You've read about Danger Mouse and his Grey Album here, here, and here. As someone who owns both the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album, I'm not yet convinced that Danger Mouse's Grey Album is greater than the sum of its parts. But since Danger Mouse seems ready for his next project (while trying to fend off EMI), I've come up with these ideas for him:
Rush’s All the World’s a Stage +
Black Moon’s Enta Da Stage =
Danger Mouse’s I'm at Center Stage
Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food +
Snoop Dogg’s Dogg Food =
Danger Mouse's The Building Feud
America's Human Nature +
Naughty by Nature's Naughty by Nature =
Danger Mouse's My Naughty Human Nature
Kid Rock’s Devil Without a Cause +
Paris’s The Devil Made Me Do It =
Danger Mouse’s I Did it Just Because
Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels +
Grandmaster Flash’s Adventures on the Wheels of Steel =
Danger Mouse’s We All Steal
Supertramp’s Breakfast in America +
Schoolly D’s Welcome to America =
Danger Mouse’s Welcome to a Lawsuit in America
A most entertaining post, Evan, a puckish satire on contemporary mores.
DJ Dangermouse and his battles with the diligent/humorless representatives of the Apple Corps and EMI have taken on a life of their own in the blogosphere. One of your links links in turn to the Illegal-Art.org site, from which the entire Grey Album can be downloaded, but none of them appears to mention the "Grey Tuesday" online-disobedience project -- details at http://www.greytuesday.org -- in which a growing number of sites will be making the album available for download for 24 hours on February 24th.
Given the work's contested legality, does an attorney's mention of having obtained and listened to The Grey Album -- you and I are both implying that we may have done so -- create an appearance of impropriety?
Posted by: George Wallace | February 20, 2004 at 03:03 PM
Contested legality? Impropriety?
Let's see what subpoena-bearing nemesis can pry my Archos Jukebox from my cold dead fingers . . . Then you'll have your answer.
(In other news, I've granted a certain website permission to republish this post in full on Grey Tuesday. If it happens, I'll put a note here.)
Posted by: Evan | February 20, 2004 at 07:01 PM