Following Microsoft Corp’s use of the Rolling Stones’ Start Me Up to introduce Windows95 – Bill Gates was reportedly turned down when he asked REM for a track – Digital Equipment Corp-watcher Illuminata Inc’s Terry Shannon has put together a Windows95 Billboard of Operating System Tunes:
1 OS/2 Funeral For A Friend Elton John 2 Windows NT Godzilla Blue Oyster Cult 3 Solaris Eclipse Pink Floyd 4 MVS Living In The Past Jethro Tull 5 MacOS Trouble Waiting To Happen Warren Zevon 6 HP-UX You’re So Vain Carly Simon 7 OpenVMS Built To Last Tom Petty 8 OS/400 Paint It Black Rolling Stones 9 Linux Give It Away Red Hot Chilli Peppers 10 Plan 9 Space Oddity David Bowie
Unplugged versions for nomadic systems would, of course, be included as bonus tracks to fill some of that vast CD capacity.
