# Songs you knew would end up in commercials when you first heard them **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318 "2003-05-06T02:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/1 "2003-05-06T02:57:06Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/2 "2003-05-06T03:25:02Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/3 "2003-05-06T03:29:15Z")
Everything Aerosmith does these days sounds like it came out of a commercial. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/4 "2003-05-06T06:56:55Z")
**My Adidas!** by RunDMC. Never did, though. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/5 "2003-05-06T10:23:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/6 "2003-05-06T11:49:51Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/7 "2003-05-06T11:53:56Z")
When I heard **Poison’s** _Nothing But A Good Time,_ I thought it WAS a commercial…:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/8 "2003-05-06T13:28:56Z")
no one’s mentioned “All Star” by Smashmouth, wow! ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/9 "2003-05-06T14:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ludovic \* > \*\*no one’s mentioned “All Star” by Smashmouth, wow! \*\* I was about to. “Act now, supplies are running out.” Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/10 "2003-05-06T15:39:52Z")
Anything Moby has ever done in the last 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/11 "2003-05-06T16:50:51Z")
Lust for life - Mr. Pop ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/12 "2003-05-06T21:10:56Z")
Alan Jackson has a song about driving a Mercury, and they changed it into a commercial for Ford trucks. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/13 "2003-05-06T21:29:30Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/14 "2003-05-06T22:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vibrotronica \* > \*\*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? \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/15 "2003-05-07T02:27:37Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/16 "2003-05-08T05:36:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by troub \* > \*\*I was about to. “Act now, supplies are running out.” Sheesh. \*\* 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”. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-knew-would-end-up-in-commercials-when-you-first-heard-them/173318/17 "2003-05-08T06:13:09Z")
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?