9 comments

  • ndiddy 11 minutes ago ago

    They did music videos for a few of these too:

    Blue Busters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOnfN-ZDrs

    Apple II Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcjlhFVTY50

    Leading the Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM

    I guess stuff like this is what happens when your marketing department has too little to do.

  • lordfrito 43 minutes ago 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 26 minutes ago 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 33 minutes ago ago

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

  • tracerbulletx an hour ago ago

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

    • DonHopkins 20 minutes ago ago

      They were certainly over optimistic about "Apple II Forever"!

  • nhatbui 2 hours ago ago

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

  • ginko 2 hours ago 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 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.