Moody Mistress's Journal

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Top 5 on Friday from Music Memoirs


Top 5 songs you wish had never been used in a TV commercial.

1. (And this is most definitely #1 on the list): The Beatles – Hello Goodbye in that Target commercial.
It’s one of my most favorite songs, and to hear the remake in that commercial is just painful. “Good buy”? Shoot me please.

2. The Beatles – Revolution, in a Nike ad.
I remember having a discussion about it years later with a fellow Beatles fan—“Michael Jackson would sell his own mother if he had the chance!”, they said, if I remember correctly. My sentiments exactly.

3. The Clash – Pressure Drop, in a Nissan commercial some months ago.
The Clash would have hated that, too.

4. The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop, for Pepsi.
(Just googled it to check the accuracy of my memory—it was Diet Pepsi. I think the Pepsi bottles were dancing or something.)

5. The Cars – Just What I Needed, for Circuit City.
This really irked me, especially since the lyrics are so wrong for a commercial. The ad conveniently left out the “I needed someone to bleed.”