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« Reply #30 on: March 21, 2006, 09:49:29 PM »
Grand Funk's version of "Some Kind of Wonderful" is now selling Kraft Mayo.
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« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2006, 05:15:56 PM »
OK, now that I've seen that damn KFC commercial a total of, like, 352 times, I must ask the nagging question: What does "Sweet Home Alabama" have to do with Kentucky Fried Chicken?  I know those ad agency people do a LOT of coke, but really...
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« Reply #32 on: April 02, 2006, 07:39:47 PM »
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OK, now that I've seen that damn KFC commercial a total of, like, 352 times, I must ask the nagging question: What does "Sweet Home Alabama" have to do with Kentucky Fried Chicken?  I know those ad agency people do a LOT of coke, but really...


KFC specifically doesn't want to be thought of as "Kentucky Fried Chicken" anymore, and if they can further the dissociation in any way, they'll try it.
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« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2006, 09:32:47 PM »
Parker Posey in a Pepsi commercial? with Jimmy Fallon??

Isn't this a sign of the apocalypse?
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« Reply #34 on: April 10, 2006, 07:05:35 AM »
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Parker Posey in a Pepsi commercial? with Jimmy Fallon??

Isn't this a sign of the apocalypse?


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« Reply #35 on: April 15, 2006, 05:04:53 PM »
so can Ray.

Saw an IBM commercial last night that used a cover (don't know who) of the Kinks' I'm Not Like Everybody Else.

 :roll:

Just remembered that this is not the first Kinks song to be co-opted this way--Picture Book turned up in that HP campaign last year.
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« Reply #36 on: April 15, 2006, 06:16:30 PM »
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so can Ray.

Saw an IBM commercial last night that used a cover (don't know who) of the Kinks' I'm Not Like Everybody Else.

 :roll:

Just remembered that this is not the first Kinks song to be co-opted this way--Picture Book turned up in that HP campaign last year.

I don't know if it's good advertising, but I kinda dug it when I saw it!
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« Reply #37 on: May 02, 2006, 09:38:12 PM »
No music involved, but i just saw a commercial for a new cellular calling plan called My Circle, featuring lookalikes for the Sprint Guy, the "can you hear me now?" guy and Catherine Zeta-Jones.  Paging poc!
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« Reply #38 on: May 15, 2006, 09:04:31 PM »
now selling Ritz crackers: "I'll Melt With You".
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« Reply #39 on: May 17, 2006, 04:40:14 AM »
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No music involved, but i just saw a commercial for a new cellular calling plan called My Circle, featuring lookalikes for the Sprint Guy, the "can you hear me now?" guy and Catherine Zeta-Jones.  Paging poc!


that's pretty funny. but a czjones look-alike? i'm sure.

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« Reply #40 on: June 02, 2006, 10:01:46 PM »
Dave Matthews' "Stay" is being used by the Virginia Tourist Board. Shouldn't they be using Bruce Hornsby?
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« Reply #41 on: June 07, 2006, 05:28:14 PM »
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Dave Matthews' "Stay" is being used by the Virginia Tourist Board. Shouldn't they be using Bruce Hornsby?


Not while the deathwatch is on him.  Curses and all.

Meantime, a guilty pleasure that gets stuck in my head a lot lately:

The backs of my LEGS!!!

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Stickin' to the PLEATHER!!!
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« Reply #42 on: June 07, 2006, 09:21:49 PM »
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Meantime, a guilty pleasure that gets stuck in my head a lot lately:

The backs of my LEGS!!!
Stickin' to the PLEATHER!!!


I had to google that to find out WTF it was -- a Dunkin Donuts commercial, apparently. They don't advertise out here.
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« Reply #43 on: June 08, 2006, 01:26:22 AM »
maroon 5's, "this love" is pimping lipton tea out here. do you have that there?

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« Reply #44 on: June 08, 2006, 09:58:01 AM »
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maroon 5's, "this love" is pimping lipton tea out here. do you have that there?
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Don't think so, but when I was in England they had Santana's Samba Pa Ti on ads for...uhhh...cars? Food? Can't recall but it was an ad I haven't seen here.
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