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Crabby
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| Ah thank you Henry2nd,now l know what's going on! |
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Alex Robertson
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Crabby wrote: | Think how much worse you would feel waterloosunset if you hadn't a clue what a Jansport Backpack was.....they obviously didn't make it to my part of the world!
(...l had to Google qobuz!!)
Still, feel this Forum is just about keeping me in touch with the 21st century. |
I googled Jan Sport and got a drag artist… |
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waterloosunset
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Alex Robertson
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| Henry2nd wrote: | | but it is the first time as a song title ...! |
I’d say Aeroflot was a brand name and more tenuously Big Boy is (was???) a burger franchise in the US |
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Henry2nd
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| Alex Robertson wrote: | | Henry2nd wrote: | | but it is the first time as a song title ...! |
I’d say Aeroflot was a brand name and more tenuously Big Boy is (was???) a burger franchise in the US |
ah, yes ... Aeroflot ... though the brand has never been that relevant to the western world...
by the way I used to fly with Aeroflot in th 80s with
the plane coming from former Leningrad (now St. Petersburg again) from former East-Berlin to Athens/Greece |
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dinky
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| Alex Robertson wrote: | | Henry2nd wrote: | | so this is brand advertising ?! |
Not the first time…Uniqlo and MacDonalds are at least two previous namechecks |
Or in the case of 'Perfume', about 30 ! |
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Spyke
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I can't say I've heard of 'JanSport backpacks' before, so whatever the song's about will be all new to me!
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Crabby
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I see they've just posted another L. A Eyes "advert".... I'm loving them but all these Birds references are pushing me back to Hitchcock again.... Friday night, plenty of time yet, 'Rear Window', here l come! |
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waterloosunset
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Crabby wrote: | | I see they've just posted another L. A Eyes "advert".... I'm loving them but all these Birds references are pushing me back to Hitchcock again.... Friday night, plenty of time yet, 'Rear Window', here l come! |
Russell suffers from blood loss!
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Toughest Girl In Town
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| Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| Crabby wrote: | | I see they've just posted another L. A Eyes "advert".... I'm loving them but all these Birds references are pushing me back to Hitchcock again.... Friday night, plenty of time yet, 'Rear Window', here l come! |
It's also the first thing I thought of when I first saw it! |
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waterloosunset
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I have a question about something that the Sparks store has on the American site. When you read "Please note this is a pre-order and will ship for the release date: 23rd May 2025", do you interpret that as meaning "will be sent to arrive on or around May 23rd" or "will be sent on or around May 23rd"? Thanks in advance for you input.
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Crabby
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| All l can say is that when l pre ordered the Annette album it arrived exactly on the release date although l know some other people waited quite a while......I'm naively assuming that it'll be the same with MAD... |
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Kermit!
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| Alex Robertson wrote: | | Henry2nd wrote: | | so this is brand advertising ?! |
Not the first time…Uniqlo and MacDonalds are at least two previous namechecks |
Don't forget 'iPhone'. With it's great fun video, it's definately a brand song title.
'Big Boy' came to mind as well. Love this track with it's thundering drum intro. The American dining restaurant is still going too l think.
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Henry2nd
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@kermit
Iphone ... yes, but they say "f*** Iphone" |
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Kermit!
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| Henry2nd wrote: | @kermit
Iphone ... yes, but they say "f*** Iphone" |
Yes, but "iPhone" is the song's title which is what your initial point was highlighting & not how it was used in the lyrics. If that's your observation then there are dozens of examples of brand names included in Ron's lyrics over the years.
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