Which song would you sacrifice for a U2 commercial??

[snutes1]

Amazingly, U2 have not given permission to use any of their songs for a commercial for a product (I do not count iPOD, any ESPN promos or Olympic use of Beautiful day). I'm talking about a real commercial like the Who being used for car commercials, etc.

So if U2 was in need of some cash and approached you to choose a song for a commercial what song would you use?

I would use Big Girls are Best for Pull up diapers

or Are you gonna wait forever as in are you gonna wait forever for that elusive trip to Jamaica.

Other than that I would cringe of using another song except maybe

Bass Trap which is the worst song ever recorded in the U2 catalog.

 

[digitize]

Miami for an all-inclusive trip to that wonderful place, or Wild Honey for something I really dislike.

 

[LemonMelon]

Is That All...for a viagra commercial.

 

[Harry Vest]

Is That All...for a viagra commercial.

How about "Elevation"?

 

[INDY500]

Who doesn't hum "Crumbs From Your Table" as they tidy up the kitchen with their Swiffer Sweeper?
I know I do.

 

[digitize]

Who doesn't hum "Crumbs From Your Table" as they tidy up the kitchen with their Swiffer Sweeper? I know I do.

LOL

 

[LemonMelon]

How about "Elevation"?

Nice.

Is That All can be reserved for those growth pills they hawk at 4 AM that cause radiation poisoning.

 

[pacemaker]

Elevation for anything... I'd rather is be associated with a shitty consumer product than U2's career.

 

[intedomine]

Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car.......RACV Insurance

 

[Mr. V]

Lemon for Lemon scented Mr. Sheen

 

[A stor]

City Of Blinding Lights......for a New York City, travel vacation

 

[Val]

How about "Elevation"?

Very funny!

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

Babyface for anti ageing cream

 

[Rob33]

How about "Elevation"?

Who doesn't hum "Crumbs From Your Table" as they tidy up the kitchen with their Swiffer Sweeper?
I know I do.

How about "Playboy Mansion" for your local porn shop?

 

[LemonMelon]

Maybe Cedars Of Lebanon could be used to hawk chainsaws?

 

[lorenzo]

Even Better Than The Real Thing was supposed to be used in a Coca Cola commercial back in '92

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

Zoo Station for an African Safari in Kenya....

If God will send his angels for a cofin company....

 

[u2search]

Even Better Than The Real Thing was supposed to be used in a Coca Cola commercial back in '92

No. Virgin Cola wanted to use it, but U2 refused. So not quite 'supposed to be' and not Coca Cola.

 

[Purplereign]

Zoo Station for an African Safari in Kenya....

If God will send his angels for a cofin company....

I like it


(Is that wrong? )

 

[Marien]

Even Better Than The Real Thing was supposed to be used in a Coca Cola commercial back in '92

The Coca Cola commercial sentence was "The Real Thing". U2, Bono was using the slogan in an ironic way, not writing a song for Coca Cola.

 

[Purplereign]

I Threw A Brick Through A Window . . . .insurance ( )

 

[Muldfeld]

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?"

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.

It's even understandable for Mogwai or Moby because they can't get airplay anyway, but there's no excuse for a titan band like U2 to do this. The ESPN thing was shameful; I don't even get ESPN, but the greedy idea of it disgusts me. The only okay thing might be a political/social issue.

Radiohead's "All I Need" was nicely used to try to bring awareness to sweatshop conditions in developing countries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrCalO5BDs

 

[CTU2fan]

Sorry guys, that ship has sailed...Vertigo/iPod certainly counts.

That said, Lemon as a jingle for anything that sucks is fine with me.

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Zooropa... for an upcoming advertising agency.

 

[david]

The ESPN thing was shameful; I don't even get ESPN, but the greedy idea of it disgusts me. The only okay thing might be a political/social issue.

are these the "shameful, greedy" ESPN commercials you were talking about?

U2 in World Cup Soccer Campaign | Duncan's TV Ad Land

 

[europop2005]

The Wanderer for Garmin GPS

 

[DoctorMacPhisto]

All I Want is You for Trojan Latex-protection items?

 

[jphelmet]

even better than the real thing, and stuck in a moment were both written as commercial jingles, so i think those would work the best.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i fall down - viagra

 

[Purplereign]

^^