Whatever happened to that Joseph Kuhtze beer?

I think my dad bought their entire stock. It's quite sad really.

Whatever happened to that Joseph Kuhtze beer?

Sitting in the garage next to a 6-pack of Rheineck

True. But then, the Feelers could sing Amazing Grace and it would still sound like an old beer ad from the 1990s.

hmmmm...
Wonder what that nice Rod Stewart
chap is up to these days?
Oh, that's right, he dribbles
for the other game...

Whatever happened to that Joseph Kuhtze…

an English song that sounds like an old beer ad from the 1990s

True. But then, the Feelers could sing Amazing Grace and it would still sound like an old beer ad from the 1990s.

"Right here, right now/ There is no place in this ground for me/Right here, right now/ Watching the World Cup on my TV."

But at least, to their credit, in 1967 the NZRFU "asked" if Maori could come along but they were rebuffed.....

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Short clip here: My old mans an all black

I found a lyric page and a potted history. But not the full song. Anyone??

Was surprised to…

Wouldn't have happened on Helen's watch.

Just sayin'

"I saw the decade in wishing the world would change in the blink of an eye". This is relevant now because it is a new decade (just like the '90s was!!!)

I've just noticed how they have changed it from the original "I saw the decade in when it…

I'm sad we didn't do a "We Are The World" style ad again...

Once of the happiest moments in recent years was when Smashproof's single "Brother" broke the record "Sailing Away" held for the longest number of weeks for a NZ single at #1.

Though, no one's beaten Boney M's…

I note that Martin Snedden (on morning Report today) said the song choice was driven by
their ad agency. Anyone know who that is?
And whether they have also used it in its
prior placements?

hmmm.... I find this one a little hard to believe. As I was talking to…

Don't worry; I won't give up my day job. :)

Not bad at all.

"I saw the decade in wishing the world would change in the blink of an eye". This is relevant now because it is a new decade (just like the '90s was!!!)

I've just noticed how they have changed it from the original "I saw the decade in __when it seemed…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ82q2wNeho

Satellite Spies at 1:05. Brilliant.

I note that Martin Snedden (on morning Report today) said the song choice was driven by
their ad agency. Anyone know who that is?

It's CLEMENGER BBDO

in the best hip hop "tradition" someone has responded to dirty sesh....

If only they'd do the same for the RWC theme song.

Here's my own pathetic attempt:
(I apologise in advance)

[mid-tempo]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Right Here, Right Now? You fuckin' kidding me, bro?
That…

This is my main gripe as well. While The Feelers are bland, I can understand the NZRU chosing someone innocuous like them. But to deny the opportunity for an NZ songwriter to makecsome dosh is bad planning.

Aye, exactly. And thanks Robyn for posting the 1990 song. That was pretty…

Yes. I think Wammo has had the best alternative suggestion: Shihad's 'Run'. That would work.

Yup, that would have been halfway decent for the task. Oh well.

It is more about the fact that it is a non local composition that was chosen. local composition could potentially have generated decent royalties for a local artist.

That's the thing. They could easily have got a McGlashan or a Dobbyn or a Runga to write something to order.

Derty Sesh doing a version of Cage's 4' 33" wouldn't be uncalled for either.

Oh you!

Derty Sesh doing a version of Cage's 4' 33" wouldn't be uncalled for either.

chortlenui

This is purely the soundtrack to an ad for tickets. So we should all calm…

This is now a meme: Any new announcement regarding the Rugby World Cup… We hate it.

An iron law of all Big Sports Events now. Being New Zealand, we get to grizzle about a song; in proper countries, with Really Big Sports Events, they protest about thousands made homeless to…

Smashproof doing a rousing rendition of John Cage's As Slow as Possible.

Derty Sesh doing a version of Cage's 4' 33" wouldn't be uncalled for either.

They could have had Jacob doings aome post-rock aural soundscape and I would have been happy. Would have been epic of they had Yulia warbling over the top about mountains and farms and shit too, and it'd keep the suits happy.

Man, if we really were an ambitious country that…

They could have had Jacob doings aome post-rock aural soundscape and I would have been happy. Would have been epic of they had Yulia warbling over the top about mountains and farms and shit too, and…

http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/readytoroll/view.php?id=28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlonpJ6c814

"If there's been a way to build it, there'll be a way to destroy it!"

At the end of the tournament, they can let Aucklanders loose with sledgehammers to obliterate every last trace of the…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgwBE5Tu4nc

– James Feeler has a very similar huskiness to Mike Jesus-Jones. Except he seems to have trouble with the high notes.
– Oh look – a chap in a comedy sombrero.
– "I saw the decade in wishing the world would change in…

Ah the Fall. Never seen that vid before, so thanks Phillip. I couldn't quite see which stadium it is, but it says "made in Burnley" at the end which suggests Turf Moor.

Yep, Turf Moor according to the liner notes of the Perverted By Language 2CD re-issue.

You all realise, of course, that this whole song thing is but a smokescreen to hide today's announcement of ticket pricing?

And the fact that the song isn't a rumour! I just saw it on TV and... meh, it's an ad with-none-too-memorable-but-far-from-the-worst-I've-ever-heard rock. And of course it's just the slogan…

Any reason why you would say that beyond a thoughtless and rather cheap cynicism?

Well, I only do thoughtful cynicism, though I'm always looking for a bargain.

Here is a poem I wrote for my 3rd form English class. I'm sorry it doesn't scan properly, and that the rhymes are…

A 'category A' pack for five games at Eden Park will cost $1,720 plus a $15 handling fee. The equivalent package for games in Christchurch will cost $740.

Te Feelers exemplify that, and I know it has…

Dishonourable mention: the 1974 Commonwealth Games theme song, "Join Together".

Any reason why you would say that beyond a thoughtless and rather cheap cynicism?

As far as I can recall, that theme tune perfectly caught the pitch of the times and an event that is widely regardly as being just…

If the WC is even 0.002% about the song I'll be surprised. What is the theme song for the football WC in SA this…

And to make it worse this bunch of wannabe nancy boys are not even singing a New Zealand song.

You want inspired…

Our Kiri and Our Hayley have already had their turn for other countries. Maybe Hollie Smith and Gin Wigmore could do a sexy version, with a video involving cupcakes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZZ_yYtGe5s

The Feelers and "Right Here, Right Now" both have their merits, but putting them together is like serving a meal of mashed potatoes with mashed kumara. Where is the meat? Where is the sauce?

Heh. So true.

an unnecessary albatrossity!

Oooh, Oooh, I get that one...
I think.
;-)

Maybe we should have got the Feelers to cover this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjyQkt04Urc&feature=related

What was the song for the 1990 commonwealth games?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBRSAkdiFM8

What was the song for the 1990 commonwealth games (I seem to remember there was on)? I remember it was pretty bad but worked out OK…

Here's what a sport song could and should be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgxrRWTM0o4

Because The Feelers are a bit shit, radio-friendly nothing-rock. But isn't that why they got the gig?

If that's so, when maybe we should ask why the organisers were looking for a bland, middle-of-the-road band playing a bland, middle-of-the-road song.

The Feelers and "Right Here, Right Now" both have their…