lol typo
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 June 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 18 June 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
While suffering through one of those endless pre-shows at a movie theatre tonight, there was a Scotia Bank commercial that used Melanie's "Brand New Key." Not particularly well, but it was there, and I felt something.
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 April 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
Dylan had already licensed songs for commercials when had control of his catalogue (close to a dozen, I'm guessing); now that he doesn't, I would expect lots of this in the coming years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcuycbgujdg
I like this one--better than some of the ones he oversaw. (I bet companies are more intimidated by the material, and more inclined to fuss over mood, etc.--"Let's get this right, or everyone will hate us"--than he was.) I've posted before about how moving I find it to hear Dylan at his best in a public setting, and in its way, this is kind of a public setting.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Watching baseball, just saw this for the first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAGVLUKdlP0
I'll give it a B.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 October 2023 01:42 (six months ago) link
Watched the overtime yesterday and saw a commercial with "I'll Be Your Mirror." Which I know isn't all that surprising in 2024, but if you can put yourself in the mind of 40 years ago is kind of amazing.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 17:01 (two months ago) link
A couple of the instrumental bits from "Heroin" were used in a Mitsubishi (IIRC) ad like 15-20 years ago, but (also IIRC) it was quickly pulled and then put out again with different music.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:34 (two months ago) link
More VU: "I'm Sticking With You" in an ad for Montefiore Children's Hospital.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 12 February 2024 18:28 (two months ago) link
Self-XP
It was for the Nissan Xterra! As discussed in one of my first ILM threads: Do Ad Agencies Even Listen To The Songs They Choose For Car Commercials These Days?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:36 (two months ago) link
It's the last on in this supercut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_GuVMBatE
The first ad in this set uses "TV Eye," so there clearly were hipsters at work here.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:45 (two months ago) link
Don't remember ever seeing that, that's something...In 1979, I was working hard to get hold of their out-of-print studio albums (all of them, I think). In 2024, Super Bowl commercial.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 19:26 (two months ago) link
I may be the only person on the planet that saw it, but there was very briefly an ad for Ore-Ida (tater tots or french fries, can't remember) that featured Golden Brown
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 12 February 2024 19:44 (two months ago) link
I'm worried that one day there'll be nothing left to be snobbish about.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 19:52 (two months ago) link
LIKE A ROCK
― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:54 (two months ago) link
There's been a recent ad for the Chevrolet Silverado that uses the Stooges' "Down on the Street." That's another album that was out of print for a while in the '80s.
― Josefa, Monday, 12 February 2024 19:55 (two months ago) link
"Venus In Furs" selling tyres from 30 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNrV8pL9Lbw
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:58 (two months ago) link
LOL Tom D just beat me to it. Directed by Tony Kaye:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kaye_(director)
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 12 February 2024 20:01 (two months ago) link
yah that was inescapable in the uk
― oscar bravo, Monday, 12 February 2024 20:58 (two months ago) link
30 years ago, that's amazing. Took a little longer over here, I guess.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 February 2024 20:59 (two months ago) link
xpand was the first time I ever heard vu. I didn't go on to make TV commercials tho.
― oscar bravo, Monday, 12 February 2024 20:59 (two months ago) link
Talking of early Velvets usage. Not an advert but I'm sure I've mentioned on ILX before that "Candy Says" was used in Fassbinder's 1972 TV series "Eight Hours Is Not a Day".
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
The 1969 German teen comedy Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame used I'm Waiting For The Man in its opening credits. Even had an entire credit for "Musik: Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground" though Andy Warhol's name was bigger.
― gjoon1, Monday, 12 February 2024 23:43 (two months ago) link
I'm shockingly old to have learned that.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 23:55 (two months ago) link
The whole film is on Youtube!
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link