Is it true that The Fall are featured in a Mitsubishi ad on US TV?

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Someone who may or may not know his music told me that the Fall are played in the background of a Mitsubishi ad on US TV currently. I don't watch TV so I need your help, ILM. Is he on crack?

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

They are, song is "Blindness". It was mentioned on that recently around Fall thread about "Fall Heads Roll", I think.

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

wow. so i wasn't hallucinating.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

As my dad used to say - "Thanks Much!"

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might have actually read that, but forgot I had read it.

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also I would really like to know what people think John Peel might have thought that his favourite band was in a Mitsubishi ad.

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

probably something like "Car commercials are rubbish but anytyhing that gets the music of The Fall out there can't be all bad."

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

IIRC Peel did voiceovers for an insurance advert in the UK...

― Elmyr de Hory (Elmyr), Saturday, 18 November 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

"touch sensitive" was, of course, used in a UK car advert a couple of years back - a slightly annoying one with anthropomorphic vauxhall corsas playing hide-and-seek. it worked well, actually.

"blindness" is perhaps my favourite fall song of recent years (oddly, i was "singing" the bassline 20 minutes ago while i was making coffee) and i drive a mitsubishi, so i can't really get upset by this ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

as for peel: he did voiceovers for everything - even bog roll.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, a dude's gotta eat. even MES. although i imagine he eats only cheap sausage rolls. and cigarettes.

bloody hell, i've changed my tune since this thread. marcello is obviously a very strong influence!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

More like a dude's gotta drink. This'll fund a few trips to the boozer for MES.

And to think Australian advertisements for Mitsubishi have yer standard shitty Beatles covers... :-(

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Saturday, 18 November 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mark's only line in the ad is "I WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREET, I SAW A POSTER." ha. He famously doesn't drive!

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Saturday, 18 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Grimly that thread you linked to is hilarious. 12XU in a coffee ad! What an idea! Hell with that, they should put Totally Wired in a coffee ad! I also love your last post about marketing people. I had to suffer through Marketing class in school about a year and a half ago and it was not fun.

― Umpire Teen (Bimble...), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

i still have to suffer them at work :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

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