SEO

September 12, 2009

Sexe, drogue, rock… Les Beatles - Mi mi gods masters - I just wonder if this Beatles Article is as good in French

Mi mi gods masters

Sexe, drogue, rock… Les Beatles ont influé sur l'évolution de la société, souvent malgré eux. Sex, drugs, rock ... The Beatles have influenced the evolution of society, often despite themselves. Un rôle de composition nourri par leur musique et une jeunesse avide de changements. A character part fueled by their music and a youth eager for change. Alors que leur œuvre sort remasterisée, portrait des scarabées en animaux politiques. While their work released remastered, portrait of beetles political animals.

2 réactions 2 comments

Par LAURENT JOFFRIN By LAWRENCE JOFFRIN

(Ho New / Reuters) (Ho New / Reuters)

En bons gars de Liverpool, les Beatles buvaient sec. As good guys from Liverpool, the Beatles drank dry. Paul McCartney le confessait volontiers : «Avant 1965, nous trouvions notre inspiration dans l'alcool ; après 1965, dans la drogue.» Ce jour-là, ils burent plus que d'habitude. Paul McCartney confessed willingly: "Before 1965, we find our inspiration in alcohol after 1965, in drugs." That day, they drank more than usual. Ils avaient une bonne raison. They had good reason. Quelque part dans le sud des Etats-Unis, la réaction antirock avait éclaté. Somewhere in the southern United States, the reaction antirock erupted. Un prêcheur illuminé avait déclaré les Beatles sataniques, un groupe de jeunes excités avait brûlé leurs disques en public et une secte d'extrême droite annonçait qu'elle ferait sauter leur avion. A preacher had said illuminated the Beatles, The Satanic group of excited young people burned their records in public and right-wing sect announced that it would blow their aircraft.

Le lendemain, les quatre musiciens prenaient justement un vol intérieur pour continuer leur tournée américaine. The next day, the four musicians just take a domestic flight to continue their U.S. tour. Ce fut une cuite historique, dont les hôtesses d'US Air gardèrent un souvenir amer. It was a historic cotta, including U.S. Air hostesses kept a bitter memory. En pleine gloire, ils étaient effrayés par leur propre influence. In full glory, they were frightened by their own influence. Les insultes, l'autodafé, les menaces de mort émergeaient soudain du flot de la beatlemania, comme un contrepoint hideux à ce culte des idoles pop, trop irrationnel pour être inoffensif. The insults, the burning, death threats emerged sudden wave of Beatlemania, as a counterpoint to this hideous cult of pop idols, too irrational to be harmless. Les Beatles composaient des chansons d'amour. The Beatles composed of love songs. Ils étaient rattrapés par la haine. They were overtaken by hatred.

Une seule phrase de Lennon avait déclenché la tempête : «Les Beatles sont plus célèbres que le Christ.» Ils eurent beau expliquer que John regrettait cette religion païenne, qu'il la trouvait folle et la tenait pour un symptôme du désordre du temps, l'Amérique dévote avait pris l'aphorisme au premier degré. A single sentence Lennon had triggered the storm: "The Beatles were more famous than Christ." They had tried to explain that John regretted the pagan religion, that he was mad and was a symptom of the disorder of time, l America had taken the pious aphorism first degree. Sacrilège ! Sacrilege! Désormais, ils seraient quatre garçons dans la tourmente. Now they are four boys in turmoil. A vrai dire, ce rôle politique, ils l'avaient toujours joué. Actually, what political role they had ever played. Au cœur des années 60, le rock n'était pas seulement un son nouveau, une accélération du blues qui fouettait le désir sexuel en secouant les corps, qui suscitait l'hystérie par le beat de la section rythmique. At the heart of the 60s, rock was not only a new sound, fast blues whipped sexual desire, shaking the body, which provoked hysteria by the beat of the rhythm section. Le rock était un mode de vie, plus sauvage, plus libre, plus individualiste que tout ce qu'on avait vu jusque-là. The rock was a lifestyle, wilder, freer, more individualistic than anything we had seen before. La musique n'adoucit pas forcément les mœurs ; elle peut les changer. The music softens not necessarily manners and can change them. Et quoi de plus politique que les mœurs ? And what's more politics than morals? Les Beatles n'ont pas inventé le rock. The Beatles did not invent rock. Ils l'ont mondialisé. They have globalized.

Un horizon tout neuf A brand new horizon

Par leur talent musical rare mais aussi par leur compréhension instinctive du temps, les Beatles allaient accompagner pendant dix ans les adolescents du monde entier et leur ouvrir, avec leurs provocations, leurs inventions et leurs rêves, un horizon neuf. In their rare musical talent but also by their instinctive understanding of the time the Beatles were to accompany ten years teenagers around the world and open with their provocations, their inventions and their dreams, a new horizon. McCartney encore : «Si nous avions dit aux fans de descendre dans la rue avec un fusil, ils l'auraient fait.» Il ya ainsi une histoire politique des Beatles. McCartney still: "If we told the fans take to the streets with a gun, they would have done." Thus there is a political history of the Beatles. Une histoire qui explique mieux la révolution des sixties que toutes les thèses de sociologie. A story that best explains the revolution of the sixties that all theories of sociology. Une histoire qui a davantage pesé sur l'évolution de la conscience occidentale que les programmes des partis et les décisions des gouvernements. A story that has more influenced the evolution of Western consciousness that the party programs and government decisions.

Une histoire qui continue : la remastérisation de l'opus initial est un événement parce que cette musique parle encore à toutes les générations, que toutes y trouvent une source d'énergie, une fascination et une manière d'être. A story that continues, the remastering of the original opus is an event because the music still speaks to all generations, all that and a source of energy, a fascination and a way of being.

Le hasard de la vie a fait naître à quelques rues de distance les deux meilleurs compositeurs de la pop music, dans deux petites maisons de brique rouge, tristes et mal chauffées, alors que Liverpool, port ancien qui devait sa prospérité à l'esclavage et au commerce du coton, souffrait sous les bombes de la Luftwaffe et les sévérités du rationnement. Chance of life has raised a few blocks away the two best composers of pop music, in two small red brick houses, sad and poorly heated, while Liverpool, who was wearing his old prosperity and slavery the cotton trade, suffering under the bombs of the Luftwaffe and the severity of rationing. Dans l'après-guerre de l'austérité et de l'espoir, les petits John Lennon et Paul McCartney ne sont pas des parias. In the post-war austerity and hope, little John Lennon and Paul McCartney are not pariahs. Leurs familles ne sont pas dans la misère. Their families are in poverty. Ils sont pourtant, avec Harrison et Starr, les rejetons typiques de la classe modeste britannique. They are, however, with Harrison and Starr, the offspring of the typical British lower class.

Malgré les solidarités de la guerre et la victoire des travaillistes en 1945, l'apartheid social qui caractérise l'Angleterre sévit toujours. Despite the solidarity of the war and the Labor victory in 1945, the social apartheid that characterized England still abounds. Descendants d'immigrés irlandais chassés par la famine, les futurs Beatles habitent autour de Penny Lane, dans cette «little Dublin» qui est encore un ghetto misérable. Descendants of Irish immigrants fleeing the famine, future Beatles live around Penny Lane in the "Little Dublin" is still a miserable ghetto. Famille unie et chaleureuse pour McCartney, qui en hérite son optimisme et son caractère enjoué ; père absent et mère volage pour Lennon, élevé par sa tante dans une solitude de quasi-orphelin qui explique sa colère et son goût de la provocation. Families united and warm for McCartney, who inherits his optimism and playfulness; absent father and mother fickle for Lennon, raised by his aunt in a solitude of quasi-orphan who explains his anger and his taste for provocation.

Les ouvriers anglais vivent en dissidence dans leur pays. The English workers live in dissent in their countries. Leur culture est celle de la lutte sociale et de la tolérance privée, loin des préjugés guindés de la classe supérieure. Their culture is that of social struggle and private tolerance, beyond the stereotype of the stiff upper class. Les paies sont maigres, les ménages instables et les filles délurées. The payrolls are scarce, unstable households and flapper. Quand McCartney annonce à son père qu'il a mis sa copine de collège enceinte, il est accueilli par un éclat de rire. When McCartney announced to his father that he has put his college girlfriend pregnant, he is greeted by a roar of laughter. Mariage ou avortement, les deux solutions lui vont. Marriage or abortion, both solutions fit him. Un esprit gouailleur, souvent ravageur, répond au mépris dans lequel les riches tiennent les classes pauvres. A mocking spirit, often devastating, addresses the contempt in which the rich are poorer classes. Avant un concert en présence de la famille royale, Lennon lâche cette phrase d'exergue : «Ceux qui sont sur les sièges les moins chers pourront applaudir. Before a concert attended by the royal family, Lennon released this sentence highlighted: "Those who are on the cheaper seats can clap. Les invités du premier rang secoueront leurs bijoux.» The guests of the senior shake their jewelry. "

Un joint à Buckingham A joint in Buckingham

Invités à Buckingham Palace pour une remise de décoration, les Beatles mettent un point d'honneur à fumer un joint dans les toilettes. Invited to Buckingham Palace for a discount of decoration, the Beatles make it a point to smoke a joint in the bathroom. Toute sa vie, McCartney reste un travailliste de cœur, rétif à tout engagement partisan mais solidaire du monde de son enfance. All his life, McCartney remains a Labor heart, opposed to any commitment but partisan solidarity with the world of his childhood. Il compose surtout ces «silly love songs» que lui reprochera Lennon. It consists mainly those "silly love songs" that he blamed Lennon. Mais dans les années 90, il est l'un des critiques les plus vifs de la politique anti-ouvrière de Margaret Thatcher et, même s'il peste contre les impôts qui lui prennent les trois quarts de ce qu'il gagne, il se pose en défenseur candide des acquis de l'Etat-providence. But in the 90s, he is one of the strongest critics of the anti-labor policies of Margaret Thatcher and even if he rails against taxes which take three quarters of what he earns, he candid poses as the defender of prior welfare state. Lennon s'essaiera à toutes les utopies jusqu'à sa semi-retraite dans l'immeuble Dakota qui domine Central Park à Manhattan, là où un fan, héritier désaxé de la beatlemania, lui logera plusieurs balles dans le corps. Lennon start piloting all utopias until his semi-retirement in the Dakota building overlooking Central Park in Manhattan, where a fan, unhinged heir of Beatlemania, it will house several bullets in his body. Lennon, Starr et Harrison garderont l'accent prolo de leur enfance, celui que McCartney corrigera jeune, quand il sera introduit dans les milieux intellectuels londoniens, chaperonné par une jeune actrice ravissante, Jane Asher, dont les parents, bobos avant la lettre, seront un temps sa seconde famille. Lennon, Starr and Harrison keep the focus of working-class childhood, one young McCartney correct, when it is introduced into the intellectual circles of London, chaperoned by a lovely young actress, Jane Asher, whose parents, sores before the letter will be time his second family.

Leur grande affaire, c'est le rock. The great thing is the rock. Méprisé par les amateurs de jazz, le genre est marginal en Europe. Despised by fans of jazz, the genre is marginal in Europe. Dans l'Angleterre des années 50, pas besoin d'être Bourdieu pour comprendre que la musique est un fait social. In the England of 50 years, no need to be Bourdieu to understand that music is a social fact. La classe moyenne s'abreuve de musique légère, la classe bourgeoise s'en tient au classique et au swing de bon ton des grandes formations, la classe intellectuelle, influencée par les existentialistes parisiens, suit les évolutions sophistiquées du be-bop et du cool à la Miles Davis. The middle class drinks water of light music, the middle class sticks to classic swing and fashionable large formations, the intellectual class, influenced by the existentialists in Paris, follows the evolution of sophisticated bebop and cool to Miles Davis. La classe ouvrière se partage entre la variété mièvre et ce nouveau courant venu des Etats-Unis, simplification robuste du blues, créée par une poignée de musiciens noirs, tels Bo Diddley, Little Richard ou Chuck Berry, et popularisée dans le monde blanc par Elvis Presley, qui a suscité aussitôt ces disciples peu disciplinés que sont Gene Vincent, Bill Haley, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison ou les Shadows. The working class is divided between the mawkish variety and this new power came from the United States, simplifying the robust blues, created by a handful of black musicians like Bo Diddley, Little Richard or Chuck Berry, and popularized in the white world by Elvis Presley, who once led the disciples are not disciplined as Gene Vincent, Bill Haley, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison or the Shadows.

Les quatre, sans se connaître, sont attirés vers ce monde sensuel et violent. The four, without knowing, are attracted to the sensual and violent world. Pour s'imposer dans le premier groupe de Lennon, les Quarry Men, un McCartney de 15 ans montre qu'il connaît les accords de Be-Bop-a-Lula , Long Tall Sally et Tutti Frutti . To win in the first group of Lennon, the Quarry Men, a McCartney 15 years shows that he knows the agreements of Be-Bop-a-Lula, Long Tall Sally and Tutti Frutti. Les autres sont médusés. The others are stunned. Cette musique est pourtant d'accès facile. This music is nevertheless easily accessible. On l'apprend en reproduisant les 45-tours qu'on écoute sur les picks-ups. It is learned by reproducing the 45-towers that listens on pick-ups. Les guitares ne coûtent pas cher, les suites d'accords sont faciles à maîtriser. The guitars are cheap, the chord sequences are easy to master. Le rock est un passe-temps abordable. The rock is an affordable hobby. A la Cavern, antre insalubre de Liverpool, dont les murs suintent d'humidité et dont l'air vicié est obscurci par la fumée, le public de jeunes employés et ouvriers impose le passage du jazz au rock. At the Cavern, Liverpool unhealthy cave whose walls oozing with moisture and stale air is obscured by smoke, public employees and young workers requires the transition from jazz to rock. Quand des habitués viennent demander un morceau de jazz, Lennon répond : «Allez vous faire foutre !» On crie, on boit, on sue, on fait le coup de poing et déjà les filles éperdues se pressent autour de la scène comme un parterre de tentations, auxquelles les musiciens cèdent avec une énergie inépuisable. When used just ask for a piece of jazz, Lennon replied: "Fuck you!" We cried, we drank, we sweat, we made the punch and already desperate girls crowded around the stage like a parterre temptations, which yield the musicians with boundless energy. Le rock est sexuel autant que social, il brise les normes familiales et sentimentales au profit d'un hédonisme brandi comme un drapeau. The rock is sexual as well as social, it breaks the family norms and sentimental in favor of hedonism waved like a flag. Comme le blues et le jazz à leur origine, le rock vient d'en bas. Like blues and jazz to their origin, the rock comes from below. Des bas-fonds, même. Lowlands even. Trois fois, les Beatles débutants vont jouer à Hambourg dans le quartier chaud de Reeperbahn. Three times, the Beatles beginners will play in Hamburg red-light district Reeperbahn. Les boîtes de strip-tease qui leur octroient quelques livres la semaine pour des sessions quotidiennes de dix heures devant un public de marins et d'ouvriers ivres de bière sont tenues par la pègre. Boxes strip which give them a few pounds a week to daily sessions of ten hours in front of an audience of sailors and workers drunk beer are held by the mob.

Vaste orgasme collectif Extensive collective orgasm

Revenus à Liverpool nimbés d'une gloire naissante mais locale, les Beatles prennent un manager, un jeune homme cultivé qui dirige un magasin de disques mais ne connaît rien au rock. Revenue in Liverpool wreathed in glory but emerging local, the Beatles are a manager, a young educated man who runs a record store knows nothing but rock. Là encore, le goût des marges fait son office. Again, the taste does its margins. Brian Epstein est un trentenaire ambitieux et clairvoyant qui a la particularité fort mal vue dans l' establishment britannique d'être à la fois juif et homosexuel, condition qu'il vit dans la souffrance et qui conduira à son suicide au faîte de la réussite. Brian Epstein is a thirty ambitious and visionary who has the distinction very unpopular in the British establishment to be both Jewish and homosexual, if he lives in suffering and leading to his suicide at the pinnacle of success. Epstein se prend de passion pour les quatre prolos mal dégrossis. Epstein is a passion for the four proles uncouth. Il court vainement les maisons de disques et organise des tournées interminables dans des salles de fêtes et des casinos vétustes pour une poignée de cacahuètes. He ran unsuccessfully record labels and organizes tours in endless halls and casinos old for a handful of peanuts. Un jour, il présente ses pupilles à Dick Rowe, ponte d'une des majors de l'époque, Decca. One day he introduced his pupils to Dick Rowe, spawning one of the majors of the time, Decca. La rencontre vaudra à ce Rowe la célébrité : devant choisir entre les Beatles et le groupe Brian Poole and the Tremoloes, il choisit les Tremoloes et gagne ainsi sa place dans l'Histoire comme «l'homme qui a refusé les Beatles». The meeting will be worth Rowe to fame: having to choose between the Beatles and the group Brian Poole And The Tremolo, Tremolo he chooses and thus earns its place in history as "the man who refused the Beatles."

Le premier titre, Love Me Do , est quarantième dans les classements de ventes. The first single, "Love Me Do, is fortieth in the sales rankings. Le second, Please, Please Me , s'installe en tête du hit-parade. The second, Please, Please Me, moved to head the charts. Le troisième, I Want to Hold Your Hand , est réservé à 200 000 exemplaires par les disquaires avant même sa sortie. The third, I Want to Hold Your Hand, is restricted to 200 000 copies by the stores even before its release. Il s'en vendra plusieurs millions. It would sell millions. Le 13 octobre 1963, les quatre garçons regagnent leur voiture après une répétition qui prélude au concert. On October 13, 1963, the four boys returned to their car after a rehearsal that precedes the concert. Sur le trottoir, des milliers de filles leur font barrage en poussant des hurlements. On the sidewalk, thousands of girls their dam are howling. Il faut appeler la police pour dégager le groupe. You must call the police to identify the group. Le lendemain, le Daily Mirror , quotidien populaire et travailliste, barre sa une d'un titre promis à la postérité : «BEATLEMANIA». The next day the Daily Mirror tabloid and Labor, its a bar with a promised title to posterity: "Beatlemania."

Le phénomène musical devient phénomène de société. The musical phenomenon becomes a social phenomenon. Sa connotation sexuelle est manifeste et les concerts ressemblent de plus en plus à un vaste orgasme collectif. Her sexual connotation is evident and the concerts look more and more a vast collective orgasm. Comme un corollaire juvénile du scandale, la beatlemania se retrouve à l'avant-garde de la libération sexuelle. As a corollary of juvenile scandal, Beatlemania is found at the vanguard of sexual liberation. L'autorité vacille et la tradition se fane, le swinging London devient La Mecque de la religion pop. The faltering authority and tradition fades, the swinging London is the Mecca of pop religion.

Tous les lycéens des pays riches, les étudiants, les apprentis cadres qui vont secouer le carcan de l'éducation traditionnelle et les fondements de l'université «bourgeoise» possèdent une collection des disques des Beatles, à laquelle se joint l'infinie variation de la pop music sur le même thème, les Rolling Stones, plus révoltés, les Yardbirds ou les Kinks, plus subtils, le Spencer Davis Group ou les Animals, plus robustes. All students in rich countries, students, apprentices frameworks that will shake the shackles of traditional education and the foundations of the university "bourgeois" have a collection of Beatles records, which joins the infinite variation pop music on the same theme, the Rolling Stones, more rebellious, the Yardbirds and the Kinks, more subtle, the Spencer Davis Group or the Animals, more robust. Le rock anglais fusionne avec celui de la côte ouest, sous l'influence des Beach Boys ou des Mamas and Papas, puis avec les protest singers issus de la tradition folk, quand Bob Dylan, grand poète austère et nasillard de la gauche américaine, électrifie sa musique au grand dam de ses fans. The English rock merged with that of the west coast, influenced by the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas, then with the protest singers from the folk tradition, when Bob Dylan, poet and austere nasal of the American left, electrifies his music to the dismay of its fans.

Bientôt, les auditeurs de cette révolution musicale deviendront les militants d'une révolution sociale, ce mouvement de la jeunesse et du monde étudiant qui souffle en tempête sur les universités californiennes, les instituts de Tchécoslovaquie ou de Pologne, les campus brésiliens ou boliviens et pour un mois de mai aussi bruyant que les concerts des quatre chevelus, dans les rues de Paris. Soon the listeners of this music revolution become activists for a social revolution, the youth movement and the world student blowing a gale on the California universities, institutes of Czechoslovakia or Poland, or the campus Brazilian and Bolivian a month of May as loud as the concerts of the four long-haired in the streets of Paris.

Les Beatles, plaques sensibles des sixties , ont préparé ce mouvement de révolte. The Beatles, sixties sensitive plates, has prepared this revolt. A partir de l'album Revolver , leur musique subit l'influence revendiquée de la drogue, de la contre-culture californienne et de la philosophie orientale revue par l'esthétique hippie. From the album Revolver, their music is influenced claimed the drugs, California cons, culture and Eastern philosophy reviewed by the hippie aesthetic. George Harrison s'est pris d'admiration pour le pape de la musique indienne, Ravi Shankar. George Harrison has been admiration for the pope to Indian music, Ravi Shankar. Dès Rubber Soul , il a introduit dans les 33-tours mythiques le son lancinant des sitars. From Rubber Soul, he introduced the 33-turn legendary haunting sound of sitars. Les couvertures des albums sont confiées à des photographes ou à des graphistes d'avant-garde, le look du groupe passe des costumes uniformes et noirs à l'exubérance colorée des marchands de fripes hippies, vestes cintrées aux couleurs flashy, chevelures surabondantes, pantalons de velours et chemises de satin. The album covers are entrusted to photographers or graphic artists avant-garde look of the group evolves and black dress uniforms with colorful exuberance merchants hippie rags, curved jackets with flashy colors, overabundant hair, pants velvet and satin shirts.

Au bord du précipice On the precipice

Avec Sergeant Pepper’s , sorti un an avant Mai 68 et destiné à devenir l'opus majeur dans le panthéon des fans, le groupe franchit un seuil dans la créativité, produisant, en douze mois de travail acharné, un album concept psychédélique aux arrangements bariolés, aux mélodies drôles ou nostalgiques, couronné par un finale somptueux, empreint d'une gravité quasi-wagnérienne et dominé par la menace de la mort qui pèse sur eux depuis l'origine. With Sergeant Pepper's, released a year before May 68 and destined to become the major opus in the pantheon of fans, the group crossed a threshold in creativity, resulting in twelve months of hard work, a concept album colorful psychedelic arrangements, melodies funny or nostalgic, crowned by a splendid final, marked a serious quasi-Wagnerian and dominated by the threat of death hanging over them since the beginning. Aux deuils de l'enfance se sont ajoutés la mort de Stuart Sutcliffe, leur premier bassiste, la violence de la beatlemania, le suicide de Brian Epstein et la disparition saccadée de pop stars effacées par le destin, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding ou Janis Joplin. For the sorrows of childhood have added the death of Stuart Sutcliffe, their first bassist, the violence of Beatlemania, the suicide of Brian Epstein and the abrupt disappearance of pop stars erased by fate, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and Janis Joplin . Lennon et McCartney sentent que le précipice borde leur marche triomphale. Lennon and McCartney felt that the precipice bordering their success. La violence des temps les angoisse, d'autant que les premières fissures sont apparues dans le groupe, jusque-là soudé par l'adversité et par leur miraculeuse réussite. The violence of the times the anxiety, especially since the first cracks appeared in the group, until then welded by adversity and their miraculous success. Lennon a rencontré une artiste japonaise qui a gagné la notoriété par ses happenings incongrus et dérangeants, Yoko Ono. Lennon met a Japanese artist who has gained notoriety by its incongruous and disturbing happenings, Yoko Ono. Il se pique désormais de contre-culture et d'avant-gardisme, pendant que McCartney s'inquiète pour les finances du groupe grevées par la faillite de leur compagnie, Apple. He prides himself now cons-culture and avant-garde, while McCartney is concerned for the group's finances are burdened by the collapse of their company, Apple.

La montée de la protestation contre la guerre du Vietnam et l'effervescence de la gauche radicale deviennent des défis pour les rockers assagis, voués à une musique plus mélodique et plus sophistiquée. The rise in protest against the Vietnam War and the turmoil of the radical left to become challenges rockers settled down to a dedicated music more melodic and more sophisticated. Les Beatles travaillent en studio, jouissent de leur fortune et regardent avec un peu d'effarement la génération qui les adule monter à l'assaut du vieux monde avec une énergie farouche. The Beatles studio work, enjoy their wealth and look with some dismay the generation that worships to storm the old world with a ferocious energy. Les Stones, les Cream, le Jefferson Airplane, les Moody Blues ou Led Zeppelin rivalisent de créativité, la révolution sonore est en marche. The Stones, Cream, the Jefferson Airplane, the Moody Blues and Led Zeppelin compete creativity, sound revolution is underway.

Et l'autre, la vraie, la révolution sociale ? And the other, the true social revolution? Lennon, comme McCartney, a gardé un fond de bon sens ouvrier et populaire. Lennon, like McCartney, has kept a fund of good sense and popular worker. Enfants de la guerre, une chose les insupporte : la violence physique, le massacre en uniforme. Children of war, something the unbearable physical violence, the massacre in uniform. Dans Help , le film de Richard Lester, moins mauvais que les autres, ils ont ridiculisé l'armée britannique sortie glorieuse de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Help in the film by Richard Lester, less bad than the others, they have ridiculed the British army out of the glorious Second World War. Lennon jouera dans un film antimilitariste, How I Won the War . Lennon plays in a militarist film, How I Won the War. Dans Yellow Submarine , dessin animé d'honnête facture, ils fustigent les Meanies , peuple grimaçant et militariste. In Yellow Submarine cartoon honest bill, they slam the Meanies, people grinning and militaristic. Ils décident alors de se prononcer sur «le mouvement». So they decided to rule on "the movement". Lennon écrit Revolution , un blues aux guitares saturées qu'on prendra en France pour un hymne à la contestation, alors qu'une simple lecture des paroles, montre qu'il s'agit d'une mise en garde un peu naïve contre les égarements de l'extrême gauche. «Vous parlez de révolution, c'est vrai que nous voulons tous changer le monde. Lennon wrote Revolution, a blues with distorted guitars that will take France for a hymn to the challenge, whereas a simple reading of words, shows that this is a warning a bit naive against the vagaries extreme left. "You talk of revolution is true that we all want to change the world. Mais si vous vous promenez avec des portraits du président Mao, alors vous ferez sans nous.» But if you walk with portraits of Chairman Mao, you do without us. "

Au même moment, les Stones, réputés aussi radicaux que les Beatles étaient rassurants, lancent le même avertissement dans Street Fighting Man : «Partout, nous entendons le bruit des marches et des charges de la contestation. At the same time, the Stones, known as radical as the Beatles were reassuring, launched the same warning in Street Fighting Man "Everywhere we hear the sound of steps and expenses for the challenge. Mais que pouvons-nous faire dans Londres endormi, sinon chanter dans un groupe de rock'n roll ?» But what can we do in sleepy London, if not sing in a band of rock and roll? "

Bons sentiments Good feelings

Après 1968, les désaccords s'approfondissent et se doublent de querelles financières. After 1968, disagreements deepened and are accompanied by financial disputes. La séparation du groupe devient inévitable. The group split becomes inevitable. Lennon se lance dans l'activisme tous azimuts et commence à multiplier les critiques vengeresses envers l'apolitisme de Paul, qui répond par des chansons ironiques moquant les modes révolutionnaires. Lennon launches into all-out activism and begins to multiply critics vengeful toward the apolitical nature of Paul, who responds with ironic songs mocking revolutionary modes. John compose Give Peace a Chance , hymne bientôt mondial de la campagne contre la guerre du Vietnam, puis Imagine , emblème de la rêverie qui exprime sa vraie conviction, pacifique et naïve. John composed Give Peace a Chance, anthem soon global campaign against the Vietnam War and then Imagine emblem of reverie that expresses his true belief, peaceful and naive. Un an auparavant, les quatre avaient produit un autre hymne, modèle de bons sentiments, à dessein précédé de trois mesures de la Marseillaise , All You Need Is Love . A year ago, four had a different hymn book, models of good feelings, deliberately preceded by three steps of the Marseillaise, All You Need Is Love. La contestation radicale est prise à revers. The radical opposition is taken to reverse. Sages ou révoltés, les Beatles sont démocrates et non-violents. Wise or rebels, the Beatles are Democrats and non-violent. Ils prêchent l'amour et l'harmonie, loin des fureurs révolutionnaires. They preach love and harmony, far from revolutionary fury.

Aspiré par le couple fusionnel qu'il forme avec Yoko, Lennon dérive loin des studios, occupé à soutenir des groupuscules plus ou moins farfelus, attirant encore l'attention des médias par une série de bed-ins , gentilles provocations qui réunit le couple dans un grand lit en public pour un happening à la fois efficace et inoffensif. Caught by the pair of fusion it forms with Yoko, Lennon drift away from the studio, busy supporting factions more or less eccentric, even attracting media attention through a series of bed-ins, gentle provocations that the couple met in a large bed in public for a happening both effective and safe. Il compose encore une ballade très prolétarienne, à la manière des premiers titres engagés de Bob Dylan, Working Class Hero et se lance dans la recherche musicale la plus pointue, déconcertant les fans et quittant en quelques mois le haut des hits. He even composed a ballad very proletarian, like the first securities pledged by Bob Dylan, Working Class Hero and began seeking the most advanced music, confusing fans and leaving in a few months the top hits.

Plus réaliste, McCartney fonde avec sa nouvelle femme Linda Eastman les Wings, une usine à tubes calibrés et sages ( My Love , Mull of Kyntire , Live and Let Die , qui sera la BO d'un James Bond ou encore Ebony and Ivory , couplet antiraciste chanté en duo avec Stevie Wonder). More realistically, McCartney founded with his new wife Linda Eastman Wings, factory calibrated tube and wise (My Love, Mull of Kyntire, Live and Let Die, which is the soundtrack of a James Bond or Ebony and Ivory, couplet antiracist sung in duet with Stevie Wonder). Les Wings vendront autant de disques que les Beatles, la légende en moins. The Wings will sell as many records as the Beatles legend and less. L'ancien collégien de Penny Lane deviendra la troisième fortune d'Angleterre. The former schoolboy Penny Lane became the third capital of England. Il se contente pour tout engagement d'une action caritative en faveur de la cause animale. He is content to any commitment of a charitable activity for the animal cause. Ringo Starr tente, lui, une carrière en solo avant de vivre de ses rentes dans une villa de rêve à Los Angeles. Ringo Starr tries him a solo career before his rents live in a dream villa in Los Angeles.

Concert humanitaire Humanitarian Concert

George Harrison rencontre plus de succès. My Sweet Lord est un tube mondial, même s'il est entaché d'une condamnation pour plagiat. George Harrison is more successful. My Sweet Lord is a worldwide hit, even if it is tainted with a conviction for plagiarism. Le plus jeune des Beatles fait encore œuvre de pionnier quand il organise le premier des grands concerts mondiaux en faveur d'une cause humanitaire, le concert pour le Bangladesh, préfiguration des méga productions de Bob Geldof. The youngest of the Beatles is still a pioneer when he organized the first major global concert for a humanitarian cause, the concert for Bangladesh, the forerunner of mega productions of Bob Geldof. Et toujours cette ombre tragique : Harrison est poignardé par des fans, puis il succombe prématurément à un cancer en 2002. And always the shadow tragic Harrison was stabbed by fans, then he died prematurely of cancer in 2002. En fait, la magie est morte en 1969, avec la séparation. In fact, the magic died in 1969, with the separation. L'assassinat de Lennon en 1980, qui consacre sa stature de martyr du rock, est un codicille sinistre de la légende. The murder of Lennon in 1980, which devotes its stature as a martyr of rock, is a grim codicil to the legend. L'utopie bien intentionnée et un peu sucrée des sixties s'est effacée devant la violence des années 70 et le cynisme des années 80. Utopia well intentioned and somewhat sweet sixties has given way to the violence of the 70s and 80s cynicism. En 2004 à Bercy, McCartney chante If You Were Here Today, chanson magnifique dédiée à la mémoire de Lennon. In 2004 at Bercy, McCartney sang "If You Were Here Today, beautiful song dedicated to the memory of Lennon. Nous sommes en pleine guerre d'Irak, l'Amérique a chaussé de nouveau les bottes du Vietnam. We are in the midst of war in Iraq, America was wearing new boots Vietnam. Aussitôt, le public réclame à Paul Give Peace a Chance , comme pour conjurer le sort. Immediately, the public demands to Paul Give Peace a Chance, as to avert the fate. L'ex-Beatle, toujours prudent, se fera prier longuement : il sait que la dureté des temps rend l'hymne dérisoire. The ex-Beatle, always cautious, will pray at length: he knows the hard times makes anthem ridiculous.

Pourtant, demain, avec la sortie de l'œuvre complète revue par la technique contemporaine, le sortilège fera encore effet. Yet tomorrow, with the release of the complete work reviewed by contemporary technology, the spell will still effect. Bande sonore de la fin du XX e siècle, les chansons des Beatles sont dans le musée imaginaire de plusieurs générations. Soundtrack of the late twentieth century, the Beatles songs are in the imaginary museum of several generations. Ils n'ont pas fait la révolution, dont ils se sont toujours méfiés. They have not made the revolution, they were still wary. Mais ils ont façonné sans le savoir, des citoyens rétifs à l'autorité et distants à l'égard des enrôlements sacrificiels. But they have unwittingly fashioned, citizens reluctant to authority and remote against sacrificial enlistments.

Lee Clayton - I Ride Alone

September 11, 2009

News from DEA, Domestic Field Divisions, New York City News Releases, 08/28/09

News Release [print-friendly version]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 28, 2009
Contact: DEA Public Affairs
(202) 307-7977

Michael Jackson Death Investigation Update

AUG 28 - Los Angeles: Today, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office released their findings on the cause and manner of the death of Michael Jackson. This announcement affords the Los Angeles Police Department the opportunity to provide an update on the ongoing investigation.

On August 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) met with representatives from the United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNE) to discuss information discovered during the investigation into the death of Michael Jackson. Based on that meeting and at the request of the LAPD, the DEA and BNE have initiated their own independent investigations into matters that the LAPD’s investigation uncovered that may not be directly related to the cause of death.

The LAPD is the primary investigative agency responsible for the investigation into the death of Michael Jackson. The Department will continue to use the assistance of the DEA and BNE as necessary, and these agencies will continue to cooperate with each other as their various investigations progress.

The investigation into the death of Michael Jackson is ongoing and will result in the case being presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney for filing consideration. Until that time, LAPD detectives will continue to meet and confer with District Attorney representatives.

The LAPD would like to acknowledge and thank the following law enforcement agencies for their assistance in this investigation: the United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration; the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement; the Houston Police Department and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The LAPD will not comment on any further aspects of this investigation.

News from DEA, Domestic Field Divisions, New York City News Releases, 08/28/09

Guitar Hero® 5 Kurt Cobain - Love Gives Kurt Bad Name - Impossible Mash

Favorite YouTube Channel 2010! AlcanTAK 5 #VIDEO + 1 #YouTube Channel = @apture SuperEmbed [1. Yumeria Benchmark Sexy Anime Girl by Namco YouTube AlcanTAK Channel Presented by WhatGetsMeHot 1.1.10] 1. Yumeria Benchmark Sexy Anime Girl by Namco YouTube AlcanTAK Channel Presented by WhatGetsMeHot 1.1.10 2. Gay Emo Guy Meets Wrestler at Love Hotel 舐めたいけど洗わす


2010 happy new year from china news taiwan pub...Image by WhatGetsMeHot Mrjyn via Flickr

Favorite YouTube Channel 2010! AlcanTAK 5 #VIDEO + 1 #YouTube Channel = @apture SuperEmbed [1. Yumeria Benchmark Sexy Anime Girl by Namco YouTube AlcanTAK Channel Presented by WhatGetsMeHot 1.1.10] 1. Yumeria Benchmark Sexy Anime Girl by Namco YouTube AlcanTAK Channel Presented by WhatGetsMeHot 1.1.10 2. Gay Emo Guy Meets Wrestler at Love Hotel 舐めたいけど洗わす YouTube AlcanTAK Channel Presented by WhatGetsMeHot 1.1.10 3. Japanese Men's Choir Records in Studio あの素晴らしい愛をモーホー一同 YouTube AlcanTAK Channel Presented by WhatGetsMeHot 1.1.10 4. Remember 2001 Masashi Tashiro Journalist Scandal Drugged Young Girl YouTube AlcanTAK Channel Presented by WhatGetsMeHot 1.1.10 MAKE SURE AND READ MY 3 POSTS ON THE TWISTED SCANDAL OF JAPANESE JOURNALIST: MASAHI TASHIRO! Amazon.co.jp: MASASHI TASHIRO - trial (book - 2009/5/13) |... ... 行本(ソフトカバー) - 1994/4) MASASHI TASHIRO-law of Mercy (book (softcover) - 1994 / 4) 4 ... cinema - as the number of movies, TASHIROMASASHI ... visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com/2009/06/amazoncojp-masashi-tashiro-trial-... Masashi Tashiro: Arrested because of possession of stimula... Monday, June 22 Masashi Tashiro: Arrested because of possession of stimulant ... Japanese story that threw out organized votes when publish comedian "Tashiro" arrested because of possession of stimulant ... visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com/2009/06/masashi-tashiro-arrested-because-... OCTOPUS MINI-SKIRT SCANDAL: Masashi Tashiro [ruined the li... Monday, June 22 OCTOPUS MINI-SKIRT SCANDAL: Masashi TashiroTashiroMasashi is a very desperate man. Mini Octopus appears ... visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com/2009/06/octopus-mini-skirt-scandal-masash... [ruined the life of an octopus ... に 投稿者: sspp55 再生回数: 101458 5. Smokin' Hot Japanese Girl Smoking After Sex 終わりかなと思ったら舐めてきた 6. Two Gay Guys at Love Hotel Singing モーホー泊まりだね AlcanTAK YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AlcanTAK Happy New Year! And Thanks AlcanTAK for my Favorite NEW YouTube Channel of 2010 Already! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXYMlsEcoDM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdD7IlHnBM F-01Aのヘッドフォン出力とビデオカメラの外部入力直結で録音。(キャプチャ後に 音量調整) シーケンスは、MU2000用MIDIデータをSinger Song Writer 8.0VS のMLD出力でF902i着メロ用に調整。 TONE GENERATOR : Cellular phone "docomo F-01A" internal sound device. SEQUENCER : YAMAHA XGWorks4.0.7J + SingerSongWriter8.0VS Final Fantasy ビッグブリッヂ ビッグブリッジ Battle with Gilgamesh 携帯 着メロdocomo F-01A
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

The Problem With Reality [Well Played] : ZergWatch Video Game News, Reviews & RSS Syndication – 360 PS3 Wii Xbox PSP DS MMORPG PC

The Problem With Reality

[Well Played]

September 11, 2009 by admin  

Video games are meant to be flights of fancy but, as with television, reality has become an increasingly popular concept to tap into. Nowhere is this more evident than in music-themed video games. Titles like Guitar Hero 5 , The Beatles: Rock Band and soon-to-be released DJ Hero all use real musicians, living and dead, to help create a stronger sense of realism. But is that a good thing? For the surviving members of The Beatles and their fans it seems to be. The self-titled Rock Band game released to phenomenal reviews and delivered an experience that was solely devoted the band. The game, it seems, was an effort to not only give people a chance to play through their favorite Beatles hits, but to get a better sense of how The Beatles grew both as musicians and a band. The same week that fans of the fab four were rejoicing in the singular experience of The Beatles: Rock Band, the widow, fans and band mates of late grunge icon Kurt Cobain were up in arms over his inclusion in Guitar Hero 5. Prior to the game’s release, publisher Activision told Rolling Stone magazine that Courtney Love wasn’t just integral in bringing Cobain to life in the game, she was great to work with. But in a frenzy of late-night Twitter updates a week after the game’s release, Love denied that she was happily involved in the project, posting 214 Tweets over a six-hour period decrying the game, Cobain’s inclusion in it and most hotly the ability to have the grunge singer perform other songs. It’s this single feature, which allows gamers to unlock Cobain and have him sing everything from Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire to Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name, that seems to be the most upsetting to friends, fans and family. Some critics too, were unhappy with it. Kotaku’s own review described the ability to reanimate the virtual corpses of Cobain and Johnny Cash and control them as marionettes in other people’s songs, as tacky and crude. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, the two surviving members of Nirvana, released a joint statement asking Activision to alter the game to prevent the virtual Cobain from performing songs that are not his own. “Kurt Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world. We feel he deserves better.” Activision, which had initially agreed to participate in this story, declined to respond to questions about the decision to include real-world musicians in games and to say whether they would change Cobain’s inclusion in Guitar Hero 5. They did send along a prepared statement saying that the game had the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a “written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain’s likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero 5,” While Love didn’t respond to our requests for an interview, her attorney did, saying that while there was an agreement in place, it didn’t allow the sort of treatment Cobain is getting in the game. “Ms. Cobain is extremely upset about Activision’s use of Mr. Cobain’s likeness to sing the songs of others in its Guitar Hero game,” Keith A. Fink, Love’s attorney, told Kotaku. “Activision was granted permission by Kurt’s trust solely to use his name and likeness. Activision was not given an unbridled right to use Mr. Cobain’s name and likeness. ” “The agreement Activision has with the trust doesn’t allow them to use his likeness in ways that denigrate his image.” Love’s response to Guitar Hero 5 is a far cry from the response The Beatles: Rock Band is getting from the family and surviving members of The Beatles. Perhaps that’s because in the Rock Band game players can only perform as The Beatles in songs by The Beatles. The game comes with 45 tracks, and more are on the way, but they’re only going to be Beatles songs. And none of those Beatles songs work on Rock Band 2. It’s a clear distinction that could explain Love’s emotional and slightly delayed reaction to Cobain’s use in Guitar Hero 5. Had she seen The Beatles: Rock Band I’m sure she couldn’t help but ponder over what could have been: A video game that celebrates Kurt Cobain rather than using him. A title that expands Cobain’s audience, reminds people of his importance in the world of music and gives fans and neophytes an equal opportunity to try and understand the godfather of grunge. In the future, game developers attracted to the allure of reality should perhaps keep in mind that what makes reality so intriguing is that it’s real, not that it’s a jumping off point for a distasteful fiction. Well Played is a weekly news and opinion column about the big stories of the week in the gaming industry and its bigger impact on things to come. Feel free to join in the discussion.

No Responses to “The Problem With Reality [Well Played]”

  nichopoulouzo says:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Great article. My little Greatest Hits vid is causing a little stir in Cobain Enterprises LLC land. You should see my 30-second ‘ Guitar Hero 5 Kurt Cobain – Courtney Love Gives Kurt Bad Name – Impossible Mash ‘ video on YouTube. Compilation of all the most improbable ‘unlocked’ performances given by Kurt, including: flava flav, bon jovi, stevie wonder and david bowie. really amazing smashup. HERE’S THE SHORTENED URL – http://j.mp/hZMfe – AND HERE’S THE PROPER YT URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBxPASl1m64 – LET COURTNEY KNOW IF YOU BELIEVE HER PROTESTATIONS RT @courtneylover79 #youtube #video #followfriday via @mrjyn – AND HERE’S MY ORIGINAL BLOG POST – http://bit.ly/s3Yph – *THANKS TO corporalgregg2 for the Original “Someone gives Love a bad name (Hint: Courtney)” from youtube.com/corporalgregg2 – http://j.mp/fr1sA

The Problem With Reality [Well Played] : ZergWatch Video Game News, Reviews & RSS Syndication – 360 PS3 Wii Xbox PSP DS MMORPG PC

Guitar Hero® 5 Kurt Cobain - Courtney Love Gives Kurt Bad Name - Impossible Mash

The Internet Marketing Driver: YouTube Insight, How to Optimize and Enhance Your Online Videos Using Analytics

YouTube Insight, How to Optimize and Enhance Your Online Videos Using Analytics

YouTube Insight, Optimizing Your Video Clips Using AnalyticsToday I get to write about two of my favorite things, Web Analytics and Online Video. Lucky me! Given that YouTube just surpassed Yahoo as the #2 search engine, I think it’s safe to say that many of you probably visit YouTube regularly to watch videos online. In addition, I know some of you are taking the next step and producing your own videos to share with the world. That covers watching, producing, and sharing, but there’s another concept I wanted to introduce today, and that’s optimization. Did you know that YouTube gives you access to a video analytics package free of charge, right in your YouTube account? It’s called YouTube Insight and it gives you the ability to constantly glean insights from your video clips and viewers. Video producers that use Insight already know its power, but I still think many people don’t know what to do with it, or more importantly, how to optimize their videos using the data provided by Insight. If you’ve read my blog before, then you know how I feel about the importance of web analytics. Well, this is simply an extension of web analytics, but specifically for your own YouTube video clips. Let’s dig in.

What is YouTube Insight?
YouTube Insight is a video analytics tool that provides you with valuable information about your video clips (and your viewers). Insight gives you several reports, including views, popularity, discovery (how people find your videos), and a new piece of functionality called hotspots. Insight Hotspots enable you see which parts of your video are hot (higher engagement) and which parts are cold (less interest and engagement). I will explain more about hotspots below.

Improving Your YouTube Videos with Insight
Let’s face it, producing videos is darn time consuming. I began shooting and editing video in 1995 and one thing I learned very quickly was that producing a video is not easy and takes a lot of time. So, if you are going to spend the time to brainstorm, script, shoot, edit, and publish videos for YouTube, then you are probably going to want to know what works and what doesn’t. For example, which videos are more engaging, which garner most of your views, how popular were they compared to other videos, which parts of the video were more engaging, etc. You want to know this information so you don’t waste valuable time in the future.

Accessing YouTube Insight
You can access Insight in a few different ways once you have logged in. First, you can access your Insight Dashboard by clicking the Account link in the top right of your screen. Then you can click YouTube Insight from the Performance and Data Tools section located near the bottom of the page (left side).

First Click Your Account Link, Then Click YouTube Insight on Your Account Page:
YouTube Account Link

YouTube Insight Link

The second way to access Insight is by entering the My Videos Page (Uploaded Videos) and clicking the Insight button (for each video). The button for Insight is below the video information and is next to Audio Swap.

YouTube Insight Button Located on My Videos Page:
YouTube Insight Button

Insight Dashboard (a snapshot of all videos)
Your Insight Dashboard functions just like a dashboard in any web analytics package and gives you an aggregate view of your videos (your channel). For example, your dashboard will show you which videos are most popular, how many views your channel is getting, which geographic regions hold the most viewers, popularity of videos in your channel, demographics of your viewers, etc. It’s a great way to get an overall view of how your channel is performing. That said, you really should drill into each video to gain the most valuable information… Aggregate data at the channel level doesn’t really give you actionable information.

Tip: When you are ready to analyze a specific video, you can either click its name in the Views tab of your Insight Dashboard or you can go to your My Videos Page and click the Insight button under each video clip. If you always want to begin by analyzing specific videos, then you might start your visit by accessing the My Videos Page instead of the dashboard.

Visits
You can click the Visits tab to see the number of visits each video received in all countries, or in specific regions. You can change the timeframe on the graph and you can choose a specific country from the dropdown on the right. Then, let’s say you choose the United States, you can click on specific states to see your visits per state. To change the date range, you can click the Zoom links in the top of the graph for 1 day, 5 days, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, or Max. Or, you can use the slider below the graph to quickly change the date range of your report.


YouTube Insight Views:
YouTube Insights Views

Popularity
Insight also gives you the option of seeing how popular your videos are compared to other videos in the selected region during that timeframe. Just like with visits, you can click a country on the map to target that region, or you can drill into a region to get more granular. For example, you can click a state in the US to see the popularity within that state. You can also click specific countries within a region like Turkey within the Middle East or China within Asia.

YouTube Insight Popularity:
YouTube Insights Popularity

Discovery (or Traffic Sources)
OK, who else is addicted to checking traffic sources for their website in their web analytics package? It’s hard not be, right? The Discovery tab provides the traffic sources for your video clips. I love it. In a nutshell, it's how people found your video. There are five links within this section and they include:

YouTube Search, or which keywords people are entering to find your videos on YouTube.
Related Videos, or other videos on YouTube where your video thumbnail showed up as a related video and people clicked that thumbnail to get to your video.
Embedded Player, or which sites have embedded your video clip (using the embed code in YouTube).
External Links, or websites that link to your video clip (AKA referring sites).
Google Search, or keywords people are entering in Google to find your video clips.
Google Video, or keywords that people are entering on Google Video to find your video clips.
Other, or links to your video where there is no referring URL (AKA Direct Traffic). This might be a person emailing the link to someone else, IM’ing the link, etc.
YouTube Other, or other pages on YouTube that are linking to your video clips (not related videos).

YouTube Insight Discovery:
YouTube Insights Dicovery

Demographics
Insight provides some basic data regarding the demographics of your viewers. For example, you can see the age range and gender for viewers. In addition, you can click on a specific gender to see the age range within that gender. So, you can click Female and see the age range of your female viewers. {Marketers, can you say Test Group?} More on this later.

YouTube Insight Demographics:
YouTube Insight Demographics

New Addition: Insight Hotspots (and Coldspots)
YouTube just recently made this feature available. Using Insight Hotspots, you can see which parts of your video are more engaging (or less engaging) as compared to other videos of similar length. As the video plays in Insight, there is a graph on the left side of the screen that displays whether that segment of video was hot or cold. If it’s hot, fewer people are leaving your video at that point, or even rewinding the video to see that part again. If it’s cold, more people are skipping that segment or leaving the video at that point. I’ll explain more below about how to use this feature to enhance your videos, but needless to say, it’s an outstanding addition.

YouTube Insight Hotspots:
YouTube Insights Hotspots

This All Sounds Great Glenn, But How Do I Use Insight To Optimize My Videos?
Just like web analytics, having the data available is one thing, but using the data to enhance your efforts is another. Don’t fear! I’ll explain some basic things you can do in order to glean insights from your reporting to optimize your future videos.

1. Your Ad Hoc Focus Group
Companies spend a lot of money testing their creative to understand what will engage targeted viewers. Well, you can use Insight Hotspots to see what is working in your videos and what isn’t, and for free! You can see which parts of your video people like (rewind and watch again) versus don’t like (they skip through or exit the video). For example, you might find that physical stunts are extremely hot where dialogue is cold. Or you might test a few different versions of a video to see which angles yield the highest engagement. Does humor work, action, or a combination of both? Using Insight Hotspots, you can begin to take guesswork out of the equation and make decisions based on data (which is always a smart move!)

2. Using Insight For Keyword Research
I spend a lot of time talking about the importance of Keyword Research for SEO. It’s an incredibly important process to go through in order to optimize your website based on what people ACTUALLY search for (versus what you think they search for). With Insight, you have access to YouTube searches that lead to your videos, Google searches that lead to your videos, and Google Video searches that lead to your videos (and all for free). By analyzing these keywords, you can start to understand the ways in which people search for different types of content and then you can use that information to optimize future videos (and the text content you provide for those videos like your descriptions, tagging, titles, etc.) For example, are people searching for a category, a specific product, do they enter questions or is it by major keyword?

3. See Which Videos Spike Quickly Versus Providing Sustained Visitors
You might find that an entertaining video has a spike in visitors and then fizzles out, where an educational video builds traffic over time and constantly drives viewers your way. Since you can view visits trended over time, then you can start to get a feel for the lifecycle of specific videos. The more you know about the different types of content you produce, the more you can tailor future content to meet your specific needs (or the needs of your clients).

4. Understand Related Videos That Drive Viewers To Your Video Clips
You can start to learn which types of videos are considered “related” and which videos drive the most viewers. The more you understand the videos that drive people to your own clips, the more you can target future content to that target audience. For example, maybe you had a lot of visitors from How-To videos. You might use this angle in the future to make sure you show up there again, or to capture that traffic from the start...

5. Learn Which Websites Link To Your Video (Referring Sites)
Checking your external links, you can see which websites are linking to your video clips on YouTube. From an SEO standpoint, this provides a great opportunity for link-building. For example, if a site in your industry is linking to your YouTube clips, then maybe they would want to link to your website as well. Links are the lifeblood of SEO and finding topical and relevant link opportunities is extremely important. Note, you can’t see specific URL’s in Insight…you only get domain information, which is a little frustrating. That said, you can probably track down the specific webpage by doing a site command in Google. :)

6. Find Out Which Video Clips Go Viral
If you see a lot of viewers from “Other” in your discovery report (direct traffic), then that’s probably from email, IM, etc. Basically, someone sent around the link for your video to their friends, coworkers, etc. If you had a high percentage of viewers from Direct Traffic, then you might have found something that gets people talking. You can follow this path and test out future videos using similar types of content.

7. See Which Geographic Regions Watch Your Videos (Countries And States)
Are your videos more popular within certain countries or regions? Why were they more popular? For example, did you get a lot of traffic from New York when you shot a video in Times Square? Did you get a lot of traffic from Massachusetts when you showcased Boston Baked Beans in your video about the Best Ideas for Sunday Dinner? On the flip side, did you get a lot of viewers from Hawaii to a video about Surfing the Web on Your Blackberry? Were they interested in surfing or a Blackberry??

Produce, Upload, Analyze, and Refine
Let’s face it, videos are not easy to create (good videos). They cost money, take a lot of time to produce, and a huge amount of effort to pull off. If an average blog post takes a few hours to brainstorm, write, edit, and publish, then a good video takes 4-5X that at least to brainstorm, script, shoot, edit, publish and share. Given the time commitment involved, I highly recommend using YouTube Insight as your video analytics package to glean insights from your viewers in order to optimize and enhance your future clips. If you don’t, then you’re just flying blind. As you can probably guess, I’m against flying blind and you should be too, especially when someone hands you a free analytics package like YouTube Insight!
The Internet Marketing Driver: YouTube Insight, How to Optimize and Enhance Your Online Videos Using Analytics

10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About

Youtube – You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:

1. View high quality videos

Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos, however you can check if a video is available in high quality format by appending ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution) or ‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality.

2. Embed Higher Quality Videos

While the above trick works for playback, if however you want to embed hig quality videos you need to append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″ and “&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ to the embed url.

3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part

Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck. All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL.

4. Hide the search box

youtube url start time

The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url.

5. Embed only a part of Video

youtube url to mp3

Just append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video. In general you can modify the value after start= to the number of seconds you want to skip the video for.

6. Autoplay an embedded video

Normally when you embed a Youtube video and load the page, the player is loaded and it sits there waiting for you to hit the play button. You can make the video play automatically by adding ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code.

7. Loop an embedded video

Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again without user intervention after it reaches the end.

8. Disable Related Videos

youtube url downloader

Publishing your content in the form of Youtube video? Don’t want people to see other people’s content that may be related but may as well be in competition to you? Just add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code and you just turned off the related video suggestions!

9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering

Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<somecode> to http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode>

10. Download Video

Although not inherently a youtube trick but useful all the same for downloading videos. Just change youtube to kickyoutube in the url of the video and it will take you to kickyoutube.com with all the options for downloading the video you were watching.

Do you know of some similar Youtube URL tricks and hacks? Fire them in comments!

10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About