Who woulda thunk?

You know who started this ruining of classics - Buggs Bunny. Forever will I envision Elmer Fudd in a viking helmet when I hear Wagner. Thanks god it wasn't Mozart.

That's because they're trying to get YOU to BUY!

How about hearing Iggy Pop doing "Lust For Life", The Buzzcocks doing "What Do I Get", Trio doing "DA DA DA", etc... on TV commercials??? You're right, who woulda thunk it??? All of these "outsiders" have sold out to crass commercialism. Sean
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PS... Actually, i'm just kidding. I'm glad to see stuff like this from bands that i loved back in my "yoot". It may help others to find some more great music from these bands / performers.

Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit! I heartily disagree - I believe that having that classical music with bugs bunny introduced a whole generation to classical music. Remember the Rabbit of Seville?

Ya know who is missing? The Doors. "Light My Fire" is *made* to sell something.

I gather JM did something odd in the early days of the band, and set things up so that all four were equal owners of the publishing rights. The ability to use The Doors' music in commercial contexts, therefore, can be vetoed by a single band member, and one of them has taken a hard line stance. Can't remember which one, but I do remember reading his defense of his position. He effectively said that too many people had come up to him out of the blue and said "I'll never forget [Song X] because it was playing when I [first made love]/[first stepped off the plane in Vietnam]/etc." I think his view was that by commercializing the songs, it cheapens in some way the associations fans had with the music.

Interesting viewpoint.