Trendy Music In Commercials

2007-07-07T11:32:00.000-04:00

The Dandy Warhols' "TV Theme Song" is featured in a new Saturn commercial.

2007-06-28T09:10:00.000-04:00

New Order's "Age of Consent" is featured in AT&T new re-branding of Cingular commercial. AT&T also features Oasis' "All Around the World" in the tag.

2007-06-06T09:27:00.001-04:00

Songs featured on Wilco's Sky Blue Sky are appearing in a series of new Volkswagen ads.

2007-05-17T10:07:00.000-04:00

Radio 4's "Start a Fire" is used in a promo spot for the new season of FX's "Rescue Me." FX's website for the show also includes music from the Von Bondies, Stereophonics (and a video for their "Devil"), The Twilight Singers, The Black Keys, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

2007-05-14T13:09:00.000-04:00

Paul van Dyk's "Time of Our Lives" is featured in a Jeep spot.

2007-04-25T21:03:00.000-04:00

The La's "There She Goes" is featured in a Bali bra ad.

2007-04-24T14:28:00.000-04:00

The promo spots for the Jimmy Kimmel show use Franz Ferdinand's "Do You Want To" but have altered the lyrics so that the vocals are now "Do you Jimmy?"

2007-04-15T16:48:00.000-04:00

Peter, Bjorn and John's "Young Folks" has a nice placement in an AT&T commercial.

2007-04-06T15:35:00.000-04:00

The Fall's "Blindness" is featured in the current Mitsubishi Outlander commercials.

2007-04-06T08:40:00.000-04:00

Kaiser Chiefs' "Modern Way" is used in a promo spot for the new Fox series "Drive."

2007-04-03T13:31:00.000-04:00

The Album Leaf's "Always for You" is featured in a Cadillac Escalade commercial.

2007-03-26T17:27:00.000-04:00

Mika's "Love Today" is being used in a Verizon Wireless commercial. Nice work by the team negotiating on his behalf - his name and song title are listed at the beginning of the spot.

2007-03-19T09:01:00.000-04:00

The Kinks' "Gotta Move" is featured in the new Volvo SUV commercial.

2007-03-13T12:08:00.000-04:00

Gasp - Nirvana's "Breed" is featured in a commercial for MLB 2k7 and is also featured in the game itself. Songs by Editors, The Walkmen, The Stooges, and Tapes 'N Tapes are also featured in the game.

2007-02-27T17:20:00.000-05:00

Mohair's "Stranded" is the background music on Beck's beer's U.S. website.

2007-02-26T09:18:00.000-05:00

The Pogues' "Walking on the Sunny Side of the Street" is featured in a new Cadillac commercial.

2007-02-05T18:36:00.000-05:00

The Rapture's "Whoo all right... yeah, uh huh (WAYUH)" has been on repeated loops for Bravo's new reality game show Top Design.

2007-01-21T12:11:00.000-05:00

The Stone Roses' "Love Spreads" is featured in a new Cadillac commercial. Cadillac is also using Teddybears' "Punkrocker" with Iggy Pop on vocals.

2007-01-19T10:47:00.000-05:00

120 Days' "Come Out, Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone" (T.A. Kaukolampi remix) is featured in an ad for Jaguar's C-XF. See the ad here.

2007-01-12T09:33:00.000-05:00

Aberdeen City's "God Is Going to Get Sick of Me" and Mew's "Apocalypto" are featured in ESPN promos for the upcoming X-Games.

2007-01-07T12:33:00.000-05:00

The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" is featured in a new commercial for UPS. What can brown do for you?

2007-01-07T12:30:00.000-05:00

The Scissor Sisters' "Filthy/Gorgeous" is used in a promotional spot for ABC's new show Knights of Prosperity.

2006-12-20T17:57:00.000-05:00

They Might Be Giants' tracks are featured in the Dunkin Donuts campaign for "America Runs on Dunkin."

2006-12-18T09:21:00.000-05:00

Goldfrapp's "Fly Me Away" is in a recent Target commercial.

2006-12-11T08:50:00.000-05:00

The Clash's "Rock the Casbah" is featured in a Cingular commercial, and the lyrics are the star: "I think I know what he's saying...'stop the catbox.'"

2006-11-15T09:19:00.000-05:00

Gary Jules and Michael Andrews' cover version of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" appears in the commercial for the Gears of War video game. (The cover version also appeared on the Donnie Darko soundtrack as well as numerous television programs and was the UK Christmas #1 in 2003)

2006-11-13T16:43:00.000-05:00

Death From Above 1979's "Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT edition)" is featured in a Verizon Wireless pda spot. "Let me show you how to work, work, work..."

2006-11-10T13:21:00.000-05:00

Teddybears' "Different Sound" is being used by Intel, and their "Punkrocker" is being used by Cadillac (with Iggy Pop on vocals).

2006-11-09T09:04:00.000-05:00

K-os' "Sunday Morning" is featured in Microsoft Zune spots - including in-theater placement.

2006-10-24T09:31:00.000-04:00

Doves' "Words" is featured in a promo spot for NFL games. I bet they never thought that would ever happen.

2006-10-17T09:17:00.000-04:00

Morningwood's "Nth Degree" appears in an ad for Mercury's Milan. Perhaps the master use license fee will help make up for disappointing album sales.

2006-10-12T12:31:00.000-04:00

Royksopp's "Remind Me" is featured in the GEICO commercial where the caveman is on the moving walkway and sees a GEICO caveman billboard.

2006-09-28T12:34:00.001-04:00

I hope that The Mooney Suzuki control their publishing, because the sync fees for "Alive and Amplified" in the Suzuki Grand Vitara commercial must be nice. That commercial is on all the time!

Note that you can buy a compilation CD entitled "As Heard on TV 2", which includes "Alive and Ampified" as well as some other trendy songs from commercials, including The Dandy Warhols - "I Love You" (Pontiac Solstice), Ratatat - "Bustelo" (Jaguar), The Bravery - "Unconditional" (Saturn) and Goldfrapp - "Oh La La" (Diet Coke).

2006-09-27T11:37:00.000-04:00

Diamond Nights' "The Girl's Attractive" is featured in a Jaguar ad. Swanky!

2006-09-27T09:01:00.000-04:00

New Young Pony Club's "Ice Cream" is featured in a commercial for Intel.

Hello

2006-09-27T08:44:00.000-04:00

This blog is to note and discuss "trendy" music that I have heard in commercials. So while we hear AC/DC's "Back in Black" in every commercial imaginable (including those horrifying Audrey Hepburn Gap ads), such music will not be mentioned here. I'm more interested in noting non-commercial music in commercials, such as Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine" in the commercials for LG's Chocolate phone.

Enjoy.