[Closed] Bad taste or What!!!

Yeah... I hate burnt toast.

Really? I thought it was Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings?

bigyinn +1

Oh, perhaps I wrong then,if that's the case I stand corrected. But it sounds very similar.

So did I.

Yes just checked, it is. So no, not bad taste at all!

Even if it had been...

FAIL!

My initial reaction was 'what possibly be so bad about using Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 in ad ad for bread'?

But then I just watched the ad on Youtube and I think if they had used that music, then oh my word it would have been in seriously bad taste!

Almost as bad as when Nike elected to call one of their shoes the 'Zyklon', until someone pointed out to them what Zyklon was.

write a letter to someone "high up" anyway - don't let anyone stand in the way of your right to be offended by something

Interestingly this thread has allowed me to finally find out what a tune was that i've loved for yours, but never known what it was until now.
Cheers for that!

I had an amazing experience one Mayhem. I cycled through the arena in the middle of the night and that music was playing really loudly, and there was pretty much no-one around. The darkness and various different lights all around had been wowing my brain a bit, especially strings of riders' lights trailing through the woods all around (which you can see from the arena if you've never been there), and coming through with that music playing and nobody about was a little bit surreal and profoudnly moving somehow.

Nike Air Zyklon - Murder the Opposition.

I'm wasted in Finance I tell thee.

If you think that's bad taste, my Gran’s church has an annual BBQ to coincide with the anniversary of the martyrdom of a saint, who was burnt at the stake!! 😆

Yeah, the Vietnam war was great for music

Flol@the barbecue one 🙂

It's in Platoon isn't it? When the character played by Dafoe is being riddled with bullets from behind as he escapes from the jungle, too late for the chopper. Incidentally, check out the soundtrack for that movie. Superb.

JEngledow I hope that's not a theme for how all the meat's cooked. I'm partial to a rare steak myself.

Yeah, the Vietnam war was great for music

I think it was actually composed around 1938 but that didn't stop Oliver Stone.

Mayhem 2007 - about midnight - the first woods - the Theme from Shaft thumping out. I giggled for a good 14hrs of otherwise joyless solo riding thereafter.

Bestest bike/music interface yet, 'chapeau' to the DJ.

Yep, here it is...

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Goosebump moment. I loved this film.

And then some ****in' DJ shagged the living daylights out of it for a trance tune a few years back. Though I'm sure some of Barber's more learned fans thought the same when Stone used it for Platoon 🙂

Such a moving piece of music, had it at our sons funeral, kind of struggle to listen to it now so no doubt that ad will catch me a few times when it randomly appears on tv.

my Gran’s church has an annual BBQ to coincide with the anniversary of the martyrdom of a saint, who was burnt at the stake!!

The church is hardly known for its taste though. If Jesus ever does put in another appearence I reckon the last thing he's going to want to see is a load of people everywhere wearing crucifixes. "Gee, rub it in why don't you?!"

Almost as bad as when Nike elected to call one of their shoes the 'Zyklon', until someone pointed out to them what Zyklon was.

The German for "cyclone" ??

The German for "cyclone" ??

It may well be that as well.

Zyklon B was the name of the gas used in the Nazi concentration camps. Deeply uncool stuff.

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Mayhem 2007 - about midnight - the first woods - the Theme from Shaft thumping out. I giggled for a good 14hrs of otherwise joyless solo riding thereafter.

Bestest bike/music interface yet, 'chapeau' to the DJ.

I think it was actually composed around 1938 but that didn't stop Oliver Stone.

You make it sound like he was somehow cheating his audience. It was just a bit of nice music to go with the film, I don't think Oliver Stone actually claimed the music was composed around the time of the Vietnam war.

Bad taste + complete lack of awareness or possible ultra dark humour...

The female aid work who was killed after being ran over by an Israeli armoured tractor - her group/supporters supposedly have an annual pancake party in her honour.

Is it just me or did anyone else cry at that Warburtons ad? 😥

I'm off to burn some toast.

The female aid work who was killed after being ran over by an Israeli armoured tractor - her group/supporters supposedly have an annual pancake party in her honour.

You never know she might have been flattered

Is it just me or did anyone else cry at that Warburtons ad?

yes, I did. I ain't ashamed either. You don't know what it was like. You weren't there man!

The William Orbit version was beautiful.

I actually really like the Ferry Corsten remix too!

Oddly enough when you do a search on Youtube, Adagio for strings also appears - or is that down to searches by STW'ers ?

Both highly evocative and beautiful pieces of music.

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I don't know classical music too well but those sound almost nothing alike.

Slightly OT - has anyone visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin?

Personally I thought it was amazing.
Overpowering and opressive whilst being filled with the laughter of children playing hide 'n' seek, covered in sunbathers and people enjoying their lunch.

I ask because I know Berliners and Germans who didn't think it was wholly appropriate, for me it was beautiful.

Tiesto version is my favourite.

The William Orbit version was beautiful.

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I don't know classical music too well but those sound almost nothing alike.

They both have violins and that's about it.

yes, I did. I ain't ashamed either. You don't know what it was like. You weren't there man!

I blame the agent Orange Marmalade.

I blame the agent Orange Marmalade.

What about the Colonel Mustard Gas?