Madness - Honda City & Other Adverts

[@pauldunneska]

Never saw some of these adverts by Madness, thank God for KZbin. 19/7/2014. Irish time 13:55 . Saturday.

[@RinTab24]

こんなところまで派生していたんですね。CITYならびにMADNESSの皆さん。 すごい。 最初の懐かしさだけではなかった。 貴重な動画をありがとうございました。

[@oclarke31]

I love this. I grew up watching Madness on videotape (I know) and we had these ads. Just today I cycled past a red Honda with my dad and I said HONDA HONDA HONDA 😂 had to google where it came from. Amazing the shit you rememeber.

[@legituselesschannel477]

this is a certified hood classic

[@andrewmoylan2077]

38 years on and they still stand the test of time

[@七五三木英明]

スゴイ。何故、今、こんな凄いCMが出来ないんだろう。感性の問題だな。

[@cs5982-n7j]

It's true. It's such a great approach! I don't think I've seen anything like it.

[@99Lezard99]

this is madness!! madness? this IS CITY!!! honda honda honda honda

[@johnnyjabsco1999]

In the City was one of the best songs Madness did but it isn't well known.

[@knwong7472]

It’s very underrated 😢

[@Chris-qg8mt]

Should of been a single

[@enesbilginer]

the first example of wierd ass japan commercial of course madness are perfect for it :)

[@ECWaxman]

From London to Tokyo!!!

[@Clara-ph7my]

I remember these adverts well. Thank you for posting them

[@michaelrees4666]

LUVING THE COMPILATION...MADNESS THEY CALL IT MADNESS..

[@しなもんさりー]

It was so amazing advertising in 1980’s Japanese tv commercial film!‼️✨✨✨🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@CampbellTrain]

Cool! In The City is a great song piano/guitar wise. Fun!

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Love the Japanese pronunciation "Hondha-kra seethi thaabo"

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

@@Ber-1972 it was in fact "sithi thaabo thanjo" (city turbo thanjo)

[@spectwo4650]

CITY! IN THE CITY! CITY! CITY! HONDA HONDA HONDA HONDA CIIITY! HONDA HONDA HONDA HONDA IT WILL CATCH YOUR EYE IN THE CIIIIIITY!

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Seeeti

[@wa0187]

never delete this video!!! pllease

[@wenisdead]

GOD I love Madness adverts.

[@Ber-1972]

Wow, never thought I'd see Madness wearing hakama and geta 🤣🤣🤣 I heard their famous dance, the nutty walk, was known better in Japan as the "centipede dance!"

[@cyandinomashups]

At first, I couldn't understand what the guy was saying. But then I realised it was in Japanese.

[@simongregory9453]

RELLISTROM and once you knew that, you understood him perfectly

[@Ber-1972]

🤣

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

@@simongregory9453 thanks to google translate!

[@josefizquierdo6139]

Now I want a little city Honda...🚗

[@Terbie36]

Money talked: "Honda, Honda, Honda."

[@draconpost]

This is Madness... This is HOOOONDAAAA

[@stevenandrewThomas-be8oq]

Hope and anchor seen a few good skinhead bands there back in the day down in the cellar

[@AlexKasta]

Now I want a Honda city

[@zouniidesign4968]

Trying to get a 40 year old honda city road legal again is madness😂

[@paulshotter2094]

Madness honda city classic song from the eighties good song

[@xxdjnanixx3572]

I really want to buy a Honda city now

[@rascalboy8899]

Haha really funny, good stuff.

[@97channel]

I've always thought that it's strange how Japanese adverts often contain some English language. How does that work? Why do Japanese people seem to just automatically understand English, when we can't speak a word of Japanese? 私は本当に知らない。

[@KAlpha09]

I believe its called decorative English to enhance overall appeal of the product they are trying sell.

[@626lolo]

The little turbo boy

[@arone6298]

Song kinda slaps NGL

[@robertsharp8231]

Wtf? Pure madness

[@TheNoordzee]

De reclame's voor de Honda City waren dusdanig populair dat het nummer In the City (alleen) in Japan is uitbracht als A-kant van een single. Nu ook in mijn verzameling als Madness single nr. 51

[@downeykiwi]

Ah so! Madness-san!

[@thes7venthstranger]

I dare to be the first to edit these ads

[@rodneyspittall975]

thankyou

[@edu7979]

finally a good fucking ad

[@minicooper2002]

当時、駅に貼ってあったポスターはがして家に持って帰りました。Honda様、大変申し訳ありませんでした。ちなみに諫早駅です。

[@SerranitALT]

Came here because of Slow Motion wo Mou Ichido, lol

[@newzealandpromoter]

Hello - Do you still have your original uncompressed VHS rip of these ads? I am making a doco - seeking best cuts of these clips. Most on youtube are in very low resolution. Please reply here if you have the original rip (or even the original VHS?) and let me know what's possible.... thanks for your time!

[@Shiny317]

I have them somewhere as I put the old VHS to DVD using a stand alone DVD recorder, so they are around. Of course they'll be 720p, but that's just a recording of a lower res VHS, so it's far from perfect, but probably better than the KZbin version. As some of my friends and subscribers live in the sticks with slow internet I tend to go for compatibility i.e. lower res, but plays smoother than do full HD that some can only watch in 2 second chunks before re-buffering. If I get chance I'll put a higher res copy of the ads up though.

[@newzealandpromoter]

Thanks. What would be great is if you could put the pre-youtube raw file up on mediafire or wetransfer and post the link here briefly - I'll get a reply alert. This would avoid needless additional loss from youtube compression...

[@iainmcrae1914]

honda honda honda honda

[@bricology]

I wonder if Honda first tried to get The Jam (since they had a big hit with "In The City"), but Weller surely would've laughed and told them to "fuck off".

[@tucoramirez4558]

Well, I heard Suggs retell the story last night at the gig I was at. According to him they did it because they were almost "broke" and therefore needed the money Honda offered them. Not sure if Weller's economy was in a comparable state. Anyways, never mind that. Honda wanted an effective and upbeat song for their car and I wouldn't call The Jam's "In the City" a particularly good song for a commercial however fine a composition it is on its own. It also was a hit back in 1977 which would be a bit out of date for a 1982 commercial, by comparison Madness' "Cardiac Arrest" and its B-side "In the City" was released in February 1982. Here's the thing too. Doing commercials in Japan is like doing it on Mars. Nobody except the Japanese will ever see them so the rest of the world is none the wiser and any artist can easily agree to this without sacrificing any "integrity". Also, it's very likely Madness had quite the following in Japan in those days so I suspect they weren't just chosen arbitrarily out of the British bands making a name for themselves back home.

[@stockholm7130]

0:58

[@Hot80s]

City turbo.

[@mariaeugenia2436]

and the colgate toothpaste ad using baggy trousers`song? I remember watching it in uruguay in the early 80`s ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZXGh4Wrmrllmdk by the way, Madness made another 3 honda ads in japan Many famous artists made Honda ads, Honda City was targeted for England and Julian Lennon made like 4 ads as well.... Michael J fox made like 10 ads for the honda Integra that at the beggining, was targeted for LGbt couples, (for that model also we have Brad Pitt)....Both Peter Fonda and Chad Mcqueen, son of the late Steve Mcqueen made like 6 ads each for Honda bikes, Matt Dillon too--- in Europe Sofia Loren y nikki Lauda made bike ads too, ----- Also Jodie foster, Eric clapton, Geena Davis were IN Honda C ars ads... just to name a few....

[@angelinot.5261]

:O

[@dipie197]

fMADNES HAHAHH

[@megano2000]

Some of these look like they're falling apart they're so damaged lol

[@megano2000]

Came here from Kaguya-sama

[@SerranitALT]

What chapter?

[@wenisdead]

HONDA HONDA HONDA HONDA