oh great another chip covers album

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/986 … kraftwerk/

the review sounds like it should be an '8' but as usual, like the Onion parody, it gets a '6.5',

bleo: HA

Krubbz wrote:

it's pretty boring in my opinion.

That's probably just the Radiohead aspect of it.

No, not for me.  I like me some Radiohead.

breakphase wrote:

I would like these albums if they were done well, pitchfork or not. But if you were a really good chip artist you wouldn't make a radiohead cover album. Right? Most cover albums around here are comps, because one person would'nt want to spend that much time covering one artist, straight. You'd want to re-interpret them or something. Which would be uninteresting to Pitchfork, unless it was done by Beck.

I would gladly sit down and cover all of Daft Punk's "Human After All" but I am not a really good chip artist.

Yeah me either

I would like these albums if they were done well, pitchfork or not. But if you were a really good chip artist you wouldn't make a radiohead cover album. Right? Most cover albums around here are comps, because one person would'nt want to spend that much time covering one artist, straight. You'd want to re-interpret them or something. Which would be uninteresting to Pitchfork, unless it was done by Beck.

I would gladly sit down and cover all of Daft Punk's "Human After All" but I am not a really good chip artist.

And before anyone sugests that it's been done before, I do recall a couple times people tried to do chipmusic reviews and it was awful. Also if you are an artist in the scene you don't have that impartial journalistic integrity anyway. What I'm trying to say is, we should find our own music reviewers  that "get it" and support them.

This is lazy music being covered by lazy journalists

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There's a lot of people doing fakebit, for the most part it's just as appreciated as the authentic stuff. I love hundreds of fakebit songs.

This however, is on the low end of the spectrum in terms of fakebit quality, whether it be in sound design or actually even getting the covers right!  It reeks of laziness. 

Point #2 is that it blatantly cashes in on the novelty of OMG 8bit.  When this becomes something that defines 8bit music in popular culture, it just shows it as a lazy, poor sounding, novelty aesthetic when that couldn't be further from the truth.

This is lazy music being covered by lazy journalists