And On And Ariston

[sammclouis]

Just played this to my boyfriend, cause he goes on and on like an ariston :) he was not pleased lol

[mulder3035]

Composed by Jon Dunn,OCEAN SOFTWARE - I suspect,orignaly composed for the commodore 64 - And converted to the zx spectrum,amstrad etc....And later the GAMEBOY by all accounts.Sadly,the AMIGA version didnt faeture this tune :(

[EpsilonsReviews]

i,m going to kill myself of friday. #wow #woha

[zionravescene]

I'd buy that for a dollar.

[1986Faruq]

I remember - every now and then - about this advert, i think i saw it last when i was about 5................... Thundercats were awesome !!!

[levitabusman]

3 People are OFF!

[milkjester]

How could I have forgotten this? Love it, but Da Da Da Trio / Ariston even better

[richardbrodieuk]

ZX Spectrum version of Robocop too!

[afuzzyduck]

3 people didn't serve the public trust, protect the innocent or uphold the law

[GiddeonG]

lol yeah, i remember seeing this advert as a kid and shouting MOM! thats the music from my robocop game on the amstrad! she didnt believe me so i loaded it up and she went "oooo yeah it is, do you think they know about that" lol

[imtheduke]

WTF were they thinking with this advert. For years I thought I was nuts for remembering the Robocop tune off the Gameboy on a bizarre washing machine advert . . . I was right the whole time lol

[AcousticUplift]

@imtheduke I don't know why but your comment cracks me up! :-) I remember this advert but had no idea about the GameBoy connection till now. It's a bit of a tune I must admit.

[TheBeardedBandsman]

@imtheduke I've wondered what that music is for YEARS (No gameboy, was a deprived child!) - many thanks! :D

[Thunderwolf666]

@TheBeardedBandsman I never played the gameboy version, I always assumed the music was lifted from the Amstrad CPC (the definitive version)

[afuzzyduck]

1. Serve the Public Trust

2. Protect the Innocent

3. Uphold the Law

4. CLASSIFIED

[Hulk2k6]

Imagine all the stoned teens getting down back then to this... lol

[s0n0fsav]

and then....

[bobjbailey]

Goddam I love that they used the music from Robocop on the GameBoy for this ad!

[critanime]

@bobjbailey the same version is on the c64 too :)

[leerees]

Hate to say it but this is infact gameboy music, even I thought it was the speccy tune. If you listen carefully though you'll hear the lead sound is made from a sine wave, the AY chip was only capable of producing square waves.

[kaboooom2000uk]

my god this is old, i was in my nappies when i saw this.

[Montymole21]

Anyone know if Jonathan Dunn received any royalties for the music ...lol he should have done.

[NEWDEAL01]

sounds abit like Monty on the run too.

[cockneysontour]

Anyone remember the inspiration for this? It was an old film that originated in Hungary, I think, that used the layers of moving images and it was shown on a BBC documentary over 20 years ago. If anyone has that, please post it as it's brilliant! There was also a firm in the same programme that showed various objects like the deck of cards advert for Guiness a while back where one object makes the next object move and so on. Brilliant!

[darrenchadwick]

@cockneysontour

Are you are thinking of Zbigniew Rybczyński?

He did a bunch of stuff like this and also did a few Art of Noise videos and the brilliant Steps which is Battleship Potemkin with added tourists!

[cockneysontour]

Thanks Darren. That's the guy!! The film is 'Tango' and was made by him in 1983. The BBC put it on TV around that time and I recorded it in on VHS, but sadly disappeared. There was another film shown straight afterwards, could be his, but it involved a stack of different objects which caused the next object to move the following one and so on. Any ideas?

[filmnet]

@cockneysontour If you do a search on Google for Zbigniew Rybczyński Tango, you will find a copy of Tango on the website "muvideo". The Ariston advert is a pretty good replica of this film, I sit and notice all the similarities, such as someone falling and shouting "argh!". Perhaps someone could rip it and upload it to Youtube!

[cockneysontour]

@filmnet Thank you. That's the one. I'm downloading to Realplayer and I can then copy via Windows Media. Now I want the film that shows a stack of different objects which caused the next object to move the following one and so on. A similar idea was used in a Guiness advert a couple of years back. Any ideas?

[filmnet]

@cockneysontour , Tango is also available if you go to the "onelargeprawn" blog link, then it links to "Libero Video". Not sure if that's a better version, but there you go. Are you talking about "The Way Things Go" (Der Lauf der Dinge) by Peter Fischli & David Weiss? It's on Youtube (sped up). Honda ripped it off for their "Cog" advert.

[cockneysontour]

@filmnet You are a star!! I've been looking for that for years! I have it on VHS somewhere, but I don't remember any music on my version. I've downloaded to RealPlayer now so I can save it. Thanks for the info.

[filmnet]

@cockneysontour Actually the full version of Der Lauf der Dinge is on Youtube, I just did more digging and found it....it's labelled "Der Lauf der Dinge - Teil 1", "...Teil 2" and "Teil 3" (i.e. three separate parts) by user "LaufDingen".

[gmonee]

It was the Robocop theme for the Amstrad CPC 464 too

I swear it was the music when you died

[rustyfynn]

@gmonee I Knew it!!!! I've been thinking about this for years, now I know!!!!!

[TAPPAUREE]

ROBOCOP Theme!!! - Has any other ad ever directly used a video game theme tune for a non game product?

[gothic1hobbit]

Which year did this advert come out ? 1987 ?

[BML8384]

Loved that Ad as a kid. Once seen-never forgotten.

[ni00ni]

looks like Daft Punk - Around the World a bit!

[Newy100]

if these washing machines were any good how come nobody sees them anymore????/

[Applemask]

You do, they're just labelled Hotpoint now because they bought them out.

[cheekyegg]

they probly got sued by ocean who made robocop

[afuzzyduck]

@cheekyegg nope, they actually licensed it from the composer

[marklennon1985]

ah th good old days! i used to LOVE this advert as a kid! : ) bring it back!

[JohnMTennant]

Am I the only one who find this ad really bleak?  The music really doesn't match the upbeat image.

[theDaddyLlama]

i knew i wasn't trippin this is the robocop music!! iv had this in my head since i was 7 years old!!! i think...

[ni00ni]

me too!

[Volchenok1]

f**king hell... i thought that was just me! lol

[ni00ni]

:-) nope!

[creeball]

haha! i remember this, this was funny!

[Simon0]

GO ROBOCOP!

[mathewskarl]

Yep yep

[Simon0]

me and my sister used to sing this. I gotta send this vid to her!

[superbike1981]

phenomenal! I remember the ad and thought that the tune was off some ninja game my cousin used to have on the C64. Always remembered that tune. I'm 27 now. i must have been 5 or 6 when i heard it. About 1986/87? anyone know?

[Simon0]

Superbike1981

arrgg i keep on trying to reply and its not working maybe youtube doesnt take comments with links in..

Anyhow if you want to see the game with this music search

robocop(commodore64)

Its the vid by thereallocomaniac.

[Volchenok1]

it was the title theme to Robocop FOR THE ZX SPECTRUM 128, and yep it was 1987..... legend!!!!!

[JonnyInfinite]

wow

[InternetTAB]

gameboy too

[DragonsTooth]

I have a funny feeling it could be the ZX Spectrum version.

[spiderfly1014]

Can't believe I still remember this commercial. Can't believe its on Youtube. Thanks for the post. Goes well with the Gameboy Robocop theme.

[caturn88]

I just saw the words "ariston and on" and I remembered, but not what it was, only the words. I look at it now and still don't know. But its ace! It should be a club mix.

[RoxiB1984]

Me too!! PMSL!!!

I'd forgot about this advert!! SOOOOOOOOO cheesey!!

[Azmaria27]

HAH ma friends name is ariston XD

[Simon0]

is he a washing machine..

[Ashworth6]

This could be the song to my life these days. It just goes on...and on...and on...and on...and on...and on...and ariston.

[VealCuntlet]

also on the gameboy robocop...

[KitDreamer]

Robocop on the Amiga? Try the C64 dude. That's CLEARLY an SID chip.

[badnewswade]

If you say so mate, sounds a lot like my old Speccy to me :-p

[cosine303]

It's the gameboy version.. I had both the c64 and gameboy version.. intially years ago I thought it was the c64 version until I heard the GB version.. same composer , just different format.

[LuminarNightblade]

lies all lies its clearly the n-gage version

GOD you people

[ianwilson1978]

N Gage wasnt out then you Duck Egg!

[Simon0]

you;'re a duck egg.

[mark3man]

It is indeed the Gameboy version.

[VealCuntlet]

this song was on the robocop game

[cheekyegg]

altho it does sound similar to treasure island dizzy

[JonnyInfinite]

Satanic chanting..

[DaveDaRave1980]

And on... and on.. and on... and ariston... What a nostalgia trip!

[aristonz]

Interessante!!!

[randomjet]

fack sake

[randomjet]

facking ariston.

[vkrippen]

Omg, thanks for this!

[Admanic7]

I used to irritate the crap out of my parents by trying to replicate this advert... Didn't have a clue what Ariston did though.

They make electrical goods.

[ALittleHorror]

Why did I look?! WHY?!?!?!?! I hated it at the time and I hate it now!

[MDEMONIC689]

My dad hated this advert, he'd switch channels until the advert was over then flip back.

I actually hate it aswell now, it's like a knife in the brain.

[louisg82]

I had that Robocop game on the Commodore 64 as a kid (was about 5 or 6) and even then I loved that music, so wasn't suprised it got used in this. Strange how such a basic basic system could produce a peice of music so beautiful. Great ad - timeless.

[RedlineAngel]

It's the Game Boy music, isn't it, rather than the C64? Awesome piece of music, regardless.

[louisg82]

Definitely from the C64 version - I had it. If I remember correctly it was the music on the high score screen. Was eventually used on the Gameboy aswell though.

[pgl0897]

hahaha!

I can remember annoying my sister to the point of outright violence by singing this over and over around the house.

Pat yourself on the back if you grew up in the 80's. Get in!

[hazza414]

what year was dis advert

[Fakeboard]

I wonder if Michel Gondry has seen this advert??

[cosine303]

he posted on another video of this here.

[bobshop]

this has to be THE best advert of the 80`s it stuck in my mind from when i was just 3 years old!!!! lol cant beleve a copy is still about!

[accvdre]

I believe the music was Robocop for the C64

[downformaintenance]

I thought I recognised the C64 sound but I would have never guessed the game it was from. That's an excellent call my friend.

[steve5424]

I totally remember this from when I was a kid. The tune was also on some game I had for the C64 I think it was about time travel.

[brenolad]

It was Robocop :)

[cheekyegg]

mate it fucking was robocop...on the amiga. that has been doing my head in for over 15 years

[rubysdad123]

quality, brings back loads of memories!!!

[atherstone007]

Stuck in my brain ever since I was a kid - the power of advertising even to a nipper.

[fredrobbo]

brilliant -does anyone recall the Polish film director on whose work this was based? Film starting off with a boy kicking a football thro a window Featured on a TV series called dance"

[domtak]

Yeah - I have been trying to find the name of him (and find the original animation) for years... anyone?

[verapamil07]

Halcyon and on and on!!!

[Tekunikaru]

Robocop Titlesong for GB!! =D love it. Sold the game years ago without recording the song... Nice to hear <3

[ultraseb]

This tune still remained true in my head..since i was a kid! now THAT's the power of 80s advertising right there!! :D

[LEECODES]

That tune is originally from the ZX Spectrum version of Robocop, It's the music from the High Score screen :)

[xussia]

Sounds like the C64 version to me but could be the 128k Spectrum I guess.

[LEECODES]

yeah the zx spectrum+ 128k, thats the one i meant

[tonysnood]

It IS the CBM64 version - not the Speccy.

That is the unmistakable sound of the SID chip in action.

Although the ad agency heard the gameboy version of the tune first, then licensed the C64 version.

[TheSugarMan]

Used to love this ad when i was a kid

[TheSugarMan]

Used to love this ad when i was a kid

[countkostaki]

ROFL!!!

[kevthecat11]

ACE!

[Applemask]

Ariston News! They appear to have withdrawn from the UK altogether as a brandname.

[CoyoteFitzy]

They are gone? And on, and on, and on, and aris-gone....

[deselmes]

And in Continental Europe they're called Hotpoint-Ariston now.

"And on, and on, and on, and Hotpoint-Ariston..."

Wouldn't have the same feel, would it?

[Simon0]

actually that would work with the same rhythm (has same number of syllables).

[dickyobtar]

Actually I directed this. I will Put up The2min20sec version in the nest few days. It was very loosel;y based on a piece called Tango by,yes,Zbignew Rybzinski: a brilliant piece of work

R Dean

[corefarharder]

Is there a word or a term to describe this type of loop-video? I've seen a few arthouse movies that use this technique but haven't heard of a good term to describe it :/

[likeamovingshadow]

I haven't seen this for years, I must have been like 9 nine years old when this was broadcast! The memories are coming back to me!

[Threadoflength]

haha, yes! me and my cousins used to march about the house singing this XD

[brownycrevice]

I used to sing this as a child in the back seat of my mum and dads car on long journeys! It was one of those "I know a song that'll get on your nerves" classic!

[likeamovingshadow]

Me too! I just loved the simplicity of the words, brings back memories too!

[sidanwar]

there was a film i saw sometime in the early '90s...it was basicaly classical music set to images like the ones in this advert. Does anyone know what it was called and who made it?

[TPToE]

You might be thinking of The Orchestra by Zbig Rybczynski (I think it was shown on channel 4 in the early nineties, so it seems plausible).

[izzyhavinalaugh]

This advert is based on an idea from a short animation which I would like to find details of. I think it might have been produced in the old Czeckoslovakia or some other eastern European country. It ran for about 10 or 15 minutes and featured different characters in a seemingly endless loop going in and out of a room.

[TPToE]

The film in question is Zbig Rybczynski's "Tango", which can be found here (search for "Tango Animation Oscar"). If you like this, it's well worth seeking out his other films, all of which are equally visually ingenious.

[st0ner0se]

Is there a mp3 of the Gameboy version around?

[dennistherone]

I think that this music, written by Jonathan Dunn, is recorded from the Commodore 64 which had a much better sounded sound system than all the computers and video game platforms listed thus far. Maybe we need to hear Robocop game clips from each game system to officially know the truth?

[ScarranHalfBreed]

No, apparently it's from the Gameboy version of RoboCop. Although I reckon it's from the Speccy version personally, but apparently I'm wrong and a liar.

[retread01]

The gameboy version had music that sounded exactly like Spectrum/Commodore

[ScarranHalfBreed]

I wish I had the damn original Spectrum game to see, but the bloody thing kept crashing so I binned it.

[radiocrash]

who made this music ????

[SegaMegadriveMic]

It looks briliant. I love the music. Why can't today's advert be like this one?

[rupertsbear]

classic!

[thequicksilver]

You've made me a happy man seeing that again for the first time since about 1992. Thank you. :)

[fraserkatie]

Sorry jeff Wayne made the 1987 one not this one!

[SegaMegadriveMic]

So the same woman take the same skirt from the washing machine and puts it on again? OK

[Applemask]

Yeah, the point is it's an infinite loop. "And on and on", you know. It's avant-garde. Look, it was the early nineties, it seemed clever at the time.

[SegaMegadriveMic]

I just didn't get what that advert means

[fraserkatie]

Great clip! I love this particularly as one of the patrons of where I work Jeff Wayne made this advert and also the War of the worlds musical! And Frys Turkish Delight, and Cadburys Thinking about chocolate with Bobby McFerrin!

[dtarbuck]

OH MY GOD! AMAZING ADVERT ive wanted to see this for years. i always use to see it on the ads from wen i would record superman 2 from t.v, you know on vhs or summin funky. awesome!

[russianfields]

The music is from (or at least features in: an exact soundalike) the Amstrad CPC video game of the movie 'Robocop'.

[SegaMegadriveMic]

It's from the Game Boy version of Robocop. Sorry to argue

[russianfields]

Hmmm. Yeah, you maybe right, it's slightly more tinny and it's got that cute little vibrato that Gameboys have. I stand corrected!

[ScarranHalfBreed]

But the Spectrum had that vibrato, too.

[Nostias]

Nostaligia attack! Great music! I need it!

[jps1988]

Oh, and I also think it's ironic seeming as Ariston are one fo the least reliable manufactueres. Ariston, and on, and on, and on, and on - a description of how long a service call takes to an Ariston (or a newer Hotpoint) :-).

[jps1988]

Ariston are actualyl still sold in Currys but they're rebadged Hotpoint's. Ever noticed that doors on today's hotpoint's are the same squircle shape as teh Ariston's> *technology geek leaking otu of me*

[wvziccardi]

Ariston are indeed still in business. Largely in Italy though.

[CoyoteFitzy]

Love this thanx for upload

[electrogeek77]

Count on me at therapy this week chanting this nonstop.

[gcallard]

Brilliant! I've been looking for a vid of this clip for ages! There is a longer one though - wish I could find that. The music was the same on the Spectrum version of Robocop as well. Clever advert for the time. If anyone finds the longer full version, let me know!

[fundament]

did anyone find the original for clio awards? or cannes...it was an almost 2 minutes version...brillant.

[afuzzyduck]

not lame; ace

[hb2015]

This is lame! And Ariston are still going, under the name hotpoint! Have you noticed that the washer Aqualtis is under both Hotpoint and Ariston? They are the same company, from 2004, their washers looked very similar!

[Renatodonadio]

I think the brand Ariston will be soon replaced by Hotpoint, as Whirlpool did with Philips.

[Pyroman1990]

I dont think they are going now, Ariston

[neogeolabs]

back in 95' or whenever i saw this i hated it.. but love it now.. plus i heard this music in the robocop game aswell! the memories..

[Vachton]

The music to this was on the original nintendo game-boy game of "Robocop"

[Pyroman1990]

ha ha ha i have a better one from 1987