Noodles in a Cup! [52 Sellout Week 22]
If Cup o’ Noodles advertised, and that advertising were honest, their commercial might look something like this. Continue reading
Ride! Ride! Ride! The Chinatown Bus! [52 Sellout Week 21]
If you’ve traveled the East Coast on a budget you may have experienced the magic of the “Chinatown Bus.” Continue reading
The Other Property Brothers [52 Sellout Week 20]
If you like real estate shows hosted by identical twins you’ll love The Other Property Brothers! Continue reading
Monee Mutual Payday Loans! [52 Sellout Week 19]
Just because someone was on TV a lot doesn’t mean we trust them with large decisions and responsibilities, right? Sure! All the time! Continue reading
Retro Asbestos Promotional Film [52 Sellout Week 18]
Advertising isn’t just about TV spots, sometimes it’s an industry making “educational” films for schools! Continue reading
Boaty McBoatface—The Saturday Morning Cartoon! [52 Sellout Week 17]
The NERC in the U.K. probably won’t use the name “Boaty McBoatface” for its new research ship but that doesn’t mean we can’t turn it into a Saturday morning cartoon, complete with this theme song! Continue reading
Colorado Buds & Duds [52 Sellout Week 16]
Celebrate 420 with your buds at Colorado Buds & Duds! The latest 52 Sellout is for a wonderful retailer in Colorado who not only sells all of your marijuana favorites but has “clothing and other stuff.” Continue reading
How To Pay Zero Income Tax [52 Sellout Week 14]
“Why settle for a refund when you can pay no taxes at all?” asks a shady tax prep firm in this week’s 52 Sellout. Continue reading
Enigmacil® [52 Sellout Week 13]
Ask your doctor about Enigmacil, and why drug manufacturers can only advertise prescription meds in the U.S. and New Zealand. Continue reading
El Inmolado [52 Sellout Week 12]
You’ve probably heard the legend of El Inmolado, the hottest hot sauce ever devised, now see the 1:00 TV ad that was banned from the airwaves of every country! Continue reading
Kars for Tots, 2nd Most Annoying Jingle Ever! [52 Sellout Week 11]
I tried my best to write a jingle more annoying than 1-877-Kars-4-Kids but came up just short. Continue reading
Free Chris Christie: The Musical!
We isolated the audio of Chris Christie’s inner monologue the night of Super Tuesday as he watched Trump give his victory speech. It’s a sappy Broadway ballad! Here at RobPRocks HQ we’ve amplified that audio and set it to some lovely animated photos of the event. We hope you enjoy it!
O.K., actually it’s a song I wrote as a demo for a comedy news website and I started putting some pictures together to give them an example of what I thought could be done with it visually. As the midnight hour came and went I was finishing the video but losing perspective, hitting that point in the project at which you wonder if it even makes sense anymore. But since it was a topical subject I posted it on my facebook page anyway, around 2 am last Friday, to see what people thought. Luckily some of my west coast friends were up and able to check it out right away and they not only liked it but started sharing it right away.
The arrangement is pretty simple, just piano and vocal, which is something I hadn’t tried until I wrote the song “Flashback Wife.” I’ve been playing and writing on keyboard a lot more lately, since working on my musical last year, and it’s been a lot of fun to explore this new (for me) area. I hope you like the results!
Iron Maiden Airlines [52 Sellout Week 9]
Did you know that Iron Maiden’s lead singer Bruce Dickinson is a licensed airline pilot who will be flying the band’s custom Boeing 747-400 on their 6-continent world tour this year? Continue reading
Bodega Beers! [52 Sellout Week 8]
Drink responsibly. And affordably! With Bodega Beers! Not a particular brand, just the cheapest canned beer you can afford, served in a custom paper bag to cover any identifying markings (and your shame), Bodega Beers are the ones to get when your broke self can’t afford anything else.
Since the word “bodega” (a small, neighborhood grocery store, usually in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood) comes from Spanish I decided to try a Latin sound with the music for this week. I don’t use loops or pre-packaged grooves so everything on the track was composed by yours truly. I used my trusty BFD 2 drum module and supplemented the percussion with conga, timbales, claves, and bells coming mostly from XPand2 patches. The bass and guitars were played by me, and I used a piano sound from the Mini Grand module that came with my Pro Tools setup. Hopefully the result sounds sufficiently Cuban-ish, it was definitely a lot of fun to put together.
Enjoy!