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Author: breno
Date: 07-21-12 19:41
From this day forward, movie trailers are banned from using "Gimme Shelter" as background music. There are plenty of other mildly ominous classic rock songs to choose from that can make your random film clips seem portentous, Hollywood. Choose some of them, and gimme a rest from "Gimme Shelter."
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Author: totaji
Date: 07-21-12 21:06
If they get rid of Gimme Shelter, then they ALL will have Solsbury Hill. At least Gimme Shelter was another option.
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Author: rebelwithoutaclue
Date: 07-21-12 22:45
im very mixed on mafia movies that have a killer soundtrack with great rock n roll music.
on one hand the music is great background and the lyrical content often fits in well with whats going on{sopranos goodfellas}.
in my opinion if it was more realistic they would be listening to bad disco music and whatever lame pop music of the time.
sometimes the use of good music to me is just the moviemaker saying look at me i have great taste in music. i like the stones
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Author: hoip chiggs
Date: 07-22-12 09:05
Gimme Shelta happens ta be wanna my favorite sawngs. You gotta problem wit dat?
- Vinny "The Woodchipper" Garbonzo.
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Author: breno
Date: 07-22-12 09:42
It's not a mafia movie trailer currently featuring "Gimme Shelter." It's some "Denzel Washington heroically lands a jet while drunk" thing directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 07-22-12 12:14
Could anyone imagine the throes of agony Brad would be sent into if the trailer opened with "...Shelter" and then closed with "Hallelujah"?
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Author: M. Johnson
Date: 07-23-12 00:10
What bothers me is that there is a "professional" being paid to choose these songs, and they seem to know nothing about music.
Making fresh, intriguing song-choices would generate real interest- and cash.
So, what are y'alls favourite uses of song in advertising?
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 07-23-12 08:50
I don't have a favorite, but I do wish someone would use the Magnetic Fields' "Epitaph for My Heart."
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Author: zoo
Date: 07-23-12 09:03
I liked that car commercial that used the Clash's version of "Pressure Drop":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5PgHAHAoRw
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Author: MrFab
Date: 07-23-12 12:25
The VW spot with Trio's "Da Da Da." And I never watch commercials (thank you, Tivo!)
Lour Reed's Honda scooter commercial in the '80s was pretty funny.
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Author: breno
Date: 07-23-12 13:38
Quote:
im very mixed on mafia movies that have a killer soundtrack with great rock n roll music.
on one hand the music is great background and the lyrical content often fits in well with whats going on{sopranos goodfellas}.
in my opinion if it was more realistic they would be listening to bad disco music and whatever lame pop music of the time.
The music usage in any scenes set in strip clubs in movies or on tv is even more woefully unrealistic, as they always choose some dark, gothy sounding stuff instead of the hair metal, bad hip hop or 80s era pop that generally gets played in such places (not that I would know this from experience, of course.)
There was some Daryl Hannah stripper movie that came out a few years ago - Dancing at the Blue Iguana, maybe? In it, all the strippers were out on stage gyrating to Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave. Because yes, men who go to strip clubs really want to be confronted with existential despair over the fallen nature of humanity.
I think Exotica also featured dark, moody music in all its strip club scenes, I guess because Atom Egoyan didn't think "Livin' On a Prayer" by Bon Jovi communicated the proper amount of ennui and desperation, though that is in fact generally what I feel when I hear it.
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Author: totaji
Date: 07-23-12 14:24
Hahaha I think Exotica used "Everybody knows" several times.
I think a hipster strip club might do alright. Having nerdy girls strip to Daniel Johnston would be haught!
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Author: BCE
Date: 07-23-12 21:29
I would have said The Fall, but I still get nightmares from hearing "I was walking down the street...", that I'll probably never listen to that song ever again. Thankfully, there are still a zillion other Fall tracks that are immune from commercialization, knock on wood. Uh-oh.
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Author: rebelwithoutaclue
Date: 07-23-12 22:03
excellent point breno on the strip clubs music.
im a party coordinator and one of my favorite jobs was working once or twice a week in the striop clubs while the ladies were either rehearsing or it wasnt that busy. the women picked their own songs.
here is a partial setlist of songs in rotation on a repetitive basis.
la vida loca
whataman-salt n peppa
do you believe in life after love- cher
faith- george michael
mambo number 5-
angel- areosmith
we would always kid with the girls asking if the musical selection they originally wanted was im too sexy or anything by the village people
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Author: hoip chiggs
Date: 07-24-12 07:55
I would have the mimicking vegetation in The Ruins sing Love Is Like A Rock by Donnie Iris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Z7PWl7RaI
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Author: MrFab
Date: 07-24-12 12:36
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Lou + Laurie = Lour?
If the tabloids ever wrote about people I was actually interested in, then yeah, I bet they'd be calling them "Lou-rie."
Well, now that's got me thinking. Also from the TP Examiner:
"Mark E. Smith's Tragic Last Days!"
"Michael Stipe & Bob Mould's Secret Marriage!"
"New Evidence: Nina Hagen Shot Jam-Master Jay!"
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Author: breno
Date: 07-24-12 14:22
The only Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson gossip I remember reading anywhere was that someone sat behind them at some important benefit show/concert of some kind and reported that Reed slept through the entire thing.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 08-12-12 20:53
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The VW spot with Trio's "Da Da Da."
Here is a better VW spot.
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This thread had me looking for my old copy of More Sad Hits. I couldn't remember who the following quote was from, or I would have posted it earlier.
"Nothing written for pay is worth anything: only what is written against the market. There is nothing so inebriating as earning money. Big cheque and you think you have done something, and two years later there is nothing wol bloody to show for it." - Ezra Pound
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Author: Paganizer
Date: 08-18-12 05:11
My peeve is London Calling. Boyle's opening ceremony segued to the 8 chords of the opening measure and before I could groan it crossfaded to something cooler, as if he were fully cognizant of the cliché and sagaciously willing to play with expectations. Brilliant.
Mondegreen of the week:
Roxy Music
Take no big thing
Wait for the bathroom break
Take no big thing
The toilet, the bow
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