Fave songs you first heard on a TV ad

[Barking Spiders]

Sometimes TV ads get knocked for  misuse of certain well known pieces of music. Conversely, if you don't listen to music radio they can be a great way of discovering songs that might become faves. Here's four of the bat for me which have become big faves but were it not for the ads I'd never heard of three of these groups. Let's go...

First up, So Easy by Royksopp, used in a 2002 T-Mobile ad

Next, Bohemian Like You by the Dandy Warhols used in this 2007 Vodafone ad

Next, I was already a Leftfield fan but only heard Phat Planet for the first time on this  seminal 1998 Guinness ad

This last tune is called Zoraide by Cairobi, which was used on Halford's 2014 christmas 'Nothing beats a bike' ad

 

[Dad3353]

Not a chance. We seldom watch the commercial TV channels; if we do, the sound gets muted instantly when ads come on. It's a pet hate. Not much from the radio (R4...) either, but I do get off to sleep listening to France Musique, the classical station. If I hear any good stuff, I've forgotten what it was the next morning anyway. 

[Old Man Riva]

Making It Better - The Barons Ltd.

Baby Let Me Kiss You - King Floyd

Recently heard the above on TV, though can’t remember the ads - probably an ad person’s worst nightmare! 

[Doctor J]

I found out years later it was a butchered Manfred Mann song.

They were tasty bars, too.

Edited April 13, 2021 by Doctor J

[Rich]

I'd heard Moloko's 'Pure Pleasure Seeker' before somewhere, but it took this advert to remind me how good it is. 

 

[Stingray5]

1983 - This tune became a serious earworm for me, so much so that I actually got myself a copy of the extended version on 12" vinyl (...yep, I've still got it!  )

(p.s. - not my video  )

 

Edited April 14, 2021 by Stingray5

[ubit]

This was heard by just about everyone on an advert. I can't for the life of me remember what they were advertising.

 

[ubit]

 

[ezbass]

The old Lois Jeans advert introduced me to The Smiths’ How Soon Is Now, although it was an instrumental version. IIRC the was also a jeans company that used a Stiltskin tune for an ad, another one that was, at the time, new to me.

[dudewheresmybass]

This. 
opened up soo many avenues for me, but this remains one of my favourite tunes 

 

[Barking Spiders]

Viz the Babylon Zoo and the Stiltskin ads, the problem was they used the best bits of each tune, while the main parts with the vocals aren't up to the quality of the snippets

[Skybone]

1 hour ago, ubit said:

This was heard by just about everyone on an advert. I can't for the life of me remember what they were advertising.

 

Levi 501's

Same with the Stiltskin song.

Didn't Apple use a Royal Blood song for one of their ad's?

Edited April 14, 2021 by Skybone

[MartinB]

Stiltskin didn't exist before the Levi's ad - the song was written for the ad, and the "band" put together to cash in on its success.

[Crusoe]

Venus in Furs by The Velvet underground and Nico for me on the Dunlop (?) tyre advert.

I bought the Stiltskin 12"single. Side A was the instrumental version, I think, with the vocal version on the B side. Let's just say, it didn't get played very often.

[Saul Panzer]

Chicago - If you leave me now.
They only played a few lines from the song and being early Internet days I had to ask around to find out who it was.
Good old Nan knew who it was of course.

 

[Chezz55]

Manfred Mann - A 'B-Side'.

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

 

[Supernaut]

 

[BoomTing]

6 hours ago, ubit said:

This was heard by just about everyone on an advert. I can't for the life of me remember what they were advertising.

 

That's what I was going to pick. Was mad on it at the time (and the Album)

[howdenspur]

http://youtu.be/l274PJTsejU

This from a few years back. Great riff.

Edited April 14, 2021 by howdenspur
Hmm, not embedding properly.

[BoomTing]

25 minutes ago, howdenspur said:

http://youtu.be/l274PJTsejU

This from a few years back. Great riff.

Wow I didn't know Hawkwind music was used in ADs seems a sell out!!!

Added: Seems like the British equivalent of "out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac!!"

Edited April 14, 2021 by BoomTing
Added:

[Chezz55]

This became an earworm for months, and the song still works for me.

"Living On The Ceiling" by Blancmange

[bass_dinger]

Jacques Loussier 's jazz arrangement of Bach's Air on a G string, truncated by the Benson and Hedges cigar adverts.

Jacques Loussier - Air On A G String - YouTube 

Only when I listened to the full version did I realise that there was an artist who was creating jazz arrangements of Bach pieces and that version that we are familiar with (from 0'56") had the introduction lopped off.   

[MacDaddy]

 

Win - You've Got The Power

Used to great effect on a great advert:

 

 

[Old Man Riva]

It’s a long way away from Forever And Ever for Demis!

Saw this on a car advert this evening. Never heard it before, and really dig it...