Here's the constantly up-to-date list of corrections and additions to the video. (If caught by someone else, I also heart the corresponding comments!) CORRECTIONS 04:21 Wrong Summer Breeze! Correct one is by Piper in 1983. 05:52 Only the later bass line is original to DKC; the melody is from the NES port of the arcade DK. 07:10 This is the Tower music I discuss later; I forgot to update this part after I recognized it as a reference late in scripting. 10:51 Meant to say this extension is not in Galaxy - the motif persisted after 3D World. NOT CORRECTIONS 00:19 Since this series is specifically about game music, I didn't mention the Super Show here. But I should have. 10:25 Although the Captain Toad game has that music too, I try to point to the first games to feature it (like in my DK correction). DEFINITE REFERENCES 💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 1:09 ← 🎮 Underground 💿 Blue Shelled 0:51 ← 🎮 Mario Party Battle Canyon 0:22 ⤷ Can't be unheard! Due to the lack of thematic connection, I thought it was a coincidence, but: twitter.com/briantylermusic/status/1645978124348452865 💿 An Indecent Proposal 0:28 ← 🎮 SM64 Bowser 💿 Rainbow Road Rage 0:39, An Indecent Proposal 1:55, Fighting Tooth and Veil 1:11 ← 🎮 NSMB Wii Tower ⤷ Yeah I caught Tower pretty late in scripting. 💿 Fighting Tooth and Veil 1:59 ← 🎮 SMB3 P-speed ⤷ Obviously, but for some reason I decided against including it _despite_ mentioning Bowser's laugh. 💿 Superstars 0:25 (can be heard while I talk at 18:05) ← 🎮 SMB Ending 💿 Superstars 1:17 ← 🎮 SMB3 Victory Fanfare ⤷ Four notes of when you beat a fortress in Mario 3. POSSIBLE REFERENCES 💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 0:25 ← 🎮 Super Mario Galaxy Course Select ⤷ Same instruments in the same general range, but little else to grab onto. 💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 1:23 ← 🎮 NSMB Wii... multiple? ⤷ Now this one's a rabbit hole. The three sting notes there could be those that play at 0:03 in the NSMBW Title, reinforced by how they're in the same key and how they're soon followed by the PAH and P-Switch. But there's the 1:24-1:33 stretch from WttMK in-between, that I could never identify, _but_ it's not dissimilar to 0:20 in the NSMBW Opening Theme. What to do? 💿 The Darklands 1:36 ← 🎮 SMB Castle ⤷ Close, but doesn't go through the same motions. 💿 Lost and Crowned 0:56 ← 🎮 SMG Comet Observatory ⤷ Just the first 4 notes of Comet Observatory (ignoring the flute), but with the 2nd lowered to make the whole thing minor. 💿 Drivin' Me Bananas 0:36 ← 🎮 Mario Kart Super Circuit Riverside Park 0:22 ⤷ That part matches neither the DKC theme nor Riverside Park perfectly, but it's closer to the latter by half. 💿 Imprisoned 0:07 (14:38 in this video) ← 🎮 NSMB Castle 0:07 ⤷ Remove the 2nd note in NSMB and it's the same intervals. 💿 Practice Makes Perfect 0:15 ← 🎮 Super Mario Galaxy Luma ⤷ But not the melody! Only the backing chords - in the same key, too. 💿 Karts! 0:52 ← 🎮 Mario Kart Wii Main Menu 0:44 💿 An Indecent Proposal 2:32 ← 🎮 Underwater ⤷ This 3-note sequence is too routine to _always_ be Underwater. 💿 Grapple in the Big Apple 1:41 ← 🎮 Super Mario 64 Bowser 0:23 ⤷ Would be a reference did it not skip the fourth note of that little sequence... 💿 Super Mario Bros. Opus 2:32 ← 🎮 The Odyssey’s First Takeoff ⤷ Close, but this kind of sequence is quite generic.
I noticed in the description you said you’d pin this comment even though you haven’t yet, so you probably should! (Also when Bowser grabs the Super Star at 3:22 in King of the Koopas, I noticed that not only is the Super Star theme playing in minor key (which you covered), but it also sounds very similar to the Power Star Get theme in Super Mario Galaxy!)
@@LiamWins Oh my, thanks for the heads-up: I now know that editing a pinned comment un-pins it. That Power Star Get reference I find too much of a stretch: there's little commonality in the rhythm or relative pitches.
GUSTY GARDEN DIDNT PLAY WHEN I FIRST SAW THE MOVIE BECAUSE THE STUPID AUDIO COMPLETELY CUT OUT DURING THE CREDITS ONLY try to find my 10 or so paragraph comment on this video about it!
It was so stupid how many people left before the credits were even over. I would have stayed for the music even if I hadn't been expecting a post-credits scene.
i did this the first time, realized i missed it on the ride home when i looked it up on yt just to make sure second time i watched the movie, i was holding in piss so bad it hurt just so i could see the post-credits and i dipped three milliseconds as it was over (worth it)
Fun Fact: During “Superstars”, you can subtly hear the Outro theme to SMB1 (the theme you get when you save Princess Peach) spliced into the SuperStar theme.
I am cheering for this. Personally, I think that the Take on Me song fit pretty ok in the movie but the others were totally off. I like Thunderstruck a lot, but how many more times should I hear it in a movie? :(
@@elbala777 For me I can put up with every other hollywood song used in this movie except Take on Me purely because of how good the Driving Me Bananas arrangement is that went unused in favour of Take on Me
@@pokemon_trainer_isaiah I played the kong driving scene on the entire mario movie vocoded to gangster's paradise on mute with Driving Me Bananas playing in another tab at the same time Take On Me starts. The music is actually perfectly synced with the scene. The Jungle Hijinx leitmotif hits as soon as the full kong kingdom comes into view, there's a slight bit of suspense when the car swerves suddenly and mario's about to fall out, and then there's a big music build-up while going up the final ramp up until they start to fall and the music cuts out for a second, only for it to come back in a powerful and triumphant orchestral version of the donkey kong country arrangement as the glider opens and it finally comes to a close as they arrive in the hall of the kong army. Whatever executive decided to replace an orchestral arrangement of a classic theme associated with the scene created to match up perfectly with what's happening on screen with a hollywood song needs better taste
I can’t imagine being koji kondo 40 years ago writing a silly little tune for an at the time unknown video game, only for it to blossom into the orchestrated masterpiece this movie was
This video is severely underrated. I was also mad at how many people just left as soon as they saw the credits. The credits scene with toad and bowser got me cracking up.
I was already in disbelief about Holding Out For a Hero, I found it made that whole sequence a joke. Jump playing instead of Superstars would have outright ruined the final battle!
World 1-1 and Driving me Bananas make me so sad that they were cut because they’re such great songs and would’ve enhanced the scenes. To bad they were replaced with the 2 most unfitting licensed tracks in the movie
I have to say, if you're going to throw a licensed song, you could... just rearrange Jump Up Superstar and throw it there as if it was an actual song. Not by making references, but just like the DK Rap - as in, completely considering it a song to fill a scene with motivation.
This is the type of music I wanted for the Sonic movies, but the only things I can think of them referencing was Green Hill Zone, the drowning music and a bit of Robotnik's theme from The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. I really hope they step up their game in Sonic 3 after the Mario Movie. If it doesn't at least have 'Live and Learn' in there somewhere I'd consider it a huge missed opportunity
man the airship theme is one of my favorite theme songs. it never not gives me the feeling something bad is about to happen or a big battle is on the horizon. just such a great song
I agree that the music and the credits are part of the experience. I remember Detective Pikachu doing a same thing and creating this celebratory rendition of the game music for the credits. What a joy that was.
In the track “Rainbow Roade Rage” I’m genuinely shocked to have not heard any Rainbow Road tracks. An ominous remix of 64s or Wiis would’ve been so welcomed
I stuck around for the ENTIRE credits sequence and had tears in my eyes when the Galaxy theme started up. And the Gamecube ringtone was one of the funniest bits in the film
5:38 wanna know what’s worse? The composer had to fight to keep the superstar theme in for the final fight scene; they wanted to add in…. Jump…. By Van Halen……
Not an easy balancing act! Too quick and you miss half the references due to lack of research; too thorough and you're a late copycat. Well, I had the week off. Who needs rest?
1:34 Just something fun to point out, I love that Platforming Princess it's basically Princess Peach's Theme. Really sounds nice! Especially by 1:10 ooh massive chills.
Super Mario 3 was the mario game that I have played the longest time, so when I heard the soundtrack played when Mario got the tanooki suit, I almost cried.
Great video. This is the best analysis of the score and soundtrack I've seen so far. I loved how they managed to included tracks from all across Mario's history without it sounding cluttered or ill-fitting
18:54 - "back in my days rainbow road didn't have rails" made me chuckle. That was a number 1 for me too. Rainbow Road was a quite a final level. A bit of a feat to reach, worth it's 'final challenge' status, very climactic track visually and most of all, an amazing musical piece to capture it too. In the movie, I was wondering if they were doing Mario Kart 3's (Mario Kart Super Circuit's) Rainbow Road which had that segment for its intro before doing it's own thing. It did not. ^.^
As a long time Nintendo player and someone who loves music, the work done to incorporate so many musical easter eggs in the movie was one of the best parts of it.
I hear it! At 0:22 in Battle Canyon, 0:51 in Blue Shelled - was glaring once pointed out. I don't think it's an intentional reference, but it would have made the "stretches" section! Edit: but the composer hints at it being intentional!
13:27- 14:18 I love the amount of different variations of the tower theme from NSMBWii! The original game is a big part of my childhood and hearing this score in the film gave me goosebumps.
It's a bit of a stretch but there are four notes right after the Bob-omb Battlefield reference in Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom that sound a lot like the first four notes of the New Super Mario Bros Wii intro theme
I had that pointed out last week (if it's what I'm thinking of), prompting me to add the following to my pinned comment; what do you think? 💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 1:23 ← 🎮 NSMB Wii... multiple? ⤷ Now this one's a rabbit hole. The three sting notes there could be those that play at 0:03 in the NSMBW Title, reinforced by how they're in the same key and how they're soon followed by the PAH and P-Switch. But there's the 1:24-1:33 stretch from WttMK in-between, that I could never identify, but it's not dissimilar to 0:20 in the NSMBW Opening Theme. What to do?
You're always so good at catching leitmotifs! Just like xenoblade 3 OST video, I'm impressed by the effort you put in, but also giving us timestamps +titles here. Sorry for the spam of my comments!
Loved the movie and catching as many references as I could! But there was one musical reference that I kept waiting for and I unfortunately didn't hear: Dire Dire Docks
OMG I knew the Rainbow Road sounded pretty familiar!! But I didn't remembered it from that part, I love so much how beautiful it sounds in the movie, so magical, majestic, epic but at the same time nostalgic
I keep raving about the movie, and I give the music my 10/10 when I talk about it. Fucking ADORED the music in this movie. I give “Peaches” a stand up in salute, basically describing my entire love for the soundtrack. I loved “Peaches”
I didn't know I needed "Peaches" in my life. Fun fact: I actually watched the movie in French (with a less-bilingual friend), and "peaches" was translated "princesse" (sounds close to the English word), which I found even funnier.
@@NicD If the fact Bowser called “Peach” “Peaches” is a language thing, I dig it. He called Peach “Peaches” quite a few times, to where I don’t think he understands her “actual” name, and that’s funny.
Watching the movie was an experience, from smile to tears picking up every little references that I could recognize, gusty garden galaxy in the credit finishing me and made me almost empty when the screen finally went to black.
In "Superstars" during the starman leitmotif, the Super Mario Bros. ending theme plays simultaneously. The Super Mario Galaxy box art displayed, is infuriating.
Funny thing is that the "Course Clear Fanfare" is at least fitting for the "Level Complete" song, because that's exactly what it represents in the games 😁😁😁
I know Brian Tyler is a huge fan of playing mario games but why didn't he compose any rainbow road combinations for the Rainbow Road Rage scene? That would've been pretty epic to hear remixes of those instead of generic action music.
this guy is basically explaining the mario movie to us by the themes in 19 minutes and 26 seconds (btw nice vid i loved knowing the references u told us with theme :D)
I finally watched the movie a few days ago and was impressed by the amount of musical references. Thank you for making this video because I realized I missed quite a lot of references. And also thank you for pointing out which parts of the movie these played in too.
17:41 By the way, we ALMOST lost this one in the final theatrical release to Van Halen’s Jump and all these bizarre licensed song choices were supposedly suggested by Miyamoto himself. So now we wait and hope for a Director’s Cut…
Jump? What? WHAT. Talk about ruining a moment. After your comment I went and read about that; I see "studio executives" rather than Miyamoto, but WOW, hopefully they'll be set straight.
I thought I caught a few easter eggs and references already, looks like I wasn't even close to finding all of them LOL Great video man! I'm glad to see so many of them here, and the editing is top notch :)
I always hear people do the coins and 1-up sound when they play the Underground theme on piano. I didn't know where it started or why everyone played it that way.
I'm suprised you didn't mention that there's a nod to Luigi casino In "a dog eat plumber world" I could tell the first bit was that theme right away,Luigi gambling was my childhood-
It's rather that both Luigi Casino and the start of It's a Dog Eat Plumber World are both, uh... chamber jazz, I want to say? Both have piano, contrabass and airy percussion, and Casino adds organ while Dog goes for trumpet.
It's the first few notes from the overworld theme from Super Mario Bros. 3. Besides, the Casino theme from Super Mario 64 DS is just a remix of the Casino theme from Super Mario Sunshine with most of the melody removed.
It’s funny I actually recognized the rainbow road theme as a galaxy theme somewhat mistakenly, but I have since realized that the red star theme take inspiration from rainbow road I think!
Hearing about how there was original score for the parts with licensed songs makes me hope that we might get an alternate audio track when the Bluray comes out. We want to hear these songs in their proper place.
Here's the constantly up-to-date list of corrections and additions to the video. (If caught by someone else, I also heart the corresponding comments!)
CORRECTIONS
04:21 Wrong Summer Breeze! Correct one is by Piper in 1983.
05:52 Only the later bass line is original to DKC; the melody is from the NES port of the arcade DK.
07:10 This is the Tower music I discuss later; I forgot to update this part after I recognized it as a reference late in scripting.
10:51 Meant to say this extension is not in Galaxy - the motif persisted after 3D World.
NOT CORRECTIONS
00:19 Since this series is specifically about game music, I didn't mention the Super Show here. But I should have.
10:25 Although the Captain Toad game has that music too, I try to point to the first games to feature it (like in my DK correction).
DEFINITE REFERENCES
💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 1:09 ← 🎮 Underground
💿 Blue Shelled 0:51 ← 🎮 Mario Party Battle Canyon 0:22
⤷ Can't be unheard! Due to the lack of thematic connection, I thought it was a coincidence, but: twitter.com/briantylermusic/status/1645978124348452865
💿 An Indecent Proposal 0:28 ← 🎮 SM64 Bowser
💿 Rainbow Road Rage 0:39, An Indecent Proposal 1:55, Fighting Tooth and Veil 1:11 ← 🎮 NSMB Wii Tower
⤷ Yeah I caught Tower pretty late in scripting.
💿 Fighting Tooth and Veil 1:59 ← 🎮 SMB3 P-speed
⤷ Obviously, but for some reason I decided against including it _despite_ mentioning Bowser's laugh.
💿 Superstars 0:25 (can be heard while I talk at 18:05) ← 🎮 SMB Ending
💿 Superstars 1:17 ← 🎮 SMB3 Victory Fanfare
⤷ Four notes of when you beat a fortress in Mario 3.
POSSIBLE REFERENCES
💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 0:25 ← 🎮 Super Mario Galaxy Course Select
⤷ Same instruments in the same general range, but little else to grab onto.
💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 1:23 ← 🎮 NSMB Wii... multiple?
⤷ Now this one's a rabbit hole. The three sting notes there could be those that play at 0:03 in the NSMBW Title, reinforced by how they're in the same key and how they're soon followed by the PAH and P-Switch. But there's the 1:24-1:33 stretch from WttMK in-between, that I could never identify, _but_ it's not dissimilar to 0:20 in the NSMBW Opening Theme. What to do?
💿 The Darklands 1:36 ← 🎮 SMB Castle
⤷ Close, but doesn't go through the same motions.
💿 Lost and Crowned 0:56 ← 🎮 SMG Comet Observatory
⤷ Just the first 4 notes of Comet Observatory (ignoring the flute), but with the 2nd lowered to make the whole thing minor.
💿 Drivin' Me Bananas 0:36 ← 🎮 Mario Kart Super Circuit Riverside Park 0:22
⤷ That part matches neither the DKC theme nor Riverside Park perfectly, but it's closer to the latter by half.
💿 Imprisoned 0:07 (14:38 in this video) ← 🎮 NSMB Castle 0:07
⤷ Remove the 2nd note in NSMB and it's the same intervals.
💿 Practice Makes Perfect 0:15 ← 🎮 Super Mario Galaxy Luma
⤷ But not the melody! Only the backing chords - in the same key, too.
💿 Karts! 0:52 ← 🎮 Mario Kart Wii Main Menu 0:44
💿 An Indecent Proposal 2:32 ← 🎮 Underwater
⤷ This 3-note sequence is too routine to _always_ be Underwater.
💿 Grapple in the Big Apple 1:41 ← 🎮 Super Mario 64 Bowser 0:23
⤷ Would be a reference did it not skip the fourth note of that little sequence...
💿 Super Mario Bros. Opus 2:32 ← 🎮 The Odyssey’s First Takeoff
⤷ Close, but this kind of sequence is quite generic.
I noticed in the description you said you’d pin this comment even though you haven’t yet, so you probably should!
(Also when Bowser grabs the Super Star at 3:22 in King of the Koopas, I noticed that not only is the Super Star theme playing in minor key (which you covered), but it also sounds very similar to the Power Star Get theme in Super Mario Galaxy!)
@@LiamWins Oh my, thanks for the heads-up: I now know that editing a pinned comment un-pins it.
That Power Star Get reference I find too much of a stretch: there's little commonality in the rhythm or relative pitches.
@@NicD Someone mentioned the part where Mario was in a clear pipe uses Super Mario 3D World music.
@@robbiewalker2831 Went back through the 3D World soundtrack... still can't hear it. I'll have to wait for someone else to single it out.
In "Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom" between 0:25 and 0:27 I clearly hear Super Mario Galaxy: Course Select theme
I love how every song sounds so grand and “upgraded” in some way from the original and then gusty garden galaxy got a pitch change
because you cannot improve perfection
too be fair the music from galaxy is already orchestral
GUSTY GARDEN DIDNT PLAY WHEN I FIRST SAW THE MOVIE BECAUSE THE STUPID AUDIO COMPLETELY CUT OUT DURING THE CREDITS ONLY try to find my 10 or so paragraph comment on this video about it!
And Bowser's fury is just the same
@@corruptedplayer I mean, it was chosen for a Smash trailer for a reason
The way they incorporated music from the game into the movie was absolutely perfect. I was smiling the whole time.
@Keshuel what? Says you lol what are youtalking about?
I just wish we had more DKC tracks
@randomvideoboy1trollers gotta troll
Brain Tyler did great arranging Koji Kondo’s work :)))
@Keshuel man’s deaf
It was so stupid how many people left before the credits were even over. I would have stayed for the music even if I hadn't been expecting a post-credits scene.
I left cuz I had to pee so bad. I held it for over an hour so I didn't miss anything haha
@@AutkastKain Why didn't you go BEFORE the movie? lol.
@@TheRealBatabii I did, but I got a drink when I usually don't
@@AutkastKain This and the absurd price is why I never get drinks at the theater (or food because that just makes you thirsty)
i did this the first time, realized i missed it on the ride home when i looked it up on yt just to make sure
second time i watched the movie, i was holding in piss so bad it hurt just so i could see the post-credits and i dipped three milliseconds as it was over (worth it)
It's amazing how much Captain Toad's theme has evolved across three different Mario games: Galaxy, 3D World and then Treasure Tracker.
You forgot Galaxy 2
It's really Awesome
@@traviscunningham7062 And you forgot Galaxy 2 uses the exact same Toad Brigade theme as Galaxy 1's.
That and Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Yes, and I’m pretty sure the captain toad musics are more from treasure tracker than 3d world
So what I learned is that “Fighting Tooth and Veil” has nearly every leitmotif in the series crammed into it
no fr the best song of the movie, not only did they use all the best songs but they way they were put togetherrrr ahhhhh its so good
What about the part of the score that Mario saves Luigi? Is that from the games or original?
Fighting Tooth and Veil (to fit every motif)
Fun Fact: During “Superstars”, you can subtly hear the Outro theme to SMB1 (the theme you get when you save Princess Peach) spliced into the SuperStar theme.
Timestamp?
Edit: someone else gave it to me, grab a heart!
Also It is played duringthe wedding scene when toad gives peach the Ice flower
@@NicD I think he's referring to 18:06 (right when you start talking again) and yeah, I agree.
@@P1yZ I do mention it at 5:04.
hi googaly
For the DVD release they should add a version where all the cut music is still used, or at least the seperate scenes as bonus content.
I am cheering for this. Personally, I think that the Take on Me song fit pretty ok in the movie but the others were totally off. I like Thunderstruck a lot, but how many more times should I hear it in a movie? :(
@@elbala777 For me I can put up with every other hollywood song used in this movie except Take on Me purely because of how good the Driving Me Bananas arrangement is that went unused in favour of Take on Me
@@justsomewheel9379 Literally STOLEN from us, I could listen to it all day
@@pokemon_trainer_isaiah I played the kong driving scene on the entire mario movie vocoded to gangster's paradise on mute with Driving Me Bananas playing in another tab at the same time Take On Me starts. The music is actually perfectly synced with the scene.
The Jungle Hijinx leitmotif hits as soon as the full kong kingdom comes into view, there's a slight bit of suspense when the car swerves suddenly and mario's about to fall out, and then there's a big music build-up while going up the final ramp up until they start to fall and the music cuts out for a second, only for it to come back in a powerful and triumphant orchestral version of the donkey kong country arrangement as the glider opens and it finally comes to a close as they arrive in the hall of the kong army.
Whatever executive decided to replace an orchestral arrangement of a classic theme associated with the scene created to match up perfectly with what's happening on screen with a hollywood song needs better taste
I can’t imagine being koji kondo 40 years ago writing a silly little tune for an at the time unknown video game, only for it to blossom into the orchestrated masterpiece this movie was
Even worse when you go back to Sister Marian (at 1:02) - which I should make a short about now.
@@PandamoniumBruu WELL
I was aware of a bunch of inspirations, but not that one specifically! And what a great track!
@@NicD yeah, 80's Nintendo it's really inspired in Jazz and japanese pop
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So yeah I made it, good thing I had your input first
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I’ve been waiting for a video like this that goes through all of the musical references. This video is criminally underrated.
Right? So amazing! Very happy piano teacher here!
For the ominous piano part it's definitely a reference to deep dark galaxy! I knew the moment I heard it.
I heard it too but I thought I was crazy because it’s so random
SAME, although I was incorrectly imaginging the Big Mouth galaxy.
@@joshriley2936 it has the same music tho
This video is severely underrated. I was also mad at how many people just left as soon as they saw the credits. The credits scene with toad and bowser got me cracking up.
The credits were amazing!!
THERE WAS A CREDIT SCENE???? I LEFT RIGHT WHEN THE CREDITS STARTED GODDAMNIT
I was so hyped when I heard the Fury Bowser theme playing when watching it, was so unexpected and awesome.
Me too?
17:43
Thank GOD Brian Tyler's composition of Superstars made it to the final cut instead of 'Jump.'
It feels more exciting and impactful.
I was already in disbelief about Holding Out For a Hero, I found it made that whole sequence a joke. Jump playing instead of Superstars would have outright ruined the final battle!
@@NicD
Oh yeah, it *would've.* Illumination just can't even help themselves, can they?
this soundtrack made me tear up, all these different mario tracks i was certainly not expecting made orchestral. it was such a blast!
World 1-1 and Driving me Bananas make me so sad that they were cut because they’re such great songs and would’ve enhanced the scenes. To bad they were replaced with the 2 most unfitting licensed tracks in the movie
Yeah that really pissed me off
@@JoeMama-ne8wp same! Love your pfp
to be honest, I’m ok with waiting for a hero because of it being fitting for a fast pace montage. But they definitely should’ve kept the DK one in
I hope someone edits them into the movie
@@Mr_bukowski4435 thanks man 🙏
The airship theme actually gave me chills in the theatre
You have no idea what my excitement was when they played galaxy music during the credits
I have to say, if you're going to throw a licensed song, you could... just rearrange Jump Up Superstar and throw it there as if it was an actual song. Not by making references, but just like the DK Rap - as in, completely considering it a song to fill a scene with motivation.
And bowser fury
This is the type of music I wanted for the Sonic movies, but the only things I can think of them referencing was Green Hill Zone, the drowning music and a bit of Robotnik's theme from The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. I really hope they step up their game in Sonic 3 after the Mario Movie. If it doesn't at least have 'Live and Learn' in there somewhere I'd consider it a huge missed opportunity
man the airship theme is one of my favorite theme songs. it never not gives me the feeling something bad is about to happen or a big battle is on the horizon. just such a great song
Honestly it felt like it was missing something to me. Doesn’t sound right without all the cannon shots going off.
Amazzin how Mars the bringer of war (from 1916) influenced so much. ....
I’m looking forward to when we get a version of the movie with all the weird non-Nintendo tracks replaced with the tracks they had planned originally
Would be interesting if they add in some tracks from the 93 mario movie in the sequel
I agree that the music and the credits are part of the experience. I remember Detective Pikachu doing a same thing and creating this celebratory rendition of the game music for the credits. What a joy that was.
I am honestly disappointed that there were no other rainbow road leitmotifs in the soundtrack, considering an entire scene is centered around it.
The wii version should have been there. Its a crime that it wasnt.
In the track “Rainbow Roade Rage” I’m genuinely shocked to have not heard any Rainbow Road tracks. An ominous remix of 64s or Wiis would’ve been so welcomed
I heard the intro of the SNES rainbow road SOMEWHERE in there, but I forget exactly where.
@@NJHProductions512 the SNES version was played.
@@kasam0308 ik
9:48 Inside the Castle Walls was the one music track I wanted most for the movie, I am so HAPPY they included the music in the movie!!!
Yeah they _featured_ that one!
The references toward the New Super Mario Bros. Series really warm my heart, as those games excluding U. and 2 were my childhood.
Bah
Me too.
So so glad someone else caught the Deep Dark Galaxy reference!
I stuck around for the ENTIRE credits sequence and had tears in my eyes when the Galaxy theme started up. And the Gamecube ringtone was one of the funniest bits in the film
5:38 wanna know what’s worse? The composer had to fight to keep the superstar theme in for the final fight scene; they wanted to add in…. Jump…. By Van Halen……
Illumination needs to learn how to stop making jukebox musicals
Freaking hats off to Brian Tyler for putting his foot down.
This is amazing! Such thoroughness!
Plus, I’m glad we didn’t have to wait too long for someone to make this!
Not an easy balancing act! Too quick and you miss half the references due to lack of research; too thorough and you're a late copycat.
Well, I had the week off. Who needs rest?
11:28 that's actually supposed to be Deep Dark Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy 1
1:34
Just something fun to point out, I love that Platforming Princess it's basically Princess Peach's Theme. Really sounds nice! Especially by 1:10 ooh massive chills.
Both the movie and this video made me cry, especially when Mario turned into a tanuki! That made me feel like a kid again!
3:51 hearing gusty garden in theaters almost made me tear up
Goosebumps all over
Super Mario 3 was the mario game that I have played the longest time, so when I heard the soundtrack played when Mario got the tanooki suit, I almost cried.
I was already crying lol. That whole sequence got me going and then the rest of the movie just flat out broke me
They only needed to do a few but they did _soo_ much more than that.
My favorite is the Mario rap being ripped perfectly from the original TV show
i love the way he faded the movie sound into the game's sound, its so statisfying
The Level Complete credit music is a bop, especially the Gusty Garden Galaxy bit.
if this movie doesn't get an award for best soundtrack idk what will
"Game music done right"
I could not have said it better!
😁 Yeah the title of my series on game music is scary appropriate here!
All these references made me cry,this movie is perfect
I really wish they left the real world pop songs out, and kept the original score in. We definitely needed more Donkey Kong Country music.
Great video. This is the best analysis of the score and soundtrack I've seen so far.
I loved how they managed to included tracks from all across Mario's history without it sounding cluttered or ill-fitting
The imprisoned theme is definitely supposed to be the nsmb wii tower theme I think
That would make sense since prison walls are so similar to walls from NSMB towers.
Yeah I did come around at the end, for the reason identified by Jacek. Too bad I then forgot to update the "original Bowser music" at 7:10!
18:54 - "back in my days rainbow road didn't have rails" made me chuckle.
That was a number 1 for me too.
Rainbow Road was a quite a final level. A bit of a feat to reach, worth it's 'final challenge' status, very climactic track visually and most of all, an amazing musical piece to capture it too.
In the movie, I was wondering if they were doing Mario Kart 3's (Mario Kart Super Circuit's) Rainbow Road which had that segment for its intro before doing it's own thing. It did not. ^.^
Yeah Super Circuit was first to recognize that this part of the OG Rainbow Road music had huge intro potential!
Really great analysis!, there's even some stuffs I didn't notice before
To be fair, you probably didn't put almost every waking hour of a week off into analyzing the soundtrack. 😅
As a long time Nintendo player and someone who loves music, the work done to incorporate so many musical easter eggs in the movie was one of the best parts of it.
The music from DK Country while Cranky is on the girders with the gramophone is originally from the NES port of the Donkey Kong arcade game.
How did I never know that!? Thank you.
you can hear Wario's Battle Canyon in the blue shell track
I hear it! At 0:22 in Battle Canyon, 0:51 in Blue Shelled - was glaring once pointed out.
I don't think it's an intentional reference, but it would have made the "stretches" section!
Edit: but the composer hints at it being intentional!
When I saw this, and heard your #1 reference, I legit got misty eyed. It was so unexpected, and so great.
10:25 I think many will believe it's from Captain Toad. If not completely due to Galaxy and 3D World, it's where it ended up.
You were right!
Yes yes!! It's totally captain toad. Maybe the toad in the movie is him before he got his title ;-D
I had no idea the Fury Bowser song was from one of the games. Makes me want to try it. . .
Bowser's Fury is fantastic
The orchestral music really gave it that grand Mario Galaxy feeling. I wish they left the pop tracks out
13:27- 14:18 I love the amount of different variations of the tower theme from NSMBWii!
The original game is a big part of my childhood and hearing this score in the film gave me goosebumps.
It's a bit of a stretch but there are four notes right after the Bob-omb Battlefield reference in Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom that sound a lot like the first four notes of the New Super Mario Bros Wii intro theme
I had that pointed out last week (if it's what I'm thinking of), prompting me to add the following to my pinned comment; what do you think?
💿 Welcome to the Mushroom Kingdom 1:23 ← 🎮 NSMB Wii... multiple?
⤷ Now this one's a rabbit hole. The three sting notes there could be those that play at 0:03 in the NSMBW Title, reinforced by how they're in the same key and how they're soon followed by the PAH and P-Switch. But there's the 1:24-1:33 stretch from WttMK in-between, that I could never identify, but it's not dissimilar to 0:20 in the NSMBW Opening Theme. What to do?
SNES RAINBOW ROAD WAS MY FAVORITE MUSICAL EASTER EGG TOO, I ALMOST CRIED IN THE THEATER, I ONLY WISH WE HEARD MORE!!
Of all the courses in Super Mario Kart (SNES), I listened to Rainbow Road the most from trying to master the course difficulty.
Oh my can I relate to that, I remember how long I took setting a full-speed heavyweight record!
You're always so good at catching leitmotifs! Just like xenoblade 3 OST video, I'm impressed by the effort you put in, but also giving us timestamps +titles here.
Sorry for the spam of my comments!
10:51 Correction: it's also played in Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, so not exclusive to 3D World.
Mmm you're right; I meant to say that part wasn't in Galaxy, but used the wrong formulation.
Loved the movie and catching as many references as I could! But there was one musical reference that I kept waiting for and I unfortunately didn't hear: Dire Dire Docks
After watching the video, I started the OST again in Spotify. And just had to laugh loudly. "Peaches" was already heard over 16 million times! :D
OMG I knew the Rainbow Road sounded pretty familiar!! But I didn't remembered it from that part, I love so much how beautiful it sounds in the movie, so magical, majestic, epic but at the same time nostalgic
15:08 funny how they gave the song in the movie about a dog attacking Mario a piece of a song from a game where a dog attacks Mario
I keep raving about the movie, and I give the music my 10/10 when I talk about it.
Fucking ADORED the music in this movie. I give “Peaches” a stand up in salute, basically describing my entire love for the soundtrack. I loved “Peaches”
I didn't know I needed "Peaches" in my life.
Fun fact: I actually watched the movie in French (with a less-bilingual friend), and "peaches" was translated "princesse" (sounds close to the English word), which I found even funnier.
@@NicD If the fact Bowser called “Peach”
“Peaches” is a language thing, I dig it.
He called Peach “Peaches” quite a few times, to where I don’t think he understands her “actual” name, and that’s funny.
@@dexterwillmon Definitely a language thing: "Peaches" is an English-exclusive affectionate nickname.
Hearing *Captain Toad’s Brigade* theme in the credits really brought back childhood memories
This game is to underrated. Nintendo needs to make a new Capitaine Toad game and not the DLC for the Switch
The choice for the regular music was genius because they were popular when Mario first came out... It was absolutely that best thought process ever.
I just watched the movie yesterday and today I get this?
You treat us so well
Watching the movie was an experience, from smile to tears picking up every little references that I could recognize, gusty garden galaxy in the credit finishing me and made me almost empty when the screen finally went to black.
To think that most of the theater emptied out as the credits started rolling...
In "Superstars" during the starman leitmotif, the Super Mario Bros. ending theme plays simultaneously.
The Super Mario Galaxy box art displayed, is infuriating.
Timestamp for Superstars? You're the second to mention this, but I'm still not hearing it...
And I see what you mean for Galaxy. 😅
@@NicD 18:05 When the brass plays.
GOT IT
First addition in my pinned comment, grab your heart!
Brian Tyler has absolutely outdone himself by stuffing over 40 years worth of musical references into this soundtrack.
10:36 is Captain Toad theme
True! But I choose to refer to the earliest appearance of the music.
How has this not blown up yet?
Here I'm still workshopping the thumbnail! Trying out a Peaches-themed one.
Funny thing is that the "Course Clear Fanfare" is at least fitting for the "Level Complete" song, because that's exactly what it represents in the games 😁😁😁
I just couldn’t believe they included Gusty Garden, I had the biggest smile on my face!!
I know Brian Tyler is a huge fan of playing mario games but why didn't he compose any rainbow road combinations for the Rainbow Road Rage scene? That would've been pretty epic to hear remixes of those instead of generic action music.
this guy is basically explaining the mario movie to us by the themes in 19 minutes and 26 seconds (btw nice vid i loved knowing the references u told us with theme :D)
I finally watched the movie a few days ago and was impressed by the amount of musical references. Thank you for making this video because I realized I missed quite a lot of references. And also thank you for pointing out which parts of the movie these played in too.
7:58 that smear frame of luigi is gold
3:49 when I was sat in the theatre and heard Gusty Garden Galaxy it instantly put a bigger smile on my face
Me and my friends song the gusty garden galaxy theme in the cinema when it played. Was so beautiful
17:41 By the way, we ALMOST lost this one in the final theatrical release to Van Halen’s Jump and all these bizarre licensed song choices were supposedly suggested by Miyamoto himself.
So now we wait and hope for a Director’s Cut…
Jump? What? WHAT. Talk about ruining a moment. After your comment I went and read about that; I see "studio executives" rather than Miyamoto, but WOW, hopefully they'll be set straight.
We need Director's Cut with cutted content.
Gotta let you people get your corrections and additions in first! 😊
They made the snes rainbow road theme sound as impactful as the n64 version
They didn’t need to. The SNES theme was always the superior one, in my opinion.
I thought I caught a few easter eggs and references already, looks like I wasn't even close to finding all of them LOL
Great video man! I'm glad to see so many of them here, and the editing is top notch :)
I do NOT envy whomever lists the VISUAL references. Once the movie gets a home release it's gonna be a scarmble!
(Not for me though, I know my lane.)
@@NicD Oh definitely loool, can't watch that movie for 5 minutes without an easter egg!
The classic rainbow road theme is such a banger
A dramatic minor version of the invincibility theme playing when Bowser gets the star is so god damn ingenious
16:19 I loved that part of the movie :'v
BEST PART
I really loved to see all the references but why did everytime my eyes moved over to the left, man was just staring into my soul-
I hope that they use more themes from smb2 and Mario 64 in the next movie. Great Video 🎉🎉
What an amazing video. An entertaining way to go through A LOT of leitmotifs and references. Very well done!
I always hear people do the coins and 1-up sound when they play the Underground theme on piano. I didn't know where it started or why everyone played it that way.
Knowing actual game music was replaced with licensed music makes me hate the licensed music even more.
I'm suprised you didn't mention that there's a nod to Luigi casino
In "a dog eat plumber world" I could tell the first bit was that theme right away,Luigi gambling was my childhood-
It's rather that both Luigi Casino and the start of It's a Dog Eat Plumber World are both, uh... chamber jazz, I want to say? Both have piano, contrabass and airy percussion, and Casino adds organ while Dog goes for trumpet.
It's the first few notes from the overworld theme from Super Mario Bros. 3.
Besides, the Casino theme from Super Mario 64 DS is just a remix of the Casino theme from Super Mario Sunshine with most of the melody removed.
So sad at the lack of sunshine music
They could use sunshine music in the sequel if bowser jr appears in the sequel
I’m pretty hopeful that the many sequels to come will be using a lot of other music we didn’t get :)
This video makes me love the movie even more, thank you for your awesome work !
It’s funny I actually recognized the rainbow road theme as a galaxy theme somewhat mistakenly, but I have since realized that the red star theme take inspiration from rainbow road I think!
Mmm I hear it! It's the part at 0:34, a soundscape and chord progression that says "space is wild and wondrous".
Hearing about how there was original score for the parts with licensed songs makes me hope that we might get an alternate audio track when the Bluray comes out. We want to hear these songs in their proper place.
I'll never forgive Illumination for choosing pop music over actually good OST remasters.
I swear I heard something from “Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker” when Toad’s voice actor came up in the credits.
Yes. You are right
True! But I credited Super Mario Galaxy as it was the earliest appearance of that whistle.
Well they say they might make a Donkey Kong movie after this so I’m all for a DK Movie with music like this
only saw the first 5 minutes of this video but already loving it. will be back to this after i watch the movie