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"Love Don't Die" by The Fray is stuck in my head because it runs during Animal Planet's seemingly interminable promos for Dr. Oakley: Yukon Vet. It's certainly a catchy little song. Here is the full version:

 

 

Admittedly, the bar fight is a turn-off.

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Sigh. Those Miller Lite "subliminal" commercials brought "Joy" by Apollo 100 back.

 

Holy flashback, Batman! I remember spinning this 45 and dancing with my friends; we had a whole drama we acted out. We were flowers just dancing around, then a storm hit, then we popped back up and spun around...OK, you didn't need to know all that, but if I'd seen this commercial without being forewarned, I might have spontaneously re-enacted that drama in front of my bewildered family, that's how much I listened to this song as a kid. Total earworm indeed.

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not exactly earworms, but the music puzzles me. One if for Sprint - the one with the screaming goat, the start of the commercial sounds like the same music used by Directv to explain how to block your preteen children from watching porn, the kids all getting glassy eyed and grinning in delight.

 

The other is the Farmers ad with the professor explaining how you think you're covered for this, but you're really covered for something much smaller. Then how you think you are paying for minivan/SUV when really you're paying for hot sports card with flashy dressed dad dancing inappropriately in front of your child. The music he's dancing too makes me think of the Geico pig on vacation: bootsandpants, bootsandpants...

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I agree. I hate that Big Lots commercial. I hate the woman singing, hate the song, just all around hate the whole damn thing.

It makes no sense either, she sings that she's "nailing this xmas again", how can you nail this xmas AGAIN when this xmas hasn't happened yet?

So stupid.

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I know, right? And the guy at the end, saying in a harried, frazzled voice, "I'm pushing it; I'm pushing it real good!" sounds disturbingly like someone trying to appease their harasser/attacker.  Squicks me right out. And then I'm conflicted, because it is catchy, dammit.

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And the guy at the end, saying in a harried, frazzled voice, "I'm pushing it; I'm pushing it real good!" sounds disturbingly like someone trying to appease their harasser/attacker.

Or maybe like he was "pushing it" (if you know what I mean) with his mower.

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One thing that can be said for the "Annie" trailers is they don't bash you over the head with mega-earworm "Tomorrow".

 

Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the latest round of Special-K ads, and it's not like you have any orphan moppets cluing you in to grab the remote.

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Thanks to all the commercials that have used, or are currently using, AC/DC's Back in Black I now can't stand to hear it and turn it off immediately. In fact, it's made me change the station every single time any AC/DC song comes on, that's how much it's been overused for me.

 

I've never cared what Salt & Peppa's Push It is about, I still like hearing it.

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Maybe 8 years ago, I was working at the Gap when they had this campaign with Audrey Hepburn dancing to "Back in Black."  To accompany the ads, that song played on the Muzak, once every two hours or so.  To this day, I still can't stand listening to that song, and I'd liked it before.

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Does anybody know who sings "Keep on the Sunny Side of Life" in the Toyota ad?  It sounds like the Carter Family, but I wonder if it's just somebody trying to sound like them.

I initially thought you were referring to "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" and busted out laughing at the sheer inappropriateness. Thanks for inadvertently giving me a good laugh.

 

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The ad where one guy's life is sad because the song that follows him everywhere is Rainy Days and Mondays, and the other guy's life is cool because the fact he has a better car means the soundtrack to his life is Back in Black does not have the intended effect on me because I like both songs.  Further, I've already become sick of hearing Back in Black, yet Rainy Days and Mondays getting in my head hasn't yet reached irritation level.

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New Android commercial, just saw it and paid attention this time. Cute ad and the first time I heard the song about Robin Hood and Little John running through the forest, and saw all the animals frolicking together, but I thought the song had to be written by Roger Miller (King of the Road and so many others). Searched and it is by Roger Miller and was used in a Disney movie about Robin Hood. I like it, it will take a while to be annoyed by it. 

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New Android commercial, just saw it and paid attention this time. Cute ad and the first time I heard the song about Robin Hood and Little John running through the forest, and saw all the animals frolicking together, but I thought the song had to be written by Roger Miller (King of the Road and so many others). Searched and it is by Roger Miller and was used in a Disney movie about Robin Hood. I like it, it will take a while to be annoyed by it.

A haven't seen the commercial, but I know exactly which song you're talking about. I used to have the soundtrack to that movie. That's also the movie that had "Whistle Stop", aka the Hampster Dance song.

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Oh, I like that one, because they sing the presidents in order.

 

I seriously want to hear the rest of it. That would have been cool to learn in school. It would have really helped me do better when watching Jeopardy!

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The presidents are actually part of the reason I don't like the song.  I learned the presidents to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," which is considerably more lively then the dirge in the commercial.

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I was already annoyed with the lackluster remake of "Groove Is In The Heart" that Target's using in their ads, now today I hear a constipated rendition of Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" in a McDonald's commercial. If you can't capture the spirit of the originals, leave them alone or pay up to use the real songs.

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