What about the Flomax commercial with the shellac song in it?

Porn Star?

I knew that Cadillac song sounded familiar.

And what about The Fall in that Nissan or whoever commercial.

Maybe we should form a union and strike against the Auto Industry?

Redline wrote:The Who's I Can See For Miles is in a Honda commercial now.

At this point it's easier to keep track of songs by The Who which haven't been used in car commercials.

Over here in the UK, Mercedes Benz have used Boards of Canada twice now on their adverts.

joesepi wrote:I knew that Cadillac song sounded familiar.

And what about The Fall in that Nissan or whoever commercial.

Maybe we should form a union and strike against the Auto Industry?

The Fall commercial is for the Mitsubishi Outlander, they still use that song but for some reason they changed it so you don't hear the part at the very end where Mark E. Smith started singing.

When I first heard that I was thinking.. wow.. that was Mark E. Smith, and more people in the United States just heard his voice than in the entire 30 history of that band..

-jar

Yeah I'm sure young kids are going to storm out there and buy CDs of bands from the 90s cuz CD sales are strong and growing

I love that hum album, but their floppage was their own doing, their appearance on the stern show was very telling. ON the stern show "music special" Robin put it best about Hum parphrased " they were these prima donna's that had this hit song, other than that no one had heard of them, they had all kinds of hostile antics while in the studio, then they played that song, rocked the fucking house, threw down their instruments.. and they were never heard from again"

One of the problems w/ Hum was their music simply doesnt fit into a genre. Its too heavy for alt rockers, its too boring for Metal kids, not emo enough for chicks...

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caix wrote:NBC keeps stacking these other car commercials with an old Clash song, too.

Yea, it was a Nissan Ad.. "Pressure Drop" methinks. Then I got that song stuck in my head and realized that "Ball and Chain" by Social D. has the same chord changes. Funny.

-jar

Yeah, it was Pressure Drop. It took me a few days to figure it out, because they cut out all the Reggae parts. They probably thought black people don't buy cars. Racists.

this commercial played on six or seven consecutive commercial breaks this morning. good for hum.

Hexpane, I don't know what the crap you are talking about. Hum are pretty good guys according to everyone I know that has had any kind of interaction with them. Especially Talbott.

I don't think they were trying to be huge rock stars. From interviews and whatnot that I've read, they were more surprised that they made it as big as they did and that a major label was relatively supportive of them than they were thinking that they were owed anything and bitter about the experience of not being bigger. I doubt that any band whose average song length was something like 7 minutes really was surprised that they only had one radio hit.

I don't think I'd judge the band based upon some lame ass anecdote by the woman from Howard Stern.