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.
Public Service Announcements:
Anti-drug “I learned it by watching you!” PSA (1987)
It’s 10PM, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
Your Brain on Drugs PSA (1987)
Advertisements:
Anheuser-Busch: Whassup Ad (1999)
Grey Poupon Ad Campaign (1981)
Songs from the Radio:
A-ha
+ Take On Me
Brooks, Garth
+ The River
Charles, Ray
+ Seven Spanish Angels (w/ Willie Nelson)
Collins, Phil
+ In the Air Tonight
Denver, John
+ Take Me Home, Country Roads
Lindeman, Edith (with Carl Stutz)
+ Red Headed Stranger
Mullins, Rich
+ Calling Out Your Name
Nena
+ 99 Luftballons
Parr, John
+ St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)
Queen
+ Another One Bites the Dust
+ Under Pressure (with David Bowie)
Rabbitt, Eddie
+ I Love A Rainy Night
Simon & Garfunkel
+ The Sound of Silence
Sondheim, Stephen
+ Send in the Clowns
Strait, George
+ Ace in the Hole
the Alan Parsons Project
+ Eye in the Sky
The Who
+ Won’t Get Fooled Again
Tozzi, Umberto
+ Gloria
U2
+ Where the Streets Have No Name
Williams, Hank Jr.
+ A Country Boy Can Survive
Classical Music:
Barber, Samuel
+ Adagio for Strings
Gerschwin, George
+ Rhapsody in Blue
From the Church Hymnal:
Boberg, Carl
+ How Great Thou Art
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
Ken, Thomas
+ Doxology
Mohr, Joseph (lyrics) and Franz Xaver Gruber (music)
+ Silent Night
Newton, John
+ Amazing Grace
Spafford, Horatio AND Philip Bliss
+ It Is Well With My Soul
Robinson, Robert
+ Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Wesley, Charles (with George Whitefield, William Hayman Cummings, and Felix Mendelssohn)
+ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Western Song / Cowboy Song
Willis, Charley
+ Goodbye Old Paint