Do Ad Agencies Even Listen To The Songs They Choose For Car Commercials These Days?

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I have asked for my email accounts to be deleted from this loathesome forum and have recieved nothing but abuse. Under the Data Protection Act I would remind you that I am entitled to this, yet the post continues to be put up by someone hiding under a moniker. I'd like to know why ILM allows people to hide under monikers and steal names while they sit and giggle like schoolgirls as they play on their silly chat room.

I see that you encourage the spamming of other people's accounts and find this behaviour despicable. I shall be alerting every moderator on this thread and be asking, nicely, for the posts to be removed before going to ILM's web host and if need be taking this further. I have asked you to remove the post bearing my personal email details and reveal the person who has posted under my name. I see no respect shown to privacy on this forum only a bunch of thugs looking to harrass and undermine someone's personal account.

― Calz (Calz), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

moderators please e-mail calum ****** ******* at cal***@hotmail.com. beat on the brat. [even Calum is entitled to his privacy, James - Martin Skidmore, taking action at Calum's request]

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

Use of name - please remove. I have emailed about this before and shall continue to do so.

― Calz (Calz), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

sit and giggle like schoolgirls as they play on their silly chat room.

Which is NOTHING AT ALL like sitting and giggling like a schoolgirl while talking with your ex about how much you enjoy winding up this board...

Some people dish it out but they don't know how to take it...

There's an easy way to stop being offended by your childhood's soundtrack being used on car adverts. Stop watching TV.

― kate, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link

'windowlicker' spotted recently on a mercedes ad....why are they always so out of date with this stuff?

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 12:46 (twenty years ago) link

The Saturn Ion campaign totally ruined Tiny Spark by Brendan Benson for me. I cannot really blame him tho, he probably made more loot off that one license than he did touring last year.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

And which car company used Instrumental from the first Galaxie 500 album for their ads?

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

The Bees showed up on a Mars advert in Australia - I'm still mighty impressed by that.

OK, so it's not a car...so sue me.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like to see Jandek or Whitehouse used to sell cars.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

Whitehouse used to sell cars

"Buick - You Don't Have to Say Please!"
"Citroen - Thank Your Lucky Stars"
"Chevrolet - We're Comin' Up Your Ass"

thanks so much, I'll be here all week

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link

"Porsche - My Cock's On Fire!!"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:17 (twenty years ago) link

"Ferrari - Roman Strength"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

It's funny to imagine Sterling Smith stalking some ad exec, calling him up at 4 am and breathing heavily into the phone: areyougonnausemysong... areyougonnausemysong...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link

I don't mind them using songs, but I really wish they'd use the RIGHT PART of the song.
Example:Image: Pictures of happy vacationers frolicing in the carribean while the cruise ship looms majestically behind them. Sound: "...of course, I've had it in the ear before..."Hey, I'd buy any product -- feminine hygeiene included -- that used the "I wanna nullify my life" portion of "Heroin" in a commercial. Also, there's this: Click it, you know you want to. ― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 5 June 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass... One of my new favorites - Local hospital using feelgood song of the year to sell its bedside manner: Street Hassle. Maybe if they were promoting their rehab program it'd make sense ... Hey, that cunts not breathing I think shes had too much Of something or other, hey, man, you know what I mean― I know my name is dave, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link I think the real point is that cruises are the new heroin.― Hurting 2, Monday, 26 February 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link Ah, I thought someone might have mentioned the Pogues song in the Cadillac ad aired during the Oscars last night. "Heart full of hate and a lust for vomit" seems fitting for an SUV filled with upper middle class gits though.― patita, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link Ohh, it's gone all 'typing'... Well, since they used The Stooges' "No Fun" to advertise CBeebies, nothing and that means nothing is that surprising anymore...― Mark G, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link If I hear another mobile phone advert soundtracked by some freakfolk bullshit, I'm going to cry.― Dom Passantino, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link The thing a lot of folks miss is that the ad execs in question aren't really using these songs. Not in the way that you, the hyperliterate music fan imagines. They're often just using a few moments of sound in order to create a mood. Sure, it's possible that someone is nicking "Heroin" in order to explicitly invoke the drug reference, associating the product with indulgent depravity. But it's much more likely that they're using the associative qualties of a brief fragment to speak to a large audience that doesn't even know the song. Hip, semi-obscure songs are usually chosen because they're unfamilar (thus cheap, and not cross-branded in the "average consumer's mind"), and because they're evocative. While most people might not want to hear the whole thing as pop entertainment, a moment or two of almost any noise can be quite striking, in the proper context.― Pye Poudre, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link Ohh, it's gone all 'typing'... This, at last, is Lord Custos's legacy.― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.