8-Bit Nintendo Killer, Swholli's New (New) Song

[Swholli]

Hey there, remember when I wrote that song about presidents throwing a party?


Also part of the album Other Lovely Dinosaurs is 8-Bit Nintendo Killer, a song about a crazed video game player who challenges you to old school gaming matches and if you lose, he kills you.

I wrote this song tonight out of boredom and some parts are a bit wobbly (and some are purposefully out of tune grinding chords in order to make you uneasy).


http://swholli.tumblr.com/post/23214712751/8-bit-nintendo-killer-swholli-other-lovely
(Tumblr link like always; everyone has one now adays, you might as well follow me too).

And as per every song I've posted so far, here are the lyrics:

There's a man.

They call the 8-bit Nintendo Killer.

He's a freak.

A real misfit of nature.

Goes down the street.

A deathwish from every eye.

But he knows

Not everyone is as they seem.

He controls

Up up down down left right A B


The Legends are true (he can kill with a joystick)

Now he's after you (You better be quick)

He's coming around (You're just another pawn)

So don't make a sound (the game is on)


You step up

You tell em that you've had enough

He gets down

And looks square in the eyes

You challenge me?

He bellows throught the town.

I'm the professor

The master blaster of the blast processor

You're going down

To hell and beck to tell em I said hello



The Legends are true (he can kill with a joystick)

Now he's after you (You better be quick)

He's coming around (You're just another pawn)

So don't make a sound (the game is on)



It's a crowdless room

The arcade is bare

He's killed all your friends

And there's no one left

So you make your move

A quick jolt to the right

He trips and falls

Bashing his head on the floor

Victory is yours

Except he has an extra life.



You look down, upon his courpse
The rotting life escapes


Except now, you feel the curse
You feel his awful fate

You must win, you must be the best
You've become the killer.


The Legends are true (he can kill with a joystick)

Now he's after you (You better be quick)

He's coming around (You're just another pawn)

So don't make a sound (the game is on)

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[Daedalus]

it's beautiful. ;^;
edit: also nice konami code reference

[Brickman]

That is very boss.

[Swholli]

it's beautiful. ;^;
edit: also nice konami code reference

Heh. I feel like anyone who doesn't know the Konami code will be like: "what does that mean and why is it in the middle of the song like that?"

There are a few other game references in there too but they're a little more subtle.

[GenaralSkar]

Heh. I feel like anyone who doesn't know the Konami code will be like: "what does that mean and why is it in the middle of the song like that?"

There are a few other game references in there too but they're a little more subtle.

If they don't know the Konami code they don't deserve to listen to the song.

[PowerDag]

why is there no percussion

why is there
no
percussion

other than that i guess it was okay. could use some work on the voice, though.

[Mega-Bear]

Sounds really good. You sounded kind of like a somewhat distorted Neil Young.

[Swholli]

There is percussion?

There's a simple quarter note drum loop in the back that adds ambient thumps to the bass.

Then, during the chorus there's a sixteenth note expansion with a quarter note snare synth.

[PowerDag]

i think you might've used the wrong synths then, or they're too quiet

[Swholli]

I think you didn't write the song and I can do what I want cause a pirate is free.

[PowerDag]

can't arr-gue with that logic

[.:FancyPants:.]

Note: not all songs must rhyme to be considered songs. lol

FFFUUUUU

[Mega-Bear]

Paused Led Zeppelin to listen to this again, it's so good.

[RedGajin]

The background singing sounds like crap, but overall the song is ok I guess. Not really my kind of song, but its good.

[Swholli]

Well, not everybody's going to say I'm a great singer (cause I'll admit, I'm not). But at least the harmonies are coherent. Or, well, I thought they were.