stewie wrote:Low in a GAP commercial

There's also one with Red House Painters' cover of "All Mixed Up." I haven't seen the Low one yet. I got pretty excited when Kozelek played the Stillwater bassist in Almost Famous.

In "Laurel Canyon," Russ Pollard, Imaad Wasif, and Lou Barlow play band members.


-Noah

I used to think it was unusual when I would see the guy who played Norm from "Cheers" at indie rock shows in L.A. all the time (mid-late 80s). But it happened so often, it wasn't unusual anymore.

Sam Prekop music is in a toilet roll advert. That's weird.

"SWIFF it! SWIFF it good!"

Soul Coughing's Baby Gap Ad

Elliot Smith winning an Oscar

That old Cheetoes commerical that ripped off Tom Waits' voice, and the fact that they'd consider ripping him off in the first place

There's a 24 hour Mexican restaurant here with a jukebox full of Tejano, soft rock and pop...and a copy of "Spiderland"....???

ironyengine wrote:

Maaiq wrote:There's this one scene in this movie called High Fidelity and this fat dude's talking about the Beta Band. Man, what a mindfuck that was.

That scene actually was kind of a mindfuck, but only because I was the only one in the theater yelling "THAT'S FUCKING IAN WILLIAMS BACK THERE!" After that I kept quiet and started trying to turn the movie into a drinking game.

see an album you own in the record store - drink
see a poster for a show you actually attended - chug
etc

Al Johnson also makes an appearance in High Fidelity; also in School of Rock.



I remember like 6 or 7 years ago, Tortoise's "Tin Cans and Twine" was in a Calvin Kline perfume commercial, and Pajo had a song in a commercial for Gateway computers.

"Rubber Car" by Enon was used briefly in an old episode of Malcolm in the Middle. I just about shat when i heard it.

It's all the rage now, though--putting "obscure" indie music into popular television shows. I figure it only makes sense that the kids who were weaned on Nirvana and "indie rock" and what have you in the 90s are the tech-savvy types that are working in audio production for Hollywood TV shows and the like now. Of course, now it's gotten totally co-opted and shows like "The OC," even though their producer is apparently a huge indie-rock fan, have "talent buyers" that are culling new hip sounds from indie labels willing to work with them. Milwaukee's Temper Temper just had a song played on the OC because Revelation Records is close with the OC's talent buyer guy.

But more "on-topic" stuff--Rev. Norb of Boris the Sprinkler was on Jenny Jones once having been implicated as a "secret crush" by some ditzy 18-year-old girl who claimed she wanted to "lick his fishnets."

The Rachel's had a song on a Nike commercial, as well as in the movie 'Any Given Sunday.'
Aerial M had a song on an IBM commercial.

DrAwkward wrote:"Rubber Car" by Enon was used briefly in an old episode of Malcolm in the Middle. I just about shat when i heard it.

It's all the rage now, though--putting "obscure" indie music into popular television shows. I figure it only makes sense that the kids who were weaned on Nirvana and "indie rock" and what have you in the 90s are the tech-savvy types that are working in audio production for Hollywood TV shows and the like now. Of course, now it's gotten totally co-opted and shows like "The OC," even though their producer is apparently a huge indie-rock fan, have "talent buyers" that are culling new hip sounds from indie labels willing to work with them. Milwaukee's Temper Temper just had a song played on the OC because Revelation Records is close with the OC's talent buyer guy.

But more "on-topic" stuff--Rev. Norb of Boris the Sprinkler was on Jenny Jones once having been implicated as a "secret crush" by some ditzy 18-year-old girl who claimed she wanted to "lick his fishnets."

I watched part of an episode of the Real World last night. Yeah, whoever puts music together for those shows always seems to try to stick cool music in. I heard Oranges Band and Arcade Fire within 30 seconds of each other. How cool can you possbily be working for MTV on those stupid fucking shows (Real World and Road Rules and whatever else they have now). I commented to my fiancee how it's funny that those shows are full of indie snippets, yet MTV would never play a video by an indie band. Do they even play crappy videos anymore?

I heard The Notwist on Veronica Mars...

Good show, good band.

Peripatetic wrote:Do they even play crappy videos anymore?

I would assume that they do this exclusively.