My most random purchase from eBay so thought I would share it with the world. Look at the hair, look at the clothes...how many of these can you remember?
hey OP, are you aware that your upload was used to make a fantastic music video for a reconstruction of a lost 80s pop song? surprised nobody's mentioned it in the comments here - look up "Motives Project - World of Lies (Lo-Fi '99 AI Version)" if you haven't seen it
@@hippyraverocker I wonder if the person on ebay will ever find out! Do you have any idea if they were an eccentric recording random/favourite ads, or if this was some sort of official compilation tape made by a marketing company to show off their work?
The adverts of 80s were so much more gentle on the ear, compared to the in your face boisterous ads of today. These vintage ads take me back and not a reality show plug in sight .
They were totally watchable - humorous, imaginative, sometimes sophisticated and although I'm not one of those 'fings woz better in my day' type of people, I really do think that the 80s was a high point for advertising.
That's because the voice-overs were done mainly by men with gravelly voices and good diction whereas nowadays they are done by immature-sounding women trying to convey friendliness by talking whilst smiling.
Look how calm and informative the adverts were. Straight to the point and not like the silly adverts now, with constant music to make you remember the brand. Britain lost the plot after the late 90s..........!
However, older people in the 1980s thought adverts were better in the 1950s, and older people in the 50s thought they were better in the 20s, and so on all the way back to the early days of mass production. As we age, older things make us feel reassured, new things make us feel nervous. It's the same whatever the decade, century or subject. And in 30 years time, today's youngsters will be saying things were so much better in the 2020s...
It is a fact that 70's and 80's advertisements make for great therapy in today's insane world. So fortunate to have been a child of the 70's and 80's! Thanks for sharing🦜
MrAndrew, That is a worrying thing to say and makes alarm bells go off... Except I feel the same!! Send the ambulance to me when you are finished Andy. Mart.
I was born in 1969, today is miles better than it was. Yeah there's crazies and kids doing stupid stuff, same as any generation. But life in general is better all round despite the hardships.
I was a teenager in the 80s. Born in 68. I feel lucky to have been able to enjoy the last decent decade of music and clubbing before things went pear shaped. Yes there were one or two decent singers in the 90s, but the 80s for me, were perfect. The decade ended in my wedding. Unfortunately even though he was a lovely man and we were together for 15 years, he was the wrong man. I was still stuck on the man in his early 20s who is been with aged 17. I still am stuck on him, and even though we email still about family life and work etc he is with someone else. We met at the wrong time. Still glad I met him though. I wouldn’t have such a good friend now.
Just a reminder of how good the entertainers were, and how CLEVER the people who produced these advertisements were too. 40 years ago, and most people STILL remember then.....Now thar's powerful advertising! Take me back to the 80s! ❤❤❤
Who would of thought that when we were watching these adverts back in the 80’s we would be watching them again on something called RU-vid , on something called a smartphone via something called the internet...
I used to work for Apricot Computers in the eighties and they developed voice recognition on their P.C.s., Wireless keyboard and mouse on the Apricot F1 way ahead of Apple. Shame Sir John Harvey Jones, the "Troubleshooter" from BBC2 came along as he gave some rather bad advice to the bosses which they acted upon!
@@Funkstar124 You Tube has stopped me from going insane, because before I used to remember ads and think I only imagined them. But now I can just search for them here!
The fact i recall many of these word for word having not seen them for 30 years shows how well they did their job. The voiceovers are soooo british. A much less abrasive time to be alive !!
When these adverts were on the telly, we were being blown up by the IRA power was being turned off constantly, the streets were dirty and crime-ridden.. yeah, lovely!!...
It was in the eighties that a lager ran an advert that seemed to last ages. As I recall, it featured someone going through all sorts of situations with cowboys and Indians, gangsters. War movies, etc. It was probably about two minutes long but seemed like 20.
I wouldn't say careFree, - we just tend to look back, and Think they were, as we look fondly of the past, because we know what's now , and we don't like it.
It’s the same for me lol. I watch stuff from the 80’s because it was my favourite time period but it sometimes makes me sad or melancholy. I’m only in my 50’s but have days where I feel like there’s nothing left for me in life.
The IRA, Aids, Football hooligans Poverty and people where more ignorant back then than ever. All we had was 4 TV channels to entertain us no internet back then. Everyone smoked in every public place. Everything was naff and cheap.
I remember my parents buying Quatro soft drink for me at Sainsbury in Bracknell (closed February 2020) fond memories evoked by this collection. Thank you.
I was just thinking how I hate adverts on TV nowadays and always FFWD when watching recorded stuff on sky box. How ironic. The difference with these adverts here are that they are sentimental to my childhood, a time when life was a lot more simple.
@@whelkshuffler Must be joking right?! Impossible to get on the housing ladder, immigration has totally changed the face of the country, music is absolute shite, social media has ruined minds, depression is at an all time high.. Yeah brilliant
@BestCanKeanRob2 all far better than anything these days but you don't get what your dealing with these days that someone isn't telling you yet 30 years from now
Magic memories of a time gone by. I remember some of the ads and this is a great trip down memory lane for me. Thanks so much for the upload, a real gem!
@@sedoniadragotta8323 The problems of the world then were ones we'd grown up with. They seemed normal and possible to overcome. That's not the case with the problems we've got now.
I'll always remember when my parents took me and my sister to the Black Country museum. My dad grew up in London. But we had to go through a tunnel and the guy said "Who's going to do this then?" My dad pushed his legs throughout the tunnel, got us all out the other side, and the guy said "Now I know who drinks Carling Black Label". What a great dad ❤️
Oh, the memories! Whilst most of the 80's was really great, as I grew up an Army Brat in Germany, we travelled on the Herald of Free Enterprise, which was a Townsend Thoresen vessel, a couple of weeks before it capsized, killing so many. I also worked for both Thomas Cook and Club 18-30 later on in a life, and both brands are no longer around, sadly. However, if somebody offered me the chance to travel back in time, I would definitely go back to my childhood in the 1980's.
we even could get away with drink driving back then, the amount of times we used to drive to the pub and get pissed and drive home if the police pulled us up it was a case of a talking to about the dangers of drink driving and we were given our car keys back and sent on our way, this was before the great nanny state
That right there ... is the issue. This is England ... our country, we welcomed in people in need ... they didn't integrate, they created areas resembling the shithole they ran from ... now they want the country. It will only get worse.
Totally Different situation. In those days, there were only 4 TV channels and only two of them had adverts. So TV programmes had huge viewing figures cos there was nothing else to watch. Advertising companies could reach a much bigger audience then, so had an incentive to put more into it. nowadays, there are a million other ways to advertise - it's a much more diverse market so advertisers can target adverts much more effectively.
@@th8257 I CAME TO UK FROM PAKISTAN IN 1986 IN BIRMINGHAM MY AUNTY HOME WHEN I SAW 4 CHANNELS I WAS VERY EXCITED BECAUSE ON THESE DAYS IN PAKISTAN ONLY 1 ONE CHANNEL AVAILABLE NOW I AM 48 YEARS OLD AND LIVING IN KARACHI , PAKISTAN BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES OF UK BRITISH PEOPLE ARE REALLY NICE LONG LIVE UK ❤️😭👍
😸 I remember 2000 riding my bike across the Thames and thinking blimey I'm only 37. I had, as a kid done the maths to see how old I'd be in 2000 and got it wrong. Even though its so obvious it was wrong, somehow it gets fixed in your head and I just had a number which was 43 and it had been clanking about in there for twenty years - stupid thing . And then Cooke 125Maanchester was born! Amazing .
When I'm finally in the Loony Bin due to this horrible world of today I want the nurses to keep playing this and giving me pills. I miss the past so much 😢
80s was the best decade for everything. Tv, films, music, sport and the golden age of gaming were all just fantastic. Even the adverts were brilliant. Wonder if I could find a DeLorean and go back in time to this golden decade.
Not a golden decade at all for a lot of people. Beyond the superficial consumerism, there was mass unemployment, the height of the cold war, and a society that was deeply intolerant and fairly nasty. I. Think you'd be fairly shocked at a lot of things if you could go back.
@@th8257 There's something about the years of our youth that no matter how bad society's problems, we still remember the time fondly. I grew up with people being nostalgic about their childhoods during the war. The eighties were crap in a lot of ways, yet I still miss those days.
Why do i get this recommendation just as I’m going to sleep? Hours of nostalgia when England was so good and friendly. Another world compared to the crap we live in.
they would dredge it up every 5 years and then play it relentlessly for 7 months until you wish he was done already. then 5 years pass and a whole new crew discovers, JR hartley
I only remember a small amount of these ads because i was always out & about in the early 1980's i hardly ever watched television. There were far more interesting things to do than sitting on ones backside watching the goggle box, that was for the old fogies 😆lol
@@JohnnyFriendly Thank you replying, yes most of the ads from the 70s & 80s were directed to who would be likely to view them, so the ads were about games, bikes, Barbie Dolls, snack foods, confectionary etc up to the watershed time. Then they were targeted to Mumsy & Dadsy & the latest home improvement, gadgets, gardening, travel/holidays etc Im only just catching up on BBC serialisations which my mother raved about but were of no interest to me then! The only TV i ever watched was Top of the Pops, Ready Steady Go & The Old Grey Whistle Test. As music was my main interest, but i was like a caged animal, as soon as my programmes stopped i was out of the house, nothing would induce me to " watch telly" Actually im still the same! Ive not had a TV for decades, i read or listened to the radio. The tv was boring & manipulative & apart from the odd decent documentary, my tv was a dust collector so gave it away & have never missed it. Im new to the internet even! Ive only been online for 2.5 yrs & im quite pleased with it. Great for researching stuff & viewing brilliant documentaries. Some daft stuff too, cheers me up no end. Cherrio & pip pip etc 👧
@GMW.artist I went to school with a lad who's father wouldn't let them watch BBC because it was for posh (middle class) people. Yet he was happy to watch Upstairs Downstairs, Bucket of Barbed Wire and Hadleigh on ITV.
Wonderful. One of the kids in the first Spania advert looks like a young Moss from the IT Crowd. I've actually got one of those ACT Apricot computers in my collection. I bought it from my college for £25 in 1995.
As a teenager in the 80s you just knew you were on the very edge of the Information Revolution and advances in technology was gathering pace at an exponential level. It felt exciting and scary at the same time and we all craved the latest and greatest. But we have become the victims of our own success, enslaved by the very things we sought after,
@@Sheffield_Steve I couldn't afford it either but I took advantage of the fact Wham! had a packed touring schedule and never used their full luggage allowance. The cramp and semi-asphixiation was worth it.
In the 80's: Bloomin adverts all the time! 2021: "2 hour compilation of adverts from the 80's? Yes please!" If only advertisers could harness the power to make people want to watch adverts hey?
Benny hill, We love him here in the u.s. I'm watching what you guys were watching in the 80's . I'm over a half century old now and I miss the 80's too. I've always wanted to visit the UK, maybe one Day.
I had hundreds of tapes. Then I had a problem with damp in the house and the whole lot went mouldy and wouldn't play. I said some rude words the day I discovered that.
Hahaha I have to laugh. Nowadays, we moan about adverts, and avoid watching them, yet here I am, watching adverts from my childhood lol. I'm pretty sure, that back then, my mum and dad probably moaned about these adverts, back in the day. I certainly couldn't watch an hour and a half of today's adverts lol
Good lord! The days of putting on yr hat & coat, locking up the house, walking half a mile to the high street to use the telephone kiosk! It seems so antiquated!
When every advert wasn't about planning the cost of your grave I remember asking my dad for a box of start was trying to remember the name of that for years
9:40 'it's easy going Townsend Thoresen' unless of course someone falls asleep and leaves the bow doors open. Creepy seeing the Herald if Free Enterprise knowing what would happen to her a couple of years later.
Adverts for Woolworths! Those were the Days! I remember seeing Woolworth Commercials from the 90s with the Phrase... "You May Forget What You Went In For", and now Woolworths has been closed down! I remember it happening and I was really upset because I often bought DVDs and CDs even CD Singles I bought in there and I lost count of how many CD Singles I bought in Woolworths! Sometimes I wish they'd bring it back but I guess they never will unless there is a huge Campain or Something... Great Video! So many lovely Adverts from before I was Born! :) And that's coming from someone who was Born in the 90s! :) The 80s were Great weren't they?
All I could think as those people slid around on the ferry was, "I wonder is that the Herald of Free Enterprise". Surreal looking back on that TT ad nowadays.
Alison Moyet!! What a woman!! What a voice!!! She was one of my mum's favourite singers The Timotei ad was my favourite. That lady had the most beautiful hair. ❤
Remember a good number of these, resurfaced memories. Strange how adverts back then seem to be iconic and tied to a time. I guess watching tv was big thing back then, especially with only 4 channels and no Sky or Netflix. Angus Deayton in a car ad 32.16 and David Jason Del Boy in a phonecard advert 36.24. Hah! And why doesn't anyone drink Tia Maria any more?!? The Yellow Pages ad at the end is pure advertising gold.
I remembered only parts of maybe half at best and only a very few were well remembered. I'd have guessed I'd remember the lot... Very strange, some were completely unknown and alien.
@martinda7446 I watched a Top of the Pops from 82 the other day. I definitely would have seen it at the time, but I didn't have a clue who half the acts were and most were rubbish. Then to make it worse, the chart run down showed half a dozen songs I loved but did they play any? Did they eckerslike.
1. My usual comments re what's changed - Even in the mid-'80s, the majority of voiceovers were in (what now sound like) "posh" accents. And there was more use of classical music in ads (not just to parody it, but for its own sake - in keeping with the agents' own tastes) 2. Ads I was particularly pleased to see again:- Babycham, British Telecom (advertising the existence of phones - odd!), Britivic 55 (so shoot me), Carling Black Label (all of them), the trailer for Company of Wolves (a film that's not so much scary as fascinatingly freaky, also Danielle Dax is in it for all of ninety seconds), Cup-A-Soup (with inferior third-draft slogan), Fairy Soap, Grapefruit, Hamlet (the Channel 4 parody), KP, Nice n Easy, Toffee Crumble, Wot No Meat?..and, dare I say it, the London "British Rail" ad with you-know-who (that nursery rhyme was surely a figment of the ad writer's imagination) Decades later I still can't decipher a lot of words in the Nat West "Figaro"/"Piggy Bank" ad - but at least now I know they're porcelain, not "posturing", pigs! Random thought - sometime in the '80s, programs which appeared across all the ITV regions were advertised against a cityscape animation, with fanfaring string-synth-based music, and a very low-pitched voice rather sneerily announcing that these programs were coming soon on Eye...Tee..Veee. No evidence of this on YT, yet.
I used to handle the job adverts for the company that made the Nat West piggy banks. Wade's in Burslem, Stoke on Trent. They used to make those big ceramic things on the top of electricity substations that looked like piles of dishes as well.
Like everyone else on here, I never thought in a million years that I would be watching 1980s adverts and yearning for the past. If anyone had told me 40 years ago, in forty years time, this is what you will be doing, I would have laughed and said:-“Don’t be ridiculous!!” and yet here we all are. I miss random things - adverts for pans and irons, Bejam, all the things I took for granted and ignored when I was young. We all do it, don’t we. I am sad for the time gone by, and wish, like many, I had a Time Machine to go back 40 years. But as my sister said correctly, we only want to go back as we are now, not as we were then. Nostalgia. Yet I feel so sad, and old. Menopause has wrecked my mind.
I got my first tv in the 80s, paid up for it over two years, it lasted 14 years, adverts back then had more fun to them, but here in London the 80s where a time of greed, many people just like today feel such dispair how things are going, as a teen our tv went on at six each day you only had three channels, when the ten news came on on itv with big ben it was of to bed lol.
