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Victoria's Secret has nabbed another tune to hawk their wares (a.k.a image mongering) and it doesn't bother me one damn bit - is that wrong?

It seems "All Mine" is a logically theatrical match to peddle VS's strobish T&A accoutrement and it makes me feel consiously desensitized and uncaring.

Isn't it getting a little exhausting to exclaim "sell out" for all these crossovers - is it simply not appropriate in this instance - and is Jim Morrison rolling in his grave that these things could ever be considered as irrelevent?

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

It'll serve to remind people who they are. Who are they again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

what happened to them after the 2nd album ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

(bites tongue, goes to work)

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

the visuals are a nice accompanyment to this song

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I saw some extended promo for the UK showing of the tv show Lost that used a Portishead song. Kind of neat in that it was a choreographed dance number. As far as commercials go, that is.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Don't quite see the relevance of Jim Morrison to Portishead.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

what happened to them after the 2nd album ?

They released a live album.

― Dan (Helpful) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Morrison -- flipped his whig on the usage of "Light My Fire" on a TV commercial.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

They've apparently got an album out later on in the year but I wouldn't hold your breath
Mind you, the Beth Gibbons, Rustin' Man album is easily as good as any of the Portishead albums

― actionjackson (actionjackson), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Breasts and Portishead? That sounds like my sophomore year at college.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

After The Minutemen showed up in a car commercial, the power to shock me was lost ('twas for a good cause, though).

I've never really seen Portishead as outspoken critics of consumer culture, and their music is perfect commercial material - sleek, futuristic, romantic, striking. If they picked Suckdog or Gorguts or something I might be like, "Huh?"

I heard Christoph De Babalon's "Dead Too" in an anti-smoking commercial back in 2000, which was kind of weird.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Any self-respecting indie band would have turned down the lure of filthy, corporate money and refused to allow its songs to become a crass marketing tool of the multinationals.

― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

anyway is this really portishead or is it just the same sample they used at the beginning of All Mine?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Allegedly they composed and wrote all of the music that was used as source material for sampling on that album, so in either case the answer is "Yes, that's Portishead."

― Dan (Useless Trivia Boy) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha "composed AND wrote"!

― Dan (Played AND Performed) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Any self-respecting indie band would have turned down the lure of filthy, corporate money and refused to allow its songs to become a crass marketing tool of the multinationals.

Of course this is probably a joke. But even if it isn't, it is hilarious.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

well except all the recognizeable samples like lalo schifrin & ikes mood huh

― ,,,,,,,,,,, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I thought Beth Gibbons was eBaying her bras. Wait, no 'damn'. Please proceed.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Morrison -- flipped his whig on the usage of "Light My Fire" on a TV commercial.

Not to derail this thread, but wasn't that just Oliver Stone's prodigious "artistic license"?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Second album, Ethan.

― Dan (Not The First) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Breasts and Portishead? That sounds like my sophomore year at college.

ha ha.. and my senior year of high school.

i saw this ad last nite and thought it sounded a little different from the portishead version.... like maybe it was sampling the same thing as the portishead song like kyle said....

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Portishead always sounded like something that should exist mostly on movie soundtracks and commercials anyway.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

it's music for making out behind a starbucks

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Not to derail this thread, but wasn't that just Oliver Stone's prodigious "artistic license"?

A bit. This comes from the LA Times:

An advertising firm came to the band with an offer: $50,000 to allow their biggest hit, "Light My Fire," to be used in a commercial for the Buick Opel.

Morrison was in Europe and his bandmates voted in his absence; Densmore, Krieger and Manzarek agreed to the deal. Morrison returned and was furious, vowing to sledgehammer a Buick on stage at every concert if the commercial went forward. It did not.

http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-et-doors5oct05,0,4065911.story?page=2&coll=la-tot-promo

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Of course this is probably a joke. But even if it isn't, it is hilarious.

So you haven't seen the "indie bands bravely refuse money from Hummer to sell ads" thread, then.

― vartman (novaheat), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

hummer would so be salivating over the prospect of a rock star with jim morrison-level coolness vowing to sledgehammer an H2 at every concert.

― grady (grady), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

Allegedly they composed and wrote all of the music that was used as source material for sampling on that album, so in either case the answer is "Yes, that's Portishead."
-- Dan (Useless Trivia Boy) Perry (djperry@gmail.com) (webmail), Yesterday 7:57 PM. (later) (link)

I thought it was only the "hookers and gin" bit right at the end!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

I guess with all the money they've made out of licensing their stuff to adverts, etc., they can afford to take their time writing and recording new stuff, or actually not need to do anything else at all, ever.

Must admit Portishead never struck me as an "indie" band.

About the Doors, whatever happened with that court case where Manzarek and Krieger were suing Densmore for not allowing Doors songs to be used in ads? Was that before or after Densmore sued Manzarek and Krieger for going on tour with Ian Astbury and calling themselves the Doors?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would imagine they won, because Jello Biafra lost a similar case for refusing to let the DKs be used in advertising.

(Welcome back Marcello, btw)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the new version of the Doors was forced to change its name to "D21C" after lawyers objected to the name that they had been using, which was "Doors of the 21st Century."

― vartman (novaheat), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

New Doors = Riders on the Storm

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

And here I thought that Portishead was actually marketing bras, like with the giant "P" logo on each cup or something.

I was thinking that would have been a rather left-field marketing gesture, like those Aphex Twin logo umbrellas.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Must admit Portishead never struck me as an "indie" band.

Hence me ignoring this trolly thread, the entire argument is based on a fallacy.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

And here I thought that Portishead was actually marketing bras, like with the giant "P" logo on each cup or something.

This is totally what I was thinking too!

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

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