I Know T-Mobile's Spawn.

Stranger things have happened than seeing an old acquaintance in a T-mobile advert. Not to this boy, and not this week. With the full video for T-mobile’s Josh’s Band being shown tonight during Channel 4’s Celeb Big Bro it got me thinking: what are the top songs from advertisements we can’t help but love?

‘Spaceman’ – Babylon Zoo

Bizarre song. Bizarre band. Bizarre man. But the nation took it to their hearts. Lets be honest now, you’d never play it at a party so why did people back then? “Spaceman/I always wanted you to go into Spaceman/Intergalactic Christ”. Christ? Bizarre. Just bizarre, but we all still bought it.

‘In The Air Tonight’ – Phil Collins

Early 2006: shall I chuck on some Phil Collins? Er…hello…anyone…
Late 2007: shall I chuck on some Phil Collins? Yeah, and lets all pretend we’re gorillas playing the drums!

Oh how things changed so quickly. Now we have to admit it was a good song after all. Or was it? It was. Or was it? It is. Or is it? It is. Cadbury’s - you are messing with our minds.

‘Mr Bombastic’ - Shaggy

If there was someone truly to blame for Shaggy it was Levi (again). An absolute nonsense of a song that is so simple it could have been written using the preset buttons on a casio keyboard. Nevertheless, a gruff man half-talking about ‘Mr Lover Lover’ still sets our heartbeats racing and gets our testosterone pumping. Try saying “Mr Row Row Romantic” without cracking a smile. I dare you.

‘Come With Me’ – Josh’s Band

And finally, the track that started this whole blog in the first place. The cynical amongst us cringe at, or even question, the premise of Josh’s Band. Was he really found on the street? Did he honestly send that text? There is no doubt that the underlying track ‘Come With Me’ is a stupidly addictive perfect little pop song. “Stay with me…da da dada da…Come with me…dum de doodle da…R-aaa-aaa-un”. Nice.