Originally Posted by
Jinsai
I don't know... on some level I think chiptune is the dorkier cousin to retro-rock... I'm interested in all sounds, and I have nostalgic love for early video game sounds. I have a modded Commodore 64 in my synth arsenal, so I can't cast stones.
But I was there, I was a little kid playing around on a commodore and those sounds bring me back. Maybe the way musicians on the same page will emotionally insert that tone into their music will transform into something that ties the sound to nostalgia in a general way, even for people who were born decades later. But 80s wave revivalism, I'm sorry, but that's people making music that at this point is incredibly easy to make. It feels like a mockery, from people who (mostly) have no attachment. It's like Wolfmother was to 70s rock.
Retro music to me though feels like a lounge act, or even worse some kind of revival scene. I can't help but hate and resent it.
Sorry if I sound like an asshole here, but I would like to ask... how many of the fans of this genre really lived through the 80s?
EDIT: I don't mean to sound like I'm bashing you for liking it. I'm just a miserable bastard born in 1980 who hates it... and maybe on some level I'm a synth-dork who hates how simple these tones are at this point. Oh cool, another square wave! I am a little bothered by the fact that you could put this together with something called an 'Ultimate 80s!" bank, and even then, you wouldn't even need to do much research to emulate all these sounds from scratch. But they don't have to, so they won't, and I'm just going to hear a bunch of musicians retread a genre that's been played out since I was ten.
I'd rather hear people learn from older genres and do something new. But that's me. Everyone else should enjoy what they enjoy.