YOUR QUESTION:

08/15/2020 Liz

Hello! Random question. My husband and I were watching commercials from old toys from the '80s and watched this one for My Pet Monster: https://youtu.be/PQ1-RH_8fro. That bass line in the jingle certainly sounds a lot like the bass part for "Dead Goon." What say you?
(I also sent this to your Twitter... sorry for the repeated question.)

MY ANSWER:

Ah, nostalgic toy commercials—the apogee of married life. I think it sounds only vaguely similar. Kinda the same tempo and 8th-note vibe, but only uses half the notes and isn’t chromatic at all. But I think one of the kids in that commercial fell victim to auto-asphyxiation if I’m not mistaken. I very well could be mistaken.