Spaceman Spiff Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Any songs out there you can't stand now cause they're featured prominently in a commercial? For me it's "Sweet Home Alabama" which is being killed by the KFC campaigns. It's KFC! Aren't there any songs about f'in Kentucky? There used to be a car commercial for a Hendrix song called "Freedom". I can't hear that song anymore without thinking of the dumb commercial...and as a result, I no longer like the song. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IONTOP Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 THIS IS ARRRRRRE Country..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkFan8 Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Not that I ever liked the song in the first place, but I want to punch someone every time I hear, "This is my countryeeeeeeeeeeeee........" now. Ugh. :doh: IONTOP beat me, glad im not the only one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 "Like a Rock" by Bob Seger...I made out to that song once...now all I think of is those flippin' truck commercials...THANK YOU SO MUCH CHEVY!!!! (On the other hand...chevy makes a great car) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Im gonna agree with IONTOP and Monkfan8. That song pisses the hell out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Im gonna agree with IONTOP and Monkfan8. That song pisses the hell out of me. Ditto. I don't think I had or have heard it anywhere else, but that commercial is/was so freaking overplayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoGood28 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 The correct answer is "Rock & Roll" by Led Zeppelin. We go all these years with Led Zeppelin refusing anyone requesting to use their music and they finally break down and give rights to Cadillac, who then go on to run the damn song into the ground for 3 years. The ****s ruined one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyf316 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 For me it's "Sweet Home Alabama" which is being killed by the KFC campaigns. It's KFC! Aren't there any songs about f'in Kentucky? Spiff, there are just no songs about Utah which could fit the bill. From Wikipedia: Born and raised in Henryville, Indiana, Sanders passed through several professions in his lifetime,[1]. Sanders first served his fried chicken during the Great Depression at a gas station he owned in Corbin, Kentucky, and later at a restaurant and motel he bought across the street.[2] He generally served travelers, often those headed to Florida, so when the route planned in the 1950s for what would become Interstate 75 bypassed Corbin, he sold his properties and traveled the U.S. to sell his chicken to restaurant owners. Sanders entered into agreements paying him five cents for each piece of chicken sold.[3] The first to take him up on the offer was Pete Harman in South Salt Lake, Utah; together, they opened the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" outlet in 1952.[4] The Corbin businesses did not bear that name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Hopefully for me it will be a while before a company finds a good way to work some metallica or megadeth into a commercial and ruin all of that for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PresidentClinton07 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Not that I ever liked the song in the first place, but I want to punch someone every time I hear, "This is my countryeeeeeeeeeeeee........" now. Ugh. :doh:IONTOP beat me, glad im not the only one! lmao!!!! While I was reading your post, that commercial was playing on my dads t.v. :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 The correct answer is "Rock & Roll" by Led Zeppelin. We go all these years with Led Zeppelin refusing anyone requesting to use their music and they finally break down and give rights to Cadillac, who then go on to run the damn song into the ground for 3 years. The ****s ruined one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. Thats very true, too. I can't hear that song on the radio without thinking of their horrible commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSkin Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Bleeding Heart Show by The New Pornographers. It was my favorite song of theirs till I saw it on a University of Phoenix commercial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracelander Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I've got a few.. Johnny Cash "I've been everywhere man" Choice Hotels The Cars "Just what I needed" Circuit City Aerosmith "Dream On" Buick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ_Skins Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Hopefully for me it will be a while before a company finds a good way to work some metallica or megadeth into a commercial and ruin all of that for me I'm pretty sure I've heard "Enter Sandman" in a commercial. Can't remember which one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temple Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Granted, not a commercial, but I despise CSI for its rampant use of The Who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky21 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Yeah who would have thought the original guitarist and the original keyboardist would reunite under the name of Lynyrd Skynyrd and play state fairs and shopping center openings and then sell out their song to a fast food chicken restaurant? How unlikely is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyfar Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 THIS IS ARRRRRRE Country..... I wasn't a fan of the song before the commercial but I still hate that song. While watching a tivo'd game the other day, that commercial must've played in every effin commercial break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiLfan Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 all or most of the obvious choices have been cited, so here's a slightly different twist....commercials that ruined a classical music piece or song, as opposed to a rock song, etc.... United ruined Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" Beef (it's what's for dinner) and Copland's "Hoedown" also, while not a commercial, i can never hear Wagner's "Tannhauser" without thinking "kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!..." :doh: Bugs is still the best though... and finally, along the same venue, Tom and Jerry has become my full time visual accompaniment whenever i hear "Tritsch-Tratsch polka" by Strauss or Listz's "Hungarian Rhapsody Number 2". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willmb5 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I've got a few..The Cars "Just what I needed" Circuit City Yep. you nailed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiLfan Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 another one... "Takin' care of business" - Office Depot. of course, i didn't really like that song anyway....now i dislike it even more. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Guys, hate the song, not the singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTerps26 Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 hatin UPS for playing Postal Service with that douche drawing on a board with a brown pen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbasye Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Saab (and many other comericials) use of Paul Oakenfeld's "ready steady go!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 THIS IS ARRRRRRE Country..... Not only is that stupid Chevy commercial painful to listen to, its made even more painful by you using "are" instead of "our." :laugh: I've got a few..Johnny Cash "I've been everywhere man" Choice Hotels Yeah - the Johnny Cash song is definitely ruined for me. Good call on the Zeppelin song as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAFGA Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Johnny Cash "I've been everywhere man" Choice Hotels Absolute WORST ad campaign in the history of mankind. It was OK when they had the actual song playing in the background and had scenes, but now they've got people singing different lyrics and it makes me sick to my stomach. As far as Sweet Home Alabama, they haven't ruined the song. I don't even consider that song that they play in the commercial "Sweet Home Alabama" because they aren't playing the lyrics, just a couple of beats from the song and they added some scratching to it at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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