What song do you most resent being converted to an ad jingle?

[Bossy Monkey]

I gotta go with CCR's Fortunate Son having the first half of the first stanza ripped wildly out of context to plug Wrangler jeans. They seem to have discontinued the ad, but still.

Hell, there's a million of them, from Like A Rock to Whip It. I'm sure a lot of us hated these songs in the first place (I'm probably the only one here who will admit to having liked Like A Rock), but it's not like constant repetition in the service of Mammon is likely to raise our opinion of them either. Share a few, will you?

Kindly forgive my 5003d post about tv advertising. What can I say? I'm obsessed.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Start Me Up --> Windows 95 ad (nt)

[TXvote]

2. E D ad

using "We are the Champions" just kind of turned my tummy.....

[darkstar]

7. eeeewwww,

glad I was spared that. Guess "Like A Rock" already had to much brand ID to use again.

[MidwestMomma]

55. That's what I was going to vote for

How revolting! Poor Freddie...

[boobooday]

3. So depraved

To take the counter culture and co-opt it into the consumer culture. It feels like a true violation of my youth. :-(

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[anti-NAFTA]

4. Lust for Life by Iggy Pop

It's been whored out so much like on the Carnival cruiselines commercials. And it doesn't help that hack-band Jet ripped it off and has whored their own song out like no other band.

[Kat45]

12. I think there's another Iggy song in a different commercial,

for a different product, but it's slipped my mind right now. Anybody?

[legin]

60. 'The Passenger' being used over here

for a car commercial.

[Whitacre D_WI]

33. "Let's use a song about heroin withdrawal to sell cruises!"

:spank:

[blondeatlast]

39. How can they put the 2 together--it just boggles the mind...

I tell people what the song is really about and they think I'm making it up.

Sheesh.

[blondeatlast]

40. Not a jingle, but it grates me to hear "My City Was Gone"

played on OxyContin Rush's show.

GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[blondeatlast]

38. My choice among choices. The worst is that virtually all of

them miss the point entirely.

"Fortunate Son" would be second--shame, since it is so evocative of Mr. Chimp.

[bubblesby2002]

61. Man do I agree with you

wholeheartedly

[darkstar]

5. Yeah, "Lust For Life" gets me, big time

as did Dylan's "Forever Young" w/ Mac mega-media movies, etc. a few years back.

Re: Lust For Life. Has it been used by others or just the cruise line? For some reason, I thought someone else had used it a few years back, a car ad or something? Or has the cruise line been using it for years now that it seems as omnipresent as "Like A Rock"?

[Bossy Monkey]

13. Sports radio idiot Jim Rome uses the drum intro all the time

Unfair to call him an idiot really, but "dickwad" doesn't look right in a subject line. I, too, have the sense that the song gets used in a lot of commercials, but maybe it really is just Carnival playing it wall-to-wall.

[jonnyblitz]

37. Lust for Life is what comes to my mind also.

I love Iggy. grrrrrr

[jeffsurfus]

6. For What It's Worth

I can't remember what the ad was but I remember being just disgusted that that protest song was being used in a comercial.

I was just as disgusted about Fortunate Son, though.

[ALago1]

8. Rock n Roll by Led Zep

n/t

[Webster Green]

9. Me too!

That sucks! Cadillac ads aren't they?

[ALago1]

14. I thought it was Nissan

Either way, it still sucks bad!

[mouse7]

16. That one's pretty bad. n/t

[Gman]

10. Revolution

The Beatles. Especially considering what that song stood for and the times.

[Kat45]

11. Wasn't that after Michael Jackson bought the rights

to Beatles songs?

[ALago1]

15. Yes

And I believe the ad was pulled after much public outcry on the use of the song.

[Gman]

20. Yeah, it had to be

I can't imagine Yoko giving her OK. John probably did flips in his grave.

[Maccagirl]

47. Yoko gave her complete blessing to it

That's why I haven't bought one Nike product since. McCartney wasn't the only one pissed off-George was furious too.

[brainshrub]

18. Amen

You beat me to it.

[NashVegas]

64. And What it Set Off

After "Revolution" got used, the barrier kinda got smashed, didn't it?

[ironflange]

17. Secret Agent Man

The Wal-Mart version: Roll-Back Man. :puke:

However, the Pepsi spot that uses the original is hilarious.

[Kellanved]

19. Imagine -> RWE

Lennon's imagine as jingle for one of the "worst" energy/waste companies in Germany and Europe.

[Kellanved]

45. here

Without sound, but that's the spot:
http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/property=Data/id=15692/tv__spot__avi.avi

[Baclava]

21. Easy one...

Dear Mr. Fantasy...by Traffic

Football fans know what I'm talking about...

Rich Eisen Commercial...

The players?
The guy in the jewelry store is Deuce McCallister from the Saints.

The guy in the hot tub is Chris Samuels from Washington.

Torry Holt "its good to be Rich"

[UnAmericanJoe]

22. A couple here

Morphine's "Buena" is used in an automobile ad.

The Flaming Lips song, "Do You Realize" from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is also in a car ad.

sigh.

[Liberal Christian]

23. 'Tis the Gift to be Simple

I really hated it when they used the old Shaker hymn about life-style simplicity to market a luxury car. Can't remember what car is was, but it was maybe five years ago.

Simple Gifts
'Tis the gift to be simple,
'Tis the gift to be free,

"Tis the gift to come down
where we ought to be,

And when we find ourselves
in the place just right,
It will be in the valley
of love an delight.

When true
simplicity is gained,
to bow and to bend ,
we will not be ashamed.

To turn, turn,
will be our delight,

'Til by turning, turning,
we come round right.

[LWolf]

56. That would have to be one of mine, anyway.

It's one of my favorite hymns. I'm glad I missed the commercials.

[woofless]

24. Didn't know Pete was so strapped for cash

but it hurts to hear all the Who stuff on TV. To his credit he says "I wrote the fuckin' songs, I'll do what I want with 'em." (paraphrase)

[Coventina]

25. Happy When It Rains for Chevrolet

The ad didn't seem to last all that long. I guess the Jesus and Mary Chain don't sell cars.

[arwalden]

26. Movies, movies, movies, movies. Movies, movies, mooo-vies.

[Elidor]

27. Like a Rock was a good song once

Great solo. Now it is completely, utterly ruined. Unlistenable. Seeger should be ashamed.

[slackdude]

28. That Modest Mouse song in a car commercial

I can't remember the name of the song, but it's from The Moon and Antarctica and it's in some SUV commercial.

[Bertha Venation]

29. Anticipation by Carly Simon

to sell freakin' ketchup?! :grr:

[The Backlash Cometh]

30. It wasn't a commercial ad, sort of, but I resented it when the Republicans

took the jingle, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" song for their political theme song during one of the Reagan campaigns. It was despicable considering that it encouraged you to not challenge Republican policies which were responsible for the very situations that are pointed out in the song.

[theorist]

31. I'm just waiting for the Who's "Going Mobile" to be used

for selling cell phone plans. Maybe they'll lay off on this one due to the Townshend scandal.

[BrewerJohn]

46. "Roam" (B-52's) hasn't been used for that yet

Has it? Would seem to be perfect.
I know, shouldn't be giving them ideas.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Fortunate Son

[Whitacre D_WI]

34. Iggy's been mentioned above -- on that topic:

The worst for me, hands down, was the Stooges' "Search and Destroy" being used to sell Reeboks.

SNEAKERS, fer Chrissakes!

:puke:

[blondeatlast]

41. I can beat that, much as I love Iggy and the boys:

"Revolution."

'Nuff said. UGH!

[Whitacre D_WI]

43. You know, though... I can almost buy that.

You can count me in/out in/ou in/out -- the song's on the verge of selling out as it is, Lennon was always conscious of the fine line between artistic integrity and, well, NOT. I think he would've got a kick out of it.

[Kat45]

42. Maybe that's the other Iggy one I was thinking of. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. "Burning Ring of Fire" hemorrhoid jingle?!

"Advertising writers in Florida were planning to pitch hemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial featuring Johnny Cash's classic song "Ring of Fire," but his family says there's no way they'll let it happen."

*phew!* *l*

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040219/D80QHH200.html

[HEyHEY]

36. All of them, they always pic cool songs

[Sufi Marmot]

44. "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake...

It was used in an ad for some silly-looking car, although I can't remember which brand...

-SM

[flamingyouth]

49. I think it was the VW Cabriolet

And I agree - when I heard it I freaked out.

[saltpoint]

52. Sufi and Flamingyouth --

-- I add my name to the "Pink Moon" list.

It's an atrocity to use a song like that for a goddamn car ad.

[Burma Jones]

69. I agree, BUT, it did get a lot of people interested in Nick Drake.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

48. One good one

Even though I hate most of these, I have to say I never would have been aware of the E.L.O. song "Mister Blue Sky" if not for the fairly recent ?VW bug? commercial--an incredible, beautiful song which doesn't sound dated at all. Now used to pimp a number of movie trailers. (Adaption, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

[Ysabel]

50. yeah - fortunate son for me too...

i haven't ever been so mad in my whole life as i am about this bush shit...!!!

and that encompasses everything - all the way back to when i was a kid and mad about them killing president kennedy...!!!

fucking bushes - and damn idiot republcans - it really is all their fault - every single thing...

sorry...

i'm pissed...

[Scottie72]

51. Pictures of You

Pictures of You by The Cure. I believe HP has this for one of their ads. I almost fell over hearing it on the TV. It's such an awsome song it doesn't belong on a TV AD.

[CanuckAmok]

53. Psychic TV's "Roman P." used to sell the new Jetta.

Okay, so it's a song about Roman Polanski's lust after little girls, and his wife's being murdered by the Manson Family:


"Sharon swinging, high up above,
Crying, Sighing, Dying for love...
...Little girls drinking, eating cocaine,
Little girls caused you your greatest mistake"

The new Jetta...


WTF?

[CanuckAmok]

54. I just find it ironic that Chevy decided the phrase...

..."Like a Rock" was a good choice of slogans to advertise something as mobile as a vehicle.

[Nailzberg]

57. "Happy Jack"

Damn Hummers.

[marigold20]

65. Yah, very annoying.

Creepy little kid!

[annagull]

58. "London Calling" to sell {{gasp}} Jaguars!

That one really got me!

[NightTrain]

59. A Ramones tune.

I can't recall either the song or the product it was hawking, but I do recall feeling quite annoyed at hearing the Ramones in a fucking advert! :grr:

[pfitz59]

62. Anything by Jimmy Hendrix....

or The Dead

[MisterP]

63. Happy Jack for the Hummers; not #1 but still near the top

[Touchdown]

66. Remember ABC's red scare mini series "Amerika"?

Adverts for it used Oingo Boingo's "Just Another Day"...a great song about self-delusional paranoia, which the irony was completely lost on ABC.

Factoid...Before "Don't Worry. Be Happy"...Reagan wanted to use Springsteen's "Born in the USA" for his campaign (the song came out in '84, just before the Summer campaign kicked into gear)...until someone smart enough told him that it's not a very flattering set of lyrics regarding how our government treats us.:crazy:

[ChoralScholar]

67. I'd have to say

La Bamba. It makes me want to dig my eyeballs out with a spoon.
Ritchie Valens must be rolling over in his grave to see his song hackneyed like so:

(Sung to the tune of La Bamba)

You could be drivin' a Honda
You could be drivin' a Honda, oh yes you could
Drivin' a Russell Honda

[annonymous]

68. CCR's Fortunate Son being used to pitch jeans.

Honorable mention is Revolution being used to pitch sneakers.

[Mobius]

70. Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire for a hemorrhoid commercial

His daughter is suing and has a current injunction I believe.