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Battle for Milkquarious

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:46:45 -0800

Battle for Milkquarious - The greatest Rock Opera ever made. About milk. [Flash, dairy advertising] From the California Milk Processor Board. There is also a director's commentary.

Soundville

acb — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:54:23 -0800

Juan Cabral, the commercial maker behind the Sony Bravia bouncing ball ad has completed a new piece: this time, he and collaborators, including Múm, Richard Fearless (of Death In Vegas) and the people behind Sigur Rós' live concerts, transformed the Icelandic town of Sey∂isfjör∂ur into an ambient sound installation, placing speakers throughout the town, playing music (from folk to electronica to ambient orchestral) and filming the reactions of the locals as they went about their lives. The resulting short film, Soundville, is ostensibly an advertisement for Sony's audio products, but can stand on its own as an art installation.

Mass Karaoke

The Devil Tesla — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:19:04 -0800

13,500 people singing Hey Jude in London's Trafalgar Square. Thanks T-Mobile! (previously)

Land on your own moon

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:04:48 -0800

Ok, it's an advert but it's a 'directed by Chris Cunningham' advert... Information on the making of here. (David Lynch also recently did an advert for Gucci) Mirrorball - A Channel4 television series on music video directors - Chris Cunningham episode (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Unfortunately the sound is a bit out of synch. Videos 'Personally' - 12 Rounds 'Come To Daddy' - Aphex Twin 'Flex' - Aphex Twin 'Monkey Drummer' - Aphex Twin 'Rubber Johnny' - Aphex Twin 'Windowlicker' - Aphex Twin 'Second Bad Vilbel' - Autechre 'Back With The Killer Again' - The Auteurs 'Light Aircraft on Fire' - The Auteurs 'All Is Full of Love' - Björk 'No More Talk' - Dubstar 'Tranquillizer' - Geneva 'Sheena Is A Parasite' - The Horrors 'The Next Big Thing' - Jesus Jones 'Something To Say' - Jocasta 'Afrika Shox' - Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa 'Frozen' - Madonna '36 Degrees' - Placebo 'Only You' - Portishead 'Come On My Selector' - Squarepusher Advertisements BMW ITV - Sport Is Free Levi's - Photocopier, 'Up And Down' Nissan - 'Statistics' NUS 'Fetish' Orange PlayStation 'Mental Wealth' PSP Telecom Italia 'Quiet' XFM 'Clip Clop' Live at electraglide2005 Directors File, Wikipedia, previously Cunningham portal Some of this is NSFW.

Klezmer and selling out

muggsy1079 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:03:14 -0800

David Goo and the Variety Band have been gigging in London for a few years, but a recent appearance as a soundtrack to an advert could be what propels them to the big time. Merging ska, punk, indie and klezmer influences, read an interview with them here as they speculate on the concept of 'selling out'

Selling out

caddis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:14:50 -0800

The Moby Quotient [I]n the late 1990s, the techno artist Moby, as hip as they come, openly boasted of having sold every track of his breakthrough album "Play" to an advertiser, or to a film or TV soundtrack. The album should perhaps have been called "Pay." In homage Bill Wyman of Hitsville has dubbed his formula for determining the offensiveness of a rock-based advertisement. (accompanying article)

wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Wonderbra!

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:29:51 -0800

From the Golden Age of TV commercial jingles, variations on a lyric theme: Wonderbra ads from 1968 (#1), 1968 (#2), 1969, 1974, 1975, and 1979, all served up in the groovy pop aesthetic of those fabulous decades! It's a wonderful thing. [lyrics inside]

Industrial Poetry

jann — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:38:08 -0800

Blixa Bargeld reads the Hornbach Catalog. In a series of ads, finalists in 2004 for an EPICA award, the poet and musician Blixa Bargeld, known primarily as a leader of the industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, read aloud descriptions of home improvement products. With hilarious results.

"Come on baby, buy my SUV"

PenguinBukkake — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:35:30 -0800

" Jim's ghost was in my ear, and I felt terrible". Like all top classic-rock franchises, The Doors can exploit a lucrative afterlife in television commercials. Offers keep coming in, such as the $15 million dangled by Cadillac last year to lease the song "Break On Through (to the Other Side)" to hawk its luxury SUVs. To the surprise of the corporation and the chagrin of his former bandmates, drummer John Densmore vetoed the idea. He said he did the same when Apple Computer called with a $4-million offer, and every time "some deodorant company wants to use 'Light My Fire.' "

Kiss casket

jeremias — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:37:23 -0800

Takes the phrase "Get a Life" to a new level. Those masterminds of marketing, those night rocking, day partying satanic minions, KISS, have achieved the ultimate score in product merchandising. That's right, it's your very own KISS coffin, and while you might think "What's the point?", keep in mind that before you shuffle off this mortal coil, it doubles as a beer cooler.

CDNow cedes operations to Amazon.com

phyrewerx — Sat, 07 Dec 2002 19:43:54 -0800

CDNow cedes operations to Amazon.com. While looking up some 'non-traditional' Christmas music, I noticed this site's layout looked oddly familiar. Is there reason for concern about the fact that Amazon is taking over shop for it's rival or is this an example of using what's the 'best' in a competitive market?

ncurley — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:27:32 -0800

Mars Austrailia creates fake band and single to advertise Starbursts. It is the latest marketing idea: create a fictitious group named after your brand and release a cheesy song that gets radio airplay and is sold as a music single to teenagers. The song is Get Your Juices Going, by fictional pop group Starburst. It has secured high-rotation airplay on radio station Nova 96.9 and has had its promotional video featured on Video Hits. The song's lyrics were written by copywriters and the video, in which the group's identity is hidden, was created by television commercial producers. Not once, however, is the pop group linked to Mars.

britain — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:51:08 -0800

Luxury carmaker achieves relevance with "the kids" by use of Led Zep in ad. Although the article touches on Chevy's decade-long affiliation with Bob Seger, it curiously neglects to mention that Chevy ad with the Mary Chain song, or even the Volkswagen soundtrack album. Did you ever hear a favorite song in an ad or as the theme to a TV show and think "how'd THAT happen?"

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:52:49 -0800

Start Me Up Or Shut Me Down: Is Music Compromised And Cheapened By Its Use In Commercials? The Doors' John Densmore, writing in The Nation about why he refuses to accept Apple's and other companies' generous offers to use his band's songs, certainly thinks so. Is this an admirable example of integrity; precious vanity or just downright jejune?[More inside]

skylar — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 06:36:21 -0800

Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Gap.... If ever there was a candidate for being sued this site would be it... with a three-minute music video setting logos, brand names and glossy corporate imagery against adbusting in-jokes and shots of police brutality. Anti-capitalist anthem or the ultimate in product placement? And how long until the site's namesakes get it pulled off the Web?

willnot — Sun, 10 Jun 2001 02:09:37 -0800

Has It Come To This? There's a certain symmetry in the commercialization of the commercialization of music and yet I can't quite get over this.

rcade — Sat, 10 Mar 2001 08:16:53 -0800

"After the J. C. Penney ad ran, they got a letter from a fan wondering how they could be that desperate; did they need the money for an operation or something?" Tomorrow's New York Times Magazine covers the Apples in Stereo and other bands that are jeopardizing their realness by selling songs to advertisers.

ljc — Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:24:43 -0800

Check out the Milko Music Machine. It was chosen as the Macromedia Site of the Day and is hysterical! You can select video clips, vocals and music for a bovine music video. Moo, moo, moo.

mikewas — Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:42:20 -0800

Barenaked Ladies use ingenuity instead of lawyers to outfox Napster users. Singer Steven Page can be heard in one download telling users: "Although you thought you were downloading our new single, what you actually were downloading is an advertisement for our new album." In retrospect, it's so clever, it's obvious. We're all smacking our heads thinking, "Why didn't I think of that?" Appropriating the Napster system to recoup valuable advertising targeted to those who actually like the band is so elegant in its simplicity, and everyone but the would-be copier is satisfied. (Until they BUY the album)