no not that either... shall we talk about it??

I am intrigued

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nope. i don't think that person is smarter then anybody.

nah..haha, i'm just saying that somebody who says "because someone does something for a living that might result in some business having an ad that sounds like a Phoenix Foundation song, even though it's not, exactly" ....... doesn't sound that smart.

To be honest, I can'twork out what you're trying to say, so i have no idea if you're right or not.

Isn't there a margarine ad as well? Or, something...

It's like an artist who works as a graphics designer to pay rent/buy art supplies/etc. No one would get that upset about that. Why should music be any different? I think it's a great idea.

//Often people hear music on ads and end up buying someone's CD because they like what they heard. Just my opinion, and I'm not a musician......
//i can't think of any instance when i'd buy a cd cause it was a great jingle for the new telecom campaign..
as for

I've paid more attention to a band because I've heard a really catchy song on an ad. And I'm pleased to announce that it never resulted in me buying a(*coff*nother) vodafone contract or more kentucky fried chicken. And I've never eaten a Muncho in my life.

and remember that Levi's ad back in about 91 and it was some band who blew up because of that ad, but the actual album was shite.. well my sister bought it... (I think it was her and not me..) what were they called? ha Stiltskin. Tig you wouldn't remember that... ;)

I admit to having bought a Jacknife Lee CD partly motivated by, er, the odd telesatan ad with the girl in the basement flat in london with the inkjet printer making a huge picture of rangitoto on the wall of her flat... while chatting to her mum on the phone who was milling round on somewhere like cheltenham beach...
... that the song was called 1970's Dictator Chic may also have swayed my decision....

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Most jobs are soul crushing. Try creating debts for people over the age of 65 and you wont feel so dirty about writing ad jingles.

Marcus from Lucid 3 wrote and sang a tv jingle. ROCK!

//Is the whole album like that?

Sadly no. That's just the introduction to the song, although the vocal is really quite cool. I only *really* like a couple of the songs. The other fav that I can remember the name of is called Shush Dafty. The rest of it reminds me a lot of beck. Not to say that it's bad, just that it's not 'wow, what the fuck is that?'. That said, a good number of my friends have got copies since hearing it...

Interesting background as a punk-rocker, and for production work with snow patrol & u2...
http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=3369&Key=&Year=&Cat

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