Audio CD review:
Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, The Lemonheads, The Cult, Fatboy Slim - As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials

Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, The Lemonheads, The Cult, Fatboy Slim - As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials

Band: Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, The Lemonheads, The Cult, Fatboy Slim Title: As Seen on TV: Songs from Commercials Rating: Release Date: 05 June, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Pink Moon - Nick Drake (Volkswagen) 2: The Wind - Cat Stevens (Timberland) 3: The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy (The Gap) 4: All Mixed Up - Red House Painters (The Gap) 5: Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads (FTD) 6: The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield (Canon) 7: Whatever Lola Wants - Sarah Vaughan (Levi's) 8: History Repeating - Propellerheads (Jaguar) 9: Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim (NYSE) 10: Little Fluffy Clouds (7' Edit) - The Orb (Volkswagen) 11: Rock N' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) - Handsome Boy Modeling School (MTV & The NFL) 12: I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim US Guitar Edit) - Groove Armada (Mitsubishi) 13: Got To Give It Up, Pt.1 - Marvin Gaye (Levi's) 14: Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha - Trio (Volkswagen) 15: Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (Royal Carribean Cruises & Mitsubishi) 16: 20th Century Boy - T. Rex (Mitsubishi) 17: What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks (Toyota) 18: Boys Better - The Dandy Warhols (The Gap) 19: She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult (Nissan) 20: Mr. Roboto - Styx (Volkswagen)

Editoral Review But the trend set by those savvy TV advertising execs of pushing products from cars to clothes to cruises through hipster songs has resulted in an undeniably quality, albeit disparate, compilation. This collection begs the question: Do the means justify the end? Even the title, As Seen on TV, is so crass one might expect a free set of Ginsu knives to be thrown in with the disc. From the devastatingly simple "Pink Moon," sullenly crooned by the late Nick Drake, to the new wave-punk classic Buzzcocks tune "What Do I Get" to Sarah Vaughan's sassy "What Lola Wants," the 20 tracks here capture a snapshot of 21st-century, post-adolescent life as it is portrayed--you guessed it--through TV. The resulting cultural implications are probably too disturbing to explore (that we are a society where our musical touchstones are fabricated by commercialism), but if you can ignore the source, this compilation has plenty that will speak to the soul and get the body grooving. --Beth Massa .. You can see a complete list of all Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, The Lemonheads, The Cult, Fatboy Slim discography, or go back to the Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, The Lemonheads, The Cult, Fatboy Slim tabs