That free CD they gave away with Crystal Pepsi: C or D?

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1) Life Is A Highway - Tom Cochrane
2) Children - EMF
3) Cat's In The Cradle - Ugly Kid Joe
4) Pictures of Matchstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven
5) Tones of Home - Blind Melon
6) Fire - Red Hot Chili Peppers
7) Just The Way It Is, Baby - The Rembrandts
8) Head On - The Pixies
9) I Don't Want Your Love - Duran Duran
10) Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

It really reflects my alternatvie lifestyle.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

"Sleeping Satellite" isn't shit. That's probably the best thing you can say for it.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

what presience--to choose that batch of songs for such a doomed, delicious beverage.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Pixies track, although not as much as the JAMC original.

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not as good as Crystal Gravy.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say C but now I have "Life Is a Highway" stuck in my head and if history teaches us anything it's that it's gonna be in there for two and a half weeks now.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

will somebody please make a comp of last tracks on giveaway promo CD comps

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

New ILM question: What's your LEAST FAVORITE last track on a giveaway CD

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha. this was the first cd i ever owned and i never even noticed the pixies were on it back when i actually listened to it. i do remember 'tones of home' by blind melon, though. shameful.

least favorite track on that has to be the ugly kid joe one, who i already hate and are covering a song that i can't stand. 'life is a highway' is also a nasty little earworm.

― 6335 (6335), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Amazing.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

what was 'crystal pepsi'? not like, champagne and pepsi?

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

it was pepsi that was clear like 7-up or sprite

― 6335 (6335), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha. this was the first cd i ever owned and i never even noticed the pixies were on it back when i actually listened to it. i do remember 'tones of home' by blind melon, though. shameful.
least favorite track on that has to be the ugly kid joe one, who i already hate and are covering a song that i can't stand. 'life is a highway' is also a nasty little earworm.

-- 6335 (thunderball_fist...), October 12th, 2006.

embarrassingly enough, this was my first CD, too -- I still remember my dad saying "Hey, we can put this in the computer and listen to it when we get home!"

and "Life Is A Highway" gets a bad rap; it's a decent enough song

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

it killed the illusion :(

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 12 October 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I miss Blind Melon.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

embarrassingly enough, this was my first CD, too -- I still remember my dad saying "Hey, we can put this in the computer and listen to it when we get home!"

Where's my cane?

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

ach my back

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

why wasn't Van Halen - Right Now on it?

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

This comp introduced me to the Pixies. That's right. My unholy bond with Indie rock was forged through Pepsi. God bless America.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

why wasn't Van Halen - Right Now on it?

that is a damn fine question! the commercial is only parading through my head now...along with the crystal gravy spoof mentioned upthrd

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

that blind melon song is not bad, actually.

this part of the RHCP cover still sticks w/ me: (unfortunately)

"Oh move over over...
And let Mr Huckleberry take over...
You know he's bad, you know he jams, you know who he gives it to...Yeah!"

― 6335 (6335), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Right Now" was on FUCK. You bought the Crystal Pepsi, then you were supposed to buy FUCK, too.

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

"right now, someone is shelling out a mammoth royalty check"

"right now, a young man in Duluth is feeling refreshed"

"right now, you wish we had David Lee Roth back"

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I'm not saying it's bad so much that it is now haunting my every waking moment. Which would make anything kinda annoying.

This makes me think of a promo cassette I got for something that had the Soup Dragons on it.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, I think I drank more Crystal Pepsi than any other single consumer in the drink's entire history, and I don't remember ever getting a CD out of it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

At my high school we had one soda machine with NOTHING but Crystal Pepsi!

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, that's child abuse.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

We used Crystal Pepsi as mixer for great sugary teenage drinks

― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I can see right through this CD and it's marketing
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO easy-joke-that's-not-even-funny!!
Did this ever come in a can? I wouldn't think so. It does remind me of those sweet 16oz glass bottles they used to put Pepsi products in.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

i phear the 7up Gold CD.

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Crystal Pepsi vs. Crystal Waters

― PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (PappaWh, Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I got the CD when I took part in some sort of government-controlled "challenge" at a water park one summer.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

according to a Crystal Pepsi fan site, the comp was called Slipped Disc and it was a Canadian promotion

― pinder (pinder), Friday, 13 October 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

it was pepsi that was clear like 7-up or sprite

And which tasted like 7-up or Sprite, basically....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

I remembered it being called Slipped Disc (a pun which I wouldn't pick up on for about ten years), but we definitely got one from a gas station in or around Greensboro, NC(, USA).

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

So is that the old Status Quo song by the Vans?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

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― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Crystal Pepsi is back in stores for a limited time this summer. Pretty sure I signed a petition to bring it back in some nascent year of the internet. I've bragged about how "it didn't just taste like Pepsi - there was a slight citrus flavor to it!" I noticed them in the cafeteria at work about a week ago, staring out at me from a cooler. They were obviously being overlooked and ignored by other customers during the lunch rush, in favor of more pedestrian fare. I just couldn't make myself interested.

Finally just now I had to clear a bad coffee taste out of my mouth, so I bit the bullet and bought one. It was...ok? Subtle differences with the original pepsi formula, a little bit more citrusy and maybe some added vanilla and a dash of windex? It certainly would have been an interesting taste in its time, but not particularly novel anymore in post-"ALL THE MOUNTAIN DEWS" world. I had about half a bottle and now I'm done. Probably for life.

Wake me up when they revive Josta though.

― how's life, Friday, 26 August 2016 13:18 (nine years ago)

i bought some even though they didn't even bother to update the label

― Poliopolice, Friday, 26 August 2016 18:03 (nine years ago)

The retro label is most of the appeal.

― flappy bird, Friday, 26 August 2016 18:32 (nine years ago)

we should poll the CD

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 18:40 (nine years ago)

i thought most of the appeal was that a soft drink without caramel coloring was ushering in a new era of change and revolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMV-fenGP1g

― Poliopolice, Friday, 26 August 2016 18:48 (nine years ago)

these statements all assume it had appeal

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 18:48 (nine years ago)

it's like Lacroix... if u buy crystal pepsi, there's a 50%< chance u will instagram it.

― flappy bird, Friday, 26 August 2016 19:06 (nine years ago)

This isn't showing up in NYC's corner stores but I saw a bottle on a road trip this weekend and snapped it up. Was a non-Instagrammer. Loved this stuff at age 11 - was a weekly staple after basketball practice, which in hindsight seems stupid since practice was in the evening and I'm sure the caffeine would have kept me up. Oh well. Anyway, it tasted somehow exactly like I remembered, and yet not nearly as good. So it goes not being 11 I guess. But yeah - - - cola-like, but kinda more citrusy which with the visual cues really makes it easy to convince yourself you're drinking Sprite. I remember always thinking it was better out of a bottle than a can, but as an adult it's like, if this serving were can-sized, I'd probably leave satisfied and consider buying another can sometime, rather than being exhausted by the end and done with the whole thing.

Great backstory from Wikipedia:

According to Coca-Cola Chief Marketing Officer Sergio Zyman, Tab Clear was an intentionally "suicidal," "kamikaze" effort to create an unpopular beverage that was positioned as an analogue of Crystal Pepsi in order to "kill both in the process." The "born to die" strategy included using the poor-performing Tab brand rather than Coke, labeling the product as a "sugar free" diet drink to confuse consumers into thinking Crystal Pepsi had no sugar, and marketing the product as if it were "medicinal."

― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 03:35 (nine years ago)

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