# What is that song in the new Gateway Computer ads? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157 "2002-09-29T22:51:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157/1 "2002-09-29T22:51:52Z")
There’s not really anyway I can describe it other than saying that it doesn’t have any lyrics (other than guys going “Yeah!”) and it begins with just drums, then a guitar. You know the one I mean, or you’d know it instantly when you hear it. So anyone know the name of the song and the artist(s) who wrote and/or performs it? ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157/2 "2002-09-30T02:44:15Z")
If it’s the commercial I’m thinking of (They show the list of PCs with the Best Value), then it is the sports arena mainstay “Rock & Roll, Pt. 2” by Gary Glitter. Gary Glitter is also known for [pleading guilty](http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,707235,00.html) to 54 charges of possessing child pornography downloaded from the internet, so I am always a bit put off when that song is used to promote some product or sports franchise. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157/3 "2002-09-30T02:46:03Z")
Alphenage nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157/4 "2002-09-30T20:10:17Z")
For those wondering: Yes, Glitter did a _Rock and Roll, Part 1_. For some reason, it never got as popular as _Part 2._ ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157/5 "2002-10-01T02:06:37Z")
Downloaded it, yeah, that’s the one. Um, I mean I went to the record store and purchased- Oh who cares. He’s a pervert anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157/6 "2002-10-01T16:58:50Z")
Hey, rather than start up a new ID this Song thread, can I just append to this one? Does anyone know the title/artist for the theme song to the now-defunct show, “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”? ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_BigMoUndone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@MSU\_BigMoUndone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_BigMoUndone)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-song-in-the-new-gateway-computer-ads/130157/7 "2002-10-01T18:35:28Z")
Speaking of that Gateway commercial… High five to the person who wrote that, and the the board at Gateway that approved that. A slam campaign against Dell = brillant. I laughed so hard the first time I saw that commercial I almost died.