So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

Pomplamoose? More like ANUSMOOSE:

http://blog.amysteryincommon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20091102_a.jpg

pomplamprey

Pomplamoatse.cx

Pomplanoose
Pomplanuance

okifail

That t-shirt is really gross.

That t-shirt is really gross.
it's gross, it's indie, it's somewhat "rootsy"...it has limitless appeal.

Nakedlunchlemoose

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nCLKbj44niI/R7utDQMeUcI/AAAAAAAAAV4/x-24g7_1cHw/s400/naked-lunch-beetle-typewriter-powder-lips-anus-1.png

it is (gross)! wtf cute christian indie couple with horny anus t-shirt

i'm "guilty" of owning this shirt
http://www.kungfunation.com/artists/43-guided-by-voices/product/1127-cycles-t-shirt-gbv01
it just made me shiver a little that the aesthetic is so similar

"Is there any actual name for this type of singing?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGAcqBb_tA

i don't even know why i thought of that. an idealized version of what you think drunks sounded like in the 30's? i have no idea. its gotta go though.

olde-tymey

Nothing against these two but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo

This could be its own genre, and I don't know who to kill first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDUxKosTXNs

i'm so happy that we've managed to NOT really talk about cat power on here! shit, now i've done it...

but, don't, okay?

(don't tell ian this, but i'm not a big karen dalton fan. i blame her a little bit for that kind of voice.) (not a big jo-ann kelly fan either.) (though i do love judy henske, so what are you gonna do?)

but in an ideal society they would be hunted for sport imo

Cruelty! They'd be humanely culled.

Has Mark E. Smith weighed in on this band yet??

I actually kind of like Bird & the Bee, but that Private Eyes cover is exactly what I mean by THIS:

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the first time I knowingly heard "Telephone" by Lady Gaga it was actually the Pamplemousse version.. and I thought "What a great song! But hmm, it's like there's something missing." There was! Lady Gaga!

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, January 7, 2011 5:30 AM Bookmark

Because it perfectly sums up what's wrong with most of these viral indie covers -- instead of taking an overlooked song and bringing something new, they take a perfect song that's already been performed the best it can be and do a half-assed job performing it. It's coattail riding in the guise of irony.

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:16 (3 hours ago)

I mean the original Private Eyes is such a perfect sounding song. The B&B version sounds like karaoke.

Their versions of I Heard it on the Radio and Kiss on My List are pretty ace.

Those Nouvelle Vague covers of classic postpunk tunes slip into this territory too imo

it thinks it's doing some kind of compelling detournement but it's just taking something great and making it safe for boutiques and "chic" hotel lobbies/lounge compilations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmG0sPyZJBg

^^kinda like that one u_u

Were Gap the pioneers of insufferable indie Christmas ads or is there a long heritage I'm unaware of?

Whoops, yeah, Low's "Little Drummer Boy" was used by Gap, not Target. It first aired near the end of 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv61mHwGmbI

Target used the Suicide Commandos' "Complicated Fun" a few years later but that might have been in Minnesota only.

I actually think the first big commercial to use music from a non-major-label band was seriously Volvo's Minutemen ad in 2000, but Volkswagen had already been alt-ing it up since '99--I remember the Stereolab one well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7wkRGjOs7w

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lSKUL_n6c0

So I can't really blame Minutemen for anything: Money for the "Love Dance" licensing went to the late D. Boon's estate (he had sole publishing credit) and Watt said he approved it only to help Boon's ailing dad. Greg Milner reported in Spin that the song had actually been written in the offices of Dischord Records!

I reread the DMB thread a while back, and I was still dying with laughter. It doesn't pale with time.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, January 8, 2011 7:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The thing about the DMB thread is you don't even need to read the posts. Just seeing

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is enough to make me laugh uncontrollably

Oh no. You need to read the posts. Ned and Alex going toe-to-toe with random G00glers was infinite pleasure beyond name.

Were the Troggs on a major label, back when they did Coke commercials?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlUQfXZGvgc

iirc all proceeds from the minutemen vw ad went to d boons dad who was sick and broke or something

not that i feel the need to defend musicians getting paid somehow anyhow but there you go

Volvo, here's the piece. But something will have been lost if we look back on this controversy as quaint.

Probably already has been lost. I taught a high-school civics class this semester where students set up their own towns, and many didn't seem to get that Targets and Wal-Marts aren't part of the city government.

no idea what that has to do w/ this thread but i enjoyed your anecdote

""wacky delayface breakdown"

everything that is wrong with pomplemoose in three words

Haven't seen such annoying instrument by instrument mugging since
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEknNT0YL2o

How do you expect me to "BEAT IT" when you keep cutting away to that hairy guy playing the baby piano? It's totally killing the mood!

What a perfect storm this duo is! It's amazing, the bile coughed up on their behalf. Impressive, even. I mean, if I were given a similar platform (a few Youtube clips and a couple of heavy-rotation holiday ads) and asked to irritate as many people as humanly possible, I couldn't even come close to matching their accomplishment. Such efficiency! Probably some important lessons to be learned here.

ha, kids seem a bit fidgety during the performance

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/education&id=7886521

News anchors should be barred from trying to be witty ("Pomp-la-muse!" "Drumroll please") during reports. No, wait, I'm pretty sure they already are.

BAN

xpost: the parallel's in the change in how people relate to the corporatization of everything. Yes, selling a song off an album that declared "Fuck advertising, commercial psychology/Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" required a defense 10 years ago: That was a happy thing--happy because they sang it, happy because people believed it, and happy because there was an alternative economy/culture being built up by people who felt the same. A lot of that endures, but sometimes the anti-corporate ethos seems like a lost language--you see it in the way "indie" can now describe a "couple." And of course it's normal for a rock band to buy your schoolbooks because Lord knows the government won't.

i figured out my subconscious reason for hating mrs. pomplamoose. this is a picture of amy adams playing "julie" in julie and julia.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KqQsYqm5HXQ/TSucvfTb3SI/AAAAAAAAAOg/VbwE7SExIj4/s1600/Setup.JPG

Is that granite? Fancy pants!

it comes from a blog someone's doing where the author watches julie and julia every day for a year.

http://lawrenceandjulieandjulia.blogspot.com/

i want to start a project where i write "go to hell" in that guy's comments a thousand times every day for a year

nothing is stopping you.

I feel like I've seen those damned Pomplacommercials every day for a year.

ha my mom told me she hates these

;_;