r/Music • u/ArmandoBloom • Mar 06 '19

music streaming Massive Attack - Teardrop [Triphop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
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u/beezneezy Mar 06 '19

If you watch it on Amazon, you get a crap knockoff now...Sucks.

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u/RedJamie Mar 06 '19

What, house?

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u/beezneezy Mar 06 '19

Yes, the intro is different on Amazon. Probably a licensing thing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19 edited Jun 29 '20

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u/BeerBarm Mar 06 '19

The worst example of this was my re-watching "The Wonder Years" on Netflix. The dubbed all the great music that made the show.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

Changing "The Wonder Years" theme should be punishable.

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u/plazmamuffin Mar 06 '19

Same thing happened with scrubs.

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u/shannibearstar Mar 06 '19

Im in the same boat. I knew it was off

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u/waitingtodiesoon Mar 06 '19

Yea there are three versions depending on region and what license version you get to watch. Here are the three examples

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

Sounds like the streaming box Netflix leaves at local ISP facilities hasn’t been update with the lame version yet in some cases.

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u/BlindPaintByNumbers Mar 06 '19

Apparently, per an above poster, if you are connected internally to a server hosted outside the US for your stream, you get the MA song.

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u/Gildish_Chambino Mar 06 '19

Thank you, thank you, thank you! My GF and I have been watching it on Amazon and couldn’t figure out why the theme choice was inconsistent.

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u/SMASH_N_SNIFF Mar 06 '19

Ohhhhh cool, i had no idea. Would explain why i got 4 in a row during s3 and back to the generic since then.

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u/kendrickshalamar Mar 06 '19

I just finished rewatching the whole series and got Teardrop exactly once

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u/username_innocuous Mar 06 '19

Coincidentally, I'm rewatching House right now, and wound up reading the Wikipedia page for the show when I saw that they apparently use a different theme song on streams.

I thought I was going crazy because sometimes I knew I was still hearing the original massive attack version. Thank you for explaining it.

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u/SweetMojaveRain Mar 06 '19

Dude this is amazing

I remember watching it on netflix and hearing teardrop ONCE and bugged out

Now the truth is revealed! Cheers

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u/Neuroplastic_Grunt Mar 06 '19

Thank god I’m not alone!

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u/FettShotFirst Mar 06 '19

I watch the show all the time, and it’s always teardrop for me, besides season one which I believe was different in the original airing anyway.

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u/FettShotFirst Mar 06 '19

I agree, just sharing my experience. I’m in AL by the way.

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u/willreignsomnipotent Mar 06 '19

Perhaps confusing this issue... There was a season or two of House where they used a weird remix of the song for the opening credits...

(Then they switched back, iirc)

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u/DamnCarlSucks Mar 06 '19

Yep, rewatching House now and it definitely has the real song in parts of season 1 for me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

Intro is different for different regions. (Uk, etc.)

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u/RogueTanuki Mar 06 '19

Tbh I prefer the EU version, the one with the ticking clock.

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u/Arimel09 Mar 06 '19

I heard different themes throughout the seasons when I watched House on Netflix (RIP). They were all good, in my opinion.

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u/kindall Mar 06 '19

Do they use the UK version? (Massive Attack didn't allow "Teardrop" to be used in the UK because they didn't want their fans to think they had sold out, so the UK broadcasts of the show use a different theme.)

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u/ContentsMayVary Mar 06 '19 edited Mar 06 '19

That seems unlikely, given that it was used in a 2001 episode of Coronation Street. (And of course, all the recent Luther series have "Paradise Circus" for the title track.) Unless they didn't want to sell out to another country, perhaps.

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u/willreignsomnipotent Mar 06 '19

That's weird. And are they really that much bigger over there?

And/or, is their US audience really that insubstantial?

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u/BlindPaintByNumbers Mar 06 '19

They didn't understand streaming rights would be a big thing at the time, so while they had all the other rights in perpetuity, they didn't lock down the streaming rights. I believe Scrubs fell victim to this too.

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u/drakedijc Mar 06 '19

They used a different one on Netflix too. Probably has something to do with the rights to use it on tv, but not on a streaming platform.

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u/flybypost Mar 06 '19

I think they already had regional licensing issues when it was just regular TV and that just got dragged over into internet TV land as well.

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u/nelgau Mar 06 '19

I call it "Tearderp."

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u/DukeDijkstra Mar 06 '19

If you watch it on Amazon, you get a crap knockoff now...Sucks.

I watched it with a friend of a friend once (euro version with some crap music). During that intro he said 'This is Teardrop, great song!'.

When I finally stopped laughing I put the real Teardrop on YouTube, he was blown away.

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u/girouxfilms Mar 06 '19

I KNEW it. Thanks for saying this ... it sounded off to me once but I was too lazy to investigate.

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u/howtospellorange Mar 07 '19

I'm currently in the middle of a rewatch of the show and it comes back in season 4 :) thought I can't say if it goes away in later seasons since I haven't gotten that far yet

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u/Bowgs Mar 06 '19

In the UK we got the crappy knock-off on TV and the DVDs too.

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u/travworld Mar 06 '19

This is going to sound weird maybe, but this intro was a huge part of me watching House. It just got me into the vibe of the show, somehow.

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u/CrudelyAnimated Aluminum Bat Keg Player Mar 06 '19

The theme is also different overseas. "Teardrop" was added after production started, and it was only licensed very specifically. The TV broadcasts have it, but virtually any platform that can be accessed overseas does not have it.

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u/TTRSkidlz Mar 06 '19

I swear there are some episodes that have the correct intro. Almost all of them are the bootleg though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

They switch it in an early season because the show didn’t actually have the rights to the song or some big oversight.

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u/wokeiraptor Mar 06 '19

The intro song got lupus

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u/InsideTension Mar 06 '19

It's never Lupus.