What's the best song to be ruined by an advertisement?

She sold his song rights, eh?

Never saw that coming...

 

This is classic. Yokourtney sells out Kurt. Wasn't she also auctioning off his clothes and/or belongings recently?

Like he wouldn't have done it on his own eventually. Because, as the Million Dollar Man frequently assured us, "everybody has a price!" 8)

 

Like.
A.
Rock.

 

Yeah, when Viagra started using that song ...

 

Yep, and John Lennon stuff included.

Blister in the Sun was a shocker.

But Lust for Life in those stupid cruise commercials tops it. They shuld show people doing drugs and having sex to really get the song right.

 

"Lust For Life" was the first one I thought of, but I recall reading a story on Iggy Pop in a recent Rolling Stone where he said he has no problem with it, probably because he likes the checks that keep rolling in. But the lyrics don't exactly jive with the whole cruise theme. Or maybe they do, I've never been on one.

I'll admit to being shocked the first time I heard "Rock And Roll" flogging Caddies, but it makes sense when you figure that Zep fans - along with rappers and teenage hockey players signing their first pro contarcts - are now in their Cadillac-buying years.

That slow version of "I Melt With You" (BK ad, I think) is actually pretty cool.

 

It wasn't the greatest song ever recorded, but God Blessed Texas was completely ruined by the suits at Ford who insisted on changing the lyrics to "Ford is the best in Texas."

 

Heard 'Our House' for Maxwell House instant coffee yesterday. Thought that was pretty tragic.

 

Without question it is Wrangler totally bastardizing Fortunate Son by CCR just because it has the line, "I was born to raise the flag" in it.

That song is about faux-patriotism, assholes, and that line was ironic sarcasm you cynical, zero-moral corporate fuckos.

Wrangler will taste the black sperm of my vengence as I will never wear their product for the rest of my days because of that commercial.

 

Wow. Well put.

 

It didn't do Ronnie any harm in '84.

Besides, it's not like it was an original idea when Bruce did it.

 

I'm just glad I got to work in "black sperm of my vengeance" after watching Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls last night, which is where that line is from.

But I actually think Wrangler is worse than Reagan. Fortunate Son is a lot more incendiary than Born In The U.S.A. is. It took one helluva soulless ad exec to plow through that lyric in a commercial that pretty much embodies the mindless patriotism that John Fogerty was railing against.