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18 August 2006

We have officially entered the end times. The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" is featured in a commercial for Cingular Wireless.

Hug the ones you love, and love the ones you're with.
Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" showing up in a commercial for a cruise line pretty much signaled the apocalypse for me.
posted by Marxchivist 18 August | 23:39
I'm afraid to go to the grocery store lately... I find myself singing along to their canned music... I'm gathering berries now and learning how to construct a yurt...
posted by recovering iowan 18 August | 23:47
"London Calling" in a jaguar commercial a few years ago was pretty unsettling as well...
posted by dersins 19 August | 01:08
There was that Budweiser commercial a few years ago with a Ramones song... I swear it seems like that was "Blitzkreig Bop" also. Whatever, it was definitely disheartening.
posted by BoringPostcards 19 August | 01:43
Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" showing up in a commercial for a cruise line pretty much signaled the apocalypse for me.

If that cruise indeed featured liquor and drugs, maybe not so much...

What freaked me out was hearing my beloved Morrissey in a Nissan commercial.
posted by pieisexactlythree 19 August | 02:23
Clash' version of "I fought the law" was also in some advert a buncha years ago.

And I assume you guys never saw Dunlop tyres tested for the unexpected?
posted by dabitch 19 August | 03:17
for me the end of the world came not when nike used the beatles' "revolution" in a commercial... but when nike used "search and destroy" by iggy and the stooges.

the final nail in the coffin was hearing "t.v. eye" in a nissan pathfinder ad. bleah.
posted by syntax 19 August | 06:12
"Why Can't I Touch It" used to flog an SUV makes me shudder every time, too. Apparently the Buzzcocks were never asked about it, so presumably they no longer own the rights, but they're kinda happy about it. I believe Pete Shelley's reaction was along the lines of 'we're the mainstream now.'

pie--don't know if you saw the cruise line ad, but it cracked me up every time that the 'liquor and drugs' line was mysteriously missing when played in that context.
posted by elizard 19 August | 08:43
We have officially entered the end times.

Oh, God, get in line. This sort of thing has been happening for years. You have officially entered middle age. That song came out when ? 1977-78 ?

Hippie as a cultural and marketing concept had been around for ten years when punk began. But you still see kids with mohawks walking around in plaid pants with many zippers like it was still 30 years ago around here.

For oldies stations, the playlist formula is year of graduation + 20 for whoever is the target demographic. Thirty years old used to mean Easy Listening--you know, the blue hair format. As in grannies. All being bummed out because a song from your youth is in a commercial means is that AARP letter is imminent.
posted by y2karl 19 August | 09:10
I've been in the minority here on this for a while, but I don't have any problem with the songs I love being used in commercials. It doesn't make me dislike the songs any, and occassionally I get to hear the riff to a favorite song while watching TV.

The only thing that bugs me about the Ramones being used in commercials is the fact that they're not around to get the cash.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 19 August | 09:38
led zeppelin's 'rock and roll' being used to pimp cadillacs a few years back added stinging insult to the growing old injury.
posted by quonsar 19 August | 09:39
My favorite was an ad for Target that used Devo's "Beautiful World", but cut off just before the line It's not for me.

I just figure this is the natural result of people from my generation growing up and getting jobs at ad agencies.
posted by mosch 19 August | 09:56
Steve Earle's "The Revolution Starts Now" on a Chevy truck commercial resulted in a fan list I'm on going nuclear (or should that be nucular). It was the ultimate sell-out, a song written in protest at the oil war in Iraq being used to sell trucks.

His management said it was "a business decision". Well, he had to pay for his wife's emeralds and the new Beemer somehow. She don't drive no steenkin' Chevy.

Chevy dropped Bob Seger's "Like A Rock" because they were worried people might think it was "Like Iraq", the morons.
posted by essexjan 19 August | 10:48
I saw a budweiser commercial playing Galvanize by the Chemical Bros but then some chick in a bikini started running her hand over stomach and I forgot about the song entirely.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 19 August | 16:33
God, I hope this doesn't happen to me.

Not 'cause I'm insecure about aging, or because I have some high-minded ideals about the purity of pop songs, or anything like that.

It's just that I grew up in the eighties and most of the music from that decade sucked hairy camel dingus.

posted by jason's_planet 20 August | 23:40
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