Soul Asylum

Misery Loves Pam

from "Wall Of Sound" Friday, April 3, 1998   

Soul Asylum Upset Over Music in Pamela & Tommy Video

 

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 factors—it's really creepy."