Not a song, but – when I’m dictator there’ll be a moratorium on using the opening bars of Also Sprach Zarathustra either in advertising, or in any movie made after 1968.
Nike using John Lennon… He did a few barrel rolls in his grave after this one…
There is a law that no movie involving the Vietnam war in complete without a helicopter scene with Gimme Shelter playing the background.
GAP ruins another Crystal Method song for me
A breakfast commercial nearly ruined Beethoven’s Ninth for me. Took me years to recover.
True story:
Windows95 was released on August 24, 1995, a Thursday. The following Monday morning, a very computer-savvy co-worker says to me, “Hey, did you hear that after everybody tried to install Windows95 this weekend, Microsoft is changing the song they’re using to advertise it? Yeah, the new song’s going to be ‘Losing My Religion’.”
You should adopt The Folksmen’s version.
Orange soda came close to ruining “Good Vibrations,” but I avoided it for a spell and I’m back to liking it.
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll. Cadillac ruined that.
daHubby goes mad when that abomination comes on the TV or radio. However, his imitation of Whitney’s over-singing is worth the 10 min. rant beforehand:D
I only saw this once, but it ruined the song for me completely.
An episode of the first season of Nip/Tuck involves the suicide of a somewhat main character, during which time Elton John’s “Rocket Man” plays. I haven’t been able to listen to that song in the years since I saw that as it makes me sick to my stomach.
“Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie has been used so much, It’s hard to listen to.
Didn’t mind it in Adaptation movie Trailer, got sick of it after that
Smash Mouth’s “All Star” has been in AT LEAST four movies: A pokemon-like movie for kids, Shrek, Rat Race, and Mystery Men. And at least 3 TV commercials: I think a Nike add celebrating the US women’s soccer team at the time, some children’s commercial, and a recent tostitos (I think) commercial with Jay Leno…
If not for all that, I may have liked ‘All Star’
“Baba O’reilly”, by the Who also overused.
Didn’t mind it in American Beauty trailer. After that, I just got sick of it.
Stop messing with “Mr Blue Sky”!!
Thanks to “Look Who’s Talking,” I am unable to hear The Beach Boys “I Get Around” without picturing chattering sperm swiming up a felopian tube.
Unfortunately I can’t hear ANY song by The Fixx anymore, thanks to you Toyota:
SAAAAAAAVED BY ZEEEEEEEROOOOOOOO!!!
I have no contribution to this thread, aside from the fact that it reminded me of this exchange from the film High Fidelity. I highlighted the relevant sentence.
Barry: Top 5 songs about death. A Laura’s Dad tribute list, okay? Okay. Leader of the Pack. The guy fuckin’ beefs it on his motorcycle and dies, right? Dead Man’s Curve. Jan & Dean.
Dick: Do you know that right after they recorded that song Jan himself crashed his car…
Barry: It was Dean you fuckin’ idiot…
Rob: It was Jan. It was a long time after the song.
Barry: Okay, whatever. Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down - Laura’s Mom could sing it. You know what I’d want? One Step Beyond by Madness. And, uh, You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
Dick: No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill.
Barry: Oh God. You’re right!
Dick: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.
Barry: You bastard! That’s so good - that should have been mine… The night Laura’s daddy died. Sha na na na na na na na na! Brother what a night it really was. Mother what a night it really… angina’s tough! Glory be!
Your name isn’t Rob, by chance, is it? 
mshar253, I don’t remember/know the song you’re talking about, but your post reminds me of another song played on “Friends” commercials the final season;
Enya’s “Only Time”
I really kinda liked that song until that point. It’s not that I hated Friends, it’s just that Friends is too silly a show to have that… “every episode is a very special episode”, attitude.
Crumbelievable. OH! facepalm
Give me back the 90’s, Kraft! You bastards.
That’s the one that got most “associated” for me.