# Preemptive song ID from commercials thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125 "2002-05-03T18:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/21 "2002-05-07T17:23:15Z")
Here’s another request, may be a little vague – There’s a Mitsubishi commercial showing three people driving along in a silver Eclipse (IIRC). There’s a woman in the passenger side who’s dancing in her seat. It’s a techno-dance-type tune playing – I really like it but don’t know who did it. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/22 "2002-05-07T17:46:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by illuminati \* > \*\*Does anyone know who does the song for the nike football Ad. The one where the are playing in teams of three, with Eric Cantona and the Ref? > > it sounds alot like Elvis but has a very modern sound. Whoever it is it sounds great! > > I want to get hold of a copy! > > Thanks in advance > > Illum \*\* It is Elvis. Well, to be precise, **A Little Less Conversation** remixed by Junkie XL. Released 10 June in the UK and Europe on BMG, and to follow in the US. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/23 "2002-05-07T18:16:28Z")
Da nada, **widdershins** and **RaCha’ar** , the pleasure is mine. Helps me keep my Internet searching skills sharp. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/24 "2002-05-07T18:36:57Z")
**Zanshin** , that sounds like this ad, description taken from the [CDNOW: Seen and Heard in Commercials](http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=620297569/pagename=/MN/PROMO/promo_in_the_media.html/promoid=2814) site: Who needs the clubs when you’ve got a car stereo? The group of hipsters in a recent Mitsubishi commercial certainly don’t. A beautiful pink-bereted girl in the passenger seat gets her groove on from the waist up as they coast through a night cityscape in a Mitsubishi Eclipse. The pulsating music that fuels their trip is Dirty Vegas’ hot electronic song “Days Go By.” The song is now available as a single. A re-mix of the tune is also featured on Peter Rauhofer’s Essential Mix album. Unfortunately, no sample was available on that site, but I’ll look for one elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/25 "2002-05-07T18:47:20Z")
**Melandry** , the “Trust us, you’re gonna want one” is for the Toyota Camry, but I haven’t found the ad info yet. Maybe you can give us a description of the commercial in case there is more than one? ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/26 "2002-05-07T19:31:30Z")
Thanks, **MisterThyristor**! Your search skills are nothing more than amazing, and you have proved yourself to be a scholar and a by-God quality human being. Kudos! ---
**Author:** ![downbylaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@downbylaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/downbylaw)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/27 "2002-05-07T19:38:18Z")
if some whore with a pink beret was pop-locking in my car i’d reach across her, unlatch the door and boot her out. man that girl is annoying. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/28 "2002-05-08T04:59:31Z")
**Melandry** , as near as I can tell, the music was written exclusively for the commercial by Robert Miller of Amber Heavenly Music, an ad agency. He has written other things, however, and has a solo CD out called _The Possible_, don’t know if you would be interested in anything on that. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/29 "2002-05-08T13:16:30Z")
Thanks. After posting it did occur to me that it wasn’t as much a song as a score (gee, that sounds pretentious, a commercial with a score?). Which makes the fact that you tracked it down even more amazing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/30 "2002-05-10T13:55:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Laughing Lagomorph \* > \*\*There are a couple of cruise ship commercials that feature the song “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop. I suppose that would qualify as an “older-sounding” song, to a youngster.😉 \*\* A-ha! That’s the one! Thanks! (It took me a couple of days to find a friend that had a copy so that I could listen to it. Now to get it!) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/31 "2002-05-10T14:07:22Z")
What gets me is the Clarinex commercial playing what I think is some song by the Who. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/32 "2002-05-10T14:13:03Z")
Yes, it’s from ‘Overture’ off Tommy. I knew it was from Tommy but not where. ---
**Author:** ![MIKE\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MIKE\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MIKE_P)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/33 "2002-05-10T19:09:34Z")
Thers a new Chevrolet commercial which shows various CM cars. A song with the words “Na na na na na,na na na” it sounds like older rock. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125/34 "2002-05-11T07:28:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MIKE\_P \* > \*\*Thers a new Chevrolet commercial which shows various CM cars. A song with the words “Na na na na na,na na na” it sounds like older rock. \*\* That’s “Land of 1000 Dances” by Wilson Pickett. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preemptive-song-id-from-commercials-thread/107125.md?page=1)