December 12, 2007
The Moby Quotient - 'determines the degree to which artists besmirch their reputations when they lend their music to hawk products or companies.' Complete with gratuitous pi, a nice visual depiction of the equation and an MQ calculator applet.
By my estimate, "This is oooouuuur Country" came out a 15. If Dead Kennedys had licensed 'Holiday in Cambodia' to Levis I think it would have come out about a 155 (8/10/10/8/2/6). [thx kottke]
Here's a list of all songs that have been rated. "These ratings ... do not reflect the views of The Washington Post Company." -- just so you know that the Post doesn't care whether Morningwood writes a covered call on their prospective artistic success.
It's all true: I do loves me some Devo. If my many plays on PMPs were included it might even be higher than 5.
For the second time, mrflip and I can't find the mythical first post about Pen & Pixel in any form. Anyway, here is as good a place as any to put Pen & Pixel: A Retrospective which is wonderful in and of itself but gets better when one of the founding members of P&P shows up in the comments.
I'm assuming this has to do with the transfer to new ownership Mr Brauch refers to in the comments thread, but Pen and Pixel are not only still around but willing to show their street cred with felonious intent.
Brauch also chimes in at filmoculous -- ain't Google Alerts grand?
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The wp article I linked above put me onto their very clever music video for Nth Degree, which I'd never seen before. Keep an eye out for a Devastatin' Dave tribute, a Pen and Pixel confabulation and other longtime AE faves.
[Two things I can't find anywhere in the archives but I'm pretty sure are in there: 1) Natedogg professing his undying Devo-lution, 2) a link to the British documentarian Louis Theroux allows himself to be made over as a Dirty South Rappper video.]
posted by mrflip at 08:20PM CST on December 12