[freckleface2727]

can someone please confirm for me that it Is David Spade singing the Outback steakhouse commericals?

everyone I say that to tells me I'm nuts, but if not him, someone has stolen his voice.

also, I don't remember what car maker it is, but the one w/ the Hail To The Chief (for President's Day sale) and the first few bars start out well, but then it gets all techno sounding and evry time I hear it I scream in my head thinking if you can't do it better than this Don't Do It. gah. makes me crazy.
AND as I said, the auto brand doesn't stick so what a waste of advertising dollars. ( & even if it did, for the music alone xxx !)

orville reddenbacker (grew up very close to his town) was nerdy when he was younger, now he's just creepy & old. some old men get cute, he's not one of them.

[mouse]

i love that song (donovan! and i say that with complete lack of irony or cheese-appreciation....i just love him) but i totally agree--that shitty cgi is even worse than the orville redenbacher one in the creepiness factor.

[juls]

That new fruity Cheerios commercial was cute at the beginning, but after being rammed in my brain approximately 100 consecutive times it kinda got to me... And after looking at it so often, you see that the graphics are scary... looks like the kids' heads are gonna fall off...

"Happiness runs in a circular motion… Happiness runs, happiness runs"

[octobersky]

Aviatrix - I know! The first time I heard that song in the ad, I cracked up. I know that cars are sometimes referred to as extentions of a guy's penis, but that goes too far! Especially since the car is marketed towards females...

Okay I like Fall Out Boy and their new song, but I really hate the Verizon ad with the song. There's some sweaty meathead guy in a gym talking about how the song "gets him PUMPED!" and then his freakin' phone rings and he says "oh that's my lady." It's just gross. Now when I hear the song I think of sweaty dude.

[aviatrix]

i have to smirk when i see the mercury commercials not cos of the song lyrics-- those are innocuous-- it's the name of the band: morningwood.

[culturehandy]

I have to say I am getting irritated by the Wendy's commercial that has the song Blister in the Sun! The song is about masturbation, and I don't want anything that has to do with masturbation around food.

[the_geiger]

I hate the ad for this van with the stow 'n' go secret compartments where the woman goes shopping and she hides the bags from her man in the compartment, and he's like "I thought you went shopping?" and then she pulls the bags out when he's not looking. Because we really want to endorse unhealthy spending habits and lying to our significant others while reinforcing the stereotype of woman as a duplicitous spendthrift, right?

There's another stow 'n' go ad that bugs me, with the little kid who hides all his stuff in the van's compartments, including a live frog. I mean, I'm not a PETA person, but I just felt so bad for that poor frog.

[crazyoldcatlady]

the danica patrick honda commercial.
so cliche, overused, and downright exploitative.
speeding woman gets pulled over by cop, fixes hair, shows some cleavage, and cop is a woman...
sigh.

and the dominos commercial with the "smell the cheese taste the crust" guys with the large nose and mouth needs to stop being played every 2 seconds

[humanist77]

I saw this totally offensive commercial recently-for 1-800-DENTISTS:

It was a woman calling them, sounding very cheerful and perky and talking with a big smile, saying something like, "I just got a divorce recently, I want to do something nice for myself, and I think having some dental work would be beneficial for my appearance..." the operator perkily assists her, and then the punchline is the woman saying at the end "Thanks, now if only you could help me find a new husband!"

Besides being stereotypical and offensive (plus the terrible acting), I thought that a topic so unpleasant and unrelated to dentistry, like divorce, was weirdly out of place in an advertisement for this service. I don't think they specifically need to pander to divorcees..

[octobersky]

I have to admit I was kinda surprised when Pepsi pulled out "Ca Plane Pour Moi" in their recent ad. I hadn't heard it in years and it took me a minute to figure it out when I heard it again.

Word on Dusty Springfield.

[aviatrix]

the music i do like is the add with dusty springfield. she's one of those singular voices that just feels like a warm dream. i don't have a clue what add it is cos i usually close my eyes and listen. i saw a second of horses running. more than that, i can't tell you....

[mouse]

well it had BETTER be PERFECT, hadn't it??

[aviatrix]

hey mouse! how's your fung ssshway?

[mouse]

yeah i've seen that one; i love that song too, and it's totally inappropriate for shampoo.

the song must not have been rancid then. i may have the article at home; i'll see if i can find it.

[bustygirl]

I think it was a Rancid side project called the Transplants: the song in question is called "Diamonds and Guns", and I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it might be about the drug trade.

Which of course makes it a perfect fit for Fructis shampoos and conditioners.

[mouse]

oh, yeah, the lust for life song is totally misplaced. let's shoot heroin in the caribbean, kids!
i remember actually reading an article in a magazine about totally inappropriate songs used in commercials....i feel like there was some very vegetarian punk song (rancid? maybe?) used to sell burgers from the first few clips of it.....and a parody song of "baby got back" was used as "baby got backpack" to sell backpacks to kids....hahahahah.....

the ipod shuffle commercial with the changing clothes is effing brilliant and flawlessy done. love. it.

not so much loving the new ipod commercial with all the 80's graphics though....they're pushing it. meh.

[chachaheels]

OH, GT, you never offended me by what you wrote (I'm not surprised at all you love that perfume, it is marvelous!!), so don't apologize...I "gulped" because of the prospect of Magie Noir being classified as "old". It is NOT old!! And, once it's slapped with that label, I'll be unable to find it at all...and I'm kind of really sick to death of the watery, cucumbery, whiteflowery, blah scents that have just become the standard.

It's a little bit heartbreaking to go out looking for a favourite fragrance that's been wiped out. A couple of years ago I walked into the Guerlain store in Toronto hoping I could find some of my favourite scents (I had a whole list I hadn't seen around, and I figured, they've been making perfume for 200 years and more, and they've got tons of older perfumes for sale...they'll probably have the ones not sold in department stores anymore). Well, one by one, I learned that each of the favourites I was asking about were no longer being made (the salesman had to keep finding words for "no, sorry", like: "Dead". "Finis". "No more". "Discontinued"...and on and on. Even one scent, Mahora, which came out about 1999 or so...was no longer being made. Depressing. Like you, I always attach a particular memory of an experience with a fragrance, so knowing it's no longer around means the memory's on its way out, too--or, at least a big part of it is lost.

So, I'm obviously going to spend an hour or two poring through the entries on that link. Thanks for posting it!

And I remember that Nina Simone tune (such a great song) as the background for the Chanel No. 5 commercial. It was my introduction to Nina Simone too--and I already loved the perfume from my childhood, back when Catherine Deneuve was Chanel's "face". To this day I think of the 2 together--Nina Simone was brilliant and I think she had a thing for France too...so maybe she was quite happy to highlight Chanel. I hope so.

[girltrouble]

sorry chacha... although i love that you wear it too. it is marvelous, isn't it? have you had any exes tell you they've hunted someone down because they caught a whiff of magie? i think i meant more obscure than old. it was introduced in '78. almost 30 years that's not old at all, but it is older than some more trendy, common scents, like georgio. and i know what you mean about new scents. i used to be a perfume fly and visit the perfume counter monthly to get new free samples. now i barely do it once a year.
but here is a great website:
http://www.fragrancenet.com/f/net/wf_items...ogleUnassigned6
thing i like about it is the details about the scent: the scent notes most of all, but also the strength, durration, usage and classification. i don't know how i feel about the recommended age, mature might have been what i meant about the perfume. ugh that's not much better is it? i mean-- it's a very sophisticated scent. but that's what i like about it. it's so not run of the mill. the first girl i knew who wore it was 23, and i'll be damned if it didn't add to her mystery. god... i'm gonna go snort some i love it so much!

and speaking of music and commericals, it was a perfume commercial that got me into nina simone. years ago she was on the soundtrack to a channel no.5 (i think) commerical doing 'my baby don't care.' which i fell instantly in love with, and looked for years to find. i still love the song. infact its one of the few nina simone albums i love without qualification...

and i agree with you completely october, the domino's commercial is very creepy. i've never liked the whole 'blackhole sun' treatment.

[octobersky]

For me it really depends on what the product is that is being shilled and the music accompaning it. I really never got the Carnival Cruise and "Lust for Life" paring -wtf? My friends and I would shout "liquor and drugs" at the commercial. Currently the Wendy's and Violent Femmes pairing is rather annoying. Somehow though I didn't mind so much The Cure "Pictures of You" and HP, somehow it worked. I really think that in some cases of odd pairings is that the artist is desparate for money or they don't own that song due to shoddy label dealings. I dunno...

Not to completely derail, but that Domino's commercial with the giant nose guy, mouth guy and eye guy - it really freaks me the hell out. But Dominos has annoyed me since the owner went all ultra-Xtian building that town in Florida.

[chachaheels]

Hey! I wear Magie Noir! And Robert Piguet's Fracas, if I can find it. Not to resurrect the whole AXE discussion or anything, but I'm kinda shocked magie noir's considered "old". Gulp. Anyway, these two perfumes are used sparingly, just because of rarity. It's getting so you can't find anything older than 3 years now when you shop for scent. And a lot of the new stuff isn't interesting to me.

I can completely understand the whole music as advertising when you consider things like the limited access artists actually get to radio play, and the limited amounts of money made via conventional music companies and their practices. In some cases, commercial use is the only way some artists will be heard by a large number of people (three songs I think have brought "obscure" artists some money are Elizabeth Fraser and This Mortal Coil's version of Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren, to sell Noa Perfume; Dead Can Dance's Summoning of the Muse used in a variety of film soundtracks, and Sheila Chandra's "drum talk" pieces being used as a background for Vaseline Intensive Care Hand cream). I have a hard time believing that some artists still retain control over their songs (I can't see Cat Stevens actually selling a tune for an ad that sells anything--but it may be out of his hands if another artist covers the tune and another music company owns the song's publishing rights).

But I can't see why Violent Femmes need to sell Wendy's anything.