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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 19:26 Post subject: WUB! |
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Did I imagine hearing
Wake Up Boo!
- not a soundalike, but the real thing - on a furniture advert on television last night? |
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bravecaptain
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 859
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 21:46 Post subject: |
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i like furniture.
lamps. yum x |
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gillworm
Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 22:46 Post subject: |
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I heard it on an ad for carribean holidays last night. no furniture in sight. _________________ (and gillworm! she's so funny!) |
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 22:52 Post subject: |
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maybe I was thinking of the furniture ad that used a soundalike before
now you mention it, I think it was for R*yal C*ribbean H*lidays
I'd imagine someone on here would know, anyway...
~burns his Boo Radleys mp3s~
~now has a great Boos compilaton~ |
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bravecaptain
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 859
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 23:04 Post subject: |
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i like holidays
blackpool. yum x |
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John Mc
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 01:43 Post subject: |
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writing songs for ads, or in the hope someone would pick a song up for an ad, surely isn't a recent thing
look at Blur's
The Great Escape
album... it was like a campaign to be picked up by the Lottery people.
it could be you...?
yes, it really, really, really, could happen...?
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Tommy Tynans Lovechild
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 854 Location: People's Republic Of BS4 (Though always PL2 4Ever)
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 13:29 Post subject: |
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Good article by the akira man. Everyone has to earn their money and everyone needs somewhere to bank it. Those 2 things are pretty unavoidable and 90% of the population don't really have a choice in what they do. I've always figured as long as it was legal, it didn't matter even if it meant working for nestle, same with banking as they've all got questionable investment areas. All we have power of is how we spend our cash and as long as yer boycott what yer can (if thats your inclantion)and spend the rest as ethically affordable/possible that's all yer can do.
Besides having heard them rip off WUB's through links to this site, i'd rather the man himself was getting the cash for his tunes and not some rip off merchant.
x _________________ Britain... It's not that Great! |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 18:52 Post subject: |
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discoRdance wrote: |
writing songs for ads, or in the hope someone would pick a song up for an ad, surely isn't a recent thing
look at Blur's
The Great Escape
album... it was like a campaign to be picked up by the Lottery people.
it could be you...?
yes, it really, really, really, could happen...?
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But that was sarcasm wasn't it? Wasn't it (suddenly worried I've been labouring under a delusion for the last ten years)? _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 07:59 Post subject: |
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I doubt companies care about context or any of that stuff, as long as the lyric works for their product!
I wonder if C*ca-C*la were planning on using the "I'm a minger..." line from SFA's
Hello Sunshine
or what... |
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Tommy BOO
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:14 Post subject: |
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discoRdance wrote: |
I wonder if C*ca-C*la were planning on using the "I'm a minger..." line from SFA's
Hello Sunshine
or what... |
Yes that's right... I've heard from a reliable source that C*ca-C*la C*mpany had been planning to launch a new product called Mingin' Cola.
I'm a minger, You're a minger too... if you drink Mingin' Cola!
_________________
"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius"
-BC
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 09:04 Post subject: |
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I like lamps too. L&P _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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CranesAreFlying
Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 247 Location: Boston
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 07:09 Post subject: I don't |
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I don't have a problem with any of this stuff anymore.
record sales are down, the major labels are all floundering and wasting their resources suing fans. Indie labels? well, vinyl sales are up a bit...
Bottom line is, well, there has to be a bottom line. good music still has value, but that value is not currently translating into record sales. I'm pretty sure any band smaller than say, The Killers, is worried about making rent and gas money for the van. artists have to make money somehow, and right now there are not many options outside of selling rights for advertising.
eventually the code will be cracked and there will be a more palatable business model for artists, but it doesn't exist yet. all this is stopgap survival shit. people need to eat. even pop musicians.
Right now, musicians have an offer they can't refuse: either give away your music, or it will be taken from you anyways. at the same time, you can't really blame the listener, or can you? Kudos to Martin for giving a new idea a shot with the bandstocks thing. _________________ "Even I know the solution: love, music, wine and revolution..." (magnetic fields)
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discoRdance
Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 1183 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:50 Post subject: *nods* |
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looks like Lee Mavers likes lamps, too
and Supergrass also like holidays! |
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Dubya - T
Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 559 Location: Floatin' down the greasy grass river
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 00:10 Post subject: |
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Well,
Martin did announce a couple of years ago that Wake Up Boo was available to anyone who wanted it..... it's taken a while! Fair play to you!
One is always very principled and precious about things when one is young. As one grows older one realises that it all means nothing and that resistance is indeed futile. Go against the grain and you will get splinters....
When all is said and done, who would anyone really be showing by refusing to accept some money for what is probably not the greatest and most meaningful song ever written. Arguably one of the catchiest, however! _________________ We would like to announce that due to cutbacks the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off..... |
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