Remember that Virgin viral game? Well, now there's the commercial. Ground zero hired NATL tv to animate their way through upwards of fifty song titles from the last half-century. Can you spot them all?
Spoilers inside!
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Well start you off, me and the caffienegoddess have spotted:
Purple Rain
Message in a Bottle
Dancing Queen
Street with no name
Papa was a rolling stone
God Save(d) the Queen
Hotel California
Paint it black
I shot the sheriff
ray of light
me myself and i
smoked two joints
Bell Boy
Which ones did you see?
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Someone clue me in - is there a song called "stoned bunny" or "drugged rabbit "or something? I get the two joints but what the hell is a bunny smoking them for?
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PermalinkSince just saw that this commercial has been posted to metafilter too, where everyone is naming songs like nuts, I thought it would be helpful if I just organised the ones mentioned here into one comment. So here goes.
Purple Rain - Prince
Message in a Bottle - The Police
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Where the streets have no name - U2
Papa was a rolling stone - The Temptations
Hotel California
Paint it black
I shot the sheriff
Ray of light
me myself and i
smoked two joints
Bell Boy - The Who
God save the queen (after she danced) - Sex Pistols
Free bird
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Magic carpet ride
Another brick in the wall
Seven nation army
Puff the magic dragon?
Piano man
American woman
Been caught stealing
Werewolves of london
We are the champions
Blue Suede shoes - Elvis
white rabbit - jefferson airplane
"tears of a clown"
"Atomic dog" by George Clinton
"P.I.M.P." by 50 cent
Video Killed The Radio Star by the Buggles.
....Travelin' Man
hmmm.
'Surfin Bird' by The Trashmen
Eye In The Sky
Tiny Dancer
Ok, anything else?
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PermalinkIsn't the first rule of advertising to get the punter involved? ;)
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PermalinkIt's a mystery that there is any marketing done in the ad-world looking on the comments on this ;)
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PermalinkThank you. Thank you.
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Permalink(sings)
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PermalinkDoes anyone know the name of the background song playing, or who signs it?
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PermalinkHere are some more:
Purple Rain by Prince
Dancing Queen by Abba
Blue Suede Shoe by Elvis
Message in a Bottle by The Police
Video Killed The Radio Star by the Buggles.
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PermalinkHuzzah! Nice one!
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PermalinkGot it!
"Atomic dog" by George Clinton!
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PermalinkProbably just "P.I.M.P." by 50 cent. There haven't been many other more recent ones--just seven nation army by the White Stripes. We may need to look to more recent selections to get more.
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PermalinkNice with the surfin' bird, that one had me stumped. I'm stuck on the three you mention too.
My wife thinks the tap dancer looks like liza minnelli--could that be "caberet" or "the singer" or "live until i die" (since she's then squished?)?
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PermalinkI think the basketball players are "We are the champions"
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PermalinkYEha sorry, the list mistake is my bad. I was a little rushed when posting. ;)
White rabbit - of course!
Oh, and one part of them clowns is "tears of a clown".
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PermalinkSurfin' Bird
Pimp...So many pimp songs...hard to know which one is right.
Travelin' Man
Rodeo clowns, dancing egg and radioactive dog have me totally stumped.
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PermalinkHahahha yeah that's what I meant. It was very late when I first viewed the clip and sent that list to Dab. Been a long week. :)
white rabbit by jefferson airplane
Could the basketball players be "wanna be a baller" or "i'm still a baller" or something?
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PermalinkAh! Duh! them wolves around big ben had me scratching my head too. :))
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Permalink"Where the streets have no name," you mean
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PermalinkGod save the queen (after she danced)
Free bird
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Magic carpet ride
Another brick in the wall
Seven nation army
Puff the magic dragon?
Piano man
American woman
Been caught stealing
Werewolves of london
We are the champions
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Permalinkah blue suede shoes! doh!
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PermalinkHey look - video killed the radio star!
And is that an eye in the sky? And blue suede shoes?
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Permalink...spliffs
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PermalinkI liked the bunny with the spliff...
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PermalinkYeah but bunnies? *scratches head*
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PermalinkI couldn't figure that one out either. Alice in Wonderland ref maybe? I dunno. That'd probably have pills or something instead. It could also reference that "i get high" song too.
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PermalinkVery very cool. Animation is aces. The song is fab. Love it.
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PermalinkI bet there are "Tears In Heaven" By Eric Clapton (When Sherrif goes to heaven), Jackson's "Black And White" (Two sportsmen) and "We Are The Champions" by Queen (two sportsmen too)
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