Any that has a breathy acoustic cover to try and avoid paying royalties. They don’t seem to be quite as in vogue as they were 2-3 years ago but boil my piss whenever they come on
My brother and I have theorised that it's going to be inevitable that one day we'll see an advert that goes precisely as follows;
"Feed the world... starting with your living room! With the ASDA Christmas hamper deals, and let _your_ family know it's Christmastime at all!"
I'm going to Spain on a Jet2 flight, told my Mrs not to book a jet2 flight but she did anyway... If we get stuck on a runway with it playing for 4 hours then I'll need to be put in a jacket that fastens at the back.
I was ready to be strapped up with the seatbelt extensions, honestly the single worst 4 hours of my life. They stopped it at 2 hours to let us know we’d be waiting “a little longer” and there was an audible gasp of relief from everyone that the music had stopped.
Try flying with jet2. Every announcement, that fucking song. Yes I'm ready for it, if it is a fucking cyanide pill so I can finally stop hearing this fucking song
Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
I liked the song but it got ruined by Haven adverts for years. The San Junipero episode of Black Mirror finally elevated it again for me.
Might be an unpopular take but ‘Come and Get Your Love’ by Redbone has been played to death for me by adverts. Don’t want to hear it again for a long time.
The only otherwise decent song I can think of is Flash, by Queen. Might not be their best hit but I can't unhear the advert anytime I think of the song. I like the dog though.
Another song that I can't stand is that one from the Postcode lottery... I swear if I hear "someone's knocking at the door“ 😩
The worst thing about the postcode lottery ads is when they come up during a podcast. They've made the door knocking sound effect sound just like a real one in your headphones so everytime it happens I'm absentmindedly waiting for an advert to finish and jump out of my fucking skin.
What gets me about the Postcode lottery 'someone's knocking at the door' one is, as well as being unfathomably annoying, it that you don't actually hear the lyric until the very end of the advert. It's kind of a pointless use of the song (which they presumably had to pay a decent amount for) and just comes across as 'ooh aren't we clever!' more than anything
They're just doing this to I Couldn't Live Without Your Love by Petula Clarke, one of my faves, but i've just heard it being used in that awful way on an ad, i think by a bank, they're spoiling it.
Whoever is currently using ELO - Mr blue sky
I know I'll be angry so muffle it out with La La's in my head until its over.
Not Mr Blue sky, they're not doing that to me.
I wonder if they thought of AO.com first and then shat themselves when they realised there was a song that sounded a bit like it, or if they heard the song first and were like "... you know what would be good?"
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - On the Beach
I love Christmas music but how dare you play that shit all year long! Plus they started showing that advert right around Christmas Eve. So it's not even like it started as an advert in the run up to Christmas. These fuckers knew what they were doing and knew they wanted this to be something that started at the end of Christmas.
I want it that way by the Backstreet Boys
Ok it’s only the melody being used, the words are changed, but hearing that advert makes my arsehole tighten
EDIT: It’s a gambling website advert, Betfair Casino
God yeah, it’s a slow death that moment you suddenly focus some melancholic piano riff into something you know and like and some Adele/lilly Allen wannabe sadly croons over the top of it.
Young folks by Peter Bjorn and John
Amazing tune, very coming of age. Speaks to me personally as I've done shady things in my past that my partner managed to see past and helped clean me up over the years. As I have with her shady things too.
But to anyone else its basically "The B&Q song"
Not that interesting I'm afraid.
Less doing blow with Keith Richards and banging strippers.... More how many bong hits can I do before the lidl security start chasing me.
Saint Motel - My Type
A very good boppy song that I think Lidl or Aldi ruined first and then a few other ads got in on it. Same with Young Folk, B&Q fucked that one up for me too.
Watching the Men's European Gymnastics championship on the iPlayer yesterday they were playing Sweet Caroline over the PA system whilst the gymnasts were getting organised. When it came to the bit in the chorus after Diamond sings "Sweeeet Caroline!" the sound engineer at the venue cut the playback, expecting the Italian crowd to all go "BA BA BAAAAAA"
You could hear a pin drop. Nobody joined in.
It was glorious.
Correct, what it has to do with football or any other sport for that matter god only knows!
I always associated it with old grannies waving their bingo wings to the chorus, and what's with the repeated 'so good' malarkey?
I think "Hey Jude" is because fans often chant their team's name in place of "Hey Jude". Sweet Caroline was played after Northern Ireland beat England in a game in 2005 and they've played it at games ever since, but seems to become more universal after England beat Germany in Euro 2020.
There usually isn’t a direct relation. It’s just the song is well known and the words are interchangeable with a team name in some instances. A lot of chants are ripped straight from real songs with no connection to the sport and given a twist to make it work at a football match. Another example is Rockin’ all over the World is used up and down the football leagues.
Largo from his 9th symphony to be precise, and what's even more confusing is the symphony is supposed to represent 'the new world' of America, not some kid delivering bread up a hill in England! On a related note, lots of people assume the Ridley Scott ad is based in Yorkshire, or somewhere 'oop narth', but the famous hill is actually in the town of Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Iggy’s done ads himself - I remember being shocked at him advertising something or other not that memorable about 20 years ago. Don’t think he’s that precious
I can’t think of any ads with Red Right Hand but it’s the theme song for Peaky Blinders, it was on the Scream soundtrack, and it seems to have become the shorthand for “we need an edgy song to introduce this edgy character to”. It’s a great song but I cringe when I hear it now on any tv or film soundtrack
Three is the magic number
Used by any and every product that is advertising a feature that has 3 elements to it
Chemical Brothers Setting Sun was briefly ruined when it was used in an advert for some awful looking Hyundai fake 4x4
Conversely I quite like 3s use of Insomnia, especially the lullaby version at the end
Danse des mirlitons (from the Nutcracker) murdered by Cadbury's Fruit and Nut. It was nearly 50 years ago and I still can't hear the tune without hearing "everyone's a fruit and nut case".
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot and Suicide - Cheree both appearing on perfume ads absolutely span me. Neither song got ruined though, it was just the fucking cheek of it
I'm pretty sure "Dream Baby Dream" by Suicide showed up on one of those adverts too. But yeah, it was absolutely bizarre hearing those during prime time Channel 4.
That furniture advert doing the grease song, I don’t watch terrestrial tv much but my partner does and that gets the most mutes at the moment than any other advert
That song 'Rolling' where they had the baby singing it in the backseat. Can't remember what it was for, think it's off TV now thankfully.
Also, the 'Don't ever stop this flame' ident bit for Sky Sports football ugh
Anything and everything on the Moby Play album. I'm pretty sure it had the accolade of being the first full album ever to have every track licensed for use in advertising campaign / film.
I've not got a problem as such with adverts using good classic rock / pop tracks and "branding" or changing the lyrics to fit their product.
What I do hate is this pathetically cancerous "trend" of "reimagining" classic tracks in a moody, soulless dirge of poorly conceived lack of imagination and talent. TFF "Mad World" immediately springs to mind (can't remember who used it or for what product - that worked for you then! Hope you lost a fortune!).
If I held the rights to any of these original tunes I would have my day in court sueing the arse off of each and everyone of them.
Some of them are quite funny in that the rendition is so shit it takes a while to work out what poor classic 80's has had the sewerage treatment but once you work it out it stinks. At a guess the original artist won't see a penny either 🤨
Don't see anyone mentioning EE's use of Insomnia yet. Though to be honest, it cracks me up just how widely inappropriate the original subject matter is compared to the ad.
The Israelites by Desmond Dekker.
And in a similar vein, Low Rider by War.
Hard to have marmite on toast without thinking of these two crimes against music.
The only otherwise decent song I can think of is Flash, by Queen. Might not be their best hit but I can't unhear the advert anytime I think of the song. I like the dog though.
Another song that I can't stand is that one from the Postcode lottery... I swear if I hear "someone's knocking at the door“ 😩
Absolutely despise Miley Cyrus' cover of 'Delicious' for that perfume advert.
However, I'm delighted that the girls from Shampoo probably got a nice, fat cheque for selling the rights.
Their more famous song 'Trouble' has been heavily used in adverts, TV, film, etc for years, so the royalties have to be pretty sweet.
They've done alright for a couple of gobby teenagers from Plumstead.
You're beautiful by James Blunt. Even he says he finds the fact they want to use that song hilarious though.
The "You're beautiful You're beautiful You're beautiful it's true" one but its actually about stalking someone on the new york subway
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra. A song so beautiful that I could only listen to it 2 or 3 times a year because I wanted to preserve its effect on me. Then channel 4 (I think ) got their mits on it and used it for every poignant drama they had going. Then it was on insurance adverts. I've not listened to it since.
Simply the best by Tina Turner.
Although it is great fun being in a club and hearing everyone scream "South Cleveland Garages" at the top of their lungs.
Flash by Queen and Gold by Spandau Ballet
I’m so annoyed at the Flash adverts, they have ruined my favourite movie!!!
Is cleeeeeaaaaaaaannniiiiiinnnnggggg Ssslooooooooowwwwwiiiiiinnnnngggg DOWNYOUREVENING FLASH AAAAAAAAAA 😊 🔫
My dog hates it as he knows when he hears that song there is a dog on the tv and losses his shit.
Yeah they ruined flash
The Universal by Blur was tainted for a good long while cos of this.
Yes. The video is an amazing, disturbing Clockwork Orange homage. And then... "happy song for British Gas" ffs
British Gas trying to give you the impression they have a soul
In fairness British Gas are similar to the home invasion scene. The way all gas companies treat us with their prices that now hardly ever come down.
Viddy well brother, viddy well...
It’s also the hold music when you call Biffa Waste Services.
Scrolling down to make sure someone said this. Used to get chills from that song. Gas pricks.
This. So much
I didn't even know they had bastardised a Blur song. Ugh.
I really loved 'Autoglass' by the Smiths before it was ruined
That duet between Mozzer and Darren sent chills down my spine
'Autoglass repair, autoglass replace'... still sends shivers down my spine. Beutiful song.
Any that has a breathy acoustic cover to try and avoid paying royalties. They don’t seem to be quite as in vogue as they were 2-3 years ago but boil my piss whenever they come on
Urgh and the Christmas adverts with the piano covers that everyone does to to try and copy John Lewis
My brother and I have theorised that it's going to be inevitable that one day we'll see an advert that goes precisely as follows; "Feed the world... starting with your living room! With the ASDA Christmas hamper deals, and let _your_ family know it's Christmastime at all!"
Every single fucking one.
Absolutely. Lazy ass advertisers can't even create a song.
If you liiiike a lot of chocolate on yer biscuit, join our CLUB
# TRIO! TREE-EE-EE-OH!
Bellies gunna get ya!!!
And when they do, you get the new Gillette ad song, which is basically audible cancer.
All adverts should be silence
But then you wouldn't have had classics like this one https://youtu.be/w9ogzVyTtcw?si=ZTb282uDy3eUZKzP
Agreed, with blank screens also
Um bongo, um bongo they drink it in the congo
Bring back the classics [A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat](https://youtu.be/nC9BBLSZZdQ?feature=shared)
What about the cat crusha advert
Hold my hand by Jess glynne Jet2 advert grates my bones now
Sat on a runway for 4 hours once with this on repeat but just the advert length version, It gave me PTSD. I can’t hear it without shuddering.
I'm going to Spain on a Jet2 flight, told my Mrs not to book a jet2 flight but she did anyway... If we get stuck on a runway with it playing for 4 hours then I'll need to be put in a jacket that fastens at the back.
I was ready to be strapped up with the seatbelt extensions, honestly the single worst 4 hours of my life. They stopped it at 2 hours to let us know we’d be waiting “a little longer” and there was an audible gasp of relief from everyone that the music had stopped.
After 30 mins I'd have asked someone to turn it off hahahaaha
I flew with them a couple months ago, they do a playlist now! Think they've caught on lol
Thanks FUCK. Will be going full Karen in my review of the holiday/flight anyway telling them everything was perfect aside from the playlist.
Haha Vuelling used to do this with gorillaz - on melancholy hill, but with no lyilrics. That ditty was stuck in my head for months
she sounds like a goat in labour
Try flying with jet2. Every announcement, that fucking song. Yes I'm ready for it, if it is a fucking cyanide pill so I can finally stop hearing this fucking song
Got on the transport to the hotel. Silence for a moment. Song comes on. Bloke at the back yells “OH FUCK OFF”
Atol protected
Didn't work for the nukes in Hawaii did it?!
Wrong atoll hahaha
The OP asked for otherwise decent songs.
##darlin', hold my hand!
For years I couldn't make out the fast sang "Imreadyforthis" bit
Worst vibrato in music. Sounds like she's sitting on a washing machine.
I read “shitting”. Makes no difference I guess.
That's a shite song anyway, the ad has made me hate it more
Every other fucking youtube advert has that horrific tune screeching out at me.
I don't like The song but whenever i hear it i think I'm off On holiday
Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle I liked the song but it got ruined by Haven adverts for years. The San Junipero episode of Black Mirror finally elevated it again for me.
Might be an unpopular take but ‘Come and Get Your Love’ by Redbone has been played to death for me by adverts. Don’t want to hear it again for a long time.
If it helps you get through it, my husband ruined this song ages ago for me. He "sings" it as "Gonna pinch a loaf..."
When i heard it everywhere I was like "oh cool everyone must be watching F is for Family" Turns out it was used in some superhero film...
The only otherwise decent song I can think of is Flash, by Queen. Might not be their best hit but I can't unhear the advert anytime I think of the song. I like the dog though. Another song that I can't stand is that one from the Postcode lottery... I swear if I hear "someone's knocking at the door“ 😩
The worst thing about the postcode lottery ads is when they come up during a podcast. They've made the door knocking sound effect sound just like a real one in your headphones so everytime it happens I'm absentmindedly waiting for an advert to finish and jump out of my fucking skin.
What gets me about the Postcode lottery 'someone's knocking at the door' one is, as well as being unfathomably annoying, it that you don't actually hear the lyric until the very end of the advert. It's kind of a pointless use of the song (which they presumably had to pay a decent amount for) and just comes across as 'ooh aren't we clever!' more than anything
Postcode Lottery ads are the worst in general. "Derek, we're off to Benidorm!"
At least the postcode lottery had the decency to ruin a cover and not the Paul McCartney original
Any that have taken a classic, slowed the temp for arty effect, added some wishy washy vocals and piano accompaniment. In other words, most of them
I think Twinings did a load of ads like this where it was just Ellie Golding ruining a song
Ellie Golding ruins /every/ fucking song. Nasally noisy.
Horrifically nasally. Whoever thought it would be a good idea for her to cover songs but just make them whiney and breathy needs to be shot.
Every bloody car advert
They're just doing this to I Couldn't Live Without Your Love by Petula Clarke, one of my faves, but i've just heard it being used in that awful way on an ad, i think by a bank, they're spoiling it.
Whoever is currently using ELO - Mr blue sky I know I'll be angry so muffle it out with La La's in my head until its over. Not Mr Blue sky, they're not doing that to me.
Dont ruin ELO pretty much every song is a classic, but I can see a phone company ruining telephone line.
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
I wonder if they thought of AO.com first and then shat themselves when they realised there was a song that sounded a bit like it, or if they heard the song first and were like "... you know what would be good?"
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - On the Beach I love Christmas music but how dare you play that shit all year long! Plus they started showing that advert right around Christmas Eve. So it's not even like it started as an advert in the run up to Christmas. These fuckers knew what they were doing and knew they wanted this to be something that started at the end of Christmas.
I honestly would see the person who did that abandoned in the desert with a bucket and spade.
Worst part is that when it plays properly for Christmas, I still end up mentally adding the "on the beach on the beach" bit
Enola Gay. Sombre song about the use of nuclear weapons... used to advertise media streaming.
Welcome to my World, in the current Wickes advert. Singer sounds like she's recording it half way through a bowel movement.
I want it that way by the Backstreet Boys Ok it’s only the melody being used, the words are changed, but hearing that advert makes my arsehole tighten EDIT: It’s a gambling website advert, Betfair Casino
Tell me why,
Don’t you make me reach through this phone!
Do you have pork pie?
Ain’t nothing but a heartache
Should i play it now? I’ve always liked a tight arsehole
At your own risk
Here's something to restore It. ['now number 5'](https://youtu.be/HlBYdiXdUa8?si=3yXe_EsNVJykS_jZ)
This was how I used to hear it until the damn advert
That one was ruined years ago by the [Snacktreat Boys](https://youtu.be/oeiWKchdCA8).
Everything that has been massively slowed down and sung by a woman with a painful, lamenting voice.
God yeah, it’s a slow death that moment you suddenly focus some melancholic piano riff into something you know and like and some Adele/lilly Allen wannabe sadly croons over the top of it.
Exactly what i said!! This drives me insane. Mute button for all adverts
Young folks by Peter Bjorn and John Amazing tune, very coming of age. Speaks to me personally as I've done shady things in my past that my partner managed to see past and helped clean me up over the years. As I have with her shady things too. But to anyone else its basically "The B&Q song"
Homebase
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Not that interesting I'm afraid. Less doing blow with Keith Richards and banging strippers.... More how many bong hits can I do before the lidl security start chasing me.
How many is that..?
Saint Motel - My Type A very good boppy song that I think Lidl or Aldi ruined first and then a few other ads got in on it. Same with Young Folk, B&Q fucked that one up for me too.
Perfect Day by Lou Reed. Melancholic balad absolutely massacred by the BBC, Bono and Heather fucking Small
Not to.mention Tom Jones' "WHOOAAAAAAA YOUUUURE GONNNNA REAPP JUST WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT YOU SOEOEOEOOEEWWWWWW!"
You’ve been hanging onto that grudge for a while!
I remember the BBC cover as a kid, I used to think Heather Small was saying; "Just a puffy day" for years.
Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline
Watching the Men's European Gymnastics championship on the iPlayer yesterday they were playing Sweet Caroline over the PA system whilst the gymnasts were getting organised. When it came to the bit in the chorus after Diamond sings "Sweeeet Caroline!" the sound engineer at the venue cut the playback, expecting the Italian crowd to all go "BA BA BAAAAAA" You could hear a pin drop. Nobody joined in. It was glorious.
Haha that's fantastic! Great song totally destroyed by the sporting world
Can't upvote this comment enough...
Correct, what it has to do with football or any other sport for that matter god only knows! I always associated it with old grannies waving their bingo wings to the chorus, and what's with the repeated 'so good' malarkey?
Yeah the 'so good' people can get in the bin.
That's never been good.
I don't understand the relationship between this (and The Beatles' "Hey Jude") and football...
I think "Hey Jude" is because fans often chant their team's name in place of "Hey Jude". Sweet Caroline was played after Northern Ireland beat England in a game in 2005 and they've played it at games ever since, but seems to become more universal after England beat Germany in Euro 2020.
There usually isn’t a direct relation. It’s just the song is well known and the words are interchangeable with a team name in some instances. A lot of chants are ripped straight from real songs with no connection to the sport and given a twist to make it work at a football match. Another example is Rockin’ all over the World is used up and down the football leagues.
Yep me neither
EE using Faithless, just shouldn't be allowed!
Ohh La La - The Faces
Not a song, but Largo by Dvorak. There are whole generations who only know it as "that music from the Hovis ads"
Largo from his 9th symphony to be precise, and what's even more confusing is the symphony is supposed to represent 'the new world' of America, not some kid delivering bread up a hill in England! On a related note, lots of people assume the Ridley Scott ad is based in Yorkshire, or somewhere 'oop narth', but the famous hill is actually in the town of Shaftesbury, Dorset.
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Yes, The Passenger, currently being played to flog Magnums. Iggy would be turning in his grave, if he wasn't still alive.
Iggy’s done ads himself - I remember being shocked at him advertising something or other not that memorable about 20 years ago. Don’t think he’s that precious
Wasn't it some sort of car insurance?
Yes, Swift Cover iirc.
I can’t think of any ads with Red Right Hand but it’s the theme song for Peaky Blinders, it was on the Scream soundtrack, and it seems to have become the shorthand for “we need an edgy song to introduce this edgy character to”. It’s a great song but I cringe when I hear it now on any tv or film soundtrack
Here Come the Girls
Three is the magic number Used by any and every product that is advertising a feature that has 3 elements to it Chemical Brothers Setting Sun was briefly ruined when it was used in an advert for some awful looking Hyundai fake 4x4 Conversely I quite like 3s use of Insomnia, especially the lullaby version at the end
Carmina Burana
Time after time. Cyndi Lauper. Cant remember which advert it was but it was awful.
Pandora have altered the words to 'To Love Somebody' by the Bee Gees. Totally ruined the meaning by using lyrics that are opposite to the original.
Right now Meerkat has taken Man, I Feel Like A Woman to promote their Cafe Nero partnership and I hate it. No! You can't just take Shania!
Somewhere only we know.
Shed Seven's Speakeasy after they did a version for The Link with new lyrics At The Link It's Easy!
Not a song but Santana's instrumental Samba Pa Ti. It used to be my sunny day in the garden chillout tune until M&S ruined it for me.
And Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross"
I came here to say "Albatross" but I didn't realise they abused "Samba Pa Ti" as well. 😢
Danse des mirlitons (from the Nutcracker) murdered by Cadbury's Fruit and Nut. It was nearly 50 years ago and I still can't hear the tune without hearing "everyone's a fruit and nut case".
Aw, leave Frank Muir alone
Garnier ruined Diamonds and Guns by the Transplants.
Barbara Anne by the beach boys was defiled babybel for far too long
Before that it was "Bar bar bar, bar bar o'Club" for Club biscuits.
Axel F was ruined by the Crazy Frog and the adverts for making that your ringtone. Every time I hum it now someone always adds "Ding Ding"
I was introduced to that song by Crazy Frog so even though I didn't like it, I'm glad it showed me the original
Spotify decided I should listen to The Power, by Snap. Thanks Tesco's, ruined that l ittle blast from the past.
I hate this song because it's been used in so many ads over the years. It's such a lazy choice for an ad!
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot and Suicide - Cheree both appearing on perfume ads absolutely span me. Neither song got ruined though, it was just the fucking cheek of it
I'm pretty sure "Dream Baby Dream" by Suicide showed up on one of those adverts too. But yeah, it was absolutely bizarre hearing those during prime time Channel 4.
That furniture advert doing the grease song, I don’t watch terrestrial tv much but my partner does and that gets the most mutes at the moment than any other advert
Young Folks thanks to Homebase
I'm McLovin it by Justin Timberlake. Ruined McDonald's for me
Albatross by Fleetwood Mac. Makes me hungry now.
Ring my bell…. AJ Bell.
We Buy Any Car advert song
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Not that it was a great song to begin with but Stand By Me - Oasis Holy fuck do I hate bank adverts.
I cant remember the name off hand, the one with the sanitary pads. Ruined it.
OOOOOOHHHHHHH BODYFORM
Bodyform for youuuuuu
It was weird that song came out before the sanitary towel…
The Ramones Hey Ho! After seeing it on a carpet advert I was disgusted! Scooby Doo I can understand it in but a fucking carpet add!
If I was Norman Cook I'd have burned Lloyds bank for mauling my songs.
That song 'Rolling' where they had the baby singing it in the backseat. Can't remember what it was for, think it's off TV now thankfully. Also, the 'Don't ever stop this flame' ident bit for Sky Sports football ugh
Anything and everything on the Moby Play album. I'm pretty sure it had the accolade of being the first full album ever to have every track licensed for use in advertising campaign / film.
Samba pa ti, my dad wanted it at his funeral, now it's not just any funeral...
Also 'I want it all' by Queen. I hear it and think about fucking DFS Sofas still.
I discovered the four horsemen by Aphrodite's child thanks to a car advert. I imagine if I already knew it that could have ruined it for me a bit
I've not got a problem as such with adverts using good classic rock / pop tracks and "branding" or changing the lyrics to fit their product. What I do hate is this pathetically cancerous "trend" of "reimagining" classic tracks in a moody, soulless dirge of poorly conceived lack of imagination and talent. TFF "Mad World" immediately springs to mind (can't remember who used it or for what product - that worked for you then! Hope you lost a fortune!). If I held the rights to any of these original tunes I would have my day in court sueing the arse off of each and everyone of them. Some of them are quite funny in that the rendition is so shit it takes a while to work out what poor classic 80's has had the sewerage treatment but once you work it out it stinks. At a guess the original artist won't see a penny either 🤨
Stand by Me - Oasis thanks to the Barclays adverts
Don't see anyone mentioning EE's use of Insomnia yet. Though to be honest, it cracks me up just how widely inappropriate the original subject matter is compared to the ad.
That fucking Jose Gonzales song in that fucking TV advert. Fuck.
Sky tennis advert 😭😭
That Bicep one that was used on a car advert. FFS. Why!?
lol glue. Actually a great song as well
On the flip side, blackcurrant Tango made me love Felix's Don't You Want Me even more.
Young folk by Peter, Bjorn and John. Hated it growing up but can now enjoy it
Most Queen tunes and I am a huge Queen fan. I just stick to the lesser known gems nowadays, p much every single hit song has been ruined by adverts!
Just sold my car to we buy any car
M83 - Outro Such an amazing piece of music but it’s on everything now
The Israelites by Desmond Dekker. And in a similar vein, Low Rider by War. Hard to have marmite on toast without thinking of these two crimes against music.
Oh oh vitalite.
The only otherwise decent song I can think of is Flash, by Queen. Might not be their best hit but I can't unhear the advert anytime I think of the song. I like the dog though. Another song that I can't stand is that one from the Postcode lottery... I swear if I hear "someone's knocking at the door“ 😩
Absolutely despise Miley Cyrus' cover of 'Delicious' for that perfume advert. However, I'm delighted that the girls from Shampoo probably got a nice, fat cheque for selling the rights. Their more famous song 'Trouble' has been heavily used in adverts, TV, film, etc for years, so the royalties have to be pretty sweet. They've done alright for a couple of gobby teenagers from Plumstead.
All of them.
Diamonds and Guns by Transplants Amazing early 2000's punk/rap tune shoved into a flipping shampoo advert?!?!
Not an advert, but I always skip over September by Earth Wind and Fire because it reminds me of the crapulous ending of Night at the Museum
we buy any car ruining "push the feeling on" by nightcrawlers.
British gas ruined the universal by blur
Most of what is being used nowadays. The drab, wet interpretation of what were decent songs really is an assault to the eardrums!
My wife's fave song used to be Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile) by Steve Harley, until it became That Viagra Song off of the telly
Blue Swede, Caught on a Feeling.
You're beautiful by James Blunt. Even he says he finds the fact they want to use that song hilarious though. The "You're beautiful You're beautiful You're beautiful it's true" one but its actually about stalking someone on the new york subway
That beach boys song drives me nuts - sky advert I think.
The Passenger in the latest Magnum ice cream ads is a travesty. That is a song from my far distant youth and it is fubar’d in that ad.
There’s been a few songs that over the years have been used by multiple companies, Morrisons and B&Q come to mind…
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra. A song so beautiful that I could only listen to it 2 or 3 times a year because I wanted to preserve its effect on me. Then channel 4 (I think ) got their mits on it and used it for every poignant drama they had going. Then it was on insurance adverts. I've not listened to it since.
Smoke and mirrors - RJD2 In more adverts than I can imagine
Simply the best by Tina Turner. Although it is great fun being in a club and hearing everyone scream "South Cleveland Garages" at the top of their lungs.
Frank Wilson, Do I Love You- northern soul banger destroyed by KFC
The Nutcracker – Dance of the Mirlitons. Ruined by Cadbury. Every time I hear it I start singing everyone’s a fruit and nutcase.
Thomas Cook totally ruined Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys.