Moby's Play album is famous for being super-whored out (licensed) for use in commercials and film. But I can't say I am reminded of any certain product when I hear those Play songs.

CinisterCee said:

The first album ever to have every track on it licensed commercially.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Do you associate it with any adverts?

CinisterCee said:

Nope. Like you, I do not. I do remember seeing a whole hell of a lot of commercials that featured his songs when the album was first out and getting seriously annoyed by it, but none of them have stuck with me.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Frankly, have the songs themselves stuck with you?

Nike has used tons of good tunes and I never think of their adverts.

I think Nike used these:
Beatles "Revolution"
The Verve "Bittersweet Symphony"

CinisterCee said:

Nope. "Hip" elevator music is all it ever was to me.

Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop was used in a Pepsi commercial and a commercial for some other product which I forgot.

Leelee said:

that phone commercial. Cingular I think....not sure though.

AnckSuNamun said:

yeah...what next, they gonna use "every time i eat vegetables it makes me think of you" in a dole salad ad?

Marks and Spencer using the wonderful and amazing Albatross by Fleetwood Mac for their new commercials - yes, it fits, and it gets the point across, but it was a classic that now a whole generation thinks was written solely as a 30second instrumental for M&S!!

And of course Im going to think of those adverts when I hear it too, which is just not on because I love Fleetwood Mac!



It makes me so angry!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Those horrific singers who covered "Easy" for that Levi's commercial need to be publicly flogged.

namepeace said:

Wasn't that Faith No More?

CinisterCee said:

Only "Porcelain". Love that song.

Ellie said:

Yes indeed it was.

sextonseven said:

I rest my case.

namepeace said:

To be fair, Faith No More didn't cover "Easy" for the commercial. It's an old track of theirs that I always thought was supposed to be tongue in cheek, like Guns N Roses cover of "Since I Don't Have You".

Iggy Pop's Lust for Life being used in an ad for some cruise line.

The Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want was used for Pepsi, I believe. As was Hendrix's Purple Haze in a spiffy little ad implying that if Jimi had chosen Coke over Pepsi as a child, he'd have been an accordian player.

Kansas' Dust in the Wind being used currently in ads for some car and for Muslix.

I don't know if it was made into a TV ad or not, but Prince's Little Red Corvette was used to market the car in print ads.

KISS's I Was Made For Loving You was used for eithe yoghurt or Special K -I can never remember.

T-Rex's 20th Century Boy for yet another car ad.


The list goes on and bloody on. I can't even remember the last time I heard an original commercial jingle outside of a tv special on old programming, or the scene in Corrina, Corrina when the JELL-O jingle is being written.

The most obvious song/ad association has to be Dirty Vegas' "Days Gone By" in that Mitsubishi commerical (or was it Mazda) with the girl pop-locking in the passenger seat. Otherwise, I can't help but think about Chevy trucks when I hear Bob Seger singing "Like A Rock." The ickiest thing I've heard in an ad so far was "U Can't Touch This" being used in a Curel antibacterial dry hand soap commercial.

I probably shouldn't mention this for fear of some ad executive trolling these forums, but I'm surprised that Procter and Gamble hasn't used Tears For Fears' music yet. I remember back in the 1980's when they used the Isley Brothers' "Shout" to pitch their Shout stain remover. I'm also surprised that they never used the Kiss song "Shout It Out Loud" to pitch that same stuff in the 1990's, but then again, maybe Gene Simmons was too smart and too cool to let this song be used in a detergent commerical. I'm sure they probably could come up with an easy jingle with Tears For Fears though. "Shout. Shout. Get it all out / these are the stains we can do without..."

I Melt With You by Modern English
Spoiled forever by those Burder King ads a few years back.
Everytime I hear that son, I get a craving for a Whopper!!!

none, if a song is hot to death then it doesn't matter my favorite song of alltime Man on the silver mountain was used by coors.

Search And Destroy, What Do I Get.. granted these weren't long ad campaigns.

Lust For Life is still cool with me.
[Edited 11/19/05 5:11am]

AnckSuNamun said:

Budweiser I believe.

Remember the Young MC pepsi ads?

lilgish said:

Didn't he get a Pepsi deal before MC Hammer?


propa!

meow85 said:

I did not know that!

CinisterCee said:

Didn't Chevy use a certain Prince song in their commercial?

And what about Burger King using too many songs from the 60's & 70's?

And remember when Michael Jackson allow Nike Sports to use The Beatles' Revolution to sell shoes?

Burger King used the best fucking songs, and it couldn't taint their legacy, and actually worked to enhance my perception of how cool the franchise is.

CinisterCee said:

Give it to me, baby!