September 19, 2002
someone would make a killing if they'd compile a huge multi-disc set of music featured in commercials over the past few years...
lyric find is another search engine that allows you to search by artist, title, phrase or "scattered words."
and, in case you're wondering what that snappy tune is in the commercial for the 2002 kia spectra (with the girl driving around with her "boyfriends" over the years) -- it's from a very small chunk of a mariah carey song called "fantasy" off the album "daydream."
UPDATE: as noted in the comments section by reader mike... the song, from the kia spectra commercial, is actually called "genius of love" by the tom tom club. ms. carey sampled/ripped it for her song, "fantasy."
I've decided to move this discussion into a site I run. Please visit and check out Adtunes.com. There you will be able to find out all the information that has been posted here already, and some great search tips for finding commercial music.
Please bookmark that link, as it is the only place on my site that will allow posts relating to commercial music. You can register to post questions and answers or even post as a guest.
Just in the span of about 9 months, this post has generated the answers to a lot of people's questions regarding music in commercials. The forum is a very easy format to use, and if it is as successful as this post's comments section was, you'll most likely find the title of that commercial song you're after.
Thanks!!
Michelle
I'm pretty sure MC just used a sample of the original song by Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love"
nice site - Mike
heres a clip and an album review:
http://store.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,176065,00.html?src=search
"Who needs to think when your feet just go?" So sings Tina Weymouth on Tom Tom Club's debut album. And rightly so -- this was the sunny break in the islands that the rhythm section of Talking Heads wanted and they got it, away from the art school intellectualism that had resulted in the classic, but understandably very un-sunny Remain in Light. This album, a collection of funky, spritely little tunes recorded in Barbados with Weymouth's sisters, hubbie and drummer Chris Frantz, and several of the members of the Remain in Light tour group: Adrian Belew, guitar, and Steven Stanley, percussion. Ironically, hoping to toss off a fun album under the radar, the group came out with an album, the best tracks of which, "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood," became enormously influential throughout the '80s and '90s, eventually getting ripped off wholeheartedly for Mariah Carey's "Daydream." The album also marks a point in music history when the New York alternative scene and the burgeoning hip-hop scene were influencing each other, when both parties were on to something new. It's a snapshot of a time, and still holds together fairly well. ~ Ted Mills, All Music Guide
Posted by: Mike at September 24, 2002 10:36 PM
