Last Ditch Defense
Adjunct fellow Kevin Maroney e-mails about this morning’s item on Clash songs in commercials:
Before you neener too neenerly, you should ask yourself if Strummer and Jones control their songs enough to have any say in whether they get sold to commercials. They probably do, but it’s far from a certain thing.
This is at least possible. Unqualified Offerings put in some time this evening doing Google searches for possible statements by Strummer or Jones about their art being prostituted against their will. Can’t find any, though Donald Rumsfeld would want to point out that that doesn’t mean there isn’t any. If any loyal reader can offer a definitive settlement of the issue, they will receive a public expression of gratitude - and get to see a snarky weblogger eat crow on his own site.
That’s a quasi-contest. Here’s another: Which Rage Against the Machine song will be the first one used in a commercial, and for what product?
Speaking of Rage Against the Machine, does this happen to anyone else? Whenever a certain passage in “Sleep Now in the Fire” plays, UO finds a compulsion to complete it as follows:
I am the Nina
the Pinta
the Santa
Maria
and just when
it hit them
somebody turned around and shouted
