# What song is this? (Pure: Rise Above ad)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 29, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this-pure-rise-above-ad/465662 "2008-09-29T03:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this-pure-rise-above-ad/465662/1 "2008-09-29T03:06:19Z")

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[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbZpUS1zyI)

Anyone know what song it is? Even Shazaam couldn’t guess it!

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**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this-pure-rise-above-ad/465662/2 "2008-09-29T03:22:02Z")

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> [@Red\_Barchetta](#):
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> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbZpUS1zyI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbZpUS1zyI)
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> Anyone know what song it is? Even Shazaam couldn’t guess it!

Are you sure it’s a song people would know, and not music written especially for the commercial? It doesn’t sound like a song you’d here on the radio, but more like background music, mood music, a THEME.

I never heard it, though there is a great deal of music I’ve never heard.

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**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this-pure-rise-above-ad/465662/3 "2008-09-29T03:27:02Z")

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No, in fact that’s what I suspected it may be. But there seem to be a ton of others also looking for the name, so I had hoped it may be an actual song.

Thanks though

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this-pure-rise-above-ad/465662/4 "2008-09-29T09:42:36Z")

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[adtunes.com](http://adtunes.com) doesn’t seem to have an answer yet. wiki does have a soundtrack list for the game itself, it’s possible that the commercial song is one from the soundtrack:

- The Answer - “Into the Gutter”
- Blindside - “For the Nation”
- Fred Baker -“Genius Touch”
- Jeff Beck -“Grease Monkey”
- Calyx & Teebee -“Dual Processed” Featuring MC Verse
- The Datsuns -" Maximum Heartbreak’ and ‘Sittin’ Pretty"
- Diet Kong -“With Magic”
- Adam Freeland -" Spin Machine"
- The Futureheads -" Beginning of the Twist"
- DJ Hyper -“We Control”
- Midfield General -“On the Road”
- The Music -“Strength in Numbers”
- My Luminaries - “The Sound of Music”
- Noise Control -“Cities of Dreams’ and 'Mud Bath”
- Pendulum -“Granite’ and 'Showdown”
- Pop Levi -“Wannamama”
- Qemists -“Drop Audio’ and 'Stomp Box”
- Silvertone -“Try”
- The Radishes -“Good Machine”
- The Subways -“Rock and Roll Queen”
- Tapeworm -“Getting Through”
- The Whigs -“Need You Need You”
- Wolfmother -“Woman”
- We Are Scientists -“Inaction”
- Zero DB -“Late in the Day’ and 'Redline”