# Songs I hope I never hear on a TV ad again... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559 "2007-05-03T01:56:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/1 "2007-05-03T01:56:49Z")
Romantics, “What I Like About You” I think I’ve heard this one in about half a dozen ad campaigns over the years, and now it’s making the rounds once again. For the love of God I don’t want to be hearing this in the nursing home 40 years from now… Chambers Brothers, “Time Has Come Today” This one belongs in the “unintentionally ironic” category, as I’ve invariably heard it to sell various capitalist/ consumerist things, even though it isn’t quite the 60’s protest song I thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/2 "2007-05-03T02:32:15Z")
“This is our country” by John Mellencamp. Trite nonsense-- heard it, or at least tried to avoid it used in the Chevy commercials what seems like one million times during the baseball playoffs last fall. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/3 "2007-05-03T04:30:48Z")
“Walking On Sunshine” seems to be used in a different campaign every year. Right now, “Mah Na Mah Na” is simultaneously being used for two different advertisers (Big Lots and Saturn). ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/4 "2007-05-03T13:26:26Z")
The “Whoo hoo” song by the 5-6-7-8’s. God, I hate that damn thing. ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/5 "2007-05-03T14:23:49Z")
I like the song but I can’t stand hearing attached to everything from chocolate bar to insurance company… Happy together from The Turtles!! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/6 "2007-05-03T14:32:16Z")
I may have to stop watching Braves games if that obnoxious “I like to live on tha EH-UDG-JUH!” crap keeps airing. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/7 "2007-05-03T14:47:38Z")
[QUOTE=Lisa-go-Blind] “Mah Na Mah Na” [/QUOTE] Now’s as good a time as any to ask this: is that really that song’s title? I know that’s what it’s listed as on the Muppets soundtrack album, but I’ve wondered for some time now if that’s really it. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/8 "2007-05-03T16:03:41Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Now’s as good a time as any to ask this: is that really that song’s title? I know that’s what it’s listed as on the Muppets soundtrack album, but I’ve wondered for some time now if that’s really it. [/QUOTE] [doot doot do doot doot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Na_Mah_Na) ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/9 "2007-05-03T16:10:04Z")
Not TV ads, exactly, but why is it whenever a radio station plans to have a contest where they give away cash, they HAVE to play Pink Floyd’s _Money_? Is it a rule? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/10 "2007-05-03T19:11:41Z")
[QUOTE=Lisa-go-Blind’s linked Wikipedia article] “Mah Nà Mah Nà” debuted as part of Umiliani’s soundtrack for the Italian softcore pornography movie Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso (Sweden, Heaven and Hell) (1968), a pseudo-documentary film about wild sexual activity and other behavior in Sweden (“Mah Nà Mah Nà” accompanied a scene set in a sauna). [/QUOTE] No wonder that song always seems sort of hot. Thanks, **Lisa**! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/11 "2007-05-04T18:34:44Z")
[QUOTE=Lisa-go-Blind] “Walking On Sunshine” seems to be used in a different campaign every year. [/QUOTE] But, but, that was Seymour’s favorite song. He could bark it and everything. _sob_ _sob_ SEYYYYMOUURRRRRR!!! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/12 "2007-05-04T19:58:43Z")
Zoom Zoom Zoom. Kill me now. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/13 "2007-05-04T20:06:11Z")
There was a car commercial for a while that was playing “Dust in the Wind”. Made no sense whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-hope-i-never-hear-on-a-tv-ad-again/402559/14 "2007-05-04T20:09:23Z")
I could stand never hearing “I Feel Good” again, ever, in any context.