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  This commercial for GE Locomotives takes my breath away

  posted by songspeak | 07.02.09 | permalink | 1 comment

  My wife Kristen and I saw this commercial for GE Locomotive while watching the Today Show on NBC this morning.  It features employees at the GE Locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania performing their version of Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away”.

  It also features an all too rare appearance of the keytar.

  On this endless ocean finally lovers know no shame
  Turning and returning to some secret place inside

  Watching in slow motion as you turn to me and say

  Take my breath away
  My love

  Take my breath away

  Tags: berlin, erie, ge, GE Locomotive, keytar, locomotive, nbc, pa, pennsylvania, take my breath away, today show

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• songspeak

  This feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too

  posted by matt | 12.17.08 | permalink | comment?

  

  I got a secret for you.... I LOOOOOOVE YOU, PETER!

  Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip recently covered Vampire Weekend’s Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. All the cool kids have been loving on Vampire Weekend throughout 2008, and the song actually mentions Peter Gabriel by name in its lyrics.

  It feels so unnatural to sing your own name, doesn’t it Peter?

  Here’s Vampire Weekend with the original Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa:

  Is that a keytar?!

  Tags: 00s music, buzz, cape cod, cape cod kwassa kwassa, cool kids, cover song, covers, feels so unnatural, hot chip, is your bed made, is your sweater on, keytar, peter gabriel, sing your own name, techno, vampire weekend

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  Is MC Hammer ready for some football?

  posted by jamie | 08.28.08 | permalink | 3 comments

  There’s a new commercial for Monday Night Football on ESPN with MC Hammer, and I sure do get a kick out of it. I’ve discussed in other posts the usage of MC Hammer’s songs in commercials, but this one’s different. For one thing, MC Hammer actually appears as himself. For another, well, I won’t ruin it, but just listen to what’s said just before the dude wakes up. I just think this commercial’s great because who hasn’t had a totally weird dream that gets weirder when their alarm goes off, and the sound of their alarm is incorporated into their dream? I know I have.

  Anywho, I get a kick out of it. So here it is, for your viewing pleasure (there is a second commercial after it that’s also pretty amusing, but it doesn’t have MC Hammer in it, so nuts to them):

  I mean, I don’t even care about sports and this commercial almost makes me want to watch Monday Night Football. Almost.

  

  Tags: 00s tv commercials, 90s music, alarm clock, are you ready for some football?, back to the grind, dream, espn, espn monday night football, football, hammer, keytar, mad keytar skills, mc hammer, mc hammer monday night football commercial, monday night football, monday night football commercial, please hammer don't hurt em, weird dreams

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