Taking sides: Richard Buckner's Volkswagen commercial vs. Nick Drake's Volkswagen commercial

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Will "ariel ramirez" help VW move units like "pink moon" did? Will young VW buyers 'connect' with images of young folks helping senior citizens take pictures of mountains in the same way that they 'connected' with images of young folks cruising around in a car together under a full moon? Will young VW buyers 'connect' with Richard Buckner's obtuse lyrics? And furthermore, why didn't the young couple take the old woman up to the top of the mountain so she could take her own damn picture of the mountains instead of just taking her camera?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know but I hear/half-saw this the other day when I was half-asleep watching the olympics and thought I dreamed the whole thing until now! how cool for buckner.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

buckner - because dude used to LIVE in his car.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite VW commercial was the one where they used Hooverphonic's "Renaissance Affair". I think it was just clouds reflected on a moving light blue bug.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Buckner is a twat.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

why do you say that?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'm not necessarily disagreeing that personally he might be a twat; he managed to keep my friends band from ever playing a place by convincing the booker to never book them there out of some old left-over grudge from the doubters days)

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

they should have jacked the ol lady's camera, that would have been tight shit

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 16 August 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

why didn't they give that old lady a ride up there to take the picture herself?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

vw has some really amazing ads. i think the nick drake one was spectacular. though i might not like them as much if i were actually in the market for a car.
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anyone know where i might download the buckner and other ads?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

...vs. The Fall's Vauxhall Corsa Commercial!

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

VW commercials here:

http://www.vw.com/commercials/index.html

― southern lights (southern lights), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The best one is still the old "Little Fluffy Clouds" one from around the time they introduced the new Bug.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"VW commercials here:"

But oddly enough, the Buckner commercial is not included...

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

and I'm having no luck finding it anywhere else either.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The Buckner commercial is at that VW link now. Anyway, I think the song is mesmerizing. I love it. I might even do what I never thought I'd do: buy a Richard Buckner record.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

but not a VW? somewhere, an advertising executive is slapping his forehead.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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