Question Regarding Sabbath Songs on TV Shows

[Anteaus44]

Now, I don't know how many people here are fans of the TV show Supernatural, but I definitely am. On an episode of this show, in the first season, they used snippets from the song Paranoid during the show. Both during the original airing and on the DVD set the song appeared, but when Netflix began offering it via streaming, the song disappeared and was instead replaced by a Powerman 5000 song, which struck me as odd.

The only reason I can imagine is that there were problems with the licenses, but even then I didn't think it would extend to something like a TV show being offered on a streaming site. Does anyone know anything regarding why they would do this? It's been bugging me and I can't honestly figure out why they would change the song...and this isn't the only song they changed, I know for a fact that other songs by various artists from the 70's and 80's were replaced by more modern songs, but I don't know why.

Any ideas from all you metalheads?

[Paulie 88]

Licensing, definitely - PLUS, it might also have been an area of territories, as there's different deals for Europe vs North America, etc.

They likely licensed Sab for broadcast, but when it comes to *selling* product, that's a no-no. A rental is a temporary sale. Now that doesn't mean there isn't going to be Sab music in other rented movies or shows, it simply means that this particular production did not have permission to use it for the sale of *that* show. And even that can have different implications - It might have been a limited-time deal, or a deal for broadcast-only, or perhaps the owners of the publishing pulled permission (which is a standard clause in these types of contracts). ((OR, upped the price if they saw there were big bucks changing hands, wink))

I hate lawyers,
PAULIE

[Old_Papa_Rich]

I remember WKRP in Cincinnati. They used lots of real rock & roll music in that show. It'd be small bits of songs that the DJ would intorduce and then fade out so they could continue the scene. I definitely remember both Black Sabbat posters in the studio and Johnny Fever played Sabbat at least once. I'm pretty sure all the real music was replaced with canned stuff for the DVD release of the show.

[Anteaus44]

Paulie, thanks for the info. I figured it was something regarding the licenses, but it just irks me that it would be the same as broadcasted for the DVD box set, yet different in Netflix's streaming version. Ugh.

And they replaced Paranoid with Powerman 5000...oh well, what can you do lol. Stupid licenses.

[8bit Fighter]

@Anteaus44

I'm a fan too, and I see how that sucks. But lately it's worse with the last two seasons having lack of classic rock/metal on the show. Powerman 5000, while not my first choice, may be better than no music at all, which case in point what happened in the last two seasons excluding Kansas. Yeah I know they played Steppenwolf, but still, they needed more.

[Anteaus44]

I'll agree with that, 8bit. I remember during the first five seasons, when Kripke was the head honcho there, he put an emphasis on using classic rock in the music for the show to emphasize the lifestyle that they lived in. Sort of an homage to John Winchester, in a sense, and it really sucks that the music has changed the way it has. And while I agree that Poweman 5000 would be better than no music at all, it irritates me how they changed it for Netflix only. Alwell, what can you do lol. It's still a great show.

[Chuck]

I remember the old Saturday Night Live bit from 75 or 76 where John Belushi was alternating between being a mellow "AM" disc jockey and a rocking "FM" jock. During the FM part he plays the intro to "The Thrill of It All"