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Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)

06 Oct 04 - 03:55 AM (#1289957)
Subject: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: Dave the Gnome

Anyone seen the new Honda advert on UK TV? Very 60's hippy style with flying disel engines, lots of colours and strange imigary but the song is wonderful!

Guitar playing in the background, not too much of a tune but the words, part of which are above, realy make me smile! Any idea who does it?

Cheers

DtG


06 Oct 04 - 04:38 AM (#1289982)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: fat B****rd

If it's the Civic Coupe ad then the tune apparently is "Ocean Man" by Ween from their album "Mollusk"
Hope this helps.


06 Oct 04 - 05:04 AM (#1289996)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: fat B****rd

Good Lord !! It's Garrison Keillor !! The rest is up to you. Forget Ween. They were last year's ad thing.


06 Oct 04 - 06:12 AM (#1290030)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: Dave the Gnome

Bloody 'ell, FB. I'll have a pint of what you're on:-) Who's Garrison Keiller? How can I forget Ween whan I don't know what it is? For answers to these questions tune in to...

Anyroads. Those of you who ain't seen it. Go to Honda's UK web site and click on 'Watch the film'. You have a treat in store:-)

Cheers

DtG


06 Oct 04 - 07:16 AM (#1290058)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: fat B****rd

He's the bloke wot wrote "Lake Woebegon Days" or summat. He has a few albums out of, I think, talking-singing his poetry. I love the advert but don't think I'll check out GK.
All the best from fB.


06 Oct 04 - 07:49 AM (#1290079)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: Amos

He is a wonderful writer and narrator, guiding light of a radio series called the "Prairie Home Companion", best American radio humor out there for decades.

Lake Woebegone is his imaginary home town, "where all the men are strong, all the women are good looking, and all the children are above average".

A


06 Oct 04 - 09:27 AM (#1290156)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: Roger the Skiffler

Prairie Home Companion now on BBC7 digital radio at various times (I've caught it by accident twice).

RtS


06 Oct 04 - 11:46 AM (#1290314)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: Uncle_DaveO

Isn't it "All the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average"????

Dave Oesterreich


06 Oct 04 - 12:46 PM (#1290361)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: open mike

honda site correct URL
the other one said it had unsafe, spurious path elements
(which was the mudcat URL mixed in...are we "unsafe" "spurious"?)


06 Oct 04 - 01:20 PM (#1290393)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: open mike

Garrison Kiellor's Prairie Home Companion radio show has been on National Public Radio for nearly 30 years
Lake Wobegone is one of the 10,000 lakes in the state that is home to
Minnesota Public Radio


06 Oct 04 - 01:34 PM (#1290409)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better...
From: M.Ted

That ad certainly takes my mind off the presidential election--


07 Oct 04 - 04:00 AM (#1291008)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)
From: Dave the Gnome

Can someone check out the links to the Honda site? Mine seems to be http://www.honda.co.uk/ The one Open Mike posted looks identical to me. Either my browser or Open Mikes appears to have some sort of problem and I'd hate to be linking people to 'unsafe, spurious path elements' unwittingly! I wouldn't mind doing it knowingly of course...;-)

Cheers

DtG


08 Oct 04 - 03:45 AM (#1292069)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda a
From: katlaughing

DtG, I fixed yours. After the http: you had the forward slashes going backwards (they were really backward slashes!:-) That's all, no problem.

LOVE the ad. Thanks!


08 Oct 04 - 03:50 AM (#1292074)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)
From: Dave the Gnome

Thanks Kat:-) How can I have forward slashes going backwards? Just goes to show what us Gnomes can do when we puts our mind to it;-)

Cheers

DtG


18 Oct 04 - 05:45 PM (#1300068)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)
From: GUEST,Meee !

Has n e 1 got da words from it ?!


19 Oct 04 - 03:26 AM (#1300398)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)
From: Liz the Squeak

Tales from Lake Wobegone is on Sunday afternoons on Digital BBC7 radio... it's suspiciously like being at a Getaway but with warm feet and no possums, or so I'm told....

LTS

(I'm not really an avid listener... I liked the possums.)


19 Oct 04 - 04:11 AM (#1300421)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)
From: GUEST,JTT

Prarie Home Companion is fab - they play it on the radio here in Ireland around once a week. Keillor brings on wonderful traditional and folk musicians from all around the world to play on it, and the rest is comedy, with his own dry humour. You can actually apply to be a writer on it by way of his website


26 Oct 04 - 07:58 AM (#1307458)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)
From: GUEST,Love that song

anyone know where i can download it


26 Oct 04 - 08:41 AM (#1307481)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda a
From: Wilfried Schaum

1. Go to http://www.honda.co.uk/
2. Click at CLICK HERE
3. Right of stage you see a placard: DOWNLOAD; click at THE AD


26 Oct 04 - 11:46 AM (#1307665)
Subject: RE: Hate it? Change it! Make it better... (Honda ad)
From: GUEST,Django

The tune was written by an outfit called Be Nice To The Pigeons. They took one of their existing songs and worked with the ad agency Wieden + Kennedy to create the finished song which Garrison Keillor sings. Incidentally, it's meant to be one of their least catchy songs, so you can imagine what the others are like!