The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
posted by Kong on August 19, 2002
Because I watch a lot of TV, I've noticed that the Clash are being used in commercials for Jaguar ("London Calling") and Stoli Vodka ("Should I Stay or Should I Go").
http://www.songtitle.info/latest.htm
I'm sure the Clash no longer own their publishing and probably didn't personally approve of the ads (or make money from it). I don't begrudge anyone of selling a song to a commerical (the Buttholes sold a song to Nintendo), still it's just very strange to associate the Clash with luxury automobiles.
Then again, our age group is now old enough to hold senior positions in ad companies and can raid their high school memories for their corporate accounts (and gulp, we're probably the target age for luxury sports cars too). I've heard the Buzzcocks for Mitsubishi and last night I heard Blondie for some other car company. Just the Clash for Jaguar is particularly weird, methinks.