Note that the trend is, no matter what the song's actually about, if the title's okay, they just cut out the rest of the lyrics. Most egregiously, Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life"'s use in Carnival Cruise Lines' commercials neatly sidesteps the more decadent details, though I'd bet "Hey man, where'd you get that lotion?" may often be heard spoken somewhere on the ships...
I'd count Target's "Beautiful World" commercial among those, except Devo members actually produced the commercial, and thus got away with a *very* wry and cynical statement. (Devo's diaspora do that sort of production nowadays - for instance, didja know Bob Casale did the video for Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby's Got Back"? And now that you know that, doesn't it make [i]sense[/i]?)
So with no-matter-what-the-context usage in mind:
Burning Down The House (Talking Heads) - Firemans' Fund Insurance
Let's Go To Bed (The Cure) - Dux Beds
Head Like A Hole (Nine Inch Nails) - Band-Aids
How Soon Is Now (The Smiths) - Timex
Penthouse & Pavement (Heaven 17) - The Trump Organization
Absolute Beginners (The Jam) - Noggin
Holiday In Cambodia (Dead Kennedys) - Cambodian Tourist Board
The Motion of Love (Gene Loves Jezebel) - K-Y® Brand Warming Ultragel (<a href="http://k-y.com/sample_buffer.jsp">Free Sample! No, I'm not kidding...</a>)
(Come to think of it, maybe "Lust For Life" is appropriate for that last one...)
-Sean
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:52 pm