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Posted by neurofiend on Mar-14-2009 23:48:

favourite commercial tune

now i hate most commercial dance music like your average man but there has been a few that have cut it with me anyway.

the 1st 2 that come to my head are (partly because i have good fuzzy blurry memories of them from a holiday in amsterdam)
these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBGESeZt36I&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMSyhsPTAg&fmt=18

they're kinda guilty pleasures compared to the type of stuff i'd usually listen to ya know?......no?

ah well

any guilty pleasures among ye?

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Mar-14-2009 23:57:

Commercial, but definitely not guilty:

X-Press 2 - Lazy

Posted by benni on Mar-15-2009 00:38:

what is there to feel guilty about? you like what you like, the end.

Posted by sljiva on Mar-15-2009 00:47:

"Commercial", just like "popular" is quite stupid term to use when discussing music since most people use it in derogative way (and they're often wrong since a lot of great music is commercial in a way - Underworld, The Prodigy, Pink Floyd...). So if I'd list some of my favourite commercial songs, most people would say I'm full of shit because the list would look something like this:
Underworld - Two Months Off
The Prodigy - Firestater
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Portishead - Machine Gun
...

What you really want us to do is to list some god awful shitty tracks that became popular (or commercial) just because the general crowd has an awful taste in music. Then my list would look something like this:
Dance 2 Trance - Power Of American Natives (hehe)
Hercules & The Love Affair - Blind
Peter, Bjron & John (or something like this) - Young Folks
Robert Miles - Children
...

Posted by Subtle on Mar-15-2009 00:54:

Avril Lavigne - Nobody`s Home

Posted by neurofiend on Mar-15-2009 02:13:

quote:
Originally posted by benni
what is there to feel guilty about? you like what you like, the end.

its just a phrase, 'guilty pleasure'

what i mean is a type of song that you would normally find cheesy but you like it.
im not literally feeling guilty about it

@sljiva,
i think you defintetely can use the term commercial to describe a tunes sound and people will know what you mean by it.
its not easy to define in words what makes it commercial but to me (and im sure a lot of other people) its easy to notice one.

the tunes i put have a commercial sound but not in a negative wayl just the way they sound is commercial

Posted by wotyzoid on Mar-15-2009 02:15:

Posted by Armitage on Mar-15-2009 04:12:

quote:
Originally posted by sljiva
What you really want us to do is to list some god awful shitty tracks that became popular (or commercial) just because the general crowd has an awful taste in music. Then my list would look something like this:
Dance 2 Trance - Power Of American Natives (hehe)
Hercules & The Love Affair - Blind
Peter, Bjron & John (or something like this) - Young Folks
Robert Miles - Children
...

Blind?

Posted by Chimney on Mar-15-2009 08:54:

Best commercial ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW_m8NQf6Mk

Posted by Lomeli on Mar-15-2009 22:31:

The new Kanye West is pretty good.

Posted by daphunky1 on Mar-16-2009 00:46:

What tune is that in the Geico commercial?

Posted by jupiterone on Mar-16-2009 01:25:

quote:
Originally posted by daphunky1
What tune is that in the Geico commercial?

royksopp - remind me

Posted by LoveHate on Mar-16-2009 01:29:

i always liked this commercial.

Posted by Philby on Mar-16-2009 03:10:

i like september - cry for you

Posted by jupiterone on Mar-16-2009 03:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Philby
i like september - cry for you

this

i would groove the fuck out to this in the car, they played it in europe every other hour on the radio

Posted by stev�sto on Mar-16-2009 21:31:

Re: favourite commercial tune

i hate most commercial music too but its a necessary evil. i think the proper term is "pop sensibility"?

those 2 tunes you posted are excellent, the 2nd one i never heard yet so thanks.

good grief where do i begin, theres so many to list. this one is real popular right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDvIC8-ElFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBRPgJHNfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6a2RY7uB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-L4fMJqy2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rToR4Rbcvv8

Posted by neurofiend on Mar-18-2009 01:15:

quote:
Originally posted by sljiva
What you really want us to do is to list some god awful shitty tracks that became popular (or commercial) just because the general crowd has an awful taste in music.

No......that's not what i wanted at all....

very negative attitude out of you there ha? cheer up for yourself you'll live longer

basically most commercial = cheese of the cheddariest(and thats not bein a music snob,
it just is what it is)

anyway all this thread was meant to be about,
is tunes that have had commercial success but still stay under that cheesometer with you!
clear? k? K!

another 2 along those lines for me would be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaNc0PrSsoY&fmt=18

and this, the fuckin best mix of silence,
2 years before that tiesto bollox mix, who loads of people credited the whole tune to him.
the classic fade mix, got to number 1 in the charts in ireland this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txpz7_BCtTg&fmt=18