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5/5 The broader question is this: If brands need to reference their (and their rival's) past to feel relevant today, what does that say about how hard it is to create new cultural symbols now, even with a powerful platform like Super Bowl at their disposal?

#advertising #marketing #superbowl #colawars

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Karthik S Jan 27

4/4 prefer Coca-Cola. Or they could say that Polar Bears continue to prefer Coca-Cola in blind taste tests, but actual people prefer Pepsi, which could be the sly twist in the 'surprise' the ad is referring to :)

Can Coca-Cola plan a pre-Pepsi-ad ambush with this information?

We will wait and watch! :)

#advertising #marketing #creativity #colawars

Patrick* Neithard Jan 5

Per what George Carlin says. There's details: take Coke and Pepsi for example. Who Coca Cola & Pepsi built their empires on. On Segregation. by #ashleytheebarroness #ff www.instagram.com/p/DPh_nAMkbAS/ #unfilteredhistory #fyp #history #americanhistory #pepsi #cocacola #blackhistory365 #colawars

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charring auh Aug 5, 2025

In the #SpaceColaWars, the major soft drink competitors Coca-Cola and Pepsi engaged in costly marketing campaigns and product tests to get their beverages into space, in continuation of the so-called "#ColaWars". The competition began in 1985 during the STS-51-F Space Shuttle

Mistigris computer arts May 9, 2025

Mistodon: I'm sorry, I posted the Pepsi logo yesterday and ... well, the #ColaWars are back on, it seems. Prepare yourselves for caffeine overdose and tooth decay. This #teletext portrait of a classic #CocaCola can was drawn by @pixelblip and included with the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine.

1001 Other Albums May 2, 2025

Negativland – Dispepsi (1997, US)

Our next spotlight is on number 1004 on The List, submitted by dwenius. By the time this experimental sound-collage/plunderphonics band and multimedia collective had released Dispepsi, they had already got a bunch of media attention linked to a mass murderer case, and had experienced a multi-year legal battle with U2’s label and their own (along with some FBI nonsense) for an innocently(-ish) named and now withdrawn EP. Dispepsi continues the group's aural mischief (and thankfully without any legal repercussions), taking a swipe at the so-called “Cola Wars” and advertising in general by parodying and sampling Pepsi and Coca-Cola commercials, among other things.

Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/05/02/negativland-dispepsi-1997-us/

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/i/386725068

Happy listening!

#Negativland #experimental #plunderphonics #SoundCollage #1990s #ColaWars #music #1001OtherAlbums

Negativland – Dispepsi (1997, US)

A spotlight on experimental sound-collage/plunderphonics band and multimedia collective Negativland.

1001 Other Albums

1001 Other Albums May 2, 2025

Negativland – Dispepsi (1997, US)

Our next spotlight is on number 1004 on The List, submitted by dwenius.

Named after the NEU! track of the same name, Negativland is an experimental sound-collage/plunderphonics band and “multimedia collective”, the original version of which was formed in 1979 by Mark Hosler and Richard Lyons while they were still in high school. By the time they released Dispepsi, their 8th album, they had already gone through a couple interesting episodes involving a hoax press release that got a bunch of media attention linked to a mass murderer case,[1] as well as a multi-year legal battle with U2’s label and their own (along with some FBI nonsense) for an innocently(-ish) named and now withdrawn EP.[2]

Geez.

Dispepsi is a concept album that takes a swipe at the so-called “Cola Wars” and advertising in general by parodying and sampling Pepsi and Coca-Cola commercials, among other things. As per the liner notes:

All of the cola commercials that were appropriated, transformed and re-used in this recording attempted to assault us in our homes without our permission.

Hoping to avoid another legal battle, the original release didn’t actually have the album name on it, and the liner notes instead provided a phone number for fans to call “for the correct spelling and pronunciation of the title of this CD”, lol. Thankfully, unlike U2 and Island Records (and the band’s former label, SST Records, wtf – see footnote 2), Pepsi wasn’t threatened by whatever an obscure art collective that was part of a parody religion[3] and enjoyed nerding out on FM radio[4] was doing. And so, this album, unlike their U2-inspired EP, was allowed to live, and the band continued (and, I think, continues?) to do cool shit[5] and fight for fair use.

Whether this band is new to you (like it is for me) or is an old favourite, give this one a spin today!

Songlink: Negativland – Dispepsi
Discogs: Negativland – Dispepsi
Website: Negativland
Bandcamp: Negativland (does not include Dispepsi)

Unable to afford touring their Escape from Noise (1987) album, Negativland put out a hoax press release stating they legally couldn’t tour because the track “Christianity Is Stupid” had inspired mass murderer David Brom…which in turn led to them releasing a concept album, Helter Stupid (1989), making fun of the media coverage on said hoax press release. ↩︎

Negativland released an EP titled U2 (1991) that sampled and parodied U2’s song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” alongside a recording of radio DJ Casey Kasem having a meltdown while rehearsing a bit about U2, which led to the band being sued by U2’s label (Island Records) and publisher, and in turn led to: the EP being withdrawn; the band releasing a magazine and accompanying CD called The Letter U and the Numeral 2 (1992) about the matter, which directly led to the band being dropped and sued by their own label (SST Records, wtf); Kasem threatening (but never actually enacting) legal action if the EP ever popped up again; the FBI getting involved after a Negativland fan threatened Kasem; the band releasing a book with an accompanying CD called Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 (1995) chronicling the whole thing; and a documentary being made about it (Sonic Outlaws [1995]). Whew. ↩︎

At least some members Negativland are part of the Church of the SubGenius, which uses “culture jamming“, an anti-consumerist tactic whose name band member Don Joyce coined. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius ↩︎

“Over The Edge” was a weekly, free-form audio collage radio show on KPFA FM (Berkeley, California), hosted by Negativland’s Don Joyce from 1981 until his death in 2015. Archived episodes at: https://archive.org/details/ote ↩︎

I mean, Laurie Anderson herself named their 2020 album The World Will Decide one of her five favourite albums, so they’re clearly doing something right still. ↩︎

#1990s #ColaWars #experimental #music #musicDiscovery #Negativland #plunderphonics #soundCollage

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1001 Other Albums

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