WHEN WILL DAFT PUNK SUE MERCEDES BENZ?

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― ILX STRAWMAN (ex machina), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:34 (twenty years ago)

it's practically but not quite the same song, innit? this has been done in exactly the same way but with bjork's "i play dead".

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

which advert is it with Sonic Youth - Kool Thing (except not) on at the moment?

― last post ever (fandango), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:46 (twenty years ago)

There's also that Sleepy Brown/outkast "i like the way she moves" faker out there

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Chuck e cheese has a rip off "drive my car" by the beatles. yeah, that's right, i watch chuck e cheese commercials.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

they turn you on

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Ah, i hate those soundalikes.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Saturday, 4 March 2006 09:43 (twenty years ago)

None of this will ever match Domestos bleach's pub band "Hotel Yorba" impression.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 4 March 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

This is the Mercedes commercial, btw.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Then again...

http://www.kinkos.nl/designs/001504/sharedfiles/graphics/spotlights/8894.gif

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

And where does Busta Rhymes enter this imperative conspiracy?

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Kinko's PWNZ!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 4 March 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

that outkast rip off drives me bonkers.

there was a car commercial a year or so ago that had an almost-rip-off of radiohead's talk show host i think...

― grady (grady), Saturday, 4 March 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Some other advert has the synth part from Still D.R.E., but v slightly different.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 4 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

It wouldn't be so offensive if it weren't a BAD version!

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Saturday, 4 March 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

which advert is it with Sonic Youth - Kool Thing (except not) on at the moment?

that would be HSBC and, having just seen it for the first time, they did a staggeringly blatant job. seriously, they must be kidding!

― rajeev (rajeev), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:56 (twenty years ago)

According to an email from HSBC marketing posted here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Adverts/Question203994.html

the ads use 'an original composition by Thurston Moore', which sounds to me like they licensed a version of Kool Thing from the band - I can't imagine them admitting as much without having got a license.

― Tim Rutherford-Johnson (Rambler), Monday, 6 March 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

jaxon do you have any idea who does that outkast rip? i've seen/heard it a million times but i can't remember the brand.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

...

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

the levi's/smashing pumpkins rip-off circa 1995 was a hit in its 'own' 'right'.

name that band and song for a 10 quick points!

i'll have to hury you...

― piscesboy, Friday, 24 March 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

stiltskin obv.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

"There's also that Sleepy Brown/outkast "i like the way she moves" faker out there"

yeah that one has always bugged me

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

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