IGGY POP AND THE ROYAL CARIBEAN

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hard core heroin addict is now the new voice of borgie lesiure? What do you do when yr hardcore heros sell out ? Any other examples?

― anthony, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

having heroes is "borgie" in the first place

― mark s, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Using heroin is often just "borgie" types attempting to be hardcore.

Um other examples. Hmmmn. Like everyone maybe?

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DAMMIT HOW DARE HE NOT BE DISCOVERED DEAD IN A MOTEL 6 WITH HIS ARSE FULL OF HEROIN AND HIS NUTS IN A NOOSE.

To answer the question, I just find new ones.

Other examples? Lou Reed and Miles Davis hawking mopeds was pretty funny.

― clotion, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HOW TO SUCCEED IN ADVERTISING:

If you're in the ad business, go out to the theater and see a hip movie, then buy the hip soundtrack, then get the permission from the publisher, and use a hip track from the hip soundtrack in your hip commercial. A+ for a Bowie, Reed, Iggy connection.

Advertisers like to do that. Especially the Trainspotting soundtrack. "Lust for Life" was also in a car ad and "Perfect Day" was in a Nike commercial. Now, who are we hearing in TV ads? NICO!, thanks to the Royal Tennenbaums. New Wave is also ripe for picking. VW's ad people are especially obnoxious.

― bryan, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

out is the new in!

― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"What do I Get?" by Buzzcocks, "Full Moon" by the Swell Maps, "She Sells Sanctuary" by the Cult, "How Soon is Now?" by the Smiths and "Bargain" by the Who have all been used recently for car commercials. "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil was used for a fragrance commercial.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like it when songs i like are used in adverts i like, and not when not

― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

After a moment's confusion, I was actually thrilled to hear poor Nico in an ad. Too bad they only used the instrumental portion of the song. What could the worst-case end result of this be? Having loads of stoic yet depressed high school girls owning copies of "Chelsea Girl"? Right on, I say!

― Sean, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm waiting for some ad man to license some Merzbow.

― DG, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some evil ad whore 'working' for Gap has obviously bought a copy of Nuggets Vol II, judging by their new promos. Which is tremendously upsetting for me, Sonicred and Dr C and the ghost of Jimi Hendrix, as Marmalade's 'I See The Rain' is used to sell leisure threads to the middle aged.

― Snotty Moore, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but marmalade and jimi and dr c are all middle-aged themselves!!

― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can a ghost be middle aged?

― Snotty Moore, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

On the one hand it was a pleasure to hear one of my all-time fave songs on a tv advert; one of those moments of serendipity that for the moment at least, i can regard as a triumph. On the other hand, to hear such a beautiful and noble song as "I See the Rain" by the Marmalade (check out also "Laughing Man", "Man in a Shop" and "Kaleidoscope") being used to promote such a bland and nonedescript (not to mention untrustworthy) label such as Gap, is utterly sickening. Some media whore has indeed, I'm afraid been listening to the Nuggets box set.

― simon, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hasn't Iggy's music been in a hundred differents ads before this though? I remember getting really baw-red by Lust for Life because of it getting continuous play in some other commercial.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish bands would sell out more, it would make them more interesting.

Wouldn't Spiritualized make their new tunes a bit more fiesty if Jase retitled one "Dew It All Over Again" for a Mountain Dew commercial, and use "The 12 Steps" for a step aerobics chain?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But how is it humanly possible for Creed to be more interesting, say? Although perhaps they could rewrite a song for a McDonald's ad and call it "With Mouth Wide Open."

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes there's a comercial monster out there and it's very big and very strong. Lots of great art, music and work is commercialized deliberately or tradgically (or both). Then again, a few years ago some guys like Moby and others were getting their stuff heard on the comercials and advertisements before the record contracts were rolling in. These things come full circle once in a while. The next "while" is a little over due though

― Eric, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Search and Destroy" was used for a Nike ad. And while I haven't seen the ad in question, supposedly there exists a Volvo ad that uses a song by the fucking Minutemen of all bands.

First bit of music-in-ad synergy that confused me as a kid: "Blitzkrieg Bop" shilling Miller beer's NITRO-BURNIN' FUNNY CAR

― Nate Patrin, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I love Iggy Pop and more to the point, I love his late career. Nothing could drown his sensibility - it's nice to hear it surviving over the top of whatever music comes his way - and more to the point, it's nice to hear him making sharper points and better tunes than he did when he was with The Stooges. It's a relief that his late music gets less and less popular. It's pleasant to have a little refuge from the vicious publicity of Justin Timberlake and The Hives - to listen to someone weary and able to articulate their weariness, and to not feel alone with your own.

― flower child (flower child), Thursday, 4 September 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

- I should add that Iggy Pop is good because not only does he mention tiredness and boredom, but he doesn't seem perturbed by those states - they're not reasons for despair, but facts of existence - I guess I'm trying to seperate his music from all the stuff that gets called juvenile wallowing, but maybe that's just pandering to people who are embarrassed by themselves.

― flower child (flower child), Friday, 5 September 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The only problem, though, is that you can only listen to Iggy Pop's late music by yourself. Because it would be a drag to notice someone sneering at the corny trumpet lines.

― flower child (flower child), Friday, 5 September 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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