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[MalMal]

Ok... so I haven't been her long, so I don't know if I've earnt the right to bother you with my own threads, but this has been annoying me for a little while now...and so I thought to myself, if anyone knows, it'll be the massed readers of QC.

So anyway, it's a (quite possibly british) indie-rock band, quite poppy. The song was used on adverts in the UK, and we think they were either for Channel 4, E4, or some sort of mobile phone..

The defining characteristic of the song is that it begins with a very catchy, upbeat synth riff, with the synth sounding like it's taken straight out of a gameboy/nes game. (Sounding most like Super Mario i think!) Then the drums come in with a fill, and the riff continues...etc..etc..

It's in 6/8, and the riff is based heavily around a D major triad (Not ENTIRELY sure if that's the right key, but I think it is...)

Help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

[MalMal]

I've tried that.. i got nothing.

Doesn't really help that I can only remember the opening riff....not even the product properly!

It's a lost cause!!!

[Stefan Autsa]

Heh, I was bothering this place with threads since I started!

Also, check out this site: http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/index.asp

Maybe it could help.

[Stefan Autsa]

Not sure if this is the song you mean, but I had always wondered what this song was called.  Now I'm going to get a copy!

[MalMal]

No, it isn't... but that's pretty cool!

well... even if i never find out the track... at least i've discovered that one.

Thanks for the site too...though can't find it on there. The channel 4 bits haven't been updated since about 2002.

[Gryff]

Sing the riff and upload it.

[Inlander]

Nooooo idea what song or ad you're talking about, but the description could match A.M.180 by Grandaddy, which is a pretty popular song and has appeared in at least one movie soundtrack.

[MalMal]

That's IT! thank you!!!!!

Best forum EVAAAAA!

I owe you a drink or something!

[fish across face]

Holy shit!  Inlander, I'm trying to find the lottery numbers for next Saturday's draw... any suggestions?

[MalMal]

I'm now doubting my advert hypothesis too..... maybe i just heard it on 28 Days Later... if so...he did it on eronous information!

Inlander... what number am I thinking of?

[Inlander]

I have a midi version of that riff as my mobile 'phone ringtone. Fine song.

EDIT: I guess maybe we could turn this into a Grandaddy thread? Under the Western Freeway is my favourite album of theirs. Umm . . .that's about it. Okay, good threading everyone!

[MalMal]

I bet everyone round you HATES that: If I heard that, it'd be in my head for WEEKS!


Thanks again!
fine FINE song.

[fish across face]

Summer Here Kids, off the above album, rocks my socks off.  I'm a real sucker for garden path-ing songs - you know where you think you can parse a sentence one way and then the next word is something you weren't expecting?

Generally I don't like Grandaddy very much, though, because all the mellow, warbly business reminds me too much of Neil Young.  I really don't like Neil Young at all.

[Inlander]

I bet everyone round you HATES that: If I heard that, it'd be in my head for WEEKS!

You greatly overestimate the number of telephone calls I receive.

And, you're welcome. For the record: Grandaddy's album Sumday was briefly available here in Australia (and elsewhere, probably) with a bonus disc, the majority of which consisted of a live recording from the 2003 Glastonbury Festival. Included on that disc is an excellent rendition of the song in question.

[MalMal]

Cheers... I shall scour the woefully inadequet record shops in my home town, and then buy it off the internet as always!

What's the album like? I know a bit of granddaddy aside from that track, and quite like them, so I'm fairly tempted to buy it anyway, but thought I'd inquire first.

[Inlander]

It's a Grandaddy album, which means it's all right, has a few good songs on it and one really ace one ("Now It's On"), but overall isn't very exciting to listen to, so you put it on the shelf and forget about it for several months, and then you see it again one day and go "Oh yeah, forgot I had that. I think I'll put it on. It's all right."