The Random Music Sightings Thread

[plvarona]

I keep hearing Mat Kearney's "Hey Mama" in Red Lobster commercials.

[murlough23]

Met a girl today (friend of a friend) who once dated Dave Keuning, guitarist for The Killers.

[plvarona]

During Sunday Night Football, I heard Anberlin's "Feel Good Drag" while cutting to a commercial just after one of the Green Bay Packers got leveled.  Also tonight, I heard The Civil Wars' "Baton Hollow" in an advertisement for the TV show Grimm.

[murlough23]

During Sunday Night Football, I heard Anberlin's "Feel Good Drag" while cutting to a commercial just after one of the Green Bay Packers got leveled.  Also tonight, I heard The Civil Wars' "Baton Hollow" in an advertisement for the TV show Grimm.

I heard that Civil Wars song randomly in some store. I'm pleasantly surprised by the exposure they're getting.

[ajyouthguy]

Speaking of the Civil Wars, our pastor's son and his wife did "From this Valley" during the offertory at church yesterday morning.

[ajyouthguy]

Just heard "Light Up the Sky" by the Afters on a preview for next week's The Biggest Loser show.

[murlough23]

Heard a familiar melody in an ad for the movie We Bought a Zoo, and realized it was the Katie Herzig song "Lost and Found".

[RedcoatJones]

This is more of a random music person sighting. At my company's Christmas party, it turns out one of my coworker's boyfriend was the touring bassist for Mae during the (a)fternoon tour after Mark Padgett left. I knew he was a musician, but I had never realized he played for a band I really like.

[murlough23]

one of my coworker's boyfriend

Your co-worker has multiple boyfriends?

[RedcoatJones]

Heh. Grammar fail.

Though not impossible, highly unlikely in this case   

[murlough23]

To be fair, you did use "boyfriend", singular.

In a similar "reverse sighting" vein, the former worship director from my church (Justis Kao, I pubbed a few of his songs way back when) can now be seen as a backup singer on X-Factor. Not that I particularly like X-Factor or any of those singing competition shows, but every career's gotta start somewhere I guess, and dude has a great voice, even though you're never gonna hear it by itself on this show.

[Aaron]

Needtobreathe's "Oohs and Aahs" was used in the commercial for a new Fox series Alcatraz

[ajyouthguy]

Heard Mute Math's "Blood Pressure" on ESPN last night.

[plvarona]

I heard Generationals' "I Promise" in a Volkswagen commercial earlier today.

[plvarona]

I just heard Switchfoot's "Dark Horses" as NBC was cutting to a commercial on Sunday Night Football.

[murlough23]

I was watching last week's episode of Chuck, and I heard the song "We Are Young" near the end of the episode, so I said to my wife, "That sounds like fun.", which of course she interpreted as me saying that whatever the characters were doing onscreen seemed enjoyable.

[ajyouthguy]

Heard Switchfoot's "Dark Horses" on the Sugar Bowl tonight, after hearing "The Original" on one of the games yesterday.

[plvarona]

On Monday I heard MuteMath's "Allies" while cutting to a commercial during the Gator Bowl.

[murlough23]

Those who watch Portlandia already know this, but I'm playing catch-up, so humor me. Aimee Mann and Sarah MacLachlan were in an episode, as menial laborers. They're both good sports.

[murlough23]

Heard Death Cab for Cutie's "Unobstructed Views" in an ad for the film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

[murlough23]

Every single Portlandia episode is probably gonna have one of these. This week's musical indie-celeb guest appearance will apparently be St. Vincent.

[enemy anemone]

I spotted Bob Dylan's song Queen Jane Approximately in Brett Dennen's song The One Who Loves You the Most.

[ajyouthguy]

Gospel singer Anthony Evans (son of Tony Evans the pastor) made it onto NBC's The Voice last night...his coach is Christina.

So did an underrated mid-90's Christian pop singer named Tony Vincent, who seems light years removed from those days and has spent the past decade plus doing theater and Broadway type stuff...Jesus Christ Superstar, American Idiot, etc.  His coach is Cee-lo.

[murlough23]

Not such a surprise to hear this song out and about in public, but funny given the context. My wife and I were watching a friend's tween-aged girls for a few hours this weekend, and we walked with them to a local mall where of course they dragged us into Hot Topic. I made a joke about the funny "Cookie Monster" growl of the death metal music they were playing at the time, and before too long, the music switched to Sleeping at Last's "Turning Page". I realize that Twilight was the connection, but the mood whiplash made me chuckle.

[murlough23]

It was a good weekend for music sightings on TV. I'm trying to refrain from posting every single stinkin' one on Portlandia, but they had Joanna Newsom as the center of their opening sketch this week (in which her harp is rather painfully crammed into a small car), and Robin pecknold from Fleet Foxes also had a bit part in the same sketch. Then on SNL the next day, Justin Timberlake did a hilarious send-up of Bon Iver (basically accusing his music of putting everyone to sleep, but it was all in good fun).

[murlough23]

Jonsi's "Around Us" was in the trailer for some nature film about the Arctic. I think there's a law somewhere that states his voice must be heard in every nature film remotely associated with Disney these days.

[ajyouthguy]

Since I previously mentioned Anthony Evans and Tony Vincent making it onto The Voice, I thought I'd update their journeys. 

Anthony was in the final 'battle' of the first of four nights of six head to head battles (by the way the last 'battle' of the night each of the four weeks was basically the most hyped, most 'epic' matchups of the night), and lost a pretty epic battle to another African-American singer, who probably was slightly better than him, but Anthony didn't have anything to be ashamed of.

Tony Vincent was in the final of the 24 battles, the last one of the six on the fourth night of them and it was another pretty epic battle, this time with a guy who used to be in Carson Daly's house band.  Both guys are married and have kids/kids on the way, and the song choice was "Faithfully" by Journey and they both did amazing.  Two of the three other mentors favored the other guy, with one favoring Tony, and ultimately Cee lo, who had the final decision (and who was literally moved to tears by their practices with it), chose Tony as the winner which means he is one of the 24 who advances to the live shows starting April 2, although his first appearance will be the following week, April 9.

[murlough23]

Between Tony Vincent and Tony Lucca (former Mouseketeer whose current music I listened to a bit of via Noisetrade the other day), The Voice this year would be a blast back to my teenage years, if I watched it, what I don't.

[murlough23]

Some good soundtrack picks in the Blue Like Jazz movie... in addition to the expected jazz pieces, Over the Rhine and Katie Herzig make appearances with "All I Want for Christmas Is Blue" and "I Hurt Too", respectively.

[ajyouthguy]

"Sooner or Later" by Mat Kearney was played on tonight's The Biggest Loser episode as the three finalists went home for their welcome back for a few weeks before the finale

[plvarona]

Coldplay's "Charlie Brown" has been featured prominently in ads for ESPN's coverage of the European (Soccer) Championships.

[murlough23]

Funny that we were talking about Dave Grohl in another thread today; he plays an Animal impersonator in The Muppets, which we just watched tonight. (I was convinced at first that it was Jason Lee!)

Edit: Apparently Feist had a cameo too? And a climactic whistling scene was actually performed by Andrew Bird? I sure miss a lot.

[murlough23]

I see band T-shirts all the time, so I normally wouldn't consider them significant enough for this thread. However, while my wife and I were in Olympic National Park last weekend, I spotted a woman wearing a Sufjan Stevens "Illinoise" T-shirt. I wish I wasn't so weird about talking to strangers. I wanted to march right up and say, "Hey, great shirt, that's my favorite album of all time." Because I always appreciate the rare occasions when someone comments on a band shirt that I'm wearing - which isn't often as they don't tend to be mega-popular bands. Ah, well. Whoever she was, she had good taste in both music and travel.

[plvarona]

Here's a music sighting that came "out of the blue" to me.  While I was eating lunch at The Breadbox (a local sandwich shop over here in Baton Rouge), I heard Chris Rice's "Lemonade."

[plvarona]

I've been in New York City this weekend, attending the U.S. Open (Tennis tournament) both yesterday and today.  There were quite a few random music sightings during the tournament.  Here were some of the notable ones:

Before each of the sessions at Arthur Ashe Stadium (Center court), a series of facts about the U.S. Open was shown with Run Kid Run's "We've Only Just Begun" playing in the background.  I did not see that one coming at all.

Several entertainment acts were performing throughout the grounds at various times in the tournament.  One was an all-female acapella group, and I thought their most interesting arrangement was one of The Killers' "All The Things That I've Done."  Other songs they sang included the Beatles' "Blackbird", The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" and the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back."

Another group that was playing on the U.S. Open grounds was an acoustic guitar duo, whose repertoire included Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight" and Oasis's "Wonderwall."

Songs that were included in the music rotation heard throughout the tournament grounds included Lifehouse's "Hanging by a Moment", Coldplay's "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" and fun.'s "We Are Young."

[murlough23]

Expedia is using M83's "Raconte-Moi Une Histoire" in a commercial. Minus the little girl talking about hallucinogenic frogs and stuff, naturally.

[Wildcatblue7]

Henry Rollins was a Neo-Nazi in the season of Sons of Anarchy I just watched...

That's not that random, though, because I could buy that being real life.  Dude is creepy.

[murlough23]

The pilot episode of The Mindy Project had this M.I.A. song that appeared a few times when the lead character was getting down to business and/or doing something badass or naughty. I don't know which song it was, but the voice was unmistakable. I figure Mindy Kaling wanted to give another creative mind from the Indian subcontinent a shout-out.

[murlough23]

I thought it was amusing on this week's Saturday Night Live, when they did another one of those ads for the "Kickspit Under-Underground Rock Festival", which usually involves listing a bunch of made-up band names that sound like they'd appeal to that sort of crowd: "George W.'s Bush", "Mrs. Potato Dick", etc. Then they'll always throw a real, but completely innocuous sounding, band name in there for laughs. This time around it was none other than Sixpence None the Richer. Imagine that coming from the kind of announcer voice you'd expect at a monster truck rally. (This sketch also featured Bruno Mars as a Hawaiian dude talking in a Pidgin accent. Write what you know, eh?)

[Aaron]

NFL Network just used Toby Mac's "Unstoppable" in a montage