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Andy A.
08-05-2002, 10:08 AM
Sweet Mother of God (http://anthems.zdnet.co.uk/anthems/infogrames.mp3), was anyone else blissfully unaware of this?

Full lyrics here. (http://www.zdnet.co.uk/specials/2002/it-anthems/infogrames-lyrics.html)
Mark Asher
08-05-2002, 10:13 AM
Ha ha -- yeah, I knew about it. Those crazy French!
Anonymous
08-05-2002, 10:15 AM
This was posted on Old Man Murray about a million years ago.
DennyA
08-05-2002, 10:18 AM
Oh my lord. There's an entire top 20 of frightening corporate anthems.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/specials/2002/it-anthems/


E-Y, E-Y! Ernst and Young!
E-Y, E-Y! Ernst and Young!
From top to finish
We're gonna be number one!

Mortgage and Tax
Gas and Masks!
HR, EMS and ISAM (Corporate services!)

AAAAaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhh!
ydejin
08-06-2002, 01:15 AM
So just out of curiosity, does anyone have any idea why corporations make these things? They seem to be professionally produced, which means at least a moderate amount of money (yeah it's a drop in the bucket for a big corporation, but if you have enough drops, they add up). Do they play them at stockholder's meetings? Are they just corporate vanity? I just played the Silicon Graphics one and all I have to say is truly bizarre. I mean, it's not even funny, except for in a bad kind of way.
Troy S Goodfellow
08-06-2002, 10:33 AM
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) did an interview with these guys last fall. They even did a big studio production of KPMGs anthem. Sickly sweet awful. I still have nightmares.

The apparent purpose, like college fight songs, is to instill some sort of corporate spirit. Most are written for corporate retreats or orientation sessions, played once or twice and then cast back into the hell from which they came.
ydejin
08-08-2002, 02:33 AM
The apparent purpose, like college fight songs, is to instill some sort of corporate spirit. Most are written for corporate retreats or orientation sessions, played once or twice and then cast back into the hell from which they came.

Wierd. I can't imagine for most people going to a corporate retreat and coming back singing:


E-Y, E-Y! Ernst and Young!
E-Y, E-Y! Ernst and Young!
From top to finish
We're gonna be number one!

would do much for their morale!
Kalle
08-08-2002, 05:56 AM
I can imagine this type of music could be hellishly effective at boosting emplyee performance.

It could work something like this. Employees come to the corporate retreat for the weekend expecting a paid weekend vacation at the beach/mountains/wherever with the occasional dull inspirational session to sit through.

Saturday morning all the employees gather in the dining room for their first inspirational session. Instead of the expected trite speach they see someone putting a cd into a stereo system at the front of the room and pressing play.

The next couple of minutes of musical agony cannot be described properly.

When the ordeal is finally over a very properly clad director of personell comes up, removes his ear plugs and says "Stop looking at porn, stop surfing the QT3 boards and improve performance or we will play this on the PA system until you do. That is all, now enjoy your weekend."
Mark Asher
08-08-2002, 07:49 AM
Trying to motivate the rank and file has always been a goal of highly paid executives who hold lucrative stock options. These execs are often puzzled when the rank and file don't have much enthusiasm for throwing their collective shoulders against the yoke to help boost stock price.
Bernie_Dy
08-08-2002, 12:07 PM
Yeah, and most of of those execs are so highly paid they've lost touch with reality.
Sparky
08-08-2002, 04:24 PM
Why don't we have a Quarter To Three theme song?

I'll get right on it...
Anonymous
08-08-2002, 04:31 PM
Oh Trevor You're so fine,
Youre so fine you blow my mind.
Hey Trevor (HeyHey)
Hey Trevor (HeyHey)
Oh Trevor Youre so Fine,
Youre so Fine You Blow My Mind
Hey Trevor (HeyHey)
Hey Trevor
(Repeat Chant)

Hey Trevor
Youve been around all night
and thats a little long,
You think you've got the right,
But I think youve got it wrong.
Why can't you turn off the game
So you can give me bone Trevor,

Cause when You say you will
It always means you won't
Youre givin me the chills
baby, please baby don't
Every night you still leave me alone
Trevor.

Chorus:
*Oh Trevor what a pity you dont understand
You take me by the heart
You frag me with your hand
Oh Trevor Youre so pretty
Cant you understand?
Its guys like you Trevor
Oh what you do Trevor
Do Trevor
Dont frag my dude Trevor.

Now When you take me by the boomslang
Everyone's gonna know
Everytime you move
I let a little More show
There's KY we can use
So dont say no Trevor!


So Come on and give it to me
Anyway you can
Anyway you want to do it
Ill treat you like a man
Oh Please, Baby Please
Dont leave me in a jam Trevor!

Chorus:
*Oh Trevor what a pity you dont understand
You take me by the heart
You frag me with your hand
Oh Trevor Youre so pretty
Cant you understand?
Its guys like you Trevor
Oh what you do Trevor
Do Trevor
Dont break my heart Trevor.

Chant:
Oh Trevor You're so fine,
Youre so fine you blow my mind.
Hey Trevor (HeyHey)
Hey Trevor (HeyHey)
Oh Trevor Youre so Fine,
Youre so Fine You Blow My Mind
Hey Trevor (HeyHey)
Hey Trevor
(Repeat Chorus 3 times)
Sparky
08-08-2002, 09:53 PM
Er, I was thinking something more along the lines of Gilbert & Sullivan, or an Yngwie Malmsteen instrumental.
Brad Grenz
08-09-2002, 12:59 AM
Heh, I just bought a best of Gilbert and Sullivan collection on vinyl at a Salvation Army. They had an 8 records for $1.00 special and the G&S set took up 3 slots. Also picked up some Frank Sinatra and Jefferson Airplane, Handel's Messiah and a couple others.
Anonymous
08-09-2002, 01:30 AM
Two little gamers with pens are we,
Pert as a pretension well can be,
Filled to the brim with nerdish glee,
Two little gamers with pensl!

Everything is a source of fun. (Chuckle)
Nobody's safe, for we care for none! (Chuckle)
Life is a game that's just begun! (Chuckle)
Two little gamers with pens!

Two little gamers who, all unwary,
Come from a Christian seminary,
Freed from the need to pop a cherry--
Two little gamers with pens!
Two little gamers with pens!

One little gamer is an actor, ho-hum--
One little gamer is his bosom chum-chum--
Two little gamers is the total sum.
Two little gamers with pensl!
Two little gamers with pensl!

From two little gamers take one away.
One little gamer remains, and he--
Won't have to wait very long, they say--
For a job in the gaming industry!
Two little gamers with jobs!

Two little gamers who, all unwary,
Come from a Christian seminary,
Freed from the need to pop a cherry --
Two little gamers with pens!
A quarter to three gamers with pens!
Matthew Gallant
08-09-2002, 09:37 AM
:mrgreen:
Murph
08-09-2002, 10:09 PM
Now that is a theme song!! Kudos!