As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials

Nick Drake | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 5, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: UTV Records
• ASIN: B00005K9RV
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,819 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pink Moon - Nick Drake (Volkswagen)

2. The Wind - Cat Stevens (Timberland)

3. The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy (The Gap)

4. All Mixed Up - Red House Painters (The Gap)

5. Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads (FTD)

6. The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield (Canon)

7. Whatever Lola Wants - Sarah Vaughan (Levi's)

8. History Repeating - Propellerheads (Jaguar)

9. Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim (NYSE)

10. Little Fluffy Clouds (7' Edit) - The Orb (Volkswagen)

11. Rock N' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) - Handsome Boy Modeling School (MTV & The NFL)

12. I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim US Guitar Edit) - Groove Armada (Mitsubishi)

13. Got To Give It Up, Pt.1 - Marvin Gaye (Levi's)

14. Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha - Trio (Volkswagen)

15. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (Royal Carribean Cruises & Mitsubishi)

16. 20th Century Boy - T. Rex (Mitsubishi)

17. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks (Toyota)

18. Boys Better - The Dandy Warhols (The Gap)

19. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult (Nissan)

20. Mr. Roboto - Styx (Volkswagen)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just love this CD..., September 21, 2001

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"leopardskincookie" (Starksboro, VT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials (Audio CD)

This album is an awful lot of fun...it's a crazy blend of genres that all work pretty well together. Granted, it may provoke images of cars and bootleg jeans, but I think we can get over that :) I think a lot of people bought this album looking for "that song from the Mitsubishi commercial", and the one on here (Groove Armada) probably isn't it - you want "Start the Commotion" by The Wiseguys, which you can buy here ..., incidentally (btw, their whole album is that good). Other than that, I'd definitely recommend it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Turn It Up, Baby!, August 13, 2001

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Mark W. Osler (Waco, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials (Audio CD)

Don't reject this cd simply because it is a compilation of songs from TV-- the fact that this is a good cd simply reflects the fact that directors are using better music in advertising, stretching a little more. Prince Paul (Handsome Boy Modeling School) and the Dandy Warhols on TV? Something has changed.

The cd is arranged like a good mix tape-- slow songs through the first 7 tracks, the Propellerheads as a segue to dance music, then shifting to soul, silly and rock at the tail end.

One sad thing: This does not contain the "Turn it up, baby!" line from the Mitsubishi commercial.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars all over the map but some key tunes, March 25, 2003

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D. H. Richards "ninthwavestore" (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials (Audio CD)

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.