Edie Brickell - Good Times
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited nostalgically as one of the first videos many people ever played from a CD on a PC, part of Windows 95 lore.
What it is
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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What Hacker News said
Cites netsharc · 2020-06 · on “Windows98 Running in the Browser”
My Pentium 100 could play this 320x240 video [this video] fullscreen with no choppiness. I had forgotten about this video until I saw it last year... But Windows had skeumorphisms, even nowadays the screen with everything minimised is called "the desk[ ]top". But I guess briefcases and recycle bins made things relatable...
Cites marcodiego · 2023-08 · on “Popularity of DOS/4GW made Win95 game compat easier, but with higher stakes”
For those who don't know: win95 came with an 'extras' cd-rom with a few videos. Among them there a Weezer clip [1] and "Good Times"[2] [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]
Cites nelblu · 2025-04 · on “Microsoft employees recall their early years”
One of my favourite memories of Windows 95 was - [this video] . It felt absolutely futuristic watching a video from a CD at that time.
Cites lproven · 2026-02 · on “How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?”
> Good times. That, of course, being the other track on some editions of Win95's CD. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, "Good Times". [this video]
Cites nebula8804 · 2026-02 · on “LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop”
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
Cites vardump · 2026-02 · on “LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop”
> music video that was included on the Windows 95 cd bonus folder when I think of this simulacra: [this video] When I saw that video in 1995, I understood something we now know as Youtube would be inevitable as the connection speeds improve. Although I thought it'd be like MTV, a way to watch the newest music videos.