ARGHH! The Byrds' "Turn Turn Turn" is now being used in....

[Gloria]

a KOHL's ad, complete with high school kids sitting in computer lab finding yellow daisies in their books...

What is the world coming to????????????????????????

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

1. That's horrible

A disgrace to the Byrds, IMHO. :(

[Maple]

2. It's just a song

.

[buckfush2]

4. correct

and a LOT of kids who would never have heard it before will, now. maybe they'll even buy a byrds album , or ask dad what they were like.

commercialism is crappy, but it has its uses too.

[Gloria]

3. More than a song! My youth in the runup to the Flower Power years....

sigh.

[Journeyman]

5. ARGHH! Verses from Ecclesiastes were used. . .

in a Byrd's tune! They used Solomon's words to sell albums. What has the world come to?

[liberalhistorian]

7. ROFLMAO!

Good one!

[wtmusic]

8. Uh, yeah

that's almost analogous.

[roughsatori]

14. Touché LOL

[wtmusic]

6. Is nothing sacred?

No, it's not just a song, it was an anthem for a generation. To have it applied to filler paper and pilot markers is pathetic.

[Journeyman]

9. Actually, some people believe those words. . .

to be very sacred, inspired by the mind of God, and inducive to personal reflection for generations unnumbered.

[starroute]

11. No, nothing is sacred any more

Despite all those statistics that are floating around about how the US is getting more and more "religious," in some low-level sense of being willing to believe almost anything without proof or critical thought, we have also become a society in which nothing whatsoever is sacred because everything is subordinated to profit.

The only solution I can see to that is to start taking the really important items of our culture out of the profit sphere. It may be too late for the anthems of our childhood -- but if new music were released under an equivalent of the open source license, so that any further recording or arrangement also had to be free for public use, it would do a lot to discourage commercial ripoffs.

[rasputin1952]

18. I agree with you to an extent...

however, I am not subordinate to profit.

I will never subordinate myself to the profit mongers and will keep the dignity i have. In fact, most of us here, because we see this blatant push for another dollar for what it is, have dignity and character than cannot be tossed aside.

"Turn, Turn, Turn", was one of the anthems of the '60's, just as some other songs have been used to capitalize on cheap products, this one will fail as well.

Those of us that lived through those years have many fond memories and thoughts of what might have been. Most of those I grew up with are gone now; and some of those left have turned in their brains for corporate suits....but there are those of us that remember the best of times. If we were the idealists we thought we were, bush would be crop sharing in TX. We never took it to the final step....too many sold out.

[Garage Queen]

10. I'm still waiting for that Staples ad

You know the one:

(picture of Dad dancing down the aisle of stationary store to the tune of:)

"IT's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the year!"

Brilliant. Simply Brilliant. :7

[Maple]

12. I complained about it

Looks like dad can't wait to get rid of the kids.

Some message.

[Skittles]

23. dad probably can't wait to get rid of the kids

that's a fact

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. We need to see these lyrics now. Thanks, Gloria.

To everything turn, turn, turn
There is a season turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose
Under heaven

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to wep

(Reprat *)

A time to buid up
A time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together

(Repeat *)

A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing

(Repeat *)

A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rain, a time of sow
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace
I sewar it's not too late

[leftofthedial]

15. to everything there is a season

even crass commercialism

[DieboldMustDie]

16. The lyrics are from the book of Ecclesiastes...

& I think it was Pete Seegar who set it to music. I guess he doesn't own the rights to it anymore :(

[Gloria]

17. OMG....there's another version!!! Now it's on, this time showing

kids and parent in the store, shopping for clothes, appliances and whatever, each little "vignette" separated by a "psychedelic" little
bit, like looking into a kaleidescope!

It's damned tacky, if you ask me! Sort of like the WP and the dead elderly French citizens in the heatwave...

[CanuckAmok]

19. It's not as bad as...

Nike using the Beatles' "Revolution" or William Burroughs to sell their lousy shoes.

Or is it just as bad?

Yes, it is.

[Fenris]

20. I noticed they left out the whole "time to kill" part

I guess that might be judged a little inappropriate for a back to school commercial.

Announcer: "It's back to school at Kohl's!"

Song: "...A Time to Kill..."

[bif]

24. I'm surprised they didn't change the line

"A time to kill" to "A time for Kohl's".

[Jesus Christ]

21. I have always liked that song.

Even before Pete Seeger or the Byrds hath recorded it. Solomon wrote some great lyrics back in the day.

[GalleryGod]

22. Shit! Gene Clark (RIP) Is Spinning In His Grave!

Papa John Phillips might have to leave his Krypt to help Gene from Spinnin':silly: :bounce:

[SoCalDem]

25. They are just trying to get "Grandma &Grampa"'s attention

so they can run out & get schools supplies for the wee ones:evilgrin:

that song has always made me incredibly sad, but for a different reason..

My friend Debbie had a party while she was home from college and that was the most played record at the party.. as I was leaving, she gave it to me, since I had not bought it yet and her sorority house had any number of them.. The next day, her mom called me to tell me that Debbie and her boyfriend had been killed in a car accident on their way back to college.. A couple of drunk farmboys in a pick up hit their car head on and killed them both..

That accident destroyed a family.. within a year, the parents were divorced, Mom ended up in a mental hospital and Debbie's little sister )who never measured up tp her) went to live with the grandparents.... Dad??? he comitted suicide:(

Every time I hear that song, I think of Deb:(