From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #67 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, March 16 2007 Volume 07 : Number 067 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Jam In A Caddy [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Jam In A Caddy [2fs ] Re: [loud-fans] Jam In A Caddy [CertronC90@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:01:24 EDT From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jam In A Caddy In a message dated 3/14/2007 9:16:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, glarbleflarb@yahoo.com writes: Just saw a Cadillac commercial that used The Jam's "Start" in the soundtrack; the only lyric fragments used were "if I never ever see you" and "and what you give is what you get". Funny. Not as funny as when Nissan used "How Soon Is Now?" in one of their commercials though, and not as head-scratching as the Violent Femmes in a Wendy's commercial. But funny. I wonder how many potential buyers would even recognize the Jam song. They were obscure in the US. I saw that Wendy's commercial on the tv at the coffee bar, and I was wondering why on that one too. Needless to say, it's doubtful you'll ever hear the title track from MEAT IS MURDER in a Wendy's commmercial. - --Mark


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AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:07:28 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jam In A Caddy On 3/15/07, CertronC90@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 3/14/2007 9:16:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > glarbleflarb@yahoo.com writes: > > Just saw a Cadillac commercial that used The Jam's "Start" > > > I wonder how many potential buyers would even recognize the Jam song. > They > were obscure in the US. > > > Needless to say, it's doubtful you'll ever hear the title track from > MEAT IS > MURDER in a Wendy's commmercial. Well, the point isn't to have viewers recognize the song (otherwise they'd only use hits), it's to suit the mood the ad's trying to convey. In other words, if someone felt that "Meat Is Murder" (an instrumental passage, most likely) suited the mood they wanted to get across in a Wendy's commercial, they'd try to use it. One would hope Morrissey & Marr wouldn't give permission. Although Mike Joyce probably would, so long as they paid him. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:03:22 EDT From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jam In A Caddy In a message dated 3/15/2007 11:10:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: Well, the point isn't to have viewers recognize the song (otherwise they'd only use hits), it's to suit the mood the ad's trying to convey. I suppose you're right, like back in the mid-'90s when VW used an Ivy track in a Cabriolet commercial ("isn't it beautiful..."), but I would hope that Cadlllac division would do their homework on their target market and see what they're listening to, and use that music to make a stronger connection with their potential customers. I know that Chevrolet has wanted to know everything short of my rate of intercourse in several surveys they've sent me since I bought my Cavalier. I don't see Paul Weller's quasi-Socialist Jam material fitting to use in a Cadillac commercial. I think it's a dumb choice--"what you give is what you get"--Cadillacs are not a good value, and you don't get a good return on your high $$ spent. Who has the rights to that material? Weller? I would like to think he'd cringe, but he did have The Style Council, and they were all about going to "Our Favorite Shop" and looking like the kings of Bond Street, so maybe it's fitting after all.. The Cappucino Kid needs money to stay in cappucino. In other words, if someone felt that "Meat Is Murder" (an instrumental passage, most likely) suited the mood they wanted to get across in a Wendy's commercial, they'd try to use it. It's not an instrumental--it has lines like, "the meat in your mouth as you savor the flavor of murder." Also, the sound of the slaughterhouse cutting blades in the track are a nice touch as well, leaving the listener with a bit of carnivorous guilt. One would hope Morrissey & Marr wouldn't give permission. Although Mike Joyce probably would, so long as they paid him. It's always us drummers, isn't it? Ringo probably introduced John to Yoko. Sound Affects, - --Mark "Look, Allen Ginsberg is dry humping Ringo!" (Joanna Lumley as Patsy, from an ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS 1960's party flashback scene) ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #67 ******************************