a top hits of commercials would probably be better
than the actual 'top hits' themselves....between
commercials and tv shows playing decent music, it's
become a game while watching:  'what's that song?'
even esp. harder during the shows since music tends to
be played at a background level....
The Dentyne Ice commercial in the subway uses a Papas
Fritas song, that my roommate is still amazed by...
lauree
> 
> Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2003 06:39:41 -0600
> From: "Scott Miller" <scott@nicevacations.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Kohl's
> Message-ID:
> <200303060639.AA64356534@nicevacations.com>
> 
> >I checked with Kohl's. The music is original and
> provided by their...ad
> >agency. There's gotta be a band behind it or at
> least frustrated rock
> >writer/musician who has found an outlet.
> 
> I'll chime in here. I think the Kohl's music is the
> best music being played in any commercial this week.
> And there's a lot of really good music being played
> on commercials. Like someone here said, TV
> commercials are the new radio. (Maybe it was someone
> somewhere else. How's that for narrowing it down? It
> definitely wasn't me and that's all I know for sure,
> I guess.)
> 
> Someone ought to come up with a list of top
> commercial songs each week (not based on charts,
> just based on "how good is the song") and play them
> on a radio show. That's almost ironic enough to
> work.
> 
> I know someone will be able to come up with other
> "roots of the trend" landmarks, but I trace the use
> of great songs in TV commercials to the Volkswagen
> commercial a couple of years ago that used the
> Moonpools and Caterpillars song "Hear." To a lesser
> extent you might be able to thank "Burger King" for
> its oldies songs.
> 
> Scott
> 


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