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martin

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rollins can be insufferable but hits the nail on the head here.
I forgot about the Fall car advert! Remember seeing it and thinking "Sounds like a Fall rip-off" , though I'd already drifted away from them after 'Levitate' and the big split after the NYC gig punch-up...

Another massive one was "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" by The Clash which got reissued around 1990 (?) after being featured in a jeans ad.

Even David Tibet's pals got in on the action:

 

boxedjoy

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the thing about Flat Beat and Spaceman that fascinates me is that even with their "novelty" elements they weren't just flash-in-the-pan successes: Flat Beat was one of the ten biggest selling songs of 1999, and Spaceman did four weeks at the top of the charts. The songs were picked to be head-turning moments of advertising, but if that's all that drew people to them then they would never have had the comparative longevity and impact.
 

martin

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the thing about Flat Beat and Spaceman that fascinates me is that even with their "novelty" elements they weren't just flash-in-the-pan successes: Flat Beat was one of the ten biggest selling songs of 1999, and Spaceman did four weeks at the top of the charts. The songs were picked to be head-turning moments of advertising, but if that's all that drew people to them then they would never have had the comparative longevity and impact.
Oh yeah, they blew up at the time. Think Flat Eric made some TV appearances as well. Babylon Zoo even got into Melody Maker.

Wasn't there some US grunge-type band that came out of nowhere from a jeans ad in the mid-90s and put out an album off the back of it?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Didn't Tom Waits turn down an advert and so they got a sound alike to sing the song and he sued them or something?
 

boxedjoy

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Stiltskin, who if I remember correctly were formed for the purpose of making the advert and the fake-grunge song Inside that was used in it. The frontman ended up in Genesis.
 

martin

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Stiltskin, who if I remember correctly were formed for the purpose of making the advert and the fake-grunge song Inside that was used in it. The frontman ended up in Genesis.
Yep, them's the twats. Just YT'd it...even worse than I remember :sick:
 

william_kent

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I suppose part of the choice for music would be to aim for a demographic who have some spending power? Which means maybe we'll see more adverts with music subliminally aimed at old ravers? The music in these two is mixed very low but just audible enough to evoke nostalgia in those of a certain age...the Barclays one is almost like they're sampling The Prodigy ( who are in turn sampling Lee Perry & Max Romeo), just providing enough of a snippet of the hook to prick up an old raver's ears before ramming the message home..


SL2 - On a Ragga Tip


The Prodigy - Out of Space
 

Client Eastwood

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Apparently, no computer graphics in this advert for the Honda Accord. Almost AMSR to start with, then the drop. love the way the speakers are vibing.

 
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