Author Topic: Favorite Music in Mario Games (Read 11014 times)

Sunbun · « **on:** May 08, 2007, 06:02:34 PM »

I'd have to say, some of the greatest video game music compositions have been found in Mario games. Super Mario RPG, World, and 64, to name a few.

What are your favorite pieces? Post your favorite Mario composers, too, if you want.

SolidShroom · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2007, 06:04:08 PM »

Anything from SMB 1.

Ultima Shadow · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2007, 06:08:22 PM »

Smithy 2nd Phase from Super Mario RPG
Bowser's Domain from Super Mario 64
Bowser Battle from Super Mario 64
Bowser Final Battle from Super Mario 64
Most of the music from Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
Most of the music from MK64, MKSC and MKDS

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2007, 06:11:01 PM »

Cheese Land from Mario Kart Super Circuit. Composers are apparently Kenichi Nishimaki, Masanobu Matsunaga and Minako Hamano, so who knows which one wrote it.

NintendoExpert89 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2007, 06:28:29 PM »

I liked most of the music in Super Paper Mario, but here are a few of my favorites:

"The Ultimate Show"
"Sammer's Kingdom"
"Lineland Road"
"I'm Not Nice"
"Castle Bleck"
"Flipside"

Suffix · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2007, 06:31:45 PM »

Dire Dire Docks from Super Mario 64 (with strings)

BP · « **Reply #6 on:** May 08, 2007, 10:11:26 PM »

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Battle Theme, first and third of the battle themes for the final boss, Super Bowser World 1, X-Naut Fortress, Doopliss' battle theme, Shadow Sirens' battle theme, etc. etc...
Super Paper Mario had some excellent music. I liked World 3's background music a lot. The Super Smash Bros. Melee version of the SMB3 music can rock one's socks, too.

Hey, uh... anybody know where I could get some PM:TTYD tracks WITHOUT sound effects? I found a couple of sources with fair MP3s, but things like the curtain rising before the battle's start or the sound made when a character speaks weren't removed... you can hear the Paragoomba's wings flapping in the battle theme MP3...

Skullbullet · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2007, 10:23:49 PM »

Super Mario RPG carries my favorite compositions. The Finale, Forest Maze, Smithy's Theme... I could go on and on. The only SNES game that beats SMRPG in music, in my opinion, is Chrono Trigger. :)

Trainman · « **Reply #8 on:** May 08, 2007, 10:26:13 PM »

Any star music for any game.
Um... TTYD battle, uh, SMW, SMRPG, waaaaaaaaay too much to list.
And the NES Contra forest song and that "base" song right after it or whatever. I like Maniac Mansion's song.... uh with the main guy I think it is.

Mega 2 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 09, 2007, 12:14:50 AM »

Off the top of my head...

Piano theme, "...Bros. 3"
POW stadium, ibid
Ice World, ibid
Piano theme, "...World"
Vanilla Dome, ibid
Tree Zone 2, "...Land 2"
Koopa Beach, "...Kart"
Cave theme, "Yoshi's Island"
Hazy Maze Cave, "...64"

Good stuff. : )

Yoshi-1up · « **Reply #10 on:** May 09, 2007, 01:54:25 AM »

Arhg, I can't pick. I love just about all the songs. I even learned most of them on guitar.

Matty_G33 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 09, 2007, 02:28:05 AM »

The Metal Cap Theme is mint.

SushieBoy · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2007, 01:20:43 PM »

The music from PM:TTYD RAWKED! The themes from Doopliss, Shadow Sirens, Crump, Grubba, and mini bosses all were awesome, but my fave was the Doopliss theme :)

Suffix · « **Reply #13 on:** May 09, 2007, 04:08:35 PM »

I liked the music for TTYD's menu and a few other things, but overall, it was not the best.

I also like the majority of music from Mario Kart 64, especially the credits. I miss the time when all music for credits was epic and not jazzy or boring. Which isn't to say that music for credits is always like that now, but it doesn't seem as common.

Kojinka · « **Reply #14 on:** May 09, 2007, 04:23:46 PM »

"Dire Dire Rocks" SM64
Anything from SMB1
Anything from MK64
Bowser's Levels SM64
Majority of music from TTYD
Airship Fortress MKDS
Waluigi Pinball MKDS
Title screen SMW2:YI
Forest of Illusions
Overworld 1 SMW
Overworld 1 SMB3
Warp Whistle :D

Shyguy92 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 09, 2007, 06:03:57 PM »

The PM:TTYD credits music.

Trainman · « **Reply #16 on:** May 09, 2007, 07:35:36 PM »

Yeah I learned a bunch of songs on my little keyboard thingy from SMB, to SMS, to even Mario is Missing. lol Time Machine and Missing have great songs, I love them.

RussianAgent · « **Reply #17 on:** May 09, 2007, 09:49:11 PM »

Super Mario World-
Intro music
Yoshi Egg Saved!
Koopa's castle

Mario Bros. 3-
World 5-The Sky
World 7-Pipe Maze
Airship
Battle

Paper mario (1)
-Chapter Opening
-Bowser battle (final)
-General Guy Battle

Paper mario TTYD
-Glitz Pitz (before and after X)
-Chapter Opening

Super Paper Mario
-Blecks Castle
-Mr. L, Green Thunder
-I'm not nice
-Powerful Enemy Emerges
-Classic Underground

Mario Land
-World 1-1

Mega 2 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 11, 2007, 12:04:50 AM »

Have any of the musically inclined members made recordings of their performances of Mario music? I think that would be fun to hear.

This subject would also make a good poll, but the options would have to be narrowed down first.

Sqrt2 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 11, 2007, 02:15:06 AM »

Paper Mario N64
Huff 'n' Puff boss music
Koopa Bros boss music
Lava Pirahnna boss music
SMB theme (record in Boo's mansion)

PMTTYD
Magnus Von Grapple boss music (The Great Tree)
X-Naut Fortress
Rawk Hawk Music

SMB
World 2-2
Bowser's Castle (any x-4 level)

SMB3
World 6 overworld
World 3 overworld
Airship music

SM64
Rainbow Ride Music
Metal Cap Music

SMK
Rainbow Road
Bowser's Castle

SMK64
Choco Mountain

Mario Party Series
Platform Peril Minigame Music (MP1)
Big Boo's Haunt (MP4)

SMW
Castle/Fortress Music
Bowser Fight Music

Captainkirk923 · « **Reply #20 on:** May 14, 2007, 11:11:17 PM »

Oh boy...where to start

Super Mario Bros 1:
Everyone loves the default level theme :)
Underground Theme

Mario Kart 64:
Kalimari Desert
The Raceway themes
Start screen
But, my favorite one is the Starman theme. Really. In fact, it's my favorite composition of the starman in any Mario game. Period. I just wish there was some place to download it. ha.

Super Mario RPG:
Smithy Part 1 Theme
Smithy Part 2 Theme
Culex Theme (duh!)
Default Boss Battle Theme
Seaside Town
Booster Tower

Eh, they're just a few. Maybe in a later post I'll add a bit more.

Raccoon Sam · « **Reply #21 on:** May 15, 2007, 09:19:20 AM »

Pretty much everything from SMRPG.
Except the demonstration theme I mean [wtd] it was terrible.

Kojinka · « **Reply #22 on:** May 15, 2007, 03:33:34 PM »

Watch your language, Raccoon Sam.

MaxVance · « **Reply #23 on:** May 15, 2007, 06:15:10 PM »

No, it's fine. [wtd] means "where's the fluffy."

WarpRattler · « **Reply #24 on:** May 15, 2007, 09:17:43 PM »

I like the entire Yoshi's Island soundtrack. Also, I like disc one of the Super Mario World soundtrack (the one with arranged versions of the tracks).

Raccoon Sam · « **Reply #25 on:** May 15, 2007, 10:39:22 PM »

Quote from: Kojinka on May 15, 2007, 03:33:34 PM

Watch your language, Raccoon Sam.

Pardon my foolish behaviour up there, but I must ask, why haven't such words been filtered?

BP · « **Reply #26 on:** May 16, 2007, 12:15:22 AM »

You've either got to turn the censors on, or not turn them off. They're on for me.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #27 on:** May 16, 2007, 12:44:24 PM »

No BP, I edited the part he was talking about, I think. Also, you can't really filter words that are part of other words. Or you can but for some reason we haven't. Dunno.

Raccoon Sam · « **Reply #28 on:** May 16, 2007, 01:19:17 PM »

Well, "Massive" and "Yo[dukar]ennis" wouldn't work, so I guess filtering can't be really done perfectly.

Nintendoobsessed · « **Reply #29 on:** May 16, 2007, 01:45:28 PM »

I really like Popples battle music from Mario and Luigi:SS

Super-Jesse · « **Reply #30 on:** May 16, 2007, 02:31:44 PM »

My Top favorites:

1) Super Mario Land overworld theme
2) Anything from SMW2:YI

Everything else just ties at 3 :P

Deezer · « **Reply #31 on:** May 16, 2007, 03:03:16 PM »

DIRE,
DIRE
DOCKS

The Chef · « **Reply #32 on:** May 16, 2007, 05:32:43 PM »

Lessee here, what songs have not been mentioned yet?

One notable song is the Seaside Town song, as in the one after you beat Yaridovich.

BP · « **Reply #33 on:** May 16, 2007, 10:24:13 PM »

It's an eleven-year-old game, man. SMITHY LOOKS LIKE SANTA! SNAPE KILLS MALLOW!
SMRPG had some great music, as could be expected from a Square game. All the battle themes were decent.

Raccoon Sam · « **Reply #34 on:** May 18, 2007, 01:58:32 PM »

Quote from: Deezer on May 16, 2007, 03:03:16 PM

DIRE,
DIRE
DOCKS

I'm sure you'll love JaSp's NSF re-sequence.
It's already implemented to the SMB3 ROM, and hack he's making looks (and sounds) great.

Deezer · « **Reply #35 on:** May 18, 2007, 03:31:54 PM »

Quote from: Raccoon Sam on May 18, 2007, 01:58:32 PM

I'm sure you'll love JaSp's NSF re-sequence.
It's already implemented to the SMB3 ROM, and hack he's making looks (and sounds) great.

Very nice. :)

Sunbun · « **Reply #36 on:** May 20, 2007, 12:04:42 AM »

The invention of the NSF/SPC/USF/GSF, etc., is one of the best things evar.

It introduced me to more great music, such as that of SMRPG and Chrono Trigger.

Both great games.

Kimimaru · « **Reply #37 on:** May 24, 2007, 04:09:14 PM »

I love the music from all the mario games. I think the best music is found in the mario rpgs.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #38 on:** May 24, 2007, 06:41:01 PM »

^ Anything and everything from SMRPGs, indeed.