Don't Step Out When You're Close to the Edge

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Don't Step Out When You're Close to the Edge

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moonfortyfour

Күн бұрын

Famous anti-getting-run-over advert from the 1980's.

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@grr619 12 жыл бұрын

One of those cimmercials that gets to stick in your head, because it uses a superb backing track. Plus that great visual effect...Blew our 1980's minds. 8-)

@tombstoneharrystudios584 4 жыл бұрын

Well...it is "The Message" By Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five!

@leebridgwater 7 жыл бұрын

bring back this advert, fantastic

@lucylocket4740 4 жыл бұрын

What year was it from?

@chryneon6638 3 жыл бұрын

@@lucylocket4740 I’d say about 1983, judging that “The Message” came out the previous year, and the yellow mk2 Cav with the Y Reg.

@lucylocket4740 3 жыл бұрын

@@chryneon6638 That car was first registered in July 1982, so you may well be right! 😊

@darrensurrey 8 жыл бұрын

Scarily, still relevant today. Maybe someone will read this on their phone seconds before stepping into the road.

@mm-cz7zd Жыл бұрын

Just heard this backing track with some new rapping over it on the radio, tried to tell the younger team about this advert but they just looked at me weird, glad I’ve found it so I can show them what I was in about.😁

@PowerArmorV113 Жыл бұрын

...was that new rapping "Message" by Grandmaster Flash, because if so, I have some baaad news for ya...

@repo136 Жыл бұрын

@@PowerArmorV113 - Hahaha!

@NotATube 14 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I know it's a version of "The Message" now, though I didn't realise that at the time. :-)

@tombstoneharrystudios584 4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure Flash and The Furious Five were happy to help promote Road Safety/Street Safety

@repo136 Жыл бұрын

@@tombstoneharrystudios584 - They certainly were. They then shortly released a song highlighting the importance of road markings.

@lucylocket4740 8 жыл бұрын

(0:08) YLA 569X: Untaxed since 04/1995!

@lucylocket4740 4 жыл бұрын

To add to that, the last logbook for YLA 569X was issued on 30 November 1994!

@NotATube 15 жыл бұрын

This is the first place I heard that song, ha ha :-) This is actually fantastic for its time (early-to-mid 80s IIRC), only the rather out-of-place final voiceover is more typical of the era. I bet some enthusiastic young guy came up with the idea for this advert and after lots of cajoling his stuffy older bosses eventually let him go ahead with it, but only after insisting he include the final voiceover to drive the point home in case the kiddies didn't get all that newfangled rap stuff. :-)

@chryneon6638 3 жыл бұрын

I first heard it in Vice City.

@chryneon6638 3 жыл бұрын

Judging by the quality, and the tune of the song shifting pitches slightly, this could maybe have been shown in cinemas.

@NotATube 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you mean about the pitch, but this was shown on TV during the 80s as a public service announcement. (Possible it might have been shown at the cinema, particularly if it was made on film, but I didn't see it there personally).

@chryneon6638 3 жыл бұрын

@@NotATube by pitch, you might encounter it going up and down slightly, light a decayed 16mm film reel.

@NotATube 3 жыл бұрын

@@chryneon6638 I don't hear that personally. Perhaps you're confusing that with the pitch-bend and effects that are an intentional part of the music itself? Even if the ad itself was originally made on film (which it probably was), this transfer most likely comes from a videocassette TV recording made during the 1980s (when the ad itself was new), so any subsequent degradation is likely to be video not film related (i.e. due to an old video cassette, digital compression, poor quality transfer etc.)

@chryneon6638 3 жыл бұрын

@@NotATube it is quite unnoticeable at first, but the more you listen to it, the more major the difference is. It’s just with age, considering that if this was shot on film, then the sound would go like the AIMS Media logo.