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I finally got a chance to play DDR Universe 3 on the XBox 360 this past
weekend. I have had a copy of the game since its release, but no XBox
360. Anyway, the game is quite impressive in terms of options and
graphics. Our video is included with the song and it plays in HD. It's
actually the highest quality version of our video I've ever viewed. I
will say, it's kind of terrifying to see yourself in HD. Right after
playing, we flipped the TV on and saw Amy Winehouse in HD and then I felt
better about how I looked. Regardless, seeing the "30 Lives"
video in such high quality was a real treat.
Anyway, if you have an XBox 360, the game is definitely pretty awesome
and has a pretty extensive song list including The Jackson 5, Devo, and
Jamiroquai.
Incidentally, the sales of the XBox and PS2 games with our song on it are
very close to reaching 500,000! That's pretty amazing to us. We just
officially found out that we are included in the DDR X Arcade game as
well. It came out in Japan a few weeks ago and is scheduled for release
in Europe and the US sometime this year. Hopefully, we'll be able to get
some video of arcade and 360 play soon.
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I came across this list of the top earning tours of 2008. I noticed
something interesting. All of these artists either have been around for
ever and ever or (usually and) they have target audiences comprised of
older folks (the only ones who can afford expensive concerts?). One might
be inclined to assume that this makes sense as these are the people with
the types of longstanding careers that are necessary to amass this
quantity of fans. I wish I had lists of the top-grossing tours of days
past, but I can say that my experience conflicts with this. When I was in
high school, it was very common for me to go to places like Nassau
Colliseum or Madison Square Garden to see a wider range of bands. I
suspect there are now fewer concerts at venues in this category.
What happens when all of these people are gone? Will anyone step up to
fill stadiums? Very few newer bands can fill 10,000+ venues. I can't
think of any bands newer than about 10 years who can do that (maybe The
Killers?). I wonder what this will mean for larger music venues. I
personally hate going to festival-style shows. My attention span is too
short and it amounts to me seeing bands I like in an environment I
dislike. So, I typically stick to the smaller venues anyway. I will also
admit that any show I went to in high school, even the most expensive
Pink Floyd show was under $50 (Floyd was $40. Lollapalooza 2 was under
$25. I saw Nirvana for $15, Nine Inch Nails for $15, The Ramones were
$12, etc.). These shows all hovered around the years of 1990-1994.
According to an inflation calculator I just found (that I have no way of
knowing whether it is trustworthy -
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi ), $50 in 1992 would cost
$73.03 in 2007. I point this out because concert tickets have increased
in price at a far greater rate than inflation. Perhaps this has something
to do with it?
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b75128_madonna_rules_road_in_08.html
1. Madonna ($105 million)
2. Celine Dion ($94 million)
3. The Eagles ($73.4 million)
4. Kenny Chesney ($72.2 million)
5. Bon Jovi ($70.4 million)
6. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band ($69.3 million)
7. Neil Diamond ($59.8 million)
8. Rascal Flatts ($55.8 million)
9. The Police ($48 million)
10. Tina Turner ($47.7 million)
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http://anngelle-wbcn.itmblog.com/2009/01/01/playlist-122808/
We received the very high honors of: "favorite mention of aine
studio ops dept in liner notes / fave song list, fave disc list"
on the very awesome local music show
Boston
Emissions.
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It's just a glimpse, but if you watch at 1:31, you can see that "30
Lives" is included on the brand new DDR X Japenese Arcade machines.
Very exciting!
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I've gone and listened to a bunch of the LWTUA covers (primarily on
Youtube) and realized Squarepusher was not the cover I liked. So, I
actually can't remember what band did the one I did like. Either way,
this version, which I had heard before, but had forgotten, also deserves
recognition. It is a Tuvan-throat-singing version and it's pretty
awesome. I think I will be ready to retire happy when there is a
Tuvan-throat-singing cover of a song by The Motion Sick...
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The blog
"
Don't Judge Song by the Cover (sic)" has included our version of
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" in its collection of said song.
Normally, we'd file lawsuits and have our lawyers call theirs and yell at
them in a threatening voice and send a paratrooper squad in to shut down
their servers and sue kids who download from them and sue kids who upload
to them and complain that our revenue stream has been destroyed by
piracy, but since it's the holiday season, we'll let it go.
We've actually also admitted in the past (see
http://strangeglue.com/interviews/showcase-the-motion-sick-interview-and-music-/1761
) that we're pretty unhappy with our recording of the song, so please
don't hold it against us. I personally am a fan of the original by Joy
Division (of course) and the Squarepusher version...and maybe that is it
(at least that I am aware of). We chose to record the song because it
went over well live, but the recording didn't really capture what we
hoped it would. I blame myself on that one. Oh well.
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I'll be celebrating Christmas in my usual non-Christian tradition, eating
Indian food and watching movies. In the old days of high school, I was
involved in the tradition of having a Christmas Bah Humbug party, where
we all got together and rented as many movies as we could sit through in
a single day.
Just so you all know my Christmas spirit is great, I provide you with
this moving video:
If you liked that, go hunt down The Star Wars Holiday Special, it's
almost as good.
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see more pwn and owned pictures
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