Scotland infiltrates American advertising

[winterbadger]

I just caught a clip of The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a Visa commercial on FX. It used about half of the chorus, but the hint of a Scots voice is all I need to go haring off to Google...

I've never heard of them before, so many thanks to Visa for introducing me to them. More about them from Wikipedia. OK, so they've been around for 20 years, and I'm just learning about them. This is par for the course for me and music. :-)

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[didotwite]

and when i haver

well i know i'm gonna be i'm gonna be the one who's haverin' wit you

[azbound.livejournal.com]

That's ok - my SIL had no idea who Dave Matthews Band were. None at all.

But she's a freaking borderline witch...

[winterbadger]

Remember I'd never heard of them until you made me that CD.

And I've still never listened to U2, even after you, Nora, and Amy were each separately and severally appalled by this fact.

[azbound.livejournal.com]

Ok. It is now time for an intervention.

U2. Dude. Wake up, it's 2006.

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

WHAT?!!!??!!! You must be joking?! Ok, this is a SERIOUS problem, that is my favorite band ever!

*sigh*

Check your mail box.

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

How's that box you're living in? ;)

I'm serious, though--how does one go through life without hearing U2?? Even if it's on like, the radio in the grocery store or your doctor's office? My mind is blown. )

[winterbadger]

Well, yes, I've heard some of their stuff as background noise, but I don't count that.

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. :)

[pusscat.livejournal.com]

That's okay, that's about all it's good for anyway.

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is a classic song, an old fave.

You know who Big Country is, right?

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Umm... and Simple Minds?

[winterbadger]

Nope. :-)

[kfitzwarin.livejournal.com]

Apparently we all have to make CDs and send them over, 'cause *SOMEONE* has missed out on all the music of the last 25 years....

[winterbadger]

*raises hand* that would probably be me, at least. :-)

Most of my listening in the last 20 years has consisted of a slowly expanding pool of celtic rock and folk-rock, traditional British folk, modern folk, musicals, and a few artists I either listend to in high school and had forgotten about or listened to when my sisters were growing up in the 60s and 70s. Occasional jazz, blues, and swing, but that's mostly totally random. And every once in a while something new that I stumble across.

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

Definitely calls for an intervention. When I'm home and the postage isn't ridiculous, I'm sending you a mix CD.

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

I know... Big Country and Simple Minds were bad enough, but I'm FLOORED by the U2!!

Sorry Jan, like my entire world view has been shaped by growing up listening to them, so I'm just completley shocked.

[winterbadger]

I've heard of them; I think a friend loaned me a CD at one point, but they didn't really get me excited.

[silme.livejournal.com]

So, there's at least one Mike Myers film you've not seen also. :)

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly my favorite one, as well!

"HEED! PANTS! NOW!"

:D

[winterbadger]

I've seen it (once), but somehow didn't notice the song then. Not sure why.

I liked Shrek quite a bit, and I'm very fond of So I Married An Axe Murderer. Can't *stand* Austin Powers, though, and never found Wayne's World very funny.

[silme.livejournal.com]

It's only played in it at least twenty times! ;)

[winterbadger]

:-) I can be very oblivious sometimes. :-)

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

I first saw The Proclaimers on Top OF The Pops as a child. My mother and I were so amused by those *unbelievable* twats we recorded most of the performance to show everyone else.

after 5 viewings we actually started to like it.

two days later that song hit Number 1. 6 months after that, they hit the US and their first million. They have never looked back.


my favourite U2 tracks are Who's Gonna Your Wild Horses from Achtung Baby and Desire from Rattle and Hum.

I have no particular like for Simple Minds or Big Country, but I adore Primal Scream [Vanishing Point and XTRMNTR especially]

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

It's a catchy tune.

I've been listening to U2 since I was about 10 (so the beginning, almost), and I have to say that Achtung Baby is my favorite album, it's just brilliant from beginning to end.

If you put a gun to my head and forced me to pick a favorite U2 song, it would be Ultraviolet. But there really are too many to pick (Bad, 40, The Unforgettable Fire, New Years Day, Electrical Storm, their version of Night and Day, In God's Country, Stay, the list goes on and on, really...)

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

Yup. Makes it all the more of a pity that the most recent CD sucked.


Still, when you have a back catalogue that good one poor showing is quite forgivable.

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoyed the last one quite a bit! It grows on you...

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

*many* things may grow on you

elsewhere I just discovered Sepulturas new cd, 'Dante XXI', is brilliant. This is worth mentioning as I haven't liked any of their Derek Green era stuff 'til now :)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I like a few Proclaimers songs but they're a bit hit and miss... oh, you *have* encountered Deacon Blue I hope? And early Runrig? Having been a huge U2 fan since 1987 I'm a bit boggled you're not familiar with their songs either!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Oh and if we're staying Scottish, Marillion? (with Fish as frontman, not the new one). And Fairground Attraction/Eddi Reader? The latter's Songs of Robert Burns is a delight :)

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Hey! My boyfriend just introduced me to Marillion!! Fantastic!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

A man of good taste, clearly :)

[winterbadger]

I have a lot to learn, clearly. :-)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

*grin* everybody should get busy with yousendit, or you should call for people to burn & send you cool mix cds of the artists we're recommending! :)

[winterbadger]

...or you should call for people to burn & send you cool mix cds of the artists we're recommending! :)

I think that's an excellent idea! ;-) Address available on request.

(astartesyriaca has a head start; she's been quietly feeding me tracks for a while now, trying to bring me out of the Dark Ages...)

[winterbadger]

Sorry, the only Deacon Blue I know about is the Steely Dan song. :-) And I've *heard of* Runrig, but I've not listened to them (yet).

[rethought.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for the rest of Scotland, but they are everyone's favorite band here in Aberdeen. They played a set for Hogmany and everyone was jumping up and down for '500 Miles'. Grannies, wee weans, teenagers, everybody.

There's loads of good stuff that I think gets over looked if you're in one genre or another most times. I'm generally a classical gal, so I catch things that Tom brings home or I hear on movie/tv soundtracks. Scrubs is a good one for new music.

People that seem to like Marillion, also seem to like No-Man, Porcupine Tree, and Perfect Circle. The Marillion song you should look for it 'She's got a map of the world'. Fantastic. :)

[winterbadger]

I can't speak for the rest of Scotland, but they are everyone's favorite band here in Aberdeen. They played a set for Hogmany and everyone was jumping up and down for '500 Miles'. Grannies, wee weans, teenagers, everybody.

It's a wonderful song! I can't believe I spent an entire movie (apparently) being oblivious to it. :-)

Scrubs is a good one for new music.

I actually liked a lot of the small bands that played on Buffy. But most of them were so small that it took the producers putting out a compliation CD before one could hear them again. And I occasioanlly pick up new artists from movies (except that I hit a long period of not goign to the movies much :-(

People that seem to like Marillion, also seem to like No-Man, Porcupine Tree, and Perfect Circle. The Marillion song you should look for it 'She's got a map of the world'. Fantastic. :)

I'll go hunting!

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

For reasons understandable, that's one of Anthony's and my "songs". We dominated the dancefloor at his sister's wedding when it came on, and everyone understood why. . . ;)