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One good things is that the AO advert introduced my 6 year old to the Ramones and was a gateway to his love of all things rock and him now working his way though his drumming grades
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Songs spoilt by use in adverts and the like? on 20:21 - Feb 28 with 3187 views
Songs spoilt by use in adverts and the like? on 20:17 - Feb 28 by NedPlimpton
One good things is that the AO advert introduced my 6 year old to the Ramones and was a gateway to his love of all things rock and him now working his way though his drumming grades
That can't be bad. And talk of that song brings to mind this great but quirky version.
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Songs spoilt by use in adverts and the like? on 20:51 - Feb 28 with 3131 views
I remember when Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve got used for just about anything requiring a musical interlude, I imagine even if you loved it to begin with you'd have become sick of hearing it very quickly.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
This story behind the use of this song is below the clip but it's such a great riff and song that the advert couldn't really spoil it, even though there is a longer pause near the beginning than in the original song.
Historically, the band rejected companies' requests to use their songs to advertise products, like Dr Pepper and British Telecom. Then in the early 1990s, the company Levi's asked the band members' permission to use the song for a jeans commercial for the British audience. Despite the band often prioritising "creativity and idealism over commercial exploitation", the band members left the decision to the main songwriter Mick Jones, who approved the permission, rationalizing that Levi's jeans had been part of the rock music culture rather than something to "object on moral grounds". The song was played for the Levi's commercial and then reissued on 18 February 1991 as a single, a decade after its original release, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. It became the band's only number-one single on the UK Chart
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Songs spoilt by use in adverts and the like? on 21:51 - Feb 28 with 2994 views
Not quite in the spirit of the OP, but I was quite surprised to stumble upon The Hives at Glastonbury last summer who I instantly recognised from seemingly every car advert ever.
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Songs spoilt by use in adverts and the like? on 22:12 - Feb 28 with 2936 views
Songs spoilt by use in adverts and the like? on 22:07 - Feb 28 by Rozz
Not quite in the spirit of the OP, but I was quite surprised to stumble upon The Hives at Glastonbury last summer who I instantly recognised from seemingly every car advert ever.
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I'm more than happy for the thread to be widened.
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Songs spoilt by use in adverts and the like? on 23:19 - Feb 28 with 2817 views
I think it can also have a positive effect on some songs. A few years ago Heathrow Airport use an obscure 1967 David Bowie song, There Is a Happy Land, in an advert. I hadn't played any of Bowie's mid sixties stuff for years but I dipped back into it and remembered some interesting tunes.
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