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    Best commercial ad song?

    I effing hate the whole concept of the Hummer. I had to do some extensive research on the military HMMWV/Humvee at work. It's pretty cool as an extension of the jeep concept as we know it (MASH in my case). The HMMWV/Humvee is seriously versatile and kinda dope. When I hear of vulcanists and...
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    Irish Jig

    any other notes you can provide? is it bag-pipish, tin-flutey, fiddlesque? is it high register, low, or the frequent hi-lo? is it slow, medial, fast, or the oft-common crazy-fast? visuals would help as well. anything you can remember at all might trigger a memory. if it's traditional, i'm...
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    Tiaa-cref

    Because new versions of old questions get people riled, previous posts on the subject haven't been very complete, and for symbiosis across the various questions: There are at least 3, possibly more, versions of West Side Story's "Somewhere" used in the TIAA-CREF commercials: David Sylvian, of...
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    Best commercial ad song?

    new Cat Power version of "Somewhere" for TIAA-CREF. yes, Modest Mouse "Gravity Rides Everything" for Nissan. ye olde Spiritualized "Floating In Space" for VW. Rolling Stones "She's A Rainbow" for Apple. Polyphonic Spree for VW/Apple, HP, and god knows what else. and as much as i hate the...
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    CSI on Spike TV

    I haven't seen CSI:NY yet, but I believe all three versions use different parts of the same song: The Who's "Who Are You?" from the album Who Are You?
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