Good Old Neon

Don't forget -- being musicians and artists is their job. Call it selling out, call it making a buck, or whatever...they do what they do so they can put food on the table. What do you expect? Do you want them to give their music away for free so they can work the checkout line at the grocery store?

 

That being said, I don't expect you'll see any of the bandmates showing their house on MTV Cribs anytime soon. (Ok, is that last sentence even relevant? Is that show still on?)

 

Even Dylan did an ad for Victoria's Secret.

Dylan is exactly my point

As someone who was reared in the punk community close to twenty years ago, let me say that what you're accusing Wilco of is ridiculous. This isn't akin to Jawbreaker signing to a major after years of publicly bashing them or Chumbawumba, an anarchist collective first and band second, writing a pop hit about drinking adventures. Wilco/ Tweedy has been on a major for thirteen or fourteen years, tickets are sold through ticketmaster, they appear on shows like Leno and Conan and Letterman. I don't see where they've ever explicitly stated that they wouldn't do something like this. Sooner or later it happens to most every major artist, morals or not, see the Clash, Dylan, the Stooges, are Wilco above those bands/ artists? If you're worried about follwoing a abnd with strict ethics maybe Fugazi should be your favorite as they've outlined their principals regarding being a band since 1987, Wilco most certainly has never done so.

Just curious

Having a discussion on this is certainly within the bounds of this board, but first of all I am curious why this would be someone's first post on this board??? Maybe the poster can explain that before we express our righteous indignation about this?

 

LouieB

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I have read a number of these interviews and fail to see this "commercial development" you seem to refer to.

 

Also, I have listened to Sky Blue Sky roughly 100 times by now and nowhere in there did I hear anything that screamed at me "Car Ad." Also, "Is That The Thanks I Get?" was a song Jeff wrote for another singer to sing, if I remember the story right.

 

None of these songs were written specifically for a TV commercial, but you seem to think they were; that this is an album filled with car jingles. I think you're wrong.

 

Your bitching and moaning that they've "sold out" is completely outdated. So what? They have a few fucking songs in commercials. Why does that get your panties in a bunch?

 

And, most importantly, how exactly does Wilco's music being in a commercial effect your life in such a negative manner? Don't like it? Ignore it and go on your merry way.

 

And if it makes you hate the band so much you refuse to buy the albums or go to the shows...good. One less person I have to battle with for tickets.

Go back and find me the part in which I claimed these songs where written explicitly for car commercials

Should be "due"

Thanks for the grammar check - I was in a sort of huff when writing it.

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