Which song would you sacrifice for a U2 commercial??

[The Sad Punk]

One Tree Hill - lumber harvesting.

 

[Ellay]

One Tree Hill - lumber harvesting.

lol

How about "The Unforgettable Fire" - Indian Takeaway

 

[Purplereign]

^^

 

[MSU2mike]

I hope this never ever happens because it's completely ruined my ability to take such songs seriously unless I was already familiar with them. There are so many songs I'd hear for toothpaste or some house cleaner or Ford Truck ad, and I just want to get away from them because they invoke the product; even if I can't remember the product, I know it was used to advertize something for me, and I think, "That's wasn't just written for the ad? That's an actual song?"

I know whenever I hear Zeppelin's Rock & Roll the very first thing I think is, "Whoa, this song wasn't written for Cadillac?"

That's usually followed with, "Where am I? Gimme some pudding!"

It will be the death of U2 if it does that. The Cure could get away with Pictures of You because I knew the song, no lyrics were used, The Cure is just cool, and Robert Smith had to agree to it to get back his back catalogue because it was wrongly sold to the record company without his notice.

The Cure "got away with it" because Pictures of You was the perfect song for a terrific ad. You certainly went through a lot of Justification Gymnastics™ to excuse Robert Smith of the same thing you say would be the "death of U2." Must have a healthy amount of respect for The Cure that you don't have for U2.

And HP did in fact use the lyrics in the advertisement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfNmSVI2Izo

The short form used lyrics too.

The ESPN thing was shameful; I don't even get ESPN, but the greedy idea of it disgusts me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Y6pVEd_Cg

Shameful! Disgusting! GRRRRRRR!! I'm so mad about this display of greed that I can't even think straight.