SUNNYSIDE OF THE STREET

This is my current favorite commercial:



The song is "Sunnyside of the Street" by The Pogues. It's off the Hell's Ditch album, which you should own. The lyrics that can be heard in this here are:

Saw the carnival at Rome
Had the women
And I had the booze
All I can remember now
Is little kids they had no shoes
I saw a train and I got on it
With a heart full of hate
And a lust for vomit
Now I'm walking on
The sunny side of the street

To me this screams Cadillac. I don't know if the folks behind the music choice knew exactly what was being sung. I have to admit, I've loved this song for about ten years and I didn't know quite what the lyrics were until I pulled down my cd and looked at them after seeing the ad for the first time yesterday. (I thought Shane was singing "Lust for Fanny," which is also inappropriate in the context of the ad, but not quite as beautifully wrong as "Vomit.")

I believe that this may be the first time the word "vomit" has been used in an advertisement for a luxury car. Or anything.

For me, this tops Carnival Cruises using a song about heroin addiction in their ads, or that candy company in the 80s whose name I can't remember that put out little chocolate pellets called, you guessed it, "Dingleberries."

Tee-Hee.