Obscure Tunes in Everyday Places

[godofthunder]

 Slade's Everyday on a goggle TV add, I about passed out  it didn't compute, the TV is on but I'm hearing Slade, hell it hardly ever happens even on the radio let alone TV. I stood there frozen trying to figure out just what was going on.

[gweimer]

Slade's Everyday on a goggle TV add, I about passed out  it didn't compute, the TV is on but I'm hearing Slade, hell it hardly ever happens even on the radio let alone TV. I stood there frozen trying to figure out just what was going on.

TV commercials have been a great source of interesting songs.  I think it may have been Nissan that made "21st Century Boy" a revived hit in recent years.  The original was a single in the UK, and I don't think it ever made a dent over here.

[Dave W]

That was Mitsubishi with 20th Century Boy. I really liked that.

My favorite in recent years was the series of Kia commercials using Red Light Love by Those Darlins.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzGYdrdXca8

[nofi]

do they play that stuff at "uncle earl's burlap wonderland".

[uwe]

Slade's Everyday on a goggle TV add, I about passed out   it didn't compute, the TV is on but I'm hearing Slade, hell it hardly ever happens even on the radio let alone TV. I stood there frozen trying to figure out just what was going on.

That's the one with Everyday, right? Kind of cute. Summer Song/Wishing you were here was used by C&A, all family German clothing store chain, a few years back.

And "Merry X-Mas Everybody" is still the most frequently played Christmas song in old Blighty in 2013, both in and outside of the Christmas season. Holder and Lea will make another million from its royalties. Not bad for a song written in a shower cabin after someone had provoked Slade to "write a song that is a real hit like White Christmas".

[TBird1958]

I think the biggest surprise for me was hearing "Santuary" by The Cult in a Nissan commercial.

Here in Tacoma we listen to several different internet radio stations, I'd say Cygnus X-1 by Rush topped the list. But my boss will often put on this '80s Hair Metal channel - I just love it! The other day while a customer was waiting at the counter Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" was playing, customer says: "You guys are rockin' out here.... I say, yeah, no Christmas music at Seattle Lighting       

[Barklessdog]

I came across what appeared to be a human turd in a Walmart isle the other day.

Does that count?

[gweimer]

I came across what appeared to be a human turd in a Walmart isle the other day.

Does that count?

Did you hear singing?

[chromium]

Mr Hankey?

[Hörnisse]

[Lightyear]

I think the biggest surprise for me was hearing "Santuary" by The Cult in a Nissan commercial.

Here in Tacoma we listen to several different internet radio stations, I'd say Cygnus X-1 by Rush topped the list. But my boss will often put on this '80s Hair Metal channel - I just love it! The other day while a customer was waiting at the counter Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" was playing, customer says: "You guys are rockin' out here.... I say, yeah, no Christmas music at Seattle Lighting       

I was in a Kinkos in Austin about midnight maybe eight, nine years ago, pre Fed Ex takeover, and they had a streaming punk channel on!  I heard some really old obscure stuff.  I asked the kids that worked there and they said they got to choose after the channel after 10:00.  The little twerps were surprised that an "old dude" knew what it was they were listening to.