― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)
― amon (eman), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)
"Hey man is that YANNI?" "Yeah man!" "Well TURN IT UP, MAN!!"
The word YANNI was in a deep, self-important voice and the result was CLASSIC.
― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)
Turn Turn Turn - ByrdsI'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years AfterLocomotive Breath - Jethro TullThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan BaezWar - Edwin StarrBlack Magic Woman - SantanaJump Into The Fire - NilssonSmoke On The Water - Deep Purple(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis ReddingUnited We Stand - Brotherhood Of ManSomebody To Love - Jefferson AirplaneGoing Up The Country - Canned HeatReach Out Of The Darkness - Friend & LoverA Horse With No Name - AmericaFree Bird - Lynyrd SkynyrdRamblin' Man - Allman Bros. BandShare The Land - Guess WhoFriends - Elton JohnPut Your Hand In The Hand - OceanBlack And White - Three Dog NightLayla - Derek & DominosThe Story In Your Eyes - Moody BluesSigns - 5 Man Electrical BandSunshine - Jonathan EdwardsLove Train - O'JaysWhite Room - CreamWhite Rabbit - Jefferson AirplaneBoth Sides Now - Judy CollinsWe May Never Pass This Way Again - Seals & CroftsIn The Year 2525 - Zager & EvansEighteen - Alice CooperHush - Deep PurpleGet Together - YoungbloodsThe Beat Goes On - Sonny & CherAbraham Martin & John - DionLay Down (Candles In The Rain) - MelanieI Got A Line On You - SpiritFire & Rain - James TaylorMe And You And A Dog Named Boo - LoboOne Tin Soldier - Coven
I could have sworn the Freedom Rock commercial featured China Grove, American Woman and All Right Now. Am I thinking of a different Time Life comp?
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)
OP 4521 - Guitar Rock - Various Artists [1990] (4-LP/2-CD set) Time-Life Music. Issued as a 2-CD set as OPCD-4521. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience/Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Company/Bang a Gong (Get It On) - T.Rex/You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive/All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople/You Really Got Me - Kinks/The Bitch Is Back - Elton John/China Grove - Doobie Brothers/We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad/I Shot The Sheriff - Eric Clapton/Hot Blooded - Foreigner/Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer/Maggie May - Rod Stewart/Mississippi Queen - Mountain/Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd/I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four/Ramblin' Man - Allman Brothers Band/Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton/Layla - Derek & Dominoes/I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band) - Moody Blues/(I Know) I'm Losing You - Rod Stewart & Faces/Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple/After Midnight - Eric Clapton/Radar Love - Golden Earring/Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Brownsville Station/I'm Eighteen - Alice Cooper/She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - Joe Cocker/Love The One You're With - Stephen Stills/Whipping Post - Allman Brothers Band/American Woman - Guess Who/Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream/On the Road Again - Canned Heat/All Right Now - Free/Heart Full Of Soul - Yardbirds/Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive/Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh/Funk No. 49 - James Gang/Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)
BEST SONG EVER!!
Also the worst song ever.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)
To back up this assertion: If you listen closely to the refrain, one of them's singing "Freak Out in the darkness" while the other one is singing "reach out of the darkness."
Has anyone done a disc of just early-'70s Jesus-freakdom like Ocean's "Put Your Hand in the Hand"? I'd love to have all of that in one place.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)
60s One-hit wonders don't get any better than this.
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)
I've been assuming everyone here knows the Frank Black song. You do know the Frank Black song, right?
― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)
And just like I can't hear the last half of "Layla" without thinking of Goodfellas, I can't hear the intro without thinking of Freedom Rock.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)
Haha...I think the Guitar Rock commerical was on for about 7 years whereas Freedom Rock had a much more limited lifetime.
― Keith C (lync0), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)
It's the ONLY "Freedom Rock" I'm familiar with! I have no clue what you people are prattling on about!
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)
Does anyone have a mpg of the Freedom Rock commercial?
― DJRokyManson (DJRokyManson), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)
Absolutely. Weren't they sitting around a campfire, Easy Rider style?
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)
What’s all I listen to?It’s all Freedom Rock
How can you free meWhen I am free?I am Free
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)
Boy does this one belong on that "Songs that were popular during their initial chart run and then completely vanished off the face of the Earth" thread.
All together now: "There's nowhere in the world!! That I would rather be!!"
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)
I was on a hunt for this and the ones with the Encyclopedia Brittanica kid too. Came up empty on both counts
Hard to believe 1985 was really 20 yrs ago. I guess this is what getting older is all about - random fragments of memory sparking nostalgia over trivial and mundane artifacts.
Thank goodness for the internet :)
― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)
― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)
haaa i vaguely remember that dipshit. how about the time-life books vietnam series commercial where the lil kid says "daddy, what's vietnam?" and the dad kind of frowns and theres ominous music.
― amon (eman), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)
i really wish i could just sample my memory, cos most of this shit is clear as a bell in there
― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)
Wish I'd seen that commercial even once, back in the day. Then I wouldn't have spent an hour or two puzzling over that Onion editorial, "Remember Me? The Kid Who Had A Report Due On Space", totally baffled and not laughing.
Here's one for my fellow oldsters: "My father would always say to me, 'Turn that radio down!' And I'd go, "'But, Dad: It's Ssssmokey!'"
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)
― PappaWheelie B.C., Friday, 30 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― PappaWheelie B.C., Friday, 30 September 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)
― PappaWheelie B.C., Friday, 30 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― brianiac (briania), Friday, 30 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)
And he was kinda sneaking around like he was up to something too!
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 30 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
I thought that was "Read the book."
And there's that one encyclopedia britannica commecial where the kid is like "I always wondered where my mandibula was."
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)
― zan, Friday, 30 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)
God, that guy was scary-looking!
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)
― Jason Dent (jason dont), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)
― dubya_dawg, Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― Producer_1980s, Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)
My all-time favorite (and this is going back a long-ass way) was Chubby Checker in 1972 for some multi-disc oldies set; once we sent away for it, he urges, we'll "have it made in the shade!!!"
Still waiting for a video or DVD comp of those old record ads; the new late night infomercials just aren't the same.
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 7 October 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)
http://www.ioffer.com/i/Headbangers-Ball-DVD-Best-of-1988-Ozzy-Poison-Ratt-9437467
along with a shit load of crappy 80s metal videos!!
someone please buy it and post the Freedom Rock commercial!
― DBernstein, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)
― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)
...
Every now and then, the sheer ridiculousness of the Internet creeps up on me, and I laugh myself to tears.
Thanks for delivering one of those moments for me.
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)
okay boss!
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)
where is it? its been over a month!
I want my absurd internet crap!!!!
― DBernstein, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 22:06 (twenty years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)
My eyes!
― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)
Not only that, I'm pretty sure that's him...ahem...eating at the 'Y' in one of the pictures.
That would make a nice portrait for his wikipedia entry.
― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)
― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 18 February 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)
― i always wondered where my mandibula was! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 February 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)
http://www.tvparty.com/tvm/08-2.html
(scroll down to August 25)
― Sloopy, Saturday, 18 February 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)
― milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 18 February 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 18 February 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 19 February 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 February 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 19 February 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 19 February 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)
― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)
― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 28 August 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)
― joejoe (joejoe), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDk-mg1J9Q
― joejoe (joejoe), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Picnics and Pixie Stix (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)
Revive!
That would be awesome!!
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 19 May 2008 23:08 (eighteen years ago)