Fave songs you first heard on a TV ad

[Nail Soup]

  On 19/04/2021 at 18:28, Old Man Riva said:

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... 

 

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Co-incidentally, I also became aware of this track a few days ago, via 6muisc catch up (Gid Coe)…… I thought it was really good too!

I'm not good at picking up songs from ads, probably because I never got into the habit of using sham or googling.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

  On 19/04/2021 at 18:28, Old Man Riva said:

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... 

 

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I got a bit overexcited when I heard this on telly the other day. Very unexpected! A wonderful album.

Here's one from a few years ago that I find myself singing quite regularly. Raging Speedhorn, I think it was.

 

[christhammer666]

gotta be maidens phantom of the opera in the lucozade advert

[Skybone]

Hawkwind's Master of the Universe = Ford B Max?????

https://youtu.be/l274PJTsejU

Nissan Qashqai = Paranoid????

https://youtu.be/loBEwB9v1nU

 

[kendall]

  On 14/04/2021 at 08:50, dudewheresmybass said:

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

 

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Beat me to it.  A 7 year old me was gobsmacked by this tune.  Life changing moment.

[casapete]

Must admit, I don't think I'd heard this before seeing it in the Mercedes advert. Just superb.

 

[Crusoe]

  On 21/04/2021 at 14:47, kendall said:

Beat me to it.  A 7 year old me was gobsmacked by this tune.  Life changing moment.

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I wonder how much Maiden made from that advert.

[Crusoe]

Great song and a fantastic advert too...

 

[seashell]

Crusoe, that was the first song that sprang to mind when I saw this topic. Loved that ad! 

[bagsieblue]

Reef - Naked for Sony Minidisc for me.

[Colonel36]

 

[Geek99]

I’m quite liking the mock turtles on the o2 advert years back (the one with beckham sock puppet)

 

[mcnach]

Back when I was about 10 I heard a song in an advert for some jeans, back home in Spain. Two years later or so I found it was "Satisfaction". Well, a version of it by a Spanish band, just for the ad. I went to the record store and bought the first Rolling Stones I could find with that song in it. It was "Still Life", live album from 1981.

I thought the Stones' version was crap, put the album away and ignored it for another 4 years or so.

Now it's one of my favourite albums. Despite their version of Satisfaction

 

 

[TheGreek]

Stone Ponies featuring Linda Ronstadt and Different Drum

 

Generally I'm of the opinion that ads ruin songs - I didn't know this song before hearing it on the telly.

[casapete]

  On 23/04/2021 at 10:07, TheGreek said:

Stone Ponies featuring Linda Ronstadt and Different Drum

 

Generally I'm of the opinion that ads ruin songs - I didn't know this song before hearing it on the telly.

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Great tune, written by Mike Nesmith from The Monkees. Also has Bernie Leadon (The Eagles) on guitar too.

[itu]

Don't want to remember the company, but the song:

 

[Tandro]

  On 21/04/2021 at 14:39, christhammer666 said:

gotta be maidens phantom of the opera in the lucozade advert

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Darn, I had forgotten all about that commercial. That was legit the first time I ever heard that song.

This one, might be too tame for you all..but that Debenham's commercial got that song hook stuck in my brain, it just makes me feel happy.

 

[Nickthebass]

  On 22/04/2021 at 22:32, bagsieblue said:

Reef - Naked for Sony Minidisc for me.

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That’s exactly where I was going. I bought the first album on the strength of the ad! To this day it’s still a great “4 people in a room giving it heaps” album. 

Edited May 1, 2021 by Nickthebass