The Cold Hard Facts…Case Closed
Well, CBS’s Cold Case television program just concluded here on the East Coast and I have to admit - if a television show could take the *most literal* interpretation of a song lyric, then this program wins the award for it. Most of the songs used could be found on U218 Singles:
Beautiful Day
Window in the Skies
Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
Running to Stand Still
Bad
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
MLK
With or Without You
With the exception of the CBS promotional advertising for the show prior to the broadcast, U2 received no acknowledgement for the songs used in the program during the opening or closing credits, nor were there any commercials during the program to promote U218 or any other U2 item/product. If you’re wondering what the tie between the band and the show is - well, the consulting producer for the episode is Mark Pellington. Yup - the same person responsible for some of the creative work behind ZooTV and other U2-related endeavors.
R said,
January 29, 2007 @ 10:50 am
I watched most of the show last night and didn’t like it at all. The songs seemed out of place and it was too obvious that they were just stuck in there. But the use of “Bad” and “Running to Stand Still” made more sense to me than othes since they are about drug users anyway. Overall, though, it was an abuse and misuse of perfectly good music.