# Spoiled Music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiled-music/338889>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 7, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiled-music/338889 "2006-01-07T12:35:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Greebo\_Ogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19adc/32.png) [@Greebo\_Ogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greebo_Ogg)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiled-music/338889/1 "2006-01-07T12:35:47Z")

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One of the scariest films I know (The Excorcist) featured a piece from Mike Oldfields “Tubular Bells”. It was a perfect piece of music for the film. It buiild the tension just right, and added to the overall creepyness of the movie (for me at least)

And then [they](http://www.bassie-adriaan.nl) came along. A Dutch clown and acrobat combo that did a couple of kids-series involving adventures with bankrobbers, spies and a lot chases. Great fun for kids. And then they started using “Tubular Bells” in some of the “scary” scenes.

And now every time I see “The Excorcist” of hear “Tubular Bells” I think of a fat clown and a very camply dressing acrobat.

So, who spoiled what music for you?

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**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiled-music/338889/2 "2006-01-07T13:25:04Z")

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Ever since the beef promoters started using Aaron Copland’s “Howdown” in their commercials I can’t help but think of the “Beef, it’s what’s for dinner” slogan every time I hear this music.

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**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiled-music/338889/3 "2006-01-07T15:40:03Z")

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> [@dwc1970](#):
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> Ever since the beef promoters started using Aaron Copland’s “Howdown” in their commercials I can’t help but think of the “Beef, it’s what’s for dinner” slogan every time I hear this music.

As in, “Howdown, Brown Cow?”

😃

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**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiled-music/338889/4 "2006-01-07T15:59:18Z")

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Not the same kind of issue, but I’ve seen and heard the chilling sound effects from the shower scene of _Psycho_ parodied so much (_Wayne’s World_ comes to mind) that they come across as silly when I see them now, although they are really quite powerful.