It's true folks. The new Cadillac commercial uses Sunny Side of the Street. The end of the world is certainly near now. I'm going to cry.
Believe me, I made a thoughtful comment to them. It wasn't vicious, I just told them it sucks for those of us that really care about music to hear songs that mean so much being used to pimp crap like that.
www.cadillac.com/cadillacj...sement.jsp
Believe me, I made a thoughtful comment to them. It wasn't vicious, I just told them it sucks for those of us that really care about music to hear songs that mean so much being used to pimp crap like that.
www.cadillac.com/cadillacj...sement.jsp
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Re: For F**K sake, not The Pogues music in a commercial!!!!!
Mon, February 26, 2007 - 9:08 AMNot sure why you're surprised... Shane Macgowan's version of "My Way" was used in a Nike commerical years back. As much as I hate to see anyone sell out... but you've got to make your money where you can. At least they didn't sell out when they were young and still had ideals... it's not like Lenny Kravitz who's Fly Away was in a commercial as soon as it hit the airways. I say "good for Shane"... he's got some pretty expensive habits to maintain. :D -
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Re: For F**K sake, not The Pogues music in a commercial!!!!!
Mon, February 26, 2007 - 9:10 AMOh and... "Lorca's Novena" is part of the "Grosse Point Blank" soundtrack. It's used in the movie when Minnie Driver's dad was about to be assassinated. -
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Re: For F**K sake, not The Pogues music in a commercial!!!!!
Mon, February 26, 2007 - 3:29 PMI hate to see/hear it as much as anyone, but at least it was only "Sunny Side of the Street" -- I never much cared for that song anyway.
Now, if it had been "Boys from the County Hell" or "Sick Bed of Cuchulainn" or "Dark Streets of London," then there would be serious reason to go storming into some corporate offices and take some heads (to the strains of "Transmetropolitan," of course!)....
I personally think there are plenty of opportunities to use Pogues songs for commercials in far more appropriate ways. Cadillac?!? Hardly. How about using "Streams of Whiskey" for a Powers commercial? Or, even better, "The Old Main Drag" for a British Airways ad? I bet the tourists would come a-runnin' to get a "quick one off the wrist" for a mere 5 quid!
Anyway, I hope Shane's using his blood money for good purposes. Like those new teeth he's been talking about. Then maybe we'd be able to understand his lyrics a bit better in concert these days.
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Re: For F**K sake, not The Pogues music in a commercial!!!!!
Mon, February 26, 2007 - 7:26 PMI always thought the My Way was actually Johnny Lydon selling the Sex Pistols/Sid V version, which I far more expected than the Pogues. Though after the last tour seeing the cost of merch, I am certainly not surprised what anyone is doing with their songs these days. It's all about money unless you are bands like Fugazi.
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Re: For F**K sake, not The Pogues music in a commercial!!!!!
Mon, February 26, 2007 - 11:41 PMHa! He was sporting his new choppers when I saw him at the Fillmore in October. Spider Stacy was kind of a human version of closed captioning... but sometimes even he had no idea what Shane just said. But actually... I thought the same thing about Sunny Side of the Street, really never screamed Pogues.
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Re: For F**K sake, not The Pogues music in a commercial!!!!!
Wed, February 28, 2007 - 6:10 PMI'm assuming they only used the chorus part...
the rest of the song is too fearfully awesome for the likes of they...
although I'll admit that if their sales pitch did involve a heartful of hate and a lust for vomit, I would certainly consider stealing one.
'as my mother wept it was then I swore,
to take my life like I would a whore.'
...is just what people who drive cadillacs should do.
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Re: For F**K sake, not The Pogues music in a commercial!!!!!
Sun, July 22, 2007 - 8:04 PMIt does bum me out, but I also wonder if the people who created the commercial are actually laughing their asses off because they slipped in a Pogues song and the executives don't have a clue. I mean, the directors are probably our age and this is their music.
I'm probably being nieve. Still, its a nice fantasy.
