Landrover ads - several questions

Cafe Society
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Dang, I hate it when I get a musical clip stuck playing over and over in my head! The latest is the music that plays during the ads for Landrovers. Does anyone know what that is, and who plays it? Also, the ad where it shows the guy driving all over the place, ending up at the brink of a river … is that somewhere in -space-!!! My theory is that it’s supposed to be an asteroid or something, Og only knows what! But if you look at the bottom, it sure looks like a starfield. How the Landrover got there … well, I guess that’s part of the mystery of it all.

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It’s either Ted Nugent’s Cat Scratch Fever or Debbie Boone’s You Light Up My Life.

The asteroid is off of I-25 near Fort Collins.

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We currently have a Landrover Discovery ad in the UK which sounds similar to the one you describe. The music is The Sonics: “Have Love Will Travel” - very “Louie Louie”-esque.

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Thanks for the replies, although to be honest, NoClueBoy I think yours is completely tongue-in-cheek. :stuck_out_tongue: To which I stick out my tongue in return! Don’t be afraid to bop me if I’m wrong, though. Is that end scene really near Fort Collins, CO? I think Halfling got the music right–I can’t quite make out what they are singing but that might be exactly what it is.

Thanks again! Still have that song going through my head … must play Christmas music to exorcise it!

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I thought that it sounded like the Sonics! Thanks, Halfling. Have you heard their “Louie Louie?” For my money it’s the best version. Loud, stupid, and incoherent like it shoud be but louder and more stupid than the rest.

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Assuming we’re discussing the same ad, I think the point is that the Land Rover will take you so far that you can go all the way to the “edge of the world.”

This is more likely to be artistic licence than an endorsement of the Flat Earth Society, but there ya go. :wink:

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I’d never heard of the Sonics before this ad, but I was totally hooked by the song and just had to have it. All their stuff sounds like “Louie Louie” to me and you’re right to say they do a great version of said classic. And it’s from 1964, like me ! :smiley: