Jagger & Richards have leased "You Can't Always Get What You Want"...

[NightTrain]

...for a Coca-Cola commercial. Yeah, like they needed the fuckin' money! :grr::nuke:

[Fenris]

1. Meh. I stopped caring about sell outs after the Clash's Jaguar advert.

There will never be a greater example of inappropriate musical selection.

[Westegg]

2. Beatles, Zep, Stones, Who---the sell-out never ends. Sad.

[NightTrain]

3. Ironically, one '60s band that refuses to sell out is one of whom...

...I've never really been that big a fan: The Doors.

Before the group made it big, the members (at Jim Morrison's insistence) all agreed that any decisions made about The Doors would have to be approved by all of them. If even one member dissented, the other three wouldn't have their way.

Thirty-three years after Morrison's death, the remaining Doors have stuck to the agreement, which is why none of their songs have ever appeared in a TV ad. Ray Manzarek wants to license their material to Madison Avenue, but John Densmore and Robbie Krieger both have said no. Thanks, guys! :yourock:

[Fenris]

4. Densmore and Krieger appear to be the only ones with integrity.

Manzarek thought Scott Stapp was a great replacement for Morrison. I mean, Scott Stapp! Imagine!

[Mike Daniels]

16. Didn't Krieger go along with the Doors non-reunion tour

Densmore is the only one with integrity.

I guess those royalties that keep rolling in year after year (for a band that went downhill after their first album) can't prop up their lifestyles.

[stevielizard]

11. "Come on Buick Light My Fire" nt

[nolabels]

8. You need to separate the Art from the Artist

Do you think a "Coalmine in the Borinage" is not worth looking at because there could be issues of who the artist was?

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/watercolours/p_1040.htm

They really are two different things :think:

[wickerwoman]

12. Why do you say the Beatles are sell-outs?

I heard that it's nearly impossible to get their songs for film soundtracks and I can't remember any commercials with them.

[mitchum]

5. Doesn't Klein still control that part (Decca) of their catalog?

There is no denying that Mick and Keith are moneygrubbing whores (witness the last 20 sad years of the Rolling Stones' existence), but I think that Klein still controls the use of that material.

[NightTrain]

7. Could be, I'm not sure.

I tend to forget that often, the songwriters don't retain the rights to their material. :shrug:

[tom_paine]

6. Well, sellouts in Imperial Amerika are unremarkable

We have become a nation of sellouts.

A Nation of Imperial Slaves.

A Nation of Weak, Easily Lied to People.

Jagger & Richards are just "getting in step with the times" and "in tune with the personality of the Imperial Subjects of Amerika".

[Senior citizen]

9. Whew! When I first saw the post I was afraid

they'd leased it to the DLC.

(sorry, my bad)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. I noticed that

at the movies this afternoon.

Boo! Hiss!

[dbt]

13. It was back around 1966 that I saw Jagger quoted somewhere:

"Sure we sold out, but we did it for a lot of money. That makes it OK."

Now, anybody remember that great LP, "The Who Sell Out?"

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Remember Windows 95? "Start Me Up"?

:puke:

[johnnie]

15. What's the problem?

If you have any idea about the music scene then you know to get anywhere in it to make enough money to live on you have to sell out at least a little. Even if it is playing clubs around town so you can eat; you have to play shit music to get gigs. I don't believe making more money is such a terrible thing as long as it isn't hurting anyone.
Just about every major artist has sold out to some extent so they can have that big record deal. I know it isn't cool on this forum to say that making money is ok, but I don't see anything wrong with people leasing their music for some quick cash. A lot of writers write tunes in hopes of making money with them. Hell..I was even happy to get those BMI checks for the music I wrote. Of course it wasn't even close to the Stone, but at least it was something.
I just don't get angry when I hear pop music on television ads. Most songs recorded years ago aren't even owned by the artist. I would rather see them selling Coke than to be used as a battle cry for some political asshole like Bush.