When commercials have butchered a good rock track.

Mushy

Just saw a Mastercard ad that had Schools Out by Alice Cooper:(

Patricide

nedtheshed wrote: »

Fear Factorys Body Hammer in a Moro ad circa 10 years ago.

What in the blue hell was going on there.

ITS TIME TO BITE THE BAR

Wait wha? SOMONE FIND THE YOUTUBE FOR THIS!!!

Doctor J

While any advert using a good tune is annoying I find the ones where they change the lyrics particularily insulting, for example the current bastardisation of Jammin' by Bob Marley.

Whoever thought of that needs to be shot.

Whoever sang it also needs to be shot.

Whoever owns the copyright and allowed the song to be destroyed in that way also needs to be shot.

May death come on swift wings to them all.

damonjewel

The Vodafone ad is particularly bad, also all those halifax ads that butcher any song they get a hold of (we are saving ffs)

PearlDrummer

There is an ad out now for some furniture place, where they have people singing Rockstar by Nickelback infront of couches... not that Rockstar is a classic rock song or anything, but it struck me that Land of Leather of WHOEVER it was who put this ad up, just couln't be bothered with coming up with their own "witty" lyrics...

Land of Leather = lazy fluckbags

that ad annoys me...

EVEN MORE THAN THAT STUPID KID ROCK SONG ABOUT SWEET HOME ALABAMA!!!!!!

--i hate you kid rock

Bri~

damonjewel wrote: »

The Vodafone ad is particularly bad, also all those halifax ads that butcher any song they get a hold of (we are saving ffs)

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You?

Which is really a good tune, just that it has been played to death by Vodafone over the years and now it's pretty difficult to listen to!

Patricide

Yea, i was just surpised that nickleback would let the copyright out so early, or even that land of leather could afford it!!

D.H

nedtheshed wrote: »

Fear Factorys Body Hammer in a Moro ad circa 10 years ago.

What in the blue hell was going on there.

ITS TIME TO BITE THE BAR

I remember that ad well, but it was actually a Time Out.Sorry for being the killjoy, but what a killer ad.

Patricide

Dammit, i just checked youtube and it aint there .

Otis Driftwood

D.H wrote: »

I remember that ad well, but it was actually a Time Out.Sorry for being the killjoy, but what a killer ad.

Id put money that it was Moro!

Otis Driftwood

Fear Factorys music was also used in an ad for a car around the same time too.Cant rem the track but it was definitly from Demanufacture.

Shazbot

Theres three that really annoy me.
1. The furniture add with "rockstar" as the tune. Not a great song but it just doesn't fit in at all with the concept of selling furniture. I know the add says something like "you don't have to be a rockstar to buy it" or some crap but it just seems to forced.
2. The butchering of "Jammin'" by Vodafone.
3. The use of "My Sharona" by Carona, except it "My Carona". Cringe worthy stuff, thankfully it's only on the radio.

Xavi6

'Diamonds and Guns' by the Transplants is being used to to L'oreal or one of those poxy shampoo ads now. Ugh.

gucci

Just seen the vodafone ad....shocking!

super_shellers

Xavi6 wrote: »

'Diamonds and Guns' by the Transplants is being used to to L'oreal or one of those poxy shampoo ads now. Ugh.

I think that was used by Schwarzkopf or something before as well, I also think I read something in an article about the Transplants that they didn't give them permission to use the lyrics just the music, or something along those lines.

Ross Mc

Even adds now are doing it

I seen an add for furniture or some crap using 'rockstar' by nickelback.

I know it isn't a classic but the song was starting to age well until i heard it on that damn add arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

KnifeWRENCH

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

the girl that butchered "let's dance" by david bowie.

I actually like that version of it. Only bad thing is that it advertises Ballygowan, which tastes like metal.

nedtheshed wrote:

Id put money that it was Moro!

I remember the ad being on when I was small, but now that I think about it more I think it was actually Time Out.

Vim Fuego

Neither rock nor metal but I find it hard to listen to DJ Shadow's 'Private Press' album these days considering that the whole thing has been whored out to ads, especially o2.

Fear Factory were on a Panasonic ad back in the day that I remember. I think Body Hammer was used as background music for an action sequence advertising their TVs.

randy lug

Bri~ wrote: »

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You?

Which is really a good tune, just that it has been played to death by Vodafone over the years and now it's pretty difficult to listen to!

they did the same to jet's "are you gonna be my girl" as well i think

Run_to_da_hills

I am saddened to hear these renowned culprits at Bulmer’s Cider butchering the great classic "Galway Girl" by Steve Earle. Its a pity to hear cuttings of this classic being overplayed day in and day out.

breadbin

i also hate it when songs are used in tv programmes and ads for tv programmes like i remember network 2 used "heroin" in an ad for something but just used the crescendo bit. i love that song but you have to lsten to the whole thing to build it up! just my rant for the day but i felt it was butchered

Heinrich

Flagrant misuse of Possini's La Gaza Ladra overture to sell some crappy paint!

Blisterman

Can no one here, see the positive side to songs being used in ads, which is that it exposes people who might not have heard these songs, to them for the first time?

For example, I only heard of DJ Shadow for the first time, through the Guinness ad, which Sampled Stem,Long Stem. It took me years to find out who did it, but once, I got that song, I went out to try and find more of his stuff.
Movies have introduced me to literally hundreds of songs and artists, too.

John

Portishead are on a new CSI ad (or something similar).

Sunset V

One that particularly gets my goat / grinds my gears is the new Jaguar ad. I'm not the biggest Deep Purple fan but using Hush in there is wrong. The song doesn't fit the ad and vice versa. Awful, truly terrible.

grames_bond

bulmers (again) using mick jaggers song "god gave me everything" its a brilliant song and i hate when its over played and destroyed because of that ad!