# Commercial songs you hate.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 23, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780 "2003-11-23T02:39:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/1 "2003-11-23T02:39:04Z")
Kohl’s, which doesn’t even have a store within 700 miles of me has been running a new commercial featuring the song Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain and Tenille.
I hate that song.
I detest that song.
Other than Anne Murray, Toni Tenille has the most grating voice of anyone, and I mean anyone that has ever had the opportunity to have a song played on any radio station.
And whatever station my son in law is watching is playing the God damned commercial every frickin’ 10 minutes. I am now sequestered in my office, door shut, listen to the radio with the volume louder than I care for just so my ears will not suffer.
And I thought I was over being pelted by an overworked pop standard. The last 5 months Steve Miller has become an enemy. Why did he sell Rockin’ Me to Wrangler so it can be played at every commercial break during every NASCAR race broadcasted. With the end of the NASCAR season I thought my commercial blues were over. Alas, it is not so.
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### Author:  [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/2 "2003-11-23T02:41:39Z")
An old one, but “Have it your way”. The Buger King song. I can’t play the sims, because the shopping music reminds me of it.
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/3 "2003-11-23T03:04:42Z")
Daisy brand sour cream has a godawful jingle (something about “a dollop, a dollop”) that I hate so much I’ll scramble to turn the TV off when it comes on.
I actually quit buying their sour cream because of the ad.
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### Author:  [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/4 "2003-11-23T03:13:31Z")
The song in the new eBay commercial…
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### Author:  [@superstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superstar)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/5 "2003-11-23T03:18:57Z")
I don’t really know if I am answering the question, but Christmas Carols in my mind are commercial and they annoy the life out of me. Eapecially ones that refer to snow, sled rides, or anything wintery because in Oz, it’s hot, damn hot and I feel like a dick singing about open fires as the only open fire we have here is a bloody bushfire and that’s nothing to sing about!
When I read the thread I thought of Christmas Carols, but now I’m wondering if I’m completely irrelevant??
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### Author:  [@Akaadji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaadji)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/6 "2003-11-23T04:22:56Z")
Ever seen the ad for Rainbow Six 3? If so, I’m sure you know what I mean…I think it’s only the young girl’s voice, but…_Shudders_ So creepy…
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### Author:  [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/7 "2003-11-23T04:26:32Z")
“Anything you can do
I can do better
I can do anything
Better than you”
That pissed me off just typing it.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/8 "2003-11-23T04:27:50Z")
It’s especially bad, **Ri-chan** , when watching Adult Swim. Seems like the commercial for Rainbow Six 3 is on twice every commerical break.
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### Author:  [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/9 "2003-11-23T06:49:34Z")
A local tire chain has a jingle like this…
“They’ll jump through hoops
They’ll walk through fire
Just two good guys who like to sell tires
Alton boys (Alton boys)
Neighbors helping neighbors”
I hate hate hate it, and it’s so catchy, which just makes it worse. I guess that homey, shadetree mechanic vibe is supposed to be appealing, but it backfires on me. I want to buy tires from a trained professional, not a chummy redneck who goes fishin’ at the water hole and asks my sister to the barn-raising hoedown.
I like “Have it your way”, though.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/10 "2003-11-23T07:38:17Z")
ROYAL! PUDDING!
Rich, rich, rich with flavor!
Smooth, smooth, smooth as silk!
More food energy that fresh, whole milk!
That one days back half a century and I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind. Or this one either from the same period:
Sing it over and over and over again, FROSTY MORN!
Sing it over and over and over again, FROSTY MORN!
The height of a piggy’s ambition
From the day he is born
Is hope that he’ll be good enough
To be a FROSTY MORN…
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### Author:  [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/11 "2003-11-23T11:55:52Z")
Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet. That song that comes from an Ipod commercial or something. The one that sounds like Lust For Life. Note for note.
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### Author:  [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/12 "2003-11-23T14:30:05Z")
That “I’m Lovin’ It” song in all of the new McDonald’s commercials – I am _not_ lovin’ it. It compels me to hit the Mute button every time.
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### Author:  [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/13 "2003-11-23T14:45:31Z")
The 1 800 Safe Auto commercials. Especially the one where the guy is hugging the juke box.
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### Author:  [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/14 "2003-11-23T14:45:32Z")
That old Visa commercial song with the line “sharkskin slacks, gunny sacks.” Rrrrrgh.
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### Author:  [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/15 "2003-11-23T15:18:08Z")
“Oh, oh, oh, Ice cold milk
and an Oreo Cookie
they forever go togeth–”
_:kicks radio across the room:_
They always play this right in the middle of the Sunday night two-hour block of ambient electronica music, completely ruining the mood.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/16 "2003-11-23T15:57:50Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by drewbert \*
> \*\*“Oh, oh, oh, Ice cold milk
> and an Oreo Cookie
> they forever go togeth–”
> _:kicks radio across the room:_
> /B]
I thought it was _Ice cream_\* and an Oreo cookie…
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### Author:  [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/17 "2003-11-23T17:47:48Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Bandanaman \*
> \*\*“Anything you can do
> I can do better
> I can do anything
> Better than you”
>
> That pissed me off just typing it. \*\*
This is EXACTLY the song I immediately thought of when I read the thread title. I have no idea what the commercial is even for, since it gets shut off as soon as this abomination of a song begins.
::shudder:: Damn, that’s an annoying song!
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/18 "2003-11-23T18:29:53Z")
Moving this to the BBQ Pit.
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### Author:  [@fushj00mang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fushj00mang)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/19 "2003-11-23T19:27:09Z")
Actually, I kind of liked the RainbowSix-3 commercial and the music to it. I think the whole ‘creepy, dirty’ idea is what they were going for.
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### Author:  [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-songs-you-hate/214780/20 "2003-11-23T19:43:46Z")
Honey youuuuuu are my shining starrrrrr
From that stupid DVD recorder commercial where the little girl secretly records her older brother feeding a line to his girlfriend.
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