Tv adverts

lloyd

What's with all the TV adverts with breathy slowed down cover versions of tunes on them?

Doing my swede in

richardhomer

Why not do a thrash-metal cover of Bridge Over Troubled Water as a sort of personal antidote?

lloyd

Are you in TV advertising? I'd love to!

jd0272

Have to be slow at this time of the year, we're all pissed.

imalone

lloyd said:

What's with all the TV adverts with breathy slowed down cover versions of tunes on them?

Doing my swede in

Yes, this winds me up. "We could use the original, but that will take the focus away from our product, so let's do an anodyne cover with the personality removed instead to attempt to capitalise on the recognition and emotional attachment."
Why are you watching tv with vegetables though?

Handsome_Chris

I may have missed the point of the thread; but, surely the people who care about this sort of thing are pseudo-intellectuals with nothing better to do?

mart

Handsome_Chris said:

I may have missed the point of the thread; but, surely the people who care about this sort of thing are pseudo-intellectuals with nothing better to do?

Hmm, so what does that make the people who care about the people who care about this sort of thing? 

vasselmeyer

Timeshift is your friend. Never see adverts these days.

lloyd

Handsome_Chris;446198" said:

I may have missed the point of the thread; but, surely the people who care about this sort of thing are pseudo-intellectuals with nothing better to do?

Too cool to watch TV? Sometimes I have nothing better to do than get angry at tv adverts.

dafuzz

It's cheaper innit - don't license the actual song from the soundtrack of Grease, get some also-ran with lots of reverb on his keyboard to talk the lyrics over some ambient chord work. Sell it as 'stripped back and honest'. That's capitalism folks

lasermonkey

Seems to have become particularly fashionable over the past few years and like you, it's doing my head in! I've heard some of my favourite post-punk tunes murdered with that barely strummed acoustic, how fucking winsome can you get, breathy female voice. Every last drop of emotion wrung out of the song. Enough!

Handsome_Chris

lloyd said:

Handsome_Chris;446198" said:

I may have missed the point of the thread; but, surely the people who care about this sort of thing are pseudo-intellectuals with nothing better to do?

Too cool to watch TV? Sometimes I have nothing better to do than get angry at tv adverts.

Then you need some guitar based hobby, my friend.

Handsome_Chris

mart said:

Handsome_Chris said:

I may have missed the point of the thread; but, surely the people who care about this sort of thing are pseudo-intellectuals with nothing better to do?

Hmm, so what does that make the people who care about the people who care about this sort of thing? 

Annoying

and correct.

xmrchi

You could have been anything...one of the best songs on Bugsy Malone and alwys brings a smile to my face when I hear it , ruined by some charity harping about famine...no money is coming from me until this monstrosity is removed!!

lloyd

Handsome_Chris;446459" said:

lloyd said:

Handsome_Chris;446198" said:I may have missed the point of the thread; but, surely the people who care about this sort of thing are pseudo-intellectuals with nothing better to do?



Too cool to watch TV? Sometimes I have nothing better to do than get angry at tv adverts.










Then you need some guitar based hobby, my friend.

Get back to your guitar and let us miserable twats bitch about bad Cover versions!

Axe_meister

At least Burberry are using the Jeff Beck/Joss Stone track "I've got a spell on you" unadalterated.

 

mudslide73

That version of Teenage Kicks from a few years back... aarrggh. 

lloyd

"That's entertainment" was done a while back-horrendous

Handsome_Chris

lloyd said:

Handsome_Chris;446459" said:

lloyd said:

Handsome_Chris;446198" said:I may have missed the point of the thread; but, surely the people who care about this sort of thing are pseudo-intellectuals with nothing better to do?



Too cool to watch TV? Sometimes I have nothing better to do than get angry at tv adverts.










Then you need some guitar based hobby, my friend.

Get back to your guitar and let us miserable twats bitch about bad Cover versions!

Which one of my guitars would you like me to get back to?  :P

lloyd

Your choice matey

Emp_Fab

Does anyone remember the AA adverts from a few years ago where they were all singing "You've got a friend" - except they shortened the gaps between the lines to save money on the running time of the ad, and you'd be sitting there singing along (if only in your head) and they'd come in too soon on the next line.  Drove me fucking mental that did.