You haven’t lived until you heard the rendintion of ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, by the Really Big Head, T.J. Hooker, Captain Kirk and Transformed Man himself, william Shatner.
OP and hijack: The Wallflower’s cover of “Heroes” (for the movie Godzilla!) which takes out all the poinancy and irony (and point) of the original, and leaves you with the idea it’s about Heroes not “heroes”. And which therefore get’s used in an FTD commercial about heroic flower buying.
For some reason they didn’t include the line “And you, you can be mean. And I, I’ll drink all the time.”
And didn’t they also use Iggy’s “Raw Power” for Nike a while back?
The Buzzcock’s “What do I get” on that car commercial i can’t even get mad about, it makes so little sense.
Worst cover: how can we not mention Pat Boone’s…well, all of them, which were not only bad, but made for a bad reason. Abusive to the song and the performer.
Agreed, except the bit about the piranhas. What’d the piranhas ever do do deserve having those idiots lowered into their water?
I suggest boiling oil or acid.
Fenris
What about the SUV commercial that uses the song “Crazy Train” by Ozzy…I have to say that I’d rather hear this song on a commercial that some annoying tune that the company comes up with though.
Arrrrgh! I couldn’t believe they used “What Do I Get” to sell the Rav4! And yes, Nike did indeed use an Iggy Pop song for a commercial depicting track and field athletes or something. I couldn’t remember the song though, but I think it was in fact “Raw Power”. At least it wasn’t “I Wanna Be Your Dog”.
While we’re on the punk rock tangent (which I always seem to be on) did you know levi’s wanted to use the Dead Kennedys’ “Holiday in Cambodia” for a fucking Dockers commercial? Jello Biafra took the band to court over who owned the song because he was that adamant about keeping the song out of the commercial.
No way!!! “Holiday in Cambodia”? By what possible stretch of logic? Were they going to change the lyrics?
I thought when I started listening to punk rock I would no longer have to go through the pain of having my favorite song become a jingle. Apparently nothing is safe.
Don’t mention “I wanna be your Dog”, somebody will decide it would be perfect for Petco.