Cover Songs in Music

[mgk920]

There have been a LOT of pretty bad ads lately with 1980s song riffs, too...



Mike

[abefroman329]

There have been a LOT of pretty bad ads lately with 1980s song riffs, too...



Mike

It's weird, I saw commercials in England that were clearly aimed at aging Gen-Xers (one had He-Man and Skeletor re-enacting the final dance scene from Dirty Dancing) years before they started airing here.

[tchafe1978]

Is it just me, or when there's a popular song in an ad, it's always the worst cover of it?

And why do many of those seem to be pharmacutical ads? Ozempic, anyone?

[Stephane Dumas]

The Canadian band the Headstones did a cover of Gordon Lightfoot, who recently passed away, song "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LBkYjniTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

[Stephane Dumas]

Contry singer Luke Combs did a very good cover of Tracy Chapman song "Fast car".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SODqe0Tlnac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOAlaACuv4

[mgk920]

Kind of a sad statement, but the latest Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart (2023-07-01) has country titles in the #1 and #2 positions, including the above mentioned cover at #2.



Mike

[Road Hog]

Wouldn't call it sad, it's just a reversion to the anti-disco Urban Cowboy fad of 1980-1981. Mind you, these songs aren't being played on KISS so it's mostly a tempest in a teapot.

[Rothman]

Love this one.

https://youtu.be/0xAXkmo-HTI