Listening in Jurassic Park. By Stephen Macaulay
Although many of you may not be familiar with the band Foreigner, odds are a good percentage of you have gone to the dentist sometime within the past couple years and have heard the band’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” over the dental audio system, which plays songs of a non-disturbing nature as you have sharp implements probing your gums (or worse)....
Brand Who - by Stephen Macaulay
In August 1997 Tom Peters, a leading management consultant who decided that a buttoned-down McKinsey career wasn’t what he wanted to pursue so he went out on his own and was, in the context of dealing with corporations, something of a rebel, wrote the cover story for Fast Company magazine, which at the time was a two-year-old disruptive business publication.
Peters’ ...
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Steely Dan Meets Shawn Fain - by Stephen Macaulay
Although Donald Fagen evidently thinks otherwise, since the demise of Walter Becker who died of esophageal cancer in 2017, Steely Dan has ceased to exist. On the Steely Dan official website (which is remarkably hacky for a vaunted band) on the home page, two of the four images are large photos of Fagen and Becker.* There is no red X throu...
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New U2: Atomic City
Video: U2 - "Atomic City"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMsGVwUXc0
Single out now.
U2 is a band. Four people. The same four guys for over forty years. We all give them a lot of shit -- and they deserve most of it -- but their longevity is remarkable.
You know what else is pretty cool? This song. Forget the flashy video, forget Bono's purple glasses, forget all the hype ...
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