Things That Annoy You

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

They did, until we realized we could watch porn on them.  Since then, they've gotten progressively larger.  True story.

The smallest phone I ever saw in person was in Hong Kong in 2006.  It measured about 5cm long, 2cm wide, and a cm thick.  It came with an itty bitty stylus to press the buttons, although the manufacturer intended that people would use voice commands to operate it.

I'll just put this here, circa 2004.


CORNER GAS - Smashdown "Cell Phone"

[Harmness]

     Thanks again...positive attention makes me redder than Boris Yeltsin after a weekend w/o SPF in Sochi.

Eat shit, ya goofy mick.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

         I guess Jimmy Page needed more money. Fuckin' "Immigrant Song" used in a commercial.

I just heard the Sex Pistols' version of "My Way" used as background music in a car commercial. 

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

I'll just put this here, circa 2004.

That was excellent.  Thanks!

[Eddie Coyle]

Eat shit, ya goofy mick.

    Now you're playing my tune.

I just heard the Sex Pistols' version of "My Way" used as background music in a car commercial. 

      Ugh=I heard about this. Though I'm fairly certain it's the first song with a lyric of "You cunt, I'm not a queer" and a passage about killing cats to ever be used to sell cars.

[UnscreenedCaller]

I just heard the Sex Pistols' version of "My Way" used as background music in a car commercial.

Goddamn fuck. 

[HorrorRetro]

Goddamn fuck. 

Nothing's sacred anymore. 

[Unquenchable Angst]

Raisin Bran commercial with CCRevival~~~~~~
Easier money I guess than touring in your late 60's-70's

[Bart Ell]

Nothing's sacred anymore. 

My Way was Sid.
Sid would have blown a dog for $20.

[Eddie Coyle]

     When your ex Mother in law gets on "The Facebook" and posts pictures of you.

     There's one from Thanksgiving 2002. Splayed out on a couch, where I look like the landlord from "Alice, Sweet Alice".

      There's another of me clearly distracted, staring at something. I feel like signing up for Facebook to just merely reply "that's me, admiring Melissa's ass". She was my sister in law.

[Little Hater]

Just saw a cat food TV commercial which referred to pet owners as "cat parents'. Creepy.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Bottled water that tastes more gross than my chlorinated and leaded tap water.

[bateman]

Bottled water that tastes more gross than my chlorinated and leaded tap water.

See: Evian.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

There was an episode of Bullshit! by Penn and Teller where they hired an actor to play a waiter in a fancy restaurant.  He brings out a "wine list" of their premium bottled waters.  Every item on the list has some fabulous story, like it is captured from a sparkling pond that is fed from the dew of ancient redwoods, trickling down through gold-infused pristine sand that filters it to perfection, etc etc.  The couple at the table decide to make a night of it and work their way through the whole list.  When they finish one "vintage," the "waiter" goes out in the back and fills the bottle from a garden hose and repeats.

See: Evian.

Spelled backwards is "naive."

[zeebo]

         I guess Jimmy Page needed more money. Fuckin' "Immigrant Song" used in a commercial.

I believe that copywright law should be changed such that once you've sold a song to the public, you cannot resell it to some friggin ad agency.  I mean these songs become ours in some fashion, and should be protected from this kind of shameless exploitation.

And one more thing - If you wanna write jingles, then friggin write jingles, but you don't get to be a rock star too! 

[Eddie Coyle]

I believe that copywright law should be changed such that once you've sold a song to the public, you cannot resell it to some friggin ad agency.  I mean these songs become ours in some fashion, and should be protected from this kind of shameless exploitation.

And one more thing - If you wanna write jingles, then friggin write jingles, but you don't get to be a rock star too!

    I'm probably an outlier in terms of negativity, but the annoyance I feel when hearing "classic" songs to sell utter shit is pathological. I understand using "Midnight Rider" to sell motorcycles(despite the delicious irony) and such...but  "Immigrant Song" for some damn video game. Ugh.

       Conversely, I despised Jackson Browne as a kid. But the use of "Late For The Sky" in Taxi Driver made me grudgingly accept that he may not suck. So established songs in film I think can be wildly effective. But I've never bought any item in a commercial because of the tune they were playing.

[zeebo]

...So established songs in film I think can be wildly effective. But I've never bought any item in a commercial because of the tune they were playing.

Yes I agree, I'm ok with them in film - even though often great songs are wasted on dumb movies - because movies are still a kind of art. 

But to sell friggin Pepsi?  Nope. If jingles thoust make, a jingler thoust are!

[PB the Deplorable]

Aren't most of these songs owned by corporations in the music industry? 

It used to be nearly all were, not sure about newer ones. 

When that's the case, the original bands have no say over the matter

[PB the Deplorable]

Neil Young won't be singing for Pepsi..  (This Note's for You starts about 50 seconds into the video)


This Note's For You (Video)

[zeebo]

Neil Young won't be singing for Pepsi....

Yep I think we're safe from ever hearing "Cinnamon Girl" for a Cinnabon ad.   

[Eddie Coyle]

Yes I agree, I'm ok with them in film - even though often great songs are wasted on dumb movies - because movies are still a kind of art. 

But to sell friggin Pepsi?  Nope. If jingles thoust make, a jingler thoust are!

    Jingle writers are to music, what E Coli is to a restaurant.

    Popular music in film is a fine line, Scorcese made great strides with it with "Mean Streets" mastered it with "Goodfellas", but even he began to struggle circa "Casino" by overdoing it. And in the wrong hands...hey is that "Bad to the Bone" for the 7 millionth time?

[George Drooly]

Neil Young won't be singing for Pepsi..  (This Note's for You starts about 50 seconds into the video)

Yeah but he doesn't mind begging (and getting millions) on Kickstarter, so he's as much a tool as any other Boomer.

[George Drooly]

    Jingle writers are to music, what E Coli is to a restaurant.

    Popular music in film is a fine line, Scorcese made great strides with it with "Mean Streets" mastered it with "Goodfellas", but even he began to struggle circa "Casino" by overdoing it. And in the wrong hands...hey is that "Bad to the Bone" for the 7 millionth time?

Scorsese has been total douche the last 25 years. He's more of an Oscar-baiter than Spielberg. It's embarrassing.

[onan]

       Conversely, I despised Jackson Browne as a kid. But the use of "Late For The Sky" in Taxi Driver made me grudgingly accept that he may not suck. So established songs in film I think can be wildly effective. But I've never bought any item in a commercial because of the tune they were playing.

Go with your youthful instincts.

[Eddie Coyle]

Scorsese has been total douche the last 25 years. He's more of an Oscar-baiter than Spielberg. It's embarrassing.

    Agreed and he's seeking box office gold as well. Keep casting DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz etc...

   

Go with your youthful instincts.

       I need to do that. Child has become a deadbeat dad to this man.

[eddie dean]

Aren't most of these songs owned by corporations in the music industry? 

It used to be nearly all were, not sure about newer ones. 

When that's the case, the original bands have no say over the matter

Indeed. Usually the record company owns part or all of the copyright on the master recording. It also depends on the artists and/or song writers contract terms and publishing rights.

[aldousburbank]

Yeah but he doesn't mind begging (and getting millions) on Kickstarter, so he's as much a tool as any other Boomer.

Lay off The Neil dude. I gots his back.

[eyenoeyeno]

People who let their dogs bark, and bark, and bark, for no reason.

I prefer the baying of hounds.

[aldousburbank]

I prefer the baying of hounds.

Hounds always bay with good reason.

[George Drooly]

Lay off The Neil dude. I gots his back.

Love his work, own it all including Archives and bootlegs like Chrome Dreams... I can still hate him for being a clueless millionaire. The rich should always be held in disdain when they open their whore mouths.