most played CLIP??

[RobertScorpio]

And I mean music clip. A friend of mine was telling me this interesting bit of trivia. He said that the clip of music that is played when you open up WINDOWS became the most 'listened' to piece of music of all time two years ago. I didn't believe him, but then if you think about it? Its possible. There are millions of computers in the world, and true, not all of them play the music clip, but I have heard it on computers I used at various places all over the world while in the active military.

My friend Harsha, who now lives back home in India, has it on his computer there, so it just isn't only a 'western' world thingy. And when I was stationed in Japan, and lived in an apartment complex intermixed with Japanese civlilians, I heard it there too.

Do you think this is possible? And what Quark wants to know is this; is the writer of little clip of music raking in the latinum?

Rob

 

[Nardpuncher]

"Happy Birthday"

/thread

 

[Mistral]

The THX theme?

 

[ThunderAeroI]

She's got big butt and I can not lie!

or

I have a low rider

are on my list of the most annoyingly overplayed clips!

 

[RobertScorpio]

The THX theme?

Oh I have to think the mircosoft song has out played that. For every movie that plays the song one time, I would be more than half of the audience has a computer that plays the windows opening if not once several times aday, considering all the dumbass viruses out there now that require restarts...

Rob

 

[TheGodBen]

On British television? This.

On the internet? This.

 

[Davros]

Two Girls, One Cup?

 

[Brikar99]

Two Girls, One Cup?

 

[Hermiod]

The Final Fight by Robert Duncan (it might have been Douglas Romayne Stevens, I am not sure) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer gets used in adverts and trailers a lot.

 

[23skidoo]

There are a few pieces of music that seem to get played over and over in movies. Ride of the Valkyries is one I wish would be retired. I loved the Watchmen movie, but did they need to roll out this chestnut for the scene where Dr. Manhattan attacks the Viet-Cong?

There are a few other (presumably royalty free) classical pieces of music that get used too often, but that's the only one I know the title of!

Someone mentioned Happy Birthday -- but actually it isn't overplayed. Incredible as it may sound, that song is actually still in copyright and a royalty must be paid to use it in any movies or TV shows. That's why you usually hear For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, a public domain song, used instead, even though you hardly ever hear it being sung in real life.

The one song I find is overused to an almost criminal degree is Amazing Grace. Again, it's probably handy because a) it's not overly religious, b) doesn't really tie in with a specific religious denomination and c) is public domain. But you'd think it was the only song ever written to be played at funerals. Worse it, it's become a cliche. As far back as 1982 I heard giggles in the audience when Scotty piped up Amazing Grace during Spock's funeral scene in Wrath of Khan.

Alex