Songs Whose Bad-Ass-Ness Is Undiminished By Their Use In Cheesy TV Commercials
August 08, 2007
Just cuz' they were co-opted by The Man to sell toilet paper, cell phones and laundry detergent, it doesn't make 'em any less amazing:
"Gravity Rides Everything" -- Modest Mouse
"Cold Hands, Warm Heart"-- Brian Benson
"Getting Better" -- The Beatles, via Gomez
"Walk On The Wild Side" -- Lou Reed
"Disseminated" -- Soul Coughing
"Bittersweet Symphony" -- The Verve
"Monkey Man" -- The Specials
"Song #2" -- Blur
"Picture Book" -- The Kinks
"Flathead"-- The Fratellis
"Our House", "Driving In My Car", "It Must Be Love" -- Madness
"We've Been Had" -- The Walkmen
"Don't Wait Too Long" -- Madeleine Peyroux
"Mr. Blue Skies" -- Electric Light Orchestra
"Just What I Needed" -- The Cars
"Surrender" -- Cheap Trick
"Happy Jack" -- The Who
"At The Hop" -- Devandra Bernhardt
"Pink Moon" -- Nick Drake
"Personality Crisis" -- The New York Dolls
The list goes on and on...
The use of "Disseminated" is probably my favorite, just for the irony of it. It was placed in a commercial for a Ford model in Europe called the "Transit". The lyric that most likely drew them to the song mentions the manufacturer, but it's not neccessarily very flattering to their product:
"The goat chewed up, once a tin can.
The goat shat out, was a Ford Sedan".
Nice work, Ford marketing team.
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