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"The Apple Boogie" 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video]

30 points by 1970-01-01 3 days ago | 7 comments

lordfrito 25 minutes ago

This is like maximum 80's cringe... I say that as a child of the 80's... I'm half tempted to cut this up and try and build some sort of vaporwave track. Seems tailor made for vaporwave.

toast0 8 minutes ago

Oh wow. This is exactly why people were trying to require a license to use a synthesizer. Maybe it gets better ?? [1] It could probably be clipped into something good though, yeah.

OTOH, when the piano hits, Ripples feels so much like I'd Do Anything for Love for a bit, but predates it by six years.

[1] 3 minutes in, I'm pretty sure the answer is no.

Photogrammaton 15 minutes ago

This leaves me without words, and I only listened to the first track.

tracerbulletx 44 minutes ago

Hard to deny culture has gotten less optimistic when you see stuff like this.

DonHopkins 2 minutes ago

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nhatbui 2 hours ago

We’re making it out of Cupertino with this one.

ginko 3 hours ago

Wouldn't releasing an album during that time be quite risky because of the ongoing legal issues with Apple Corps[1]? In 1991 Apple legal was so paranoid that they even worried about the names of Mac OS system sounds[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

joezydeco 2 hours ago

This looks like something that was handed out at a WWDC or similar conference around that time, especially with the inclusion of the "Apple ][ Forever!" song. It was never for sale.

That said, I miss the Garamond era of Apple design and marketing. It brings back a lot of memories.