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All these highs and lows

  • 30-06-2007 9:58am
    #1
    swingking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,258 ✭✭✭


    Is anyone else sick to fuuking death of that ad. The music makes me want to tear my hair out.

    Yesterday, I'm listening to Tom Dunne; that ad comes on. Then, I'm listening to Dave Fanning in the evening; the ad comes on.

    And to make matters worse, I turn the television on for the news.

    THAT FECKIN AD!!!!!


Comments

  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Ha! You read my mind, that song (whoever its by) might have been good once, now its cursed to hell forever.

    The campaign by Board Fallshort is nothing if not extensive.

    Mike.


  • #3
    Flukey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    It's got you talking about it, which means it's working to some extent, even if you don't end up taking a holiday here.:)


  • #4
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    I was just questioning the logic behind using that song for an ad campaign for holidays....

    "All these highs" I can understand, but "and lows" ????


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I smile at the jaunty tone as the voice says "then relive the tragedy of the famine museum" (or somesuch) as if suggesting a visit to the local caves.

    Mike.


  • #6
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Such a shame. Twas a great song - now it's ruined forever. As is the credibility of the band. But you can't blame them for doing an advertising deal - those don't come up very often for struggling bands. Fair play to the lads.


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  • #7
    roxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭roxy


    It's by The Laundry Shop, by the by


  • #8
    Green Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    Is there any other lyrics in the song other than "All these highs and lows I'm living for"? If there is, i haven't heard them yet.


  • #9
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    reminds me of that ad with the song "shall I tell you about my life?" where the guy creams through the wall and kills the child. Kind of ruins the song a bit :)


  • #10
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Thats Cat Stevens before "op" is'nt it?

    Mike.


  • #11
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    The very same :)


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  • #12
    popebenny16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭popebenny16


    I propose that this song be sent to room 101. It has got to the point that I turn off whatever station is playing it. Don't mind the Highs and Lows bit - its the "I'm whaiting fourrragh" but that annoys the hell out of me for some reason.


  • #13
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    mike65 wrote:
    Thats Cat Stevens before "op" is'nt it?

    Mike.


    Fleetwood Mac - "Man of the World"


  • #14
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    As I mentioned in some other thread, I find it the most boringly repetitive tune, especially in it's radio edit...that's coming from someone with a deep liking for most repetitive sh*te. Not dissing Irish bands or anything like that, it's just being subjected to the clip in the ad over and over and then some jock playing the full tune really gets on your tits, when it's every day of the week on both radio and TV...


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