Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/anthem_poll/
Vote now for the worst corporate anthem - ever!
Warning: this is not for the faint-hearted
Posted in Bootnotes, 28th November 2005 15:01 GMT
Poll Our piece last week (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/25/worst_corporate_video/) highlighting Dutch "media investment management" outfit MindShare's version of Donna Summer's She works hard for the money provoked a mini snowstorm of emails pointing us towards some truly Mephistophelean corporate anthems - musical works so hideous that prolonged exposure to them would certainly result in insanity and eventual death.
Well, we've spent a few hours in a lead-lined, soundproof room working through your recommendations, and have whittled these Melodies of Satan down to three contenders which we hereby provide in mp3 format for your listening pleasure:
- Drupa 1986 song (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/drupa_country.mp3)
- Glaucoma Hymn (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/glaucoma_hymn.mp3)
- KPMG (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/kpmg.mp3)
First up is the apocalyptically bad Drupa (http://www.messe-duesseldorf.de/drupa/en/sp_song_2.html) anthem - celebrating all that is good in Düsseldorf and the world of paper.
However, Drupa will find it has some tough competition from the The Association of International Glaucoma Societies (http://www.globalaigs.org/). Now, we're certain this charitable concern is doing top-notch work in tackling glaucoma, but it seems a shame to undo all of that with a "hymn", the sole purpose of which appears to be to provoke the listener to tear off his ears with pliers.
And finally, where would we be without the legendary KPMG (http://www.kpmg.com/) ditty, which has for years defined the "we've completely lost our marbles" corporate anthem paradigm. (In case you haven't suffered enough, check out the KPMG Jungle Mix (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/28/kpmg_jungle.mp3) courtesy of phrenetic.org (http://www.phrenetic.org/) who, to be frank, should be bloody ashamed of themselves.)
Enough. The rest is up to you...
