To the tune of Auld Lang Syne….

 

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So, a while back on The Ultimate Apple Weblog they had a post about someone recovering the original apple I basic from an audio tape that had been digitised into an mp3.

The original post with this story on pagetable.com included the mp3 in question. So of course I downloaded it with plans to use it in a song.

This is that song.

As well as samples of apple 1 basic, there are a couple of other iconic apple sounds…. and some text to speech of a basic program I wrote, and the staple phrase of apple software update documentation: “This update improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes”

 

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A long song, loaded up with all the usual experimetal ingredients, with a good dose of philosophical lyrics….

Bonus points awarded for guessing the inspiration. Even more bonus points awarded for telling all your friends about my music.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Multiply my words
As I toil away
Which way should I go
Evil will decay
Streams run to the sea
Crash into the waves
Evaporate and rain
Forever to be slaves

Chorus:
Round and found
Tossed and lost
Strip it down
It’s all the same
Build it up
It’s still the same

Verse 2:
Hunting for wisdom
Sorrow’s all I find
Darkened by the truth
Everything maligned
Nothing to be gained
All will end in dust
We’re just upright beasts
Ignore approaching dusk

Verse 3:
What’s been’s what’ll be
It has all been done
No memory of the past
Nothing new under the sun
Wisdom and folly
Are both insanity
Striving for the wind
All is vanity

 

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“This is a blues riff in b, watch me for the changes and uh…. try to keep up”

 

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