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Songs that crop up in weird places

  
 
Seth
10:49 / 03.05.03
Mogwai: They're angry, ascerbic, politicised, a mixture of prog and punk. Famous for their bitchiness in interviews and too-loud-wall-of-white-noise live shows. Possibly the least sexy band in Britain.

Take Me Somewhere Nice was used in an episode of Sex and the City.

Company Flow: They're angry, ascerbic, politicised, fed on too much dystopian sci-fi and an overdose of EPMD. Famous for their lyrical bitchiness, delivered high speed over stuttering funk. Possibly the least sexy hip-hop group ever to hail from New York.

Someone felt that Worker Ant Uprising would be the perfect soundtrack to a skincare advert (and no doubt Rawkus felt it would be perfect payback for the Nazi mouthfuck comments).
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
12:03 / 03.05.03
What's the skincare ad?? I have reasons...
 
 
Seth
12:13 / 03.05.03
The one with underwear chick and snake dude, writhing on a bed after he's dropped off the ceiling in a corridor. You know, the one with Worker Ant Uprising as the soundtrack.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
12:54 / 03.05.03
Underwear chick and snake dude, you say? I'll keep me peepers open...
 
 
rizla mission
14:25 / 03.05.03
I've heard snatches of Mogwai emanating from a couple of unlikely directions recently - they seem to be going for TV shows and adverts rather a lot, annoyingly. The quiet bits, naturally.
(I fucking hope 'post-rock' doesn't become the 'new triphop' or some shit like that - there was a picture of Toyah Wilcox in the paper yesterday with a copy of 'Come On Die Young'!! Crazy.)

And speaking of the 'least sexy band in britain', there's still The Fall on that car advert, but we've already discussed that one rather a lot..
 
 
Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!
11:00 / 04.05.03
Slightly off kilter, but have you seen the tracklisting for the double cd for the new Matrix film. Now there are some songs and bands I never thought I would see in the public eye. They've got Die Krupps, Front Line Assembly, Juno Reactor and a whole host more. Please don't tell me that Industrial is suddenly going to be acceptable to the joe public after all those years of being ignored. I don't think my tiny little mind could take it.
 
 
b.n.d.c.t.s.?
12:20 / 04.05.03
Trouble was on a Tory Party Political Broadcast.

No, wait, they're socum-sucking shitfaces and the rights to Trouble appear to cost about 12 oence and yr credability. See? Sometimes the price of stuff is exactly propertionate to what it's worth.

So not surprising at all, then.
 
 
HysteriX
18:39 / 04.05.03
How about Aphex Twin on those anti-drug commercials; is that a perfekt example.
 
 
pomegranate
13:37 / 05.05.03
aphex twin on anti-drug commercials. you are kidding.

a mogwai song was in a levi's commercial a bit ago, the one w/the stampede of animals and the boy and girl holding hands.

a jon spencer song is currently running in some car commercial, i wanna say nissan?
 
 
The Falcon
21:43 / 05.05.03
Weren't Fear Factory used in some advert?
 
 
Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!
06:43 / 06.05.03
Fear Factory were on a Sony Surround Sound Ad years ago.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
19:17 / 10.09.03
Usually they have a rocky song in it because theyre trying to tap into the oh so cool limp bizkit rockyness that all the cool people think is cool, maaan.

I always think its funny when you hear a numetal type song in an advert for kid's action men or skates or something and it brings to mind this image of this guy in baggy pants, skate hoody and IMACULATE spiky hair in a club trying to be all cool and like "action man's, like, rilly rilly rilly harcore, duuude"
 
 
PatrickMM
20:09 / 10.09.03
The strangest ad placement I've seen was 60's anti-war anthem, "Fortunate Son" used in a Wrangler jeans ad that was showing Wrangler as an all American company. They only used the opening lyrics, "Some folks were born, raised to wave the flag, oh the red, white and blue" and cut it there, turning an anti-government anthem into a pro-America piece.
 
 
pomegranate
20:22 / 10.09.03
well is that any different from using janis joplin's "mercedes-benz" in a, yep, mercedes-benz commercial?
 
 
uncle retrospective
20:33 / 10.09.03

DiG that Matrix album has nothing to do with the film. It was made up by some people who thought that the tracks on the cd would be better than P.O.D.
For odd some reason.
 
 
rizla mission
07:58 / 11.09.03
They only used the opening lyrics, "Some folks were born, raised to wave the flag, oh the red, white and blue" and cut it there, turning an anti-government anthem into a pro-America piece.

Reminiscent of Reagan using "Born in the USA" and fading down the verses..
 
 
_Boboss
09:49 / 11.09.03
sure the pig was saying other day he'd heard squarepusher's redhot carcock on neighbours. g'day, names brad, i like intellygent deeunbee, lotsa slap onna top f ycan manage it mate.
 
 
suds
11:13 / 11.09.03
set: what like mogwai is too "cool" for sex in the city? why because the main characters are all female? what-ever.
 
 
_Boboss
12:11 / 11.09.03
more likely the main characters are all tarts.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:24 / 11.09.03
Harry the bald little man who just proposed to Charlotte looks like he could be in Mogwai. But he's too nice.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:01 / 11.09.03
Reminiscent of Reagan using "Born in the USA" and fading down the verses...

Twenty years later, Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt makes the same mistake.
 
 
The Knights Templar Boogie Machine
22:53 / 11.09.03
Heres a weird one: Years ago, back int early nineties the ITN news programme tried to go all trendy and put 'hip' music in the backround of its reports...Imagine my suprise after seeing the camera cruise through a war torn area to the sounds of an instrumental 'cop killer' by Ice T's Bodycount, after the song was banned!!! I shit you not...Unsuprisingly, ITN was forced to pull its new trendy outlook about a week after its inception due to complaints that topics seemed to be trivialised by the music being played...Obviouslt there were some subgeni or discordian bastards employed in the offices at that time.....
 
 
grant
13:32 / 12.09.03
Jack Fear, you make me lose hope.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
15:49 / 12.09.03
What the hell are the Cure doing providing 'Inbetween Days' for a fucking CAR ADVERT?

Say it ain't so, Captain Bob...
 
 
■
16:46 / 12.09.03
Dead Can Dance cropping up on the Terminator 3 trailer. Brrrrr...
 
 
grant
17:43 / 12.09.03
Brian Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" in 28 Days Later... that hauntingly beautiful, slow, simple keyboard thing. It also showed up at the end of Traffic, when Benicio del Toro is watching the baseball game.

It was written as part of the soundtrack to For All Mankind, a great documentary about the lunar landings. Since then, it became one of my favorite songs, and I always notice it popping up. I keep expecting exultant astronauts.

There's also a bit of music that's in Dead Poet's Society that is used in a *lot* of Hollywood trailers. In the 80s, I noticed a few B-movies (particularly Band of the Hand) used Tangerine Dream soundtracks from other movies. It's a weird thing, when you realize it's going on.
 
  
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