Scotland infiltrates American advertising
Jul. 23rd, 2006 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerI 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. :-)
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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Date: 2006-07-24 01:55 am (UTC)well i know i'm gonna be i'm gonna be the one who's haverin' wit you
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Date: 2006-07-24 02:09 am (UTC)But she's a freaking borderline witch...
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Date: 2006-07-24 02:18 am (UTC)You know who Big Country is, right?
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Date: 2006-07-24 02:25 am (UTC)And I've still never listened to U2, even after you, Nora, and Amy were each separately and severally appalled by this fact.
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Date: 2006-07-24 04:00 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-07-24 04:18 am (UTC)U2. Dude. Wake up, it's 2006.
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Date: 2006-07-24 04:27 am (UTC)*sigh*
Check your mail box.
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Date: 2006-07-24 04:31 am (UTC)Sorry Jan, like my entire world view has been shaped by growing up listening to them, so I'm just completley shocked.
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Date: 2006-07-24 08:35 am (UTC)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]
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:20 am (UTC)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...)
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:30 am (UTC)Still, when you have a back catalogue that good one poor showing is quite forgivable.
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:41 am (UTC)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. )
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:44 am (UTC)"HEED! PANTS! NOW!"
:D
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:44 am (UTC)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. :)
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Date: 2006-07-24 10:58 am (UTC)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 :)
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Date: 2006-07-24 11:54 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-07-24 12:28 pm (UTC)I think that's an excellent idea! ;-) Address available on request.
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Date: 2006-07-24 12:32 pm (UTC)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 :-(
I'll go hunting!
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Date: 2006-07-24 02:27 pm (UTC)