statcat

Anyone remember these? Are there any others out there worth seeing?

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sportsfan64

Hokeyboy

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TomOpus

I remember those K-Tel commercials!

DJLinus

I don't remember commercials for any artist's particular album, but I do recall the ones for some K-Tel and Time Life compilations. And, of course, Freedom Rock is still a reference among my friends:

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"Hey, man, is that Freedom Rock?"
"Yeah, man."
"Well, turn it up, man!"

I think seeing this commercial repeatedly as a kid was instrumental in establishing my negative view of hippies.

Also I remember commercials Tower Records would put out advertising their sales. (I may be imagining it, but maybe they would also periodically advertise new releases?) We didn't have a Tower here in Richmond, but I'd see the ads on a DC station that was a part of our cable.

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And this thread would be incomplete without this classic parody:

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rw2516

They use to have single album commercials all the time on shows like Midnight Special and Don Kirshner. One in particular I remember from 1973, Bowie's Pin-Ups. It showed the album cover with "Sorrow" playing. Bowie's lips on the cover moved to the lyrics.

statcat

Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith https://youtu.be/i-r-GBrkfsY?t=9m17s

Alan Smithee

From my "hoard" of tapes :

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Mabuse

Freedom Rock. Seminal part of my youth.

Most recently Daft Punk had a commercial for Random Access Memories.

Mabuse

Watched that Freedom Rock ad in full just now. I guess patriotism really has been co-opted because that cover really seems incongruous with the music and artists. I think it points to things having changed a lot in America since 1989. Today if you were going to market 40 protest songs that represented the counterculture you might call it Freedom Rock but you wouldn't put the Statue of Liberty and a great big American flag on the cover.

Rex Fenestrarum

This is Australian, but I remember seeing something like it on TV here in the US back in 1998. In fact, it might have been the exact same commercial, just with an American narrator. In any case, this is the most recent "album commercial" I can recall:

Rex Fenestrarum

Well, even at the time, the whole thing was kinda tongue-in-cheek. I mean, the other guy in the commercial is reading The Wall Street Journal instead of The Village Voice or some other liberal rag.

cungar

Still remember this one.

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marroqui

manicsounds

Do they not have music albums or singles commercials on TV anymore? I still frequently see commercials for them on Japanese TV.