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  • tUrN iT uP mEeYaN

  • HELL YES!

  • haha tucker max sent me here too :)

  • Thumbs up if you're here from 'Assholes Finish First'

    Carry on that Tucker Max legacy

  • im here cuz of tucker max

  • Tucker max sent me here.

  • oh pre-internet, I miss you

  • "We May Never Pass this Way Again" is the black sheep of these albums.

  • 25 people didn't like to turn it up man!!!

  • roses are brown

    violets are brown

    who shit in my garden?

  • I always particularly enjoyed the part at the very end when the non-talking hippie turd was just grinning and nodding his head...like "Hell yeah baby...these songs are the bomb!"

  • If you were a kid in the late 80s, this entire commercial will forever be burned into your soul. I can still sing every song and quote every thing that hippie douchebag says for the whole spot.

  • Hey Man, Is That Freedom Rock? Yeah Man. Well Turn it Up, Man!

  • im a hippie and i act like that sometimes hahaha

  • THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT BILL AND TED TO DO THIS COMERCIAL

  • oh 80s thank god you are over

  • @SporkRocker These songs are late 60s - early 70's. Nowhere near the 80's. Are you 12 years old?

  • @chazcov08 Yes but the commercial isn't from set times. Are you meth'ed out lunatic woman in your 60s going through menopause? If so giddy up.

  • WHAT SONG IS THAT AT THE VERY BEGINNING

  • @brezfresh1 LAYLA

  • @brezfresh1 Its called "Layla" by Eric Clapton

  • My friend and I used to obsess over this commercial in junior high. We both had it memorized, and used to sing all of the song clips in order. I still refer to this type of music as "freedom rock."

  • red noist a dejay from kilo 94.9 was in this commercial !!!!!

  • god i remember this from my childhood

  • Spill.com brought me here.

  • 23 people didn't turn it up man!

  • Oh and yes page 283

  • Those that are wondering who Tucker Max is and how it is relevant to this video, go to google put in Tucker max and read his blog or buy his books

  • Tucker Max

  • Remembering this from the '80s "got me here."

  • The pot smoke smell got me here, fire it up dude.

  • freedom rock rock on do you remember when they would promote/advertise a hardrock album as a r&b album. the guy says to the other hey you think we should have 2 cars and a pretty wife by now. the other one says no maan we got the van man.

    my friend used to tie his hair up with a rubberband and scrunch up his face an yell freedom rock tturn it up man.

  • Thumbs up if Paul Tokin sent you here!! 420 24/7 FTW!!

  • maby click on my film fo dien shen tai rong

  • Thank goodness for the Internet and free mp3s. Now, you won't have to tell people you were enticed by a couple of dorky actors dressed like hippies to buy those songs. LOL

  • Hey Tucker Max thanks for reminding me of this shitty commercial. Lovin the second book though! page 283

  • Ok, no idea who or what a "tuckermax" is. I'm curious...please save me from ignorance. I think it's cool that someone got so many people to watch it. I've loved it since I was a little kid :)

  • @figureitoutmannn Ok nice job...figured it out...it's in a book that Tucker Max wrote...how did he refer to the commercial in the book?

  • I lol'ed and lol'ed!!! Some guy at the bar said this tonight, and i couldn't help but laugh... then come home and look this up. Awesome! Tucker max did not send me, nor did "assholes fonish first". i came here totally random-ly-ness-like. FUN!

  • ckm 

  • ok

    

  • Thumbs up if ur on here from reading assholes finish first

  • 23 people never read assholes finish first

  • Colin Hanks got me here!

  • These songs are bad

  • Reading Assholes finish first and looked this up. Thank God for Tucker Fucking Max.

  • tucker max brought me here.

  • So I'm 35 and I still have my 8th grade English journal where I had to write about something that annoyed me....I wrote about this commercial. It was so overplayed back then....Freedom Rock man, Well turn it up Man! lol  Funny to see it again all these years later.

  • The best dam collection of music i ever bought.i still listen to it often brings back alot of memories of the good old days.

  • anybody know who this hippie guy is he is a trip?

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  • i bought this classic one night when the commercial came on.  It really was a great CD. Until some old roomie stole it.

  • Thumbs up if Spill.com's review of "The Music Never Stopped" brought you here.

  • The inflation-adjusted price of the 2 CDs plus shipping is $54.45.

  • Has anyone tried to call the number to order it? I wonder if it still works.1-800-445-8500

  • @EmeraldJEM710 It does.

  • HERE'S MORE!!

    *weird torso shaking*

  • Too fuckin sweet! Easily one of the most classic commercials ever, up there with "mikey likes it".

  • Dude, I totally remember this commercial from back in the 80s. Classic. They used to run this all the time during daytime TV like "Divorce Court" and other dreck like that. Atlanta Braves baseball on TBS, kiddos!

  • @goneruken nobody cares if he is or isn't a fiction writer, his material is damn funny

  • @wetbutter That is a fine opinion. You certainly can think it's funny, but if you think it TRUE, you are just as ignorant as conchgarnage.

  • Thumbs up if a douchebag got you here.

  • We all know Tucker Max is a fiction writer, right?

  • @goneruken just cause your life isn't no where near this guys writings doesn't give you a pass to bash him. let alone he could give two shits if you like, hate, believe or dismiss what you read, he still gets paid.

  • @GUCHCARNAGE he gets paid, apparently, by idiots like you who worship his fiction that he passes off as true stories.

  • @goneruken like others have stated I could care less if its true or not his writings are hilarious, and ingenious cause now he is rich and probably does get laid on demand. either way you lose for hating on him.

  • @GUCHCARNAGE  You are a fanboy queer. Maybe YOU should get a life instead of defending your man crush on YouTube.

  • This takes me back to middle school when this came out! We would go around in the halls sayin "well Turn It Up Man" all the time!! :)

    Ah, the memories....

  • Leo??

  • I can't believe this is on youtube.AWESOME!!!This shit used to crack me up. This has to be the best commercial for compilation albums.

  • these are the ugly men that hit on me at the bar...

  • Heh... Tucker Max got me here...

    TURN IT UP, MAN!

  • I didint get the joke too...

  • iv got sons that really like it. But they also know what good music is

  • what's the very first song?

  • @homobarbie Layla - Derek and the Dominos 

  • More like Freedom Adult Contemporary, amiright?

    Hello?

    No?

    sigh ...

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  • Tucker Max got me here.

  • thumbs up if tuckermax got you here

  • @pacman9286 Aha, nice!

  • @pacman9286 haha totally!

  • now, i feel stupid for not remembering freedom rock when mentioned in tucker max's book assholes finish first.

  • '60s nostalgia + '80s nostalgia = Happy Place!

  • love it 

  • Anyone remember a take off of this commercial that SNL ran around the time this commercial was airing, with Jon Lovitz as the hippie announcer? It had famous 60's songs but they changed the words, like Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" changed to "One White Shirt", as if it was being used in a detergent commercial. (The late 80's were the beginning of the widespread use of old rock tunes in commercials, so I guess it was parodying that as well)

  • check out my attached video:EXACTLY 5 PART2-it's the right wing version of freedom rock in all its psychedelic glory!

  • O'Jays? O'FREAKIN JAYS? I don't think so.

  • Before George Bush...it used to be called "French Rock"......

  • @Zatoichi444 ....LMFAO!!!

  • The original airing of this commercial commenced with my first explorations into '60s rock, the music that I first became obsessed with at 9 years old in the summer of '86 and continue to love at 33 in 2010. BUT looking back, these comps never truly represented what the counterculture listened to. Seals and Crofts?! The O'Jays?! "One Tin Soldier" by Coven?! Good gosh!

  • Back in 1988 a guy at work let me borrow records often and he gave me the two Freedom Rock CDs for free. For some reason, he ordered the CDs and didn't have A CD player yet! I just played these the other day. Good stuff!

  • I actually sent for this set. Should've got it on CD rather than cassette, but it's still darned good to play and listen!

  • It's weird so many of the songs really aren't rock or having to do with freedom/60s counter culture.

  • At 23 years old, this commercial's time removed from the present is even larger than the music(primarily 1967-1973) was from this commercial when it first aired. That's very depressing. I was 12 when this first aired, and now I'm knocking on Middle Age's door.

  • @CaptainBeyond72 I was older than that.

  • I remember this commercial!! I taped it as well.

  • Remember this like it was yesterday. What's crazy to me is that this commercial is older than the songs that were used in it at the time, and the 60's to me at that time (I was 12) seemed like eons ago.

  • Classic, man!!!

  • What, no 8-track? C'mon man............

  • i was just talking about this commercial the other day........i cant believe its been 23 years

  • I am soooooo old.......

  • I can't believe how fast these 23 years went. Brings a tear to my eye remembering the good times and realizing how old I have become

  • Turn it up Man!!!

  • HAHA I remember this commercial!!

  • OK, I'll admit it, i had this collection in cassette lol. I remember ordering it C.O.D. and getting it not even a week later. I wore the tapes out within 3 months lol. I wonder if anyone would dial that number after 22 years, and see if it's still good? ha ha ha ha ha Let me know please!!

  • @mirosal I dialed it and it was just a busy signal.

  • @jbritz33 sorry dude, I was on a long distance call.....

  • @Zatoichi444 what is this "long distance" of which you speak?

  • We used to quote this song, ",,,well turn it up, man!"

  • My best friend & I still occasionally quote the opening dialogue--I thought it was the 90s--1987!

  • That commercial is *still* an in-joke with my family, more than 20 years later.

  • Very classic commercial.

  • Wow ... both these guys were DJ's in Colorado Springs .. So strange to see them now, oh well we all get older ... anyone know where I can get the LP's?

  • Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery (that means order by Veteran's Day for delivery in time for Christmas!)

  • nice!

    i posted a response, from 1976

  • At the time tihis came out it was only 18 years after Woodstock & they had already made a joke out of the hippies. It'd be like making fun of 1991 now with a bunch of Grunge guys wearing flannel & dock martins listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, etc.

  • what is the first song called

  • "Layla", by Derek and the Dominos. Eric Clapton and Duane Allman play on it.

  • oh ok thankss alott

  • The second part of that song plays in the movie "Goodfellas" when they're discovering all the dead bodies. Doesn't even sound like the first part!

  • Layla

  • Shit I wouldn't mind having that CD.

  • What's a CD man?

  • Clearly they got hold of some bad stash.

  • I remember this one well. But I forgot how tweaked that Chong-looking dude was. Like he's trying to sell a mix tape to me for bus fare. At the train station.

  • Turn it up man

  • I vaguely remember this one. talk about stuck in the sixties hippies stereo type.s!

  • Keep your cassettes and CD's. Gimme the 4 records, man!

  • money hungry hippies would be comin' outta the colorado springs, man

  • Freedom Rock has it all man!

  • What's a record?

  • I think they got the Wayne's World Idea with Wayne and Garth from this commercial! I mean it seem so obvioius!

  • Far out Man...what a groovy commercial. Like, I had a trippin bus one time like these cats have with a big Mr. Natural painted on the side, flower decals, and a bitchin' 8 track...it was outta sight man....

  • The runner up would have to be the Commercial for "Hey Love"

    "No no my brother -- you gots ta get ya own!"

  • BEST. COMMERCIAL. EVER! Every time I hear the beginning part of "Layla" on the radio, I always have to say "Hey man is that Freedom Rock? Yeah man! Well, turn it up, man!" That song will forever remind me of this commercial.

  • Simply the BEST commercial ever MAN!!!

  • God, I can quote this commercial. Pretty sad

  • WELL TURN IT UP, MAAANN!

  • Man do I feel old.

    Wonder if I can still mail that PObox...

  • I'M A COP, YOU IDIOT!!!!

  • Why didn't he say "hey man, is that Layla on the radio, man?"

  • Lane might get mad.

  • I Live my freedom rock vynil

  • "Hey man, is that crack rock? Well burn it up man!"

  • Ugh. I'm old.

  • Sadly, 19.95 is a bargain, you'd be in for $40 on iTunes Music Store.

  • It's not so bad if you consider inflation -- $19.95 in 1987 dollars is equivalent to $35.96 in 2007 dollars...

  • cut the album in half, and you get the Forrest Gump soundtrack =P

  • holy shit has it been that long.....

  • omg. i wet my pants! i havent seen that in forever

  • The song on the radio what is it!!!

  • Layla.

    Eric Clapton.

  • I have never forgotten this commercial. My local classic rock station uses the "turn it up" sound bite. It makes me laugh every time. I have to look for the Mr. Microphone commercial now.

  • I was thinking about this silly commercial today and I had a feeling it would be here on good old YouTube. This video has some of the funniest comments I've ever read here.

    SNL had a funny parody of this commercial back then called "Sold Out Gold."

  • Damn time flies. it just seems like yesterday this was out hard to believe it's been 22 years. every time i hear Layla i always say Hey man is that freedom rock

  • this commercial used to embarass the hell out of me cuz my sons used to look at me with the knowing that what my generation thought was cool looked kinda pathetic in 87

  • The terrorists hate us for our freedom rock.

    -little known fact, before the war in Iraq, Freedom Rock used to be called French Rock.

  • Dude that is awesome funny.

  • haha I just love this commercial!

  • 1987 commercial and he mentioned CDs. I had no clue CDs were so available back then. Classic commercial.

  • i think the first cd i owned was in 1987, the joshua tree by U2.

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  • FREEDOM ROCK

    i play this every 9/11 as i cry into my can of budweiser

  • Man. This brings back memories.

  • and like all of those deals, sold from good old CSC!--lol

  • those guys must be dead.

  • They were wearing fake shit man

  • In honor of this classic commercial I will inject the word 'man' into everyone of my sentences today.

  • I remember this geeking my ass off on coke about 3 in the morning,Oh the 80s

  • Abraham Martin and John was a rock song??

  • WEEEELLL TURN IT UP MAAAAANNNN!

  • Shit..... I've been refriencing this commercial my whole life. Thanks for posting

  • No shit. When some classic rock song comes on in the bar I go real loud "HEY MAN, IS THAT FREEDOM ROCK? WELL TURN IT UP, MAN!

  • Rock on!

    Thanks for posting this.

  • ha ha im going to ebay rite now !

  • I was 14 when this commercial came out, and even then I had to roll my eyes, rub my temples, stare at the ground and found myself thinking, "Ya know . . . you can hear every single one of these songs on the radio a million times a day for absolutely nothing."

    I don't know how the Baby Boomer generation is able to even stand up straight.

  • Dude, I have Freedom Rock. Really.