The Ikea kitchen advert.

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Anyone thinks that it's fabfabfab?

Ooh hadn't seen this before. Thanks for linking! Took me right back to my teenage years... Those girls were very Human League, non?

we all looked like that then didn't we

1980!?

OMG now I feel old. I used to love this one.

Just fabulous. Sometimes I marvel at what goes through the minds of UK advertising execs.

I was 17 in 1980. Just coming out of the dire musical years of the 1970s which even when I was living through it I knew were rubbish.

Margaret Thatcher was in her zenith and unless you were there you cant know what it was like. It was like going from Black & White TV to Colour TV - not many of you can remember that feeling either I'll wager.

1980 was a good year

OMG just spotted Jonah Lewie. I used to love that song so much and love the ad (nostalga). I think people my age must be controlling the world now as I can realate to all the music but if it was really out in 1980 just worked out I was 16 sob!!

Jona Lewie looks bloody good for his age.

Love this song! It gets freaking stuck in my head though.

I love that ad too! I love the song, I loved 1980, I love the boys' skinny trousers and the girls' sculptured dresses, I love red lacquer and I love drawers that are stairs. I only wish I could afford the kitchen.

Cheers for this thread; it's nice to be unconditionally positive about something for a change

1980? Doesn't that mean the song's just gone out of copyright? Maybe they paid Jona an appearance fee to make up for not having to buy the rights to his song

Not quite unconditional then ...

I didn't look like that I was 8[hshock]. More dungarees and a polo neck [hblush]

I still like the advert [hgrin]

Love this song/advert!! Fab bab fab!

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yes i remember it too! the first time i saw the ad i got all excited as i havent heard that song for so long i started singing along and DH (younger than me) looked at me all odd!

i too was going to post a thread on this in a 'i heart ikea advert' kinda way

off to look for Jona in the vid

yay i spotted him - they start off by saying 'yawwight jona!'

cripes he looks the same as he did 30 years ago!

I'm so pleased to hear this song around again. I was only 8 1st time round but still loved it and remember it well

I too love this advert, especially the 2 dancing girls. Had never heard the song in my life but DP immediately said 'Jonah Louie, he also sings the cavalry song' (to which me and DD gave each other the 'here goes the old fart' look)

I would have loved to have been an adult in the 1980s. All those girls with bleach wash skinnies and scrunched up big hair, smelling of Anais Anais in Jean Jeannie looked so glamorous.

Love the song, the ad is naff.
I had the single back in 1980, when record companies would sometimes having amusing messages scratched onto the vinyl, just near the label. On this disc it said on Side 1: "Fuck the whale ..." and on side 2: "... save Jonah!"

OMG Euphemy - had forgotten about that! I used to love tilting the record to see what was written.

You don't get that with CDs :(

DH and I had both said how much we loved the song on the advert we thought we recognised it but I was only 7 and dh 9 so not surprising we couldn't quite get it..

GetOrf - ah yes a plate full of Fray Bentos, soggy chips and beans, sat in front of a grainy black & white TV watching flying pickets warm themselves round a brazier and hoping my parents would go out so I could ring my girlfriend in privacy on the house phone in the hallway.

I just knew it could only get better.

I remember the teachers' strikes when I was in the equivalent of reception - so would have been 1983 ish. The whole school was at home because of striking teachers, apart from my class because of scab strike breaking teacher.

I remember the resentment now. That's probably where the seeds of my socialism sprouted. Bitterness at the age of 5 because I couldn't skive off for the day.

Jona's in it loads - right from the start