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octane songs - soviet - 12-19-2020
I have been hearing again the "octane songs" just in case the are here:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/songs/sgi/index.html
I have been doing a video about SGI with a friend in Spanish there's not much about in the language.
And i told him about the octane songs to add "i have a dream" at the start of the video.
So he ask what the lyrics mean ?, and this is what i got from it please correct me not sure about a couple of things.
i have a dream, and is two cpus.
what this will mean is not more desktop blues
modeling and rendering, designing analyzing , just pick any two.
i have one dream, and is two cpus.
i have a dream is call the crossbar switch, what all this will means is not big data glitch.
queue to queue you have no fear data in and out are here, just with the flip of a switch.
i have a dream is call the crossbar switch, just sit me down right in front of you.
and show me all the things that i can do, with your point and click you make me feel inside like i set the world on fire.
i have a dream, and is call the graphics high, it really works and is not just PC hard.
Texturing convolving, visual revolving any media task.
i have a dream,
i have a dream,
i have a dream,
i have a dream and is call the graphics high, i have a dream .....
Also realted found this review on amazon about the octane CD, seems at some times it was sold here ?.
https://www.amazon.com/Octane-Sound-Track/dp/B002UMMKE0
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The year: 1997.
Computer manufacturer Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), which had ushered in the now-commonplace era of 3D graphics with its crazy-cool and crazy-advanced (and not to mention crazy-expensive) graphical workstations and supercomputers, was facing lagging sales and increased competition from the garden-variety PC market. They saw the writing on the wall and knew that they needed something special. (This was a last stand before they decided to embrace PC technology themselves a few years later, whence their troubles really began. But I'm getting ahead of myself.)
So SGI circled the wagons, put on their war faces, and, "Braveheart"-style, summoned forth their inner berzerk to fight back and defend their market ...
... and somehow, for some reason, they came up with this audio CD.
To be sure, there was a computer at the center of their strategy: a desktop graphical workstation called the "Octane". But SGI couldn't afford to have this computer go unnoticed by any middle-managers with purchasing authority -- this wasn't just a product launch, this was an epic event, not to mention a damn-the-torpedoes strategy for corporate survival. They couldn't take any chances. So SGI, in their wisdom, decided that the sure-fire, killer solution was to craft up some original music that would gloriously proselytize the merits of their new computer, and distribute these songs to the world via this audio CD ("Octane: The Soundtrack"). These expertly conceived songs would sweep people up into a euphonious frenzy, instilling a fierce sense of patriotic loyalty in existing customers, while swaying new customers to happily ditch their Windows-based PCs for shiny new Octanes (at five times the price).
And whoa baby, this CD is a doozy. It runs at about 14 minutes and contains five tracks: track one ("Ignite Your Mind") is high-fiving power-pop, proudly proclaiming how great this computer is and how slow PCs are. Track two ("I Have a Dream") is a gooey ballad, lovingly swooning about how great this computer is and how slow PCs are. (And believe me, outside of this song, you've never heard the words "crossbar switch" or "graphics pipe" so passionately uttered; it almost brings a tear to this ironic hipster's eye.) Track three ("Octane Swing") is a swing/jazz number, smoothly illustrating how great this computer is and how slow PCs are. Track five ("Knee Deep in 3D") is a crunchy blues ditty, nostalgically waxing about how great this computer is and how slow PCs are. The CD hits its nadir at track four ("Retro Octane"), the most characterless and slickly corporate track of all, essentially a rock-styled medley with the chorus of track three interweaved around a repeated sound-clip of (presumably) the then-CEO of SGI, Ed McCracken, stoically preaching about how great this computer is and how slow PCs are. I imagine that when white-collar criminals go to hell, this is the type of music they have to listen to for all eternity.
On my darkest days, this CD provides me some solace, simply with the amusing thought that at least one person at SGI thought that it was a good idea. It's generous to say that the intentions behind this CD were misguided, and it more honestly falls into the category of stark disbelief, summoning questions like, "What the &$%# were they thinking?" and "How could they have been so out of touch?" Literally, the songs on this CD contain mind-boggling lyrics such as "I used to use PCs, well you know / that's when bean counters ran the show / Don't get me wrong, PCs are great / running MS Word you need time to wait / because PCs make you wait", and "I have a dream and it's two CPUs / what this will mean is no more desktop blues / modeling and rendering, designing, analyzing / just pick any two(oooo)". All that's missing are some tracks with titles like, "C'mon, We're Dyin' Here!" and containing the rockin' chorus, "This computer's not that fast / but it renders like a beast / it'll impress your geeky friends / that's worth twenty grand at least".
In its own obscure way, this CD holds a legendary status among retrocomputing hobbyists, serving as a material example of what went wrong with SGI in the late '90s: it perfectly embodies the shift in SGI's corporate culture as it swung from engineering to marketing, and is symbolic of the bad decisions that the company made as they swept into their catastrophic, monotonic downturn. If you're a computer hobbyist, particularly if you're an SGI hobbyist, you might have heard the scuttlebutt about this CD. If so, you should buy it posthaste. I can't give this CD more than a three-star rating under any circumstances, but I bought it without a moment's hesitation, and it proudly remains, after a decade's worth of retrocomputing joy with old SGI computers, as my last remaining item of SGI memorabilia.
Otherwise, I can only recommend this CD to historians of computer kitsch, ironic hipsters, and hard-core Jello Biafra fans.
As a final note, in addition to being worth a few laughs, this CD also serves as a cautionary tale for those aspiring to go into the music business. Not everyone can be rock stars or superstar producers, and for every musician that hits the big time, not only are there tens of thousands who fall by the wayside, but there are several hundred who find themselves in a musical purgatory, forced to eke out a living by creating music like this. The insert of this CD contains no credits. You can't find the names of any of the singers, or musicians, or composers, and that's probably not by accident. If I had been hired for this project, this is not something I would be telling anyone about at my high school reunion. "Just the cheque, please."
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It call my attention finding this review it was someone from the forum ?, i really feel the songs are cool and not "such bad marketing".