Their versions of I Heard it on the Radio and Kiss on My List are pretty ace.
― Darin, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Those Nouvelle Vague covers of classic postpunk tunes slip into this territory too imo
it thinks it's doing some kind of compelling detournement but it's just taking something great and making it safe for boutiques and "chic" hotel lobbies/lounge compilations
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmG0sPyZJBg
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^^kinda like that one u_u
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Were Gap the pioneers of insufferable indie Christmas ads or is there a long heritage I'm unaware of?
Whoops, yeah, Low's "Little Drummer Boy" was used by Gap, not Target. It first aired near the end of 2000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv61mHwGmbI
Target used the Suicide Commandos' "Complicated Fun" a few years later but that might have been in Minnesota only.
I actually think the first big commercial to use music from a non-major-label band was seriously Volvo's Minutemen ad in 2000, but Volkswagen had already been alt-ing it up since '99--I remember the Stereolab one well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7wkRGjOs7w
and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lSKUL_n6c0
So I can't really blame Minutemen for anything: Money for the "Love Dance" licensing went to the late D. Boon's estate (he had sole publishing credit) and Watt said he approved it only to help Boon's ailing dad. Greg Milner reported in Spin that the song had actually been written in the offices of Dischord Records!
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I reread the DMB thread a while back, and I was still dying with laughter. It doesn't pale with time.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The thing about the DMB thread is you don't even need to read the posts. Just seeing
Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (2634 of them)
is enough to make me laugh uncontrollably
― Spikey, Saturday, 8 January 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh no. You need to read the posts. Ned and Alex going toe-to-toe with random G00glers was infinite pleasure beyond name.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Were the Troggs on a major label, back when they did Coke commercials?
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlUQfXZGvgc
― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 January 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc all proceeds from the minutemen vw ad went to d boons dad who was sick and broke or something
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
not that i feel the need to defend musicians getting paid somehow anyhow but there you go
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 8 January 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Volvo, here's the piece. But something will have been lost if we look back on this controversy as quaint.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Probably already has been lost. I taught a high-school civics class this semester where students set up their own towns, and many didn't seem to get that Targets and Wal-Marts aren't part of the city government.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
no idea what that has to do w/ this thread but i enjoyed your anecdote
― gr8080, Saturday, 8 January 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
""wacky delayface breakdown"
everything that is wrong with pomplemoose in three words
― dayo, Sunday, 9 January 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't seen such annoying instrument by instrument mugging since https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEknNT0YL2o
― Archers: Bold As Love (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 January 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
How do you expect me to "BEAT IT" when you keep cutting away to that hairy guy playing the baby piano? It's totally killing the mood!
― Tinker Tailor Soulja Boy Tell 'Em (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 January 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
What a perfect storm this duo is! It's amazing, the bile coughed up on their behalf. Impressive, even. I mean, if I were given a similar platform (a few Youtube clips and a couple of heavy-rotation holiday ads) and asked to irritate as many people as humanly possible, I couldn't even come close to matching their accomplishment. Such efficiency! Probably some important lessons to be learned here.
― henry s, Sunday, 9 January 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, kids seem a bit fidgety during the performance
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/education&id=7886521
― buzza, Sunday, 9 January 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
News anchors should be barred from trying to be witty ("Pomp-la-muse!" "Drumroll please") during reports. No, wait, I'm pretty sure they already are.
BAN
― heh (kelpolaris), Sunday, 9 January 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost: the parallel's in the change in how people relate to the corporatization of everything. Yes, selling a song off an album that declared "Fuck advertising, commercial psychology/Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" required a defense 10 years ago: That was a happy thing--happy because they sang it, happy because people believed it, and happy because there was an alternative economy/culture being built up by people who felt the same. A lot of that endures, but sometimes the anti-corporate ethos seems like a lost language--you see it in the way "indie" can now describe a "couple." And of course it's normal for a rock band to buy your schoolbooks because Lord knows the government won't.
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i figured out my subconscious reason for hating mrs. pomplamoose. this is a picture of amy adams playing "julie" in julie and julia.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KqQsYqm5HXQ/TSucvfTb3SI/AAAAAAAAAOg/VbwE7SExIj4/s1600/Setup.JPG
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that granite? Fancy pants!
― Sanford, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
it comes from a blog someone's doing where the author watches julie and julia every day for a year.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lawrenceandjulieandjulia.blogspot.com/
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i want to start a project where i write "go to hell" in that guy's comments a thousand times every day for a year
― goole, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing is stopping you.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like I've seen those damned Pomplacommercials every day for a year.
― henry s, Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ha my mom told me she hates these
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
― plax (ico), Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
learn to let go folx
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 13 January 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, selling a song off an album that declared "Fuck advertising, commercial psychology/Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" required a defense 10 years ago: That was a happy thing--happy because they sang it, happy because people believed it, and happy because there was an alternative economy/culture being built up by people who felt the same. A lot of that endures, but sometimes the anti-corporate ethos seems like a lost language...
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, January 8, 2011 11:20 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark
Pete Fucking Scholtes OTFM. sometimes depressed by ILM's snide dismissal of the anticorporate aspects of 80s indie/punk ethos. still have a great deal of respect for those values, not least because that they help counterbalance apathy and the obvious power of big money to shape discourse & culture.
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
"...not least because that they help counterbalance..."
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
like the downside of the anti-rockist embrace of all things pop is that it leaves little room for for such values, for the intrinsic social value of a loyal (economic/political) opposition
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck capitalism imo
― plax (ico), Thursday, 13 January 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
contenderizer totally otm
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 14 January 2011 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
plax is joeks itt rite
pompla gal is called knutsen and looks for all the world like a scandie farmgirl
― nakhchivan, Friday, 14 January 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4172/firstonee.gifhttp://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1494/total2.gif
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Friday, 14 January 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
These gifs have made me realize that all this time we been mad because they stylin on us
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 January 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ha ha okay i had managed not to watch this commercial, seeing that hat-and-candy cane business puts a lot of the rage in this thread into perspective.
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Friday, 14 January 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
styling on u, deal w/it *sunglasses*
― ice cr?m, Friday, 14 January 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
new song OMGZ LOLZ BACON SO FUNNEHZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdEhvS9P1DI
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
hey, it was posted today & alraedy has 26k views. gross
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
New SONG!! Same VIDEO THUMBNAIL, THOUGH!!
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
skip to 2:45 on that
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wish there was a separate counter for HATEviews
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
That stupid high-low singing style HAS to be over soon. Please.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
fwiw I think that's by far their best song to date
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
old school twee christian marketing still rules. beware of the devil!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhUCQCTZnkk
― scott seward, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
official euroboost theme song
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link