As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials

Artist: Nick Drake , Cat Stevens , The Lemonheads , The Cult , and Fatboy Slim
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731455656824
EAN: 0731455656824
ASIN: B00005K9RV

Release Date: 2001-06-05

As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials

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Tracks:

Pink Moon - Nick Drake (Volkswagen)
The Wind - Cat Stevens (Timberland)
The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy (The Gap)
All Mixed Up - Red House Painters (The Gap)
Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads (FTD)
The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield (Canon)
Whatever Lola Wants - Sarah Vaughan (Levi's)
History Repeating - Propellerheads (Jaguar)
Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim (NYSE)
Little Fluffy Clouds (7' Edit) - The Orb (Volkswagen)
Rock N' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) - Handsome Boy Modeling School (MTV & The NFL)
I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim US Guitar Edit) - Groove Armada (Mitsubishi)
Got To Give It Up, Pt.1 - Marvin Gaye (Levi's)
Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha - Trio (Volkswagen)
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (Royal Carribean Cruises & Mitsubishi)
20th Century Boy - T. Rex (Mitsubishi)
What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks (Toyota)
Boys Better - The Dandy Warhols (The Gap)
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult (Nissan)
Mr. Roboto - Styx (Volkswagen)

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This collection begs the question: Do the means justify the end? Even the title, <I>As Seen on TV</I>, is so crass one might expect a free set of Ginsu knives to be thrown in with the disc. But the trend set by those savvy TV advertising execs of pushing products from cars to clothes to cruises through hipster songs has resulted in an undeniably quality, albeit disparate, compilation. From the devastatingly simple "Pink Moon," sullenly crooned by the late Nick Drake, to the new wave-punk classic Buzzcocks tune "What Do I Get" to Sarah Vaughan's sassy "What Lola Wants," the 20 tracks here capture a snapshot of 21st-century, post-adolescent life as it is portrayed--you guessed it--through TV. The resulting cultural implications are probably too disturbing to explore (that we are a society where our musical touchstones are fabricated by commercialism), but if you can ignore the source, this compilation has plenty that will speak to the soul and get the body grooving. <I>--Beth Massa</I>

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding mix.......2006-12-23

The Volkswagon commercial sparked the search. This CD has a variety of artists but is by far the best compilation CD I have ever bought. Most songs are fast paced and up beat. Overall it is a good listen.

A latent effect of another quirky quest.......2005-09-28

Had it not been for a Volkswagon commercial, I probably wouldn't have discovered this perky little CD. I was actually on a quest to findout who preformed the song on a Volkswagon commercial with a guy going through the same motions over and over in his office, which turned out to be "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO. Having found this in the soundtrack bins at the local record store while looking for said song, I decided to pick this one up because it sounded quirky.

It's not bad, mostly techno and feel good pop songs ("Into Your Arms" by The Lemonheads). There is a wonderful song that I didn't know existed and because of both the Volkswagon commercial and subsequently became a posthumous hit, "Pink Moon". People were bent out of shape that Iggy Pop and others sold out their songs to be used in commercials. But hey, let them. Only a precious few achieve enough success that they can live on something creative. If they really cared only about art and not about being famous for something then they would decline.

It's lite and airy, have a good time with it.

all over the map but some key tunes.......2003-03-25

A great collection of songs you will recall from US TV commercials, but kind of hard to just put on an listen to all the way through. The album starts off with folkier material, go to harder, beat driven tracks and ends up in alt-rock land. And then we get Styx (!). Still pretty good way to get a bunch of great songs you' wouldn't buy otherwise.

Hip long music set, wouldn't know they were from commericals.......2002-05-24

I really bought this on a whim, but it's quickly turned into one of my favorite CDs very quickly. The mix of songs sway from mellow to strong vibe, but it transitions very well from one to the other. Heck, they were even able to cross five decades flawlessly!

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