Songs You Love In Ads...:shrug:

How do you feel about hearing one of your favorite songs used to sell something like a car, a shampoo, or a herpes treatment?

I bring this up because yesterday, while in the waiting room of the optomotrist to get my annual eye exam, I couldn't help but notice that one of the ads on the ubiqutous "optomotrsist TV station" they had used the opening from Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" on a loop to promote some nifty pair of eyeglasses.

Needless to say, I was put off by that (but I guess the Buckleys need the cash, maybe)

Anyway, feel free to share your own horror story (or non-horror story, if you didn't mind a favorite song being used for the promotion of bourgeoisie captialist greed)

slow jam being used to promote our retro-tech ford falcon. made me rush out and buy one.

The Bloc Party song "So Here We Are" in the Sky convertible commercials.

A big THANK YOU to the person who got me into that song. Bless you!

It's crum-believable.... :barf:

actually the original song is terrible too, but the worst thing HAS to be that Maxwell House commerical where they make up new words to Madness' "Our House." Christ, makes me change the channel every time the godawful POS comes on.

I really love a song by a band called The Caesars (or it has the word in the band name at least) when the iPods came out.

[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I really love a song by a band called The Caesars (or it has the word in the band name at least) when the iPods came out.

That advert got me into them,Kim.You want to buy PAPER TIGERS.Every song on it shuld have been a single.

Last year, here in Japan, New Order's "Krafty" was on an advert for a car.

I recall one year in the mid-90s both Saint Etienne and Spiritualized had tunes used in UK adverts.

no one remembers songs in adverts.

fuck,i don't even remember adverts.

oh shit...Sheila's Wheels is now in me head.

J.A.K wrote: no one remembers songs in adverts.

fuck,i don't even remember adverts.

oh shit...Sheila's Wheels is now in me head.

Shite advert - great insurance deal :) :)

Smurfy wrote:

J.A.K wrote: no one remembers songs in adverts.

fuck,i don't even remember adverts.

oh shit...Sheila's Wheels is now in me head.

Shite advert - great insurance deal :) :)

haha. better than this.

£280 TPF & T for a volvo s40 with no claims, with Hastings Direct. AND its on the monthly drip. El cheapo!!

J.A.K wrote:

Smurfy wrote:

J.A.K wrote: no one remembers songs in adverts.

fuck,i don't even remember adverts.

oh shit...Sheila's Wheels is now in me head.

Shite advert - great insurance deal :) :)

haha. better than this.

£280 TPF & T for a volvo s40 with no claims, with Hastings Direct. AND its on the monthly drip. El cheapo!!

But ................ is your handbag insured??? lol

Fuck adverts in the ear! Pet hate.You don't pay a SKY subsciption to watch adverts.Cunts.

Well Bowie's Heroes is an absolute classic, but I did get sick of hearing it on a Microsoft advert a couple of years ago . I felt really disapointed that bowie let the song be used like that.

On the plus side the BBC did a sort of "look how great we are" type promo/advert thing a year or three back. It was about how they cover live music so well (do they?). It had some great imagery of a crowd bouncing up and down in slow motion, someone splashing along the floor of the flooded bogs and so on. They used "Girls" by Death in Vegas (from the excellent Scorpio Rising LP), and it just worked so perfectly. I actually went out of my way to catch the promo as often as possible!

BTW Sofia Copolla subsequently used the same tune in Lost in translation, so she's got good taste in music if nothing else.

What Do I Get by Buzzcocks in a Toyota ad

Peaches by The Stranglers in an Adidas ad

Just heard Rock the Casbah in an ad last night...

"Do the SHAKE AND VAC and put the freshness back..."

Boatraceface wrote: Fuck adverts in the ear! Pet hate.You don't pay a SKY subsciption to watch adverts.Cunts.

Not helped by lotsof channels on Sky synchonising their ad breaks.

Personally, I just hit the OFF button when the ads are on.

I do like Aphex Twin's window licker being used in I think a Merc ad, and Donkey Rhubarb used to be used in an orange comercial ( wee cartoon man running around to music that sounds like steel drums on acid)

I actually bought a cd of songs of ads. it was on special.

some songs are you get what you give - new radicals are you still having fun - eagle eye cherry there she goes - the las many rivers to cross - tonis childs carlifornia dreamin mammas and pappas anyone had a heart - dusty springfield falling in love again - marlene dietrich what's going on - marvin gaye.

NOOLigan wrote: I actually bought a cd of songs of ads. it was on special.

some songs are you get what you give - new radicals are you still having fun - eagle eye cherry there she goes - the las many rivers to cross - tonis childs carlifornia dreamin mammas and pappas anyone had a heart - dusty springfield falling in love again - marlene dietrich what's going on - marvin gaye.

Shocking. On special or not...

Presently four different Goldfrapp songs are being used in ads in the US: Strict Machine, Lovely 2 C U, Fly Me Away, and Ooh La La.

ELO's Do Ya is being used to shill for Monster.com.

TOUCH SENSITIVE The Fall....on that car advert where they're playing hide and seek. HEY HEY HEY!

So how about sticky chocolate ... our favourite band over here?

Anyone know who the techno style tune is in the 02 ads is? (I think its O2, if not, clearly it hasnt worked )

It's quite Hartnoll-esque, and sounds like the full track could be the 'ckin nuts

Cat Power's cover of "Hanging on the Telephone" in a Cingular ad a year or two back.