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Video Game Mixlist 60

Posted by Zonk from the those-russians-know-a-good-beat dept.
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.
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  • Finally... (Score:4, Funny)

    by brilinux ( 255400 ) on Thursday June 16, 2005 @07:41AM (#12831384) Journal
    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!

  • Of course.. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Durinthal ( 791855 ) on Thursday June 16, 2005 @07:44AM (#12831398)
    The article fails to mention two of the largest [vgmix.com] sites [ocremix.org] dedicated to game mixes.

  • Obligatory Links (Score:5, Informative)

    by Digital Vomit ( 891734 ) on Thursday June 16, 2005 @07:55AM (#12831459) Homepage Journal
    For those interested in video game music, check out:

    VGMix [vgmix.com]

    Overclocked Remix [ocremix.org]

    RKO [kwed.org]

    • Additional Link (Score:2, Informative)

      by Digital Vomit ( 891734 )
      What I, personally, consider the cream of the crop [kaejae-worx.com]. The server is a bit slow right now, though.
      • Didn't even know vgmix existed. And this cream of the crop site is slashdotted to hell.

        • And this cream of the crop site is slashdotted to hell.

          My friend, who runs the server, was having some problems with his bandwidth limiter program before I posted the link. It was already dog slow before I posted the link to slashdot. You can always bookmark it and check it out in a few days. I've got a lot of stuff there that is not available on the other sites.

    • Wow, those people with mod points really blew past the previous poster (the one above parent), despite the two saying the same thing. What a burn...
      • Yeah, his post was a few minutes before mine. I didn't realize Durinthal had made his post until after I made mine and refreshed the page.

        Though, technically, I did have the third link, which game me the edge. :-P

        Maybe the mods are all C64 fans?

    • Don't forget http://www.minibosses.com/ [minibosses.com] for all the minibosses goodness. There's MP3s and live videos.

      I saw minibosses in Brooklyn over the summer (opened for Eagles of Deathmetal, I think). AWESOME SHOW.

      I also saw Mr. Bungle at Snocore in 1999 in Asbury Park, NJ. Fucken awesome show, too. I had heard of them before that, but never heard their music. I was blown away.
      • Also don't forget Project X [zebox.com] a band that has produced covers for all the music in Mega Man 2+3. Two full albums in mp3 format at the provided link, and it doesn't suck.
        • All I gotta say is that I listened to three songs and they all sucked. These guys need to learn how to properly mix out their volume levels in a real bad way. Everything sounded real muddled and parts that should have been in the foreground were almost blending into the backbeat. Not good. The guitar synth sounded weak too. It really just sounds like they just took the NSF files and made MIDIs out of them and plugged in sounds that sounded good to them.

          For what it is worth, I tried the same thing and what
    • IMHO, the best video game music out there is Metroid Metal [metroidmetal.com]. Of course, it's all a matter of taste.

      I downloaded all of OCRemix's archives through their BitTorrent link and sampled about 20 seconds of every one. I wound up keeping only about 200 total (and I'm still filtering down to about 150 of those). It's just worth noting to anyone who is getting interested in gaming remixes that there is a lot of crap out there. However, some of them are *really* good (see above link, "Kraid's Theme" rocks!).

      An

  • M.U.L.E.! (Score:5, Funny)

    by TripMaster Monkey ( 862126 ) * on Thursday June 16, 2005 @07:56AM (#12831474)


    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...

  • Nah... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Megane ( 129182 ) on Thursday June 16, 2005 @08:20AM (#12831650)
    I find the Mario and Zelda themes to be much catchier. Maybe it's because I never seriously played the NES Tetris at the time. Instead, I mostly played a ripoff for the Mac that had no sound whatsoever.

    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"?

  • More! (Score:2)

    by GoRK ( 10018 )
    Mr. Bungle also covered the Mario theme.

    The Minibosses, of course, cover tons of old Nintendo games, though they will refuse to touch Mario.
    • That's why there's The Advantage [theadvantageband.com].
      • It takes talent to put together a website that crazy-looking. At first I thought it was incompetence, until I realized that it was carefully-crafted chaos.

        No way I'm checking out the source, though.

    • and i expecte quality fact checking from the onion (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      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

    • Re:More! (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      not true, they played the underground theme from Super Mario 2 at PAX last year.
      • Well, I did not know this, but in the past they had publiclly declared that they would not touch Mario. The statement even appeared in their Wired magazine interview. Have lyhe minibosses jumped the shark? :) I'll have to see if I can find a recording of their PAX show(s) -- I'd like to hear them, especially if they did Mario.

        Speaking of Mario medleys... I saw a saxiphone quartet (composed of a couple of people I know even) perform at a local college's music showcase recently. Out of 20 or so performances

  • Bloodhound Gang (Score:2, Interesting)

    by batlock666 ( 839087 )
    Mope contains samples from Falco, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Metallica, and the Pac-Man theme.

  • Video Game Music Terribly Underrated (Score:4, Informative)

    by Digital Vomit ( 891734 ) on Thursday June 16, 2005 @10:24AM (#12832513) Homepage Journal
    Most people think it's strange that others like to listen to video game music. I imagine its because many remember the beeps and boops that emanated from yesterday's game machines. (I hesitate to say it was because of the repetitiveness of said music, judging by the sound of commercial music today). Ironically, music from old 8-bit an 16-bit machines far surpass most pop songs in terms of melodic beauty and richness.

    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 [gamasutra.com] (Heroes of Might & Magic III) and Ben Houge [benhouge.com] (Arcanum - full score to the music is available from the link!).

    • What, no Chris Hülsbeck? I hope Factor 5 isn't working on even more unnecessary Star Wars games so we get to hear his compositions again.

    • ACTRAISER!

      ACTRAISER!

      I've been trying to remember the name of that game for, like, almost ten years, now. Thank you, kind sir.

    • There is good music, but what's annoying are the 14 year old fanbois that think Uematsu is Beethoven. Video game music is FAR from the be-all end-all of music, but good luck convincing some of these guys. It's like the anime nerds that slobber over the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, but run away scared from an actual jazz album.

      • Amen. The jazz in Bebop isn't even proper jazz, it's Kanno's pop composition style sequenced through jazzy instruments. I've heard real jazz by other Japanese artists that blows her stuff away, and of course you could... I dunno, listen to jazz by Americans....

        Similarly, video game music is fun, but I'm not sure how frequently it's actually good in an artistic or technical sense. It's certainly inspired some cool remixes, probably because the tunes are simple and catchy enough that you can keep them intac

      • Uematsu may not be Beethoven, but his music is rather excellent. Although, I'm not sure how good it would be without having played whatever game it went along with. Part of its excellence comes from the fact that it allows you to so vividly recall the game.

        Also, what makes you so sure that Uematsu isn't the equal of Beethoven? The orchestrated versions of One-Winged Angel and Aerith's Theme, from Final Fantasy VII could definitely (at least in my mind) be compared with a piece by Beethoven, and not com

      • What idiots are claiming that the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks (you know there is more then one cd right) are all Jazz? Seriously she bounds through musical styles all over the map in most of her works (macross plus is another example).

        Most music types dont work for everyone, but if you are willing to give it a chance even stuff you don't "like" can be apreciated for the work and technical execution the artist put into the work.

        Uematsu is Uematsu, his compositions have their moments, just like all composers.
    • Rob King has done excelent music in Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII as well. Highly recommended just for the music if you can find it.
    • 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.

      I wish I had mod points.
    • 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.
  • What about The Ataris' song about Contra? The song is called "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start."

  • 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 [skapara.net] 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 musi

  • 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!
  • 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 o

    • 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.

  • 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 [ocremix.org] of the best Tetris song ever. 'tis like musical chocolate :)
  • The Pac Man theme is incredible. If you've heard it before, you probably have it running through your head.
  • 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!
  • What I consider to be the best of the game related musicians, The Neskimos.
    http://www.neskimos.com/ [neskimos.com]

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