songs on commercials and TV shows

[kataar]

so theres some shows that I watch on TV that often have local bands or smaller groups' music on them (ie: chuck, scrubs...) and I quite frequently find myself enjoying them and going on to google to find said music... and I've found some great music because of it, like Josh Radin, Blitzen Trapper and Bloc Party. I was wondering if I was the only one here that did that, or if there were/are some of you on here that do the same?

 

[hannaugh]

I occasionally find music I like that way, but usually it is the other way around and I hear music that I already have discovered on those shows.  Like when Chuck uses stuff by The National and Frightened Rabbit.  And yesterday they played She & Him on Life.  Even Andrew Bird has been featured in commercials. 

 

[Xplorervoodoo]

Sadly enough, a lot of the music I enjoy today, I discovered by watching Beavis and Butthead...  :toothy11:

 

[Volitions Advocate]

I played a video game called Mass Effect that was developed in Edmonton Alberta.  The ending credits song really struck me as awesome and I found out that they used a local indie band.  Right on.
LINK:
http://www.fenix.tv/faunts/faunts_LG.html

 

[TroubledTreble]

Several years ago I lucked into getting into a group of people that had a little "CD" club going. The way it worked was once a month we would send the other members a cd of music of our choice out of our collection or otherwise. The only rule was that it had to include a play list.

It was a great thing since I became aware of so many artist whom I had never heard of before. Today some of them have made it and I hear them on the radio all the time and some have ended up on television as theme songs for shows.  If you are in a college town usually there is a college radio station and they play a very eclectic selection of music. That is a great way to hear stuff you would not have otherwise. Commercial radio sucks so bad these days. The same 30 songs over and over.

Today I still have that collection of cd's from that club. I love putting them in at random, and especially love playing them for others. Based on those cd's I have gone out and purchased music and gone to shows that I never thought I would have before. I love expanding the horizon.

 

[hannaugh]

My two favorite ways to find new music is reading Filter Magazine (those guys are the closest in the mag world to my taste in music), and I have a Rhapsody subscription. 

I love Rhapsody so much.  When I first got it, it was like Christmas only better.  You can listen to almost anything as many times as you want all the way through.  I really like the fact that when I find a new band I like, I can listen to their entire catalogue and hear their older albums.  I spent a whole day listening to Bowie in chronological order once.  I also did that with Pink Floyd once. 

The best way to stumble on new stuff through Rhapsody though is that they have a "build your own radio station" type of thing.  The way that works is you put in 10 bands that you like, and it will play stuff by those bands, plus other bands that are similar that you may or may not have heard of.  That's how I found Camera Obscura and Clem Snide. It's a lot of fun. 

 

[GoDrex]

When looking for new music for my radio station I usually use Metacritic and Pitchfork.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/

http://pitchfork.com/ - a lot people hate pitchfork's writers, but they don't bother me. I've found some good stuff though them so...

 

[Rick]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ45xrtNnzk

colin hay scrubs overkill

Nick Drake --- Pink Moon --- volkswagon commercial  google it.  Absolutely lovely.

 

[Vol. Knob]

the one I've had stuck in my head..

Give me back that filet-o-fish, give me that fish......

 

[GoDrex]

Five...

Five dollar...

Five dollar foot-long! :laughing7:

 

[hannaugh]

The other day I heard a Subway ad with just the chords from the 5 dollar foot long song, and I was hearing the tv from the other room, but I knew it was that song.  That's when I thought "Maybe the fact that I know the chord progression to the Subway song is a sign that my brain is waaaay too filled up with crap from the tv."

 

[kataar]

I hate that... especially the mcdonalds "buh dah buh bah buh!" thing!  :sad:

...Several years ago I lucked into getting into a group of people that had a little "CD" club going. The way it worked was once a month we would send the other members a cd of music of our choice out of our collection or otherwise. The only rule was that it had to include a play list...

you know what? I think we should get ourselves our OWN little CD club going... I really Love expanding out my musical horizons as well, and I think it would be kinda fun...  whad'ya guys think? might we be able to pull it off? :icon_thumright: