Ever
since I found out about 8-Bit as a music genre, or chiptunes or chipcore or
what have you, I’ve always been interested in cover songs for some reason. I’ve constantly looked for covers of various
songs, any songs really, and I’ve found quite a few.
While I
am not able to say that I have found an entire album covered from start to finish
in 8-Bit (someone please do it), I did find this compilation of twelve punk
songs done in 8-bit form. It’s really
the closest thing you’re going to get right now to an 8-Bit cover band [Side
Note: I’d designate an 8-Bit version of the Beatles to be called The Betales,
because it has the word “Beta” in it and looks like you misspelled… yeah, you
get it]
What I
particularly enjoy about this album is that the songs themselves are covered by
various artists throughout the punk scene and history of punk. Okay, so maybe it doesn’t go quite as far
back as Sex Pistols or even Ramones, but it has some good Epitaph era bands.
Despite
covering Blink 182, at least the cover was of “Lemmings”, which is off of “Dude
Ranch”, i.e. a song that I know because it’s not from the later years. This also has punk favorites such as NOFX,
Pennywise, MxPx, The Offspring and even The Queers on it.
My two
personal favorite tracks on here though are No Use For a Name’s “Justified
Black Eye”, for reasons I won’t get into, as well as Lagwagon’s “Know It All”
because it is simply one of my all time favorite songs, right up there with
“Asleep”.
Bands
like Rancid who didn’t make the cut this time around could be seen in a future
“level”, as this title indicates that this is the first. There are countless punk bands out there to
choose from within the early Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chord days, right down to
the even older bands like I mentioned earlier.
Since
this one does have Less Than Jake on it, I’d expect the next one to feature
Voodoo Glow Skulls. I’d also like to see
some TSOL and would it kill anyone to cover Ten Foot Pole?
This
ranks right up there with the Folk-O-Rama version of Punk-O-Rama only on the
opposite side of the spectrum because this one is all digital and that one is
all acoustic. Oh, yes, and this is also
missing some Bad Religion. Hearing
Millencolin in 8-Bit as they were in folk punk (“Bullion”) would simply make
the universe a happier place.
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