A Bowie fan who works for the ad agency and doesn't actually care whether it sells any cars?

Not only that, it's a horrible cover too.
It's on our instant mute list.

I was rather horrified. Not like when I was amused to hear an Iggy Pop song promoting a family cruise line.

Yes, I loved that ad! Though bummed when it came up as a trivia question and the teenagers on the team hadn't even seen Trainspotting (the song's on the soundtrack much more appropriately).

As to the OP? It wasn't my idea; that's all I know.

Microsoft Windows 95 theme tune was "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones, because of the start menu button.

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Which includes the lyrics "You make a grown man cry". Many of us thought that pretty apt for a Microsoft product.

All that commercial REALLY makes me want to do is dig out the Bowie version and listen to it...

A song about a vehicle that malfunctions and burns on reentry. I've pointed out the incongruity of this choice for a theme song so often my family cringes whenever it comes on. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed this.

Interesting ... I never interpreted the song that way. To me it sounded like something went wrong and he was just stuck out there. (I'm thinking of the Bowie version of course ... I haven't heard the other one.)

I had to go and look at the lyrics and indeed it doesn't say anything about reentry. I think I keyed on the words falling and coming home in the lyric "Earth below us, drifting falling,floating weightless, coming home...". I see Columbia in my mind's eye when I hear those lyrics.

It's probably a good idea to clear up any confusion here: there are two Lincoln commercials for different cars. The first used a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and the more recent one uses a cover of Peter Schilling's sequel/homage "Major Tom."

Both songs are fairly ambiguous about the ultimate fate of Major Tom, but the original video for Schilling's song does end with a shot of something burning on reentry.

Wow. Something even worse than the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" ("Meet the new boss, same as the old boss") as background for a car commercial.

This is the song in the commercial

Major Tom - Shiny Toy Guns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gENixNUW5o

This may get close to hearing "Thick as a Brick" in a Hyundai commercial in terms of bad music to advertise cars by.


Really don't mind if you sit this one out.

My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
Your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.
So you ride yourselves over the fields and
you make all your animal deals and
your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.


Edited at 2010-05-24 04:30 am (UTC)

I always found that song very very creepy indeed. Major Tom drifts towards his death with such serene indifference it makes my blood run cold.

come to mind.