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An 8-bit Christmas

I’ve always been a fan of the holiday season.  This year I decided to cap off a year of 8-bit albums with my very own Christmas album!  This album is 31 of my favorite (and least favorite) Christmas songs, one for each day of December.  These will be posted on their corresponding December dates on Instagram and Twitter.  You can also listen to the whole album on YouTube or download the album for free on Google Play.

1 Sleigh Ride
2 Last Christmas
3 It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
4 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
5 The Christmas Song
6 Little Saint Nick
7 Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
8 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
9 Blue Christmas
10 The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)
11 Frosty the Snowman
12 Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time
13 Lupang Hinirang
14 All I Want For Christmas is You
15 The First Noel
16 Christmas Wrapping
17 You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
18 Do they Know it’s Christmas At All
19 Holly Jolly Christmas
20 Feliz Navidad
21 Carol of the Star
22 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
23 Christmas Time is Here
24 Silent Night
25 O Holy Night
26 White Christmas
27 Happy Xmas (War is Over)
28 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
29 Old Waits Carol
30 What Christmas Means to Me
31 What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

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Download “An 8-bit Christmas” on Google Play for Free!

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The Beatles’s “Abbey Road” (8-bit Full Album Cover)

My father had an original copy of “Abbey Road” that I would listen to as a kid along with all the other Beatles albums.  While this album was viewed as being “thrown together” by much of the group there is not much else by the Beatles that can top this record in my opinion.  The medley of songs on the second side is just incredible and I tried my best to stay as faithful to that mash up as I could in 8-bit form.

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Download “Abbey Road” on Google Play for Free!

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Megadeth’s “Countdown to Extinction” (8-bit Full Cover Album)

The 1992 follow up to “Rust in Peace” was eagerly awaited, particularly by me.  “Rust in Peace” is, in my opinion, the greatest metal album of all time.  The follow up was quite different but I loved it.  While it received much more airplay and critical acclaim it is difficult to top “Rust in Peace.”  That being said I played this repeatedly during the summer of 1992.

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Download “Countdown to Extinction” on Google Play for Free!

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Led Zeppelin’s “IV” (8-bit Full Album Cover)

This is an album that was introduced to me by a close friend as I began to dive deeper into learning about classic rock.  Everyone had an older brother or friends that was a little ahead of the curve and would broaden their horizons with such albums.  The scene in “School of Rock” where Jack Black teaches the kids about about rock and roll history is not that far off.

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Download “IV” on Google Play for Free!

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Metallica’s “…And Justice For All” (8-bit Cover Album)

 

Finally a version of …And Justice for All where you can hear the bass!  A truly remarkable heavy metal album is dumbed down here using the sounds of the NES.  This was an important album in my musical development and it was a joy to realize it alongside the sounds of the video games that were contemporary to its release.

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Download “…And Justice For All” on Google Play