▲"The Apple Boogie" 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video](youtube.com)
30 points by 1970-01-01 2 days ago | 6 comments
▲ndiddy 1 minute 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 33 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 16 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 23 minutes ago
This leaves me without words, and I only listened to the first track.
▲tracerbulletx 52 minutes ago
Hard to deny culture has gotten less optimistic when you see stuff like this.
▲DonHopkins 10 minutes ago
They were certainly over optimistic about "Apple II Forever"!
▲nhatbui 1 hour ago
We’re making it out of Cupertino with this one.
▲ginko 2 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.