On the Discovery Channel's latest reality show, MONSTER HOUSE, homeowners give up their homes for a week to a team of builders in return for a tricked out theme home. The show's catchy main title theme song is unlike anything "monster" and is sung by singer/songwriter Dan Mackenzie. You can listen to the theme song here, and will be available in the fall on a full-length album of songs heard on MONSTER HOUSE.
The channel's other hit "Monster" show, MONSTER GARAGE, (where famed bike builder Jesse James leads a team building customized "theme" machines) also has a soundtrack available for purchase through the Original Production's website.
July 26, 2003
Too Much Pie
In the trailer for the release of the third American Pie film, AMERICAN WEDDING, we hear the song "You're The First, The Last, My Everything," by the "Maestro of Love" Barry White, who passed away recently. White's music is a mainstay of advertising and soundtracks, including the recent Ally McBeal TV series.
Speaking of American Pie, that series also has the distinction of the most blatant "cash-in" re-re-releases on DVD. You can now choose from 17 not-so-different releases of the American Pie films on DVD, including the new American Pie "Beneath the Crust" versions.
The latest Humvee commercial, the Big Race, features the song "Happy Jack" by The Who. The ad is entertaining, showing kids racing box cars down a hilly road, except Jack who takes a shortcut with his hand-crafted Hummer for a little off-road journey.
He sees a girl, their eyes meet and there's an instant connection. She steps on the subway train and soon she'll be out of his life forever. Except she's clever enough to pop some Dentyne Ice gum in her mouth and exhale the trademark Icy breath onto the subway car's window, fogging it up, and writing her phone number out for the guy. Anyway, the music is called "Way You Walk" by a band called Papas Fritas.
Did you know that among nominating shows like "Six Feet Under," "Sex and the City" and "Will & Grace," the Primetime Emmy Awards also recognize outstanding commercials? This year, one very popular commercial from Volkswagen is nominated: "Squares", featuring original music by J. Ralph.
According to the latest KIA Motors TV commercial, you should make every(thing) count -- Halloween, Dares, Miles... The music featured in the ad is all that really counts around here. The song is "My Friend" by Groove Armada.
Wondering what that piano-rock track you're hearing in the Garnier Fructis Shampoo/Conditioner ads on TV is? It's "Diamonds and Guns" performed by Transplants.
MTV debuted it's new animated series, Spider-Man, tonight. British DJs John Digweed and Nick Muir are working on the soundtrack for the series, which Digweed comments that "they normally make dance numbers, and this is quite a new experience for them. He adds that they are putting together intensive sounds that would make for a great club hit."
The ad for GMC featuring a horse sticking his head out the side of a trailer enjoying the fresh air features the song "I Turned You On" by the Isley Brothers. (Found in the ever-resourceful user Forums!)
The Honda "Cog" commercial is easily the most intriguing ad I've seen in a long time. And, it only took 606 tries to get everythiing to work in one continuous, no special effects, shot. By the way, the music heard at the end is "Rapper's Delight" by the SugarHill Gang.
According to a post in the Forums, the music heard in the commercial for the Honda Civic Nation is supposedly a remix of "Calling Card" by Denizen Kane, produced by Universe Neo for a CD compilation included in BLU Magazine.
The Honda website states about the commercial: "Honda searched Southern California for the most aggressively styled Civics on the road. What we found were 64 Civic owners who happily agreed to show off their customized vehicles to the nation. It's all a part of a unique Honda commercial that showcases the free expression and creativity of Civic owners."
The SEX AND THE CITY website features a very thorough Episode Guide with an even more thorough Music Credits section, providing a short blurb of the scene in which the music is heard.
However it doesn't mention the music from the latest HBO ad for the series, featuring the glamourous four accompanied by the Betty Hutton song "It's Oh So Quiet." (Most recently covered by Bjork on her album, "Post.")
Monster Discovery
Too Much Pie
Barry White - All-Time Greatest Hits
Hummer Big Race & Happy Jack
The Who: The Ultimate Collection
Buildings and Grounds
Music to Mauzner By
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Greatest Hits
Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)
Bunkka
Transplants
Bedrock
The Isleys Live
The Best Of SugarHill Gang: Rapper's Delight
Tree City Legends
The Best of the RCA Years
Post
Sex and the City - The Complete First Season