Product Music: music to shop by

In 2006, WFMU posted a free downloadable MP3 album of "industrial songs." I think "The New Generation," originally produced for Squibb Pharmaceuticals, would be an excellent anthem for the Anonymous movement.

product-music-wfmu.jpgRegular WFMU listeners will be no doubt familiar with the concept of "industrial musicals", where a company promotes themselves or their products with a single, a full album, or in extreme cases a full-blown musical production. The album Product Music: Vol 1 is a collection of memorable examples of the industrial song. Because if you're not buying a company's product, perhaps a few listens to their new dance tune will change your mind!

The songs range from mellow dance tunes ("The Frito Twist") to manic dance tunes ("Dance The Slurp", with its frenzied cries of "SLURP SLURP!!!") to haunting ballads (the somewhat disturbing "My Bathroom Is A Private Kind of Place", one of three tunes in the compilation from American Standard's classic industrial musical The Bathrooms Are Coming!).

Product Music: music to shop by (MP3)