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Early Manics selling mobile phones

40%

17:43 / 25.11.03

FUCK! I don't believe it! I've just heard an adapted version of "Motorcycle Emptiness", with soothing strings and a xylophone, used on a T-Mobile advert.

I read a thread about Moby selling his music for adverts, and that didn't surprise me too much, but what's the deal with this? Does anyone know? Are the Manics complicit in this?

Not Here Still

18:03 / 25.11.03

Yeah, I know the ad because it always gets me - my guess from the way the ad goes is that it is one of those tunes where they've paid a musicologist to ensure it sounds just different enough to avoid a lawsuit, but similar enough to get you wondering at the very least.

That said, Nicky Wire did say they wrote Australia specifically to end up on sports trailers, and it has been used to advertise Australia itself on a tourist board advert, so it isn't like the Manics are anti-ads or owt...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:23 / 26.11.03

It's a version of the Sonic Stealth Orchestra remix of 'Motorcycle Emptiness', so is it actually the Manics saying okay, or did they go to whoever is the SSO, and that's why it's slightly different? Alternatively I know that Nicky doesn't particularly care for remixes, so perhaps they feel that signing away a remix is better than the original song.

On the other hand they are the Manics so are naturally extremely evil now, so they probably indulge in white slavery and quaff champagne while laughing in an evil fashion.

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:07 / 26.11.03

While eating all the pies.

Jack Vincennes

11:56 / 26.11.03

And reading the tabloids merely so they can hate them... really hate them.

I'd just assumed that they didn't mind who used their music for adverts, but I'm a Scorned Manics Fan (tm), and so probably an unreliable source...

Kit-Cat Club

12:13 / 26.11.03

They're recording another fscking album you know.

Nicky Wire has pledged recently to make a stripped-down album of 'elegiac pop' in contrast to their fiery previous album, 'Know Your Enemy'.

ARGH

Not Here Still

18:40 / 01.12.03

OPB Our Lady: whoever is the SSO

That would be Apollo 440, purveyors of slightly shit rock/dance crossover tunes such as Ain't Talking Bout Dub, under their remix nom de tune

Surely the rights on a remix remain with the remixee, rather than revert to the remixer?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:16 / 03.12.03

Interesting question there. If remixer A does a remix of a tune for Band A but which doesn't contain any direct lyrical or musical sounds from the original track (as with the SSO instrumentals, or your average Aphex Twin track) can remixer A then release that track as an original piece of work under their own name? In this case the advertisers might have gone to MSP management or possibly they've gone to A440 management. About twenty seconds in it sounds different to the original remix, so possibly A440 did a new short version for the ad which deviated from the MSP remix.

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