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Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over downloads - Mar. 11, 2010 - 0 views

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Pink Floyd lawsuit win legal battle EMI

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    Pink Floyd won a legal battle Thursday against EMI that prevents the band's long-time record label from selling individual songs online. Sir Andrew Morritt, chancellor of Britain's High Court, ruled that Pink Floyd's contract forbids EMI from breaking up the band's albums without its permission, according to a spokeswoman for the British judicial system. EMI had argued that the stipulation only applied to physical albums, not online sales.
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Pink Floyd's Dark Side Eclipses Concept Album Classics | Underwire | Wired.com - 0 views

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Pink Floyd concept albums Frank Zappa Beatles

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  • Sgt. Pepper’s may have popularized the concept album, but this experimental sonic mash from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention is arguably rock’s first concept album. Freak Out! skewered pop culture with sharp humor and flawless precision, although it was neither a critical nor commercial success after its 1966 release. But from influencing Sgt. Pepper’s production to paving the way for rock’s ambitious avant-garde leanings in the decades to come, Freak Out! has rightly taken its place as one of the finest concept albums ever made.
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  • Greatest pop band ever? No question. But the Fab Four never really hopped onto the concept-album bandwagon, although it’s arguable that they popularized it with this loose collection of unforgettable tunes from their fictitious alter ego, the Lonely Hearts Club Band. There’s no reason to run down the list of accolades bestowed upon Sgt. Pepper’s here, as you should have them memorized if you care anything about music history. But from its orchestral experimentation and drug references to its unimpeachable songcraft, Sgt. Pepper’s may be a concept-album lightweight, but it’s a heavy legend.
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    Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon turns 37 Wednesday after another year kicking ass on every concept album that came before or after it. The English quartet's sixth studio effort is a seamless masterpiece that cannot be readily sliced and diced into iTunes singles for sale, as the band argues during its ongoing dispute with its record label, EMI. Confidently hop-scotching across the themes of life, death, violence and mental illness - and foregrounding groundbreaking musical experiments in sampling, tape loops and synthesizers - Dark Side of the Moon has continually astounded brains and eardrums since its arrival. While the other epic sonic explorations listed below have challenged the status of Pink Floyd's 1973 record, Dark Side remains Earth's reigning concept album.
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Astonishing Rube Goldberg music video by OK Go | DVICE - 2 views

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  • Never mind that Chicago power pop group OK Go pleaded for weeks to get their greedy record company EMI to allow this unique video to be embeddable — it is now, and just look! The group's Rube Goldberg masterpiece is here for all to see. "This Too Shall Pass" might be the most elaborate setup ever, and beyond that, it's got to be the most tasteful and colorful. That's what you get when you assemble a brilliant team consisting of wizards from Syyn Labs, Caltech, and MIT Medialab. They created this magnificent machine inside a 10,000-square-foot abandoned warehouse, and Flying Box Productions shot it all with brilliant skill and artistry. Why were all those people clapping at the end? Was the video successfully shot in one take? That huge warehouse full of paraphernalia couldn't have been easy to set up. Want to see how this was done? Four videos with a few hints:
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