Abbey National - Plane

Original Transmission Date : October 1996
Why I like this advert : I Love this 'version' of the Abbey National theme music. I also like the way the way one scene moves into the next.

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.08Mb)

Adidas - Balls

Original Transmission Date : 2000
Why I like this advert : Silly advert but fun to watch, Great music

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (578Kb)

Adidas - Right here, Right now

Original Transmission Date : 1999
Why I like this advert : Great music and high speed video capture.

Music featured : Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now
Video Clip info : 29 seconds (537Kb)

Coca-Cola - Three-legged Striker (& the mole)

Original Transmission Date : May 2002
Why I like this advert : Silly advert, Great music

Music featured : Baddest ruffest by backyard dog
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.08Mb)

Barclaycard - House

Original Transmission Date : September 1997
Why I like this advert : Silly but like the over the top ending.

Music featured : Trini Lopez - If I Had A Hammer
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (741Kb)

Becks - Naturally (woman in the rain)

Original Transmission Date : 1999
Why I like this advert : What a great advert this is, Flowing images and wonderful music.

Music featured : ? What ever it is I love it!
Video Clip info : 59 seconds (1.06Mb)

Boddingtons Manchester Gold - The Body

Original Transmission Date : October 1996
Why I like this advert : Melanie Sykes in another great advert.
"Eh Tarquin... are yer trolleys on right way round?"

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (737Kb)

Boddingtons - Runner (ice cream van)

Original Transmission Date : August 1997
Why I like this advert : Funny advert based on a Nike Advert, again with Melanie Sykes.
"Do you want a Flake in that love?"

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (723Kb)

Boddingtons - Venice?

Original Transmission Date : August 1993
Why I like this advert : Very clever advert and still funny today. Filmed on the Manchester Ship Canal.

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (750Kb)

Boddingtons - Stay in the sun a little bit longer

Original Transmission Date : August 1994
Why I like this advert : Funny advert.
"And give us another rub down with that chip fat"

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 40 seconds (737Kb)

BT - Broadband "Broadband has landed"

Original Transmission Date : Late September 2002
Why I like this advert : Very impressive advert. This is the main full advert. There are several sub adverts which use sections of this advert in them.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.08Mb)

Budweiser - Cocodile and 3 frogs

Original Transmission Date : 2000
Why I like this advert : Very funny, This was the final advert to feature the famous Budweiser frogs.

Music featured : Wise Guys - Ooh Lah Lah
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (562Kb)

Budweiser - Passengers (Native American)

Original Transmission Date : September 1996
Why I like this advert : Like the music and the images.

Music featured : I am a passenger by Michael Hutchence (of INXS fame), and is on the 'Batman Forever' soundtrack album (track 11).

Video Clip info : 59 seconds (1.07Mb)

British Airways - Christmas

Original Transmission Date : December 1996
Why I like this advert : Wonderful music and very clever idea!
These days you could probably do the same thing on a computer.

Music featured : A track by Malcolm Mc Laren
Video Clip info : 59 seconds (1.05Mb)

From the Saatchi & Saatchi days. The advert was directed by Hugh Hudson, shot in Utah and cost £2 million to make, the ad used over 6,000 local kids to create parts of a human face.

Caffrey's - America to Ireland

Original Transmission Date : December 1996
Why I like this advert : Wonderful music and images

Music featured : 1st =House of pain - Jump around, 2nd = Is the opening titles from the Coen brothers film Miller's Crossing, and is written by Carter Burwell.
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (739Kb)

Carling - Cracking (The helpful crab)

Original Transmission Date : Feb 2002
Why I like this advert : Very funny ending.

Music featured : Bill Withers - Just the two of us
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (736Kb)

Carling - Frustraiting (licking the house clean)

Original Transmission Date : June 2002
Why I like this advert : Very funny ending. There is an alternative advert to this with a "Rewarding" ending to it which is shown later at night!

Music featured : The Troggs - Wild thing
Video Clip info : 40 seconds (748Kb)

Carling - Premier (Who's bike is it?)

Original Transmission Date : August 1998
Why I like this advert : Nice images and great music.

Music featured : 6 underground by The Sneaker Pimps. This is track 3 on the Sneaker Pimps album Becoming X. The album has some other good tracks on it which I liked such as Spin Spin sugar and Post-modern sleaze.
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (721Kb)

Dime - Armadillows

Original Transmission Date : May 1995
Why I like this advert : Harry Enfield being very silly indeed.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (578Kb)

Dime - That blokes a nutter

Original Transmission Date : February 1994
Why I like this advert : Another very funny Dimebar advert with Harry Enfield.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 29 seconds (558Kb)

Dry Blackthorn - Metal detector

Original Transmission Date : August 1993
Why I like this advert : Very quick and simple. This was one of many quick Blackthorn adverts.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 10 seconds (188Kb)

Dry Blackthorn - Wet paint

Original Transmission Date : September 1993
Why I like this advert : Very quick and simple. This was one of many quick Blackthorn adverts. This time a good ending.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 10 seconds (219Kb)

Dunlop - Tested for the unexpected

Original Transmission Date : November 1993
Why I like this advert : Great music and very unusual video.

Music featured : Venus in Furs by the Velvet Underground
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.08Mb)

Directed by Tony Kaye, Fimed in Arizona. Featuring silver painted children, a piano being pushed off a bridge, lots of ball bearings scattered over the road, a guy in a spiky balaclava.

Fiat Stilo - Sound effects

Original Transmission Date : June 2002
Why I like this advert : Nice rhythm created from the various switches and things in the car.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (745Kb)

Foster's - Robot cleaner (Yuko Yuko 1200)

Original Transmission Date : June 2002
Why I like this advert : One of the funniest adverts in a long time.
A classic Fosters advert!

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 40 seconds (737Kb)

Frontera 4x4 - See a different world (angles)

Original Transmission Date : September 1994
Why I like this advert : Great music and clever filming methods.

Music featured : ? do you know?
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (735Kb)

Genie - Same world, Different planet

Original Transmission Date : May 2001
Why I like this advert : Great visual feast. The time lapse filming techniques used here are very much like those seen in Francis Ford Coppola's film Koyaanisqatsi (1983).

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 59 seconds (1.07Mb)

Guinness - Fly through twice

Original Transmission Date : July 1994
Why I like this advert : I Love the way it flys into a scene then through it into the same viewpoint again and the music is great too.

Music featured : Louis Armstrong - All the time in the world
Video Clip info : 48 seconds (902Kb)

Guinness - Keep an open mind

Original Transmission Date : September 1993
Why I like this advert : I Love the way one scene moves into the next and the music is pretty good too.

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 48 seconds (902Kb)

Guinness - Volcano rescue (walking on lava)

Original Transmission Date : June 2002
Why I like this advert : Another great Guinness advert.

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (565Kb)

Heineken - The dustmen (being quiet)

Original Transmission Date : 2000
Why I like this advert : Another classic Heineken advert.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 20 seconds (390Kb)

Heineken - Road works

Original Transmission Date : 1998
Why I like this advert : Another classic Heineken advert, If only this would happen!

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (576Kb)

Holsten Pils - Which was nice

Original Transmission Date : 2000
Why I like this advert : It's that man from the Fast Show!

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 19 seconds (375Kb)

Honda Accord - When things just work (The cog)

Original Transmission Date : April 2003
Why I like this advert : This advert is obviously been created after someone has seen the 1987 film The way things go (Der Lauf der Dinge) which was created by two artists by the names of Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
If you can imagine this Honda advert lasting for 30 mins then that is what what the film is like! If you like this advert then you will love the film.
I recently bought the film on DVD, well worth watching.
I hope that this advert will help to introduce people to the film by Peter and David as this has clearly been copied in this advert.
For more details on the original film click HERE.

Music featured : 'Rapper's delight' by Grand Master Flash and the Sugar Hill Gang.
Video Clip info : 2 Mins (2.09Mb)

John Smiths - Top Bombing

Original Transmission Date : Late 2002
Why I like this advert : Very funny advert, one of many featuring the brillaint stand-up comedian Peter Kay.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 40 seconds (763Kb)

John West - Bear fight

Original Transmission Date : Late 2001
Why I like this advert : Very funny

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (571Kb)

KitKat - Have a break (The grabber)

Original Transmission Date : 2002
Why I like this advert : Short and simple but very funny !
KitKat have made lots of these quick adverts and even ones for the radio.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 20 seconds (393Kb)

Labatt's - Harry the mountie (don't try this at home)

Original Transmission Date : November 1994
Why I like this advert : Very unusual advert and funny. I love the music

Music featured : ? Do you know?
Video Clip info : 48 seconds (904Kb)

Levi's - Freedom to move

Original Transmission Date : 2002
Why I like this advert : I like the way they run through wall after wall then up the trees and into space.

Music featured : Handel - Sarabande in D Minor from Suite Eleven
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (563Kb)

Levi's - Spaceman

Original Transmission Date : November 1995
Why I like this advert : Great music.

Music featured : Spaceman by Babylon Zoo
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.09Mb)

Levi's - Shrink to fit

Original Transmission Date : July 1994
Why I like this advert : Great music, Filmed in Yosemite National park, California.

Music featured : Stiltskin - Inside
Video Clip info : 59 seconds (1.07Mb)

Levi's - Twisted to fit

Original Transmission Date : 2002
Why I like this advert : Great music and very clever but horrible visual effects.

Music featured : Twisted to fit from the album 'Supersound' by Pepe Deluxe
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.07Mb)

Lilt - Engineered for summer (Levi's copy)

Original Transmission Date : July 2002
Why I like this advert : Here we see a Lilt advert made to look like the Levi's Freedom to move advert. Extreamly funny advert.

Music featured : Handel - Sarabande in D Minor from Suite Eleven
Video Clip info : 40 seconds (754Kb)

Lynx - Perfect woman

Original Transmission Date : May 2000
Why I like this advert : Suprised they managed to get away with making this advert.

Music featured : Possibly by Gert Wilden
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (735Kb)

Lynx - Pied Piper (The Lynx effect)

Original Transmission Date : 2000
Why I like this advert : Great music and some rather nice women.

Music featured : Bently's gonna sort you out by Bentley rythem ace.
Video Clip info : 38 seconds (732Kb)

Mc Donalds - Car recovery

Original Transmission Date : June 2002
Why I like this advert : It's a funny advert

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (569Kb)

Mondeo - Sixth Sense

Original Transmission Date : March 1998
Why I like this advert : Great music and images. Made when the X-files was at its peak.

Music featured : The music is from the film Vertigo. Not sure of the title.
Video Clip info : 38 seconds (719Kb)

Morgan stanley - Racing

Original Transmission Date : 2001
Why I like this advert : A very quick advert but I love the piano music.

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 20 seconds (382Kb)

Nike - Basketball

Original Transmission Date : November 1996
Why I like this advert : Great music and images.
Another very good advert!

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (567Kb)

Nintendo Gamecube - Lifes a game

Original Transmission Date : March/May 2002
Why I like this advert : I like the strange visual ideas used in this and the great Drum and Bass music.

Music featured : Destination Unknown by Vince Pope, it's due to be released as a single some time soon.
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.09Mb)

Olde English Cider - The old one

Original Transmission Date : September 1994
Why I like this advert : Very silly one, I like the reference to a false start.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 29 seconds (563Kb)

O2 - See what you can do

Original Transmission Date : April 2003
Why I like this advert : Wonderful music and visuals.

Music featured :Blood on the motorway" by Dj Shadow.
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.08Mb)

Orange - 60 Seconds

Original Transmission Date : November 1994
Why I like this advert : Nice music and visuals

Music featured : A track by Philip Glass from the album "North Star"

Video Clip info : 29 seconds (547Kb)

Orange - Photo Messaging (Muck about)

Original Transmission Date : Novemebr 2002
Why I like this advert : Nice visuals and music

Music featured : Barry 7`s Contraption by Add N to (x)

Video Clip info : 40 seconds (759Kb)

Orange - Photo Messaging (Don't just talk, See)

Original Transmission Date : Late August 2002
Why I like this advert : Yet again, an absolutely superb advert from Orange. Truly wonderful music backed up with some nice images.
This one will probably give you goose bumps like the 'Night Night' one did!
This is my current favourite advert of all time.
The beach scene at the end was shot on the Isle of Skye and features the actor Tom Graham, who plays Tom Archer in Radio 4's long running soap "The Archers"
Music featured : The Lamb by John Tavener. This can be found on an album by John Tavener called Christmas Proclamation (Choir Of St. John's, Cambridge). Track 3 on this album is "the Lamb".

Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.08Mb)

Orange - Night Night x

Original Transmission Date : November 2001
Why I like this advert : Wonderful bit of music and nice images.
This really is a very good advert, one of the best from Orange.
There is a longer version of this ad shown in the cinema.

Music featured : it was specially written for the advert by Peter Lawlor @ Water Music and is called "Ice".
It is not available on general release, which is a real shame as I know many many people would love to buy it!

Video Clip info : 40 seconds (756Kb)

MP3 of Ice by Peter Lawlor (From the Orange - Night Night advert)
Seeing as this is so popular I have recorded a high quality MP3 of the music, which you can also download here.
Please note the copyright of this track is Peter Lawlor, I provide it here due to the high demand for it.

MP3 Clip info : 35 seconds (422Kb)

Peugeot 307 - Ship rescue?

Original Transmission Date : Late August 2002
Why I like this advert : Love the music. In this advert you assume that the people are rushing to the aid of a ship in trouble but this is not the case as you will see. It was filmed in Tobermory with the help of everyone at Tobermory lifeboat station.

Music featured : ?

Video Clip info : 40 seconds (743Kb)

Peugeot 307SW - See the world in a different light

Original Transmission Date : June 2002
Why I like this advert : Love the music and the images. Very arty!

Music featured : Breathe by Telepopmusik, Taken from the album Genetic World.

Video Clip info : 39 seconds (739Kb)

Pot Noodle - Its Dirty and you want it

Original Transmission Date : Late 2002
Why I like this advert : Funny advert

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (578Kb)

Pot Noodle - Wig (Wonder pot TV)

Original Transmission Date : February 1993
Why I like this advert : Like the video footage, very strange!

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (745Kb)

Pringles - Dogs

Original Transmission Date : September 2002
Why I like this advert : Its funny!

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (573Kb)

Sony In Car - Inspiral

Original Transmission Date : October 1996
Why I like this advert : I like the visuals, very strange!

Music featured : I want you by Inspiral Carpets featuring Mark E Smith.
Video Clip info : 39 seconds (728Kb)

Stella Artois - Bread

Original Transmission Date : October 1993
Why I like this advert : A truly bizarre advert, what on earth were they thinking of?
This is one of a set of four adverts like this.

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 59 seconds (1.07Mb)

Stella Artois - Dentist

Original Transmission Date : October 1993
Why I like this advert : A truly bizarre advert, what on earth were they thinking of?
This is another one of a set of four Stella adverts.

Music featured : ?
Video Clip info : 59 seconds (1.08Mb)

Stella Artois - The last wishes of a Dying man

Original Transmission Date : 2001
Why I like this advert : It's a very funny ending to this advert.
All he has to do is bring him a rare orchid, some fresh honey and glass of Stella, will he resist drinking it himself ?

Music featured : Overture to the Force of Destiny by Verdi
Video Clip info : 60 seconds (1.09Mb)

Strongbow - Live to loaf

Original Transmission Date : 2001
Why I like this advert : Classic Strongbow advert.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (556Kb)

Tango - Apple seduction

Original Transmission Date : June 1994
Why I like this advert : Another silly Tango advert. But a classic one.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 40 seconds (758Kb)

Tango - Helmet

Original Transmission Date : June/July 2002
Why I like this advert : What a great Tango advert

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 29 seconds (552Kb)

Tango - I'm Ray Gardner, I'll take you all on

Original Transmission Date : October 1996
Why I like this advert : The most over the top Tango adverts I have ever seen. Does this 'Sebastian' realise what he has done !

Music featured : Felix – Don’t You Want Me
Video Clip info : 1 Min 30 seconds (1.61Mb)

Tango - You need it because you're weak (Cheese on Toast)

Original Transmission Date : 1998
Why I like this advert : Another silly Tango advert.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 17 seconds (336Kb)

Tango - Orange fella

Original Transmission Date : November 1993
Why I like this advert : Another silly Tango advert.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 29 seconds (552Kb)

Tango - Napoleon

Original Transmission Date : March 1994
Why I like this advert : Another silly Tango advert.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 28 seconds (543Kb)

Tango - Scotsman

Original Transmission Date : November 1994
Why I like this advert : Yet another daft Tango advert.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 30 Seconds (578Kb)

Tango - Waterbed and the porcupine

Original Transmission Date : June/July 2002
Why I like this advert : Another classic Tango advert. Where do they get their ideas from?

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 29 Seconds (547Kb)

Tango - We drink tango don't you know (car crash)

Original Transmission Date : 1998
Why I like this advert : Yet another daft Tango advert.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 39 Seconds (737Kb)

Tennent's Pilsner - Famous Dog

Original Transmission Date : 1994
Why I like this advert : One of two very clever adverts where they had to learn to speak backwards in order to acheive the effects you see here.
An all time classic advert!

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 49 seconds (917Kb)

Tennent's Pilsner - Piano

Original Transmission Date : January 1993
Why I like this advert : Clever filming ideas.

Music featured : n/a
Video Clip info : 35 seconds (656Kb)

T-Mobile - What will you start (T-Zones) Pillow fight

Original Transmission Date : April 2003
Why I like this advert : Daft advert, nice music

Music featured : Fresh Def Fly’ by DJ Promo and ‘Is this Love?’ by PJ Harvey
Video Clip info : 30 seconds (564Kb)