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Does the Lamicil commercial sound familiar?
Posted on Mon, Apr 24 2000 at 9:00 a.m. PDT
by David T. <[email protected]>
It's been a bit slow around here lately. From Greg Dean:

Okay, this is fairly left-field, but I've heard this commercial so many times, and what I'm going to say just keeps sounding more and more accurate each time, so finally, I'm writing.

There's a commercial playing in the USA for a prescription anti-Fungus toe medicine ("Have yellow toenails?", etc) called Lamicil. The ABC station in Milwaukee, WI plays it incessantly, especially at night. Anyway, what does all this have to do with Morrissey?

The music sounds like a string quartet instrumental rendition of "Now My Heart Is Full", off Vauxhall & I. I've heard the commercial many times, and try to find a portion that doesn't sound like it, but I've not been able to pin anything down... the similarity remains.

Did Morrissey or someone at his company approve this, or is it just a sound-alike song that the Lamicil people figured no one would notice? Who knows... but well, there you go.

Here's a site about Lamicil, no Morrissey mention there (haha).

(Note: This isn't an joke... just a strange, whodathunkit observation)

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Guess we ARE getting desperate for MOZ info...

OH well, I bet if anyone has foot fungus problems, Steven does.

Watt White <[email protected]>
- Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 13:39:54 (PDT) | #1


Never thought i'd see THIS on a Morrissey site..

Crystal
California - Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 17:32:52 (PDT) | #2


I think it's time for a new Morrissey album.

Jake the Desperate
Virginia - Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 22:54:12 (PDT) | #3


I farted this morning, and it sounded like the first few bars of Handsome Devil.

Mart
Stiffkey,Norfolk , England.(The coastal town, that they forgot to pull down) - Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 04:50:07 (PDT) | #4


sad to say, but the lack of news is down to Morrissey himself, surely if he cared about his fans he would GIVE a little more.....

No name Joe
The Skittish Isles - Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:54:36 (PDT) | #5


Hey I have heard that song on the commercial....forgot where but he's right it does sound like it.......really strange.......but true...

Adrian...........HandSomeDeviL79 <[email protected]>
Souther Cali...........OC. - Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 11:47:27 (PDT) | #6


i'll pay more attention next time...by the way i went to marquette.

jen <[email protected]>
- Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 15:41:13 (PDT) | #7


HA HA!! i still cant stop laughing....this is so funny...

trouble
orange county - Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 01:10:55 (PDT) | #8


hey no name joe,

what are you talking about? where have you been, morrissey has put 2 tours through north america, and a tour through latin america. that's alot that morrissey has given us. quite whining.

Big Hurt
- Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:10:46 (PDT) | #9


Just for the record, i've inquired, and Mr. Boorer, who of course wrote the music did not okay this song for inclusion for any commercial. Is it really that close to the Moz track?

beau

beau <[email protected]>
- Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 17:25:43 (PDT) | #10


hey Big Hurt
Morrissey may have toured his pretty ass off, but where are the new songs? Where are the insightful interviews? THAT is what I mean by 'giving'. He is touring on the strength of back catalogue and loyal fanbase, but frankly, any fan with half a brain needs more from their pop star of choice.
I WANT MORE!!!!!

no name joe
manchester - Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:49:38 (PDT) | #11


Big Hurt-

Boy, you best not dispute no name Joe.
You are bouts to enter a world of pain Sunny.

I decree today that Morrissey was simply taking and not giving on Oye Estaban! tour. Tickets were overpriced for someone way past his prime. Do you see what I mean my invalid friends?

No Name Joe's precise commentary may have just struck too close to home for some of you peeps.

Marky Mark < >
Clark Gable's old house - Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:08:38 (PDT) | #12


Hey I farted too! It sounded like that chainsaw at the beginning of SPEEDWAY!!
These aren't lies...
These aren't lies...
These aren't lies...

Alfred E. Neuman
MAD - Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:44:27 (PDT) | #13


I swear, I thought the same damn thing when I saw the commercial.

girl
- Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 16:51:00 (PDT) | #14


I'm not trying to be a smart-ass; I'm really not. I just wondered if anyone else has noticed a similarity between the songs, "Used To Be A Sweet Boy" by ours truly and "Used to Be" by the Violent Femmes (off their album, "Why Do Birds Sing." If anyone has both those albums, I invite you listen to both songs and compare them.

There seems to be a similarity too striking to be coincidental, especially considering the titles of the songs are so similar. There is definitely a difference in the tempo of the two songs; the Femmes song seems a bit more buoyant than the M song. My confidence in this connection is mitigated only by my beliefs that Morrissey wouldn't be a Femmes fan. Alain, who is credited with writing the music for that song, might be a Femmes fan, but that still wouldn't explain how the song ended up getting titled the way it did.

I am interested in anyone's honest appraisal of the two songs' comparison.

alainsane <[email protected]>
- Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:32:50 (PDT) | #15


DEAREST DAVEY -
I THINK YOU'LL FIND AS YOU LISTEN MORE INTENTLY
NEXT TIME IT'S "NOBODY LOVES US" THEY'VE NICKED.
AND I HAVE TO SAY A MORE APPROPRIATE FATE I COULD NOT HAVE CHOSEN FOR THAT PARTICULAR TURD.
BOY THE THINGS OLD MOZ PUTS ON A B-SIDE WHEN HE THINKS NO ONE IS LISTENING....

QUICKQUINN <[email protected]>
Maryland USA - Sat, May 06, 2000 at 09:26:14 (PDT) | #16


ANTI-FUNGUS MEDICINE
ROCK AND ROLL

ESTEBAN FUERTES
MANCHESTER. ENGLAND - Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:43:30 (PDT) | #17



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