Songs you knew would end up in commercials when you first heard them

Cafe Society
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Blur - Song Two. When I fisrst heard it, I didn’t know which band was responsible, or what the title was. All I knew was that the “Woo-Hoo Song,” as many called it, would probably end up accompanying an SUV commercial someday. Sure enough, six months later, I heard the song in an SUV commercial, and a commercial for a ski resort.

Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away. Just like “Song Two,” when I first heard it, I immediately thought “that was definitely written to have the rights acquired for an SUV commercial.” Yup … heard it in a commercial for Xterras or 4Runners or something similar a short while after it made the charts. Like “Song Two,” this song also accompanied commercials for some ski area in Colorado.

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“We’ve Been Had” by The Walkmen, which is in that new Saturn commercial. Beautiful song by a great band, and I figured they would get a push through a commercial rather than a radio/video single. I hope it means the beginning of big things for them.

3

Everything Aerosmith does these days sounds like it came out of a commercial.

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My Adidas! by RunDMC. Never did, though.

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Although it hasn’t happened yet, i’m almost certain that the Who song “Going Mobile” will someday be the soundtrack of a cell phone commercial.

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Aerosmith’s “Just Push Play”. When I first heard it, I was 99% certain that I’d hear it in a car commercial before long.

Sure enough, it was picked up for the PT Cruiser :slight_smile:

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When I heard Poison’s Nothing But A Good Time, I thought it WAS a commercial…:eek:

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no one’s mentioned “All Star” by Smashmouth, wow!

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I was about to. “Act now, supplies are running out.” Sheesh.

10

Anything Moby has ever done in the last 5 years.

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Lust for life - Mr. Pop

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Alan Jackson has a song about driving a Mercury, and they changed it into a commercial for Ford trucks.

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I am convinced that one day Pearl Jam’s “Evenflow” will be used in a tampon commercial.

What? Why are y’all looking at me like that?

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Yeah, I can see it now.

[quote]
Even flow
thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don’t know
so he chases them away
someday yet he’ll begin his life again
Life againn *

But maybe they’ll get someone else to cover it and change the next lines a bit.

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When I first heard “All Star” on the radio I thought it was the catchiest Coke commercial in a long time…then it kept going.

I later heard an interview with Smash Mouth where they said they wrote the song with the main purpose of selling it as an ad song. Nice job!

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Actually, that’s “Walking on the Sun”, not “All Star”. Kinda interesting how a song about marijuana got turned into a song to sell cars.

There was a story in the Onion once called “Song about heroin used to advertise bank”.

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This might be partially off-topic but does anybody find it ironic that the Stone’s “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” which they had to bowdlerize when they played in on Ed Sullivan in the 60’s, is now being used to plug Sheraton Hotels?