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  • From: tommy Gibson <tcgibson AT mindspring.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Another commercial / Another song
  • Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:56:31 GMT

I'm pretty sure the song you're looking for is called "Galvanize".
It's The Chemical Brothers *featuring* Q-Tip.



coolfishing AT gmail.com wrote:
> Okay, I'll bring our post-trivia discussion online to see if we can get
> some help. There is a song used in a commercial that i was convinced
> was Q-tip until I could not find said song on any Q-tip album. The
> song has some middle-eastern sounding violin sample followed by the the
> lyric "Don't Hold Back." The music section is also used on the Fox (?)
> NFL pregrame show as background music (and I think they may have used
> it in the Super Bowl last year.)
>
> FYI, Each week, the background music for trivia has a theme that
> partipants must attempt to guess. Last night's theme was solo songs by
> artists once in band - but I only used urban/hip-hop acts (Dr.
> Dre/N.W.A., Beyonce/Destiny's Child, etc.) as opposed to rock acts like
> Ryan Adams or John Lennon. And I specifically went looking for this
> song to use (q-tip/a tribe called quest) and was surprised when I
> couldn't find it (so it may very well be someone else who sounds a lot
> like 'q-tip.') But Cy Rawls thought the same thing which how the
> discussion initiated.
>
> glenn
>
> ps: oddly enough, my q-tip brush with fame was recently name-dropped in
> a blog from a friend of mine (who I just reconnected with after years
> of no contact.) The blog is great - check it out:
> http://kathleencfennessy.blogspot.com/2006/08/why-i-love-andr-3000.html
>
> pss: somewhat coincidentally, I'm currently listening to said
> background 'cd' (on my iTunes) -as I I type. I ain't no Hollaback Girl!
>





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