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Resource for Identifying Catchy Commercial Tunes

Posted by Cliff on from the what-WAS-that-jingle? dept.

mr2 asks: "Is there a resource out there that collects information on those catchy tunes for the newer commercials. For example, I'd love to know who the artist is for the new Pentium III commercial with the monkey. The Crystal Method (VW I think) and The Orb (VW Bug) are two examples of this. MozillaZine has a nice idea on this, but it's not updated as frequently as I would like (last update 2/15). Slashdot would be a cool place for this. Music to /. by!" You know, I've always wondered who did the music to that cool Volkswagon commercial where everything happens on time with the music. So if something like this does exist, I know I'll be using it!

8 comments

  1. Pentium Monkey tune by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... is `Ponta de Lanca Africano' (Umbabarauma), which appears on David Byrne's `Beleza Tropical' compilation of Brazilian music, an excellent disc.

  2. Name that tune by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is there any site that would let me identify a haunting tune that appears toward the end of Theo Angelopolous' "Ulysses Gaze". It is not a part of the viola/string-oriented score by Elena Karaindrou, but instead is an upbeat (albeit minor key) piano melody with a eastern-europe rock sound: E-E-E-E-E-D-C, C-C-C-C-C-B-A, A-A-A-A-G, A-A-A-A-G, F-E...

  3. All about adverts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A recent issue of WiReD ran an article about a
    subscription service, mainly aimed at ad.
    agencies, that allows you to preview all new U.S.
    adverts going to TV (and possibly radio too),
    with info about who the "talent" was, so that a
    lazy agency who wants to make an ad. just like
    the great one they saw last night on Fox, can
    poach the talent. Or that's what the Wired article
    seems to suggest will be the main use.

  4. VW has the info on their web page. by Smack · · Score: 1

    Check it out: http://www3.vw.com/vwworld/music.htm

    FYI: the commercial with everything in time to the music uses "Jung at Heart" by Master Cylinder.

  5. Found It! by jorje · · Score: 1

    Check out http://www.adcritic.com/music/
    It has lots of recent commercials (including the VW and Intel ones), with the names of the songs and artists as well as quicktimes of the actual commercials.

  6. That would be cool by wilhelm · · Score: 1

    When they started up the latest of the BMW commercials, I really liked the music they were using. I tried sending some mail to them to ask who did the music for their commmercials, but they never replied.

  7. MELDEX by GeorgeH · · Score: 1

    The Melody Index (MELDEX) from is designed to do just that. You sing a few bars and in theory it will come up with the song. I doubt that it will be too successful, as anyone who's ever had a friend who just had to sing that new techno song to you knows. Still, pretty interesting stuff. Pertinent links: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990419 /08/odd-melody http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/dlib /dlib/may97/meldex/05witten.html http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~nzdl/meldex

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  8. Most companies post the info on their sites by JoeMoBlow · · Score: 1

    I found that VW posted all the info about the Bug commercials when the first came out. I haven't checked in a while, but I would assume that they still do it. I've been trying to find the artist who did the music behind Intel's "Monkey" P3 ad. Cool Brazilian stuff.