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Cool trivial things by musicians...

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Brian Eno made the windows 95 startup theme :wink:
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Cupz wrote:Cool trivial things by musicians...

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Brian Eno made the windows 95 startup theme :wink:


i honestly didn't know that...
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weren't kraftwerk paid millions by the german government for a 3 second jingle for their "expo 2000" theme?
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Cupz wrote:Cool trivial things by musicians...

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Brian Eno made the windows 95 startup theme :wink:


Robert Fripp worked on soundscapes for Windows Vista - don't know if it was inlcuded in the finished version or not...
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I read somewhere (can't remember the source)that originally Michael Jackson had wanted Kraftwerk to produce Thriller but they didn't accept the offer. Great album anyway but can you imagine how it would have sounded.
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Cupz wrote:Cool trivial things by musicians...

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Brian Eno made the windows 95 startup theme :wink:


i hate that melody, thank god it can be turned off in system :lol:
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Honesty that lowers my view of Eno.

I wonder if they played Mouse on Mars's track "Saturday Night Worldcup Fieber" during the last World Cup (which Germany hosted).
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Moebius wrote:Honesty they lowers my view of Eno.

I wonder if they played Mouse on Mars's track "Saturday Night Worldcup Fieber" during the last World Cup (which Germany hosted).


I love it when a tune you love randomly crops up in a TV show. Shows someone in the editorial team has taste!
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Random music (just) trivia....

Jon Bon Jovi (stiffles vomit) wrote and "performed" on the - brace yourself - "Christmas in the Stars - The Star Wars Christmas album" in 1980. I heard a snippet of this gem some years ago and he duets with R2-D2 on one the tunes. No, seriously.

I don't know what's scarier - the fact that there was a Star Wars album at all, the fact that they thought for some reason it should be a CHRISTMAS album, the fact that Jon Bon Jovi should sing it, or that he clearly thought he could do a duet with what is basically a bleeping dustbin (trashcan for our friends over the pond) on tanks tracks.

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A_Northern_Soul wrote:I love it when a tune you love randomly crops up in a TV show. Shows someone in the editorial team has taste!


Except when MTV does it; using some non-mainstream track as background music in one of their so-important-we-have-to-bump-all-the-videos-for-it shows. "So clearly you know it exists, and someone there thinks it's cool... yet you still refuse to promote it or play the video..."
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Mexicola wrote:Random music (just) trivia....

Jon Bon Jovi (stiffles vomit) wrote and "performed" on the - brace yourself - "Christmas in the Stars - The Star Wars Christmas album" in 1980. I heard a snippet of this gem some years ago and he duets with R2-D2 on one the tunes. No, seriously.

I don't know what's scarier - the fact that there was a Star Wars album at all, the fact that they thought for some reason it should be a CHRISTMAS album, the fact that Jon Bon Jovi should sing it, or that he clearly thought he could do a duet with what is basically a bleeping dustbin (trashcan for our friends over the pond) on tanks tracks.

Pure, diamond-tipped, gold-plated genius. :D


Surely that was years before Jon Bon Jovi hit the big time? He must've been fairly young.
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Moebius wrote:
A_Northern_Soul wrote:I love it when a tune you love randomly crops up in a TV show. Shows someone in the editorial team has taste!


Except when MTV does it; using some non-mainstream track as background music in one of their so-important-we-have-to-bump-all-the-videos-for-it shows. "So clearly you know it exists, and someone there thinks it's cool... yet you still refuse to promote it or play the video..."


God, do NOT even get me started on MTV...
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Mexicola wrote:Jon Bon Jovi (stiffles vomit) wrote and "performed" on the - brace yourself - "Christmas in the Stars - The Star Wars Christmas album" in 1980. I heard a snippet of this gem some years ago and he duets with R2-D2 on one the tunes. No, seriously.

Pure, diamond-tipped, gold-plated genius. :D


Hehehehe, I'm listening to this RIGHT NOW! :wink:
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Hehehehe, I'm listening to this RIGHT NOW! :wink:


Oh man...this shit is hilarious...

"R2d2 we wish you a merry christmaaaaas"
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Cupz wrote:
Cupz wrote:
Hehehehe, I'm listening to this RIGHT NOW! :wink:


Oh man...this shit is hilarious...

"R2d2 we wish you a merry christmaaaaas"


You got a link to it???
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I think its copyright material, I'll pm you about it. :wink:
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Check your PM Mexicola...
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I hate it when music I love shows up on the boob tube. I love it when artists don't let companies use their music in their commercials.
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more strange than cool, but:

In April 2007, it was announced that Marvel Studios has a Spider-Man musical in the works. Julie Taymor of The Lion King fame will direct and U2's Bono and The Edge will compose and write the music.

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That just...doesn't make any sence...

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Swinging around town, (oooh oooh ooh)
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