"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/16/2018 at 18:00 • Filed to: sfx, movies, tv, music videos, ad watch, Embiggen this
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"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/16/2018 at 18:00 • Filed to: sfx, movies, tv, music videos, ad watch, Embiggen this | 5
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Now compiled all together in one video!
This uniquely mysterious sound effect continues to elude me. Where did it come from? Where else have we heard it?
The audio clip has been used in various forms of media- from films, to TV shows, to music videos, and even in advertisements. It has been used to represent a variety of vehicles, too. So far, here’s what we’ve got:
1966 Ford Mustang in
The Pelican Brief
(1993)
1993 Ford Taurus in
The Pelican Brief
(1993)
1984 Toyota Tercel wagon in
Strike One
(
The King of Queens
episode, 2000)
First-gen Audi R8 in
With U
(BigBang music video, 2008)
“Space Cruiser” in
Mortynight Run
(
Rick and Morty
episode, 2015)
2008/09 Ford Taurus in
Dead Car Battery: Easier Done Than Said
(Geico ad, 2017)
(Side note: the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! link for the Geico ad is now dead, rendering the embed in a previous post useless. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Feel free to use !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! instead to watch the whole thing.)
As it stands right now, the sound appears to have been used mostly for Fords. But I’m not convinced that that even means anything. For what it’s worth, whatever car it was recorded from, was probably intended to sound old at the time of its recording. So there’s a good chance that the starter & engine you’re hearing is well more than 25 years old by now.
Somebody must recognize it!
DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
> Urambo Tauro
02/16/2018 at 18:25 |
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I’m pretty certain it can also be heard somewhere in the Sopranos and also in Gone in 60 Seconds, but I’m not sure.
This also gives me the chance to talk about some things that annoy me when it comes to cars in movies: when they use the wrong starter sound for a car, and when you hear a door chime when someone opens the back door of a car. For instance, in Drive, when a character opens the back door of a Lincoln Town Car, you can hear the chime. Not only is it the wrong chime for a Town Car, Town Car chimes only sound when the driver door is opened. And many movies are guilty of having the wrong starter noise on a car, including the aforementioned Sopranos (in all of the Northstar-powered Cadillacs in that show, I’ve yet to hear one start up with the correct noise).
So far, Baby Driver is the only piece of media to get these right.