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Welcome To The Jungle: We’ve Got Fun, Games, And Some Brightly Colored Mushrooms


I remember when Beck decided it would be cool to start incorporating 8-bit sounds. It felt weird to hear something I experienced firsthand being appropriated: they came for funk and I said nothing, and when they came for NES nostalgia, there was no one left to speak up. If Beck helped spread the idea, though, then I only have him to thank for this wonderful 8-bit version of “Welcome to the Jungle.” Limiting a song’s sounds to unmodulated waveforms flattens everything out in it, reducing the appeal almost purely to melody—a real test of a song’s tunefulness. The Guns N’ Roses classic holds up fantastically. [YouTube via Gabe]

3:30 AM on Mon Jan 5 2009
By Mike Barthel

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6 Responses to “Welcome To The Jungle: We’ve Got Fun, Games, And Some Brightly Colored Mushrooms”

  1. by dyfl at 4:11 am

    I demand a new DOUBLE DRAGON (or, in a pinch, FINAL FIGHT) game using only 8-bit GnR songs as its soundtrack.

  2. by at 4:47 am

    This is better than anything on Chinese Democracy.

  3. by bruzie at 5:06 am

    Fantastic!

  4. by Mike Barthel at 5:23 am

    @dyfl: YES.

  5. by at 6:10 am

    Do
    The
    ROBOT

  6. by noamjamski at 6:44 am

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