Soul Asylum
Misery Loves Pam
from "Wall Of Sound"
Friday, April 3, 1998
Soul Asylum Upset Over Music
in Pamela & Tommy Video
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Imagine you're Soul Asylum bassist
Dan Murphy, and you've just sit down with some friends to watch a copy of Pamela Anderson
and Tommy Lee's,ahem, "honeymoon" video. Imagine your surprise when, in the
midst of the fine entertainment, you begin hearing noises that sound strangely familiar.
In fact, you realize that playing in the background is your song "Misery." Well,
you might feel as upset as Murphy. "It makes it look as though we're in on this and
we gave it the thumbs up," Murphy recently told the BBC's The Net. "If they're
going to sell it for forty dollars and not contact us, I think we have to contact them and
get some retribution or have them take it off their video." What steps Soul Asylum,
whose next album, Candy From a Stranger, hits shelves on May 12, plan to take aren't
available, but Murphy makes it clear that it's not all about the money. "I think it's
sick and odd, and I don't want to be a backdrop to her going down on him in a car. I'm not
interested, and the fact that it was an abusive relationship plus other factorsit's
really creepy."