I really love the song "Down in Splendour". It's in my top ten all time songs. But the song died last night.
It wasn't an easy death: "Down in Splendour" didn't quietly pass away in its sleep like OMC's "Land of Plenty". No "Down in Splendour" was murdered - violently bludgeoned to death by the musical stylings of Chris Warner and Donna on Shortland Street.
There were plenty of witnesses - you were probably one of them. Will you speak out for this poor song and it's meaningless death?
For the sake of other great NZ songs I urge you to click the link below and take the appropriate steps.
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Explain. Can't say I watch shortland ...
Explain. Can't say I watch shortland street, though I'm sure to be missing out on a quality product.
//Explain. You keep saying this all ...
//Explain.
You keep saying this all over the show. What are you? A robot?
It appears I was a bit cryptic - the "cover" of the song on last nights Shortland Street was so appalling it has destroyed whatever future enjoyment I might have gotten from the song.
Years ago on "Shortland Street" Chris ...
Years ago on "Shortland Street" Chris and Guy Warner were reliving their scarfie days by going to a Verlaines concert. They returned to the clinic badly (drunkenly, perhaps) singing "Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine..." This did not, however, ruin "Death and the Maiden" for me.
That'll lead to Andrew Brough's ...
That'll lead to Andrew Brough's biggest APRA cheque ever, probably. Still, as you point out, was it worth the price? We've lost 'Loyal', 'Down in Splendour' -- what's next for the big sell-out...?
* The Bats: 'Block of Wood' -- Background music for Mitre 10 Groundforce
* Bailter Space: 'Splat' -- Mortein Flyspray ad
* Concord Dawn: 'Morning Light' -- Hubbards Breakfast cereals
* JPSE: 'Breathe' -- Tic-Tacs
* Dave Dobbyn/Herbs: 'Slice of Heaven' -- Tip Top Bread
Well i don't like to use the term ...
Well i don't like to use the term "sell out" but:
*The Datsuns: Supergyration (KFC)
*The Dudes: Don't know the title but it was on the L&P ad
*Goldenhorse: American Wife (Vodaphone? i could be wrong)
*That "Counting the Beat" song for K-mart
*Tadpole: Better Days (ZM ad)
*Slim: Real World (Export Gold)
*HLAH: Wet Rubber (Export Gold)
*Pan Am: Long grass (That photo ad)
Shit I thought selling out meant some ...
Shit I thought selling out meant some kind of wholesale loss of artist integrity - not licensing??!!
I like noizyboy's list. * Shihad: ...
I like noizyboy's list.
* Shihad: Bitter - DB Bitter, obviously
* Dead Flowers: Plastic - The Warehouse
* Headless Chickens: Donde esta la pollo - KFC
* Tadpole: Just not rock 'n' roll - More FM.
Yes, 'sell-out' wasn't quite the ...
Yes, 'sell-out' wasn't quite the right word. 'sell-off' perhaps.
I'm sure most of these bands didn't ...
I'm sure most of these bands didn't have in mind when they were writing these songs "Hey maybe we can get this song onto an ad!"
how about we just say "commercial ...
how about we just say "commercial exposure" runing the integrity of genuine songs.
I loved the KFC ads when I first saw ...
I loved the KFC ads when I first saw them, and subsequently discovered that was an actual song by a proper band! squee! Joy! Rapture! Bliss! I love it when that happens.
Just like to add: Couldn't care less ...
Just like to add: Couldn't care less about KFC, but they provided some pretty good exposure for the Datsuns, and even paid them for it! That can't be a bad thing...
ah KFC is my weakness! your making me ...
ah KFC is my weakness! your making me hungry!
actually not alot of people knew that song was by the datsuns.
" ... We've lost 'Loyal', 'Down in ...
" ... We've lost 'Loyal', 'Down in Splendour' ... "
we lost dave dobbyn long ago, the straitjacket fits being covered in one episode of shortland street isn't going to destroy the song, admittedly 'loyal' was painful
" ... 'Slice of Heaven' -- Tip Top Bread ... "
considering slice of heaven was written for a movie, you could argue that it was a sold out song from the beginning, it doesn't make it a bad song, it brings many many fantastic memories back to me
course all that said, i laughed out loud at " 'Splat' -- Mortein Flyspray ad " :)
That's precisely my point. Years ago ...
That's precisely my point. Years ago I was similarly grateful to Muncho's for introducing me to the exuberant joy of Supergroove.
Don't know if this counts but ...
Don't know if this counts but
*Shihad: La la Land from the drink drive commercial
I heard Pacifier on a rugby advert......
I heard Pacifier on a rugby advert...
Weta's "Calling On" was on coke ads i ...
Weta's "Calling On" was on coke ads i think.
God if I'd known we'd be back to this ...
God if I'd known we'd be back to this old chestnut I'd never have posted.
//how about we just say "commercial ...
//how about we just say "commercial exposure" runing the integrity of genuine songs. //
You mean some songs aren't genuine??? All the songs I have ever heard were real, even the ones that were specifically written for ads .... :-)
And I'm not sure that a song can have integrity either .... that is a human attribute in my opinion. The writer can have integrity, or even "artistic integrity", which may or may not be the same thing.
What I find happening is that a song gets picked up for an ad (and more power to the writer if they can sell their song to the ad-man) and then it gets flogged to death in 30 second segments and I get so pissed off that I no longer like the song any more ... is this what you are getting at??
//Years ago I was similarly grateful to ...
//Years ago I was similarly grateful to Muncho's for introducing me to the exuberant joy of Supergroove
Me too, thats what made me become a fan & they became my favourite band at the time
I saw a Supergroove concert and the ...
I saw a Supergroove concert and the audience started chanting "Munchos! Munchos!" Various drunken fools yelled out "play the Munchos song!". Supergroove ignored that and instead put on a kickarse show.
//You mean some songs aren't ...
//You mean some songs aren't genuine??? All the songs I have ever heard were real, even the ones that were specifically written for ads .... :-)
I didn't say they weren't infact i like alot of those songs that make it onto commercials. What i meant was that some songs are too precious to be put on anything degrading as an add.
//And I'm not sure that a song can have integrity either
of course if you've got in mind the mindless intention of writing a song just so you can see it on an add.
//What I find happening is that a song gets picked up for an ad (and more power to the writer if they can sell their song to the ad-man) and then it gets flogged to death in 30 second segments and I get so pissed off that I no longer like the song any more ... is this what you are getting at??
no. But it does get annoying when something gets overplayed though. I don't think the writers sell their songs specifically but they more in turn get asked permission.
Who did "Down in Splendour" originally?...
Who did "Down in Splendour" originally?
Straightjacket Fits....
Straightjacket Fits.
Straitjacket ;)...
Straitjacket ;)
Also that Chris Knox song was played on ...
Also that Chris Knox song was played on shortland street by Rich Fortune pretending to sing it liek his own.
Chris Know: Not given Lightly (Vogels)...
Chris Know: Not given Lightly (Vogels)
Blink 182- damn it for the old export ...
Blink 182- damn it
for the old export gold ads and
shihad- pacifier for the tv1 sports ad
tadpole- alright (i think it was that ...
tadpole- alright (i think it was that song) for the old channel z ad
The feelers- astrounaut- the rock
"Nature" by The Muttonbirds on some ...
"Nature" by The Muttonbirds on some milk ad
they didn't originally write that ...
they didn't originally write that song, it was released in the late 60s / early 70s by Wayne Mason, in fact, if i remember correctly the version on the ad is yet another cover
I really don't see anything wrong with ...
I really don't see anything wrong with one of NZ's most prominent (and given the quality of a lot of the other stuff we're putting out, better) examples of media culture, paying tribute to a now defunct rock band.
sure the straitjacket fits were exceptionally good, but lets not be too precious about them, i'm sure they're not complaining about the royalties, and it exposes people to their music that may not have been otherwise. i don't as a rule watch it, so i can't vouch for the quality of the version, but i always feel happy when i see music i love referenced in surprising places.
i mean come on, can you claim that when you're singing along to music you like that you're truly doing it justice? or are you doing it because it makes you happy?
Now Goldenhorse's "Maybe Tomorrow" ...
Now Goldenhorse's "Maybe Tomorrow" features on some reaching out rugby ad.
Two years after this topic, and a year ...
Two years after this topic, and a year or more after it happened, Dominic turning up 'Pink Frost' while drowning Avril is still the highlight of Shortland St in the past four years or so.