I remember being like 8 years old eating a bowl of generic Cap’n Crunch watching cartoons and thinking to myself, I’m gonna remember this moment for the rest of my life. Not for any reason I just wanted to remember that exact moment in time 😂
Maybe because your parents lived in the 80’s and 90’s and you absorbed the vibe of that era from them. It’s the same that happens to me when I listen to 60’s and 70’s music. I was born in 83 and my parents used to listen to the Beatles, Pink Floyd, etc. i feel nostalgia from those times even though I wasn’t even born. It’s normal that you feel nostalgia.
Animalgeo is that why my parents were happier? Did they just get the “better decades”? I always wondered why everyone I’ve met around my age is absolutely miserable in some way.
@@HipixOFFICIAL that is impressive that you got yours from a record store and cheap. I got my vinyl in 2018ish by buying it off a dude on the vapor vinyl subreddit. Payed $70 for it but was well worth it. I heard there was a bunch of drama over that second pressing.
@@HipixOFFICIAL yo dude i was actually looking for a vinyl of this and i wanted to thank you for recommending hhv as i am now a proud owner of a pink lp record of this album :D
0:00 sample: Sade- Tar Baby 1:22 sample: Chris Squire- Lucky Seven 3:24 sample Diana Ross- It's your move 10:46 sample: Pages- If I Saw you again 14:42 sample: Pages- You Need a Hero 17:28 Darren Mitchell - Underwater (from N64 Game Turok, Dinosaur Hunter) 22:18 sample: Dancing Fantasy - Deja Vu 29:00 sample: Dancing Fantasy- Worldwide
Glad to see somebody like you checking out this strange corner of the internet. You are absolutely welcome here. Trust me, vaporwave can get very out of the ordinary. Just keep your mind open and you'll see the good in it.
You know what's funny? Time never comes back, we always miss the past, never enjoy this very moment, and in a few years we will miss the time we live today... But I totally agree with you tho.
the craziest thing about music is that you can replicate literally any genre of music in the entire world on ur dell work computer, from centuries ago to today.
The craziest thing about waporwave is that here, in Italy, most people hasn't an idea which kind of music is vaporwave and 99% of them doesn't know that it exist
0:00 "Boot" - samples "Tar Baby" by Sade 3:24 "Lisa Frank 420/Modern Computing" - samples "It's Your Move" by Diana Ross 10:46 "Floral Shoppe" - samples "If I Saw You Again" by Pages 14:42 "Library" - samples "You Need a Hero" by Pages 17:28 "Geography" - samples "Underwater" by Darren Mitchell 22:16 "Chill Divin' with ECCO" - samples "Déjà Vu" by Dancing Fantasy 29:01 "Mathematics" - samples "Worldwide" by Dancing Fantasy and "Warm World" by Donn Wilkerson 35:57 "Te" - samples "Track 06" by Jun Fujisaka and Motonori Okui
How tf can you not love this shit? TBH the only thing I don't like about vapourwave is the way people describe/explain it. I was born in 1975, grew up in California, lived a lot of these sounds and aesthetics, and I honestly feel like people who didn't even live in the 80s are making better 80s music than people who did. Only my opinion.
I can't believe this is gonna be turning a decade old next year, damn. Where has the time gone? This album was a huge part of my life when I discovered it as an emotionally conflicted 13yo. I listened to it nearly nonstop for almost a whole year. Coming back to it now, after not having heard it in god-knows-how-long, it's still incredibly well made and deeply atmospheric. It's kind of ironic how an album deliberately designed to evoke a completely artificial, detached nostalgia for late-20th century consumer culture makes me genuinely reminisce over a time in my life that was barely even five years ago and wasn't even that pleasant to begin with. The human mind works in such strange ways, doesn't it?
It’s not Vaporwave, but listen to Spastic Ink, bud. Their album Ink Conpatible is about the most original thing I’ve ever heard and I hope you try it and get something out of it
TheZooropaBaby You right as hell, considering the second, and also most memed song is from Diana Ross, but for the most part, slowed down on a digital audio workstation program.
Seriously, no review by a musical critic is able to kill that vibe, no matter in what way it is achieved. This is just pure gold what that album does to your soul. Suddenly all the cyberpunk and anime cities seem like heaven.
I was a junior in high school back in 2015, and I had a good friend who showed me this album. We were getting high at 2am on a school night, and it blew my mind. We would listen to it and other vaporwave classics like it constantly from that point. Life seemed very directionless back then, but I was able to lose myself in the moment and create sanguine memories. My friend end I had a falling out, and he ended up moving to another state and we havent talked since. Its funny how a genre that capitalizes on nostalgia was able to itself create such strong memories for me and many others, looking back now it feels like a time capsule.
Very similar experience dude I found this working my first job summer of 2015 I was a janitor at the local elementary and immediately fell in love lots of things have changed since then but I can always throw this on and get taken back to that carefree period of my youth
the sun and the moon and the earth work as a system and a metaphor. the man is the sun, he has fire and an 11 year cycle. the woman is the moon, she has gravity to pull the tides and a 28 day cycle. the earth is the child they raise, ignorant, blissful, and with the cycle of the birthday
A time capsule is right. But one with such a lasting impression. I feel like vapor wave has really effected pop culture to this day. I was working a really interesting job when I found this too.
Its terrifying how when you get older the good memories stop getting made. All I do is work. Then work more and more. Constantly feel like lm spinning my wheels.
@@burtbiggum499 I've been thinking about this comment a lot. I think the simple explanation is when you're younger you are constantly having new experiences and learning new things. But theres still room to learn even once you're old. And you can put those experiences to use. My advice is to pursue whatever fulfils you, even if you have to work in the mean time to make ends meet.
this not only works because it feels like being in the head of someone that can't remember how does "that song" sounds, it works because as children, we were exposed to older music by radios, videogames, MTV, even by parents and whatnot without conceiving if it was new or not. Growing up, we automatically understood it wasn't music from our time, it was over. Only for it to came back in this formless way, forever stuck into this ethereal childish memory. We are the ones that can't remember the song.
@chrisrunsthis Okay, well first, it's always full of people. And also, what does "unironically" even qualify in this sentence? Nothing, so why even use it?
It seems like it's 1987 again and I'm listening to a cassette half melted by the sun while waiting in the car for my dad to come out of a shopping mall
I know this album has turned into a meme but it has had an actual impact on my art, every song sparks a feeling in me and takes me somewhere, nothing I have ever listened to has filled me with this kind of feeling.... its just pure in a weird way that I can't explain. Its just so fucking beautiful.... This has inspired so many of my pieces... Thank you Vektroid.
Why people talks about "listening to this unironically"? I been vapin and listening to chopped & screwed/ slowed & reverb versions of 80/90 songs for years. This is just the synthesis of all that into one beautiful album. But hey, if it has become a meme, so be it. Everything is a meme. Shrek Is a meme. Global Warming Is a meme. w e a r e m e m e s
@Jasmine Lee Actually most albums still have a physical release, my towers of CD's are testament to that fact, I'm aware people stream and download stuff I've done some of that myself but ideally I prefer to own the physical copy. and not on some lame burnt CD but a proper print with a booklet etc. I still prefer physical media otherwise it just feels insubstantial. and lets face it an album that blatantly trades on nostalgia should have a physical release.
boot - 0:00 Lisa Frank 420 / modern computer - 3:24 flower specialty store - 10:46 library - 14:42 Geography - 17:28 ECCO and chill diving - 22:16 Mathematics - 29:01 Wait - 35:57 i actually took the time to use google translate and translate all these
My uncle showed me this album back in 2012 when I was around 7 or 8, I’ve been obsessed with it and the genre ever since and have recently started making a few of my own vaporwave tracks. I hope this genre gets more recognition and isn’t just clowned on because it really is an experience.
Stereoberry yeah man I found this album in like 5th grade and my life has been changed ever since, vaporwave just turns into a life style! It’s a truly beautiful process
Everybody is fond of the second song because of the memes but the first song, the one with the “Tar baby” sample is a masterpiece. I’ve never heard something like that before or since.
It's a perfect intro. Sets a clear tone and feeling that sticks throughout the entire album. Vaporwave at it's best and most creative i love this shit so much lol 🩷
@@westayedinthewater "creative" lmao legit half of the vaporwave songs this person has ever dropped were just slowed down and space room reverbed, you people are about as creative as the nightcore listeners
A random peaceful night in the 80's. You're a kid. You're sitting in the back seat of a car moving on the road. Nothing wrong can happen because your dad is driving, and you're going home. You put your head back on the seat and watch the sky and the street lights fly by the rear window. Mom turns the radio on. A song plays. It's not old but it already feels nostalgic. Almost falling asleep, you long for your comfy bed. And yet, you wish time could stop on this very moment. ... It's just a memory. It's vapor.
@Layne Krusz I wasn't sure what to make of your comment (Seriously suicidal? Subtly trolling?) but if you are just feeling contemplative, it's all good.
Twist ending: you scream at yourself to wake up. You'd rather die than go back to the 80s. Seriously, this is the vibe of someone who never even lived in the 20th century, much less the 80s. Only someone that young could think there was any reason to fantasize about the freaking 80s.
@@BeeWhistler Anybody who had a happy childhood would feel nostalgic about it. So it tells me that YOU didn't grow up in the 80's or someone hurt you enough that you became the kind of elitist gate keeping snob who would bitch like you just did. Personally, I happily grew up with Airwolf, the Amstrad 464 and Robocop so you can second guess all day long... I'll still have my wonderful memories.
I spent a lot of cold lonely nights gathering and pushing carts from the Target Parking lot during the holidays with this playing in my earbuds. It kinda helped me get through those nights,
I always think the 80s had that old nostalgic feel and futuristic feel because of Back To The Future. Without that movie, I don’t think the feeling would exist.
She can probably feel some deeper, more real nostalgia from this type of sound, unlike us, who just feel a weird sense of missing something without being sure what it is.
This legitimately feel timeless. Last time I listened to vaporwave at all was in 2016. Now it still feels as fresh as last time I listened to it. It just feels timeless, in a way. I don't know how else to express it.
@@jonathanbennett5611he’s not saying it _is_ timeless… just that it _feels_ timeless. Really all he’s saying is that he’s enjoyed it every time he’s listened (over the course of a decade).
Quality of music does not determine if it is "actual music". If you want something that walks the line of music and not music, look up John Cage's music. I suggest "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima", "Amplified Cactus", or my personal all time favorite "4'33"
Coming back to this after listening way back in 2013-2014 thinking I had a weird taste in music in my underclassmen years in highschool... crazy how this feels timeless. I remember sitting alone on the bus, looking out the window & listening to ECCO. Vaporwave was still so fresh back then, and seeing what it is now and what it's inspired is really amazing to me.
Saaaaame, except I was a little late to the party. My Vaporwave/Future Funk phase started in 2015, when I was a freshman in high school. What a coincidence! I was feeling a little depressed at the time, and my anxiety was at an all-time high. Not to mention, I also loved the A E S T H E T I C of the 80s. Musicians like Macintosh Plus, Blank Banshee, Skylar Spence, and Night Tempo pretty much saved my life. 💖🌴
There is now a clothing item in Splatoon 3 called “Vaporwave Tee” and I can’t believe how far this silly genre has come :’) tysm for being a pioneer Vektroid / Macintosh Plus / Ramona ♡
I don't know much about the vaporwave genre but I come back to this video about once a month and give it a full listen. It captures something that hard to explain but it is the most transportive and potent thing my ears have ever heard. I was born in the mid 1970's and spent much of my youth and high school years fully immersed in 'mall culture' throughout the entire 80's with my friends, along with most the rest of the country, and music like this makes me wanna break down and cry at that nostalgia. This music feels like an old aerobics VHS flying through a million malls in outerspace
“Captures something hard to explain” is a common way to describe vaporwave. It’s like weaponized nostalgia for a time and place that doesn’t fully exist.
i just graduated 10th grade today and listened to this album on my walk home through a city with a gray sky, it was the most ethereal feeling ever, thanks mac
Just wait to graduate all together. I listened to queen these are the day of our lives. And it hit me. That it was over, and all those things I wished I did but was too scared to do, didn't matter, I should have never held back. I hope I can pass that lesson onto you
@@gang6009 Guess what? I legitimately graduated from school altogether now. Its weird seeing my comment from 2 years ago knowing what i know now about my experiences and what's happened since then. It's funny though, no matter what life put me through and what others have done to me, this album is a legitimate time capsule. it bridges space and time, connecting parts of myself from completely different points in my life. They all merge here.
This album feels like you fell asleep watching the Breakfast Club and you awoke inside the movie. You're trapped within the movie now, but all of the characters are gone, the library is a little dusty and dim, and there is no one there to be found.
Exactly, comrade, the path is that way... traveling to a dream time, although, normally, one dreams about the future (80s ???????)... However, so it's a ''different'' dream, so to speak....
@@musicforthesoulandbody3172 mgs3 is a masterpiece of hyperreality, if you haven't played it. But what do you think happened to the world, what changed it to this (interpersonal) dystopia we're living in now? Was it only technology's fault?
I don't know how I did it, but I am 12 and I like it. To me it is kind of an interesting genre, and no. I was not born in the wrong generation, nor the right one. I was definitally born in a generation lol.
I was born in 2009 so I didn’t really get to experience the growth of this. That’s okay though, I’m not super into it anyways. It’s pretty chill though.
I love heroin. No natural high can compete with an artificial or synthetic high from opiates. If it was just legal and sold everywhere then everyone wouldn’t have to worry about any consequences. You could go about your day and feel amazing all day long and never have to break the law to get more or feel sick from running out because it would be legal to buy. You could be productive and loving 24/7 and sleep good every night. Everyday would be the best day and you would die with a smile on your face.
Man i love it too. But as much as id like to agree with you @mictotonal millio, that shit is not as conducive to getting things done....why is why cocaine should also be legalized ; )
@@Skygreen89 yeah I end up just getting side tracked on task that usually don’t interest me and just feel good in my tummy. With meth I can actually focus and write papers or get tickets out faster on the line during dinner rush. Yeah I’m an addict and it’s fucking embarrassing.
@@microtonalmilio5233 So am i dude, although i stick to doing the smaller stuff on a daily basis. Doing kratom every day makes me much more productive than smoking fent every day lol. I truly believe all drugs can be used responsibly, you just gotta know when to step out if you can see it affecting your life too negatively. I do kratom every day to cope. Doing a bit of blow on the weekends or popping an addy or xan here or there, but keep an eye on it. And every so often, the glorious nod on opiates
This was visionary. One album started a trend that lasts until today. It started a whole new chapter of internet popular culture. It is a cultural landmark for the milleniall generation. I would fucking watch a whole ass documentary about the phenomenon this album -and the genre of vaporwave as a whole - is. I used to laugh at this shit at 18. Now I'm 26 and all I am is nostalgic and full of regret I didn't appreciate those times for what they were. They passed so quickly.
Hate to break it to you but people been doing this to genres of music forever. Its how techno started basically. Hip hop samples. Chopped and screwed etc etc etc.
I got into the art of vaporwave indirectly, through synthwave, but what made me jump in was this album, it is a nostalgic feeling that made me want to create my type of art, thanks Vektroid, for creating and influencing young people who may never have lived in this era, but felt the nostalgia that it provides.
I know it's from a different angle, but do you like virtua.zip by Esprit? I only just recently heard it and I'm stuck on it. But Macintosh Plus, Blank Banshee & Saint Pepsi were my first loves.
Gucci is literally putting anime girls and 90s/80s iconography on their shit now. Vaporwave is simply the next evolution of music/art Edit: yo why erryone hatin on Gucci? I was merely pointing out that aesthetic is becoming more popular in art and culture in recent years. I was merely pointing out Gucci as one example.
A while ago I saw some poll about the greatest albums of all time. Deep down past all the david bowies, elton johns, and random prog rock band, this album sat there. I was shocked, but kinda thrilled. Past all the old memes this album represents, it really aged well. Still love this after all these years.
@@ergastolo4281 it established an art style. so many musicians online have tried to copy this album. it blew up the vapor wave scene that is still very relevant online.
It was massively freeing to me a musician, I had been using the chopped and screwed/cut and paste method for years and people said it was cheating or wasnt real music. But when this album came out and started gaining traction it validated me so much. Negativland were along the same lines and deserve more credit in my opinion, but Macintosh plus made it mainstream to an extent
@@slockboy i think the argument could be made that TPAB is one of the best albums of the decade but it hasn’t had much of an impact or influence on music
To me, this sounds like the 80's I remember growing up in. Not the pop music of the time, mind you. But more like the white spaces outside of the mixtapes I used to share with my friends at the time. The background music in shopping malls that I can't quite remember, and yet it actually sets the soundtrack for a time in my life that I can never get back. Oh, this was the feeling that was long long missed, and can't be duplicated by buying a new copy of an old 80's pop song.
Nostalgia of something you never felt or lived The feel of your brain melting Getting high without drugs .... Keep going I'm just taking notes of how it feels to chew five gum
nostalgia of a time you never knew is called anemoia. if vaporwave makes you nostalgic for the 80s but you never lived in the 80s, you're experiencing anemoia.
I’m listening to this masterpiece when I feel bad, when my mood is awful. And like alchemy that music is metamorphosing my pain in esperance... that tracks are kinds of philosophal stones ! I thank Macintosh Plus, the humanity and the life, to offer me the possibility to hear Floral Shoppe.
i love how the first song [my favorite] translates into.. "boot". i know, "it's turning on the computer, not the shoe" BUT whenever i listen to it and think about its name, it makes me smile, really. [english isn't my first language and i'm awful at communication/grammar/dunno]
There's something unique about vaporewave. This type of music, and the community that listens to it would never have been possible before the Internet. It'd truly a phenomenon of the digital age. The juxtaposition of that fact with the entire 80-90s A E S T H E T I C makes for a disturbingly pleasant vibe (if that makes any sense).
Time : 3:26 a.m. Day : Tuesday Month : not sure.... days are days and the just blend.. Year : 2015 As I lay here on my couch in my home and listen. No, enjoy. As I lay here in tye dark on my couch with my shades on I come to understand a great deal. The more absent your thought, the more you come to understand. Idk its a kind of education I cannot describe. Its invaluable. Its peace.
Exactly. Im driving country roads at 10mph with the death grips version on like 10 (not very loud) and I just zone out amd cruise. Letting it all go with a cigarette on my hand just cruising away enjoying absolute peace.
The first time I found vaporwave I was in a small one bedroom with my soon to be wife. Hot summer nights sitting in the living room playing videogames, making friends online just enjoying ourselfs. Coming back to this in 2021 helps me go back to that time. I can feel the warm summer nights breeze coming in through the window now
I never knew people liked vaporwave just because of the memes... I found vaporwave in 5th grade and it’s just been a life style ever sense! Vaporwave truly changed my life for the better!
I come back to this album because it always takes me back to when I was lost and didn't know what my purpose in life was. Now I'm stable but listening to this always reminds me of where I came from and I'm forever thankful for it. I always listen when I'm drunk it takes me back to when I was young and naive. I am still grateful because it still reminds me of where I came from. To all those who feel lost don't give up just keep going I promise you will find your purpose.
its been about a month since this album hit a decade, so cheers to your first decade floral shoppe and thank you vektroid for making this amazing album
When I was 23 I was in evening college in Downtown Los Angeles. I took the train and I listened to vaporwave almost exclusively. This album just takes me back to empty trains, city skylines, my old Casio watch, a dark campus, and just general nostalgia. How I wish we could get a Floral Shoppe 2 for today's world. I really wish I could meet Vektroid and tell her how this album kept me company while I traveled all those nights in college.
@moodyfuck4758 Those tranquil serene city lit nights where the twilight of work and home were enveloped by a sense of loneliness and happiness all at the same time. I want to go back and it's beautiful that I never will.
The first track reminds me of japan, 1989, you're in a urban city in a small bar/store. Its midnight, its cold, its raining, and you're drunk. You're thinking about your old memories and stuff. even though I've never existed in the 20th century i still feel the 80s vibe.
Crazy how it felt nostalgic for something I haven't lived when I first heard it and now it feels nostalgic for when I used to listen to it... Time is crazy
Getting an ad break in the middle of a vaporwave album is kinda vaporwave.
cancelling my premium
@@k1k1b34r lmao
V a p o r w a v e w a v e
B R O K E N T R A N S M I S S I O N
W e i n t e r r u p t t h i s p r o g r a m
Funny how this now makes me nostalgic for 2011 instead of the 80s
Go with that. The 80s sucked.
This made me nostalgic for 2015. I was a little late to the party.
It makes me nostalgic for 2015 when I first got into vaporwave
@@BeeWhistler Damn did you live in the USSR those years or somewhere similar or were you badly traumatized
@Rondodacorsa Were you actually an adult in the 1980's in America? Or do you just romanticize it for no reason?
a classic is a classic
Good for you bud
tem br em todo lugar mesmo ein kkkk
and awper hand is awper hand
@@edsoninocencio5572 sim
Finally a good RUclips comment
I remember playing this at 15 in the dmv with the purpose of creating a weird nostalgic memory and it worked
clever 15 year old,
😂
👌🏻😌💓💪🏻😔💗🫡
I remember being like 8 years old eating a bowl of generic Cap’n Crunch watching cartoons and thinking to myself, I’m gonna remember this moment for the rest of my life. Not for any reason I just wanted to remember that exact moment in time 😂
Ive done that with so many songs
Time to remember the memories, that i ＮＥＶＥＲ ＥＸＰＥＲＩＥＮＣＥＤ
nostalgia in maxima but don't know why..
look who is an American who knows Neymar Jr.? because this meme became famous in my country (brazil) because of him; -;
Maybe because your parents lived in the 80’s and 90’s and you absorbed the vibe of that era from them. It’s the same that happens to me when I listen to 60’s and 70’s music. I was born in 83 and my parents used to listen to the Beatles, Pink Floyd, etc. i feel nostalgia from those times even though I wasn’t even born. It’s normal that you feel nostalgia.
Yeah like
/music plays
Animalgeo is that why my parents were happier? Did they just get the “better decades”?
I always wondered why everyone I’ve met around my age is absolutely miserable in some way.
I treasure my vinyl copy of this.
Where did you buy It?
@@HipixOFFICIAL nah its not available, thanks any way. Btw im european
@@HipixOFFICIAL that is impressive that you got yours from a record store and cheap. I got my vinyl in 2018ish by buying it off a dude on the vapor vinyl subreddit. Payed $70 for it but was well worth it. I heard there was a bunch of drama over that second pressing.
time for an translucent acrylic neon safe
@@HipixOFFICIAL yo dude i was actually looking for a vinyl of this and i wanted to thank you for recommending hhv as i am now a proud owner of a pink lp record of this album :D
0:00 sample: Sade- Tar Baby
1:22 sample: Chris Squire- Lucky Seven
3:24 sample Diana Ross- It's your move
10:46 sample: Pages- If I Saw you again
14:42 sample: Pages- You Need a Hero
17:28 Darren Mitchell - Underwater (from N64 Game Turok, Dinosaur Hunter)
22:18 sample: Dancing Fantasy - Deja Vu
29:00 sample: Dancing Fantasy- Worldwide
1:22 sample: Chris Squire - Lucky Seven (?)
@@MrUnsuspiciousName its sade - tar baby
3:24 shout out to Happy Humble Hermit!
first song is tar baby by sade :)
@@loumanuelarsenault1663 Thank you. I will update the list
s p a c e d o u t l e t t e r s
honestly love coming back to this album every once in a while to relax
r e p l y
ｓｅｅｍｓ ｌｉｋｅ ｔｈｅｒｅ’ｓ ａｔｈｅｍｅ
w o a h
l e t m e t r y
This is what a 7-11 at 4am sounds like.
Can relate
What working at a register in a pornshop at 1am sounds like
This comment and replies really give me post-mission Hotline Miami vibes
Nah this is what it F E E L S like
yeah, when you took too much acid
So now this song is *actually* nostalgic
Which one?
@@_mau4ever You know, *this* song
@@datint0003 we are talking about this album with 8 different songs
@@_mau4ever we all know the one
@@brainsnez track 2?
I’m 50, grew up in the early Canadian punk rock scene and am just discovering vaporwave now. Fucking brilliant stuff. This album is incredible.
@@MegaDysart cheers bud! 😀
Glad to see somebody like you checking out this strange corner of the internet. You are absolutely welcome here.
Trust me, vaporwave can get very out of the ordinary. Just keep your mind open and you'll see the good in it.
@@AAAAA_BRAD oh dude I love it!
It's quite a journey discovering all the genres. Hope you're having fun with it!
@@hotsaucehysteria hell yeah man!
It's actually crazy how vaporwave it was supossed to emulate a nostalgic 80s vibe.... and now... its actually nostalgic.. miss 2011 so hard men...
You know what's funny? Time never comes back, we always miss the past, never enjoy this very moment, and in a few years we will miss the time we live today...
But I totally agree with you tho.
i was 11 in 2011 and i have so many vague memories of actually being happy. Now life is just swimming in endless sea of shit and vomit.
@@dragonlordsaviour7005
"Life is just pain and piss"
- David Gold "Woods of Ypres"
@@dragonlordsaviour7005I was still in my 20s in 2011, and yeah, maybe not the same as yours, but there was happiness…
I always got early 90s myself.
The craziest thing about Vaporwave is that it still feels brand new...
the craziest thing about music is that you can replicate literally any genre of music in the entire world on ur dell work computer, from centuries ago to today.
whats old is new again
The craziest thing about waporwave is that here, in Italy, most people hasn't an idea which kind of music is vaporwave and 99% of them doesn't know that it exist
it feels BRAND
It's a music outside of time!
This album is a huge part of internet culture, and it’s aesthetic still lives on today.
its kind of crazy to think about influential this aesthetic is, it bled into mainstream fashion and pop culture too.
And it was made by a trans woman !!
Will live on
Piss on internet culture even if it did have anything to do with it, trying to ruin a good album like that how dare you.
@@motleythewild ugh..... Who cares, as long as the music is good.
You guys are acting like it's bad to unironically like something
church.
TRXSH • insecurity to be ur true self is what’s the problem with this generation
@@lex2k1 and its strictly enforced wherever you turn
@@lex2k1 ok boomer
Never said that. Nor acted like. Love this music.
0:00 "Boot" - samples "Tar Baby" by Sade
3:24 "Lisa Frank 420/Modern Computing" - samples "It's Your Move" by Diana Ross
10:46 "Floral Shoppe" - samples "If I Saw You Again" by Pages
14:42 "Library" - samples "You Need a Hero" by Pages
17:28 "Geography" - samples "Underwater" by Darren Mitchell
22:16 "Chill Divin' with ECCO" - samples "Déjà Vu" by Dancing Fantasy
29:01 "Mathematics" - samples "Worldwide" by Dancing Fantasy and "Warm World" by Donn Wilkerson
35:57 "Te" - samples "Track 06" by Jun Fujisaka and Motonori Okui
you're the GOAT for this, thank you
I use this álbum to sleep. Still working. It's something new and chill 😮until nowadays. Awesome
Thanks for a clear, correct list 👍
_I like this album._
_Not because of the memes._
_I just like it._
You are my animal spirit
Just for memes....and it’s cool to mix it with other vocals
WOW!! YOU ARE SO UNIQUE AND DIFFERENTIATED BY THAT
@@studio_drk Sarcasm detected! ⚠ Alert! Alert! Sarcasm detected.
seumas Broderick nah, he didn’t do /s. It was just a nice compliment to his individuality
_"I'M GIVING UP / ON TRYING"_
[ad break]
_"TO SELL YOU THINGS / THAT YOU AIN'T BUYING"_
It’s your move!!!!!!!
The most VaporWave thing ever
jesus macintosh christ
I'm so glad that's your profile picture
This makes me want to watch public access TV.
From California.
In the 80s.
At McDonalds.
At midnight.
Munchlax King Then go on the Outrun vids?
What part of California?
@@joniden2215 Right near the beach!
@@Memes4Sale Oh that narrows it down.
public access tv here is mostly Mexican game/talent shows along with LiveLeak tier news.
10 years listening to vaporwave and i cant find a soul who likes it or feels it the same way, cheers to all this comment section
How tf can you not love this shit? TBH the only thing I don't like about vapourwave is the way people describe/explain it. I was born in 1975, grew up in California, lived a lot of these sounds and aesthetics, and I honestly feel like people who didn't even live in the 80s are making better 80s music than people who did. Only my opinion.
I feel the same way friend. Cheers
and yet the visuals is everywhere smh
Hi, im a 18 year old french student. Ive been listening to vaporwave since I was 12. Feel you.
/music plays
❌This is a good song
✔【ＴＨＩＳ ＩＳ Ａ ＧＯＯＤ ＳＯＮＧ】
@Vsus Here woooosh
@Vsus Here Idk tbh
@Vsus Here You are the joke
@@roranger6208 daaamn that definitely hit hard lmaoo
@Vsus Here are u stupid-
I can't believe this is gonna be turning a decade old next year, damn. Where has the time gone? This album was a huge part of my life when I discovered it as an emotionally conflicted 13yo. I listened to it nearly nonstop for almost a whole year. Coming back to it now, after not having heard it in god-knows-how-long, it's still incredibly well made and deeply atmospheric. It's kind of ironic how an album deliberately designed to evoke a completely artificial, detached nostalgia for late-20th century consumer culture makes me genuinely reminisce over a time in my life that was barely even five years ago and wasn't even that pleasant to begin with. The human mind works in such strange ways, doesn't it?
had the exact same experience, couldn't have said it better myself
@@James-ue4ps Glad my little off-hand comment touched you in some way. love you
I know exactly what you mean. It’s so weird yet it’s so powerful.
It does. A perception is a powerful thing and the human mind is what gives us perceptions and direction.
Makes total sense
Love the old Vaporwave, it was too original for this world.
Patrick my first time listening to vapor wave 🌊 this is oddly satisfying. Bout to roll up
original....? that's really not true
It’s not Vaporwave, but listen to Spastic Ink, bud. Their album Ink Conpatible is about the most original thing I’ve ever heard and I hope you try it and get something out of it
TheZooropaBaby You right as hell, considering the second, and also most memed song is from Diana Ross, but for the most part, slowed down on a digital audio workstation program.
Patrick fr fr
This changed a generation, glad to be here
❤
It really did
Seriously, no review by a musical critic is able to kill that vibe, no matter in what way it is achieved. This is just pure gold what that album does to your soul. Suddenly all the cyberpunk and anime cities seem like heaven.
You mean 90s anime cities.
Pitchfork recently reviewed this gem for their ‘Sunday Classics’ and gave it an 8.8
I would say the opposite of cyberpunk anime cities. I would think more like 1980s japan and you're sitting in your appartment eating mcdonalds.
I have one criticism of this "album" where is it? why is it not on CD?
@@katakisLives It wasn't produced by a big publisher with distribution chains and all that shit.
I was a junior in high school back in 2015, and I had a good friend who showed me this album. We were getting high at 2am on a school night, and it blew my mind. We would listen to it and other vaporwave classics like it constantly from that point. Life seemed very directionless back then, but I was able to lose myself in the moment and create sanguine memories. My friend end I had a falling out, and he ended up moving to another state and we havent talked since. Its funny how a genre that capitalizes on nostalgia was able to itself create such strong memories for me and many others, looking back now it feels like a time capsule.
Very similar experience dude I found this working my first job summer of 2015 I was a janitor at the local elementary and immediately fell in love lots of things have changed since then but I can always throw this on and get taken back to that carefree period of my youth
the sun and the moon and the earth work as a system and a metaphor. the man is the sun, he has fire and an 11 year cycle. the woman is the moon, she has gravity to pull the tides and a 28 day cycle. the earth is the child they raise, ignorant, blissful, and with the cycle of the birthday
A time capsule is right.
But one with such a lasting impression. I feel like vapor wave has really effected pop culture to this day.
I was working a really interesting job when I found this too.
Its terrifying how when you get older the good memories stop getting made. All I do is work. Then work more and more. Constantly feel like lm spinning my wheels.
@@burtbiggum499 I've been thinking about this comment a lot. I think the simple explanation is when you're younger you are constantly having new experiences and learning new things. But theres still room to learn even once you're old. And you can put those experiences to use. My advice is to pursue whatever fulfils you, even if you have to work in the mean time to make ends meet.
this not only works because it feels like being in the head of someone that can't remember how does "that song" sounds, it works because as children, we were exposed to older music by radios, videogames, MTV, even by parents and whatnot without conceiving if it was new or not. Growing up, we automatically understood it wasn't music from our time, it was over. Only for it to came back in this formless way, forever stuck into this ethereal childish memory. We are the ones that can't remember the song.
I too have some bomb ass happy little trees.
this album feels like being in an art museum all by yourself
an art museum that is a mall at the same time
@@linexithe louvre in Paris is unironically this lol
@chrisrunsthis Okay, well first, it's always full of people. And also, what does "unironically" even qualify in this sentence? Nothing, so why even use it?
It seems like it's 1987 again and I'm listening to a cassette half melted by the sun while waiting in the car for my dad to come out of a shopping mall
I know this album has turned into a meme but it has had an actual impact on my art, every song sparks a feeling in me and takes me somewhere, nothing I have ever listened to has filled me with this kind of feeling.... its just pure in a weird way that I can't explain. Its just so fucking beautiful.... This has inspired so many of my pieces... Thank you Vektroid.
Why people talks about "listening to this unironically"? I been vapin and listening to chopped & screwed/ slowed & reverb versions of 80/90 songs for years. This is just the synthesis of all that into one beautiful album. But hey, if it has become a meme, so be it. Everything is a meme. Shrek Is a meme. Global Warming Is a meme. w e a r e m e m e s
This also describes a acid trip as well
@@astordeviagge9591 I think it reached meme status because it is dank
i find it kinda hard to consider it an album when its never had a physical release
@Jasmine Lee Actually most albums still have a physical release, my towers of CD's are testament to that fact, I'm aware people stream and download stuff I've done some of that myself but ideally I prefer to own the physical copy. and not on some lame burnt CD but a proper print with a booklet etc. I still prefer physical media otherwise it just feels insubstantial. and lets face it an album that blatantly trades on nostalgia should have a physical release.
boot - 0:00
Lisa Frank 420 / modern computer - 3:24
flower specialty store - 10:46
library - 14:42
Geography - 17:28
ECCO and chill diving - 22:16
Mathematics - 29:01
Wait - 35:57
i actually took the time to use google translate and translate all these
f l o w e r s p e c i a l t y s t o r e
@Sempthawase r u talkin to me
@Sempthawase yeeeeah you talkin to him?
Thanks
experimental memes no, he was talking to a person from 2 years ago that this guy copied from.
My uncle showed me this album back in 2012 when I was around 7 or 8, I’ve been obsessed with it and the genre ever since and have recently started making a few of my own vaporwave tracks. I hope this genre gets more recognition and isn’t just clowned on because it really is an experience.
Big if true. Your uncle is really cool, and you're lucky to have found it so early.
i finally found someone like me
Stereoberry yeah man I found this album in like 5th grade and my life has been changed ever since, vaporwave just turns into a life style! It’s a truly beautiful process
The best time to expand your taste in music is showing them the best stuff young.
cool uncle
Everybody is fond of the second song because of the memes but the first song, the one with the “Tar baby” sample is a masterpiece. I’ve never heard something like that before or since.
Onb that’s been my favorite vaporwave song for years
It's a perfect intro. Sets a clear tone and feeling that sticks throughout the entire album. Vaporwave at it's best and most creative i love this shit so much lol 🩷
@@westayedinthewater "creative" lmao legit half of the vaporwave songs this person has ever dropped were just slowed down and space room reverbed, you people are about as creative as the nightcore listeners
real
One of the most memorable album covers to date
A random peaceful night in the 80's. You're a kid. You're sitting in the back seat of a car moving on the road. Nothing wrong can happen because your dad is driving, and you're going home. You put your head back on the seat and watch the sky and the street lights fly by the rear window.
Mom turns the radio on. A song plays. It's not old but it already feels nostalgic.
Almost falling asleep, you long for your comfy bed. And yet, you wish time could stop on this very moment.
... It's just a memory. It's vapor.
@Layne Krusz I feel for you if your brain makes this kind of association.
@Layne Krusz I wasn't sure what to make of your comment (Seriously suicidal? Subtly trolling?) but if you are just feeling contemplative, it's all good.
totally underrated
Twist ending: you scream at yourself to wake up. You'd rather die than go back to the 80s. Seriously, this is the vibe of someone who never even lived in the 20th century, much less the 80s. Only someone that young could think there was any reason to fantasize about the freaking 80s.
@@BeeWhistler Anybody who had a happy childhood would feel nostalgic about it. So it tells me that YOU didn't grow up in the 80's or someone hurt you enough that you became the kind of elitist gate keeping snob who would bitch like you just did.
Personally, I happily grew up with Airwolf, the Amstrad 464 and Robocop so you can second guess all day long... I'll still have my wonderful memories.
The album that defined a genre. Vektroid is a forgotten and under appreciated wonder of modern music.
I spent a lot of cold lonely nights gathering and pushing carts from the Target Parking lot during the holidays with this playing in my earbuds. It kinda helped me get through those nights,
It's so vintage, yet so futuristic
Ⓦ Ⓔ Ⓐ Ⓡ Ⓔ Ⓡ Ⓘ Ⓖ Ⓗ Ⓣ Ⓘ Ⓝ Ⓣ Ⓗ Ⓔ Ⓜ Ⓘ Ⓓ Ⓓ Ⓛ Ⓔ
Retro futurism
I always think the 80s had that old nostalgic feel and futuristic feel because of Back To The Future. Without that movie, I don’t think the feeling would exist.
@@KawaiiCat2 I think the visions of the future were greater than what has become reality
so my mom was a little girl in the eighties and she unironically loves this
Stfu liberal
She can probably feel some deeper, more real nostalgia from this type of sound, unlike us, who just feel a weird sense of missing something without being sure what it is.
@@LeNarfDragon dude chill
I was a kid in the 80's, I didn't think I would like it, I can't help but to love it.
Vapourware is more of a 90’s sound though, outrun is more 80’s
Maybe in 50 years people will see this as we see velvet underground today
I really hope so 🙏
I truly believe they will
truth
This legitimately feel timeless. Last time I listened to vaporwave at all was in 2016. Now it still feels as fresh as last time I listened to it. It just feels timeless, in a way. I don't know how else to express it.
That's not what timeless means. This album sounds heavily dated by design. It's all 1990. It will sound like 1990 in the year 3045.
@@jonathanbennett5611he’s not saying it _is_ timeless… just that it _feels_ timeless. Really all he’s saying is that he’s enjoyed it every time he’s listened (over the course of a decade).
I like this un-ironically honestly.
It's good music for when you don't want actual music but just want to listen to something that sounds nice.
Aurora Borealis wtf do you mean by actual music?
Catchy pop "music" I'm guessing.
It is actual music.
Quality of music does not determine if it is "actual music". If you want something that walks the line of music and not music, look up John Cage's music. I suggest "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima", "Amplified Cactus", or my personal all time favorite "4'33"
I appreciate it for the art movement. Vaporwave is essentially the new dadaism.
Coming back to this after listening way back in 2013-2014 thinking I had a weird taste in music in my underclassmen years in highschool... crazy how this feels timeless. I remember sitting alone on the bus, looking out the window & listening to ECCO. Vaporwave was still so fresh back then, and seeing what it is now and what it's inspired is really amazing to me.
Saaaaame, except I was a little late to the party. My Vaporwave/Future Funk phase started in 2015, when I was a freshman in high school. What a coincidence! I was feeling a little depressed at the time, and my anxiety was at an all-time high. Not to mention, I also loved the A E S T H E T I C of the 80s. Musicians like Macintosh Plus, Blank Banshee, Skylar Spence, and Night Tempo pretty much saved my life. 💖🌴
I discovered vaporwave in 2020 I’m a noob
I’ll add an edit to this comment if I’m still listening to this in 2021
@@brianjacobs2748 Theres a lot out there to experience. Look up Corp., macross, windows96, esprit, saint pepsi, etc. Those are some of my favorites.
My mid teens music was so fucking weird compared to now, I’m in my early 20s
Same boss. Now I want to kill myself.
Now i know how to get Sade, you just slow down Diana ross.
and slow down Sade to get super-Sade
And you get George Michael if you slow down Sandra.
I thought it was Sade
🤣🤣
@@solarnights4931 lol me too, i heard the first track and i thought he sampled something off Diamond Life (an album by Sade btw)
There is now a clothing item in Splatoon 3 called “Vaporwave Tee” and I can’t believe how far this silly genre has come :’) tysm for being a pioneer Vektroid / Macintosh Plus / Ramona ♡
I don't know much about the vaporwave genre but I come back to this video about once a month and give it a full listen. It captures something that hard to explain but it is the most transportive and potent thing my ears have ever heard. I was born in the mid 1970's and spent much of my youth and high school years fully immersed in 'mall culture' throughout the entire 80's with my friends, along with most the rest of the country, and music like this makes me wanna break down and cry at that nostalgia. This music feels like an old aerobics VHS flying through a million malls in outerspace
spotify has a really big vaporwave playlist. you wont regret
There’s so much vaporwave of all kinds on Bandcamp, you’ll never be in a shortage
“Captures something hard to explain” is a common way to describe vaporwave. It’s like weaponized nostalgia for a time and place that doesn’t fully exist.
Memories of futures past
i just graduated 10th grade today and listened to this album on my walk home through a city with a gray sky, it was the most ethereal feeling ever, thanks mac
That sounds awesome
Just wait to graduate all together. I listened to queen these are the day of our lives. And it hit me. That it was over, and all those things I wished I did but was too scared to do, didn't matter, I should have never held back. I hope I can pass that lesson onto you
@@gang6009 Guess what? I legitimately graduated from school altogether now. Its weird seeing my comment from 2 years ago knowing what i know now about my experiences and what's happened since then. It's funny though, no matter what life put me through and what others have done to me, this album is a legitimate time capsule. it bridges space and time, connecting parts of myself from completely different points in my life. They all merge here.
pushing ur $10 earphones into ur ears so u are hearing it as loud as possible
playing it through your phone speakers because the rain on your roof just adds to it
This album feels like you fell asleep watching the Breakfast Club and you awoke inside the movie. You're trapped within the movie now, but all of the characters are gone, the library is a little dusty and dim, and there is no one there to be found.
Thats so fucking stupid and specific
yooo
Best description of it I've yet seen
@@anareel4562Thank you!
Exactly, comrade, the path is that way... traveling to a dream time, although, normally, one dreams about the future (80s ???????)...
However, so it's a ''different'' dream, so to speak....
An album of false nostalgia is now actually nostalgic to a lot of people, including me...
God
Damn
pain.. all my homies feel pain..
It isn't "false" nostalgia, since the songs this remixes are really nostalgic songs.
@@musicforthesoulandbody3172 mgs3 is a masterpiece of hyperreality, if you haven't played it. But what do you think happened to the world, what changed it to this (interpersonal) dystopia we're living in now? Was it only technology's fault?
Retrotopia
/musicplays
This sounds like something that would play on a radio on a newsstand late at night.
*CSOM intensifies*
or in a shopping mall, yes elevator music of the 80's has become cool
6 years later and i still come back to this masterpiece
Same
Crazy to think there are kids on RUclips now who are younger than vaporwave, that didn't see this beautiful genre bloom over the course of the 2010s.
I was born in 1992 and still missed it, i only found this genre around 2019... Well better late than never i guess.
I don't know how I did it, but I am 12 and I like it. To me it is kind of an interesting genre, and no. I was not born in the wrong generation, nor the right one. I was definitally born in a generation lol.
I was born in 2009 so I didn’t really get to experience the growth of this. That’s okay though, I’m not super into it anyways. It’s pretty chill though.
*that moment when you actually unironically like vaporwave...*
hey man, this album may be a staple and a bit of a meme, but there is some damn good shit out there. it's just experimental melodic EDM.
Welcome to the club. Be sure to check out late night delight, flamingo funk, and I'll try living like this over on your left.
Who ever listened to this ironically?
Vaporwave is not a meme, Vaporwave, it's a lifestyle.
I started listening too it stoned and now I love it. All the weird cuts and fake nostalgia feelings are really fun and relaxing when I smoke.
this whole album is what it feels like to watch a commercial while on opiods
Omg. It really does. Or to just nod in and out with an 80's album on loop.
I love heroin. No natural high can compete with an artificial or synthetic high from opiates. If it was just legal and sold everywhere then everyone wouldn’t have to worry about any consequences. You could go about your day and feel amazing all day long and never have to break the law to get more or feel sick from running out because it would be legal to buy. You could be productive and loving 24/7 and sleep good every night. Everyday would be the best day and you would die with a smile on your face.
Man i love it too. But as much as id like to agree with you @mictotonal millio, that shit is not as conducive to getting things done....why is why cocaine should also be legalized ; )
@@Skygreen89 yeah I end up just getting side tracked on task that usually don’t interest me and just feel good in my tummy. With meth I can actually focus and write papers or get tickets out faster on the line during dinner rush. Yeah I’m an addict and it’s fucking embarrassing.
@@microtonalmilio5233 So am i dude, although i stick to doing the smaller stuff on a daily basis. Doing kratom every day makes me much more productive than smoking fent every day lol. I truly believe all drugs can be used responsibly, you just gotta know when to step out if you can see it affecting your life too negatively. I do kratom every day to cope. Doing a bit of blow on the weekends or popping an addy or xan here or there, but keep an eye on it. And every so often, the glorious nod on opiates
This was visionary. One album started a trend that lasts until today. It started a whole new chapter of internet popular culture. It is a cultural landmark for the milleniall generation. I would fucking watch a whole ass documentary about the phenomenon this album -and the genre of vaporwave as a whole - is. I used to laugh at this shit at 18. Now I'm 26 and all I am is nostalgic and full of regret I didn't appreciate those times for what they were. They passed so quickly.
Then watch this: ruclips.net/video/W-dK2naYOiE/видео.html
Hate to break it to you but people been doing this to genres of music forever. Its how techno started basically. Hip hop samples. Chopped and screwed etc etc etc.
@PeenGeist lol what
Except eccojams, but yeah, like, feels like eccojams got discovered by mainstream later even tho eccojams started the craze with vaporwave
@Strongertogether47 What the fuck are you talking about?
This album sounds like smoking a cigarret at the top of a skyscrapper in a big city while watching sunset
I got into the art of vaporwave indirectly, through synthwave, but what made me jump in was this album, it is a nostalgic feeling that made me want to create my type of art, thanks Vektroid, for creating and influencing young people who may never have lived in this era, but felt the nostalgia that it provides.
I’m listening to this at like 1:00am and I have just ascended and become an intellectual
I’m listening at 2:00 am get on my level
Jake Harley Uhhh it’s 2:59 am dude
*become
I watched it at 3am.
I'm listening to this in F O U R S I D E D H A R M O N I C C U B E T I M E
I love the fact that this seems to exist in a place and time of its own. This is internet culture
Track list in English
1. Boot 0:00 - 3:23
2. Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing 3:24 - 10:44
3. Flower specialty store 10:46 - 14:41
4. Library 14:42 - 17:25
5. Geography 17:28 - 22:14
6. Chill diving with ECCO 22:16 - 28:58
7. Mathematics 29:01 - 35:55
8. Waiting 35:57 - 38:14
Still the best vaporwave album I've ever listened to. Period.
I know it's from a different angle, but do you like virtua.zip by Esprit? I only just recently heard it and I'm stuck on it. But Macintosh Plus, Blank Banshee & Saint Pepsi were my first loves.
@@0800styles Yeah! That album is awesome.
It's the one that started vaporwave after all.
A beautiful album, one that will be remembered for years to come.
In my nightmares.
@@BeeWhistler Why?
Gucci is literally putting anime girls and 90s/80s iconography on their shit now. Vaporwave is simply the next evolution of music/art
Edit: yo why erryone hatin on Gucci? I was merely pointing out that aesthetic is becoming more popular in art and culture in recent years. I was merely pointing out Gucci as one example.
Not true at all...
Yes, it's the next logical evolution.
Vaporwave has been around since 9990s
@KOINCE yes
@@SSToten98 vaporwave is dead but I still appreciate listening to it
the fact that i found this now looking for synthwave artists in 2022 and vaporwave is considered dead now makes it more cool.
synth resurgence owns its existence to vapor-wave
V A P O R W A V E N E V E R D I E S, Y O U F O O L
@@olegkosygin2993 no it doesnt
this album is like wine, it gets better and better over time. 10 years and still feel unique ❤
A while ago I saw some poll about the greatest albums of all time. Deep down past all the david bowies, elton johns, and random prog rock band, this album sat there. I was shocked, but kinda thrilled. Past all the old memes this album represents, it really aged well. Still love this after all these years.
Used to work 12 hour shifts with a dude who would play this album non stop. Good times.
Funny how music parodying nostalgic music became itself a source of nostalgia
literally one of the most important releases in music history
huge if true
The album of the decade, but they still pretend it is not.
Excuse my ignorance but, may i ask why?
@@ergastolo4281 it established an art style. so many musicians online have tried to copy this album. it blew up the vapor wave scene that is still very relevant online.
@@Baloonboy105yt Oh so, this album is what started it all?
I mean, that started the Vaporwave genre to come back to trend?
When you put Mac OS 8 install disk in a cd player.
holy shit
Vynil dumbass
@@CesarSandoval024 casette tape tbh
Ever put a c64 cassette in a tapedeck? The sound is worse than a dial up modem yet so nostalgic.
The most influential album of the decade
It was massively freeing to me a musician, I had been using the chopped and screwed/cut and paste method for years and people said it was cheating or wasnt real music. But when this album came out and started gaining traction it validated me so much. Negativland were along the same lines and deserve more credit in my opinion, but Macintosh plus made it mainstream to an extent
TPAB
@@slockboy i think the argument could be made that TPAB is one of the best albums of the decade but it hasn’t had much of an impact or influence on music
huge if true
lmao so many people diss vapourwave but yeah this album essentially changed modern fashion and lifestyle massively
To me, this sounds like the 80's I remember growing up in. Not the pop music of the time, mind you. But more like the white spaces outside of the mixtapes I used to share with my friends at the time. The background music in shopping malls that I can't quite remember, and yet it actually sets the soundtrack for a time in my life that I can never get back. Oh, this was the feeling that was long long missed, and can't be duplicated by buying a new copy of an old 80's pop song.
This album/emerging genre was so ahead of it's time, you see it's influences in so many new things
This album is 10 years old now. Just let that go through your head.
Happy Anniversary Romona Xavier. Thanks for blessing us with this album.
let that sink in
It's all in your head
@@ChrisTweten hands*
Nostalgia of something you never felt or lived
The feel of your brain melting
Getting high without drugs
....
Keep going I'm just taking notes of how it feels to chew five gum
Maybe its implanted memories
Maybe were androids
Maybe its Maybelline
It’s a scientific study that your nerves and muscles and blood cells. Tighten when you feel nostalgic or any type of feeling
@@carrasco921 My muscles tense when I get this kind of nostalgia. The way muscles tense when you're expecting an attack.
smoking salvia with za hommies
nostalgia of a time you never knew is called anemoia. if vaporwave makes you nostalgic for the 80s but you never lived in the 80s, you're experiencing anemoia.
The years fall off me when I listen to this album. Taking me to another world where nothing but the vibe matters.
I’m listening to this masterpiece when I feel bad, when my mood is awful. And like alchemy that music is metamorphosing my pain in esperance... that tracks are kinds of philosophal stones !
I thank Macintosh Plus, the humanity and the life, to offer me the possibility to hear Floral Shoppe.
Wow! Peace brother 💫
i love how the first song [my favorite] translates into.. "boot". i know, "it's turning on the computer, not the shoe" BUT whenever i listen to it and think about its name, it makes me smile, really. [english isn't my first language and i'm awful at communication/grammar/dunno]
i understood what you saidddd i find it funny too ahhaha :D
Your english is great don't worry
It's also based on one of Sade's altime best tracks. Track 1 on this album is the best track of the whole thing by far
There's something unique about vaporewave. This type of music, and the community that listens to it would never have been possible before the Internet. It'd truly a phenomenon of the digital age. The juxtaposition of that fact with the entire 80-90s A E S T H E T I C makes for a disturbingly pleasant vibe (if that makes any sense).
Happy 10th anniversary to this milestone. May the ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ live on forever.
this is honestly a great album despite the memes and everything, i like the vibe it gives off
Time : 3:26 a.m.
Day : Tuesday
Month : not sure.... days are days and the just blend..
Year : 2015
As I lay here on my couch in my home and listen. No, enjoy. As I lay here in tye dark on my couch with my shades on I come to understand a great deal.
The more absent your thought, the more you come to understand. Idk its a kind of education I cannot describe.
Its invaluable.
Its peace.
MAF Matic So true. Thoughtlessness is pure counsciousness. Imagine how much you are counscious when you are dead.
Exactly. Im driving country roads at 10mph with the death grips version on like 10 (not very loud) and I just zone out amd cruise. Letting it all go with a cigarette on my hand just cruising away enjoying absolute peace.
+MAF Matic edgy
+Ｋｅｒｕ like the blade I flip in pastel halls and standing jaded on marble floors..
+MAF Matic warosu.org/data/lit/img/0047/86/1397847614945.gif
in this comment section i realized how vaporwave and lofi connects people in their intimacy and solitude, and how nice that is
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Ageed. It helps me to deal with solitude
11 years later that album still sounds as good as ever, because nothing changed, we still trapped in that 80s synth loop forever
The first time I found vaporwave I was in a small one bedroom with my soon to be wife. Hot summer nights sitting in the living room playing videogames, making friends online just enjoying ourselfs. Coming back to this in 2021 helps me go back to that time. I can feel the warm summer nights breeze coming in through the window now
Everyone: saying that they love this despite the memes.
Me who discovered this a month ago: what memes?
Ex-Casual same
they were old
@@natalia_lindson vaporwave is a m e m e
Tom Riste h a h a *laughs v a p o r w a v i o s l y*
@@natalia_lindson E N J O Y Y O U R S E L F
I never knew people liked vaporwave just because of the memes... I found vaporwave in 5th grade and it’s just been a life style ever sense! Vaporwave truly changed my life for the better!
Good grief, how bad was your life before?
Pretty fucking great, it’s way better now
how did it change your life?
@@bullhuss guess he didn't find sounds he like before, but now he does!
@@pastelfromgreece9603 ok
This is a certified hood classic!
Smoking a ciggarrette, playing Playstation 1, listening to vaporwave, the life.
Baby Jay lol hey it's what I'm doing
It's comments like these that remind why why I belong here.
Oh Y e a h
SMOKING CIGARATET PLAYING PS 1 LISTING VARPOVAVE FOR ALL LIVE
Fucking losers.
a song made from 80s nostalgia makes us feel early 2010s. who shook the time?
I come back to this album because it always takes me back to when I was lost and didn't know what my purpose in life was. Now I'm stable but listening to this always reminds me of where I came from and I'm forever thankful for it. I always listen when I'm drunk it takes me back to when I was young and naive. I am still grateful because it still reminds me of where I came from. To all those who feel lost don't give up just keep going I promise you will find your purpose.
Okay, let’s make a joke here. Besides the good times you have with this, this album sounds like it’s drunk. I still fucking love it.
its been about a month since this album hit a decade, so cheers to your first decade floral shoppe and thank you vektroid for making this amazing album
i want to go back to when i first heard this, i was so much happier
and you keep coming back to this track years later to try to get back to those rare times of happiness and peace, isn't it true?
@@lucaambrosino5262 yeah
Same
I went to a store years ago.... a song from this album played. Asked the associate wtf this was! He enlightened me and have been hooked ever since!
Which track was it?
wooow this played in a store.? 😊
1. Boot 0:00 - 3:23
2. Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing 3:24 - 10:44
3. Flower specialty store 10:46 - 14:41
4. Library 14:42 - 17:25
5. Geography 17:28 - 22:14
6. Chill diving with ECCO 22:16 - 28:58
7. Mathematics 29:01 - 35:55
8. Wait 35:57 - 38:14
When I was 23 I was in evening college in Downtown Los Angeles. I took the train and I listened to vaporwave almost exclusively. This album just takes me back to empty trains, city skylines, my old Casio watch, a dark campus, and just general nostalgia. How I wish we could get a Floral Shoppe 2 for today's world. I really wish I could meet Vektroid and tell her how this album kept me company while I traveled all those nights in college.
@moodyfuck4758 Those tranquil serene city lit nights where the twilight of work and home were enveloped by a sense of loneliness and happiness all at the same time. I want to go back and it's beautiful that I never will.
By far one of the most important albums of the 2010s.
The first track reminds me of japan, 1989, you're in a urban city in a small bar/store. Its midnight, its cold, its raining, and you're drunk. You're thinking about your old memories and stuff.
even though I've never existed in the 20th century i still feel the 80s vibe.
20th*
@@ibizateahouse0000 right, my bad
Crazy how it felt nostalgic for something I haven't lived when I first heard it and now it feels nostalgic for when I used to listen to it... Time is crazy