Do you hear of new songs/bands from tv shows?
musicismylife78
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Have posted my views on this several times, and no one has responded.
We all know no one goes cd shopping anymore, or very few do, as is shown by the decline and near extinction of the idea of the "local record store".
The question, then is, as music seems as important to folks now as it did at any time in human history, where do people hear about new bands and artists, as the record store, MTV, VH1 and music magazine like Spin and Rolling Stone, as well as the radio no longer really are about exposing the public to quality music as it is a money racket.
I have heard or been exposed to a ton of great bands via movie soundtracks or songs used in commercials, or television shows.
I assume I am not the only person, but I could be wrong.
This is one of the more interesting aspects of modern day music. Can you imagine a band in the midst of the grunge scene liscensing a song to a tv show? I cant.
Nowadays, bands do that type of stuff, stuff that would be unthinkable as little as a decade ago. Iron and Wine on an M and M's commercial, The Postal Service on a UPS commercial and on the UPS website, Death Cab on a certain popular teen tv show, The Shins on a Mcdonald's commercial, Joanna Newsom soundtracking a bra commercial.
The odd thing is these artists are some of the more "popular" or "trendy" of the bands around today. I cant think of many people that would argue ANY of these people are sell outs or are making music just to make a quick buck.
We all know no one goes cd shopping anymore, or very few do, as is shown by the decline and near extinction of the idea of the "local record store".
The question, then is, as music seems as important to folks now as it did at any time in human history, where do people hear about new bands and artists, as the record store, MTV, VH1 and music magazine like Spin and Rolling Stone, as well as the radio no longer really are about exposing the public to quality music as it is a money racket.
I have heard or been exposed to a ton of great bands via movie soundtracks or songs used in commercials, or television shows.
I assume I am not the only person, but I could be wrong.
This is one of the more interesting aspects of modern day music. Can you imagine a band in the midst of the grunge scene liscensing a song to a tv show? I cant.
Nowadays, bands do that type of stuff, stuff that would be unthinkable as little as a decade ago. Iron and Wine on an M and M's commercial, The Postal Service on a UPS commercial and on the UPS website, Death Cab on a certain popular teen tv show, The Shins on a Mcdonald's commercial, Joanna Newsom soundtracking a bra commercial.
The odd thing is these artists are some of the more "popular" or "trendy" of the bands around today. I cant think of many people that would argue ANY of these people are sell outs or are making music just to make a quick buck.
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I think that the indie bands of today like Iron & Wine, Shins etc. . . are much different that the indie bands of the past.
Today's bands have to compete with the internet and many more multi-media outlets. It's like comparing apples to oranges or Pearl Jam to The Beatles.
I do think it works though as word of mouth marketing.
for instance. I was getting into blitzen trapper and i read that they played a song of theirs on the TV show CHUCK. so the day after teh show i'm at the bar with my friends and i say hey did you watch chuck last night and if so did you dig the song they played at the end ..... We then start talking about Blitzen Trapper and how I was getting into them and that was one of their songs. So i burn my friends a copy of the album and now we are all fans of them and looking forward to checking them out live the next time they come to town.
So i do think it works on some level, but i think that bands need to get their name on there so when people hear a song they like they know who it is. Most folks are too lazy to hunt it down.
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It's a great medium for artists to get their music out there, especially via commercials, which are viewed by millions of people daily.
It seems a little shady when already established bands put their music in commercials, though ... or older bands who were a part of the whole 'damn the man' don't sell-out scene. I understand when current bands do it, because they're from a completely different generation.
I'd hope that the bands I grew up with had integrity and were selective about what movies/tv shows that their music was used in, but I'm not so sure that's the case.
My friend recently said she saw an interview with some actress on a detective show (can't remember which one, but not CSI) who said that they were having an episode that used all Pearl Jam songs, which was apparently the first time PJ licensed their music for a show (although, I remember YL being in the series finale of Friends). I completely forgot about that until now.
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radio i haven't listened to in YEARS and TV.... TV plays music? most of the intro's to shows that i watch are either catchy intros made for the show or some old music that i already know about.
most of the "hip shows" like The Hills, Scrubs, Lost (rarely), Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl, One tree Hill, most will have songs picked out which deal with a theme of the show. Most, if not all of the music played on these shows, are not just put on there for the hell of it. They fit and enhance the mood or tone of the show.
The use of Josh Radin's Winter in the funeral episode was one of the most outstanding uses of music on tv ever. It made that episode. Word is, after the show, fan traffic on the official scrubs site caused it to crash, as so many peple tried to log on to find out the name and artist.
Most if not all of the big name indie bands of the moment, have all been featured and grown in popularity due to tv placements
Easy to scan the "tv guide" channel to see who is on each night and, voila, set it and forget it ('til you want to watch it of course:)