Commercial songs

alphageek31337 · 10-06-2004, 01:55 AM

I'm reasonably sure we've all done it. You're watching television when a commercial comes on with a song in the background that drops your jaw. I recently did it with a commercial for the Volkswagen Touareg playing a song called "Ariel Ramirez" by Richard Buckner. The song just drops my jaw. Before that, it was yet another VW commercial, this time for the Cabrio, and the song was Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". So I guess what I'm asking is, has this ever happened to you, and if so, what song was it from what commercial?

Catwoman · 10-06-2004, 03:43 AM

The Mercedes ad some time ago with Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game' - soft-focus images and sounds intertwined seamlessly to create something romantic and aspirational. Sorry, ad-speak coming in there a bit. This website might help if you want to trace music used in UK commercials http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/ - I'm sure there will be a US equiavalent (just can't be bothered to check my lists right now).

Cyber Wolf · 10-06-2004, 06:40 AM

Chips Ahoy did it for me a few years ago when they first used Sing Sing Sing in their commercial with the cookies dancing around and all before their recent ad atrocity. My parents would play that one a lot while I was growing up and I was all kinds of excited to hear it in the commercial. Good ol' Benny Goodman and his Orchestra.

Undertoad · 10-06-2004, 06:53 AM

Back in the day we basically played the crap out of Yello's "Oh Yeah" on my college radio station. This came out in 1984 and we played it in 1985. Two-three years later it would appear in a John Hughes film and then be "discovered" by the world's advertisers as one of the first modern electronica songs to gain wide appeal. By the time it was used to sell Twix, it was all over.

VW, who was astonishingly good at this in the 90s, also trotted out "Da Da Da" about a decade after it came out, and like "Pink Moon", it still seemed modern.

wolf · 10-06-2004, 12:29 PM

I'm rather fond of the VW commercial that uses Mr. Roboto ...

And the Coke song is catchy ...

Oh, wait, are you saying that there are tunes that SHOULDN'T be used for commercials?

Thank Nike commercial with The Beatle's Revolution really pissed me off, but that's about it.

alphageek31337 · 10-06-2004, 01:44 PM

And the use of the Who's Baba O'Riley for CSI:NY bothers the hell out of me, along with the eBay 'interpretations' of Sinatra classics. What I really wanted to talk about is "finding" a song through a commercial. Having never heard a song before the commercial came out, then realizing that it's quite an amazing tune. This happens to me all the time, for some reason

OnyxCougar · 10-06-2004, 02:22 PM

"Da Da Da" was that for me. I actually bought the Trio CD just for that song and discovered I liked 2 or 3 songs.

My favorite commercials are the DQ blizzard one where the guy gets his tongue stuck in the hand mixer, and the "Kung Fu Fighting" Geico commercial.

flippant · 10-06-2004, 02:55 PM

ooooooooooooh gotta see, gotta know right now.....
I helped my neighbor find that one. He heard it coming from my place after his very long unfruitful search. After he burned it he seemed like a man who had just reached the summit of a tall peak! The car commercial indie rock song seemed to have really gotten to him.
The jaw really drops when you find the song at random from unexepected places.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-06-2004, 08:44 PM

Music from TV commercials (north America)

russotto · 10-06-2004, 08:49 PM

Mercedes using Joplin's "Mercedes Benz" straight up was pretty nervy.

lumberjim · 10-06-2004, 09:38 PM

pink moon made my best of cd.

cadillac's usage of 'rock-n-roll' by led zeppelin is insulting to me.

i always liked that willie nelson taco bell commercial...something about a rose tattoo.

Elspode · 10-07-2004, 02:31 PM

All of the songs of my youth are now finding their way into crass, mass-consumption marketing schemes, and it makes me feel *old*.

I wonder if my grandparents felt the same way when Glenn Miller tunes found their way into ads?

lookout123 · 10-07-2004, 07:37 PM

ok, this is some useless info i didn't retain. i don't remember the product, but recently someone used a Morphine song in their ad. i was surprised. but not surprised enough to retain any more info than that.

Vindwyn · 10-07-2004, 11:21 PM

I heard a snippet of one of the previews for the new WB show "Jack and Bobby" and really liked it. The way the song overlayed with the images from the show was just really amazing.

The song was Tom McCrae's "Stronger than Dirt" from his Just Like Blood import album.

melidasaur · 10-09-2004, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by alphageek31337

And the use of the Who's Baba O'Riley for CSI:NY bothers the hell out of me, along with the eBay 'interpretations' of Sinatra classics. What I really wanted to talk about is "finding" a song through a commercial. Having never heard a song before the commercial came out, then realizing that it's quite an amazing tune. This happens to me all the time, for some reason

I think that the Apple iPod commercials are great for helping you discover new music. I would have never heard the band Jet if it weren't for the iPod commerical that they had last year.

10-06-2004, 01:55 AM	#1
alphageek31337 Enemy Combatant/Evildoer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 263	Commercial songs I'm reasonably sure we've all done it. You're watching television when a commercial comes on with a song in the background that drops your jaw. I recently did it with a commercial for the Volkswagen Touareg playing a song called "Ariel Ramirez" by Richard Buckner. The song just drops my jaw. Before that, it was yet another VW commercial, this time for the Cabrio, and the song was Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". So I guess what I'm asking is, has this ever happened to you, and if so, what song was it from what commercial? __________________ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ---Friedrich Nietzsche

10-06-2004, 03:43 AM	#2
Catwoman stalking a Tom Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: on the edge of the english channel Posts: 1,000	The Mercedes ad some time ago with Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game' - soft-focus images and sounds intertwined seamlessly to create something romantic and aspirational. Sorry, ad-speak coming in there a bit. This website might help if you want to trace music used in UK commercials http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/ - I'm sure there will be a US equiavalent (just can't be bothered to check my lists right now). __________________ I've decided I'm not going to have a signature anymore.

10-06-2004, 06:40 AM	#3
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	Chips Ahoy did it for me a few years ago when they first used Sing Sing Sing in their commercial with the cookies dancing around and all before their recent ad atrocity. My parents would play that one a lot while I was growing up and I was all kinds of excited to hear it in the commercial. Good ol' Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

10-06-2004, 12:29 PM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I'm rather fond of the VW commercial that uses Mr. Roboto ... And the Coke song is catchy ... Oh, wait, are you saying that there are tunes that SHOULDN'T be used for commercials? Thank Nike commercial with The Beatle's Revolution really pissed me off, but that's about it. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-06-2004, 01:44 PM	#6
alphageek31337 Enemy Combatant/Evildoer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 263	And the use of the Who's Baba O'Riley for CSI:NY bothers the hell out of me, along with the eBay 'interpretations' of Sinatra classics. What I really wanted to talk about is "finding" a song through a commercial. Having never heard a song before the commercial came out, then realizing that it's quite an amazing tune. This happens to me all the time, for some reason __________________ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ---Friedrich Nietzsche

10-06-2004, 06:53 AM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Back in the day we basically played the crap out of Yello's "Oh Yeah" on my college radio station. This came out in 1984 and we played it in 1985. Two-three years later it would appear in a John Hughes film and then be "discovered" by the world's advertisers as one of the first modern electronica songs to gain wide appeal. By the time it was used to sell Twix, it was all over. VW, who was astonishingly good at this in the 90s, also trotted out "Da Da Da" about a decade after it came out, and like "Pink Moon", it still seemed modern.

10-06-2004, 02:22 PM	#7
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	"Da Da Da" was that for me. I actually bought the Trio CD just for that song and discovered I liked 2 or 3 songs. My favorite commercials are the DQ blizzard one where the guy gets his tongue stuck in the hand mixer, and the "Kung Fu Fighting" Geico commercial. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

10-06-2004, 02:55 PM	#8
flippant shameless....so stop trying so hard....-me Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Colorado location* Posts: 215	ooooooooooooh gotta see, gotta know right now..... I helped my neighbor find that one. He heard it coming from my place after his very long unfruitful search. After he burned it he seemed like a man who had just reached the summit of a tall peak! The car commercial indie rock song seemed to have really gotten to him. The jaw really drops when you find the song at random from unexepected places.

10-06-2004, 08:44 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Music from TV commercials (north America) __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-06-2004, 08:49 PM	#10
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Mercedes using Joplin's "Mercedes Benz" straight up was pretty nervy.

10-06-2004, 09:38 PM	#11
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	pink moon made my best of cd. cadillac's usage of 'rock-n-roll' by led zeppelin is insulting to me. i always liked that willie nelson taco bell commercial...something about a rose tattoo. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-07-2004, 02:31 PM	#12
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	All of the songs of my youth are now finding their way into crass, mass-consumption marketing schemes, and it makes me feel old. I wonder if my grandparents felt the same way when Glenn Miller tunes found their way into ads? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

10-07-2004, 07:37 PM	#13
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	ok, this is some useless info i didn't retain. i don't remember the product, but recently someone used a Morphine song in their ad. i was surprised. but not surprised enough to retain any more info than that. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

10-07-2004, 11:21 PM	#14
Vindwyn I love carbs! Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Kentucky Posts: 18	Jack & Bobby I heard a snippet of one of the previews for the new WB show "Jack and Bobby" and really liked it. The way the song overlayed with the images from the show was just really amazing. The song was Tom McCrae's "Stronger than Dirt" from his Just Like Blood import album.

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