Monday, March 13, 2006

Music I like in commercials

Band - Song - Company

Badly Drawn Boy - All Possibilities - Target
I put myself on his record label's email list a while back. Not sure why, since I can't just hop on a bus and take in a show in Manchester at the drop of a hat. But some interesting sounds are coming from other bands under the Twisted Nerve label that are worth a listen.
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights - Kaiser Permanente (and others)
I'm a new Death Cab for Cutie fan so I just had to eat up The Postal Service stuff too. Fun! Helps me pick up the pace when I walk from the bus terminal to my building in the morning.

Someone asked me a few weeks back what kind of music I like and I named these two bands as being in my most recent favorites. I don't listen to the radio much and am not sure if they get a lot of airplay but I can now refer them to some commercials on TV.
What I'm sick of ...

Oasis - All Around the World - AT&T/SBC
Puke - partly because it's just been played out way too much, throughout the Olympics and now as the AT&T brand is being hammered into everyone's heads. Which kinda helps me out with work - I'm tired of saying "formerly known as SBC" to make sure people don't hang up in my face thinking I'm soliciting new business from existing customers. Oasis = Oa-sucks: an old on-line buddy once called them. They were a big fave of mine when they started out but the brotherly hate between the Gallagher brothers was just too much for me and their new solo stuff just didn't hold my interest.