Tune Me In

Over the past few years I  have come across a bunch of really cool songs as a result of watching TV commercials.  The song accompanying the commercial catches my ear and then I can't stop thinking about the dang thing.  Thanks to several Internet sites, I have often been able to track down the majority of them.  It is the exceptions that bother me.

John Lydon did a really great cover of Route 66 for Mountain Dew way back when.  Unfortunately it was never released.  More recently there have been a couple of songs that I have heard on commercials that have totally grabbed my attention.  Today is Pretty Great by Vintage Trouble is a song that I really love.  Honda is using it in their new Civic commercial.  I also love Stepping Out by Mutato Muzika (Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo) which is used in a Lexus commercial.  These songs too have never been made available for release.

There must be many others out there who feel the same way that I do about these songs and probably other songs too.  Just a thought...why not make them available for download for a donation....take the funds and the company along with the artist could pick a charity to direct the funds to.  This is a WIN all the way around.   The fans, get the songs we want, the company and the artists get the publicity that they want, and a charity gets the funds that it desperately needs.

Come on all you big time movers and shakers make this work!  If you did then just maybe....Today WOULD BE Really Great!!!