Status Quo return for Coles with Whatever You Want
Status Quo have picked up their big red hand guitars for another Coles ad campaign.
After the much talked about (and derided) Down Down Prices Are Down remake for the supermarket, the British rockers have now reworked their 1979 hit Whatever You Want.
The polarising nature of the previous campaign led to it being the most Googled Australian ad of 2012.
View the ad:
Coles uses Ted Horton’s Big Red for its advertising.
The lyrics:
I want MY bacon [DOWN DOWN]
MY FAVOURITE cheese [DOWN DOWN]
MILK AND Bread, Lovely Pizza, frozen peas. [DOWN DOWN]
I want SOME Pasta [DOWN DOWN]
AND Ice-Cream [DOWN DOWN]
Shampoo, shower gel to keep me clean. [DOWN DOWN]
I want AUSSIE beef. [DOWN DOWN]
Lots-a foil [DOWN DOWN]
Coles fruit juice, Muesli bars and cooking oil. [DOWN DOWN]
I want SOME snags [DOWN DOWN]
Delicious honey [DOWN DOWN]
Toilet paper, heaps-a stuff that saves me money
WHATEVER YOU WANT [DOWN DOWN]
WHATEVER YOU NEED [DOWN DOWN]
THE BIG RED HAND
IS YOUR SAVINGS GUARANTEE [DOWN DOWN]
SO, GET INTO COLES [DOWN DOWN]
WHATEVER YOU DO [DOWN DOWN]
PRICES ARE DOWN DOWN
AND STAYING DOWN FOR YOU [DOWN DOWN]
[DOWN DOWN, DOWN DOWN, DOWN DOWN]!
Wham….Wallop…Crash….Kapow!! Damn that Dead Horse!!!! Why won’t it stop lying there!!??
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OH MY GOD.
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Between “Down down prices and down” and “There’s no freshness like Coles freshness” making my eardrums bleed everytime I need to go shopping, this might just kill me.
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I BLOODY LOVE IT
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kill me please
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I love it! I loved them when I was a kid and use to copy Francis with his demin levis, denim vest, white t-shirt and white dunlop volleys!! – classic!
bring it on …
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“Artistic integrity be damned, let’s make money” – Status Quo, 2012
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Just enjoy it – it’s harmless fun
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@skuncwerx
Unless you’re a farmer or other supplier.
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Just goes to show to irrelevant and out-of-touch Coles are. Worst ad of the last twelve months.
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>> “Artistic integrity be damned, let’s make money” – Status Quo, 2012
Sooo… artists shouldn’t make money? Or are you just saying artists should be restricted to particular business models? Perhaps we could set up a government committee to regulate how artists may be allowed to sell their craft.
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My wife saw it on air and said “That’s really memorable. What are Woolies doing that I remember?” I reckon she nailed it. It’s about cut -through and this ad has it. So bad, it’s good!
Went from curious…to loving it…to tolerating it…and now with this iteration of the campaign…I am blocking out all reference to it.
Its probably good advertising. Its definitely a terrible, terrible thing for Status Quo’s legacy.
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“Saving money is never annoying”
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I suppose when your career is not likely to return to it’s former glory, you would take any opportunity to make a living. I doubt that the “Quo” will be remembered in the same esteem as the Stones, the Beatles, or the Doors anyway.
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Makes me want to retch…
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Hey- we’re talking about it… it’s succeeded on some level at least…
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