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The Onion A.V. club's website has up a feature listing off some excellent game related mixes. From the article: "4. Mr. Bungle, 'Theme From Tetris (Ska Version)' Not Britney Spears, not Linda Perry, not John Lennon or Paul McCartney--no one has written a song as burrowing-brainworm catchy as the theme from Tetris. (Coupled with the falling bricks, it's like virtual heroin.)" Seen on the ffwd linklog.
Instead of quoting hearsay, rumours, and marketing ploys, there is finally an article on Slashdot from a legitamate news source: The Onion
(I know, I know, the AV club is actually good, but I had to say it)
As I started reading this article and came across the word 'Tetris', I immediately started whistling the 'A' music from the NES version of Tetris.
Thanks, Slashdot. 8:40am and I'm already stuck with an earworm that'll take me through bed time!
The article fails to mention two of the largest sites dedicated to game mixes.
VGMix
Overclocked Remix
RKO
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Back when I was in college, I recorded about 30 minutes of the M.U.L.E. theme from my Commodore 64...we would play the tape in the car when driving around.
I was such a geek...
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What's really interesting about the Zelda theme is that it was a last-minute thing. They were going to use Bolero, but found out that it was still under copyright. And who can forget Captain Lou Albano singing "Do The Mario"?
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Or, my personal favorite: 8-Bit Weapon - MULE (Bitblaster mix)
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What I, personally, consider the cream of the crop. The server is a bit slow right now, though.
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Mr. Bungle also covered the Mario theme.
The Minibosses, of course, cover tons of old Nintendo games, though they will refuse to touch Mario.
Mope contains samples from Falco, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Metallica, and the Pac-Man theme.
There are some amazingly good composers out there that really deserve some credit. Some of my favorites include Yuzo Koshiro (Actraiser), Rob King & Paul Romero (Heroes of Might & Magic III) and Ben Houge (Arcanum - full score to the music is available from the link!).
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What about The Ataris' song about Contra? The song is called "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start."
mr. bungle did cover the mario theme live
mr. bungle did sample mario and rbi baseball on their first album
mr. bungle DID NOT cover the tetris music
I'm also familiar with a version of one of the Tetris themes recorded by a group called the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (warning: their home page is in, not surprisingly, Japanese). I first became aware of them because they supplied all of the music for Incredible Crisis, a delightfully quirky but poorly localized (and poorly received) game for the PS1 which Gamespot couldn't be bothered to provide a good link to.
It seems worthwhile to note that people who produce music for videogames are themselves musicians, as well as the people who remix and remaster their music. It's just that the former group gets much more limited airplay.
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The "1" music from NES Tetris is "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" composed by P. Tchaikovsky. The Game Boy, Super NES, and N64 versions, on the other hand, use "Korobeiniki", a traditional Russian folk song. There are lots of covers of that song.
My bro and I were reminiscing about some of these just last night. He's got ringtones on his cell of Mario and Guile's theme from Street Fighter 2. Some of that stuff, even if short, is freakin' addictive. Some of the music from Jurassic Park on the Sega Genesis always gets stuck in my head, too... one of my favorites!
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Thanks for the link man! Arcanum's music is incredible stuff, and really stands out to me as the high water mark in videogame music. I have yet to see the moody-victorian setting captured so well.
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Rygar on the NES system had some really good music. It went on for a pretty decent time before repeating too, so it wasn't extremely repetitive.
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Which is odd, because I played it a lot. I can only remember the music from Super Mario Bros and legend of Zedla (and Spy Hunter of course, but that wasn't origional).
Anyway, along the lines of the article: there's a Britany Spears song (Crazy?) that has a bass line that sounds a whole lot like the SMB castle music.
What I actually like better is the modern trend of remixing "real" songs for games. I'd pay money for the soundtrack to Need For Speed: Underground 2, for example (I especially like the remix of "Rocket Ride").
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The Tetris themes for the NES were all Russian songs form yore (1800's or something) The song everyone thinks of when they say "The Tetris Song" is called "Troika" I believe.
Check out this remix of the best Tetris song ever. 'tis like musical chocolate :)
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The Pac Man theme is incredible. If you've heard it before, you probably have it running through your head.
Anyway, along the lines of the article: there's a Britany Spears song (Crazy?) that has a bass line that sounds a whole lot like the SMB castle music.
It was the "stop" remix of "Crazy" by Britney Spears, not the version on her album, that had the melody similar to that of SMB1's underground music (not the castle music), though the third through six notes were transposed down a major second. Even closer to that is a quiet part in "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches & Herb.
Which one? The opening theme, the A theme or the B theme? (I'm going to pretend the C theme never existed)
In a diferent more modern "note" (pum intented), there is a guy that makes terrific game music: Akira Yamaoka. Just listen to the music in any of the 4 Silent Hill games and you'll see. The music/soundscape IS definitly part of the game and the OSTs stand on their own legs as far as good music is concerned. I highly recommend it!
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What I consider to be the best of the game related musicians, The Neskimos.
http://www.neskimos.com/