
"I'd like to give that dodo off the 5 Alive adverts a good kicking," says tom.joad. And luckily, there's tasty, tasty Cillit Bang to clean up the blood stains when you've finished. Tell us about TV adverts.
( , Thu 15 Apr 2010, 15:17)
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There is a generation (my generation) that will forever call the second movement from Dvorak's 'Symphony No 9 (From The New World)' - "The Hovis Music".
Instant devaluation of culture.
( , Sun 18 Apr 2010, 0:02, 6 replies)

There are probably a lot of people who would never have heard the music had it not been on that advert. Anything that brings quality arts to the masses has to be a good thing, surely?
( , Sun 18 Apr 2010, 13:22, closed)

as used by the MEB in the 1980s.
( , Sun 18 Apr 2010, 14:45, closed)

...because it's also the music for the hymn "Going Home", which was sung at the funeral of my Grandma, and my parents.
Instant weeping of buckets.
( , Sun 18 Apr 2010, 21:05, closed)

* the troika from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé suite (which gets wheeled out every Christmas)
* the William Tell Overture
* Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra
* Handel's Zadok the Priest
...and probably more which have slipped my mind for the moment.
( , Mon 19 Apr 2010, 11:08, closed)

'Air on a G String' by Bach used for the Hamlet Cigars advert.
( , Tue 20 Apr 2010, 7:37, closed)
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