[kj] Nervous Breakdown

[Leigh Newton]

In some ways, it's kind of gross, but it's also kind
of cool. Subverting the mainstream media with cool
songs. Flaming Lips and the Cure were also in
commercials. It just goes to show that there really is
no good reason other than payola and back-slapping
that stuff like Devo, Flaming Lips and whatever can't
be played alongside the likes of anything that's
popular right now. It goes to show that the quality of
a song or how good a band really is has very little to
do with how popular they are or can be.

Leigh

--- Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Last night, I spotted "Mountain Song" by Jane's
> Addiction in an ad for 
> fuckin' Coors beer, which is wrong on more levels
> than can be imagined 
> (read up on Coors' business practices for more
> info).
> 
> "Uncontrollable Urge" by my beloved Devo is now
> being used to hawk 
> cars. "Migration" by Cop Shoot Cop is now used to
> sell fucking sneakers 
> to jarheaded, meatnecked jocks (and this from a band
> whose first album 
> was called CONSUMER REVOLT).
> 
> Fuck all these people. If you work in advertising,
> do the world a favor 
> and gargle with a bottle of sulfuric acid.
> 
> Alex in NYC
> 
> On Friday, April 22, 2005, at 01:53 PM,
> GregSlawson at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > That's pretty weird, but what a great song that
> is, and Black Flag 
> > were a great band. I thought I heard one of the
> Minutemen's 
> > instrumentals (from "Double Nickels") on a car
> commercial. And of 
> > corse "Blitzkrieg Bop" is on a big commercial now
> (I forgot which 
> > one). I even hear the intro to a Rancid tune (from
> "Out Come the 
> > Wolves") as the music played on the radio during a
> Red Sox (baseball) 
> > game, just before commericals. I guess a lot of
> old punkers are now 
> > working in advertising!
> >
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