Garage/psych in "mainstream" media

HarvestmanMan

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I was curious if anyone had heard some of our favorite tunes being used in unlikely places.

For instance, I headed to Dayton last night to see the Happy Together Tour (don't shoot me). Gary Lewis sounds like Big Bird, Chuck Negron was high as a kite, but I heard something familiar as "background music" during the intermission - the Kords' "Boris the Spider"! I don't think it was a hit anywhere, so how it got into the rotation is beyond my knowledge.

Another example is Max Frost and the Troopers (or whoever they were) "Shape of Things to Come" being used in a Target commercial a few years ago.

Any others worth sharing?
 
HarvestmanMan said:
I was curious if anyone had heard some of our favorite tunes being used in unlikely places.

For instance, I headed to Dayton last night to see the Happy Together Tour (don't shoot me). Gary Lewis sounds like Big Bird, Chuck Negron was high as a kite, but I heard something familiar as "background music" during the intermission - the Kords' "Boris the Spider"! I don't think it was a hit anywhere, so how it got into the rotation is beyond my knowledge.

Another example is Max Frost and the Troopers (or whoever they were) "Shape of Things to Come" being used in a Target commercial a few years ago.

Any others worth sharing?
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Boris The Spider is a Who song. The Kords' covered it.
 
HarvestmanMan said:
I was curious if anyone had heard some of our favorite tunes being used in unlikely places.
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How about during a major league baseball game?

These days, batters pick a portion of a song that is played while they are walking up to the plate. This is called "walkup" music. It's usually rap or metal or country. A couple years ago, one of the Oakland A's picked "You're Gonna Miss Me" by the Elevators as his walkup music. I was blown away!

Pitchers also pick music that is played while they are warming up. Tevor Hoffman famously used "Hells Bells" by AC/DC. Brett Anderson of the Oakland A's uses "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane! Yes, he was not born yet when it was recorded.

-- Rich
 
The Paul Schrader film "Auto Focus", about Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes) has a bit of Psychotic Reaction on the soundtrack as well as the Sonics doing Psycho during a party scene.
 
Slightly off topic: I was in a bar one Texas Sunday morning, listening to the bartender's iphone tuned to Pandora and "You Know, Til The End of Time" by Joey Gee and Come Ons played. I found it amazing that the internet's brain draws little distinction between a Monkees gold record and something certified pig iron.
 
Rich Strauss said:
How about during a major league baseball game?

These days, batters pick a portion of a song that is played while they are walking up to the plate. This is called "walkup" music. It's usually rap or metal or country. A couple years ago, one of the Oakland A's picked "You're Gonna Miss Me" by the Elevators as his walkup music. I was blown away!

Pitchers also pick music that is played while they are warming up. Tevor Hoffman famously used "Hells Bells" by AC/DC. Brett Anderson of the Oakland A's uses "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane! Yes, he was not born yet when it was recorded.

-- Rich
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The Detroit Red Wings have been using "Search & Destroy" just before faceoffs & the Boston Bruins have been using "Dirty Water" at game conclusion. The New York Yankees have been using Otis Rush's "All Your Love" in pregame for years.

Ned
 
The Creation's "Making Time" has also been used at hockey games.

Have heard the Easybeats' "Sorry" and The Marmalade's "I See The Rain" in commercials.
 
There was a "Sprite" commercial with Dirk Nowitzki playing "Have Love Will Travel" by The Sonics over here in Europe, a few years ago. And just lately "Found Love" by The Fly-By-Nites was used as closing song in a Mad Men episode.
 
Lee de Parade said:
Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion was used in a commercial some time ago..
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"she's the one" has been used for play in the retail shops by H&M ca. seven years ago. I heard it myself in Berlin, Germany, when buying underwear. Right after that, the song was re-released by Crypt as a 45rpm b/w "try to mess my mind".
 
Evidently no one clicked the Youtube link I posted above ...

ian said:
"she's the one" has been used for play in the retail shops by H&M ca. seven years ago. I heard it myself in Berlin, Germany, when buying underwear. Right after that, the song was re-released by Crypt as a 45rpm b/w "try to mess my mind".
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I heard Psychotic Reaction in a lame Hollywood movie about Edie Sedgewick making love to a dashing urbane motorcycle riding folk-rock singer... in front of a fireplace in a cabin. :lol:
 
This may be one of those "egg before the chicken" cases. Ajax laundry detergent had a "stronger than dirt" campaign where the music was almost a blueprint for Jimmy & the Offbeats 45. Hard to remember the exact month & year Ajax the add campaign, but for my money it was 1966. This may just be the reverse of what we are talking about here - this time the mainstream media may have influenced the song.

Ned
 
Ned said:
This may be one of those "egg before the chicken" cases. Ajax laundry detergent had a "stronger than dirt" campaign where the music was almost a blueprint for Jimmy & the Offbeats 45. Hard to remember the exact month & year Ajax the add campaign, but for my money it was 1966. This may just be the reverse of what we are talking about here - this time the mainstream media may have influenced the song.

Ned
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Same thing with Alka Seltzer and 'No Matter What Shape' I believe...
 
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