Re: Sinister: American Radio and TV Commercials - Double Take
<<did anyone notice the velocity girl song in the volkswagon commercial a year back? >> they must have some hip'n'happening young'uns at the VW commercial-making place because there are lots of offbeat songs featured in their ads, in addition to lush/stereolab/velocity girl/moonpools&caterpillers, they used "little fluffy clouds" by the orb for the new Beetle ads and erm, Hurricane #1. So points for originality at least. And is that "lust for Life" in the new one or just a rip-off? There was a Saint Etienne song used in some shampoo ad too, my heart nearly burst with happiness upon recognizing it! did anyone else catch that? <<There's "Girl 7" ... basically a list of places, alternating between bits of London and exotic places "Primrose Hill, Statton Island ???, Tulip Farm...".>> There is a lovely lyric database for this top p!o!p! crew at www.saint.etienne.net. They also have another "list" song called "Fake '88" featuring Stephen Duffy wondering what people will remember the decade for, then name-checking Transformers, ET, rah-rah skirts, Dirty Den and lots of people whom I might recognize had I grown up in England. (Phil Redmond? Stephen Waldorf? Steve Lynex?) Also does REM's "It's the End of the World..." count as a list? <<If B&S decide what sort of commercial to have their music played with, I wonder what sort of products they would endorse?>> Obviously they're going to continue in their tradition of corporate whoredom and pandering the masses by doing a Gap advert, maybe "khakis are pish" or something. Oon's poems were lovely! ta ta tara PS props to HoneyHoney for making the digests, more um, digestible +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Tara Widmer wrote:
Also does REM's "It's the End of the World..." count as a list?
Ooh yes, I forgot that one! and maybe that "Hey, Matthew" song from 84-ish -- with lists of TV shows ("Dallas, Dynasty, Terrorhawkes, He Man, Dukes of Hazard, The A Team" -- spot who's sad enough to *still* remember (or almost-remember) these things..) and lists of occupations that "Matthew" wants to have. tim +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
All this talk of list songs. I heard Traffic by Stereophonics in a pub the other day and realised that this is a list song of sorts, listing all different sorts of people and stuff. Not the most interesting post you'll ever read but i felt compelled to join in. Rich "Vegas Baby" Mikie ans Trent, Swingers +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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