nelson)
Coe, David Alan (written by Steve Goodman)
+ You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Collins, Phil
+ In the Air Tonight
Denver, John
+ Take Me Home, Country Roads
Diamond, Neil
+ Sweet Caroline
Fastball
+ The Way
Frizzell, Lefty (written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin )
+ Long Black Veil
Gabriel, Peter (ft. Kate Bush)
+ Don’t Give Up
Gentry, Bobbie
+ Ode to Billie Joe
Gibson, Debbie
+ Electric Youth
Harvey, Alex and Larry Collins (performed by Bette Midler, Tanya Tucker, and Helen Reddy)
+ Delta Dawn
Jones, Stan
+ (Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend
Kansas
+ Dust in the Wind
Keith, Toby
+ Should’ve Been a Cowboy
Lightfoot, Gordon
+ The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Lindeman, Edith (with Carl Stutz)
+ Red Headed Stranger
Lathan, Dwight and Moe Jaffe (performed by The Jesters, Lonzo and Oscar, Willie Nelson, and others)
+ I’m My Own Grandpa
Lynn, Vera (performer), Music and Lyrics by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles
+ We’ll Meet Again
Martika
+ Toy Soldiers
Metallica
+ Master of Puppets
Mullins, Rich
+ Calling Out Your Name
Nena
+ 99 Luftballons
Parr, John
+ St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)
Pearl Jam
+ Yellow Ledbetter
Queen
+ Another One Bites the Dust
+ Under Pressure (with David Bowie)
Rabbitt, Eddie
+ I Love A Rainy Night
Rodgers and Hammerstein
+ Edelweiss
Scorpions
+ Wind of Change
Simon & Garfunkel
+ The Sound of Silence
Sondheim, Stephen
+ Send in the Clowns
Stevens, Ray
+ Mississippi Squirrel Revival
Strait, George
+ Ace in the Hole
Tozzi, Umberto
+ Gloria
Tritt, Travis
+ Anymore
U2
+ Where the Streets Have No Name
Unknown / various
+ Cotton-Eyed Joe
Van Halen
+ Jump
Weatherly, Frederic; set to the traditional Irish melody of “Londonderry Air”
+ Danny Boy
Webb, Jimmy (also performed by The Highwaymen)
+ Highwayman
The Who
+ Won’t Get Fooled Again
Williams, Hank Jr.
+ A Country Boy Can Survive
Classical and Opera Music:
Barber, Samuel
+ Adagio for Strings
Beethoven, Ludwig van
+ Moonlight Sonata
Copland, Aaron
+ Fanfare for the Common Man
Dvořák, Antonin
+ Symphony No. 9
Gerschwin, George
+ Rhapsody in Blue
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
+ Requiem
Puccini, Giacomo
+ Nessun Dorma
Schubert, Franz
+ Ellens Gesang III, D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6 (Ave Maria)
+ Gretchen am Spinnrade
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
+ Piano Concerto No. 2
From the Church Hymnal:
Boberg, Carl
+ How Great Thou Art
Cappeau, Placide (with Adolphe Adam and John Sullivan Dwight)
+ O Holy Night
Crossman, Samuel
+ My Song Is Love Unknown
Forgaill, Dallán (translated by Mary Elizabeth Byrne, made into verse by Eleanor Hull)
+ Be Thou My Vision (OLD IRISH: ROP TÚ MO BAILE OR ROB TÚ MO BHOILE)
Helmore, Thomas
+ O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Howe, Julia Ward
+ Battle Hymn of the Republic
Ken, Thomas
+ Doxology
Leontovych, Mykola (music) and Peter J. Wilhousky (lyrics)
+ Carol of the Bells
Mohr, Joseph (lyrics) and Franz Xaver Gruber (music)
+ Silent Night
Neale, John Mason (lyrics) and Thomas Helmore (music)
+ Good King Wenceslas
Newton, John
+ Amazing Grace
Spafford, Horatio AND Philip Bliss
+ It Is Well With My Soul
Robinson, Robert
+ Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Unknown
+ Twelve Days of Christmas
Wesley, Charles (with George Whitefield, William Hayman Cummings, and Felix Mendelssohn)
+ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Western Songs / Cowboy Songs
Higley, Brewster M.
+ Home on the Range
Maynard, Frank H.
+ Streets of Laredo
Unknown
+ I Ride An Old Paint
Willis, Charley
+ Goodbye Old Paint
Conspiracies
I enjoy entertaining thoughts and ideas outside of the mainstream and then scrutinizing those ideas to see if they hold up. Examples can be found below.
Introduction to Conspiracies
The Great Pyramid
The Moon (Part 1)
The Moon (Part 2)