Clever use of music in adverts

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Don’t know how successful this might be as a topic, but I’ll start with:

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I never thought I’d hear Suicide in an advert. Nor wanted to, tbh.

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Classic😁

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Levi’s brought us ‘Spaceman’ by Babylon Zoo and something by ‘Flat Eric’ too and it seemed at the time that was a great way to launch or re-launch a single.

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No mention of suicide - you must be mishearing things!

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This one may only work for Americans of my generation. But it was brilliant.

(Pizza Rolls, Larks Cigarette, and the Lone Ranger all used the William Tell Overture.)

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Martin Grech “open heart zoo” Lexus ad from 2002. I suspect people buying his lp had an unexpected surprise!

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It’s Human League, not Suicide. Maybe I’m missing something.

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Any opportunity to post this:

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I’ll see your Desmond Dekker, and raise you a “Skids”.

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Suicide Cheree

The instrumental intro was/is used as background on some ad or other.

I thought it being a post in a thread about using music in adverts it was obvious…but hey ho…

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