Gary Numan - Unreleased 7-UP TV Commercial Music!

[luiggighetti46]

I will certainly buy more 7-Ups if they out these songs on their commercials.

[winglb53]

Thank God it wasn't Mountain Dew

[telekonable]

The company head brass at 7-UP blew it by passing on this jingle.

[leonakita]

lol @ Numan, even considering doing an ADV in 1982 at the height of his popularity....what a stupid ass move...commercialization is a career killer! I agree tho.. the material is good enough to have been morphed into a Numan song. I believe it was at this time that Numan started throwing everything and the kitchen sink into his 'schtick' to save his dwindling popularity. In the end, it failed.... but hey.. theres always Numanoids!

[ParadoxIncarnate]

This is hilariously awesome. I can imagine Gary onstage in a futuristic looking green uniform, singing about 7-Up while dancing like an android, then picking up a bottle, taking a drink, and looking at the camera with his trademark serious facial expression. He might be the only person in the world who could ever do such a thing and make it work well.

[Achtungmiche]

lol

[djmusicjac]

SILLY AMERICANS have no clue about new wave, bet they kicking themselves now, gary newman deserves MBE from her majesty queen for his contribution to new wave and british music

[PeasGraveny]

I'm not unfamiliar with Gary's work but for the first time when listening to these 'jingles' I became aware of Gary's apparent influence on Beck.

[jrmetmoi]

It's seems like Sprite took over everything these days anyway. It's as if 7UP never existed at all to me even though I remember drinking it as a kid!

[RozWebster]

Catchy tune for Gary, made me laugh cos at this time he was a big Coke drinker.

[smujohnson]

If these recordings were used, I think 7up would have been way more successful.

[1958boomergirl]

@smujohnson No lie!  I agree with you 200%!

[smujohnson]

this is good shit!!!

[bigdave6777]

what is the title of this song by gary numan please let me know

[MrGothic78]

ok,commercial but...always GREAT!!!!!

[g8ofhelll]

7-UP should use this song for new commercials. This is amazing. They could have like throwback 7-UP commercials with this song. How could they pass this up? Are they crazy?

[KingOfUm]

Great idea, only too bad companies would never be bold enough to do something like that.

[Thecuregalore94]

@g8ofhelll American corporations unfortunately don't get our music. Numan was too far ahead for their music style, so it never got to tv it seems.

[KingOfUm]

@Thecuregalore94 It's not that they don't 'get' it, it's just that it isn't what they suspect the major public will get into. So even if Numan was huge in the UK, back then in the US customers who heard the potential jingles wouldn't have been able to relate to the artist, so it wouldn't have struck so heavily.

[sgtbrebnalem]

lets get a petition to get it used

[sgtbrebnalem]

omg amaaaaaaaazing. always new about it but never heard it before. thank you

[videocircus]

oooh.,,....they fucked up by not going with this. BIG TIME

[cacemphaton]

so im guessing from the chorus that gary had some acid reflux issues and was assuming this was a feature not a bug of the uncola so to speak. ironically most people suffer from heartburn typically after too much of the brown colas.

[michaelxchristian]

I want a 7up now... and I only ever drank that when I was sick! Thanks, Gary :)

[casiblake]

PepsiCo should call Gary NOW, and license this for 7up ads. With all the retro-pandering and pseudo electro reappearing in the charts, documentary and TV music nowadays, this would fit perfectly.

[ZeroCorpse]

This is good enough to be one solid, stand-alone tune regardless of the sponsorship. He should have put it on an album, and just changed the word "7UP" to something else (Bowie does it all the time when he uses a song for a soundtrack and then re-purposes it for an album).

[aliveinsound]

@ZeroCorpse I agree the song could've been used elsewhere but he didn't write these lyrics he'd want to write his own words on own records.

[JarrodCook93]

@aliveinsound He can be very fussy sometimes about what songs can go on what albums and what songs dont fit

[srlucado]

Too bad more of his stuff from 1982 wasn't this upbeat. I like the three 1-minute verses, though.

[MrYuppie]

I'll remember Gary everytime I drink 7Up again... Quite catchy!

[TurkBack2]

Punk had just arrived in America in 1982? WTF?

[guywholikesvids]

@TurkBack2 No, HIS punky stuff had only got to America in 1982

[pawnsacrifice1]

New Order turned Blue Monday into a Sunkist advert!

[JarrodCook93]

This song is so epic! It should have been a single.

[dstdvl]

i mean "bombers." it sounds like "bombers."

[dstdvl]

sounds like "that's too bad." still....brilliant. the boy was GOOD.

[JarrodCook93]

Where did u find this?

[aliveinsound]

One of the fanclub recorded autobiography LPs from the 80's, I was surprised that it came up!

[Sashthecat]

Great!

Numa.66.

[LinuxManUK]

good old Pino Palladino on bass !!

think i'll go buy some LOL

Mark UK

[JarrodCook93]

He never even mentioned this in his autobiography.

[muzikman2008]

Wow! Never knew this existed! Not as good as Lee Cooper ad but strangely retro spooked all the same lol. Thanks for sharing.

[tarekZidaNe]

yaa. . we have a good drink ..

[plasticvideo]

Looks like 7-Up had gold and didn't even know it.

[Ilikenuman]

its awesome!

[sirjimtorbett]

that would have been an interesting combo

[numanboy]

Whoa! Like oh my gawd...I never heard about this never mind actually hearing it! Were the adverts ever filmed?

[KingOfUm]

Awesome! I've been waiting to hear that damned things for years, but never came across them.

Many thanks!

[chromearctic]

interesting listen, but artist hocking products in commercials......no no no.

bad gary

[MansionManiac]

^ Apparently never remembered Gary's Lee Cooper Jeans advert.

[hdprice]

^ Which gave him the break which started his whole career. So in this case it's a yes yes yes.

[garboil]

freaking Brilliant!! thank you SO MUCH for posting this!! what a much better world it would have been if all our ads sounded this good....

[sandychiccs]

Brilliant!! never heard that one before where did you get it from

[990racle]

Did he purposely make this song really fucking weird so they wouldn't play it? If that's the case, I like Gary even more.

Having said that I like the song, it's more tubeway-army style. Minus the lyrics, of course.

[ParadoxIncarnate]

@990racle

I totally agree about it sounding like Tubeway Army. The riff and rhythm is a lot like "Bombers".

[replicas79]

brilliant---NUMAN is so unique--unbelivable

[themachman19691]

brilliant post.ive always loved this tune.

[DerVampyrEngel]

I remember hearing these but where did you get these recordings aliveinsound ? these must be very rare

[DerVampyrEngel]

So coool

[Synthsound1]

Cool never heard this before.

[TheTelekon]

GREAT. Its a long time since ive heard this. it was put out on a fan club lp called images.