Does anyone else hate the Mario theme now?

Matt Till · #1 08-31-2006, 05:13 PM

I appreciate video games as much as the next guy, and the mario theme is a wonderful ditty, but STOP LEARNING THE MARIO THEME!

Damn, I've heard this song covered by so many people, so many ways, I'm sick of it. Way to kill a part of my childhood guys.

Marcus · #2 08-31-2006, 05:16 PM

meh, get over it

SuperDuck · #3 08-31-2006, 05:21 PM

Nah, I don't get worked up that easily.

superbassman2000 · #4 08-31-2006, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt Till

I appreciate video games as much as the next guy, and the mario theme is a wonderful ditty, but STOP LEARNING THE MARIO THEME!

Damn, I've heard this song covered by so many people, so many ways, I'm sick of it. Way to kill a part of my childhood guys.

i only concur if people feel the need to put it on the internet

its clever...i get it...but there are plenty of other clever video game themes that people can play...for instance, zelda:link's awakening or final fantasy VII would have some cool themes to play too

Matt Till · #5 08-31-2006, 07:10 PM

That's my point.

It's like every single person who learns it seems to find themselves witty/original.

KeithBMI · #6 08-31-2006, 07:31 PM

I've yet to hear the mario theme with a badass drum beat... Matt... Maybe King Bowman can put something together for me? Slow it down and fuzz it up!

anonymous278347457 · #7 09-01-2006, 03:08 AM

the best two covers ive seen is the guy with the bass with loads of strings and doing two hand tapping(jean baudin i think?)

and this guy on guitar that even does the coin noises

keb · #8 09-01-2006, 06:43 AM

GUYZ I CAN PLAY THE MARIO THEME ON MY DIDGERIDOO IS THAT COOL OR WHAT GUYS????

EDIT: COIN NOISES TOO

Bruce Lindfield · #9 09-01-2006, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Matt Till

I appreciate video games as much as the next guy, and the mario theme is a wonderful ditty, but STOP LEARNING THE MARIO THEME!

Damn, I've heard this song covered by so many people, so many ways, I'm sick of it. Way to kill a part of my childhood guys.

I have never played the game, never heard the theme - never heard any covers!!

Dincrest · #10 09-01-2006, 07:00 AM

I'm a gamer myself and write for a gaming website, and as much as I'd like to see more people covering stuff from maybe the FF games, the Ys games, Streets of Rage, and other games with IMO great music, the Mario theme is one of those themes that everyone knows and it fills them with nostalgia; it certainly does me. I thoroughly enjoy the work of composers like Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yuzo Koshiro, Ryo Yonemitsu and the JDK Sound Team (Falcom soundtracks "are pwn" as the kiddies like to say), but how many people are going to know stuff by those composers? One time I tried playing Crazy Motorcycle from Final Fantasy 7 and only one person in the crowd had played the game (for shame since FF7 is a landmark title in video gaming.)

In a nutshell, more people are going to know the Mario theme than, say, "Palace of Destruction" from Y's Book I & 2, but the latter is a cooler piece IMO. I think music from the Ys series is some of the best video game music ever written, but the series was never popular in the US.

http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks3.html

ElMon · #11 09-01-2006, 07:04 AM

If by playing the Mario Bros. theme your stating "Check this out, my musical curiosity knows no boundaries and my instrument is just as capable" than I can endure it with a mild (very Mild) interest). However it seems more like a highly-mastubatory exercise....."look how much I can NOT play the role of a bassplayer".

I have a confession. When I hear guys like Jean Baudin, who by the way composes some amazing pieces and whose playing reminds me of harpiscord works, I don't really consider them in the bass realm. I mean, obviously it is a bass they are playing, but the role that a bass instrument plays in an ensemble that made ME start to play is not present IMO. Just well written melodic pieces.

Bruce Lindfield · #12 09-01-2006, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Dincrest

..the Mario theme is one of those themes that everyone knows...

I don't!!

Burg · #13 09-01-2006, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ElMon

I have a confession. When I hear guys like Jean Baudin, who by the way composes some amazing pieces and whose playing reminds me of harpiscord works, I don't really consider them in the bass realm. I mean, obviously it is a bass they are playing, but the role that a bass instrument plays in an ensemble that made ME start to play is not present IMO. Just well written melodic pieces.

Yes, but Jean Baudin's pieces are solo pieces, to use the "traditional" ensemble role of bass guitar in a solo context would not work.

Bruce Lindfield · #14 09-01-2006, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Burg

Yes, but Jean Baudin's pieces are solo pieces, to use the "traditional" ensemble role of bass guitar in a solo context would not work.

Yeah but the point is that most of us must like the traditional, ensemble role of the bass or we wouldn't have started playing it - if you wanted solo role models, you'd have far more material if you looked at other instruments like piano, guitar etc.

95JettaCity · #15 09-01-2006, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Burg

Yes, but Jean Baudin's pieces are solo pieces, to use the "traditional" ensemble role of bass guitar in a solo context would not work.

I agree...

And am I the only one who notices that he plays both the bass and harmony parts of songs!?!?

I have trouble playing either one sometimes... let alone both!!

keb · #16 09-01-2006, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ElMon

I have a confession. When I hear guys like Jean Baudin, who by the way composes some amazing pieces and whose playing reminds me of harpiscord works, I don't really consider them in the bass realm. I mean, obviously it is a bass they are playing, but the role that a bass instrument plays in an ensemble that made ME start to play is not present IMO. Just well written melodic pieces.

Actually, to me it's not obviously a "bass" that they're playing. It's more like a full-range super-mega guitar. It's still called a "bass" I guess because it's evolved from your standard 4 and 5 stringers, but it's a different instrument altogether in my mind. A stringed-instrument incarnation of a piano or organ, in a way. And going with that line of thought, you can obviously play much more than bass lines on a piano or organ.

Oops, getting off topic here!

Burg · #17 09-01-2006, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

Yeah but the point is that most of us must like the traditional, ensemble role of the bass or we wouldn't have started playing it - if you wanted solo role models, you'd have far more material if you looked at other instruments like piano, guitar etc.

Which is great, I love the traditional role aswell.
And i agree that there are more role models for solo playing in other instruments.

But i don't identify with those instruments. I'm a bass player.

superbassman2000 · #18 09-01-2006, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by keb

GUYZ I CAN PLAY THE MARIO THEME ON MY DIDGERIDOO IS THAT COOL OR WHAT GUYS????

EDIT: COIN NOISES TOO

well, thats better...i have heard the digeridoo version, but that guy couldn't do the coin noise....

i personally am getting away from mario songs on bass, and am working on a bass solo of duck hunt...so far it has the song that you start with, including the dog barking, the wings flapping, the ducks quacking, the pow pow pow of your three shots and it ends with the dog laughing...its really hard on bass, but it can be done

Dincrest · #19 09-01-2006, 03:39 PM

superbassman- think you could do a version where you actually get to shoot that d**m dog? That dog was so annoying I always was trying to shoot him.

Matt Till · #20 09-01-2006, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

I don't!!

Well, everyone who has been in touch with pop culture for the past 20 years.