posted on December 6, 2000 10:13:31 PM new
As a follow up to preachers thread..
What is the MOST disturbing use of one of your favorite songs have you run across?
MIne was a Country Music freak at work who went NUTS for Garth Brook's "new" song "Dixie Chicken"...his words..."Man, that dude can write great songs!!"
I showed him the credits on the CD, and also played the original for him, and he agreed that Little Feat's version was better ( he had to or I would have fired him )
So give an example in the same vein.
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on December 6, 2000 10:18:27 PM new
I'm not sure if this fits, but, As a teen I really enjoyed Kiss. The makeup, the fire the explosions, the show and the tunes. Then a while ago, I see Kiss on a Pepsi commercial with that annoying little girl. Ack, I felt betrayed lmao!
posted on December 6, 2000 10:20:15 PM new
You weren't disturbed by Garth covering KISS tunes?
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on December 6, 2000 10:22:52 PM new
Well..yeah, although I was more disturbed by Lenny's version of Deuce...yikes but the Pepsi thing bugged me more.
posted on December 7, 2000 08:00:50 AM new
Slightly off-topic: Because of this thread, I've just spent a most enjoyable hour tracking down the music used in the Hanes women's underwear commercial currently running. Along the way, I found this interesting database of much of the music used in TV commercials:
posted on December 7, 2000 09:41:08 AM new
Iggy's "Search & Destroy" was used for a Nike commercial, and that seriously disturbed me. I hope he made a lot of money off it and I hope he's happy.
posted on December 7, 2000 09:54:06 AM new
It's not my fav, but there's a PSA advocating regular bicycle safety checks that uses Bob Seger's "Like A Rock" as background. Every time I hear that song, I see some moron ride his bike to the top of the hill, get off, survey the scenery with a "Damn, I did good!" expression, and then lift his bike like it's a trophy only to have the thing fall apart around his head.
Now tell me...if his bike was in such lousy shape, how the heck did he get to the top of the hill in one piece?
There's also anti-chewing tobacco PSA that uses the opening riffs of Melissa Etheridge's "Yes I Am"...
Every time y'all suffer through your commercials, take pity on us who are forced to sit through crap like this instead of commercials.
posted on December 9, 2000 04:04:07 PM new
Sometimes I find it OK or nice to have good music in commercials, especially obscure music. I understand the use of a Nick Drake song in a recent ad turned a lot of people on to his stuff (but I think he's dead so I don't know if that helps). Probably the most disturbing use of music for me was when Michael Jackson made friends with Paul McCartney, then underhandedly acquired the rights to Lennon-McCartney works (supposedly Michael found out that Paul was strapped for rights-purchasing funds) and permitted them to be used in ads, which had never been done. "Revolution" in that ad for running shoes really ticked me off. I'm not even that big a Beatles fan, it was just the principle of the thing---the artist not being able to control his own work.
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I never had one, and I didn't want one, and I don't, so now I do...
posted on December 9, 2000 04:12:01 PM new
I saw part of a program on TV once in which Tony Randall sang the Beatles' "All you need is love." It was so bad I actually called the TV station to complain. The first and only time I have ever done so. It haunts me to this day.
posted on December 9, 2000 06:15:26 PM new
Remember Elton John's song "Sad Songs Say So Much"? I liked that song a lot until he had a brain malfunction and agreed to redo the words for a blue jeans company's TV commercial. I gagged when I heard him singing, "Sassons say so much". AAAAUGH!!!
[ edited by petuniasevan on Dec 9, 2000 06:16 PM ]
posted on December 9, 2000 07:17:20 PM new
"you're my angel" by Aerosmith played over 63 (I actually counted that @#%#ing song) times on the jukebox for one week in the Cafeteria when I was in High School
after the 10th time, I learned to hate it then.
I still hate it now
the teacher finally went and unplugged that thing.
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