I get mad when I hear classic songs on commercials

[Johnny Swallow]

I wish they didn't do this, can't they just come up with regular crappy commercial music rather than dish out big bucks to ruin a classic tune?

Ones that I hate off the top of my head:

Some Cadillac commercial - 'Rock and Roll' -Led Zep

A Radio Shack commercial - 'Take Five' - Dave Brubeck Quartet

I know there are lots more, list a few and remind me.

 

[elevatedsoul2]

I know what you mean! I hate when people sell themselves out that way. At least, that's how i look at it.


it's just....wrong

or like how bb king is doing the burger king commercials? and the diabetes commercials?
i don't know i just don't like it!

 

[Stories for Boys]

i agree...then ppl who are too ignorant to know the songs in a good way refer to them as "ooh, the song from the ____________ commercial"

honestly ppl, get some culture!

 

[J-Tree]

honestly ppl, get some culture!

But isn't that what culture is these days? There is no originality anymore. You don't need to look any farther than what Hollywood is churning out to see that.

 

[ghetofabu]

Yes it is wrong.

 

[Stories for Boys]

But isn't that what culture is these days? There is no originality anymore. You don't need to look any farther than what Hollywood is churning out to see that.

yes. i was really close to editing that to say pop culture. i'm talking about good things...y'know..good music, like classic rock, not pop shit which is basically having 12 yr old girls singing that they want to fuck ppl, and they're too fat, and aren't good enough, and they need a man to rule them.

my generation sucks

 

[Calvin N. Hobbes]

I was thinking the same thing earlier when I spotted a beer commercial to the tune of the Clash's 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'.

 

[bono-vox]

The use Status Quo songs in a catalogue ad's over here


They used Elvis in the Nike ads for the world cup but i think thats good is it not....making him popular again with all these young people

 

[Holly]

I usually agree but I must say a new car advert I just seen with Hendrix,s "3rd Stone from the sun" is pretty snazzy..

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Well, I have to say I was introduced to Crowded House (and Neil Finn) thanks to the use of 'Don't Dream It's Over' for an ad for New Zealand. It's not all bad, really, I mean it's an oppurtunity to gain new fans. I do get annoyed when people use music for commercials which don't suit them at all. Over here they've been using Streets to push the X-files and they use One for the channel itself, coming up with some lame tagline saying they are the 'one' channel you should watch blah blah blah. Now that sucks.

 

[Salome]

I can't say it bothers me too much

 

[qball7200]

Johnny, have you seen the recent Gap commercial set to I Know There's an Answer from Pet Sounds?

 

[Johnny Swallow]

Haven't seen that one but, gag.

 

[Stories for Boys]

Over here they've been using Streets to push the X-files and they use One for the channel itself, coming up with some lame tagline saying they are the 'one' channel you should watch blah blah blah. Now that sucks.

i would go down to the station and give them a piece of my mind (read: i threw a brick through their window...)

i hate that...i even thought they went overboard during superbowl time...i mean, it wasn't even words, just the riff from desire on every single add...ugh...this is the kind of music you need to take advantage of and enjoy, not have it remind you of some product...i hate commercialism in this day and age...

[/rant]

 

[Ultraviolet Light]

my generation sucks

The Who: Talkin' bout my generation!
*ahem* sorry...

Those Superbowl commercials were downright dangerous...
me: *hears said commercial* *runs for TV* *trips over things* Son of a...!!!
Nelson Muntz: *points* Ha Ha!

 

[Stories for Boys]

you shoulda seen me the first time it came on...

*hears desire* i swear...
*runs to tv*
*trips on ez chair*
*twists ankle*
*crawls over to tv*
*sits 2 inches away*
*screams*

everyone else in the house:

heh...it's funny how often my family rolls their eyes at me...

 

[U2Kitten]

Yeah, Led Zeppelin , Aerosmith and the Who really bugged me. The worst one was hearing "Taxman" for H and R Block, that was tacky! And right after George Harrison had just died! But that was Michael Jackson and not the Beatles. I wonder if some of those stars need the money that bad that they sell out.

One other side of this though, in a way, it's good. When you look at it another way, it's cool. I mean, would you rather hear crap music on commercials? Also, it shows that rock and roll has now become mainstream and accepted and that the 'hippies' and 'punks' who used to be criticized for their rock and roll music are now the 'in' people, the target audience the big corportations want to sell to, and in a way it's a victory for rock and roll. Once condemned and put down, it has taken over the world!

 

[She Is Raging]

I agree about companies running out of ideas...


How many more times can burger king do a commercial where they play some old 70's disco song and spin a cheeseburger around on the screen?

 

[Stories for Boys]

it's not that i don't like hearing the songs, or how it spreads the music...it's when people think that it was never a song before the commercial...

"o, i love that song! it's from the burger king ad, right?"

 

[Bono's shades]

I don't like it. It takes away from the original meaning of the song to hear it being used to hawk a product. Of course if it's a lousy song to begin with it really doesn't matter much, but to take a classic song and do it...that sucks. Just this evening when I was watching the Elevation show on The Family Channel I heard songs by The Kinks on two commercials (commercials for the same company I guess - I don't remember which one). The Kinks were a great band, and I thought it was a shame that their music was diminished in that way.

 

[sharky]

Thank you so much for bringing this up Johnny!

So for months this ad has been bugging me. I think its for Claritan or Celebrex or some prescription drug that starts with a C. I heard a song [can't remember the exact one] from The Who's Tommy. I swung my head toward the TV. "Tommy?" NOOOOOO....Cele-friggin-brex. morons.

[its like when I hear a few bars of Every Breath You Take thinking I'm hearing a Police song only to realize its P. Diddy.]

 

[U2Kitten]

So for months this ad has been bugging me. I think its for Claritan or Celebrex or some prescription drug that starts with a C. I heard a song [can't remember the exact one] from The Who's Tommy. I swung my head toward the TV. "Tommy?" NOOOOOO....Cele-friggin-brex. morons.

Oh now I agree here. I mean a fast car driving is cool, it could mean you're listening to that song driving fast so I can deal with that better, but this one you're talking about, how they devalued Tommy like that- I can't believe it. That sucked!

 

[Danospano]

I agree with everyone here. It seems like I can't watch anything on television without hearing some 1960's peaceful, protest song endorsing either a medical product like "Claritan" or a 'high-class' SUV. It's clever....or should I say it WAS clever when advertisers first started doing it, but now it's annoying and causing me to turn off to a product rather than turning on to it.