[lbo-talk] The Fall, Buzzcocks promote Mitsubishi SUVs

[B.]

In a recent interview in Maximum Rock 'n Roll, Mark E.
Smith of The Fall was very much playing up the "screw
this corrupt business system of ours" bit. He said
major labels were horrible, indie labels were probably
even worse, and had a very bitter screed about
corporations, etc. A few weeks later his song is in
the Mitsubishi SUV commercial.

Also, the Buzzcocks, like The Damned, used to not get
airplay simply because of the band names, laughably
now in the days of bands with names ike the Butthole
Surfers. It's just odd that band with a name gotten
from a porno mag ("get a buzz, cock") is shilling for
an old persons' association. All I'm saying.

-B.

James Heartfield wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something, but I don't remember
these punk bands being 
> hostile to debauched excess, Iggy Pop is about the
age range that Carnival 
> Cruise is aiming at, and Marc Bolan's commitment to
the revolution was 
> pretty tongue in cheek - indeed John Peel made him
the archetype of a sell 
> out in his memoirs. We are all getting older.