woahhhh sultana's from the grape vine!!!!!!!!!

I can't listen to any Beach Boys songs, because they all either remind me of TV adds or Cocktail.

Not their fault, but I still can't listen to it.

it is totally their fault, they allowed the synchs

I'm looking at YOU, Smiths Chips Cunce.

I think I broke the internet. Again.

Haha..

I wanted to use the 'smiths song' as our first dance as husband and wife, but Sams so scared of the gobbledock that the ad has totally put him off..

its not like its a new phemonenom.

I still hear the toreodor song from Bizet's Carmen as:

use a roller door, that's what its for.

I still can't listen to Gene Chandler without wanting to shampoo my hair.

Waltzing Matilda was made famous though a jingle. But they paid for it at least. The thing that gets my goat is when ad folk blatantly rip off a song by making something that kinda sounds like it but not quite. Now that's cheap and nasty.

Do artists still get royalties if they change some of the lyrics but not the music at all?

Yeah, fuck I hate this. I don't mind so much when they use songs in ads straight up but when they start changing the lyrics it makes me stabby.

The Everybody's Talking one used by some phone company sits at the top of my shitlist at the moment.

I know it's not a new phenomena, but I really like that Turtles song :(
Sandra'd for ever now.

'It Must Be Love' by Madness always makes me think of nappies. 'Wouldn't it be Nice' has been similarly ruined for me with the whole Cadbury thing. And to this day whenever I hear 'Time Warp' I think of a Kodak Express ad from the late '80s/early 90's ('For perfect pictures, in fifteen minutes, TAKE - THEM - TO - KODAK - EXPRESS!)

And even though the new Sony Bravia ad is quite cool and they use the proper song, I'll never be able to think of 'She's a Rainbow' by the Stones in quite the same way again. Shame, it's one of my favourite songs.

That Madness song's a cover anyway :)

The Everybody's Talking one used by some phone company sits at the top of my shitlist at the moment.

This is just shocking. Truly shocking.

grimaces

You know, I was going to mention that 'cos I thought someone would pull me up on it : )

But I still can't help but think of those nappy ads and the lame-o version they do it when I hear it.

Same, rc. Gah!

Apparently AC/DC were approached by Ford who who wanted to re-record It's A Long Way To The Top with the lyrics changed to ''It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll'' for an ad. They politely declined thank heavens.

Amusing that they can make something so saccharine on the topic of collecting and concealing infant shit.

Ooh, a couple more:

'Heard it Through the Grapevine' ('Sultanas from the grapevine!')

'Good Vibrations' ('Come in and see the good, good, good guys')

Bastards.

Has anyone mentioned Cinematic Orchestra? On the ad that's advertising something I can't remember. There's balloons bursting in slo-mo. That's all I remember.

i can no longer refer to the good good good guys any other way

Totally. An ad exists to make you remember it. I pretty much don't buy anything that has a TV ad, as far as I'm aware. Except maybe Pepsi Max.

An ad exists to make you remember it.

I think it is a bit more complicated than that. Advertising tries to attach emotions to products. Kleenex tissues use cute animals so we get a warm fuzzy feeling about the product. If we remember a Telstra ad but the memory is linked to being annoyed I think it works against the product.

I pretty much don't buy anything that has a TV ad, as far as I'm aware. Except maybe Pepsi Max.

What sort of toothpaste do you use?

I can't actually remember the last time I saw an AIM commercial. But I usually buy whatever's on special

I use the 'good stuff' as I heard it described the other day, the Aldi whitening one.

Apparently AC/DC were approached by Ford who who wanted to re-record It's A Long Way To The Top with the lyrics changed to ''It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll'' for an ad. They politely declined thank heavens.

I actually remember singing these lyrics when I was a wee child. Also, ''we built this city on sausage rolls!''

I think it is a bit more complicated than that. Advertising tries to attach emotions to products. Kleenex tissues use cute animals so we get a warm fuzzy feeling about the product. If we remember a Telstra ad but the memory is linked to being annoyed I think it works against the product.

There's a term in Marketing to describe negative customer focus, which I've totally forgotten.

But it's been proven that if an add for a product pisses you off, you actively avoid said product.

Case in point for me - Extra Dry. That tongue that goes for the beer still freaks me out.

I was thinking about this today. It's not so bad. I like the Cadbury song and the Good Guys one too. If I wrote a song and someone wanted to use it to sell a bunch of shit, I'd let them. I'd get paid a stack of money, and It'd be a laugh. That nilsson one looks hilarious written down, but Im sure it would just sound like another jingle. I remember when I worked in music retail, whenever there was a song on ad, people used to come in and buy it all the time. So it works both ways.

Just don't touch the beatles songs!

The Everybody's Talking one used by some phone company sits at the top of my shitlist at the moment.

First thought when I opened this thread.

i thought so! i started a similar kind of thread long time ago...

i don't believe for a second that any one of you is capable of mounting an effective boycotting campaign against every company with an annoying/lame/cheesy commercial.

If I wrote a song and someone wanted to use it to sell a bunch of shit, I'd let them. I'd get paid a stack of money, and It'd be a laugh.

I've discussed this with friends before, and if I was a songwriter I'd have no problems letting Volvo use one of my songs in return for a large wad of cash.

As I said before, I have no probs with songs being used in advertising per se, just the changing of lyrics makes me cringe.

Can we have the Dirtbombs/Walmart debate again?
No, wait that was on the Goner borad, I think, not here.

What was that, Block?

Oh, they licensed a song for an ad. You know. And their souls, and credibility, too.

Nah, I'm okay with that somehow. I hope Mick got a house out of it.

Oops, my bad- it was on GaragePunk.com

seriously: How bad is the new version of 'the fresh food people'?

this is a rhetorical question.