The sound effect everyone knows, but forgot existed

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  • This legendary sound effect from back in the days.
    The windows xp Startup sound.
    I basicly took the melody thing and improvised a lot of it.

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  • @Dark0neone
    @Dark0neone 2 роки тому +2656

    I was just thinking the other day. "I'd go back to XP if it was actually supported."

    • @SlowestSnail
      @SlowestSnail 2 роки тому +27

      I feel ya

    • @vijaykrishnan7797
      @vijaykrishnan7797 2 роки тому +15

      Same bro :)❤️

    • @fosspointer
      @fosspointer 2 роки тому +33

      bro we know microsoft is stupid but then you can just use linux

    • @Dark0neone
      @Dark0neone 2 роки тому +44

      @@fosspointer nah I'd rather not learn a new operating system when the reasons that Linux was any good are irrelevant now. Only reason I'd use Linux is security and Windows 10 is fine for that.

    • @fosspointer
      @fosspointer 2 роки тому +36

      @@Dark0neone So your privacy is now irrelevant? The Unix philosophy and Open Source movements are irrelevant now? If it weren't for open source, most modern software would not exist today. Fuck the proprietary garbage Microsoft made. When do I start replying, when your comment is plain incorrect? Firstly, most server systems and tons of embedded ones run exclusively on Linux, and you wouldn't want to lose access to those, right? Secondly, Linux does not make the computer any harder to use, if not more efficient and faster. You can choose between a great variety of distributions, a.k.a. distros, to suit your needs. There's Manjaro and Ubuntu for beginners not wanting to customise anything about their computer, and Arch (or arch based distros), Gentoo, for more advanced users willing to customise, and customise everything. If you get to your first KDE Installation, there won't be any major difficulties using it, because it's not much different to the Windows desktop environment. More advanced users can choose Tiling Window Managers alongside their distro, in order to increase productivity. See your computer using 2GB of ram, that's a lot, even if your RAM capacity is 32GB. Well, Linux can be as minimalistic as possible if you make it that way, reducing bloat to effectively zero. Either way, your can see exactly how your system resources are allocated and what each and every program is doing. The Linux contributors are ready to patch vulnerabilities as soon as they are found, before they could be used to create malware and similar kinds of software, taking advantage of such vulnerabilities. Thus, malware creators focus on Microsoft's and Apple's shit and not Linux. There's effectively no malware in the official repositories for every distro, and there's no need for the bloat, that is an antivirus. That's all performance, usability, privacy, customisation, and security improved there for you, just by using Linux and Open Source software. And now you may ask, why am I using UA-cam when it's not open source? Well, there sadly don't exist alternatives that are popular enough to be usable, although Odyssee (which works on top of the LBRY Blockchain, that may be a turn down for some), is starting to become more popular, and a few creators like DistroTube, now upload to both UA-cam and Odyssee.

  • @SakuraFairy
    @SakuraFairy 2 роки тому +384

    The fact that it oddly sounds like it could be a build mode theme for the first Sims game, which just adds to the nostalgia because that was the only reason I remember starting up the computer during the XP era.. I’m gonna cry

    • @anthonygeraci7391
      @anthonygeraci7391 2 роки тому +4

      Build Theme 6 vibes

    • @Bober909
      @Bober909 2 роки тому +10

      Exactly, and basically all of Sims build themes are just improvisations over a chord progression, so this fits that as well :)

    • @ThingyMcJiggy
      @ThingyMcJiggy 2 роки тому +2

      Sounds like Mario Galaxy to me

    • @JordanH420
      @JordanH420 2 роки тому +3

      This immediately made me think of the sims

    • @ianhellsing3327
      @ianhellsing3327 2 роки тому +2

      thats where it took me too XD

  • @superhypercrazy6821
    @superhypercrazy6821 2 роки тому +3899

    dude made a whole song out of the windows xp startup sound, what a legend

    • @HighCat007
      @HighCat007 2 роки тому +57

      nah bruh, its stephen hawkings last words

    • @HumptyDumptyActual
      @HumptyDumptyActual 2 роки тому +4

      @@HighCat007 bahahaha 😂

    • @Benoit-Pierre
      @Benoit-Pierre 2 роки тому +8

      Composition is the name of a music lecture, to shorten, or extend a known music to fit some needs. Then you can tune it to adapt it to feelings, theme, or circumstances.
      It's done in particular at church, to adapt some music to the priest. From man to man, priests don't all do mass at the same speed and organist needs to adapt and fit to each priest, so that music ends exactly. You may need to shorten by half, or double some music, and end it nicely at less than 3s to the point the priest needs to.
      There is method for that. There are school lectures ...
      Improvisation is rarely needed nowadays. I can't see any other use of it today, outside music events where you may deform a piece but don't really need to adapt it to an event that is external to the orchestra (jazz band do improvisation for themselves, not for an external performer). Sometimes, in a limited way, at circus or one man show, but it's a bit different.
      Sometimes when the organist is too proud and selfish, and does not care about religion, he may do his own show to prove himself, and after the mass the priest blames him.

    • @HumptyDumptyActual
      @HumptyDumptyActual 2 роки тому +8

      @@Benoit-Pierre If I was your school teacher, I would give 10/10 but brother this is youtube. I think you accidentally pasted your assignment in comments. Nonetheless great work 😎💯

    • @Benoit-Pierre
      @Benoit-Pierre 2 роки тому +1

      @@HumptyDumptyActual when i paste, I always quote my source. What I explained is real life of close friends who are in music.

  • @millow_4264
    @millow_4264 2 роки тому +387

    How does this man grab things from my childhood I didn’t even know were there

  • @royalemeraldbuilder5058
    @royalemeraldbuilder5058 2 роки тому +789

    This is legit beautiful and actually makes me sort of nostalgic for something I otherwise would never have cared about. Great job, sir!

    • @the_blue_techno
      @the_blue_techno 2 роки тому +3

      Minecraft mabie?

    • @the_blue_techno
      @the_blue_techno 2 роки тому +2

      Or maybe some type of game or show

    • @royalemeraldbuilder5058
      @royalemeraldbuilder5058 2 роки тому +3

      @@the_blue_techno Ha ha ha no, this is based on the startup sound for Windows XP, released in 2001 so it's what a lot of Gen Z remember as their earliest Windows. In fact, there have been plenty others before and since XP, but that has been by far the most memed.

    • @diplamatikjuan3595
      @diplamatikjuan3595 2 роки тому +3

      @@royalemeraldbuilder5058 People forget how amazing Windows XP was at the time. My first PC was windows was 3.1 and each new windows version was more groundbreaking than the last, but Windows XP was like the culmination of it all

    • @jamesthecat
      @jamesthecat 2 роки тому +1

      @@diplamatikjuan3595 Yes, absolutely on it's own terms, but also in comparison with the very stable 98 SE and the very unstable ME!
      Believe it or not, XP still lives on in some ATMs here in the UK. There's one in my local shop - I happened to see it the other day, stuck in a boot loop, sadly...

  • @Rpodnee
    @Rpodnee 2 роки тому +129

    XP was iconic. And that's part of the reason so many of us still remember it so well. It seems like everything is deliberately made to be forgotten these days. That way we are more likely to abandon it for the next new and "improved" product.

    • @onusgumboot5565
      @onusgumboot5565 2 роки тому +5

      I have an old computer down in my studio that runs XP. It has never been hooked up to the internet, and still works really well. It has an old version of photo shop on it that is way better than the new one on our current computer. We have gone through three computers used with the internet. The old one continues on.

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 роки тому

      @@onusgumboot5565 I had a wonderful Windows XP hp-Compac; Media Center Edition: hpPhotosmart was the best photostorage and editing program. --Better, clearer, reliable...and didn't try to assault with ten distracting gimmicks instead of doing the basics well. Came with Sonic Video production and editing software too. It sped up after being disconnected from attempting internet. Soldiered on till 2013, when it stopped being able to load Windows; On/Off wouldn't make it spool up.

  • @man_on_wheelz
    @man_on_wheelz 2 роки тому +93

    Even though I'm 33 and am literally the same age as the internet itself and have done many homework assignments on Windows 98, Windows XP was where everything I know about computers today came to be. It's where I've done most of my internet usage, most of my PC gaming, most of my school work and even some of my WORK work. Windows XP should be highly regarded someday because it was the OS that carried the heavy load of transforming the technology age into what it is today.

  • @kaphizmey6229
    @kaphizmey6229 2 роки тому +131

    “subscribe for more dumb stuff”
    this wasn’t dumb sir, this was _✨art✨_

  • @reipixel9654
    @reipixel9654 2 роки тому +23

    I genuinely forgot act this sound because at first I was like "wait this is just a normal beautiful piano melody??"

  • @chandanbhagat5660
    @chandanbhagat5660 2 роки тому +22

    Dude, this literally the best window xp sound (song), I have ever listened.
    You are 🐐

  • @helloitismetomato
    @helloitismetomato 2 роки тому +15

    I miss Windows XP. Anyone remember having an actually easy to use control panel?

  • @apiian
    @apiian 2 роки тому +135

    This sounds beautiful! Somebody needs to transcribe this into sheet music

  • @casualhoshiyomi
    @casualhoshiyomi 2 роки тому +37

    It's beautiful. It kinda reminds me of Mario 64's water level

    • @bruno13532
      @bruno13532 2 роки тому +1

      Haaaa i just commented it without starting to read comments prior to mine ahha

  • @decamouflagevlogs9685
    @decamouflagevlogs9685 2 роки тому +85

    this man is so talented and needs to reach 1mil subscribers before the end of the year!

  • @ContrapuntalComposer
    @ContrapuntalComposer 2 роки тому +22

    I get it - Windows XP... but interestingly, the overall composition bears semblance to the piano solo portion of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's "Just Take A Pebble".

    • @wiseoldfool
      @wiseoldfool 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed!

    • @formerastronaut
      @formerastronaut 2 роки тому

      Greg Lake's old bandmate Robert Fripp was responsible for the creation of the Windows Vista startup sound

  • @man_on_wheelz
    @man_on_wheelz 2 роки тому +4

    It was actually sounding a lot like The Sims 1 background music in build mode.

  • @stevenclloyd
    @stevenclloyd 2 роки тому +1

    I guessed it was the XP start up sound from the thumbnail. that wallpaper Bliss is seared into my brain. But what you created with those chords is just stunning.

  • @lucast3006
    @lucast3006 2 роки тому +12

    You’re amazing, Oliver! Never change.

  • @cameron6644
    @cameron6644 2 роки тому +1

    RIP Windows XP. This is the best song to remember it by

  • @pantherplatform
    @pantherplatform 2 роки тому +1

    That was one of the coolest windows covers I ever heard. Now do a Windows XP earrape cover

  • @scorchmmusic
    @scorchmmusic 2 роки тому +4

    The while first half of this sounds a lot like the boss defeated theme from The Legend of Zelda Twilight Pricess. Very nice, much talent

  • @pyropotassium4076
    @pyropotassium4076 2 роки тому +1

    I wish I didn't have to go through youth amnesia. Swear this played on my parents work laptops when I was 5-8 and they were in their late 30s to 40s.
    Now with me around they're some of the most knowledgeable middle aged parents around. Memorised iOS settings app inside and out.

  • @WolfyLionMonster
    @WolfyLionMonster 2 роки тому +13

    this is so inspirational

  • @fromthelostdays
    @fromthelostdays 2 роки тому +1

    As a poor kid I skipped every generation from Windows 98 to Windows 7 and my school ran Macs, so I spent the whole song going "What is it I'm supposed to recognize? Is it something AOLy maybe? I never had AOL."

  • @chimklee
    @chimklee 2 роки тому +3

    This made me realise how similar the windows sp startup sound and ‘light of hope’ are

  • @tsg_frank5829
    @tsg_frank5829 2 роки тому +3

    Legitimately a super sweet and awesome arrangement

  • @eltonnoway7864
    @eltonnoway7864 2 роки тому

    Ahhh... the Windows XP Startup tune... brings a tear to my eye

  • @Racoonma392
    @Racoonma392 2 роки тому

    Who knew windows startup could sound so beautiful

  • @suburbanindie
    @suburbanindie 2 роки тому +1

    Brian Eno designed the sound for Windows 95... when I heard that it blew my mind

  • @PupGaming
    @PupGaming 2 роки тому +50

    You're such a good UA-camr, you even inspired me to become a UA-camr just like you and I post videos everyday now. I hope someday I can get even more subs than you (even though you're a way better UA-camr than me lol)

  • @DarkestofTimes
    @DarkestofTimes 2 роки тому

    Actually very beautiful and moving. Lots of energy.

  • @PocketBrain
    @PocketBrain 2 роки тому

    I still use the old Win95 startup sound on various PCs. Always make the change when nobody is watching.

  • @moshpitboyfriend
    @moshpitboyfriend 2 роки тому +5

    this was so nostalgic wtf

  • @vari1535
    @vari1535 2 роки тому +1

    THAT'S SUCH A PRETTY SPIN-OFF!!

  • @aguilarrojasoctavio4402
    @aguilarrojasoctavio4402 2 роки тому +1

    I would never forget dire dire docks

  • @Aschariel
    @Aschariel 2 роки тому +115

    A real content creator, at last!
    In a world full of cyberfoolishness and deplorable life insanities, it's good to know that one expression of art isn't completely corrupted.
    Keep up with the good work, Mr. Street.

  • @edwardblair4096
    @edwardblair4096 2 роки тому +1

    I'm surprised he didn't end with the actual PC playing the sound, added in in post as a coda outro.

  • @jagtan13
    @jagtan13 2 роки тому

    We had a projector hooked up to an hp media center pc in the living room back in the day. Trouble was it was also hooked up to the suround. Midnight surfing would occasionally raise hell in the household!

  • @MrHack4never
    @MrHack4never 2 роки тому +1

    My first guess was actually something from the soundtrack to "the Sims"

  • @iamTheSnark
    @iamTheSnark 2 роки тому

    Just subscribed for more dumb stuff.
    I revived an XP laptop this week by replacing the battery that keeps date, time and stuff. It started up with a very familiar sound.
    Whoa. I did this together with my brother. At least half of the credit goes to him.

  • @dyldog
    @dyldog 2 роки тому +1

    Bold of you to assume we forgot

  • @delt2743
    @delt2743 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks Oliver always a treat for me when you upload a new video.

  • @Egg-rj9tj
    @Egg-rj9tj 2 роки тому +4

    Maybe a special key combination on windows that plays this song?

  • @ElasticGiraffe
    @ElasticGiraffe 2 роки тому

    If the Windows XP intro had a baby with one of the build mode tracks from The Sims.

  • @shamrock6427
    @shamrock6427 2 роки тому

    Didn't forget it. I still miss XP!

  • @pantherplatform
    @pantherplatform 2 роки тому +1

    RIP windows xp, the best windows ever!

  • @jigsound
    @jigsound 2 роки тому +2

    Beautiful! 👏 At first, you had me fooled as if this was a similar case to the Nokia tune.
    - Eero

    • @davincent98
      @davincent98 2 роки тому

      Have you heard it on guitar?

    • @jigsound
      @jigsound 2 роки тому

      @@davincent98 The original guitar piece, yes.

  • @jenbill
    @jenbill 2 роки тому +1

    I’m still using Windows XP on an old desk top running some music programs and Fender Fuse software for my Mustang 2 amplifier never going to give it up it’s the only windows system that has never gave me a problem could do everything needed, unlike Vista

  • @PeterRattin
    @PeterRattin 2 роки тому +7

    Hello there

  • @crazedaxebutbetter5208
    @crazedaxebutbetter5208 2 роки тому +1

    I don't remember the windows XP sound but I do believe I have heard it before

  • @Cheese_pizza_
    @Cheese_pizza_ 2 роки тому +1

    At one point I thought you were going to Rick roll us

  • @shirakuyanai4095
    @shirakuyanai4095 2 роки тому

    I have a feeling this will be significant in the future

  • @endito7322
    @endito7322 2 роки тому +20

    i forgor

  • @demZetri
    @demZetri 2 роки тому

    I first thought it was similar to the underwater theme from Mario 64, but halfway through, I understood.

  • @alexrightnow2531
    @alexrightnow2531 2 роки тому

    This feels like it would slot perfectly onto the undertale soundtrack

  • @jan_Mamu
    @jan_Mamu 2 роки тому +1

    as someone with no attachment to windows xp, this is a great song!

  • @ozargaman6148
    @ozargaman6148 2 роки тому +1

    It took me like 10 seconds to realize why this is so nostalgic

  • @onlyrushb6428
    @onlyrushb6428 2 роки тому

    _'where are we? its so old, clunky and looks awful.'_
    _'we're home'_

  • @MarimbaBurd
    @MarimbaBurd 2 роки тому +6

    Literal chills.

  • @StarField369
    @StarField369 2 роки тому

    i didn’t even have windows XP and yet i feel the nostalgia?

  • @birne_
    @birne_ 2 роки тому

    THIS IS SO PRETTY!

  • @randompuppet5482
    @randompuppet5482 2 роки тому

    whaaaat, just realized I have the same fan model as you, let's gooo. I'm actually watching this with it by my side xDD

  • @captianbubble
    @captianbubble 2 роки тому

    Wow! Well done! At first I thought I was listening to windows XP windows tour, but it was an original piece You did! Well done! Keep it up!

  • @hugo54758
    @hugo54758 2 роки тому +3

    It's got dire dire docks energy

  • @fizzyplazmuh9024
    @fizzyplazmuh9024 2 роки тому

    Quickest way to beautify your home: add an Oliver and a keyboard.

  • @macronencer
    @macronencer 2 роки тому +1

    Windows XP was a massive improvement on the things that came before. In fact, I STILL RUN IT! I run it in VMWare on my Macbook, and the only reason I do that is that I use an excellent anagram creation tool called Anagram Artist and it runs very happily in XP, so my argument is... why change it if it's working? :D

  • @guess_who_21
    @guess_who_21 2 роки тому +1

    Beautiful... absolutely stunning.

  • @fangaran2003
    @fangaran2003 2 роки тому

    The Legend of Windows XP - THE MOVIE

  • @dromedda6810
    @dromedda6810 2 роки тому

    back when the control panel didnt have 5 different windows for the same thing and there were no horrors such as "search online"

  • @rootbrian4815
    @rootbrian4815 2 роки тому

    Never forgot about that one. OR the Windows NT 4.x Logon.wav (which was the same as logoff.wav, played backwards).

  • @Throrma
    @Throrma 2 роки тому

    That would be even more insane if the opening melody would be the xp startup sound and the ending line would be the xp shut down sound
    But still insane

  • @thermitty_qxr5276
    @thermitty_qxr5276 2 роки тому

    Bruh why am i having nostalgic flashbacks.

  • @Sytry6990
    @Sytry6990 2 роки тому

    Your videos make this world a better place 100%

  • @sneakysquid5872
    @sneakysquid5872 2 роки тому

    Fantastic camera work

  • @felixbergbauer6098
    @felixbergbauer6098 2 роки тому

    bold of you to assume anyone has forgotten

  • @lucast3006
    @lucast3006 2 роки тому +1

    I could listen to you play for hours.

  • @isaiahharris6497
    @isaiahharris6497 2 роки тому +1

    How many angles should we show in your new vid bro?
    Oliver: yes

  • @fadoashura2867
    @fadoashura2867 2 роки тому

    The sound effect that is impossible to forget: CAVALO

  • @manubishe
    @manubishe 2 роки тому

    I ordered some covers and compositions hoping for improvisation on this magnitude

  • @MKVideoful
    @MKVideoful 2 роки тому +3

    Now do Windows 95 Startup cover. The most beatufil startup sound ever.

  • @greenguren
    @greenguren 2 роки тому +1

    At first I thought it was gonna be dire dire docks 😂

  • @arthurawen1101
    @arthurawen1101 2 роки тому

    Looks like a theme song for some good anime of drama

  • @questionfakegaming6774
    @questionfakegaming6774 2 роки тому

    This is the most beautiful thing I've seen on the internet

  • @adventure7260
    @adventure7260 2 роки тому

    Lol I was thinking if it was something along the lines of wii music or like mario galaxy or something. Miss you XP., lots of memories.

  • @alanESV2
    @alanESV2 2 роки тому

    About 0.59% of Windows computers are still running XP (September 2021)

  • @Doug_Fany
    @Doug_Fany 2 роки тому

    Feels like he was edging the end till the start

  • @LadanzaTube
    @LadanzaTube 2 роки тому +1

    That's really 😎 impressive of course we remember!

  • @Vint_2003
    @Vint_2003 Місяць тому

    Thanks UA-cam algorithm glad to see this again.

  • @oH-hI0
    @oH-hI0 2 роки тому +3

    TOTALLY

  • @Konekow_-
    @Konekow_- 2 роки тому +1

    Looks like a super mario underwater level music but feat windows xp

  • @GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli
    @GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli 2 роки тому

    I'd love an arrangement with the Windows XP installer theme.

  • @ladyrachel13
    @ladyrachel13 2 роки тому +2

    Beautiful! Bravo!! 👏🏻

  • @markpalsgrove902
    @markpalsgrove902 2 роки тому

    I think that was wonderful.

  • @partitionhlep
    @partitionhlep 2 роки тому

    really reminds me of the windows XP tour music

  • @Quinnie0821
    @Quinnie0821 2 роки тому

    This is like the intro song for life

  • @Ramog1000
    @Ramog1000 2 роки тому

    pfff fergot, I couldn't even forget that jingle if I wanted to.

  • @madrid.ftbl8
    @madrid.ftbl8 2 роки тому +7

    he "basicly" took ALL the Melody thing and improvised alot of It!

  • @roembol
    @roembol 2 роки тому

    Basically the windows xp tour music thingy

  • @omnitone
    @omnitone 2 роки тому

    finally, the. i found the thing. this is it.

  • @Bone_Incidents
    @Bone_Incidents 2 роки тому +1

    The windows theme song