Eno's Music for Orange?

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How is it possible that Brian Eno's "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" is currently being used in a TV advertisement for Orange?
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because they paid for it, silly... money talks.
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And thus integrity walks?
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good god yes. i'm gonna have to apply to an independent school for a job cos i can't get a state one.

everyone has a price. mine is currently what the overdraft says.
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Chairman Bux wrote:And thus integrity walks?
Yup.

In an Armani suit.

Will probably be buried in a Gucci bodybag.

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Chairman Bux wrote:And thus integrity walks?
Isn't it great? 8) :twisted:
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Chairman Bux wrote:How is it possible that Brian Eno's "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" is currently being used in a TV advertisement for Orange?
Cos Orange are cool as fcuk.
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Because they couldn't get clearance for that Sisters track they wanted to use.



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Another thought -


If you check the properties of the start up sound on Windows 95 (98?) it was written by one Brian Eno. Looks like the walking was a while back....
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Chairman Bux wrote:How is it possible that Brian Eno's "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" is currently being used in a TV advertisement for Orange?
I understand your concern, Sir. I also prefer pineapples.
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ruffers wrote:Because they couldn't get clearance for that Sisters track they wanted to use.
similarly we won't be hearing "this corrosion" as soundtrack to gambol&proctors latest dishwasher tablet eating through grease and grime; "when you dont see me" for bodyforms latest invisible panty-liner or "something fast" for immodium. :innocent:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:
ruffers wrote:Because they couldn't get clearance for that Sisters track they wanted to use.
similarly we won't be hearing "this corrosion" as soundtrack to gambol&proctors latest dishwasher tablet eating through grease and grime; "when you dont see me" for bodyforms latest invisible panty-liner or "something fast" for immodium. :innocent:
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Ozpat wrote:
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:
ruffers wrote:Because they couldn't get clearance for that Sisters track they wanted to use.
similarly we won't be hearing "this corrosion" as soundtrack to gambol&proctors latest dishwasher tablet eating through grease and grime; "when you dont see me" for bodyforms latest invisible panty-liner or "something fast" for immodium. :innocent:
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I've always thought that the strains of "Some Kind of Stranger" would add an interesting additional dimension to those late night 'telephone chat line' adverts...
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i saw this advert one day last week. its part 1 of the 4 part piece isnt it? the really bare, stripped down version?

hmmm :?

as far as him creating that windows startup sound, i can imagine how that appealled to eno - the idea of being involved with mass-consumer technology, with something quite "cutting edge" and something that would become engrained in people's psyche and become almost a background sound to their lives... its not unlike the ideas he has used in some of his recent art installations.

art piggybacking on the great beast? maybe. infiltration in order to subvert? probably not.

oh well. art is as art does.

"burning airlines" to be used for american airlines, anyone? ;)
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<Bill Hicks> What kind of world are we living in where rock stars are doing adverts? What kind of Reagan wet-dream is this? God, does anyone remember when rock music had balls? When rock music had a conscience? When rock music was dangerous? When rock music meant something?

Can you imagine Keith Moon doing an advert? "When I'm doing a drum solo, and I've not had anything to eat for eight days, there's nothing I like more than a Hostess Twinkie." </Bill Hicks>

Jeez I have some of his routines by memory now?

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their jobs are to write music. no one said who for..
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Chairman Bux wrote:And thus integrity walks?
If you're searching for integrity in the music business, you can pull out your magnifiers.

.... and still wouldn't find anything.
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Lemmy eating crisps is a million times more disturbing than any of this.
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boudicca wrote:Lemmy eating crisps is a million times more disturbing than any of this.
a fair point :lol:
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aah,but they are Walker's crisps! 8) [/leicester pride]
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quite right lee. nothing else is worth its salt and vinegar.
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Depends who has the publishing rights. I've been quite distressed by Blockheads and Fall tracks on adverts, and the KFC Northern Soul campaign drove me up the piggin' wall, but more often than not the artists have no say in it. The Sissies never featured on any dodgy Goff/80s alt' comps till they broke with Warners :|
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Until the production company came up with something worse This Corrosion was going to be the theme song for Mutant Nija Turtles - talk about integrity walking !!
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a.r.kane wrote:Until the production company came up with something worse This Corrosion was going to be the theme song for Mutant Nija Turtles - talk about integrity walking !!
source?
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