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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #525 on: August 22, 2016, 06:33:03 PM »
ELO's "Do Ya" for Beautyrest.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #526 on: August 24, 2016, 07:39:51 PM »
ELO's "Do Ya" for Beautyrest.

and speaking of mattresses: Kinks "All Day/All Night" for Sleep Number
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #527 on: August 25, 2016, 07:42:33 PM »
Human Beinz "Nobody But Me" for Dish Network.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #528 on: August 29, 2016, 06:50:16 PM »
These made me sad: Stones' "Satisfaction" for Hilton; a cover of the Beatles "All You Need is Love" for EyeLove, a campaign (featuring Jennifer Aniston) to get folks to do something about Chronic Dry-eye
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #529 on: September 02, 2016, 10:05:47 PM »
a cover of the Beatles "All You Need is Love" for EveLove, a campaign (featuring Jennifer Aniston) to get folks to do something about Chronic Dry-eye
I definitely noticed this one.  So, this is because of whoever owns Michael Jackson's music copyrights?
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #530 on: September 20, 2016, 12:56:48 PM »
Willie Nelson for Volkswagen. 3 guesses as to which song. :)
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #531 on: September 20, 2016, 01:15:43 PM »
Willie Nelson for Volkswagen. 3 guesses as to which song. :)

As I am largely unfamiliar with the distinguished oeuvre of the honorable Mr. Nelson, I contemplated
the track listings of some of his greatest hits collections for suitable titles.  My three guesses:

"Ain't Necessarily So"
"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
"Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning"

What do I win?   :)

(Disclaimer:  I have been the satisfied owner of two Volkswagens -- both gasoline-powered.)
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #532 on: September 20, 2016, 02:34:13 PM »
Willie Nelson for Volkswagen. 3 guesses as to which song. :)

As I am largely unfamiliar with the distinguished oeuvre of the honorable Mr. Nelson, I contemplated
the track listings of some of his greatest hits collections for suitable titles.  My three guesses:

"Ain't Necessarily So"
"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
"Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning"

What do I win?   :)

(Disclaimer:  I have been the satisfied owner of two Volkswagens -- both gasoline-powered.)

Sorry. "On the Road Again" :)
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #533 on: October 04, 2016, 04:37:48 PM »

It's not advertising, but I don't think there's a category for incidental music in television programs...

In the recently-broadcast first episode of HBO's Westworld series, during a saloon scene I was amused to
hear a barroom piano play the unmistakeable opening measures of Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun.
An instrumental cover of the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black was also used in the prelude to a bloody
robbery.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #534 on: October 05, 2016, 08:46:33 AM »

It's not advertising, but I don't think there's a category for incidental music in television programs...

In the recently-broadcast first episode of HBO's Westworld series, during a saloon scene I was amused to
hear a barroom piano play the unmistakeable opening measures of Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun.
An instrumental cover of the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black was also used in the prelude to a bloody
robbery.

Yeah, it was kind of fun - the tinkly version of Black Hole Sun, the big, Bernsteinian Paint it Black.  Overall, not that impressed with "Westworld" (and I'm a huge fan of both westerns *and* sci-fi), but I'll give it a few more episodes, and look for little touches like this.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #535 on: November 06, 2016, 06:25:26 PM »
2 that disturbed me : "Come Together" for Walmart (does the MJ estate still control the Beatles catalog?) And a nearly unrecognizable cover of Little Peggy March's "I Will Follow Him" (!) re-titled "I Will Follow You", for Apple, done by a singer called Toulouse, who sounds like a half-dozen treacly-voiced Triple-A artists (think: an even wimpier Coldplay).
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #536 on: November 06, 2016, 07:26:30 PM »
And then there's the Southwest Airlines spot with people lip-synching Journey's "Anyway you want it"...
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #537 on: November 09, 2016, 07:00:46 PM »
A mellow, it-took-me-a-minute-to-recognize-it cover of Benatar's "We Belong" for Chase.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #538 on: November 10, 2016, 05:34:57 AM »
And then there's the Southwest Airlines spot with people lip-synching Journey's "Anyway you want it"...

Good Lord, that is awful.

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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #539 on: November 17, 2016, 07:10:12 PM »
"You Don't Own Me" in a Toyota commercial
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