Best Mario Music: Our Top 10 Mario Songs – Super Mario Playlist
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As part of Nintendo Life VGM Fest, a music and feature-centric interview season that celebrates video game audio in all its forms, we’re putting together a ton of playlists featuring some of our favorite songs. We’ve looked at the funky / groovy end of the spectrum, and we’ve also looked at the tracks we queue up when we want to cool the beans.
Today, we are watching a specific series, the Super Mario series, and we have chosen ten of our absolute favorite songs of the Mushroom Kingdom. With only ten tracks on our playlist, it is inevitable that some good ones have fallen by the wayside (and even some undisputed classics – worms like the original World 1-1 and Jump Up, Super Star! They are obviously great, but we We had our stuffing of those for … ooo maybe a life or two).
We’re sure you’ll let us know which ones we’ve overlooked in the comments, but as a group compilation taking suggestions from the entire team here at NL Towers, we’re quite pleased with the tight and varied track list we’ve come up with.
So, we can introduce them, in no particular order (because how could we possibly?) – ten of the best musical accompaniments for a stay in the Mushroom Kingdom you could hope to hear …
Steam Gardens (Super Mario Odyssey, 2017)
Composer (s): Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, Koji Kondo
The beauty of this piece is that it is nothing like the music of any other Mario game (and therefore stands out as fresh and exciting) and it still manages to capture the irreverent spirit of the level itself. It sounds like something you would find in a chase scene from a 1960s spy movie, but instead you have Mario bouncing around a strange arrangement of floating construction zone pieces, invading foliage, and robot types full of gears. Oh, and a T-Rex roaming the bowels of the level, natch. GL
Listen to it at: Super mario odyssey
World Map 1 (Super Mario Bros. 3, 1988)
Composer (s): Koji Kondo
We could have gone with just about any track in this game, but the upbeat melody on the World Map 1 screen lives up to the Mario music we’ve heard the most in our lives. You already know the score: you are about to dive into the 1-1 world (for which we also have a great weakness) and they call you for dinner or something, and when you return there is Mario and all the animals. and the plant life of the Mushroom Kingdom bouncing to the beat just when you left them. What a melody! What game!
Once you’ve heard that, just leave that old video there playing. Marvelous. GL
Listen to it at: Super Mario Bros. 3
Floor theme (Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2, 1987/8)
Composer (s): Koji Kondo
As any overzealous and over-caffeinated fan will stumble to tell you, this brilliant theme was originally written for the Famicom Disk System game. Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic before being redesigned when that game became Super Mario Bros. 2 in the West. The version used in the Mario game is expanded. compared to the original, but it is one of the funniest ditties in the plumbers catalog. GL
Listen to it at: Super Mario Bros. 2
Main theme (Paper Mario: The Door of a Thousand Years, 2004)
Composer: Yoshito Hirano / Yuka Tsujiyoko / Saki Haruyama
It’s REALLY hard to pick the best TTYD song: there’s the Rogueport theme, the Glitz Pit, the music for the Excess Express chapter, and the little ditty that plays while you ride the Cheep Cheep airship … it’s all so good! But what better clue to represent the brilliance of Thousand-Year Door than … the title theme itself? It’s a poignant call to adventure that we often put in the background. KG
Hear it on: Paper Mario: The Door of a Thousand Years
Peach’s Castle (Super Mario 64, 1996)
Composer (s): Koji Kondo
If we were to pin down the reason why this theme is so iconic, we’d risk guessing it’s the way it contrasts with the quiet Castle (play) Grounds that Mario arrives at early in the game. He is given all the time he wants to ‘yell’ and ‘yippee’ outside the castle with nothing but the tweeting of birds and the footsteps and echoes of the plumber’s efforts to listen. However, the moment you enter the castle, this royal melody accompanies you on your adventure. It’s gallery music, essentially, and it’s your companion as you discover the many delights that hang on Peach’s walls. GL
Listen to it at: Super Mario 64, Super Mario 3D All-Stars
Kingdom of Muda (Super Mario Land, 1989)
Composer (s): Hirokazu tanaka
It’s probably not the tune you’d expect to see included here from the first Game Boy Super Mario game (the tune used in the first world, Kingdom of Birabuto, is certainly better known and celebrated), but Hip Tanaka’s theme for World 2 – Muda Kingdom – is one of the most enjoyable melodies on the system; a comparatively slow and resigned accompaniment as you struggle through a short, sweet adventure. GL
Listen to it at: Super mario land
Dire, Dire Docks (Super Mario 64, 1996)
Composer (s): Koji Kondo
We’ve already included this in our relaxing Video Game Music playlist, but it’s a choon that we couldn’t help bringing it here. Mario 64 has a lot of great tunes, but something about this one immediately takes us back to that precious moment when the 64-bit era was in its infancy and everything about this particular game filled you with excitement and asks where the games. in the future. GL
Listen to it on: Super Mario 64
Delfino Plaza (Super Mario Sunshine, 2002)
Composer (s): Koji Kondo / Shinobu Tanaka
No matter what you think about the game itself, we have yet to find one person on the planet who doesn’t like the Delfino Plaza tune. Perhaps the fact that it created such a beautiful environment actually contributed to the disappointment at Sunshine’s relative lack of polish and occasional design flaws compared to the mainline Marios it is sandwiched between.
Yes it’s true, this piece of music is too good and should have set expectations appropriately by being worse. GL
Listen to it at: Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario 3D All-Stars
Gusty Garden Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy, 2007)
Composer (s): Mahito Yokota / Koji Kondo
We’re pretty sure they’d boycott us if we didn’t include Gusty Garden Galaxy, everyone’s magical, elevated, and utterly favorite. precious track from Super Mario Galaxy. Listen, we’re not saying Mario’s previous soundtracks aren’t good, but SMG raised the bar to space with their orchestral score, and Gusty Garden Galaxy is the best of the best. It is simply perfection. KG
Listen to it at: Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario 3D All-Stars
Square Timber / Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy 2, 2010)
Composer (s): Mahito Yokota / Ryo Nagamatsu / Koji Kondo
Let’s be honest, we don’t have particularly strong memories of playing Puzzle Plank Galaxy (the world I’m in charming a piece of music appears), but the track itself is so bop that we felt it deserved a spot on the chart. Playing the Super Mario Galaxy 2 soundtrack and hitting this little number is always fun – we challenge anyone to listen to the section for between 28 and 44 seconds and not feel joyous inside. RC
Listen to it at: Super Mario Galaxy 2
That’s Team NL’s personal top 10, but what about yours? Let us know your favorite Super Mario tracks and have us clutch our heads with our hands in dismay that we forgot a golden ditty that defined our childhood..
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