a The Sims series lossless soundtrack archival project died incomplete a couple of years ago, but i give them a 10/10 for nailing the Sims (2000) web aesthetic for their project site

site archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230722161357/https://simsmusicarchive.audio/

#sims #retrogaming #smallweb #digiPres #webpreservation #indieweb

so the group who started this VERY laudable aforementioned game music archival project did what discord idiots do, which is only distribute releases to select few on their private discord channels.

this is what the same kind of powerbro crap lamers did in the 90s on irc: "join my #channel and MAYBE i'll give you access to my warez dcc bot if you kiss my ass enough"

bleh. that kind of loser archivist culture can go back to the 90s where it should have died in the first place. they let their website die, and are still hanging out on their discord instance telling people that they "can't" share the archive with anyone.

so here's something better for archiving: be public, work publicly, and share openly.

i found a lossless copy of The Sims 1 soundtrack and uploaded it to IA. Jerry Martin (the composer/performer) did supply some of these tracks to the archival project, so i'll assume he's okay with us continuing the archival work. grab the FLACs here:

https://archive.org/details/sims-music-eb-cd

#music #sims #retrogaming #digiPres #flac

just in case there's someone out there that loves the Let's Go Shopping sims track as much as i do, i want to share two things:

1) alf clausen's The Land of Chocolate (1991) was specifically composed for the Simpsons episode. Jerry's track is almost definitely an homage to Alf/simpsons.

https://youtu.be/rG5RNFm_STE

2) Alf Clausen's track is ITSELF an homage and/or parody of a Joe Jackson track from coppola's film Tucker: The Man and his Dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_NX05XLUp4

#music #sims #simpsons #movies

Alf Clausen - The Land Of Chocolate (1991)

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@vga256 OOOn don't make me run!
@vga256 Haven't heard these tracks for literal decades, and so many of them are sublime. (Also agree that "Let's Go Shopping" is unreal levels of good!) Great thread & upload, thanks so much for sharing.
@vga256 huh, wonder if this could be un-died
@cmdr_nova they're all still hiding in their discord server unfortunately. no public project anymore
@vga256 LOADS of incredible songs not released on the soundtracks are on this. Thank you for sharing