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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
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 Posted - 07/31/2003 : 02:18:29
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I've been playing this song live a lot lately. I dig it.
Mr. Invisible LBF
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 07/31/2003 : 09:19:20
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i love The Passenger..
i was pissed to see it in some some dumb insurance commercial though.. |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 07/31/2003 : 10:21:26
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Is that worse than Lust for Life being used in a cruise ship advertisement?
I can't blame an artist for selling their music (assuming Iggy holds the rights) but for a cruise ship? A floating cesspool of overeating, bad shorts, and lazy people? |
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blackpurse
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 07/31/2003 : 10:56:48
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quote:
Originally posted by Little Black Francis
I've been playing this song live a lot lately. I dig it.
Mr. Invisible LBF
ain't it
First, the song itself. I've always loved it too. It was one of the first songs I was taught to play on the guitar (it's a great exercise in moving to open chords to barre chords quickly, also good for practicing your upstroke and downstroke in a syncopated rhythm). Its one of those songs that sounds great no matter who's playing it -- I always like Siouxie's version as well!
As for artists making money off of commercials. Fuck that purist shit. If Iggy wants to make money off of cruise ships or whatever, good for him. God knows he's given us enough great, sincere, rocking, death-defying shows -- and its good to see him get compensated for his well written tunes! Yes I would have preferred that he was compensated for his craft by people ponying up at the door of CBGB's but that's life. I just hope he still owns the rights to his songs. Yes, I hate hearing the Buzzcocks For Nissan Automobiles (or was that a Subaru ad I heard for "What Do I Get") but if it means Pete Shelley can make a few mortgage payments, good for him. What gets my goat is hearing Lennon and McCartney for Nike. You know they don't need the cash, and what's more, if they still owned the rights to their stuff, they would have never allowed this.And so I hate Michael Jackson for doing it. (You don't hear any of Paul's solo catalog, which he still owns, on any ads, nor George's etc... ) But Iggy, while enjoying a renaissance and popularity he never had when he was at his zenith, has never been a rich guy, so I'm glad to see that some hefty royalty checks are headed his way.
"Sacred cows make the best burgers!"
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 07/31/2003 : 11:05:43
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I don't hold it against Iggy Pop (not that matters if I do or don't). It's just the juxtaposition of DIY and cruiseships that rattles me.
I have always disliked Eric Clapton slightly more because of his Michelob ads, but I already dispised most of his music. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 07/31/2003 : 12:06:17
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Atheist4Catholics
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 07/31/2003 : 19:02:48
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Love Siouxsie's version as well.
Speaking of licensing, you know SOMEONE died when "Blitzkrieg Bop" is selling cell phones. A travesty...
Didn't Frank talk about how he liked Iggy's approach to licensing? He said Iggy has a "I don't care you can use it for whatever you want" attitude. Is it more "punk" because it's "less punk"?
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Jettison
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Posted - 08/01/2003 : 06:11:41
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From The Big Takeover:
But to Iggy, it's the only way anyone outside of the underground has ever encountered a lick of his work! In fact, he's totally elated at the inadvertent yet pervasive airplay, after all those years of being told he "wasn't commercial," sorry charley. And frankly, Iggy has never much cared for what others have thought, as long as he was into it and it wasn't jerking around other people, now has he? If he did, he wouldn't have made the music he did, or done the wild things he did, in the first place.
In my opinion he's just getting the financial credit he deserves. Lust for Life, The Passenger, and Search and Destroy are great songs.
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ingersoll
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Posted - 08/01/2003 : 20:06:31
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i think the best use of licensed music in a commercial would be the magnetic fields' "strange powers" in that southern comfort ad. that is one of my favorite songs off all time and it was cool seeing it in a commercial that got played 5000 times a day...
Divine: "Kill everyone now! Condone first-degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Flith is my politics, filth is my life! Take whatever you like!" |
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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 08/03/2003 : 00:27:23
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huh
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