If you want music about Scheherazade check out the album Scheherazade and other stories by the band Renaissance, the second half is a complete dedication to 1001 Nights
@@gloooby6157 I’d recommend all of the catalog of Renaissance, though the first few albums are a very different band though made up mostly of members of the old Yardbirds at that point. If you like the progressive style there’s loads of bands from the late 60’s to late 70’s (check out Yes, Genesis[anything before the album with the toy blocks on the cover], Emerson Lake and Palmer, etc.) Shameless self promotion but I have also personally released an album of Prog rock music recorded exclusively to analog tape without any use of digital recording methods called Candle Opera! Edit: Also! Those bands just scratch the surface of the genre as they are great entry points! Try some non-English music from that time like PFM(kind of an Italian ELP), Le Orme, NYL, and Aphrodites Child. Some more modern bands that have Prog elements would be Big Big Train, Wobbler, Squid, and for some Neo/80’s Prog revival type stuff try Marillion or Prog metal if you’re into heavier stuff. I could talk for hours and hours about bands and music, so I apologize if this is just a huge block of text you’re not going to read
i kept meaning to say but thanks so much, I'm so happy this video found its way to you. seriously love your music and earthbound is one of the best albums ever
Worth mentioning that the Spanish word for "female explorer" is exploradora. I believe this is where Dora (the cartoon)'s name comes from and is probably the source of the pun in the Stackridge song
I wanna thank you for connecting the dots between XTC and Harry Partridge! I ended up having a conversation with my dad about it and we both got a little kick out of being influenced by the same bloodline of goofy cool dudes
Knowing that The Beach Boys were a huge inspiration for this soundtrack is such an incredibly vindicating feeling. Also explains why this is one of my favorite game OSTs bcuz the Beach Boys are the GOATs
No me esperaba que de la nada sonara "Ven, devórame otra vez" una canción que llevo escuchando toda mi vida y resulta que inspiró una parte de EarthBound. Tienes buena pronunciación, me hace sospechar que eres bilingüe.
around halfway through this video i caught myself wishing this video had been 5 hours long or such. incredible deep dive!! you have a wonderful approach to analyzing and explaining music topics. outstanding!!!!!
I am well aware of XTC and adore them (and am Queer, haha) but you really blew my mind by unveiling that Harry Partridge is Andy Partridge's son, which in hindsight, makes so much sense. Glad I'm not the only one who knows about the Rockband Oasis piece he did. Fantastic work and research on such eclectic pieces of music, your videos are so well researched and documented and fun and your musicscape player are a joy to watch, thank you. Now I'm going to indulge in going through Stackridge's back catalogue.
I feel like it's worth mentioning the Beach Boys song that's sampled, Deirdre, comes from their amazing album Sunflower that's 100% worth listening too. It's probably their best album outside of the behemoth that is Pet Sounds. And Sunflower really shows that as much of an amazing musician Brian is, the other Beach Boys were just as capable of writing amazing and beautiful songs, especially Forever, easily Dennis Wilson's best song.
It’s sometimes hard to remember but the 90s was all the hippie kids grown up and working in the industry so it makes total sense that this is the music that inspired the [Mother] series... it’s also like how nowadays devs are heavily inspired by the 90s (music and much more) but seriously thank you for making this video!
This is fucking incredible. Going through the artists and albums discussed in this video has been an absolute joy. A particular highlight in my personal dive has been Moonriders' self-titled album, it's already become a new favorite of mine. Also as someone who's primarily familiar with Shogo Sakai through his work on the Kirby franchise, I'd love to see you cover his work on Mother 3 and the influences on his work
After finishing the video, I just wanted to take time to say that this video was a transcendant experience that is going to stay with me for a very long time. Earthbound is a game that has always been really special to me and getting to learn all the musical influences behind it was a feeling that I can't quite describe but I feel that you captured really well in this video. Thank you so much for taking me on that journey and for all your work in what was clearly a behemoth of a project.
The first 4 notes of the Twinkle Elementary School melody are definitely the same as the Japanese school bell chime most people heard from elementary to high school
I heard it here too in American elementary school! It's the Westminster Chime, originally British, and for some reason that I'm sure is well documented somewhere, it's everywhere in Japan to this day
so glad snoopy concert gets a mention in a video by one of my favorite video makers about my favorite series ever edit: and also pauls boutique??? hell yeah???
So cool that you referenced Cory Johnson! I haven't ever heard anyone else talk about him, and I always loved his Zelda album. Thanks for reminding me to finally check out his other stuff, and great video as usual. I agree with pretty much every connection you made, and the use of "My Mummy's Dead" gave me chills...
A video on one of my favorite topics was posted to one of my favorite channels? Seeing this in my TH-cam feed was a dream come true! You have my gratitude and respect for endeavoring to create this video. All of those albums are sitting in a folder on my laptop, but I haven't gotten around to listening to a good chunk of them yet. ( _Consquences_ is my favorite of the bunch!) This video helped someone such of myself who doesn't come from a musical background better understand what Tanaka and Suzuki were talking about in that part of interview. I'm glad that my video was able to be of some use to you in making this. 🙂 P.S.: I recommend listening to the Eagles' album _Hotel California_ , which was among the albums Itoi discussed with Tanaka when they first met. Tanaka pondered that the album's afterglow that lingers with you after listening to it, rather than any particular tracks, is at the foundation of his involvement with the series' soundtracks. (My source comes from the yet-untranslated majority of the very same interview.)
This is a fantastic video for a Mother-head like myself as you describe, but specifically for people who love listening to unconventional music or just general music that you don’t listen to as much nowadays and it feels great to have a video like this or the mother music influence iceberg, as a tool to listening to new artists and albums(gonna catch up on Randy Newman now lmao)❤️❤️💕💕 fantastic work yet again! Love what you put out
As a non musically inclined person I can’t add much commentary to this, I just thought you should know that _this video_ is the straw that finally broke the camels back and made start up Earthbound for the first time. Excited to check out this obscure indie rpg everyone’s been buzzing about.
'allegedly influenced cardiacs' lol, tim covered cross wires in panixphere and took the whole sequencing trick he uses on tracks like dive or duck and roger from english roundabout. great video, loving it, just had to annoy and point that out lmao.
@@winterwonderland7445 th-cam.com/video/aSIyaZoG0sU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uZ7u_AP1Ee-Fhjlb&t=195 colin takes the main chord sequence and progresses it by semitones for this last bit, tim would nab this off colin but with wider intervals, usually whole tones or major thirds, think the choruses of "dive" and "duck and roger" for examples.
Having (unfortunately) never played Mother/ Earthbound, It's an odd dynamic to know more about the context of a game and it's influence without ever experiencing it first hand. I've probably watched 20 videos on its place in the industry, the people who have been inspired by it, the things that inspired it, it's art, it's story, and it's legacy. Like the advent horizon of a black hole, there is something oddly beautiful about the lights that orbit this empty space. Thank you for the playlist, for your video, and for the effort you put into doing this! Subbed
I really hope this video blows up because you put in so much research into this project! Earthbound is one of my favorite games of all time (I even own the guidebook and cartridge), and the soundtrack is one of the reasons why the game is such a classic timeless piece of entertainment.
On the topic of Pollyanna being similar to Love and Mercy, i’d recommend listening to the fully fleshed out version of Pollyanna from the MOTHER vocal album, it’s even more reminiscent of Love and Mercy than the game version is.
44:06 as a fan of De La Soul, especially of their rhythmic style, and separately a long time fan of EarthBound, this connection re-contextualizes one reason why I was able to connect with EarthBound’s music so organically. Awesome!
this is one of the most entertaining and interesting videos ive watched in a while, i didnt realize it was an hour long until i was already 40 minutes in. im gonna be mad if it doesnt break 500k
your use of Poos training motif to bookend the whole project, and how you wrapped John lennons expirience back to the themes of the franchise was smooth. this is a masterpiece
After 9 days I finally finished the video once every meal all while watching Utena (im on ep10) and Ideon (on ep6) I got into frank Zappa thanks to duckman and picturing Suzuki listening to Smells like teen spirit had me rolfing in silence at the dinner table lmfao. One day I will play mother (not mother)
This video had me goin hell yea hell yea hell yea for the entire runtime. Fantastic work, the last part of vid was wonderfully put together, geno. may you be forgiven for your canine crimes
Was not expecting a Flo and Eddie name drop on an Earthbound video. There's sooo many Mother videos being made these days but this one stands out, so much good stuff here!
This is an absolutely fantastic video! I’ve been listening to a lot of music of this era recently and damn yeah it’s nuts how much MOTHER took inspiration from these phenomenal albums
HOLY CRAP THIS VIDEO TOOK 2 YEARS TO MAKE!!! Wow it shows because this is one of the best videos on your channel, keep the videos flowing because you hold so much promise as a media content creator, thanks and also commenting for algo boost👍
Excellent video! I just wanna add that the melody in The Lost Underworld is also notably similar to the melody of Harry Nilsson’s “Daybreak”. It’s in a movie called “Son of Dracula” where I believe Nilsson and Ringo Starr play vampires.
That soundtrack is really fun if you can get your hands on it. Released on a sub label of Apple (Rapple), the album features Daybreak, multiple other Nilsson songs from Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson, plus score, and dialogue from the movie. I think it would be a fun one to put on at a Halloween party!
Excellent video! I always leave your videos with so many new artists to check out. The cover of I Am Earthbound at the very end made me jump out of my seat and dance! Awesome reference and awesome cover
I'm so happy that you made this video, and the article this video is based on influenced my music taste so much 9 years ago that I had forgotten that a lot of my taste is from that article! But that you went the extra mile by comparing the material made me excited to check out more of the music that I hadn't had the chance to understand yet. Also the image from "but i'm a cheerleader" at 19:44 made me so happy (or gay)
This is great stuff. I wanted to mention something in case it's true of other people, though. My first exposure to Moonriders, who I now adore, was that in the PC version of the 2013 game 'Trails of Cold Steel', the background textures are upscaled enough that you can read the (previously unreadable) titles of books on the generic bookshelf models throughout the game. The most prominent of these books is titled 'Christ, who's gonna die first?'. When playing the game I thought this was just a cheeky bit of foreshadowing for the game's story. However, when I did a little searching to see if anyone else had picked up on this, I found that this was not a joke, but a reference. Someone at Falcom loved this album enough to stick it unreadably on every bookshelf in Erebonia.
nice video! |You capture the vibes of this amazing and varied soundtrack. Its fun to remember that the release of Mother 2 was postponed due to the massive sound fxs and complex samples they were using that they needed to develope a better sound fx chip. Just to add some info to the table. Shigesato Itoi relationship with japanese music doesn't end on Penguinism, he has massively contributed composing lyrics for japanese acclaimed musiciais such as Akiko Yano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Moonriders, Sheena & The Rokkets. So he is very well related with outstanding music. and Van Dyke Parks has a relationship with Japan too! He produced the last album from the legendary japanese rock band "Happy End" which Haruomi Hosono (bassist and founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra) was part of. Happy End was like one of the most important 70's japanese bands ever and Parks became friend with Hosono kinda for the rest of their lives.
Been waiting for this one for so long!!! I love your ear for this stuff, and Mother’s soundtrack has always felt kind of underanalyzed despite how unique it is !!
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If you want music about Scheherazade check out the album Scheherazade and other stories by the band Renaissance, the second half is a complete dedication to 1001 Nights
Everyone should listen to Renaissance
Great album
Baesd
this is so good. any more music like this?
@@gloooby6157 I’d recommend all of the catalog of Renaissance, though the first few albums are a very different band though made up mostly of members of the old Yardbirds at that point. If you like the progressive style there’s loads of bands from the late 60’s to late 70’s (check out Yes, Genesis[anything before the album with the toy blocks on the cover], Emerson Lake and Palmer, etc.)
Shameless self promotion but I have also personally released an album of Prog rock music recorded exclusively to analog tape without any use of digital recording methods called Candle Opera!
Edit: Also! Those bands just scratch the surface of the genre as they are great entry points! Try some non-English music from that time like PFM(kind of an Italian ELP), Le Orme, NYL, and Aphrodites Child. Some more modern bands that have Prog elements would be Big Big Train, Wobbler, Squid, and for some Neo/80’s Prog revival type stuff try Marillion or Prog metal if you’re into heavier stuff. I could talk for hours and hours about bands and music, so I apologize if this is just a huge block of text you’re not going to read
I was wondering why I got a bunch of Bandcamp activity out of nowhere in January.
i kept meaning to say but thanks so much, I'm so happy this video found its way to you. seriously love your music and earthbound is one of the best albums ever
Worth mentioning that the Spanish word for "female explorer" is exploradora. I believe this is where Dora (the cartoon)'s name comes from and is probably the source of the pun in the Stackridge song
I was about to say that
I wanna thank you for connecting the dots between XTC and Harry Partridge! I ended up having a conversation with my dad about it and we both got a little kick out of being influenced by the same bloodline of goofy cool dudes
Another Lennon inspiration is Electro Spector who's pose is John's notoriously silly walk
you know the video is gonna be good when it starts with footage from looney tunes back in action
All games except looney toons back in action ironicly
Brilliant opening btw ❤🎉
So true
or the thumbnail is a spoof on sgt peppers
Knowing that The Beach Boys were a huge inspiration for this soundtrack is such an incredibly vindicating feeling. Also explains why this is one of my favorite game OSTs bcuz the Beach Boys are the GOATs
This is going in the thumbnail hall of fame right next to that one Nerrel video
YESSS a Geno banger once more!! 🎉
I do miss my limbs though
came for mother, end up with my music library more complete
ZAPPA MENTIONED !!!! Fantastic video btw, love seeing you deep dive this kind of stuff as a vgm fan
No me esperaba que de la nada sonara "Ven, devórame otra vez" una canción que llevo escuchando toda mi vida y resulta que inspiró una parte de EarthBound.
Tienes buena pronunciación, me hace sospechar que eres bilingüe.
around halfway through this video i caught myself wishing this video had been 5 hours long or such. incredible deep dive!! you have a wonderful approach to analyzing and explaining music topics. outstanding!!!!!
I am well aware of XTC and adore them (and am Queer, haha) but you really blew my mind by unveiling that Harry Partridge is Andy Partridge's son, which in hindsight, makes so much sense. Glad I'm not the only one who knows about the Rockband Oasis piece he did.
Fantastic work and research on such eclectic pieces of music, your videos are so well researched and documented and fun and your musicscape player are a joy to watch, thank you.
Now I'm going to indulge in going through Stackridge's back catalogue.
I feel like it's worth mentioning the Beach Boys song that's sampled, Deirdre, comes from their amazing album Sunflower that's 100% worth listening too. It's probably their best album outside of the behemoth that is Pet Sounds. And Sunflower really shows that as much of an amazing musician Brian is, the other Beach Boys were just as capable of writing amazing and beautiful songs, especially Forever, easily Dennis Wilson's best song.
It’s sometimes hard to remember but the 90s was all the hippie kids grown up and working in the industry so it makes total sense that this is the music that inspired the [Mother] series... it’s also like how nowadays devs are heavily inspired by the 90s (music and much more) but seriously thank you for making this video!
This is fucking incredible. Going through the artists and albums discussed in this video has been an absolute joy. A particular highlight in my personal dive has been Moonriders' self-titled album, it's already become a new favorite of mine.
Also as someone who's primarily familiar with Shogo Sakai through his work on the Kirby franchise, I'd love to see you cover his work on Mother 3 and the influences on his work
After finishing the video, I just wanted to take time to say that this video was a transcendant experience that is going to stay with me for a very long time. Earthbound is a game that has always been really special to me and getting to learn all the musical influences behind it was a feeling that I can't quite describe but I feel that you captured really well in this video. Thank you so much for taking me on that journey and for all your work in what was clearly a behemoth of a project.
The first 4 notes of the Twinkle Elementary School melody are definitely the same as the Japanese school bell chime most people heard from elementary to high school
I heard it here too in American elementary school! It's the Westminster Chime, originally British, and for some reason that I'm sure is well documented somewhere, it's everywhere in Japan to this day
so glad snoopy concert gets a mention in a video by one of my favorite video makers about my favorite series ever
edit: and also pauls boutique??? hell yeah???
i'm barely into the video and i already believe you deserve so much more recognition than you get, you are so cool
So cool that you referenced Cory Johnson! I haven't ever heard anyone else talk about him, and I always loved his Zelda album. Thanks for reminding me to finally check out his other stuff, and great video as usual. I agree with pretty much every connection you made, and the use of "My Mummy's Dead" gave me chills...
A video on one of my favorite topics was posted to one of my favorite channels? Seeing this in my TH-cam feed was a dream come true!
You have my gratitude and respect for endeavoring to create this video. All of those albums are sitting in a folder on my laptop, but I haven't gotten around to listening to a good chunk of them yet. ( _Consquences_ is my favorite of the bunch!) This video helped someone such of myself who doesn't come from a musical background better understand what Tanaka and Suzuki were talking about in that part of interview. I'm glad that my video was able to be of some use to you in making this. 🙂
P.S.: I recommend listening to the Eagles' album _Hotel California_ , which was among the albums Itoi discussed with Tanaka when they first met. Tanaka pondered that the album's afterglow that lingers with you after listening to it, rather than any particular tracks, is at the foundation of his involvement with the series' soundtracks. (My source comes from the yet-untranslated majority of the very same interview.)
1 hour video about a very niche topic: "hello"
me:
"fuc yes"
You know it's a Geno7 video if there's a reference to Frank Zappa ⚡👍⚡
This is a fantastic video for a Mother-head like myself as you describe, but specifically for people who love listening to unconventional music or just general music that you don’t listen to as much nowadays and it feels great to have a video like this or the mother music influence iceberg, as a tool to listening to new artists and albums(gonna catch up on Randy Newman now lmao)❤️❤️💕💕 fantastic work yet again! Love what you put out
As a latin american, it´s always nice to see some representation of our music in videogames. Nice work as always, Geno!!
As a non musically inclined person I can’t add much commentary to this, I just thought you should know that _this video_ is the straw that finally broke the camels back and made start up Earthbound for the first time. Excited to check out this obscure indie rpg everyone’s been buzzing about.
Cardiacs mention hit me out of nowhere, what
I laughed harder than I should have when you said to close my eyes and you were going to break my limbs, that scene stuck with me all these years!
Still a classic video. Return to this once a month at least
Hearing Snowman so much has me wondering if Tanaka and Suzuki may have listened to Snowbound by Genesis during the writing of the Mother soundtracks
Incredibly well researched, edited, and presented. Fucking sick video dude. I'm now thoroughly Newman pilled
Oh another one! The theme for the runaway five reminds me of The Changeling by The Doors !
The lyrics kinda fit too
You're one of my favourite TH-camrs ❤
This video is already a top 10 TH-cam videos for me. Thank you
'allegedly influenced cardiacs' lol, tim covered cross wires in panixphere and took the whole sequencing trick he uses on tracks like dive or duck and roger from english roundabout. great video, loving it, just had to annoy and point that out lmao.
what sequencing trick ?
@@winterwonderland7445 th-cam.com/video/aSIyaZoG0sU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uZ7u_AP1Ee-Fhjlb&t=195 colin takes the main chord sequence and progresses it by semitones for this last bit, tim would nab this off colin but with wider intervals, usually whole tones or major thirds, think the choruses of "dive" and "duck and roger" for examples.
@@papusadrianus oh wow this is super cool! I never noticed that this was what was happening in Dive
Summer’s Cauldron by XTC is basically “Earthbound : the song”. Listen to the organ sound and cricket sounds. Might be direct samples.
Having (unfortunately) never played Mother/ Earthbound, It's an odd dynamic to know more about the context of a game and it's influence without ever experiencing it first hand. I've probably watched 20 videos on its place in the industry, the people who have been inspired by it, the things that inspired it, it's art, it's story, and it's legacy. Like the advent horizon of a black hole, there is something oddly beautiful about the lights that orbit this empty space.
Thank you for the playlist, for your video, and for the effort you put into doing this!
Subbed
What are you doing then, play the goddamn game.
Came for Zappa, stayed for Weather Report and RTF, enjoyed the video overall. Never knew Mother had a lot of references and inspirations :O
I love music, and I love MOTHER, and I LOVE MOTHER music… '_'
I really hope this video blows up because you put in so much research into this project! Earthbound is one of my favorite games of all time (I even own the guidebook and cartridge), and the soundtrack is one of the reasons why the game is such a classic timeless piece of entertainment.
On the topic of Pollyanna being similar to Love and Mercy, i’d recommend listening to the fully fleshed out version of Pollyanna from the MOTHER vocal album, it’s even more reminiscent of Love and Mercy than the game version is.
i've always wondered if the final section of Pink Floyd's "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" influenced the coffee break music in MOTHER 2.
I was introduced to 10 cc via the Superjail!! pilot (which used Rubber Bullets instead of I’m Goin Home)
44:06 as a fan of De La Soul, especially of their rhythmic style, and separately a long time fan of EarthBound, this connection re-contextualizes one reason why I was able to connect with EarthBound’s music so organically. Awesome!
0:50 I remember in a hazel stream someone mentioned this and it wasn’t elaborated upon. That’s honestly hilarious
Wonderful video, loved every second. The outro threw me for a loop, it sounds very much like the old game parody duo Duane and Brando!
Whats funny to me is how much of the influences are bands and artists I listen to and love independent of the Mother series.
this is one of the most entertaining and interesting videos ive watched in a while, i didnt realize it was an hour long until i was already 40 minutes in. im gonna be mad if it doesnt break 500k
this
omfg
i fucking love the beach boys and the fact earthbound was inspired by them
oh and, i love smile 💗 💗
Geno7
your use of Poos training motif to bookend the whole project, and how you wrapped John lennons expirience back to the themes of the franchise was smooth. this is a masterpiece
After 9 days I finally finished the video once every meal all while watching Utena (im on ep10) and Ideon (on ep6) I got into frank Zappa thanks to duckman and picturing Suzuki listening to Smells like teen spirit had me rolfing in silence at the dinner table lmfao. One day I will play mother (not mother)
This video had me goin hell yea hell yea hell yea for the entire runtime. Fantastic work, the last part of vid was wonderfully put together, geno. may you be forgiven for your canine crimes
its actually amazing, with each section of the video you name another band that i absolutely love and had no idea influenced earthbound
Was not expecting a Flo and Eddie name drop on an Earthbound video. There's sooo many Mother videos being made these days but this one stands out, so much good stuff here!
Super impressed! I wasn't expecting so much new info
Nice! I loved your Wario video and i'm glad you made one about earthbound (awesome)
Never even played Mother, but still found this video great. Deserves more recognition.
let us commence
i love how deep and nerdy you go on the subject matter, cracking work fair plays
ive been waiting for more music content from u for ages thank u icon
I’ve always thought that the start of hotel from 10cc was a lot like the night time onnett theme at the start of the game
12:46 the fact that this clip is ever so slightly cut to be made shorter is so funny to me
This is an absolutely fantastic video! I’ve been listening to a lot of music of this era recently and damn yeah it’s nuts how much MOTHER took inspiration from these phenomenal albums
Thank you for dropping this because I know in a few weeks my husband will finally want to play Mother 2
HOLY CRAP THIS VIDEO TOOK 2 YEARS TO MAKE!!! Wow it shows because this is one of the best videos on your channel, keep the videos flowing because you hold so much promise as a media content creator, thanks and also commenting for algo boost👍
Great video. I have a bunch of records I want now.
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. I have hours of new music to listen to
This video is hilariously niche, but goddamn is it some incredible work. Well done
thanks now i know shere the machine girl eeeeeeeee sound is from the beach boys
Which machine girl song?
Every single outro song I would listen to on it’s own
This is my first time coming across this channel, and only a few minutes in had me insta-subbing. Top quality editing and narrating.
Really is amazing the enormous impact music had on shaping popular video game franchises.
I love you soooooooo much for putting an Album List in the description! 💜
Ty Geno. I'm always happy to see your stuff on my home page!
Oh Hell yeah! An hour long video about earthbound's music by geno7?! Your spoiling me!
youre so effortlessly good at talking about music without getting redundant. thanks for another incredible vid geno.
Excellent video! I just wanna add that the melody in The Lost Underworld is also notably similar to the melody of Harry Nilsson’s “Daybreak”. It’s in a movie called “Son of Dracula” where I believe Nilsson and Ringo Starr play vampires.
That soundtrack is really fun if you can get your hands on it. Released on a sub label of Apple (Rapple), the album features Daybreak, multiple other Nilsson songs from Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson, plus score, and dialogue from the movie. I think it would be a fun one to put on at a Halloween party!
This video is incredible. It’s very informative on not only music I didn’t know but some I did know. Great work man, I love this a whole lot
I appreciate you for making this video. Support this man. I know this video had to be hard to make.
Excellent video! I always leave your videos with so many new artists to check out. The cover of I Am Earthbound at the very end made me jump out of my seat and dance! Awesome reference and awesome cover
Hell yeah dude, this is amazing. Your love for music shines through the whole video, it’s great to watch. Please keep it up!
I'm so happy that you made this video, and the article this video is based on influenced my music taste so much 9 years ago that I had forgotten that a lot of my taste is from that article! But that you went the extra mile by comparing the material made me excited to check out more of the music that I hadn't had the chance to understand yet.
Also the image from "but i'm a cheerleader" at 19:44 made me so happy (or gay)
This video and Earthbound give me hope to move forward, thank you for making it!!!
Excellent stuff. Thanks for all the insightful references about the sounds that influenced that generation of Japanese musicians.
This was an incredibly detailed (in my opinion) dive into this topic. Thanks for the great video!
amazing videooooo, so excited to listen to all of these album. writing and editing were so great in this too. thank you for the great video!!!
This is a great video. I haven't played the Mother games but it's pretty cool learning about the music that influenced the soundtrack of the games.
Wow, this is monumental and opens so many doors to new music explorations! I'll be drawing things to listen to from this for a long time. Thank you
this is probably one of the best videos i've watched, thanks so much for your hard work
53:10 "Fucking John Zorn", lol yeah he is everywhere and prolific
your videos about music are always such a wild ride! thank you!
This was freaking incredible. Thank you so much for making this
8:20 😂😂😂😂😂 i cried laughing with the laughs, bro wtf is so goofy but so good, sounds like what i would record with my musician m8
This is great stuff. I wanted to mention something in case it's true of other people, though. My first exposure to Moonriders, who I now adore, was that in the PC version of the 2013 game 'Trails of Cold Steel', the background textures are upscaled enough that you can read the (previously unreadable) titles of books on the generic bookshelf models throughout the game. The most prominent of these books is titled 'Christ, who's gonna die first?'. When playing the game I thought this was just a cheeky bit of foreshadowing for the game's story. However, when I did a little searching to see if anyone else had picked up on this, I found that this was not a joke, but a reference. Someone at Falcom loved this album enough to stick it unreadably on every bookshelf in Erebonia.
Loved this video, it would be great to see videos like this focusing more on the music of mother 1 and 3 also.
nice video! |You capture the vibes of this amazing and varied soundtrack.
Its fun to remember that the release of Mother 2 was postponed due to the massive sound fxs and complex samples they were using that they needed to develope a better sound fx chip.
Just to add some info to the table.
Shigesato Itoi relationship with japanese music doesn't end on Penguinism, he has massively contributed composing lyrics for japanese acclaimed musiciais such as Akiko Yano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Moonriders, Sheena & The Rokkets. So he is very well related with outstanding music.
and Van Dyke Parks has a relationship with Japan too! He produced the last album from the legendary japanese rock band "Happy End" which Haruomi Hosono (bassist and founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra) was part of. Happy End was like one of the most important 70's japanese bands ever and Parks became friend with Hosono kinda for the rest of their lives.
Been waiting for this one for so long!!! I love your ear for this stuff, and Mother’s soundtrack has always felt kind of underanalyzed despite how unique it is !!