OK here is something that is bugging me...

[NamVetsWeeLass]

what in the hell is up with commercials {IE Starbucks} using 80's bands??? AND... who in the hell sold "Rock and Roll" by Led Zep to Cadillac? After just hearing (again) the commercial with Survivor (and keep in mind I am a Rocky-Movie Nut) I want to suddenly shove my fist into something.... Like the TV. I mean Come on "Ted Ted Ted Ted....." :::Looks around for something to abuse:::

[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. Nothing is sacred.

I remember when M. Jackson sold Nike the rights to use "Revolution" in their commercial. I was disgusted.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

2. yeah so was I....

EOM

[Maestro]

3. The people that used to listen to that and probably still do

are marketing directors and the like now.

[parasim]

4. I've been known to literally dive for the mute button...

when those Cadiallac ads come on... I know exactly what you mean!

[Systematic Chaos]

5. It sucks, but it is still powerful advertising (to many people)

How many 30-somethings are going to go to the housewares department to look for a new mop, only to see the Swiffer and immediately think about Devo jamming out to the virtues of the product? After that everything else will just be some stupid mop.

And for the record, I would like to kick Devo's collective ass for that commercial, but then I'm not paying their bills. :(

[NamVetsWeeLass]

6. Yeah it is a thing based on the

thing called "the Beer Money Tour"... Ya know "we Stopped being popular in 1989 or there abouts... Let's do a tour, we need beer money" (think Great White, Quiet Riot....) We also have the "Geez we were almost as popular as the Beatles, Let's go on Tour" and then we have "Keith is still Dead, Let's go on tour" tour... (Keith Richards I am telling you, he has the key to every disease known to man....He has been dead since what? 77? He still looks "almost lifelike" and he never has a cold) Then we have the "Hip Replacement tour" (Van Halen... also called the Dave/Sammy/Dave/Gary/Sammy tour....) and then we have DEVO... They sold out to Swiffer.... How sad is that?

[DS1]

7. Billy Idol is now selling financial counseling...

I was thinking "Goddamn, I'm finally old - White Wedding is being used to sell financial planning". I grew up with that stuff. :cry: ;)

[NamVetsWeeLass]

8. ::nods::

Yeah, Next thing you know Metallica will be selling Viagra.........

[DS1]

11. And the churches that take donations will blast "Megadeth's Holy Wars

.. and the Punishment Due" while passing around the offering plate.

[sundog]

9. Everything is for sale...

I recently heard a Dandy Warhols song in a GMC commercial. I was so, so disappointed.

[Philostopher]

10. Who the hell sold "Rock and Roll"?

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.

I have a few of these in my bag of 'oh my god did they listen to the fucking song before they used it?'

There's 'Lust For Life' used for Royal Caribbean or Norwegian Cruise Lines. Because everybody needs a little heroin to deal with the kids on the cruise, I guess.

The Bee Gees 'Gotta Get A Message To You' was used by a cell phone service provider. The song is about a prisoner on his way to the gallows trying to get a message to his lover before they stretch his neck.

Pilot's 'Magic' was used by another cell provider several years ago. It's a song about a lazy rock musician reveling in the fact he has nothing to do all day. The 'short skirt, long jacket' chick in the ad couldn't possibly have rested a minute in her so-far-brief life, but whoa-ho-ho, it's magic that her cell phone works!