The latest Virginia Tourism commercial is using Dave Matthew’s “Stay or Leave” (iTunes).

“Stay or Leave” Lyrics (iTunes)
Maybe different, but remember
Winters warm there you and I,
Kissing whiskey by the fire
With the snow outside
And when the summer comes
The river swims at midnight
Shiver cold
Touch the bottom, you and I,
with muddy toes

Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good, as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did

Wake up naked drinking coffee,
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing us…
It was good good love.
You used to laugh under the covers
Maybe not so often now
But the way I used to laugh with you
Was loud and hard

Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did

So what to do
With the rest of today’s afternoons, hey
Isn’t it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that I could

That I should’a done

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you left me?
What day is this
Besides the day you went?

So what to do
With the rest of the day’s afternoons, hey
Well isn’t it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that I could?

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be you and me
I want to be too
What day is this?
Besides the day you left me
What day is this?

Yes, the very concept of KMart and style in the same sentence defies logic, but that is their latest campaign. And they are using good music - Nikka Costa “Everybody’s got their something” (iTunes) - great song from a great album.

“Everybody’s got their something” lyrics (iTunes)
My face to the sky
Dreaming about just how high
I could go and Ill know
When I finally get there

Taking of my glasses
Sun pokes through my lashes
And somehow I know
Theres a time for every star to shine

Everybody got their something
Everybody got their something
Make you smile like an itty bitty child

People keeping score
Say better hurry up and get yours
Cause somebody else get your spot
Before you even dropped

Seek and you shall find
Everything in my own sweet time
Ill take my chances
With what I believe is only mine

Busy holding on
So the roof dont fly
Keep you from moving on
So get it right
Turn the tide over
Like a love song
Like a butterfly
Believe if you hand it over
Youll come out all right

Everybody got their something
Everybody got their something
Make you smile like an itty bitty child

Illuminate the silly things
Shed some light on all thats wrong
Everybody need it sometime
Sometimes the only thing you got
Is what makes you feel like
Youre something else altogether
You have everything dont need
Another reason to be something
Ive been on a ride
And caught up in the landslide
But Im gonna spread my wings and fly…

Everybody got their something
Everybody got their something
Make you smile like an itty bitty child

Theres a time for every star
Theres a time for every star…

Tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother closed with a great song from Big Star called “Thirteen” (iTunes). Was really hard to hear the lyrics - tried a few times and finally figured it out.

By the way, I thought Britney Spears was really good (playing herself). Also wondering if this is the titular “Your Mother”. She was at a St. Patty’s day party and left early. It seems pretty obvious - maybe too obvious.

“Thirteen” lyrics (iTunes)
Won’t you let me walk you home from school
Won’t you let me meet you at the pool
Maybe Friday I can
get tickets for the dance
and I’ll take you
Won’t you tell your dad, “Get off my back”
Tell him what we said ’bout ‘Paint It Black’
Rock ‘n Roll is here to stay
Come inside where it’s okay
And I’ll shake you.
Won’t you tell me what you’re thinking of
Would you be an outlaw for my love
If it’s so, well, let me know
If it’s “no”, well, I can go
I won’t make you

At first I thought Nike was using a TV on Radio song for their current campaign, but it’s not, it’s an artist named Saul Williams. Interesting choice of song, since it’s about reparations. The song is called “List of Demands (Reparations)” (iTunes)

“List of Demands (Reparations)” (iTunes) lyrics
I want my money back. I’m down here drowning in your fat. You got me on my knees praying for everything you lack. I ain’t afraid of you. I’m just a victim of your fears. You cower in your tower praying that I’ll disappear, I got another plan, one that requires me to stand. On the stage or in the street, don’t need no microphone or beat. And when you hear this song, if you ain’t dead then sing along. Bang and strum to these here drums til you get where you belong.

I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands. I ball my fist and you’re gonna know where I stand. We’re living hand to mouth! You wanna be somebody? See somebody? Try and free somebody? I gotta list of demands written on the palm of my hands. I ball my fist and you’re gonna know where I stand. We’re living hand to mouth! Hand to mouth!

I wrote a song for you today while I was sitting in my room. I jumped up on my bed today and played it on a broom. I didn’t think that it would be a song that you would hear, but when I played it in my head, I made you reappear. I wrote a video for it and I acted out each part. Then I took your picture out and taped it to my heart. I’ve taped you to my heart dear girl, I’ve taped you to my heart and if you pull away from me you’ll tear my life apart..

I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands. I ball my fist and you’re gonna know where I stand. We’re living hand to mouth! You wanna be somebody? See somebody? Try and free somebody? I gotta list of demands written on the palm of my hands. I ball my fist and you’re gonna know where I stand. We’re living hand to mouth! Hand to mouth!

Ecstacy, suffering, Echinacea, bufferin. We aim to remember what we choose to forget. God’s just a baby and her diaper is wet.
Call the police! I’m strapped to the teeth and liable to disregard your every belief. Call on the law! I’m fixin’ to draw a line between what is and seems and call up a brawl. Call’em up now! ’cause it’s about to go pow! I’m standing on the threshold of the ups and the downs. Call up a truce! ’cause I’m about to bust loose. Protect ya neck,’cause, son, I’m breaking out of my noose.

I got a list of demands written on the palm of my hands. I ball my fist and you’re gonna know where I stand. We’re living hand to mouth! You wanna be somebody? See somebody? Try and free somebody? I gotta list of demands written on the palm of my hands. I ball my fist and you’re gonna know where I stand. We’re living hand to mouth! Hand to mouth!

Just saw the Sun Chips commercial using the Sixpence None the Richer song “Kiss Me” (iTunes) in the background. They use no lyrics - so I thought it might be helpful to post it here.

“Kiss Me” (iTunes)

Sun Chips Commercial (YouTube)

No one knows where to find the band who did this commercial. If you know who they are and where they’re from - send me a note through the contact page.

The band is call Will Advise apparently - and the song may have been done specifically for the commercial. Confirmation please?

Cool commercial with, cool commercial music from Joe Purdy. The commercial shows drivers not being able to remember where the gas tank is. The song is called “Can’t Get It Right Today” (iTunes).

“Can’t Get It Right Today” (iTunes) Lyrics
I just can’t seem to get it right today
I just can’t seem to get it right today
I just can’t seem to get it right today
I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh, I guess I’m gonna give up

It’s nearly been a year since he’s been gone
And we still sing his goodbye songs
Goodness knows she should move on
But she just can’t let him go
No, she just can’t let him go

I’m sorry if I made you want to cry
I’m sorry if I made you want to cry
You should know, I never meant to hide
I just hate bringing you down
Oh, I just hate bringing you down

I just can’t seem to get it right today
I just can’t seem to get it right today
I just can’t seem to get it right today
I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh, I guess I’m gonna give up

And I dropped my paintbrush in the dirt
Still remember just how much that hurt
I cut my hand and wait for it to work
But I just couldn’t bring him back
No, I just couldn’t bring him back

I just can’t seem to get it right today
Oh, I just can’t seem to get it right today
I just can’t seem to get it right today
I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh, I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh Lord I said I guess I’m gonna give up
Oh Lord I said I guess I’m gonna give up

Cool commercial by K-Swiss with the athlete jumping from building to building. And they’re using one of my all-time favorite songs - “Bohemian Like You” (iTunes) by the Dandy Warhols.

“Bohemian Like You” (iTunes) Lyrics

You’ve got a great car,
Yeah, what’s wrong with it today?
I used to have one too,
Maybe I’ll come and have a look.
I really love your hairdo,Yeah,
I’m glad you like mine too,
See what lookin’ pretty cool will get ya.

So what do you do?
Oh yeah I wait tables too.
No I haven’t heard your band,
Cause you guys are pretty new.
But if you dig on Vegan food,
Well come over to my work,
I’ll have them cook you something that you’ll really love,

Cause I like you,
Yeah, I like you,
And I’m feeling so Bohemian like you,
Yeah, I like you,
Yeah, I like you,
And I feel wahoo, wooo

Wohoo hoo hoo X4

Wait,
Who’s that guy,
Just hanging at your pad.
He’s looking kinda BUMMED,
Yeah, you broke up that’s too bad.
I guess its fair if he always pays the rent,
and he doesn’t get bent about sleeping on the couch when I’m there,

Cause I like you,
Yeah I like you,
And I’m feeling so Bohemian like you.
Yeah I like you,
Yeah I like you,
And I feel wahoo, woooo
Wohoo hoo hoo X3

I’m getting wise,
and i’m feeling so Bohemian like you,
It’s you that I want so please,
just a casual, casual easy thing.
Is it? It is for me.
And I like you,
Yeah I like you,
And I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you
I like you.
And I feel wahoo, woooo
Wohoo hoo hoo X4

Amy requested this one - it’s the Ford Edge commercial where the woman is transfixed by the vista moon roof to the extent that she forgets to get out of the car. Well the music is by Band of Horses and the song is called “The Funeral” (iTunes)

The site’s traffic has blown up recently. A lot of people sending in requests for songs. A couple of things:

I’m attempting to add forums to the site; that way any requests can be made to the general public. Look for the forums by the end of the month.

Another great commercial by JCPenney. Looks like Saatchi and Saatchi does their campaigns - they do a good job. The music in the commercial is by The Dragonettes called “Get Lucky”. As always, the lyrics are below along with the commercial itself.

(Looking for it on iTunes - can’t find it - will add a link to purchase when I find it)

Dragonette’s Myspace Page

“Get Lucky” Lyrics
Sometimes the sun shines on us
Sometimes the rain goes and a rainbow’s all that’s left
We got lucky, hey, didn’t we, baby?

‘Cause I like your head on my shoulder
I like the way you smile, the way you smile oh oh
We both think the weather’s getting better
So let’s get lucky, let’s go all the way

I found you seaside in the fog
I hadn’t tried a lot of looking for anything at all
The cloud cover of fog
All the hearts I’m gonna’ love in the morning

And I like my head on your shoulder
I like the way you smile, the way you smile oh oh
And we both think the weather’s getting better
So let’s get lucky, let’s go all the way

All the way, get lucky
The weatherman says it’s wet and cloudy
Stay indoors, sit out the storm
It looks like this might be a quickie

Hey handsome, we got it good
Hey mister, we gone and done it
Just because we could
Because it’s cloudy out there
Staying in like we should

‘Cause I like your head on my shoulder
Me I like the way you smile, the way you smile oh oh
And we both know the weather will get better
So let’s get lucky, let’s go all the way
Let’s get lucky, come on, go all the way

Nice - the Red Bull Flutag commercial is using the classic Jimmy Cliff song “You Can Get it if You Really Want” (iTunes).



“You Can Get it if You Really Want” lyrics (iTunes)
(CHORUS:)
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try and try, try and try
You’ll succeed at last

Persecution you must bear
Win or lose, you got to get your share
Got your mind set on a dream
You can get it though hard it may seem, now

(CHORUS)

I know it listen

Rome was not built in a day
Opposition will come your way
But the harder the battle you see
It’s the sweeter the victory, now

(CHORUS)

(CHORUS)

Volvo is using a song that isn’t available commercially. The song is called “I Adore You” by Swede Melpo Mene. Here is Melpo Mene’s MySpace page where you can listen to the song.

The song includes the following lyrics:

the lyrics are as follows:

lost in a daydream of blue and i feel so free
and then it’s like i fall from the sky everything i see is you
oh i adore you

The end of the Terminator tonight was something else. Very well done - the quality of a motion picture.

Why didn’t the Kester kill Ellison? Because he wasn’t a threat or because he still needs him?

The song used at the end of the finale is Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” (iTunes)

“The Man Comes Around” lyrics (iTunes)
Opening Introduction (Spoken part)

And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse
Song
There’s a man going around taking names and he decides
Who to free and who to blame every body won’t be treated
Quite the same there will be a golden ladder reaching down
When the man comes around

The hairs on your arm will stand up at the terror in each
Sip and each sup will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter’s ground
When the man comes around
CHORUS
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till Armageddon no shalam no shalom

Then the father hen will call his chicken’s home
The wise man will bow down before the thorn and at his feet
They will cast the golden crowns
When the man comes around

Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around
CHORUS
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks
In measured hundred weight and penny pound
When the man comes around
Close (Spoken part)
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And it’s name it said on him was Death
And Hell followed with him.