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The Grey Album is an album by Danger Mouse released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). It uses an a cappella version of rapper Jay-Z's The Black Album and couples it with instrumentals created from a multitude of unauthorized samples from The Beatles (more commonly known as The White Album). The Grey Album gained controversy due to the response by EMI in attempting to halt its distribution. This image is the cover of an album or single. ...
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Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American artist and producer whose most recent work is with Damon Albarn and his group The Good, the Bad and the Queen. ...
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Mashup, or bootleg, is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. ...
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Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American artist and producer whose most recent work is with Damon Albarn and his group The Good, the Bad and the Queen. ...
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A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ...
Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ...
The Black Album is a 2003 hip hop music album by rapper Jay-Z. It was supposedly his last studio album until Jay-Z announced a return to solo recording in 2006. ...
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The Beatles is the ninth official album by the Beatles, a double album released in 1968. ...
The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is an English music company comprising the major record company, EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
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The promotional artwork for the album was created by Justin Hampton. The album, which Danger Mouse released in limited quantities to a few outlets, created a massive amount of controversy when EMI, copyright holder of The Beatles, ordered Danger Mouse and retailers carrying the album to cease distribution. The amount of attention The Grey Album received caused EMI to act. Danger Mouse never asked permission to use The Beatles' material, and intended to produce a limited production run of 3,000 copies. Jay-Z's material, on the other hand, was commercially released in a cappella form. Although the work was copyrighted, it was released for the implicit purpose of encouraging mashups and remixes. The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is an English music company comprising the major record company, EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
The Beatles is the ninth official album by the Beatles, a double album released in 1968. ...
A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ...
Mashup, or bootleg, is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. ...
A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. ...
EMI's response to the album caused Downhill Battle, an activist group seeking to restructure the music industry, to start and lead a massive Internet-based protest dubbed "Grey Tuesday", to express the opinion that sampling is fair use and that a statutory license should be provided in the same manner as if a given song had been covered. Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization based in Worcester, Massachusetts (Their wabsite is currently down, as of OCT. 26 at 8:25 PM). ...
For fair use in trademark law, see Fair use (US trademark law). ...
A statutory license or compulsory license is a copyright license to use content under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. ...
The album quickly became extremely popular and well-distributed over the Internet because of the surrounding publicity. It also came to the attention of the critical establishment; It received a very positive write-up in the February 9, 2004 issue of The New Yorker and was named the Best of 2004 in the music category by Entertainment Weekly. The Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop critics poll ranked the album 10th for 2004.[1] February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Village Voice is a weekly newspaper in New York City featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ...
The Pazz & Jop critics poll is a highly influential poll of music critics run by The Village Voice newspaper. ...
The Grey Album is one of many The Black Album remix albums spurred by Jay-Z's release of the a cappellas. Producers Kno (from the Cunninlynguists) and Kevin Brown earlier had released their own color-themed remix albums, titled The White Al-bu-lum and The Brown Album respectively. The Internet distribution of The Grey Album spurred a series of copycat DJs and amateur mash-up artists to mix the a cappella version of The Black Album with a variety of other artists, including Weezer,[2] Pavement,[3] Prince,[4] Metallica,[5] and Wu-Tang Clan.[6] CunninLynguists are a multifaceted (they both rhyme and produce) hip-hop duo from the South of the United States. ...
Weezer is a Grammy-nominated rock band from Los Angeles, California. ...
Pavement was an American indie rock band in the 1990s. ...
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Metallica is an American heavy metal band, formed on October 28, 1981. ...
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A reference to The Grey Album was made on the December 11, 2006 edition of The Colbert Report. During the show, host Stephen Colbert called for a mashup of The Beatles and Christmas songs to be named The White Christmas Album. He added, "Danger Mouse, I know you're watching." December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Grey Tuesday Grey Tuesday was a day of coordinated electronic civil disobedience on February 24, 2004. Led by Downhill Battle, on this day, participating websites posted copies of Danger Mouse's The Grey Album for free download on their sites for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to prevent any distribution of this unlicensed work. This protest was provoked by the opinion that the sampling is fair use and that a statutory license should be provided in the same manner as if a song had been covered. Electronic civil disobedience, also known as ECD or cyber civil disobedience, can refer to any type of civil disobedience in which the participants use information technology to carry out their actions. ...
February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization based in Worcester, Massachusetts (Their wabsite is currently down, as of OCT. 26 at 8:25 PM). ...
Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American artist and producer whose most recent work is with Damon Albarn and his group The Good, the Bad and the Queen. ...
The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is an English music company comprising the major record company, EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
For fair use in trademark law, see Fair use (US trademark law). ...
A statutory license or compulsory license is a copyright license to use content under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. ...
Supporters of the day claim that it signals a refusal by a vocal section of Internet society to let major label lawyers control musical creativity and specifically sampling. Sampling in music has been commonplace since the late 1980s, an early pioneering work was The Beastie Boys groundbreaking album Paul's Boutique in 1989 which used samples from sources as diverse as Johnny Cash, Bob Marley and The Beatles - the creators of the unlicensed music sampled on The Grey Album. Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ...
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Pauls Boutique is an album by American rap group the Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989 (see 1989 in music). ...
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Hundreds of websites participated and roughly 170 hosted the album for download. The protest made the The Grey Album the number one album in the United States on the 24th[citation needed], with over 100,000 copies being downloaded on that day alone (more than 1 million individual tracks). A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ...
The legal repercussions of the protest were minimal; a number of the participants received cease and desist letters from EMI, but no charges were filed in connection with the event. Cease-and-desist is a legal term meaning essentially stop: It is used in demands for a person or organization to stop doing something (to cease and desist from doing it). ...
The Grey Video The Grey Video is a music video made in the autumn of 2004 by directing team Ramon & Pedro to promote the single "Encore" from The Grey Album. An article from MTV's "Mixtape Monday" feature credits the video to Antoine Tinguely [7], and a French site mentions Tinguely as a member of Ramon & Pedro.[8] Tinguely was also listed as the only contact on the whois for the now defunct Grey Video site.[9]. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...
WHOIS is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. ...
The video, which is entirely in black and white, features clips from The Beatles' movie A Hard Day's Night, and footage from a Jay-Z performance. It uses new footage and computer generated imagery to create scenes that involve John Lennon breakdancing and Ringo Starr scratching. It begins with The Beatles performing before cameras and a live audience. Ringo Starr begins to drum to the 1:00 to 1:08 segment of "Glass Onion". John Lennon begins to sing while George Harrison and Paul McCartney nod their heads to the beat. After a few moments, the monitors in the director's booth begin to flicker, showing scenes of Jay-Z rapping "Encore" and the lyrics of the chorus begin to show behind group. Ringo's drum kit becomes a set of turntables and mixer and he begins to scratch while John continues to sing "Oh yeah!" as sampled from "Glass Onion." The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ...
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Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ...
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
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Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940 in Liverpool), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of the Beatles. ...
Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique originated by Grand Wizard Theodore, an early hip hop DJ from New York (AMG). ...
Glass onions were large hand blown glass bottles used aboard sailing ships to hold wine or brandy. ...
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Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ...
Composing a hip hop beat was traditionally done with a turntable and later evolved to the use of drum machines and samplers. ...
Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ...
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As "Encore" moves into the second verse, the beat changes to a sample of "Savoy Truffle". A John Lennon body double starts to breakdance, leading to a headspin. Paul and George are replaced by two dancers. "John" backflips off the screen, flinging his wig off. Ringo walks off and the lights fade to black. Savoy Truffle is a song written by George Harrison and performed by the Beatles on their self-titled album (the White Album). Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Claptons chocolate addiction, and indeed he derived the title and many of the lyrics from a...
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The video is not available commercially, but has became popular over the Internet. Due to the legal issues surrounding the use of copyrighted material, the video is shown with the disclaimer that it was made for experimental purposes only.
Track listing - "Public Service Announcement" – 2:45
- "What More Can I Say" – 4:25
- "Encore" – 2:40
- "December 4th" – 3:34
- "99 Problems" – 4:06
- "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" – 3:59
- "Moment Of Clarity" – 4:00
- "Change Clothes" – 4:04
- "Allure" – 4:06
- "Justify My Thug" – 4:12
- "Lucifer 9 (Interlude)" – 2:01 (Reveals a satanic message if played backwards)
- "My 1st Song" – 4:44
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Savoy Truffle is a song written by George Harrison and performed by the Beatles on their self-titled album (the White Album). Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Claptons chocolate addiction, and indeed he derived the title and many of the lyrics from a...
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Savoy Truffle is a song written by George Harrison and performed by the Beatles on their self-titled album (the White Album). Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Claptons chocolate addiction, and indeed he derived the title and many of the lyrics from a...
This article is about the Beatles song. ...
See also Mashup, or bootleg, is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. ...
References - ↑ Mike's The Black and Blue Album
- ↑ K12 of 12-N-Dirty Productions The Purple Album
- ↑ Cheap Cologne's Double Black Album
- ↑ DJ CooL Guy Presents: Jay-Z in The Black Chamber
- ↑ DJ Zap's The Blackprint
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