Apple's 80's 'Guilty Pleasure'

Sun, 06/15/2008 - 8:25pm — Jonny Evans
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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!"..

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HORRIBLE!

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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 :(

"Flashdance"

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

Why is that still around?

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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.

I loved it, gotta disco now.

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I loved it, gotta disco now.

Timeless!

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Timeless!

One Word

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

To Craig Bailey: Your phrase

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

What did you expect from a

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What did you expect from a sugar water salesman?

If the composer of

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

TORTURE!

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OMG That was torture!!!

OMG...

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

TORTURE!

lol at the image at 1:34

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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*

ha, i got the "low quality"

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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)