Just wondering if anyone could help a musically challenged guy out. I was watching the Monday night game when an ad came on for a video game with a great song on it. The ad is the one where at the end a big alien spider stands up and soldier unloads his rifle at it. The song goes something like "worn out places, worn out faces..."
If anyone knows the song title and artist can you let me know.
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I think if you loved the song before, a commercial can ruin it (Our House! Damn you all to hell Maxwell House!) but if you hadn't heard the song before it can open a band up to you. Just like this thread, or for me, The Buzzcocks in a car commercial; Why Can't I Touch It.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
One of the strangest that I've seen was Modest Mouse's Gravity Rides Everything in a minivan commercial. The thing that was particularly odd about it was that most of the shots in the ad were of moms loading and unloading groceries and children and such from the van... complete unironic. obviously directed at a very different market than the Modest Mouse crowd.
I'm surprised they didn't include "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas. After the song aired in the Mitsubishi commercial a few years back, everyone and their aunt were after that song. When I first bought the Dirty Vegas cd way back when, I loved the song. It's so overplayed and I want to cover my ears if I hear it now.
I liked "Just Breathe" from Telepopmusik as featured in the Mitsubishi Commercials with the black guy in the Outlander or whatever driving around different phases of his life.
Its fastinating how much attention that add has generated. Probably good for the song and the game. Had they used the prototypical hard rock song, no way it would've had the same effect. Pretty good strategy by microsoft. Gary Jules must be loving it. And I'm sure Tears for Fears get some royalties too.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
Its fastinating how much attention that add has generated. Probably good for the song and the game. Had they used the prototypical hard rock song, no way it would've had the same effect. Pretty good strategy by microsoft. Gary Jules must be loving it. And I'm sure Tears for Fears get some royalties too.
I hated that song until I found out it was a Tears for Fears song. Sounded like more generic depressing modern music.
I hated that song until I found out it was a Tears for Fears song. Sounded like more generic depressing modern music.
Really? I always liked that song since I heard it from Donnie Darko a few years back. I don't think it sounds generic at all, its got a lot of emotion. Its better than the Tears for Fears version IMO. Listen to CJAY 92 if you want to hear generic.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
Music in Ads
