[kj] Nervous Breakdown

[Graeme Rowland]

Yeah I know SST bands were not from DC, but my friend
does a show on local radio and plays Minutemen & Black
Flag (form California) and calls them DC hardcore
bands.

My email was edited from a reply to that, hence the
cofusion!

--- Leigh Newton <angrytomhanks at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rise Above was actually in some other commercial for
> i
> forget a few years back. And Dischord is the label
> that only deals with DC bands, not SST.
> 
> Leigh
> 
> --- Graeme Rowland <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > A small Syrian informs me that she has been seeing
> > adverts on TV for the internet with "Nervous
> > Breakdown" by Black Flag as the soundtrack. 
> > 
> > It does seem odd to advertise the internet with a
> > song
> > that goes 'my head really hurts.'It would not
> > surprise
> > me if miserable hardcore hero Greg Ginn earned
> more
> > money on royalties from this advert than from
> every
> > Black Flag gig put together. Perhaps he could pay
> > Grant Hart and Meat Puppets (neither of whom are
> > from
> > DC) some of the dosh they claim SST owes them! 
> > 
> > There are a lot of Black Flag songs he could shop
> > out
> > to advertisers for more appropriate products.
> > 
> > *Six Pack could be used to sell weak American beer
> > *Wasted - skateboards
> > *Spray Paint the Wall - paints for naughty people
> > *TV Party - more beer or junk food
> > *Thirsty and Miserable - beer, more beer!
> > *Black Coffee - coffee
> > *White Minority - propaganda for Republican party
> > *Swinging Man - trailer for film about cashcow
> > suicide
> > Ian Curtis
> > *I Won't Stick Any Of You - Blu-Tac (TM)
> > *Scream - Ice cream
> > *Now She's Black - cosmetic surgery for skin
> > darkening, in an advert featuring Ari Up
> > *The Process of Weeding Out - garden tools such as
> > spades and hoes
> > *Slip It In - condoms
> > *The Crazy Girl - Prozac
> > *Retired at 21 - pension schemes
> > *Life of Pain - aspirin
> > *Annihilate This Week - more booze and cigs
> > *Drinking and Driving - anti-drink driving
> > propaganda
> > *Paralyzed - wheelchairs
> > *Sinking - trailer for film about the Titanic
> > *I'm the One - The Sun newspaper
> > *I Can See You - opticians
> > *Gimmme Gimme Gimme - just about anything
> > *No More - turn off the TV go do something less
> > toxic
> > instead, like drink a six pack
> > 
> > 
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