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Classic bands sell out

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Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything, used in a Nissan commercial I believe
Mogwai - Summer, used in a Levi's commercial

Doesn't really matter, it just sucks that songs from two of my favorite bands are being used to sell Nissan's and Levi's. 😛
 
Have you seen the new Starbucks commercial?

I honestly have to change the channel every time it comes on.

Although I would not say that Survivor was ever really a great band anyway, soooo...
 
Don't forget The Who's "Bargain," was used in a Nissan(?) ad.
And the Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar" for those Kahlua Mudslide ads a while back.
The Ramones song in the Cingular ad I think was Blitzkrieg Bop.
 
Not quite on the same level, but another ad that ruined a perfectly decent song was STP - Wicked Garden in the Nissan Frontier ads a couple years ago.
 
Doors sold out a long time ago (talking about counter-culture bands from the 60s).

Devo is in a new commerical (Mitsu, I think?)

edit: and Iggy Pop, the "godfather of punk", has sold out "Lust for Life" a gazillion times over while we're on the subject.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Doors sold out a long time ago (talking about counter-culture bands from the 60s).

Devo is in a new commerical (Mitsu, I think?)

edit: and Iggy Pop, the "godfather of punk", has sold out "Lust for Life" a gazillion times over while we're on the subject.
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The Stooges - Search and Destroy was also used in an ad, I forget what it was for -- shoes or gatorade or something. Iggy has mortgage payments too. 😉
 
Stereolab was in a VW ad a while back

Air has been in a few ads including a new Nissan ad i just heard the other day.

Modest Mouse was in a car ad; but thats been mentioned.

I dont really have a problem with it, I saw something were Moby was defending his 'selling out' he said 'if I dont sell them my song, they will just make a song that sounds exactly like it and I wont get anything.'
 
Originally posted by: gistech1978
Stereolab was in a VW ad a while back

Air has been in a few ads including a new Nissan ad i just heard the other day.

Modest Mouse was in a car ad; but thats been mentioned.

I dont really have a problem with it, I saw something were Moby was defending his 'selling out' he said 'if I dont sell them my song, they will just make a song that sounds exactly like it and I wont get anything.'
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It depends on the ad and how often it's played, imo. Sometimes it doesn't bother me -- the Caddy ads with Led Zep - Rock n' Roll bug the hell out of me and have made me dislike the song.

An example of one that didn't really bother me too much would be Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? for MSN ads (which would be another song no one has mentioned).
 
Originally posted by: Beau
So if some large company came along and offered you boockoo bucks for a song you wrote, you wouldn't take it?

I'm so sick of people accusing artists of "selling out" :disgust: Seriously... if they didn't want to make money with their music, they would never have made a record. Selling muisic and rights to music is what they do....
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I am interested in getting a list of Song titles.

As far as the phrase "sell out," while a pergorative, it is appropriate.
When I use the term, you understand what I am saying.
Are the forums so PC now, that I have use the phrase "Classic Rock bands engaging in new non-traditional earning techiques"

And how anyone can miss the fact that the bands selling out, are the ones who made it an issue and used the term "sell out."
I thought that was clear when I put a link in my first post to the Who album entitled, "The Who Sell Out."
That is certainly unarguably ironic.
 
Originally posted by: Beau
So if some large company came along and offered you boockoo bucks for a song you wrote, you wouldn't take it?

I'm so sick of people accusing artists of "selling out" :disgust: Seriously... if they didn't want to make money with their music, they would never have made a record. Selling muisic and rights to music is what they do....
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No, you missed part of my post.
You see, the Who made a huge deal about not selling out.
They made an album in 1967 entitled, "The Who Sell Out."
It was made to sound like a radio show complete with announcers, songs, and fake adds.
 
Originally posted by: glen
Originally posted by: Beau
So if some large company came along and offered you boockoo bucks for a song you wrote, you wouldn't take it?

I'm so sick of people accusing artists of "selling out" :disgust: Seriously... if they didn't want to make money with their music, they would never have made a record. Selling muisic and rights to music is what they do....
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No, you missed part of my post.
You see, the Who made a huge deal about not selling out.
They made an album in 1967 entitled, "The Who Sell Out."
It was made to sound like a radio show complete with announcers, songs, and fake adds.
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Well they also hoped to die before they got old and for 3 of them that didn't happen!
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Well they also hoped to die before they got old and for 3 of them that didn't happen!
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Yeah. Can you imagine in the 70's if someone said. "In 2,000 Mick and the boys will be selling Coca Cola and computers, Paige and Plant are going to be selling Cadillacs, and Townsend is selling sinus meds and cars." It would be unbelievable.
 
I might be wrong, but when you sign a record contract, I believe you (usually) sign away to the record company your right to license songs. I don't think most of these bands have a say on what commercials their songs appear on.
 
Originally posted by: CptObvious
I might be wrong, but when you sign a record contract, I believe you (usually) sign away to the record company your right to license songs. I don't think most of these bands have a say on what commercials their songs appear on.
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I think you're wrong. The artist typically retains rights to their songs (although there are probably plenty of crappy contracts that have screwed bands out of this). One example would be the surviving family of Johnny Cash rejecting a request to have Ring of Fire used in a hemmorhoid medication ad.
 
Creedence Clearwater Revival ruined their greatest song (Fortunate Son) by letting is be used in a Wrangler's jeans commercial... a commercial that had a very pro-American theme, ironically.
 
didnt pete townshend get caught with child porno a little while back? if so, interesting photochop possiblities for commercials
 
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