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It's A Blur Song!

 Songs featured in commercials, movies, series and events    
          Gorillaz Songs
 mostly in 1998-2005.


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What series have featured the songs the most?
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Did you know?



Song Title Featured in:
Advert
  • a trailer of an unknown serie
Ambulance
  • an unknown UK program about war in Iraq
  • an MTV advert (on MTV Nordic)
  • MTV On The Beach (MTV program)
  • Gordon's Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (serie)
  • Top Gear (serie)
Battle
  • Unbreakable (movie trailer)
  • As If (serie)
  • an unknown football program
  • MTV Movie Awards 2000 (Saving Private Ryan trailer)
Beetlebum
  • Daria (serie)
  • an unknown German movie
Beetlebum (Moby Remix)
  • Slendor (movie)
  • Burnside (serie)
B.L.U.R.E.M.I.
  • MTV At Quart Festival '99 (program)
Caramel
  • As If (serie)
  • Eminem BIOrythm (MTV document)
Charmless Man
  • Renault (advert) (Italy)
  • Real World Miami (MTV serie)
  • I Love The 90's (VH1 show)
  • in the background on MTV while VJ is talking
Coffee & TV
  • Cruel Intentions (movie)
  • Daria ("Antisocial Climbers") (serie)
  • Eastenders (serie)
  • Inspector Frost (serie)
  • The Sopranos ("Pine Barrens") (serie)
  • in the background of a show called 24/7
  • MTV programs:
    • Ashlee Simpson Show
    • Ben Stiller Uncensored
    • DisMissed
    • FANatic - George Clooney
    • Made Actress
    • MTV Movie Awards Uncensored
    • Newly Weds
    • Pimp My Ride
    • True Life
    • MTV Movie Awards 2000 (Cruel Intentions trailer - "Best Kiss")
Coping
  • Bargain Hunt (BBC serie)
Country Sad Ballad Man
  • This Life (serie)
  • an unknown cigarette advert
  • an unknown German movie
  • an unknown UK program about space
Country House
  • Daria ("I Don't") (serie)
  • I Love The 90's (VH1 show)
  • Tail Daters (MTV show)
  • Wozzup (an Italian TV program)
Cowboy Song
  • Dead Man On Campus (movie)
Crazy Beat
  • Levi's ("Car") (advert)
  • Teen Nick (advert on Nickelodeon)
  • an advert for television program on MTV Nordic
  • Gilmore Girls (serie)
  • The Real International Football Factories (serie)
  • Top Gear (serie)
  • a documentary about Dream Team serie
  • an advert for Michael Carroll: King of Chavs documentary on Channel 4
  • MTV programs:
    • DisMissed
    • Meet the Barkers
    • Real World
    • Room Raiders
    • MTV Movie Awards 2003 (Kick It Like Beckham trailer)
    • MTV Music Video Awards 2003
  • Basketball game in the USA
Death Of A Party
  • Burnside (trailer)
The Debt Collector
  • Big Brother (serie)
Far Out
  • an astronomy program on The Science Channel
Gene By Gene
  • Top Gear (serie)
Get Out Of Cities
  • The Box (advert)
  • Top Gear (serie)
Girls & Boys
  • an advert for MTV's DisMissed competition
  • House of America (movie)
  • As If (serie)
  • Bargain Hunt (BBC serie)
  • Hollyoaks (serie)
  • Diary of Girls Aloud (MTV document)
  • I Love The 90's (VH1 show)
  • in the background on MTV just before the commercial break
  • on Eurosport
Good Song
  • an advert for E4's Big Brother in the UK
  • Wish You Were Here (serie)
He Thought Of Cars
  • Hollyoaks (serie)
Jets
  • an advert for BBC's Wimbledon coverage
  • Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (serie)
  • Top Gear (serie)
Intermission
  • an unknown advert in Spain
It Could Be You
  • Dude, Where's My Car? (movie)
  • This Morning (ITV show)
London Loves
  • Whose Britain Is It Anyway? (documentary)
Lot 105
  • Soccer A.M. (Sky Sports program)
M.O.R.
  • Welcome To Sarajevo (movie)
Money Makes Me Crazy (Marrakech Mix)
  • Soccer A.M. (Sky Sports program)
  • Real Story (BBC serie)
Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club
  • an advert for a football tournament on Channel 5 (UK)
Movin' On
  • Jetset (serie?)
  • an unknown German movie
Music Is My Radar
  • Becoming Blink 182 (MTV serie)
  • a radio advert for an Italian website
  • Brit Awards 2001 (in the background)
No Distance Left To Run
  • Hollyoaks (serie)
On Your Own
  • an unknown German advert
  • Top 20 Goaaaal! (Eurosport program)
On Your Own (Crouch End Broadway Mix)
  • The Beach (movie)
Out Of Time
  • Real Story (BBC serie)
  • Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (serie)
Parklife
  • Chanel (advert)
  • Coca-Cola (advert)
  • Nike (advert)
  • Pal dog food advert in Australia
  • Mayor of the Sunset Strip (movie)
  • Bargain Hunt (BBC serie)
  • I Love The 90's (VH1 show)
  • Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC show)
Sing
  • Trainspotting (movie)
  • Hollyoaks (serie)
  • ER (trailer)
  • This Morning (ITV show)
Song 2
So You (a variation)
  • Ordinary Decent Criminal (movie)
Stereotypes
  • This Life (serie)
Sunday Sunday
  • Paramount Comedy (advert)
  • A Question Of Sport (BBC program)
Swamp Song
  • a program about sharks, presented by John Peel
Sweet Song
  • an unknown advert in Italy
  • Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (serie)
  • Sugar Rush (Channel 4 program)
Tender
  • Gateway (advert)
  • an unknown bank/investing advert in the US
  • Playing Mona Lisa (movie)
  • Southland Tales (movie)
  • Long Way Round (serie & DVD advert)
  • Daria (serie)
  • Prom Date (MTV serie)
  • Three's A Crowd (serie)
  • The Young Americans (serie)
  • To Russia With Love (BBC document)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC comedy)
  • MTV At Quart Festival '99 (program)
There's No Other Way
  • Biography Channel (advert)
  • LeatherCoat (advert) (Canada)
  • Miller Genuine Draft (advert)
  • an unknown English advert
  • an advert for Little Angels serie
  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer (serie)
  • Dennis (a Belgian serie)
  • Doctor Who Confidential (BBC serie)
  • I Love The 90's (VH1 show)
To The End
  • As If (serie)
Top Man
  • Jox (a Finnish TV program)
Trimm Trabb
  • Roswell (serie)
  • Tomorrow's World (BBC serie)
The Universal
  • British Gas (advert)
  • Chrysler (advert)
  • Telefonica (Spanish advert)
  • an advert for an unknown English electronic company
  • an advert for Grand Designs serie
  • The History Boys (movie trailer)
  • Daria ("I Don't") (serie)
  • Gordon's Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (serie)
  • Made (MTV serie)
  • Miami (serie)
  • World Cup 2002 coverage on BBC
  • Rugby World Cup
We've Got A File On You
  • an advert for Smallville serie in Spain
  • The Real International Football Factories (serie)
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (BBC show)
Closet Romantic (by Damon Albarn)
  • Trainspotting (movie)
Dub Lola (by Damon Albarn & Einar Örn Benediktsson)
  • an advert for CBeebies program on BBC
  • an advert for House Of Tiny Tearaways serie on BBC
Makelekele (by Damon Albarn et al)
  • Africa Lives program on BBC
Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery (by Graham Coxon)
  • Sainsbury (advert)
Freakin' Out (by Graham Coxon)
  • The OC (serie)
Outta My League, Dear (by Graham Coxon)
  • I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (serie)
Spectacular (by Graham Coxon)
  • Six Feet Under (serie)
You & I (by Graham Coxon)
  • T-Mobile (Hungarian advert)
You Never Will Be (by Graham Coxon)
  • Mercury Music Prize (advert)
The Good, The Bad & The Queen (by GBQ)
  • Skins (serie)
Green Fields (by GBQ)
  • Skins (serie)
Kissin' Time (by Marianne Faithfull feat. Blur)
  • Sony Ericsson (advert)

What series have featured the songs the most?
 
Top Gear
  • Ambulance
  • Crazy Beat
  • Gene By Gene
  • He Thought Of Cars
  • Jets
Daria
  • Beetlebum
  • Coffee & TV
  • Country House
  • The Universal
As If
  • Battle
  • Caramel
  • Girls & Boys
  • To The End
Hollyoaks
  • Girls & Boys
  • He Thought Of Cars
  • No Distance Lef To Run
  • Sing
Did you know?
  • Tommy Hilfiger once asked to use "Girls & Boys" in their advertising campaign
  • Song 2 is by far the most used Blur song. For example, it has been featured on at least four car ads (BMV, Nissan, Toyota and Peugeot).
  • The American army wanted to use "Song 2" as the theme music for video packages when they unveiled the new Stealth bomber, but the band didn't allow it
  • Blur's music was regularly featured on The Cricket Show on Channel 4 in 2003

If you have anything to add or correct, please contact me.
 

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