Oh God, it has happened. Imagine by shock and Horror at seeing, and more importantly HEARING, my favourite piece of music, namely She Sells Sanctuary by the Cult in a TV advert, and not just a normal, crappy advert for shite you don't need but William Hill bookies! I mean a What-the-actual-F**K?! What a sell out. Who made that decision? Who allowed or approved that? Is nothing sacred anymore? Why, at no point in that meeting did somebody, anybody with a modicum of taste, musical appreciation, cultural sensitivity or even a pulse stand up and say NO, This is MADNESS!!! They must pay, we must identify them, out them, pour scorn on them, bring down hells vengeance upon their pea-heid. Shower them in opprobrium, make them wear sack cloth, pull their teeth, split their tongue; make them bow before the altar of the Rock Gods and beg forgiveness...pour encourage les autre you understand. Better still bring them bound and gagged to Chez-bonkers-Le-Chein as I have a special gold plated meat hook with 24 jewel, Swiss movement reserved just for them in my basement of pain. Make it so. Thank you for your attention in this matter. BTD
Holy monkey raping blow fish! Their at it again. I've just seen a tesco advert using New Order's Blue Monday, an iconic track. What is wrong with that fucking picture?!
I would suppose the writers of the bubblegum rock song allowed this. Unless they sold the rights to a third party. Same for Blue Monday, money talks or in this case sings.
Bubble gum rock?! I've jailed people for less! That's the only think I can think of, they've sold their back catalogues to some demon company who have no morals, decency, respect or class.
Your age. The advert is bringing classic British pop to a new generation which isn’t a bad thing IMO. Andy
I'm working on it, just stay there whilst I do up my velcro shoes and get the stick out, I'll give the young wippersnapper a good thrashing.
Heard 'golden slumbers' by the Beatles on an ad the other day, didnt notice what it was for, but it must have cost them a fortune ...i remember 'Tomorrow never knows' also by the Beatles on an episode of 'Mad Men' and it reportedly cost them $250k.
We’re going to have to get used to it. With the amount of money available to artists for the rights to their back catalogue, coupled with the reduction in physical sales royalties, hearing your favourite tracks bastardised by the highest bidder will become a daily occurrence. Artistic integrity or a few hundred million? I’m not sure I blame them.
Sure I heard Blue Monday coming from an advert on the Telly in the lounge whilst I was in the kitchen making dinner last night.
