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by **WLIRRIP** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:44 pm

They're playing the contemporary classics. I.e., we're getting old.

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by **Retro_NRG** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:26 am

^^^ Heh, Tell me about it.. ^^^

Not a commercial, but the play on words is just as telling about our aging demographic [B)]..

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by **tileboy** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:56 am

A cover of " Every day is like Sunday " promoting the NFL network.

by **Myrriad** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:41 am

I know, this is my first post but I have some thoughts about this that I talk about sometimes with a friend of mine from the old new wave days.
Why is it that we were looked at with disdain from the 'normals' for looking like and listening to the euro beat (or the new wave or the
new romantic or punk) stuff back then.
Now the 'normals' have this notion that NO they weren't listening to Huey Lewis and Phil Collins and radio music then! Our music now belongs to them, too?
Yeah, right, dream on.
We're the only ones with real, tangible memories of this stuff from our tape and record collections and club nights (since new wave stations tried and died so often in Detroit...WLBS lives in our hearts, though!).

Ann Arbor MI

by **rewind** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:35 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Retro_NRG[/i]
<br>^^^ Heh, Tell me about it.. ^^^

Not a commercial, but the play on words is just as telling about our aging demographic [B)]..

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...I'll say. The song first charted in 1966!

by **rewind** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:40 am

Has anyone mentioned the recent Mercury commercial using Tones On Tail "Go!"?

by **glokstadt** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:57 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by rewind[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Retro_NRG[/i]
<br>^^^ Heh, Tell me about it.. ^^^

Not a commercial, but the play on words is just as telling about our aging demographic [B)]..

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...I'll say. The song first charted in 1966!
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The Bobby Fuller Four - great tune... The Clash did a great cover of it IMHO!!! [:D]

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by **Retro_NRG** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:41 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by glokstadt[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by rewind[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Retro_NRG[/i]
<br>^^^ Heh, Tell me about it.. ^^^

Not a commercial, but the play on words is just as telling about our aging demographic [B)]..

[/quote]

...I'll say. The song first charted in 1966!
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The Bobby Fuller Four - great tune... The Clash did a great cover of it IMHO!!! [:D][/quote] DOH!!
Now I'm REALLY feeling old![B)]

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by **wormster** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:29 am

hey, this happened many more years ago...it really started with the Listerine commercial. The used tarzan boy by baltimora for the cool mint listerine.I was jumping for joy when i heard that. I wondered if Baltimora got to see the day or money from that before he passed away..

by **gpow** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:00 pm

Theres this song in the geico cavemen commercial that sounds New Wavish. Im trying to figure out who did that song. I dont think its actually 80s material

by **Minty** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:51 pm

Would it be Royksopp's "Remind Me"? Nice synths and bass groove to that song!

by **WolverineSyr** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:56 pm

I just heard Saved By Zero in a Toyota commercial promoting their 0% APR. It wasn't the Fixx, but a modernized trancey version.

by **tenohtwo** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:47 am

They're running the Saved By Zero ad again? Probably an update, but Toyota used that song a while back (at least 5 years ago) for a 0% promotion they were running.

Tileboy mentioned the Morrissey NFL Network ad. I've been hearing that one a lot, since I watch the games every weekend. Sounds almost country, I wonder who remade that one.

Saw this on Wikipedia regarding Devo re-recording Whip It for those Swiffer ads:

Devo recorded a new version of "Whip It" to be used in Swiffer television commercials, a decision they have said they regret. During an interview with the Dallas Observer, Gerald Casale said, "It's just aesthetically offensive. It's got everything a commercial that turns people off has."

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by **Frau_Blucher** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:12 am

Just heard the Toyata Saved By Zero 0% financing commercial last night. Right now though, I'm scarfing a burrito at Chipotle Grill in Somerville MA listening to Da Da Da...hilarious. Oddly, it's got me pumped up for the Fleet Foxes gig next door.

by **schwenko** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:48 am

I've been hearing "Once In a Lifetime" by Talking Heads in the commercials for "W.", the new Oliver Stone film.

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