Edie Brickell - Good Times

EdieBrickellVEVO · 12.3M views · 2009-11-21 · 3:13

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Overview

The 1994 music video for Edie Brickell and New Bohemians' 'Good Times'. It became widely known as one of the bonus videos on the Windows 95 CD-ROM.

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Cited nostalgically as one of the first videos many people ever played from a CD on a PC, part of Windows 95 lore.

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Music performance & songs Internet culture & memes

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netsharc · 2026-02 · Joke / meme
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: [VIDEO] .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actually a scandal!
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lproven · 2026-02 · Reference
> Good times. That, of course, being the other track on some editions of Win95's CD. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, "Good Times". [VIDEO]
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nebula8804 · 2026-02 · Reference
This is probably me experiencing a simulacra but with that slow loading getting up to go get a drink workflow, each page load was more special. It was magical discovering new websites just like trying out new software by picking something up from those "pegboards" at computer stores. It also was a simpler time, the technology was in peoples lives but as a small side quest to their main lives. It took the form of a bulky desktop in the den or something like that. When you walked away from that beige box, it didn't follow or know about the rest of your life. A life where a Big Mac meal was only $2.99, a toyota corolla was $9-15k, houses were ~100k, and when average dev salaries were ~50k. That was a different life. I don't know why but I picture this music video that was included on the Windows 95 cd bonus folder when I think of this simulacra: [VIDEO]
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