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Old 25-02-2012, 23:19
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Manics music in films

I was thinking, why has there never been a Manics song used in film before? Ever? Are they against this or something? If you ask me a whole heap of their songs could fit into films to express mood, atmosphere, or just be a cool background song, etc,etc, plus it'd get their music out to a much wider audience....I personally think they should allow their songs to be used in movies, it can only spread the word of MSP
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Old 25-02-2012, 23:27
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Old 26-02-2012, 01:30
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i'm sure there's a crap Michael Winner film from the 90s with the Manics on the soundtrack.
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Old 26-02-2012, 05:09
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i'm sure there's a crap Michael Winner film from the 90s with the Manics on the soundtrack.
Michael Winner was still making films in the 90s? ahaha
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Old 26-02-2012, 06:24
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I was thinking, why has there never been a Manics song used in film before? Ever? Are they against this or something? If you ask me a whole heap of their songs could fit into films to express mood, atmosphere, or just be a cool background song, etc,etc, plus it'd get their music out to a much wider audience....I personally think they should allow their songs to be used in movies, it can only spread the word of MSP
I'd have thought more likely no one's asked?
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Old 26-02-2012, 11:36
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Old 26-02-2012, 21:04
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I think I recall Nicky once saying he wasn't keen on their songs being in films. If so I think they're making a mistake, music and film works brilliantly to enhance each others' qualities. Also film nuts, myself included, enjoy hunting down songs they discover in some film, more so than from the charts or radio I'd say.

They did use From Despair to Where in Game On of course, which sort of demonstrates my point as, upon hearing that, was when I decided to check out their career post Generation Terrorists.
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Old 27-02-2012, 03:48
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The Everlasting was used in the 2001 German film "What to Do In Case of Fire." Not a bad movie, but not great either.
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Old 27-02-2012, 10:10
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If they're not keen on letting their music be used it films I would find that a bit weird... when you think about the global reach of successful films, there's not a lot of 'mass communication' more... mass. As massive? With as much mass, anyway.
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Old 27-02-2012, 10:52
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Sadly it never was, would have been brilliant though.
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in order to get the Manics to a much wider audience we should dub some of their finer musical moments onto some porno files and then unleash them on torrent sites.
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