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What's that Song in the Geico Commercial?

'Remind Me,' by Röyksopp

Insurance company Geico uses Röyksopp's 'Remind Me' as airport music for a commercial in its "Cavemen" advertising campaign. Röyksopp is Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge, from Bergen, Norway, who started experimenting with electronic music in the early '90s. However, they had not performed together until 2001, when they released their first album, 'Melody A.M.' During the ad, their 'Remind Me' plays while one of the campaign's cultured Neanderthals is on a moving walkway at the airport. He passes a sign whose slogan obviously upsets him: "It's so easy a caveman could do it!" The popular advertising campaign has been so successful it spawned the new 'Cavemen' comedy series on ABC.

Röyksopp have licensed their music out to other companies for use in commercials before Geico, including T-Mobile: The duo's first single, 'So Easy,' which aided their rise in popularity around the U.K. after the cellular phone company featured the song in an advertisement. Röyksopp -- the name comes from the Norwegian word for "smoke mushroom" -- also found popularity by releasing a few experimental music videos. The clip for 'Remind Me' earned the group the 2002 MTV Europe Best Music Video. Röyksopp are also known for their remixes of songs originally by Coldplay, Beck, Peter Gabriel, the Streets and Queens of the Stone Age.

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Susan

Hey, y'all - Who sings the song on that car commercial that goes, "I like to live on the edge...?" Also, in the Liberty Mutual Insurance ad, where the words go, "...and I don't know, is this the part where you find out ..."? Thanks!!

January 24 2008 at 1:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Debbie

Does anyone know the song in the Allstate Teen Driver commercial?

January 21 2008 at 12:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
chris

Does anyone know if the song in the Chase bank
ads a remix of the Rolling Stones hit "I'm Free"
is really them and is it avalible.Has it been relased yet?

December 13 2007 at 10:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cris

ok well I found what I was looking for.. Cat Stevens wrote & sand the original song.. The woman that sings it in the commercial only sang 30 seconds of it for the commercial.. oh well!(Diamonmd Commercial)

November 04 2007 at 3:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cris

Anyone know the song in the diamond commercial where the husband lays a diamond necklace on his wifes chest as she is sleeping.. then she wakes up and he pretends to be asleep then smiles..??

November 01 2007 at 1:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Amber

What about the song from the "Diamond is Forever" commercial? I looked it up but when I found the song it was an old man! I want to know the female who sings it.

November 01 2007 at 3:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
L

Anyone know the song in that old Xerox commercial; with that girl who is paining and the paint drips down onto paper a floor below.

I know somewhere in the song it says "kick it!"

October 31 2007 at 8:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sdw

oh and Kevin found this for ya.hope it helps and its what you're looking for...

3. “Physical” featuring Timbaland
Produced by Timbaland
-The upbeat song has a thumping baseline and starts off with a rap by Timb. The hook goes, “Let’s dance, let’s get physical, work your body like some cardio. Let’s dance, let’s get physical, let’s get emotional and take off our clothes.” Some of the song can be heard in the movie Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer.
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October 23 2007 at 12:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sdw

I've been looking for the Verizon juke commercial everywhere..no luck. Anyone know the song artist title anything?

October 22 2007 at 8:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mazie

the song for the razor is "le disko" by shiny toy guns. great song!

October 19 2007 at 8:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply