Apple's 80's 'Guilty Pleasure'

Jonny Evans
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June 15, 2008
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Another in our series of re-runs, this was the Apple corporate song as used during the Mac introduction in 1984. It's very, erm, "eighties", - you know? Enjoy...

This should be seen as a "see how far they've come!"..

Comments (12)

MacFan (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 5:24am

This must have been Scully or one of the other moron's that nearly destroyed Apple. I forced myself to watch it with a glimmer of hope that maybe it would get better, but it did not. Find ever copy of this trash, all source material, and burn it! Thank goodness Steve Jobs is back and has brought good taste back to the company. I think the video may have scared me for life :(

Craig Bailey (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 8:14am

Is it just me, or does this borrow heavily from "Flashdance (What a Feeling)" by Irene Cara?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 11:56am

THAT was REALLY bad. I kept hoping there would be some kind of really cool, really "Apple" finish, but there was just a "thank God it's over" finish.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 1:50pm

I loved it, gotta disco now.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 3:55pm

Timeless!

He's only wafer thin (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 6:06pm

Awful! OK. Three words: way too long. oh, and awful.

Michael Norris (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 4:02pm

To Craig Bailey: Your phrase "borrow heavily" is something of an understatement. "Unashamedly plagiarise" would be somewhat closer to the truth.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 5:58pm

What did you expect from a sugar water salesman?

JAQ (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 7:46pm

If the composer of "Flashdance" didn't get royalties on this, he/she really needs to hire a competent lawyer. Seriously.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 16, 2008 - 9:12pm

OMG That was torture!!!

OMG...

DON'T EVER POST VIDEOS LIKE THAT AGAIN!!! LOL

TORTURE!

griffmiester (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 12:58am

Noticed that the still image used at 1:34 has a guy sitting looking at his mac, and there's a 3.25" floppy sticking out of the drive, and it's upside down and backwards.
lol
*sigh*

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 5:05am

ha, i got the "low quality" version (from some old vhs) on my youtube ... i didnt know that "better quality" exists (yeah, talk about high quality when its shitty video like this)