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Title: Good Song, Show On the Pedestrian Side of Things
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on May 28, 2008, 12:53:38 AM
I've been watching a lot of network tv this week for some sad reason.  I keep hearing good songs on pedestrian-sided shows.

This week I heard

Thirteen by Big Star on How I Met Your Mother.

then I Am A Scientist by GBV on Samantha Who?

...also Hold On Hope on Scrubs

I'm not so into good songs getting ruined by shows, but I guess that's the only way musicians make money these days.  And I guess they're not really "ruined" except the Big Star song on That Seventies Show as covered by Cheap Trick.  Any other examples people?
Title: Re: Good Song, Bad Show
Post by: Andy on May 28, 2008, 12:56:54 AM
Closing theme to Frasier.

Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin',
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs

Oh My
Mercy (alt: Quite stylish.)

And maybe I seem a bit confused,
Yeah maybe, but I got you pegged!
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!

But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
They're callin' again.
Title: Re: Good Song, Bad Show
Post by: Stan on May 28, 2008, 01:22:51 AM
 Great song (Bun E. Carlos likes it, too) weird version, Great Show:

[youtube]IqHSDZM89wk[/youtube]
Title: Re: Good Song, Bad Show
Post by: Jouster on May 28, 2008, 02:20:11 AM
I've been watching a lot of network tv this week for some sad reason.  I keep hearing good songs on bad shows.

This week I heard

Thirteen by Big Star on How I Met Your Mother.

then I Am A Scientist by GBV on Samantha Who?

...also Hold On Hope on Scrubs

I'm not so into good songs getting ruined by shows, but I guess that's the only way musicians make money these days.  And I guess they're not really "ruined" except the Big Star song on That Seventies Show as covered by Cheap Trick.  Any other examples people?

How I Met Your Mother is not a bad show.  It's on the pedestrian side of things, but it's actually OK, and has a pretty good cast.  So shut it, JJ.
Title: Re: Good Song, Bad Show
Post by: buffcoat on May 28, 2008, 10:08:09 AM
Great song (Bun E. Carlos likes it, too) weird version, Great Show:

[youtube]IqHSDZM89wk[/youtube]

Sometimes I miss the Nineties.  People seemed more earnest, then.



Now someone is going to post that Lady Bracknell thing, but they'd have to do it under their own username!
Title: Re: Good Song, Bad Show
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on May 28, 2008, 10:33:01 AM
I've been watching a lot of network tv this week for some sad reason.  I keep hearing good songs on bad shows.

This week I heard

Thirteen by Big Star on How I Met Your Mother.

then I Am A Scientist by GBV on Samantha Who?

...also Hold On Hope on Scrubs

I'm not so into good songs getting ruined by shows, but I guess that's the only way musicians make money these days.  And I guess they're not really "ruined" except the Big Star song on That Seventies Show as covered by Cheap Trick.  Any other examples people?

How I Met Your Mother is not a bad show.  It's on the pedestrian side of things, but it's actually OK, and has a pretty good cast.  So shut it, JJ.

Happy Now? 
Title: Re: Good Song, Show On the Pedestrian Side of Things
Post by: bobby. on May 28, 2008, 10:36:22 AM
I've been watching a lot of network tv this week for some sad reason.  I keep hearing good songs on pedestrian-sided shows.

This week I heard

Thirteen by Big Star on How I Met Your Mother.

then I Am A Scientist by GBV on Samantha Who?

...also Hold On Hope on Scrubs

I'm not so into good songs getting ruined by shows, but I guess that's the only way musicians make money these days.  And I guess they're not really "ruined" except the Big Star song on That Seventies Show as covered by Cheap Trick.  Any other examples people?

Speaking of GbV, 'Game of Pricks' is used in an episode of The IT Crowd. Unfortunately it doesn't fit your example because it's a great song, great show combo!
Title: Re: Good Song, Show On the Pedestrian Side of Things
Post by: Stan on May 28, 2008, 10:40:09 AM
 It appears that I may have hijacked your thread, JJ. Please accept my most sincere apology.
Title: Re: Good Song, Show On the Pedestrian Side of Things
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on May 28, 2008, 01:27:19 PM
I'm not so into good songs getting ruined by shows, but I guess that's the only way musicians make money these days.  And I guess they're not really "ruined" except the Big Star song on That Seventies Show as covered by Cheap Trick.  Any other examples people?

it doesnt bother me as much as it used to when i hear really good songs on poor network television.  i imagine some poor slob hating his job, just trying to make a buck, working his way to the position he REALLY wants, and hoards all his free time into a corner, listening to his iPod, and somehow, someone, just happened to walk by and ask him what he was listening to, googled it, and picked the catchiest, poppiest song they liked (they hated the rest of the album). 


sigh.