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How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by idiotsecant »

tzs wrote: post #74
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

> holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actually a scandal! Or 11 years, when the scandal was that the president wore a tan suit [1]: > U.S. representative Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit's color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be "unpresidential". He went on: "There's no way, I don't think, any of u…

The lesson of tan suit learned by modern politicians: if you don't feed the media plenty of juicy things to be made into outrage pornography they will invent some. Much better to do the inventing yourself and keep people afraid and angry in the direction of the other guy.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by StilesCrisis »

bityard wrote: post #70

Our family's Packard Bell in 1996 came with a full-motion video game called Silent Steel. Coming from a 486, FMV video games sure felt like the future. It was pretty much Choose Your Own Adventure, but with video. You had to know the exact sequence of actions to get to a "good" ending, and apparently there were several endings. For the mid 90's, the script, acting, and sets (and CGI) were actually not half-bad. But m…

Sega CD had several games like that too. "Night Trap" was the most well known, and gained some notoriety for a bit of laughably tame footage.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by [deleted] »

tzs wrote: post #74
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

> holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actually a scandal! Or 11 years, when the scandal was that the president wore a tan suit [1]: > U.S. representative Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit's color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be "unpresidential". He went on: "There's no way, I don't think, any of u…

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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by throwaway173738 »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #82
bityard wrote: post #70

Our family's Packard Bell in 1996 came with a full-motion video game called Silent Steel. Coming from a 486, FMV video games sure felt like the future. It was pretty much Choose Your Own Adventure, but with video. You had to know the exact sequence of actions to get to a "good" ending, and apparently there were several endings. For the mid 90's, the script, acting, and sets (and CGI) were actually not half-bad. But m…

Sega CD had several games like that too. "Night Trap" was the most well known, and gained some notoriety for a bit of laughably tame footage.

What about Sewer Shark?

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by taysco »

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release.

They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks.

The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was like Star Trek level awe. It was so radically different and cool. Imho, Windows 95 is probably one of, if not, the most important software release of all time. Shaped how PC technology was used for the next 4 decades and still going strong.

I miss the 90s where every next iteration or release of hardware/software was generally a huge improvement. Like going from a 120mb hard drive to 1.6gb disk. Or getting your first CD-ROM after only having floppies, or CD-Writer (parents bought a 1x SCSI CDR the first year consumer ones came out -- made lots of coasters). Dial up to cable internet. The feeling of experiencing those new technologies was unmatched. It created such a since of awe, inspiration and wild imagination of possibilities. I don't get that feeling much these days.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by acomjean »

Hatrix wrote: post #16
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

There was something about iTunes at that time where every time I started my car it would connect to my phone and start playing that U2 album regardless of what I had been listening to earlier. It just would not go away.

I have a 2010 Honda. I found a usb port in the glove box. When I plug in my phone there is a 50% chance it will start playing my iTunes library alphabetically. (I get a Neville Brothers song, which isn’t so bad, I put it in there)

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by beering »

taysco wrote: post #85

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…

Is “Start Me Up” the song that goes, “you make a grown man cry”?

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by acomjean »

Philadelphia wrote: post #13

Apple put Barenaked Ladies’ The Old Apartment video on the Mac OS 8 CD as a QuickTime demo

I thought it was the song “one week.” But a quick search shows that song was on the MacOS 8.5 disk.

There were always little interesting stuff on those discs. Some music cds at the time came with “macromedia” stuff. Wonder if that still works..

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by bombcar »

beering wrote: post #87
taysco wrote: post #85

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…

Is “Start Me Up” the song that goes, “you make a grown man cry”?

Our group replaced the “dead man” at the end with Bill Gates.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by jader201 »

taysco wrote: post #85

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…

The ad, for the curious:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AJM6HMYjM

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