# Quick song ID from a recent car commercial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-song-id-from-a-recent-car-commercial/341723>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 26, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-song-id-from-a-recent-car-commercial/341723 "2006-01-26T17:47:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-song-id-from-a-recent-car-commercial/341723/1 "2006-01-26T17:47:15Z")

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You remember that car commercial where the guy kisses his wife goodbye and then parachutes off the cliff his house is on, gets in his car and drives off? What’s the song from that? I tried to Google with what I thought were the lyrics, but no luck.

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**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-song-id-from-a-recent-car-commercial/341723/2 "2006-01-26T17:50:21Z")

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It’s The Mooney Suzuki’s “Alive and Amplified”. [Here’s their website.](http://themooneysuzuki.com/)

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-song-id-from-a-recent-car-commercial/341723/3 "2006-01-26T17:55:01Z")

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Thanks very much.