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Sigur Ros will not sell out.


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I like their music, and I'd like it just as much, if they were shilling the "Baconator" for Wendy's.

Shit! I was going to get one of those tonight but I got chili instead!

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somebody that cares enough to actually know what a sigur ros song even sounds like, would check into it to discover that it wasn't actually them and they wouldn't be sell-outs. unless someone has done an actual note by note comparison on these tunes to determine if it's a flat out cover/rip-off...just saying a song in an ad 'sounds like' a particular artist is a pretty weak thing to rally against. any contemporary artist out today can have someone compare their music to someone else's and so on.

 

And yet it happens

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ripping off tom waits distinctive voice or a nearly note-for-note cover of a specific song versus a band's 'sound'...different.

 

not too sure i really find the sigur ros 'sound' that unique, but whatever.

 

Sound, music, etc are, of course, very subjective experiences, and I cannot speak for anyone else, but to these ears, Sigur Ros, like Waits, has a very distinctive

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I don't either, plus its kind of a boring sound.

 

well, i'm not knocking them even though they aren't my cup of tea. while some ads may actually be built around certain well-known songs ala zep or the who...my guess is that there aren't a lot of creative folks thinking the average consumer correlates sigur ros w/ a toyota. they more likely have an ad concept and think a song fits well within it, seek out the artist for use and then, should the artist refuse, use a song w/ a similar sound.

 

what i'm saying is, that i don't think there are a lot of meeting in ad agencies where they are wrenching their hands together and trying to figure out they can get sigur ros to endorse their client's cola.

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Just stating my opinion Huxtable along with my pleasure in reporting (not that I take credit for the actual report of course) that some bands are not willing to cave or sacrifice some part of their creative selves at a time when more and more so called

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