[kj] Nervous Breakdown

[Phillipps Marc]

>A small Syrian informs me that she has been seeing
>adverts on TV for the internet with "Nervous
>Breakdown" by Black Flag as the soundtrack. 

Wannadoo are using it . . they're also using The Pixies (Velouria) 


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> From:	Graeme Rowland [SMTP:crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent:	Friday, April 22, 2005 4:34 PM
> To:	A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
> Subject:	[kj] Nervous Breakdown
> 
> A small Syrian informs me that she has been seeing
> adverts on TV for the internet with "Nervous
> Breakdown" by Black Flag as the soundtrack. 
> 
> It does seem odd to advertise the internet with a song
> that goes 'my head really hurts.'It would not surprise
> me if miserable hardcore hero Greg Ginn earned more
> money on royalties from this advert than from every
> Black Flag gig put together. Perhaps he could pay
> Grant Hart and Meat Puppets (neither of whom are from
> DC) some of the dosh they claim SST owes them! 
> 
> There are a lot of Black Flag songs he could shop out
> to advertisers for more appropriate products.
> 
> *Six Pack could be used to sell weak American beer
> *Wasted - skateboards
> *Spray Paint the Wall - paints for naughty people
> *TV Party - more beer or junk food
> *Thirsty and Miserable - beer, more beer!
> *Black Coffee - coffee
> *White Minority - propaganda for Republican party
> *Swinging Man - trailer for film about cashcow suicide
> Ian Curtis
> *I Won't Stick Any Of You - Blu-Tac (TM)
> *Scream - Ice cream
> *Now She's Black - cosmetic surgery for skin
> darkening, in an advert featuring Ari Up
> *The Process of Weeding Out - garden tools such as
> spades and hoes
> *Slip It In - condoms
> *The Crazy Girl - Prozac
> *Retired at 21 - pension schemes
> *Life of Pain - aspirin
> *Annihilate This Week - more booze and cigs
> *Drinking and Driving - anti-drink driving propaganda
> *Paralyzed - wheelchairs
> *Sinking - trailer for film about the Titanic
> *I'm the One - The Sun newspaper
> *I Can See You - opticians
> *Gimmme Gimme Gimme - just about anything
> *No More - turn off the TV go do something less toxic
> instead, like drink a six pack
> 
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