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The first Nirvana commercial?

post #1 of 31
2/27/07 at 2:06am
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Courtney Love has been pretty good about keeping Nirvana out of shitty commercials, but I just saw one. Believe it or not it was the MLB 2K7 video game with... Breed? Huh?
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post #2 of 31
2/27/07 at 2:18am
It's official: Nothing is sacred. I guess that Hole catalog isn't doing so well these days eh Courtney.
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post #3 of 31
2/27/07 at 2:25am
Look, you insensitive pricks, heroin doesn't buy itself.
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post #4 of 31
2/27/07 at 2:34am
Yeah, that sucks but I realized that it's a lost cause once I heard one of my favorite songs ever - Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" - on whatever car commerical that was a couple of years ago. Ok, fine - it all went to shit way before that, but that one really bothered me (even though the song had already been driven into the ground by classic rock radio for decades).

As for Nirvana, "Breed" was one of the songs that turned me on to their music - a little while before "Nevermind" was released. So that kind of makes the commercial thing extra sickening.
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post #5 of 31
2/27/07 at 2:41am
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How is that even possible?
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post #6 of 31
2/27/07 at 3:08am
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Originally Posted by devincf
How is that even possible?
RyanC is actually Tad Doyle?
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post #7 of 31
2/27/07 at 3:13am
I'm going to guess at which part you're asking about but one of my closest friends was also friends with a producer/engineer who had received some promo material that he allowed us to listen to. And that was my typo error - it was only a few months before the album came out but considering how big Nevermind later became, that initial listening is fondly remembered.

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How is that even possible?
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post #8 of 31
2/27/07 at 3:15am
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The first single was Teen Spirit. Lithium was second. Breed seems like weird promo material to send for that record.
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post #9 of 31
2/27/07 at 3:20am
Ok, well I'm not trying to confuse you. It was a cassette with just a few songs on it. Smells Like Teen Spirit was on there as well. I don't remember which other ones but I remember Breed because it became one of my favorite Nirvana songs.

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Originally Posted by devincf
The first single was Teen Spirit. Lithium was second. Breed seems like weird promo material to send for that record.
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post #10 of 31
2/27/07 at 9:31am
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Originally Posted by devincf
The first single was Teen Spirit. Lithium was second. Breed seems like weird promo material to send for that record.
But "Breed" had been written (titled "Immodium"), and most likely performed live and recorded on demos, for like two years by the time Nevermind came out.

EDIT: Evidence for the promo tape, from Mark Prindle's music blog:

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Originally Posted by Mark Prindle
Crazy stuff. Changed the world, too, just as both Grant Tennille's brother and the guy who wrote the liner notes for the promo tape predicted. Yes, that's right; the last lines of these pre-"Teen Spirit"-frenzy liner notes read as follows: "Nirvana establishes itself as that rare underground group that just might be able to turn the dominant culture counter-clockwise and break through to the mainstream. Nirvana's songs are accessible." Whoa. I think somebody deserves a raise.
FURTHER EDIT: My capacity to be disgusted by shitting on Nirvana's legacy died when I heard Jerry "the fat kid from Stand By Me" O'Connell butcher "Something In The Way" in Jerry Maguire.
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post #11 of 31
2/27/07 at 10:31am
Yeah, "Breed" is in the actual game, too, along with The Pixies ("Mr. Grieves") and a bunch of others.
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post #12 of 31
2/27/07 at 10:33am
I saw that last night and I thought it sounded like Nirvana (In Utero was the only record of theirs that I really listened to) and was like "Is that Nirvana? What are they doing in a commercial for a baseball game?") As long as the Beastie Boys don't show up in a commercial for Vonage, I think I'll be able to keep my sanity though.
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post #13 of 31
2/27/07 at 10:34am
"Breed" is in the new Burnout game for PS2 as well. As far as I've been told, it's the first "real" (not re-recorded- i.e. "Heart-Shaped Box") song Courtney allowed to be used from the catalog.
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post #14 of 31
2/27/07 at 10:48am
Well that explains why I heard it on the radio twice last week.
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post #15 of 31
2/27/07 at 11:19am
Yeah, "Breed" was around as "Immodium" for a couple of years before Nevermind.

I feel badly for Kurt's music being used commercially... but if he didn't want that to happen, he should've stuck around.
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post #16 of 31
2/27/07 at 11:22am
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Originally Posted by devincf
The first single was Teen Spirit. Lithium was second. Breed seems like weird promo material to send for that record.
This is a fifteen year old memory, but wasn't Come as you are the second single?

Oh, and Courtney Love can so so so so so rot in hell.
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post #17 of 31
2/27/07 at 12:12pm
Oh, come on, let's stop blaming Courtney. If Cobain hadn't done the dead-at-27 thing he would have eventually cleaned up (likely after the follow up to In Utero failed), dumped Love and had one more hit album with Nirvana. After that he would likely have sold all his stuff to commercials, video games or whoever the highest bidder was.

The only reason people think Cobain wouldn't have sold out is because he killed himself before he was given the opportunity to do so.
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post #18 of 31
2/27/07 at 12:24pm
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Nice for you to visit us from your alternate timeline, Ryan.
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post #19 of 31
2/27/07 at 12:41pm
Zeppelin shills Caddys? I'm shocked and offended.

The Ramones sell cell phones? I am speechless.

Nirvana used commercially? I can't say I'm surprised. 2 reasons: 1: I'm beyond being shocked by this BS; and 2: Courtney Love is in control of the catalog.
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post #20 of 31
2/27/07 at 12:50pm
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Originally Posted by devincf
Nice for you to visit us from your alternate timeline, Ryan.
It's not as cool as you would expect...Heroes still sucks!
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post #21 of 31
11/20/08 at 2:00am
Similar question: How is the Beastie Boy's "Sabotage" being played over a commercial for HANCOCK? I haven't been keeping track of who holds the rights to what since Grand Royal folded.
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post #22 of 31
11/20/08 at 2:43am
Note that this discussion happened half a year before Shoot 'Em Up came out. "Breed" over a goofy warehouse gun fight. Better than a baseball video game, but still ...
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post #23 of 31
11/20/08 at 3:02am
What other films has Nirvana stuff been used in? All I can think of is "Something in the Way" popping up in Jarhead.

I'm surprised Courtney hasn't whored out their music more, all things considered.
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post #24 of 31
11/20/08 at 1:28pm
Fuck, even THE FALL are in TWO commercials.
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post #25 of 31
11/20/08 at 2:30pm
I'd never heard of KINGS OF LEON until I saw/heard the VW spot which used their song.
Then I bought their cd.
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post #26 of 31
11/20/08 at 8:25pm
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Fuck, even THE FALL are in TWO commercials.
Mark E. Smith gotta eat!

This makes me cringe as much as when I first heard BREED used in the beginning of Shoot 'Em Up! As big of a gun fan as Cobain was, I'm positive he'd go positively ape shit to have one of his songs used in a brain dead action movie. And I liked Shoot 'Em Up (for what it was).
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post #27 of 31
11/20/08 at 8:31pm
Nothing was a bigger kick to the balls than "Instant Karma" in a Nike commercial.

Irony was defined the first time i heard The Who in an ad.

Is selling out even a big deal anymore? (everybody's doin' it!)
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post #28 of 31
11/20/08 at 9:42pm
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Irony was defined the first time i heard The Who in an ad.
Come on in to Bill's Chevy, where we-
Call it a bargain...the best I ever HAD!
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post #29 of 31
11/22/08 at 11:58am
They played this at the gym today. You probably shouldn't click this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DuFBFVN2s
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post #30 of 31
11/22/08 at 12:13pm
Ooph. I had to stop at the chorus. Whole thing though-ooph.
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post #31 of 31
11/22/08 at 12:30pm
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Is selling out even a big deal anymore? (everybody's doin' it!)
That's kind of my point in my post above. The only reason Cobain never sold out is because he died before he had the chance. People have this image of him as a huge iconoclast who would have bucked the system forever. I don't see it. I get seeing him as a great songwriter even a visionary but as a bastion of integrity? Nah.
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