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I saw Iggy once headlining the Reading Festival (mind you, that must be 6 years ago or even more) and it was just pathetic. Whenever things started to slacken, he launched into this big swearing and it was so ridicolous. Especially for the German ear, since you can swear as much as you like on German TV and Radio. It´s not really radical me thinks. And after I completed my social service in an elderly peoples home I had enough stripping grandads to last me a lifetime.
Real wild child? I don´t think so.
Gruss
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if you don’t find what you are looking for, ask for itHey,
I have seen Iggy a few times as well, I think the late 80’s was the last time. I agree he is no longer a real wild child(god I hate that song!!!)but not bad for a guy of 50 or more. In regards to the swearing bit, odd that a guy who can be so articulate in interviews can present that way on stage…just don’t get it but agree it is pretty lame. You have to give Iggy his due thou, he has influenced tons of current musicians with his older stooges stuff as well as some of his earlier solo stuff….even the stuff with bowie. I was in London just before I saw Iggy in the late 80’s, saw a band called Jesus Loves Jimmy Osterburg way out in some area called Bromley by Bow. Bunch of young kids playing MC5 & Stooges covers….very badly, but still pretty cool to see the influence he had on different levels of musicians….Mascis included.
Having worked in similar settings you described I wish he would just keep his clothes on….just don’t think he can.
Allison
Bromley By Bow?
We’re all cockneys, don’t ya know.
What, prey tell, were you doing in Bromley? Shurely shum mishtake?
I saw Iggy at Reading too – nuff to put a man off smack for ever. That horrid saggy skin. Put it away man. Some things sound better on vinyl, don’t you agree? I mean, who wants to pay good money to see a 50+ year old loon run around a stage spitting lust for life? The funny thing was that most of the young crowd had absolutely no idea who he was. Best comment – I think he’s the guy who did that song from Trainspotting – Lou Reed.
Don’t know who’d be more upset – Iggy or Lou.
Hah! Now that I’ve got $100 million to splash around, I’ll be making a few improvements.Hey,
We went to Bromley to see that band Jesus loves Jimmy Osterburg…nice spin on the Jesus loves the Stooges material. Quite the ride from where we were staying in Earls Court!! Once we got off the train we thought it was a mistake…dark, bleak and rainy, had to wait for a bus to take us over this huge bridge amazing we found the club at all.
Iggy had a song on the Empire Records soundtrack…never saw the show but the song popped up on napster so thats how I found it. Not the typical Iggy but pretty good all the same, called Never Met A Girl Like You Before. Don’t know who did it originally but pretty good tune, love his voice.
Agree with the vinyl deal, he just can’t keep his clothes on….and I don’t just mean his shirt.
Allison
What??!!
You don’t mean….
tackle out!
<FONT>This message has been edited by Javro on January 24, 2001 at 09:13 AM</font>
Hey,
If Iggy came to town I would probably still check it out…even with the possibility of way too much skin. Just like his old stuff so much I would definitly risk it. Want to hear Gimme Some Skin just don’t want to see it in the flesh if you know what I mean.
Allison
Hey,
Swervedriver has had a couple of songs used in movie soundtracks. I was sure I had heard one of the songs off of 99th Dream in the horrible movie Contact, not sure which one I think I am blocking as it was such a terrible show. They also had Year of the Girl used in PCU and their version of Magic Bus used in Forces of Nature, have not seen these shows but hopefully they made a good pile of cash out of them. Apparently they are working on new material, heres hoping its a bit faster & louder than 99th Dream!!!
Allison
Speaking of cool songs on soundtracks, I simply have to tell you this story.
Some years back on the Berlin Filmfestival I watched a French film which later hit the English speaking market as The Bait. Now the film was rather boring, yet that didn´t stop the jury to award it the golden Bear. Anyway, as the story of juvenile deliquents in Paris unfolds, I hardly can keep my eyes open when suddenly during one scene I hear the oh-so-familiar sound from th´ faith healers. Namely the song Don´t Jones Me. Back then th´ faith healers were my absolute favourites (still are, in some way), but since they were such a small band from Camden, it really took me by surprise that they were on the soundtrack of this french film.
Now, during some project I did while I was at the academy (I won´t go into that now), I became aquainted with Joe Dilworth, the drummer with th´ Faith Healer, former drummer of Stereolab. As it happened, he stayed at our place in Berlin shortly after the Film Festival, and I asked him if they got any money from the film company and he said, yeah, they weren´t asked (I guess the label made the deal) but bang, there he got 2000 pounds on his acount, virtually out of the blue. I remarked, that he had been rather fortunate that they took a song where Joe was credited as co-writer cause with almost all the other songs from th´Faith Healers the royalities go exculsively to the guitarplayer Tom Cullinan.
Yeah, said Joe, and then he told me that he had written the lyrics for Don´t Jones Me. Now, if you are familiar with th´Faith Healers and Don´t Jones Me in particular, you will know, that lyrics is stretching the term a bit , cause although Don´t jones Me clocks in at over 6 minutes, the lyrics consist mainly of Roxanne singing Don´t Jones Me over and over again (brilliant song nevertheless).
Now, some months later, while I was staying at Joes flat in London, I taped some of his records cause I was rather skint at the time, and a few of them where out of print anyway. Thus I came across a record from Pussy Galore. The one with the mock Spanish Rock Star cover, and while I jotted down the titles on the little tape inlet, I noticed that there was a song called Don´t Jones Me. This is really strange I volunteered to Joe, I didn´t know, that Pussy Galore already had a song with this title. Joe looked at me sheepishly and said: "Come on, don´t tell me you really thought I wrote the whole thing myself, I´m a drummer for Gods sake."
Some people
Gruss
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if you don’t find what you are looking for, ask for itHey,
Your right that is a pretty cool song, glad the guy made some cash out of that one…odd though. Drummers are definitely a different breed, but thats a good thing nothing worse than predictable.
In the Nicolas Cage movie Waking the Dead they had some pretty cool tunes by The Clash and Johnny Thunders, definitely nice to hear that. Iggy had a role in a John Waters film Cry Baby, he played a hillbilly last I saw before we turned it off was Iggy sitting in a pail saying "I’m buck naked"…..god.
Allison
PS If you like John Waters films try Polyester which features Stiv Bators from the Dead Boys….recently tried to watch Cecil B Demented that was painful!!!
Hey,
Got stuck in a horrible beige & yellow hallway downtown this afternoon waiting for someone….painful experience. I couldn’t believe it all of a sudden Just Like Heaven comes on…elevator music style. Odd but definitely made the wait a lot easier. I think I also heard a Kiss song can’t be sure but I think it was Sure Know Something, gotta love that.
Allison
I live in Mexico city and a Morphine song from the album LIKE SWIMMING, is used for a coffee commercial.
I’ve always thought that the song MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL by Hüsker Du sounds like a commercial itself.
"At the end, I went to jail & got executed just because I didn’t cried at my mother’s funeral."
Albert CamusThe music in commercials debate is something I`m split on.It is blasphemy to see a good song used to sell something yet some of these artists never made much money on them plus it exposes the tunes to people that would not have heard them.
Buffalo Tom`s Soda Jerk has been in at least 3 ads.Why that many I don`t know,but they`re like America`s most underated band so maybe to see a little attention is`nt too bad.
They used a Mingus tune in a car ad?Mingus would problably have smashed his TV!There`s a chandlier in a NYC jazz club that Mingus put his fist through!They call it the Mingus Light!
As I mentioned in the dream line-up Paul Stanley from Kiss is going to do a Folger`s coffee ad,this might be seen as cheesy as when Gene Simmons was on "who wants to be a millionaire"but maybe some one else may not think so.
I don`t know,I`m kind of undecided on the issue but there`s more songs than ever being used and I hope it does`nt get out of hand.Hey,
I know this is an old thread but recently caught a couple of commercials with some interesting tunes… [img]images/smiles/converted/eek.gif[/img]
Miller Genuine Draft…I’m a Believer…by the Monkees…the lite version of this beer is heaven in a bottle…every now and then
Some Insurance Company…Daydream Believer by the Monkees
Nike…I think…Girls by Iggy off of New Values, ad features Anna Kournikova
Labatts Blue used Passenger and Lust for Life by Iggy
Cereal commercial..vive???,,,Lust for Life by Iggy again
Heres hoping Paul Stanley wears the make up for his commercial…works for me [img]images/smiles/converted/cwm12.gif[/img]
Allison
Actually, I recently saw a beer commercial that used Guaglione from Perez Prado for the soundtrack. It´s such a great song and the commercial was quite funny, so nothing wrong with that. Really, commercials are not all that bad; they are one of the foundations of capitalism, and therefore one of the pillars of democracy, and can there be something more revarding than contributing to Freedom, Egalité and Fraternity?!
Although, I`m willing to have a small bet that Jello Biafra would disagree.
gruss
dthat lemonheads song was "into your arms" and it was for ftd florists. also, they had a forum on this topic(using music for the promotion of consumer products) on national public radio, and this song played during the intro. i thought that was pretty cool.
also, the mazzy star tune "fade into me" is being used in a diet coke commercial. damn, that’s a great song.
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