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Hi. So I noticed that a good chunk of my chip music library involves skulls and disembodied heads. Why do we love them so much? Do we enjoy tunes more if they're associated with skulls?
Maybe there is something deeper at work here. A primal urge. Could the skull serve as a symbol? A symbol of the human stripped of it's ornamentation... in the same way that our music transcends society's limits? Yes.
I think they are, like, humankind's official, universally accepted symbol of rebel youths. Seriously, I think every generation in history has used skulls as an totemic emblem of 'danger and/or sexiness'; from tribal war parties to pirates to secret societies to bikers to hot topic. So throwing a skull on an album is just like a shot of "this is more dangerous and/or sexy" to your optic nerve.
I've downloaded zero chip releases with skulls on, what are you on about?
Hmm, there are indeed a few chip albums with a skull theme...
Just putting it out there... I think space as a thematic idea (visually and track names) is used way more than skulls and disembodied heads
MORE SKULLS.
WE NEED MORE FUCKING SKULLS.
THEY STOP OUR HEADS FROM CAVING IN.
GIVE ME SKULLS OR GIVE ME DEATH.
Zombies/undead people/that sort of thing seems to be pretty big too.
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What do you think this is, 8bc?
