Commercials have a special way of pissing everyone off with their repetitiveness and content, but something that can make them pleasantly less painful is the choice of music they add in the background. Lately, commercials have become a lot more creative and explorative of the use of different genres in their advertisements, which has been a huge boost to the indie and alternative communities. I would like to use this opportunity to explore some of the commercials with the better music, regardless if it's entertaining or not. Note, I will not be referencing any LMFAO however, they are irrelevant.



Superbowl 2012 Audi Advertisement - "The Killing Moon," by Echo & The Bunnymen

Superbowl commercials are notorious for being random, funny, and outrageous, this one is absolutely preposterous. First of all, I'm beyond sick of the whole vampire obsession in our culture right now. Minus True Blood, because that show is brilliant. Second of all, okay, the concept IS kind of funny. But this song is way too good to be in that commercial.

I love this song and I love love love Nick Drake. I was surprised while researching songs in commercials that this was one of them. Boring video, beautiful song. Can't win 'em all, right?

I like rum, and I like The White Stripes. I'm okay with this commercial. Also, I didn't realize that this song was also used in The Social Network opening credits. "Captain Morgan, to life, love and loot!" I'll drink to that.


I'm pretty positive that everyone has heard this song, thanks to the amazing TV show "House." However, before that it was shown in the commercial for the video game "Assassin's Creed," which honestly was a perfect fit. The slow, seductive tempo of the song fit nicely with how advertisers wanted their audience to view the game. Nice choice guys, nice.

God, I've been wondering what happened to Peaches. Ever since I first heard "Operate" and "Fuck The Pain Away," I knew I would be singing her praises till kingdom come. Anyway, this song and the commercial come together wonderfully. There's an enormous sumo wrestler lying on top of a Subaru trying to be sexy and distracting, obviously it worked wonders. Hilarious commercial, perfect song choice.

How is it that all of the car commercials have the best music? Once again, another indie hipster popular, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros represent Ford. Great song, an even better album. Please, just don't be one of those people who've only listened to "Home" and considered yourself an Edward Sharpe expert.


Impressive work, Bing. Lykke Li is awesome. Big fan of this track.


Who doesn't remember this commercial? I'm not a huge fan of the M&M commercials, I find them irritating, but when I loved this when I first saw it on TV. It was honestly probably because of the song. I love Iron & Wine, and the Postal Service, and it was on the Garden State soundtrack. Obviously it was going to make my list of top advertisements.