George Harrison's lovely song 'Here Comes the Sun'....

[spanone]

It pisses me off every time I hear comcast using this beautiful piece of work to sell their product...

rant over....

[LakeArenal]

1. No shit... my fav Beatle song.

It’s almost blasphemous to me.

[pecosbob]

2. I played this LP so many times I know it note for note

Rights to the group's catalog should be declared a part of Britain's national heritage - Mean Mr. Mustard.

-and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make...

[malaise]

3. I had the same feeling when the RWs used Imagine

after 9/11

[Initech]

10. Although I will say that I do love it when RW politicians get taken down a few pegs.

By the artists for using their songs without permission. Most recently was REM who told Trump to shove it after using "Everybody Hurts"..

[malaise]

11. True

I do love it when the artistes tell them to stop using their music

[Ohiogal]

4. I'll never forget when I heard a Led Zep song ("Rock and Roll")

as background on a Cadillac commercial!

[gratuitous]

5. Those days are gone forever

Way back in the early 1980s, Nike wanted to use the Beatles' song "Revolution" for an ad. The surviving members of the band (John had already been assassinated) flatly refused to lend their song to an advertisement. Phil Knight whined, wheedled, cajoled, and pouted, but never made any headway. He offered a meeting with Paul, George and Ringo, but they didn’t take him up on the offer. I suspected they thought it was a ploy by Knight to meet them. The reasons offered by various artists was that they didn’t write their songs to sell shoes or insurance or cars, and the didn’t want to look like sell-outs to their fans.

Nowadays, though, “selling out” seems to be a positive career move. I counted something like five products that used Portugal the Man’s song “Feel It Still” in their ads. Other songs still in popular rotation have shown up in ads, so it’s not just the nostalgia for an earlier time like using “Here Comes the Sun.”

I don’t begrudge any artist the chance to make money, but I do notice that my hand involuntarily changes the station when “Feel It Still” or “Believer” (Imagine Dragons) comes on.

[Initech]

7. Listen to Bill Hicks on marketing. He called that shit out decades ago.

And I love Portugal The Man too - seen them live a few times and they're great in concert. But even that was a bit over the top.

[Codeine]

9. I think a lot of indie bands deliberately write songs

that are geared toward being ad-friendly for licensing purposes, as that’s really the only goddamned way to make money off a song in the current system.

[Initech]

6. Oh worse is Capitol One using Prince's "Let's Get Crazy".

Prince was so vehemently anti-commercial, so using his songs to move products is a slap in the face to his art, and fuck Capitol One for it.

[Codeine]

8. Not so much "Fuck Capital One"

as “fuck whoever licensed it to Capital One.”