The Random Music Sightings Thread

[ajyouthguy]

i heard "When Did You Fall" by Chris Rice in Ruby Tuesday's at lunch today.

[murlough23]

i heard "When Did You Fall" by Chris Rice in Ruby Tuesday's at lunch today.

I heard that one last month at a random gas station/Wendy's/super-sized 7-11 that is one of the only places to stop when driving along Highway 5 through boring central California.

The other night while watching Jay Leno, when they cut to commercial after the monologue, Kevin Eubanks and his band started playing the intro to Evanescence's "Whisper".

[enemy anemone]

I was surprised to hear KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" during the opening credits of The Devil Wears Prada. (I guess more fannish KT fans would have known this but I didn't.)

[murlough23]

I was surprised to hear KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" during the opening credits of The Devil Wears Prada. (I guess more fannish KT fans would have known this but I didn't.)

Yeah, that was the best thing about that movie.

[enemy anemone]

I did like watching Meryl Streep's performance and looking at the costumes, but yeah. I would say that the song is too good for the movie.

[plvarona]

Yesterday, one of the segments on ESPN Radio's The Herd opened with the intro to "Face Down" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

[murlough23]

Allmusic.com's column "The Whole Note" did an article on Marching Band-Influenced Sogns at the beginning of the month of March. Sufjan Stevens' "The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders" made the list, and I can totally hear the marching band influence in several of his songs, though with this one you'd have to be insane to actually try to get a band to march to it.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=61::73LP

(It kind of reminds me of the time when Vienna Teng mentioned that someone had told her they wanted to put together an ice skating routine for her song "Harbor", and she was like, "Good luck dealing with all the time signature changes in that song!")

NP: "Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground", Chris Thile

[Brenden]

I was playing crackdown when all of a sudden I heard Extreme days by TobyMac playing in the background.

[bloop]

I turned on American Idol just a little late.  Was that the tail end of "Twin Cinema" by the New Pornographers that I caught?  I'm not sure because I only heard a very small snippet, but if so, what the heck does it have to do with the British Invasion?

[murlough23]

Not so much a music sighting in terms of hearing a song played, but Radiohead was mentioned on tonight's episode of Boston Legal. A witness to a crime was at a Radiohead concert the night before, and the cross-examining lawyer (Alan Shore) goaded him into admitting the likelihood that attending such a concert meant that he did drugs and got very little sleep, thus making him an unreliable witness. Hell of a stereotype, but I'll admit I laughed.

[Josh Powell]

I turned on American Idol just a little late.  Was that the tail end of "Twin Cinema" by the New Pornographers that I caught?  I'm not sure because I only heard a very small snippet, but if so, what the heck does it have to do with the British Invasion?

I don't think so, no. I don't remember hearing that at all actually.

[cowdude]

Lovedrug is on Yahoo!'s Who's Next? artist of the month.

You can vote here: http://music.yahoo.com/promo-29644410

[murlough23]

Battlestar Galactica's Season 3 finale incorporated a unique, sitar-heavy cover version of the song "All Along the Watchtower", written by Bob Dylan and popularized by Jimi Hendrix, in a way that likely made most viewers' heads spins. Classic rock songs from our universe don't just randomly show up in theirs without an explanation, so I'd have to say it was about the most unusual instance of using a recognizable song from pop culture as a plot element in a TV show that I can think of in recent years.

[RedcoatJones]

Luna Halo's "Kings and Queens" is being used to promo the season finale of King of Queens on CBS.

[plvarona]

Covering a few sightings from the last week or so:

A little over a week ago, a local SportsTalk radio station played a little bit of Robert Randolph & The Family Band's "Diane" while coming out of a commercial break.

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' "Face Down" made yet another appearance, this time heading into a commercial break on CBS's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship game.

A few days ago, a segment on ESPN Radio's The Herd opened with the intro "Different" by Acceptance.

[bloop]

Heard Linkin Park's "What I've Done" on network TV today.  I wasn't paying attention to the show.

[Aaron]

Last night, Austin City Limits was a re-run but it was a great episode.  The Raconteurs followed by Cat Power.  The Raconteurs (including Jack White) were freaking amazing.  One of the best live performances in a long time.  Cat Power was stunning.  She is so beautiful and has that bluesy female voice that is so captivating.  She is a little nutty with her movements and expressions, but wow, I was stunned by her performance.

[dgp11776]

Robert Randolph & The Family Band and Feist both showed up on Grey's Anatomy last night.

[enemy anemone]

a Battlestar Galactica podcast that I listen to closed a 'cast with a BSG-ized version of KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See". something about "down in CIC" and "next to Lee" and "instead of Dee"...it was weird. and hilarious.

[murlough23]

a Battlestar Galactica podcast that I listen to closed a 'cast with a BSG-ized version of KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See". something about "down in CIC" and "next to Lee" and "instead of Dee"...it was weird. and hilarious.

I'm assuming that podcast isn't the official one done by Ronald D. Moore? Where can I find it?

[enemy anemone]

it's one of the Galactica Watercooler ones, but I can't recall which number.

...stop being lazy and do a google already...

okay, it's this one. the song is at the veryvery end.

[murlough23]

Thanks. The song can be downloaded just by itself here:

http://galacticawatercooler.com/2007/03/06/outro-music-here-in-cic/

[murlough23]

According to the latest Lost podcast, Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) is a big Radiohead fan. And I quote, "If you don't like Radiohead, you don't like music". He likes Thom Yorke's solo stuff, Keane, and Imogen Heap, as well as some other bands I've never heard of. Appaerntly he's the go-to guy among the cast for new music recommendations.

Rob Thomas's song "Now Comes the Night" was played during a particularly emotional scene in Brothers and Sisters last night.

And not that this should be a surprise to anyone who lives east of me, but we don't have a whole lot of Chick-Fil-A's out here, so when I was at one the other day and heard Jars of Clay ("There Is a River") and Starfield ("Everything Is Beautiful"), I remembered that the chain was Christian-owned or something like that.

[RedcoatJones]

According to the latest Lost podcast, Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) is a big Radiohead fan. And I quote, "If you don't like Radiohead, you don't like music". He likes Thom Yorke's solo stuff, Keane, and Imogen Heap, as well as some other bands I've never heard of. Appaerntly he's the go-to guy among the cast for new music recommendations.

Rob Thomas's song "Now Comes the Night" was played during a particularly emotional scene in Brothers and Sisters last night.

And not that this should be a surprise to anyone who lives east of me, but we don't have a whole lot of Chick-Fil-A's out here, so when I was at one the other day and heard Jars of Clay ("There Is a River") and Starfield ("Everything Is Beautiful"), I remembered that the chain was Christian-owned or something like that.

The Truett's Grill near my house (a Chick-fil-a "50's Diner concept" was playing Switchfoot's Oh! Gravity album in its entirety when my wife and I ate there last week).

[ajyouthguy]

so the AI songwriter competition was won by, and the song used on tonight's show, "This is My Now," was co-written by, CCMer Scott Krippayne.  That's pretty awesome.

[murlough23]

I saw a SunChips commercial the other day that had Sixpence's "Kiss Me" with the vocals replaced by a bunch of "la la"s. It still sounded like Leigh, but it's pretty lame that she'd agree to re-record the vocals to one of her own songs just because a commercial didn't want to use it with the lyrics. Seriously, you couldn't have just picked some other song that fit the commercial better (and that hadn't already ben used in 10,000 movie promos) without having to take out the words?

NP: "By Number (live)", Anathallo

[dgp11776]

so the AI songwriter competition was won by, and the song used on tonight's show, "This is My Now," was co-written by, CCMer Scott Krippayne.  That's pretty awesome.

Yeah, I saw that.  The song pretty much sucked, though.

[Josh Powell]

There was a Wolfmother and Damien Rice song in Shrek The Third.

[murlough23]

There was a Wolfmother and Damien Rice song in Shrek The Third.

I'm continually impressed at the alternative/indie sensibilities of the song choices for the Shrek movies, even if I'm not super-familiar with the artists chosen. I have to credit the first Shrek movie for introducing me to Lenoard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (though now I can't remember which of the 10,000 recorded versions was actually in the film).

NP: "International Love Song", Caedmon's Call

[Josh Powell]

Yeah.. there was one or two other songs in Shrek (3) that I didn't know but they sounded OK. Anybody have a complete list of them all?

The one in the film was Rufus Wainwright.

[RedcoatJones]

Last week's Veronica Mars episode had a TV on the Radio poster hanging on a character's dorm wall.

[Aaron]

Last night, the U.S. Air Force Band of Liberty performed a concert at the high school in town, and the last piece on their program was Ray Boltz's "An Honor To Serve"

[enemy anemone]

I was at California Pizza Kitchen this afternoon and they were playing some music that sounded vaguely familiar but I could only hear the bass line through the din of chattering diners. (side note: isn't it kind of odd that a "diner" is a place to dine and also a person who dines?) I figured oh, it's just Heart and Soul with a shoo-bop sort of rhythm, but then I could hear that it was indeed Patty Griffin's song Heavenly Day. (I never noticed that about the bass line or rhythm before.)

[plvarona]

I heard the intro to "The Older I Get" by Skillet introducing one of the segments on ESPN Radio's The Herd earlier this week.

[murlough23]

Our church's college pastor was praying for the group before a charity event last weekend, and she was amusingly interrupted by a cell phone that she forgot to turn off. Thanks to her ringtone ("How to Save a Life"), I now know that Pastor Sharon apparently likes The Fray.

[enemy anemone]

I was catching up on season 3 of Veronica Mars. they played another Neko Case song, "Set Out Running". in an earlier ep they played "Hold On, Hold On".

[RedcoatJones]

Andrew Bird's "Skin, Is" (or some variation of it) is being used by a Marriott commercial See it here!

Also, I *hides face* watched the Bon Jovi MTV Unplugged this weekend, and he did a surprisingly good rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"

[Aaron]

ESPN/ESPN2 used O.A.R.'s "One Shot" and "Wonderful Day" for their NCAA College World Series coverage.

[enemy anemone]

I was catching up with some episodes of Men In Trees (every time I type that name I think about how dumb it sounds, but I love the quirky characters) and my ears perked up when I heard a Ditty Bops song playing. I wasn't familiar with it but a google search reveals that it was Wake Up. in another episode I got really excited to hear an Eleni Mandell song, American Boy. my own notions of the song didn't fit with what was going on in the scene, but it was way cool to hear.

[murlough23]

Heard Sixpence's "Breathe Your Name" in Macy's yesterday, which wouldn't be notable at all except for the fact that I had been listening to Divine Discontent in the car on the way there. Usually when you hear Sixpence in a public place, it's "Kiss Me" or "There She Goes".