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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Power pop
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Power pop is a pop rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of devices such as strong melodies, clear vocals and crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed, in the 1980s and 1990s, power pop continued as a commercially modest genre but by the mid-1990s through the 2000s, power pop was mainly in the underground. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, Power pop is a more aggressive form of pop rock that is based on catchy, melodic hooks and energetic moods. The Small Faces are often cited as being among the progenitors of power pop, the Whos role in the creation of power pop has been cited by singer-songwriter Eric Carmen of the Raspberries, who has said, Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didnt stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups came out in the 70s that played kind of melodic songs with crunchy guitars. It just kind of stuck to us like glue, and that was okay with us because the Who were among our highest role models, other acts such as the Knickerbockers, the Easybeats and the Outsiders contributed iconic singles. Writer John Borack has noted, Its also quite easy to draw a line from garage rock to power pop. Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American. The Raspberries 1972 hit single Go All The Way is an almost perfect embodiment of the elements of power pop, the most influential group of the period may have been Big Star. The Replacements even recorded a song entitled Alex Chilton in honor of Big Stars frontman, spurred on by the emergence of punk rock and new wave, power pop enjoyed a prolific and commercially successful period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, as the novelist Michael Chabon has written, Power pop in its essential form. Did not come into existence for a number of years after it was first identified, like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff. The term was used in reference to critics favorites Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Los Angeles-based Bomp. magazine championed power pop in its March 1978 issue, tying the genres roots to 1960s groups like the Who, like their punk brethren, late–1970s power pop groups favored a leaner and punchier sound than their early–1970s predecessors. Some occasionally incorporated synthesizers into their music, though not to the degree as did their new wave counterparts. Representative singles from the period include releases from the Bomp, records label by 20/20, Shoes and the Romantics. Major label groups like Cheap Trick, the Cars and Blondie merged power pop influences with other styles and achieved their first mainstream success with albums released in 1978
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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OK Go
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OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band is composed of Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka and Andy Ross, the band is known for its often quirky and elaborate one-take music videos. The original members formed as OK Go in 1998 and released two albums before Duncans departure. The bands video for Here It Goes Again won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video in 2007, the bands lead singer, Damian Kulash, met bassist Tim Nordwind at Interlochen Arts Camp when they were 11. Kulash was in for graphic design, Nordwind for music, the band name comes from an art teacher of the band members saying, OK. They kept in touch after camp, often exchanging mixtapes which influenced each others musical taste and they met the bands future guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan in high school. Nordwind and Duncan moved to Chicago for college, where they formed the band Stanleys Joyful Noise with drummer Dan Konopka, the name OK Go was adopted in 1998, when Kulash moved to Chicago to join the band. At the end of 2000, the band was invited by radio host Ira Glass to serve as the band for live performances of This American Life in Boston, New York. The band self-released two EPs, titled Brown EP and Pink EP, which were culled from an albums worth of songs recorded in February 2000 with producer Dave Trumfio, to serve as demos. Though the members of OK Go eventually left for Los Angeles and New York, in a 2011 interview, Kulash described the bands formative years, “As far as the band is concerned, we only have one home town. We all live in L. A. Chicago had such a close-knit, the Empty Bottle was where it all started for us. We played at the Metro and the Double Door as well, the band released its debut album, OK Go, on September 17,2002, after it was pushed back by the label from its original June release date. To promote the release, the label sent out miniature ping pong tables to press outlets, in the United States, the album reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and #107 on the Billboard 200 Chart. In the United Kingdom, the first single Get Over It debuted at no,27, in the UK singles chart on March 16,2003, and the band performed it on that weeks edition of Top of the Pops. Also that week, the video was named video of the week by Q magazine. The bands second album, Oh No, was recorded in Malmö, Sweden in the fall of 2004 and was produced by Tore Johansson and mixed by Dave Sardy. After recording, in February 2005, Andy Duncan left the band citing creative differences, major label pressures, and the bands rigorous touring schedule. Ross introduced himself to the fans by writing a blog entitled The Will To Rock
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Frodus
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Frodus was a Washington, D. C. -based post-hardcore band. Frodus was founded in 1993 by vocalist/guitarist Shelby Cinca and drummer Jason Hamacher, the band went through numerous bassists over the course of their career. They are described by critics as one of the most influential bands of the 1990s. Their mixture of rock and hardcore punk plus their lyrical themes, frequently dark and dissonant and seen as esoteric for the time, proved to be influential to bands such as Thrice. Frodus first releases were self-distributed cassettes and 7 inches, such as Babe, Tzo-Boy, two other releases, on now defunct indie labels, followed. Frodus later signed with Tooth and Nail Records, an independent label out of Seattle, the name Frodus came from the last episode of TV series The Monkees called Mijacogeo. After Frodus broke up in 1999, it took two years to find a label to release their final album, the first label, MIA Records, shut down due to the owner having to settle a long-standing lawsuit. Afterwards, long-time Frodus friend Tony Weinbender offered to release Frodus final album, Shelby Cinca briefly joined the band Bluebird as a second guitarist following the breakup of Frodus, but left before recording any material with them. In 2000, Nathan went on to form The Out Circuit and Night Is Invisible, in 2003, the founding members Shelby Cinca and Jason Hamacher along with bassist Joe Lally of Fugazi joined to form The Black Sea. They later changed their name to Decahedron, Lally left shortly after the completion of their debut album and was replaced by Jonathan Ford. Continually plagued by bassist fluctuation anomalies, Ford quit in 2004 and was replaced by Jake Brown. In 2005, they suspended operations after the release of their EP entitled 2005, Shelby Cinca then focused on his Swedish project Frantic Mantis with Håkan Johansson and Per Stålberg of Division of Laura Lee, and completed the third album by The Cassettes. In 2006, Jason Hamacher started a project with Mike Schliebaum of Darkest Hour called Zealot, Cinca began releasing IDM, made on a Game Boy with the Nanoloop software, under his own name. 2006 also saw the relaunch of the Frodus web-presence and consolidation of its MySpace entities, the site is an ongoing project of archiving all known interviews, previous website designs, press clippings, and digital transfers for media content. Shelby Cinca also began remastering out-of-print releases and adding them to the iTunes library, in 2010, Frodus released a new 7″ of material, Soundlab 1, recorded in 2009 with Liam Wilson on bass, as a limited edition 7″ vinyl on Lovitt Records. In 2015, there were rumours of a reissue of the final album. Gordon Liddy Show Call Soundlab 1 Compilation Appearances Squirrel – 22-d10 The Art of Rocketry – Malcontent It Goes Without Saying – Dec, – There Will Be No More Scum Torch Benefit – Suspicion Breeds Confidence Frodus
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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Keyboard instrument
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A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various keyboards, including synthesizers. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, today, the term keyboard often refers to keyboard-style synthesizers. Another important use of the keyboard is in historical musicology. Particularly in the 18th century, the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the piano were in competition. Hence in a phrase like Mozart excelled as a player the word keyboard is usefully noncommittal. The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ, the keys were likely balanced and could be played with a light touch, as is clear from the reference in a Latin poem by Claudian, who says magna levi detrudens murmura tactu. Intent, that is “let him thunder forth as he presses out mighty roarings with a light touch”, from its invention until the fourteenth century, the organ remained the only keyboard instrument. Often, the organ did not feature a keyboard at all, almost every keyboard until the fifteenth century had seven naturals to each octave. The clavichord and the harpsichord appeared during the 14th century—the clavichord probably being earlier, the harpsichord and clavichord were both common until widespread adoption of the piano in the 18th century, after which their popularity decreased. The piano was revolutionary, because a pianist could vary the volume of the sound by varying the vigor with which each key was struck. The pianos full name is gravicèmbalo con piano e forte meaning harpsichord with soft and loud but can be shortened to piano-forte, which means soft-loud in Italian. In its current form, the piano is a product of the late 19th century, in fact, the modern piano is significantly different from even the 19th-century pianos used by Liszt, Chopin, and Brahms. See Piano history and musical performance, keyboard instruments were further developed in the early twentieth century. Early electromechanical instruments, such as the Ondes Martenot, appeared early in the century and this was a very important contribution to the keyboards history. Much effort has gone into creating an instrument that sounds like the piano but lacks its size, the electric piano and electronic piano were early efforts that, while useful instruments in their own right, did not convincingly reproduce the timbre of the piano. Electric and electronic organs were developed during the same period, more recent electronic keyboard designs strive to emulate the sound of specific make and model pianos using digital samples and computer models. Concerns celebrated keyboard players and the various instruments used over the centuries
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Eponym
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An eponym is a person, place, or thing for whom or for which something is named, or believed to be named. For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era, recent usage, especially in the recorded-music industry, also allows eponymous to mean named after its central character or creator. In ancient Greece, the eponymous archon was the highest magistrate in classical Athens, Eponymous archons served a term of one year which took the name of that particular archon. Later historians provided yet another case of eponymy by referring to the period of Fifth-century Athens as The Age of Pericles after its most influential statesman Pericles. In Ptolemaic Egypt, the head priest of the Cult of Alexander, the Hebrew Bible explains the origins of peoples through individuals who bear their name. In most cases, the experiences and behavior of the ancestor is meant to indicate the characteristics of the people who take their name, in ancient Rome, one of the two formal ways of indicating a year was to cite the two annual consuls who served in that year. For example, the year we know as 59 BC would have described as the consulship of Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus and Gaius Julius Caesar. Under the empire, the consuls would change as often as two months, but only the two consuls at the beginning of the year would lend their names to that year. During the Christian era, itself eponymous, many households used eponymous dating by regnal years. The Roman Catholic Church, however, eventually used the Anno Domini dating scheme based on the birth of Christ on both the public and royalty. Government administrations may become referred to eponymously, such as Kennedys Camelot, British monarchs have become eponymous throughout the English-speaking world for time periods, fashions, etc. Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian are examples of these, trends Political trends or movements often become eponymous with a government leader. Examples include Jacksonian democracy, Stalinism, Maoism, Obamacare, in intellectual property law an eponym can refer to a generic trademark or brand name, a form of metonymy, such as aspirin, heroin and thermos in the United States. In geography, places and towns can also be given a name through a relationship to an important figure. Peloponnesus, for instance, was said to derive its name from the Greek hero Pelops, in historical times, new towns have often been named after their founders, discoverers, or notable individuals. In science and technology, discoveries and innovations are often named after the discoverer or a figure influential in their advance, examples are Avogadros number, the Diesel engine, meitnerium, Alzheimers disease, and the Apgar score. For a different view of the process see Stiglers law of eponymy, the term is also applied to music, usually with regard to record titles, where it is prevalent and leads to confusion. For example, Bad Companys first album was entitled Bad Company, titled a 1988 compilation album Eponymous
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OK Go (album)
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OK Go is the debut studio album by American rock band OK Go. It was released in September 2002, the cover was created by designer Stefan Sagmeister. The album debuted at number 107 on Billboard 200, and number one on Billboard Top Heatseekers Chart, all lyrics written by Damian Kulash Jr. all music composed by Damian Kulash Jr. except where noted. Get Over It was featured on the soundtrack of the video games Triple Play Baseball 2002, dont Ask Me was featured on the soundtrack of the video game MVP Baseball 2003, trailers for Just Friends and Good Luck Chuck, and the movie Catch That Kid. Youre So Damn Hot was used on an episode of The O. C and it also appeared in a television commercial advertising campaign for Payless Shoes in 2006. It is now appearing in ads for ABCs television show Castle
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Oh No (album)
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Oh No is the second studio album by American rock band OK Go. It was released 30 August 2005, the album was recorded in late 2004 with producer Tore Johansson in Malmö, Sweden and mixed by Dave Sardy in Los Angeles. It is the album to feature guitarist Andy Duncan, who left shortly after recording finished. As of January 12,2007, the album had sold 198,045 units, after the bands performance at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, their album moved up to #2 on the iTunes Music Store album sales charts. On November 7,2006, OK Go released a limited edition CD/DVD of the album. All lyrics written by Damian Kulash Jr. all music composed by Damian Kulash Jr. except where noted,9027 km is a 35-minute track on the US version of the album that is not included on the cover sleeve. It is a recording of frontman Damian Kulashs sleeping girlfriend. After parting with the label, Kulash would later admit that was a hasty recording that he made before submitting the final album to the record label. The track was added to pad out the CD and thereby prevent their label from using the space to add DRM software. The name of the track is based on the distance between Malmö, Sweden and Los Angeles, California, where Kulash and his girlfriend were respectively based during the production of the album. Oh No has received praise, and holds an aggregated 64 out of 100, based out of 14 critics, OK Go Damian Kulash Jr. – design Sunja Park – layout Dusan Reljin – photography Tom Fowlks – additional photography Oh No at MusicBrainz
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Industrial Light & Magic
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Industrial Light & Magic is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the production company, Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded. It is also the original company of the animation studio Pixar. ILM originated in Van Nuys, California, then moved to San Rafael in 1978. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired ILM as part of its purchase of Lucasfilm, Lucas wanted his 1977 film Star Wars to include visual effects that had never been seen on film before. After discovering that the effects department at 20th Century Fox was no longer operational, Lucas approached Douglas Trumbull, famous for the effects on 2001. Trumbull declined as he was committed to working on Steven Spielbergs film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Dykstra brought together a team of college students, artists, and engineers. Lucas named the group Industrial Light and Magic, which became the Special Visual Effects department on Star Wars. Alongside Dykstra, other leading members of the original ILM team were Ken Ralston, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Joe Johnston, Phil Tippett, Steve Gawley, Lorne Peterson, and Paul Huston. In late 1978, when in pre-production for The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas reformed most of the team into Industrial Light & Magic in Marin County, the Extra-Terrestrial, *batteries not included, The Abyss, and Flubber, and also provided work for Avatar, alongside Weta Digital. In addition to their work for George Lucas, ILM also collaborates with Steven Spielberg on most films that he directs, Dennis Muren has acted as Visual Effects Supervisor on many of these films. After the success of the first Star Wars movie, Lucas became interested in using computer graphics on the sequel. So he contacted Triple-I, known for their early computer effects in movies like Westworld and Futureworld and he found it to be too expensive and returned to handmade models. But the test had showed him it was possible, and he decided he would create his own computer graphics department instead, one of Lucas employees was given the task to find the right people to hire. His search would lead him to NYIT, where he found Edwin Catmull, Catmull and others accepted Lucas job offer, and a new computer division at ILM was created in 1979 with the hiring of Ed Catmull as the first NYIT employee who joined Lucasfilm. John Lasseter, who was hired a few later, worked on computer animation as part of ILMs contribution to Young Sherlock Holmes. The Graphics Group was later sold to Steve Jobs, named Pixar, in 2000, ILM created the OpenEXR format for high-dynamic-range imaging
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San Francisco Art Institute
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San Francisco Art Institute is a private, non-profit college of contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood, approximately 400 undergraduates and 200 graduate students are enrolled. Founded in 1871, SFAI is one of the oldest art schools in the United States, avery, Edward Bosque, Thomas Hill, and S. W. By 1874 the SFAA had 700 regular members and 100 life members, and had raised sufficient funds and the momentum to launch an art school. During Williams tenure, the CSD developed a reputation and amassed a significant collection of early California. Named the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, it became San Franciscos first fine art and cultural center, through this new affiliation, students of the University of California, Berkeley were able to enroll in classes at the CSD. In 1906 the devastating fire following the San Francisco earthquake destroyed the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art building, at the time, the replacement value of the building and its contents was estimated at $2,573,000. However, the amount of numerous insurance policies yielded less than $100,000 for rebuilding. Nevertheless, within a year, the SFAA built a new but comparatively modest campus in the same location, in addition, the school was renamed the California School of Fine Arts to better reflect its mission to promote, develop and preserve regional art and culture. In 1926 the school moved to 800 Chestnut Street, which remains the main campus as of 2015. In 1930 Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was hired to paint The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, which is located in the student-directed art gallery. S. After World War II ended the school became a nucleus for Abstract Expressionism, with faculty including Clyfford Still, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Clay Spohn. Although painting and sculpture remained the dominant mediums for many years, in 1946 Ansel Adams and Minor White established the first fine-art photography department, with Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and Dorothea Lange among its instructors. In 1947 distinguished filmmaker Sydney Peterson began the first film courses at CSFA, the roundtable aimed to expose “hidden assumptions” and to frame new questions about art. By the early 1950s San Franciscos North Beach had become the West Coast center of the Beat Movement, and music, poetry, collage artist Jess Collins renounced a career as a plutonium developer and enrolled at SFAI as a painting student. In 1953 he and his partner, poet Robert Duncan, along with painter Harry Jacobus, started the King Ubu Gallery, an important alternative space for art, poetry, a distinctly Californian modern art soon emerged that fused abstraction, figuration, narrative, and jazz. Students at the school, including David Simpson, William T, renamed San Francisco Art Institute in 1961, SFAI rejected the distinction between fine and applied arts. Alumni Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones documented the early days of the Black Panther Party in northern California
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Daktari
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Daktari is an American childrens drama series that aired on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The show follows the work of Dr. Tracy, his daughter Paula, and his staff, tracys pets, a cross-eyed lion named Clarence and a chimpanzee named Judy, were also popular characters. Daktari was based upon the 1965 film Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion, the concept was developed by producer Ivan Tors, inspired by the work of Dr. Antonie Marinus Harthoorn and his wife Sue at their animal orphanage in Nairobi. Dr. Harthoorn was a campaigner for animal rights, and with his research team developed the capture gun. On the series, Clarence did not do all his own stunts, Leo, another Ralph Helfer-trained lion, doubled for Clarence whenever any trucks were involved, since Clarence spooked at the sight of these vehicles. Leo even had his own makeup artist who applied cosmetic scarring like Clarences and this was referred to in an inside joke from the preview trailer for the movie Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion, that Leo was not related to Clarence. Another less-friendly lion, also named Leo, doubled for Clarence in some scenes and he was used only for the snarling scenes and general scenes which did not involve proximity with humans. This Leo had come from a family in Utah and his ferocity was due largely to abuse he received from former owners, who beat him badly with a stick. In the shows season, child star Erin Moran joined the cast as Jenny Jones. Jenny Jones Judy the Chimp. Judy Clarence the Lion. Clarence Judy the Chimp also portrayed Debbie the Bloop on Lost in Space, notable guest stars over the years included Louis Gossett Jr. Sterling Holloway, Virginia Mayo, and Paul Winfield, bruno the Bear also appeared as a guest star before he became the main bear playing the title role in the later Ivan Tors series, Gentle Ben. According to the closing credits, it was filmed in Africa and Africa. A 600-acre wild-animal ranch created by animal trainers Ralph and Toni Helfer in Soledad Canyon 40 mi north of Los Angeles, Ralph Helfer was the animal coordinator of the show. Kaufman, the producer, wrote in notes for Shelly Mannes Daktari that he shot the series on location close to a ranch once owned by Antonio Pintos father in Mozambique. Indeed, the scenes involving the actors were shot in the Africa, U. S. A. compound in California, with footage of African landscape. Some of the animals shown were, however, at odds with the location - a tiger is shown in the credit sequence. Other indoor and some scenes of the animal hospital were shot in Ivan Tors studios in Florida. The show had distinctive theme and incidental music, a fusion of jazz and African influences, Manne released the associated record, Daktari, Shelly Manne Performs and Conducts His Original Music for the Hit TV Show, on the Atlantic label in 1967
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Northwestern University
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Composed of twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees. Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named and its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Instruction began in 1855, women were admitted in 1869, today, the main campus is a 240-acre parcel in Evanston, along the shores of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of downtown Chicago. The universitys law, medical, and professional schools are located on a 25-acre campus in Chicagos Streeterville neighborhood, in 2008, the university opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication. In 2016, Northwestern opened its San Francisco space at 44 Montgomery St. which hosts journalism, engineering, Northwestern is a large research university with a comprehensive doctoral program and it attracts over $650 million in sponsored research each year. Northwestern has the tenth largest university endowment in the United States, in 2017, the university accepted 9. 0% of undergraduate applicants from a pool of 37,255. Northwestern is a member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAAs Division I Big Ten Conference, on January 28,1851, the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University, making it the first chartered university in Illinois. The schools nine founders, all of whom were Methodists, knelt in prayer, John Evans, for whom Evanston is named, bought 379 acres of land along Lake Michigan in 1853, and Philo Judson developed plans for what would become the city of Evanston, Illinois. The first building, Old College, opened on November 5,1855, to raise funds for its construction, Northwestern sold $100 perpetual scholarships entitling the purchaser and his heirs to free tuition. Willard Residential College is named in her honor, Northwestern admitted its first women students in 1869, and the first woman was graduated in 1874. Northwestern fielded its first intercollegiate football team in 1882, later becoming a member of the Big Ten Conference. In the 1870s and 1880s, Northwestern affiliated itself with already existing schools of law, medicine, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the oldest law school in Chicago. The Association of American Universities invited Northwestern to become a member in 1917, in 1933, a proposal to merge Northwestern with the University of Chicago was considered but rejected. Northwestern was also one of the first six universities in the country to establish a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in the 1920s, after the golden years of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the United States hit Northwestern hard. Its annual income dropped 25 percent from $4.8 million in 1930-31 to $3.6 million in 1933-34. Investment income shrank, fewer parents could pay full tuition, and annual giving from alumni, the university responded with two salary cuts of 10 percent each for all employees. It imposed a freeze, a building freeze, and slashed appropriations for maintenance, books
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Mechanical engineering
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Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies the principles of engineering, physics, and materials science for the design, analysis, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the design, production and it is one of the oldest and broadest of the engineering disciplines. The mechanical engineering field requires an understanding of areas including mechanics, kinematics, thermodynamics, materials science, structural analysis. Mechanical engineering emerged as a field during the Industrial Revolution in Europe in the 18th century, however, Mechanical engineering science emerged in the 19th century as a result of developments in the field of physics. The field has evolved to incorporate advancements in technology, and mechanical engineers today are pursuing developments in such fields as composites, mechatronics. Mechanical engineers may work in the field of biomedical engineering, specifically with biomechanics, transport phenomena, biomechatronics, bionanotechnology. Mechanical engineering finds its application in the archives of various ancient, in ancient Greece, the works of Archimedes deeply influenced mechanics in the Western tradition and Heron of Alexandria created the first steam engine. In China, Zhang Heng improved a water clock and invented a seismometer, during the 7th to 15th century, the era called the Islamic Golden Age, there were remarkable contributions from Muslim inventors in the field of mechanical technology. Al-Jazari, who was one of them, wrote his famous Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices in 1206 and he is also considered to be the inventor of such mechanical devices which now form the very basic of mechanisms, such as the crankshaft and camshaft. Newton was reluctant to publish his methods and laws for years, gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is also credited with creating Calculus during the same time frame. On the European continent, Johann von Zimmermann founded the first factory for grinding machines in Chemnitz, education in mechanical engineering has historically been based on a strong foundation in mathematics and science. Degrees in mechanical engineering are offered at universities worldwide. In Spain, Portugal and most of South America, where neither B. Sc. nor B. Tech, programs have been adopted, the formal name for the degree is Mechanical Engineer, and the course work is based on five or six years of training. In Italy the course work is based on five years of education, and training, in Greece, the coursework is based on a five-year curriculum and the requirement of a Diploma Thesis, which upon completion a Diploma is awarded rather than a B. Sc. In Australia, mechanical engineering degrees are awarded as Bachelor of Engineering or similar nomenclature although there are a number of specialisations. The degree takes four years of study to achieve. To ensure quality in engineering degrees, Engineers Australia accredits engineering degrees awarded by Australian universities in accordance with the global Washington Accord, before the degree can be awarded, the student must complete at least 3 months of on the job work experience in an engineering firm. Similar systems are present in South Africa and are overseen by the Engineering Council of South Africa
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University of Maryland, College Park
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Founded in 1856, the university is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference, the University of Marylands proximity to the nations capital has resulted in research partnerships with the Federal government. The operating budget of the University of Maryland during the 2009 fiscal year was projected to be approximately $1.531 billion, for the same fiscal year, the University of Maryland received a total of $518 million in research funding, surpassing its 2008 mark by $118 million. As of December 12,2012, the universitys Great Expectations campaign had exceeded $1 billion in private donations, on March 6,1856, the forerunner of todays University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College. Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a future U. S. Congressman, Calvert founded the school later that year. On October 5,1859, the first 34 students entered the Maryland Agricultural College, the school became a land grant college in February 1864. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers under Brigadier General Bradley Tyler Johnson moved past the college on July 12,1864 as part of Jubal Earlys raid on Washington, D. C. By the end of the war, financial problems forced the administrators to sell off 200 acres of land, for the next two years the campus was used as a boys preparatory school. Following the Civil War, in February 1866 the Maryland legislature assumed half ownership of the school, the college thus became in part a state institution. By October 1867, the school reopened with 11 students, in the next six years, enrollment grew and the schools debt was paid off. In 1873, Samuel Jones, a former Confederate Major General, twenty years later, the federally funded Agricultural Experiment Station was established there. Morrill Hall was built the following year, on November 29,1912, a fire destroyed the barracks where the students were housed, all the schools records, and most of the academic buildings, leaving only Morrill Hall untouched. There were no injuries or fatalities, and all but two returned to the university and insisted on classes continuing. Students were housed by families in neighboring towns until housing could be rebuilt, a large brick and concrete compass inlaid in the ground designates the former center of campus as it existed in 1912. The state took control of the school in 1916, and the institution was renamed Maryland State College and that year, the first female students enrolled at the school. On April 9,1920, the became part of the existing University of Maryland, replacing St. Johns College. In the same year, the school on the College Park campus awarded its first PhD degrees. In 1925 the university was accredited by the Association of American Universities, by the time the first black students enrolled at the university in 1951, enrollment had grown to nearly 10,000 students—4,000 of whom were women
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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Damian Kulash
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Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. is the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band OK Go. He is also a video director. United States, Kulash graduated from St. Albans School in 1994, the family name was originally Kulas when Kulashs great-grandparents lived in Poland. In a podcast, Kulash states that one of his grandfathers invented the modern day fish stick, while in college at Brown, Kulash played in at least three bands – A La Playa, Calixto Chinchile, and Square. In May 1998, Kulash won Brown Universitys Weston Prize in music composition, Kulash also attended Interlochen Arts Camp while in high school as a visual arts major. As a result of courses he took in music, Kulash became interested in more highly produced. After graduation from Brown, Kulash moved to Chicago, and in 1998 formed OK Go, after playing in Chicago and appearances on NPRs This American Life, OK Go signed to Capitol Records. They have released four albums, OK Go, Oh No, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky and he is also a fan of post-hardcore and indie rock. He was also one half of the Washington, D. C. based independent record label Level Records, Level Records released various 7s, compilations, and CDs for bands such as Branch Manager and Frodus. On March 9,2010, Kulash announced OK Gos departure from EMI via their YouTube channel and their new label is called Paracadute. In August 2006, Kulash appeared on an episode of The Colbert Report to discuss the band putting their videos on YouTube instead of going through the normal corporate video-making process. OK Go made another appearance in April 2010, and performed This Too Shall Pass, in early 2008, Kulash wrote a passage in Ben Karlins book Things Ive Learnt from Women Whove Dumped Me. Kulash describes one of his previous, unsuccessful relationships, involving a dog which he shared with his partner, on February 19,2010, The New York Times printed his op-ed piece entitled WhoseTube. Which discussed the relationship between musicians, record labels, and the Internet, Kulash had previously written two other op-eds in the New York Times, one in 2008 about Net Neutrality and another in 2005 about the Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal. He has also testified in Congress in favor of Net Neutrality, Kulash was previously married to artist Shana Lutker and also designer Ambra Medda. In March 2014, Kulash was part of a video titled First Kiss. Smart Music Thats Fun Brown Alumni Magazine Online, OK Go Biography Accessed October 24,2005. PopGurls 20 Questions with Damian Kulash
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Andy Ross
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Andrew Andy Ross, is an American musician most famous as guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist for the rock band OK Go since 2005. He is also behind a project, Secret Dakota Ring. Ross is also co-founder of Serious Business Records, a label under which Secret Dakota Ring publish their records, Ross was also the bassist for a brief stint in early 2000s indie band Cold Memory, and was also the headliner for The A-Ross Experience. Other early bands include Phter, D-Funky and the Beechmont Chilles, in 2004 he released an album, Do Not Leave The Baggage All The Way, under the solo project name Secret Dakota Ring. Ross described his album as a break up album at a Google artists performance. In early 2005 he became a member of OK Go after auditioning to replace the former guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan. A second Secret Dakota Ring album, entitled Cantarell, was released on November 11,2008, Secret Dakota Ring has released two studio albums, Do Not Leave Baggage All the Way Cantarell Band blog
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Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
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Of the Blue Colour of the Sky is the third studio album by American rock band OK Go. It was released on January 12,2010 on Capitol Records in the USA and EMI in the UK, the album was produced by Dave Fridmann and was recorded in a span of seven months at Fridmanns Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York. The albums name, lyrics, and concept are based on The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky and its style was noted as a significant departure from the power pop of their earlier albums. After the bands split with EMI and Capitol, Paracadute took over the promotional campaign, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics upon release and debuted at number 40 on Billboard 200 chart. After the bands previous album Oh No was finished being recorded in 2005, guitarist Andy Duncan left the band, citing creative differences and he was replaced by Andy Ross, who was involved in the albums promotion, including music video appearances. The music videos for A Million Ways and Here It Goes Again attracted much attention as viral videos on YouTube, and were significantly influential in the Oh Nos success and rise in OK Gos popularity. Along with releasing the EP Youre Not Alone with New Orleans brass funk rock band Bonerama in 2008, OK Go finished writing new material and started working in the studio in October 2008. They worked for two intervals in producer Dave Fridmanns Tarbox Road Studios, a converted Amish barn in Cassadaga, New York. Bassist Tim Nordwind described the process of the sessions as a midpoint between the slick production work done on OK Go and the emphasis on live takes with the recording of Oh No. J. Elements of the booklet compare the lyrics with the passage, with data gathered from the characteristics of the texts presented by different graphical means. The image on the cover was constructed with a list of twenty-five themes, each representing a specific color. If more than one theme is assigned to the same sentence, with each sentence being represented by a colored line, the lines are arranged radially giving the impression of beams of multicolored light emanating from the center. Other data collected for presentation inside the booklet includes sentence length, parts of speech occurrences, syllable stress, and words common to both texts. Kulash, as the songwriter for the album, developed the concept and collected the data with Stefanie Posavec and Greg McInerny. Since OK Go split from EMI, their label, Paracadute, on September 19, they announced that an Extra Nice Edition was to be released in the USA on November 2. It features the standard thirteen-track album along with a disk that includes demos, alternate versions. Also, access to a database is included with its purchase. Music will continually be added to the even though the album is out
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Hungry Ghosts (album)
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Hungry Ghosts is the fourth studio album by American rock band OK Go. It was released on October 14,2014 under the bands own Paracadute record label and was produced by Dave Fridmann and it is the bands first studio album since Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, which was released four years earlier in January 2010. It is a album that is mostly about the pros and cons of a relationship. The album has an electronic and modern approach compared to their three previous studio albums. The album was recorded in three years at Dave Fridmanns Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York, upon release, the album received generally favorable reviews from music critics and charted at number 74 in the Billboard 200. The band has released two singles from the album with accompanying music videos, The Writings on the Wall. The music video for I Wont Let You Down was nominated for, with the exception of the single I Wont Let You Down, which was produced by Tony Hoffer in Los Angeles, most of the album was produced by Dave Fridmann at his New York studio Tarbox Road. Production began with the sessions, where the members sent in about 40 demos. They also discussed how different they would produce from their previous records, the group had spent two years writing material, beginning with no idea how the music would sound. According to Fridmann, they decided to use a combination of Pro Tools and Reason, everything was synced up to a Reason track, so we could edit in both worlds, and we set up the studio with five different stations. We had the main A and B studios with my stuff and he described the development of the songs in an interview with Mix Online, We’d just go from room to room. Somebody else would be listening to stuff and they’d give comments back. We just kept walking around the building in a circle, commenting on each other’s work, the vocals were mainly recorded using Neumann U7 and Sennheiser 421 mics, with a Neve 8801 occasionally being used if necessary. Several guitar amps were used in making the album, including a Selmer, the guitars were tracked with a Bock 251 mic. On the drums, an Electro-Voice 868 mic was used for the kick, a Neumann 105 for the snare, an E-V RE27 was used to track bass guitar. Fridmann said that a lot of the sounds on this album originated inside of Reason. We did a lot of programming, and that made it easy to transfer files, no matter what you did in a Thor synthesizer, you could take it to somebody else’s Reason station, then we could speed it up, slow it down, do whatever we want. Frontman Damian Kulash also used an OP-1 synthesizer manufactured by Teenage Engineering in recording the album, Hungry Ghosts contains styles of synthrock and power pop with several disco elements
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Bonerama
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Bonerama is a brass funk rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Bonerama was formed in 1998 by trombone players Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, shortly thereafter, they added trombone players Steve Suter, Brian ONeill, and Rick Trolsen, sousaphone player Matt Perrine, guitarist Bert Cotton, and drummer Eric Bolivar. New Orleans drummers Russell Batiste, Stanton Moore, Doug Belote, Chad Gilmore, Terence Higgins, later, Charlie Kruger electric bass replaced Matt Perrine. Bonerama trombonist Brian ONeill had an attack and died while on a solo piano gig in New Orleans in December 2005. Bonerama released their album in 2001, to positive reviews from OffBeat magazine, Gambit Weekly. They had their first tour of the East Coast to sold-out venues, rolling Stone editor David Fricke, in his On the Edge column, wrote about them as the ultimate in brass balls. On January 2,2008, Bonerama performed the anthem at the 2008 Sugar Bowl. On February 5, they released a joint EP with OK Go, entitled Youre Not Alone, on February 11,2008, Bonerama performed A Million Ways with Damian Kulash of OK Go on the Late Show with David Letterman. After the departure of Rick Trolsen and Steve Suter in early 2009, in time, the three trombonists became one of the most in-demand horn sections in New Orleans and began to appear under the name The Bonerama Horns. The Bonerama Horns appear on songs on Alec Ounsworths 2009 release Mo Beauty, R. E. M. s 2010 release Collapse into Now
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Twelve Days of OK Go
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Twelve Days of OK Go is a compilation album by American rock band OK Go. It was released on December 31,2012, OK Go started releasing the songs on December 10, with one song released each weekday. The last song, a cover of Any Time at All, was released on Christmas, a bonus track, a cover of This Will Be Our Year, was released on New Years Eve
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Get Over It (OK Go song)
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Get Over It is the first single released by OK Go from their self-titled debut album. It was released as a single in the US in 2002 and was released in the UK in March 2003 which got the band their first Top of the Pops performance on April 4,2003. Youre So Damn Hot appeared on the bands first album, the b-side Antmusic was previously released on the bands Pink EP in 2000 while Bruise Grey is a remake of one of the bands earlier songs which had appeared on their demo disc. This song was part of the Madden NFL2003 and Triple Play 2002 soundtracks. A music video was made in 2002 and it features the band performing the song in a large recreation hall. Various objects are shown from time to time such as garbage bags, a wedge of cheese, deer heads, furniture. The song is stopped in the middle to show a shot of the band playing ping-pong, the video was directed by Francis Lawrence and was released through the bands website on August 1,2002. It first aired on MTV on September 2,2002, –2,43 Its Tough to Have a Crush When the Boy Doesnt Feel the Same Way You Do –2,07 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Don't Ask Me (OK Go song)
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Dont Ask Me is the second UK single released by OK Go in 2003 from their self-titled debut album. Its Tough to Have a Crush was originally released on the bands Brown EP, get over It is a live recording from BBC Radio 1 of the bands previous single, which became a hit in the UK earlier that year. The song was featured in the 2004 film Catch That Kid and in the TV series Smallville and The Inbetweeners. Dont Ask Me Get Over It Its Tough To Have A Crush Dont Ask Me Its Tough to Have a Crush The first music video for the song is known as the Dance Booth version or The Orange version. It was directed by Brian L. Perkins and depicts the band and it was shot during their 2002 summer tour with The Vines. A second video was made to promote the single in 2003 in the UK and this video was directed by Barnaby Roper in 2003 and features the band performing the song in an empty white room with a line of female dancers who feature prominently. The video is in monochrome save for random stripes in the background which are in pink or orange
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A Million Ways
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A Million Ways is a song by rock band OK Go from their album Oh No. It was the first song from the album to be released as a single, the Lovecats, a cover of The Cures hit single, had been released on the bands previous EP and was released for a third time on the single for Here It Goes Again. Down for the Count had not been released, but was released as a single on iTunes in 2007. The song appeared as a track in the game Band Hero. The song also appeared in the 2007 film I Could Never Be Your Woman, the songs vocals are lip-synced in the video by bassist Tim Nordwind instead of Damian, following the format from the dance choreographed for the song C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips, which Tim sings. The footage was not intended to be released as the music video. It premiered on Fuse on August 18,2005, the band was inspired by music videos such as Janet Jacksons Rhythm Nation and film The Matrix for the videos choreography. On July 18,2006, OK Go unveiled The OK Go Dances With You Contest in which contestants submitted their pastiches of the video on YouTube, the winners would dance live with the band at one of their concerts. The contest ended on August 31,2006, a compilation of these submissions was added on the DVD for the Deluxe Edition of Oh No. The routine has been performed by the band on many occasions and they performed it on Mad TV and Soccer AM. They also performed the number in Paris, France to promote their French website, a Million Ways video on YouTube
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Do What You Want (OK Go song)
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Do What You Want is a song by the Grammy Award-winning rock band OK Go from their second album, Oh No. It is the single off the album released in the UK. The b-sides include live versions of Get Over It and Invincible as well as a version of Oh Lately Its So Quiet. A first video was made in June 2005 in Los Angeles, a total of thirty-five DV cameras, set up by Gondry and his crew, were used to achieve the desired panning effects. Another video was released through the website only available to their Juggling Club members. This features live performances interspliced with the band lip-syncing the song in various parts and this was directed by Scott Keiner and was probably made in late 2005 or early 2006 during the bands tour. A third video was made to promote the single release and this version is known as the Wallpaper version, as it has the band and a large group of extras in zentai-styled bodysuits that match the wallpaper on the wall of the set in which the video is filmed. Directed by OK Go and Blip Boutique, it is perhaps the most well-known music video for the song, the video was premiered on MTVs Total Request Live on February 15,2007 with all day premieres on MTVu and MTV Hits. The song was played in a commercial for the Fox show Back to You, starring Kelsey Grammer, the song was featured in a JC Penney commercial. The song is on the soundtrack for the game NHL2006, the song is on the soundtrack for the game Thrillville, Off the Rails. The song has featured in several video games, including Burnout Revenge, Burnout Legends, Guitar Hero, On Tour. The song is featured as a feature on the DVD for the film Juno where the cast and crew dance. The song was featured in commercials for the movie Space Chimps, the song is played on the AT&T website on a display for quick messaging cell phones. The song was featured in a commercial for Comcast Xfinity, the song was covered by Nataly Dawn on her channel on YouTube
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Oh Lately It's So Quiet
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Oh Lately Its So Quiet is the third single released by the band OK Go, from their second album Oh No. It was released for US radio stations only, an acoustic version of the song was released on the previous single in the UK, Do What You Want. No video was produced to promote the song and it was later released as a live version on their album Live from the Fillmore – New York at Irving Plaza. The song was featured in an episode of One Tree Hill, Oh Lately Its So Quiet Oh Lately Its So Quiet
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Invincible (OK Go song)
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Invincible is the fourth single by the Chicago based rock band OK Go from their Do What You Want EP and their 2005 album Oh No. It was released as a single in 2006 for US radio stations only and it was featured in the films The Fog and Shes the Man and in the TV series One Tree Hill and CSI, NY. Invincible Invincible A music video was made in 2006 to promote the song, directed by Michael Barnett and Damian Kulash, it features the band performing the song in front of various wallpapers, accompanied by explosions of furniture and objects. The music video was first shown on June 14,2006 on MySpace, official video for Invincible on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Here It Goes Again
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Here It Goes Again is an alternative rock/power pop song by OK Go, and is the third released single from the album Oh No. It also appears on the compilation album Now 23 and it was the bands only single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, until I Wont Let You Down entered the Hot 100 in November 2014. Featuring the band dancing on treadmills, the became a staple on YouTube, it was one of the most watched videos, with over 52 million views. In addition, the peaked at #36 in the UK Singles Chart on October 1,2006, hence marking their second UK Top 40 single. Its B-side, The Lovecats, a cover of The Cures single, was released on the bands Do What You Want EP. An alternate version was nicknamed UK Surf, written by Damian Kulash Jr. the three-minute Here It Goes Again is set in common time at a Moderately fast rock tempo of 144 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of C major, with the vocal range spanning from C4 to A4, Kulash also sang and played the guitar in the original mix, which was produced by Tore Johansson with co-production done by Eric Drew Feldman, Howard Willing and Ken Sluiter. Andy Ross was another guitarist on the track and was keyboardist as well, other instruments on the recording include drums performed by Dan Konopka and bass by Tim Nordwind. David Carlsson and Petter Lindgård were the engineer, with Jens Lindgård being the engineering assistant. Recorded at Gula Studion in Malmö, Sweden, it was mixed at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles by Dave Sardy, the music video of the song is an elaborate performance of the band dancing on treadmills in a single continuous take. Choreographed by Trish Sie and directed by Sie and the band, the video debuted on YouTube on July 31,2006. As of March 2010, it had been viewed over 50 million times and it premiered on VH1s Top 20 Countdown that same day. OK Go performed the dance routine live at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and the 2006 YouTube awards for Most Creative Video. In July 2011, the video was named one of The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos by Time Magazine. It was also featured on the video game Rock Band, according to MTV Gamess Paul McGooyer, a portion of the song and video were used in the 2008 video game Dance Dance Revolution X. Here it Goes Again appeared in the E32016 trailer for Lego Dimensions, parodies of the video have appeared on The Simpsons, The Fairly OddParents and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. During the summer of 2006, the recorded a slower version of Here It Goes Again in their attic. This version, dubbed UK Surf or the UK Surf Mix, was released on iTunes in the UK the same day as the single
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WTF? (song)
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WTF. is an alternative rock song by OK Go, and was released as the first single taken from their 2010 album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. The song is in 5/4 time, and the band has revealed that the song is inspired by Prince. Digital download WTF. –1,58,26 WTF. –3,31 An accompanying music video was released at the time as the single. The entire video was made using a delayed image effect, all of the props in the video, such as Wiffle ball bats, gaffer tape, and beach balls, were bought from a 99 cent store. As is typical for OK Go videos, it was shot in one continuous take, the song was featured in commercials in March 2010, for the TV shows Bones and Fringe. WTF. official music video on YouTube
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This Too Shall Pass (OK Go song)
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This Too Shall Pass is a song by American rock band OK Go. It was released as the single from their third studio album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. The band took the route of creating two official music videos for the song, both of which premiered on YouTube. The first features a performance of the song in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Marching Band. The second features a giant Rube Goldberg machine, constructed to operate in time with the song, difficulties in marketing and distribution of the videos with their corporate label, EMI, led the band to form their own independent label shortly after the videos releases. The first video for the song was released on YouTube on January 12,2010, to coincide with the release of the album, directed by Brian L. Perkins, it was filmed in October,2009, in South Bend, Indiana. The video is unusual in that it does not feature the album version of the song. Rather, it features a recording that was actually performed live during filming of the video. OK Gos Tim Nordwind noted that the song lent itself well to large orchestration, in the video, the members of OK Go are seen in a field wearing marching band garb. The uniforms were originally from Rochelle Township High School of Rochelle and they begin to march, and as the song progresses, the band is joined by members of the University of Notre Dames Marching Band many of whom rise up camouflaged in ghillie suits. They are also joined in the chorus by a childrens choir cobbled together from two local South Bend preschools. Like many of their videos, the marching band video was shot in one take. The marching band video was created to bridge the time between the release of the album and the completion of the Rube Goldberg video. The band had planned to release the marching band version after the debut of the Rube Goldberg video. The second music video for This Too Shall Pass was directed by James Frost, as the song and machine operate, the members of the band are seen singing alongside the machine, with the members being shot at by paint guns at the songs finale. Parts of the machine are synchronized in time with the music, in one instance, one part of the machine shows the Here It Goes Again video on a television before it is smashed by the machine. The MAKE magazine 1993 Ford Escort racecar, used for the 24 Hours of LeMons, alongside the LEGO car, several LEGO mini-figurines are displayed as a reference to the marching band video. They sought help through online science message boards, eventually coming in contact with Syyn Labs, Damian Kulashs father also participated in the machines construction
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End Love
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End Love is an alternative rock song by OK Go from the album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. The songs lyrics deal with the period of time after the end of a relationship. The video for End Love was directed by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther, the video shows the four members of OK Go, each dressed in solid neon-tracksuit of different colors, performing moves to the song. In addition, some parts of the video have been slowed down as the members of the band perform a move in unison. Near the end of the video, the band interacting with other people in the same manner. The video concludes with time-lapse photography of the fountain at Echo Park, according to Lieberman, the video—including both the bands main performance and the skyline shots—was filmed in a continuous shot consisting of over one million frames of film. The average time compression on the video for most of OK Gos parts is about 270x from real-time, the skyline footage was compressed by 172,800 times, condensing each 24 hours into a 0.5 second shot. During the video, a goose is frequently seen wandering near the band. The goose is known to park regulars as Maria, though the band, the video premiered at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 12,2010, and was then released on YouTube on June 15,2010. End Love official music video on YouTube
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White Knuckles
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White Knuckles is a song by alternative rock band OK Go from the album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. The song traces its roots to Princes style of funk and R&B that brought him to fame and it was featured in the film The Cabin in the Woods. Fans of the song were given the opportunity to create a remix of White Knuckles for inclusion in the Rock Band music video game series through the Rock Band Network and this was won by The Big Robot. The music video for White Knuckles was directed by Trish Sie, the sister of lead singer Damian Kulash and who had previously directed the bands famous treadmill video for Here It Goes Again. The one shot features the band members performing choreographed actions with minimal props alongside a number of trained dogs and one goat. Sie thought that in considering the success of the video, wouldn’t it be kind of cool if this time the guys were the machines. Sies idea for the White Knuckles video followed shortly after the completion of the treadmill video, the band considered the idea absurd and awesome, and a routine was developed in 2009 using only three live animals, with stuffed animals as stand-ins. The song White Knuckles includes the words paw and pet, matching up to the concept of using dogs within the video, much like with the video for Here It Goes Again, bassist Tim Nordwind does the lip-syncing in this video instead of Kulash. One dozen dogs and the goat were provided and trained by Talented Animals, with head trainer Lauren Henry, all of the dogs were from animal rescue shelters. Part of the requirement of the band was that the shot had to be performed in a take, a feat that Roland Sonnenburg. Each dog was paired with the trainer they worked best with to prevent one dog from taking the wrong direction, the development of the routine, training of the dogs, and the shooting were filmed in a disused plastics factory in Corvallis, Oregon. The dogs were trained for two prior to the bands direct involvement, tweaking and tuning the choreography to work with the animals they had. The band joined in one week prior to the shooting period to acclimate themselves to the dogs. Instead, they used a feed bag to lure the goat, a total of 124 takes were made during the filming period, about 30 were complete takes, with 10 of those being considered excellent by the group. The released version was Take 72, completed on the second-to-last day of shooting, the video premiered on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on September 20,2010, and was posted shortly afterward by the band to YouTube. The video quickly became a video as OK Gos previous videos. With the release of the video, OK Go encouraged its viewers to assist in rescue efforts through their web site. The video had been shot in both 2D and 3D, though only had been released using the 2D version as there were few opportunities to show off the 3D version, according to Sie
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The Muppet Show
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The Muppet Show is a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets. The programmes were recorded at ATVs Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England, the series shows a vaudeville or music hall-style song-and-dance variety show, as well as glimpses behind the scenes of such a show. Kermit the Frog stars as a showrunner who tries to control of the antics of the other Muppet characters. The show was known for physical slapstick, sometimes absurdist comedy. Each episode also featured a human guest star, as the shows popularity rose, many celebrities were eager to perform with the Muppets on television and in film. Many of the puppeteers also worked on Sesame Street, Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns were two of the show writers. The music was performed by Jack Parnell and his orchestra, since 1969, Sesame Street had given Jim Hensons Muppet creations exposure, however, Henson began to perceive that he was pigeonholed as a childrens entertainer. He sought to create a programme that could be enjoyed by young, Two specials were produced and aired on ABC that are considered pilots for The Muppet Show. Neither led to the sale of a network series. However, the prime-time access rule had just been enacted, which took the 7,30 to 8 pm ET slot from the networks and turned it over to their affiliates. CBS suggested it would be interested in Hensons proposal as a series it could purchase for its owned-and-operated stations. According to the pitch reel, Rowan & Martins Laugh-In co-creator George Schlatter was originally going to be involved. Henson put aside his misgivings about syndication and accepted, the Muppet Show Theme is the shows theme song. It is the opening and closing theme for episode of The Muppet Show and was performed by The Muppets in a scene of The Muppets. Each episode ended with an instrumental performance of The Muppet Show Theme by the Muppet orchestra before Statler. Some last laugh sequences featured other Muppets on the balcony, for example, in one episode, the Muppets of Sesame Street appeared behind the duo who told them, How should we know how to get to Sesame Street. We dont even know how to get out of this stupid theater box, every series, the TV version of the song was presented with re-worked lyrics. While the opening sequence evolved visually over the course of the five series
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Needing/Getting
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Needing/Getting is a song by American alternative rock band OK Go, from their 2010 album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. Needing/Getting was written by band members Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind, the lyrics reflect a person who wishes to be in a relationship with someone who is not interested and expresses the foolishness of waiting around for that person to like you back. Paste described the song musically as dirt-smudged with its odd street-noise sound effects, NME described the song as the splicing of pervy pop with punch-drunk sea-shanties, and considered it pleasing enough and a highlight of a relatively mediocre album. The Boston Globe believed the band was trying too hard to distance itself from its pop roots, the video is sponsored by Chevrolet, and features their Sonic. The video premiered on MTV on February 5, with a version shown during Super Bowl XLVI the same day. Kulash wanted to extend this idea, making the props in the video be the source of the music during the recording and it helps break down the idea that these are all distinct forms of art. Using a car to make the music had also been an idea toyed by the band, the concept of a rally car course bore out from this idea, using the various stages of the course to map to certain stanzas of the song. Kevin Mayer, Chevrolets director of advertising, felt OK Gos influence with young adults through their past music videos was a fit with the Sonic. However, remaining in control of the product was considered key to the sponsorship. He further praised Chevrolet for allowing the work to be produced without excessive marketing, noting that the band was surprised that Chevy had the balls to go for it. The video was filmed in a 2-mile long course on a ranch property between Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert over a four-day period. The course as constructed included more than 1,100 homemade instruments and this was aided with the use of a metronome within the car, and a series of marked beanbags that dropped as he drove through the course. Multiple takes were required to perfect the run, they would often have to replace the extender arms as they broke off from overuse. The video, uploaded to YouTube after airing during the Super Bowl, received 5 million views within the day, wired magazines Curtis Silver felt the video took the mediocre track from the album into an experience that enhances the song and provides more than just a listening experience. Needing/Getting music video on YouTube Behind the Scenes, Part 1 on YouTube
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The Writing's on the Wall (OK Go song)
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The Writings on the Wall is a song by American rock band OK Go. It was released on June 17,2014, as part of the bands EP Upside Out, like previous OK Go videos, it is structured as a one-shot music video. The many YouTube views of the video caused the song to debut in the top ten of the US Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, the Writings on the Wall is an alternative rock and pop rock song. He said the song is written to be melancholic and jubilant at the same time, the song lasts three minutes and thirty-five seconds. The arrangement of the mix consists of two heavily distorted guitars and drums, which Fridmann described as very standard. The band spent a lot of working on the bass parts sounding distorted. Friedman said it was fun to track a band because it was highly unusual for that session. We just knew that on this song, having them together was the best way to tell whether our ideas were working. All the illusions were created by the shots, without the use of any post-processing special effects. The video for The Writings on the Wall was co-directed by Kulash along with Aaron Duffy and Bob Partington, creative personnel from the Special Guest and 1st Ave Machine agencies, respectively. The illusions were tied to the theme of the song, as described by Rolling Stone, Kulash felt in planning the video that the use of illusions was a good representation of this concept. The video was planned about two months before the set was built using computer mock-ups to explore ideas, the warehouse set was located in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where the band lived during the setup and filming of the video. It took about three weeks to assemble the set with the help of about 50 other people, including Kulashs father, further, Nordwind had shaved off half his beard to achieve an effect involving a mirror worn on his face, allowing him to appear as two different people. The concept of the one-shot was considered critical to the video as it provided immersion for the viewer in the unfolding of the video, Nordwind considered this video to be the bands most difficult to film because of their involvement, including manning the camera and performing nine costume changes. The film was arranged to put most of these complicated shots where mistakes would be made at the front of the video to reduce the amount of time to reset the warehouse for subsequent takes. They made about 60 attempts at the take, working into the morning hours. The final video is a performed in the midpoint of the filming process. Within a week of its premiere, the video had received over 7 million views on YouTube, the video won the award for Best Visual Effects at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards
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I Won't Let You Down (OK Go song)
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I Wont Let You Down is a single by the alternative band OK Go that was released as a single in December 8,2014 and is part of their album Hungry Ghosts. The video for the song was released on October 27,2014, the song was released as a single on December 8,2014. The song was featured in Step Up, All In, the video for I Wont Let You Down was released on October 27,2014, premiering on The Today Show. Similar to many of the bands past videos, the video is a continuous one-shot music video, the band members perform the video while riding Honda UNI-CUBs, personal mobility units that are controlled by the rider by simply shifting their weight on the device. The Japanese electropop group Perfume also make a cameo at the start of the video and they obtained help of producer Morihiro Harano, a friend of the band who they had desired to work with since meeting him a few years prior. Harano linked them to Hondas internal ad agency, which led to them being put in contact with Japanese choreographer Airman to help out the routines. Honda went on to fund the film and provide the UNI-CUBs, during an interview with The Today Show, Kulash stated that the video took about a month of concept, planning, and practicing before it was shot. The video was filmed around August 2014 at Longwood Station, a vacant Outlet store in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan near Tokyo, Kulash and Kazuaki Seki co-directed the video. The video was filmed in time, recording the events at half the speed of the song. The camera drone was controlled both with GPS and manual control for fine adjustment by Harano and his crew and this final section took between 50 and 60 practice runs to get the timing correct. The filming took about 4 days to complete, complicated by weather issues, the rain cleared up on their last planned day filming allow them to complete the video. According to Harano they recorded about 44 takes with 11 being fully completed takes, the opening sequence, primarily focusing on the OK Go band members, was made to feel like a futuristic version of Gene Kellys dancing in Singin in the Rain. The final ascent and pan shot lasts a full 70 seconds without audio accompaniment, the video went viral when it was released. It garnered 6 million worldwide YouTube views in two days and sent the song to No.1 on the Billboard/Twitter Trending 140 chart, the video won for Best Choreography at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. The song debuted at No.71 on the Billboard Hot 100, official music video Behind the scenes of shooting I Wont Let You Down Interactive video website
