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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #390 on: March 27, 2013, 08:58:20 PM »
a Geico ad for their motorcycle insurance features "Midnight Rider". Uh -- *TWO* ABB members died on motorcycles, guys.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #391 on: March 28, 2013, 12:03:14 AM »
TANC?

Today's 10@10 is 1983, and on one of KQED's subchannels I see a promo spot for Nova,
the music for which is an acoustic version of "She Blinded Me With Science."  Nice.  Anybody
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #392 on: March 28, 2013, 07:48:52 AM »
TANC?

Today's 10@10 is 1983, and on one of KQED's subchannels I see a promo spot for Nova,
the music for which is an acoustic version of "She Blinded Me With Science."  Nice.  Anybody
know who this is?

there's also a spot (AT&T?) using an instrumental version of "Major Tom"
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #393 on: April 10, 2013, 09:53:12 AM »
Fun (period)'s "Some Nights" is flogging Southwest Airlines.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #394 on: April 17, 2013, 09:05:52 AM »
OK, so why did I JUST 5 MINUTES AGO hear a "Fresh & Easy" commercial on KFOG, if they're closing all their stores?  WTFF?

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-fresh-easy-tesco-us-20130417,0,4342693.story
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #395 on: April 17, 2013, 10:04:15 AM »
OK, so why did I JUST 5 MINUTES AGO hear a "Fresh & Easy" commercial on KFOG, if they're closing all their stores?  WTFF?

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-fresh-easy-tesco-us-20130417,0,4342693.story

'Cause they bought their ad time a couple months ago?
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #396 on: April 17, 2013, 10:16:54 AM »
OK, so why did I JUST 5 MINUTES AGO hear a "Fresh & Easy" commercial on KFOG, if they're closing all their stores?  WTFF?

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-fresh-easy-tesco-us-20130417,0,4342693.story

'Cause they bought their ad time a couple months ago?

possibly, but this shut-down has been in the works for nearly a year and this was the first Fresh & Easy radio ad I've ever heard. Odd.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #397 on: April 18, 2013, 11:05:23 AM »
OK, so why did I JUST 5 MINUTES AGO hear a "Fresh & Easy" commercial on KFOG, if they're closing all their stores?  WTFF?

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-fresh-easy-tesco-us-20130417,0,4342693.story

'Cause they bought their ad time a couple months ago?

possibly, but this shut-down has been in the works for nearly a year and this was the first Fresh & Easy radio ad I've ever heard. Odd.

ok, I just heard a commercial, too.  It was hilarious: the jingle talks about getting your food "The F and Easy way." 

Sing that out loud and you get "the effin' easy way."


brilliant, that!
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #398 on: April 18, 2013, 12:29:34 PM »
ok, I just heard a commercial, too.  It was hilarious: the jingle talks about getting your food "The F and Easy way." 

Sing that out loud and you get "the effin' easy way."


brilliant, that!

I wonder if F and Easy sells Frank's Red Hot Sauce? I put that effin shit on everything.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #399 on: April 19, 2013, 08:39:29 AM »
ok, I just heard a commercial, too.  It was hilarious: the jingle talks about getting your food "The F and Easy way." 

Sing that out loud and you get "the effin' easy way."


brilliant, that!

I wonder if F and Easy sells Frank's Red Hot Sauce? I put that effin shit on everything.

heh... I'd like to see a timeline of how the language in pop culture or advertising has proceeded over the years to include words that would undoubtedly have shocked our elders, who in turn would have shocked THEIR elders, etc. 

 dang > damn > bitch > balls > effin'  etc.


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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #400 on: April 21, 2013, 07:57:41 PM »
Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner" selling the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #401 on: April 29, 2013, 07:12:18 PM »
Well-played, American Airlines: getting Don Draper himself to voice your new TV spots.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #402 on: May 01, 2013, 02:50:36 PM »
I keep hearing the radio spots for TMZ.  Their slogan: "Hollywood is a circus. We're the ringleader".  Uh, I think you mean "ringMASTER", no? They're 2 different words, idiots.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #403 on: May 28, 2013, 07:45:09 PM »
"Lucky Man" flogging the VW Passat.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #404 on: May 29, 2013, 09:48:28 AM »
OK, so why did I JUST 5 MINUTES AGO hear a "Fresh & Easy" commercial on KFOG, if they're closing all their stores?  WTFF?

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-fresh-easy-tesco-us-20130417,0,4342693.story

'Cause they bought their ad time a couple months ago?

possibly, but this shut-down has been in the works for nearly a year and this was the first Fresh & Easy radio ad I've ever heard. Odd.

There's talk of trying to sell it, but I don't think they'll be able to.  Fresh & Easy = neither fresh nor easy.