Cat Power - Cingular Commercial

Cat Power
Hanging On The Telephone

Let’s see, it is right about…. NOW that you are wondering whether or not I’ve uploaded the wrong picture for this review. That don’t look like Cat Power does it? Well, it’s not but seeing as how Chan Marshall’s latest song for television which I just heard as music for a Cingular Allover Network commercial is not available anywhere (not even on Matador’s site), I figured I wouldn’t show a picture of one of her albums because it’d have nothing to do with this post.

I keep getting scooped by the awesome Stereogum as well as thee mighty Adtunes whenever I want to mention music on TV. I just don’t watch enough TV I guess. Oh wells. Anyhow, since Marshall’s take of the song “Hanging On The Telephone” is actually a cover of Blondie’s popular cover of The Nerves 1978 original song, I decided to dispense with Debbie Harry and go all the way back to The Nerves. To make things even more confusing, I couldn’t find the original album that The Nerves recorded this track on. The only place I could find it on was this “Come Out And Play” 1975-1978 Power Pop Anthology. Weird!

Anyhow, I had heard the song while watching a hockey game and I knew right away it was probably Chan Marshall… she has a pretty distinctive voice although I’ve been fooled before (the Adidas commercial featuring Karen O is a good example). The music is quite cool as well, though as I said before you need to actually catch the commercial in order to hear it. Some day the marketing geniuses will learn to make these things available somewhere… it just really seems like shooting yourself in the foot.

(P.S. the Itunes link actually goes to Blondie, because they don’t seem to have The Nerves version of the song on Itunes.)

by Tyranosaur