A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: dmg on September 20, 2011, 10:07:47 PM
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Just been surprised by the use of MFN in an advert for T-Mobile on the TV featuring traffic wardens if you please! Both the drum intro and guitar intro are used, slightly edited but all the same quite nice to see it in an ad that one would reckon will be shown a lot.
Possibly ecourage MK to perform it on tour...
No! :lol
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here you go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-i5DqbmdI&feature=pyv
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That's great!
T-Mobile doesn't do anything like that here in the States.
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Very cool !!!! :)
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Lots of people are asking which song it is on Youtube. ;)
MFN will be re-discovered ;D
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Lots of people are asking which song it is on Youtube. ;)
MFN will be re-discovered ;D
Tell them it's Lady Gaga ::)
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I might be a little slow but I don't understand the connection between MfN ("I want my MTV") and T-Mobile :P
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No, you are not slow, it seems more you might be a little deaf if you don't literally hear the terrific build-up of the aggression of the people pictured in that phantastic intro, until the moment the (bandana-)lady at 1:34 finds the money and looks totally astonished in the very moment the guitar riff starts - that is so greatly done that I can't imagine any other track for this idea. And after all, it's money for nothing, isn't it... ;)
"Excellent..."
LE
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Loved it!!! ;D 8)
Cheers. BBB
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I might be a little slow but I don't understand the connection between MfN ("I want my MTV") and T-Mobile :P
It's not I want My MTV that's important, it's "Money for Nothing".
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what i don't get is what they do at the end? why do they all turn so happy?
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posted it on the fletch forum.
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what i don't get is what they do at the end? why do they all turn so happy?
Well,
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what i don't get is what they do at the end? why do they all turn so happy?
Well,
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what i don't get is what they do at the end? why do they all turn so happy?
Well,
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No, you are not slow, it seems more you might be a little deaf if you don't literally hear the terrific build-up of the aggression of the people pictured in that phantastic intro, until the moment the (bandana-)lady at 1:34 finds the money and looks totally astonished in the very moment the guitar riff starts - that is so greatly done that I can't imagine any other track for this idea. And after all, it's money for nothing, isn't it... ;)
"Excellent..."
LE
Of course I was half deaf. I was listening to "Tweedledee and Tweedledum" three times in a row before I watched the ad.
;D
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You are starting to remember Bob's song titles, so there is some hope...
LE
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Of course I was half deaf. I was listening to "Tweedledee and Tweedledum" three times in a row before I watched the ad.
;D
brainwashed.... ;D
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On a side note I was watching a tiny bit of XFactor the other day (God awful Programme that I never watch but was on at friends) and they were using MFN during some of the show..... it made the show slightly less painful 8)
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Please folks, do NOT read those comments on YouTube or you will instantly feel your brain explode... Fifteen sites of people complaining about that it is a cheap copy from the Fine Company or something like that and every second post asking What song is this and then getting the answer it's from Dire Straights.... blimey, I never was so happy to be part of this forum where there are so nice and really intelligent people around obvioulsy... Or I am so old or what, how can you NOT Know Money For Nothing I wonder... Ha Ha, Boom Welcome To Brighton 20 times ha ha .... :disbelief
Steam off, sorry,
LE
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Please folks, do NOT read those comments on YouTube or you will instantly feel your brain explode... Fifteen sites of people complaining about that it is a cheap copy from the Fine Company or something like that and every second post asking What song is this and then getting the answer it's from Dire Straights.... blimey, I never was so happy to be part of this forum where there are so nice and really intelligent people around obvioulsy... Or I am so old or what, how can you NOT Know Money For Nothing I wonder... Ha Ha, Boom Welcome To Brighton 20 times ha ha .... :disbelief
Steam off, sorry,
LE
Just contend yourself with the fact that the only reason people are asking is because they obviously like the song. :)
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Yeah you are right, feel better about it today anyway. It's a fact that this song is a "real" classic, it is 26 years old, and new generations are coming up and discover new stuff... It is the constant repeat of always the same posts that I find so strange. The ad is on my daily "good laugh" list for nearly a week now, I still like it very much.
LE
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Where do they show this, on TV? A two-minute commercial? Probably *cheap*.
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i saw it on TV last night, but not in its full form.
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A well devised ad. I kind of remember another ad back in the early nineties with So far away as background music, at a Wash and Go product. The only connection I could find between the lyrics and the product, was so obvious that it made me think that we are in Greek and most people won't get it at all, no matter if we a high percentage speaks English. But the aesthetics of the whole commercial, brrrrrrrr, sends shivers down my spine. Needless to say I never washed my hair with that product. On the other hand the ad company's mission was successful, since I still remember the product.
And why oh why do they allow songs for ads? And don't tell me it's all about the money. I am willing to accept it from the ones in need of money, only, and yet with some exceptions. I was reading about Pink Floyd having to veto the use of their music, even though Rick Wright once gave the Great gig in the sky for a pain killer pill. He bravely admitted that he did it for money. Surely enough he wouldn't do it just for applause....