Bending a perfectly good piece of music to an advertising task and rewriting the lyrics.
As I think PMGT said, sometimes I have to get to the remote and mute the TV within three seconds.

I can live with it if there's a cheeky cockney knees-up tune on the radio while exhorting us to visit a local caravan retailer, but when you get the fucking Halifax advert with a choir howling 'I'll be there' mournfully I want to stab myself in the ears with an icepick.

Pirelli just having a version of Nessun Dorma playing in the background is fine, re-lyricing Beach Boys 'Good Vibrations' to try and flog you lawn fertiliser can also fuck off.

The jury's still out with that Pulp (EDIT Yes, it was Blur) track on the British Gas advert but what Persil did to 'We Will Rock You' sung by pot-banging out-of-tune kids made me reach for the control so quickly I almost broke a knuckle on the sofa arm.

Fucking ad execs!
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 5 Oct 2012, 19:50, 4 replies)

Has anyone else noticed the Santander advert
where I presume a northerner has written the script and rhymed 'dance' and 'romance' which in and of itself would be fine but they have a southerner do the voiceover so it doesn't rhyme at all. Annoys the fuck out of me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cogy_WDjtwk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 5 Oct 2012, 20:45, closed)

Plus that shitty rhyme effort
has already been done by Chris De Burgh.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 5 Oct 2012, 20:54, closed)

Gah, I'd not thought of that before.
Possibly because I had tried to expunge the memory of that song from my brain. I wonder what his excuse was.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 5 Oct 2012, 21:07, closed)

Wonga dot com
Have their new radio adverts done to a re-lyriced version of "Lovely day". Just another reason to hate them.
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 21:06, closed)

That's it, non-commercial radio will be dead to me
until this ceases.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 5 Oct 2012, 21:56, closed)

I thought it was Blur?

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 21:30, closed)

Ah, yes sorry. Those two bands tend to 'Blur' (ahem) into one for me. Britpop happened
when I was metalling and progging my way through the 90s and was somewhat distant.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 5 Oct 2012, 21:50, closed)