Worst commercial made of a great song...

[absyntheNsugar]

For me it will always be that stupid car commercial they made from Jethro Tull's Thick as A Brick. Like everyone in an English village's life will be made OH SO GOOD if they just see a stupid fucking car. ARRRRRGH!

[MindPilot]

1. So many ties for first place

Using Led Zepplin to sell Cadillacs is a crime against nature.

The Tommy Oveture to pedal the anti-alergy Alerga always disturbs me.

Any Old Navy commercial. And McDonald's campaign that used Mac the Knife, still rubs me the wrong way.

[absyntheNsugar]

2. With the Old Navy commercials

at least theyre 70's Pap-pop so it's not like theyre dilluting an artistic statement.

But with the Tull tune - they don't even include the lyrics (of course if they did it would be telling customers they were all Thick...as a brick)

[ProudGerman]

7. I like the zeppelin caddy commercials

Then again, I was a toddler when Led was big. So for me, the song fits perfectly with the new brand image they are trying to create. It must be working, Caddilac actually has a car this 20 something would be interested in if he had the money. I'm a car nut, and they are mere objects to me, not representations of the corporations that produce them. Anyways, "Rock and Roll" is a great driving song, just seems natural to use it to sell cars, especially cars that strive to be exciting.

[jeter]

11. I agree...It's a crime to use Zeppelin songs in ads.

n/t

[ProudGerman]

13. Even if Plant thinks its ok?

http://www.top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=3273&string=Cadillac

[LizW]

3. I HATE the perversion of "Fortunate Son"

in that damn Wrangler jean ad. And so does John Fogerty:

http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/a&e2002/fogerty_fortunate_son_1122_2002.shtml

[Leftist78]

9. That's mine

The way they turned that great protest song into some sort of freepified-rally-round-the-flag shit makes me fucking sick :grr:

[last_texas_dem]

15. That one was a travesty

Just as the edit of "Fortunate Son" in that commercial obscures the song's message, so did the edit of the cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better" that was used by Philips Magnavox a few years ago which conveniently omits the line "It can't get no worse" for some unintelligle "ahh"'s!

[St. Jarvitude]

4. "Happy Jack" for H2s

Made me absolutely want to vomit... the commercial is dumb enough (what a surprise the guy with the Hummer is cheating...), but using Happy Jack crossed the line for me, man.

[burrowowl]

6. Me too!

I'm really pissed. Preverts the meaning of the song.

[Nailzberg]

5. The Hummer commercial with Happy Jack

God, why do they have to mess with the Who?

[Catshrink]

8. Some muffin commercial

used a song from Singin' in the Rain. "Good mornin', good mornin' to you" became "Good mornin', good muffin, to you."

Don't mess with SITR!

[politicat]

10. Don't know about worst, but know the best - Chumbawamba for dodge....

They used the anti-Microsoft/anti-RIAA song "Pass it Along" to sell Dodges (and donated the proceeds to CorpWatch.)

The chorus was...

"Where do you want to go today?/ Somewhere you can never take me..."

Oh, that one made me giggle for hours the first time I heard it!

Politicat (who loves irony.)

[Beaker]

12. The most logical bastardization that never happened...yet-

the Tears for Fears song "Shout" for Shout pre-wash...

Shout-
Shout-
Gets it all out-
These are the stains I can do without...

[PurityOfEssence]

14. Randy Newman's "Sail Away" bowdlerized into a Beck's beer commercial

That's the corker for me. The original song is a scathingly cynical take on a slave trader tempting people onto a slave ship bound for America.