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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.

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...

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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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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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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