Music of the Mother series

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The Mother series is a role-playing video game series created by Shigesato Itoi for Nintendo. The series started in 1989 with the Japan-only release of Mother , which was followed up by Mother 2, released as EarthBound outside Japan, for the Super NES in 1994. A second sequel was released in Japan only, Mother 3 , for the Game Boy Advance in 2006. The music of the Mother series includes the soundtracks to all three games; the first game was composed for by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka, who were joined by Hiroshi Kanazu for the second game, while Mother 3's score was written by Shogo Sakai.

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The music has inspired several album releases. Mother saw the release in 1989 of an album primarily composed of vocal arrangements of pieces from its soundtrack; this album was re-released in 2004 in an expanded form. EarthBound had a soundtrack album associated with the game released in 1994 and again in 2004 that contained both original tracks from the game and medleys of multiple tracks. A compilation release, Mother 1+2, received a soundtrack album release in 2003, as well as an album of MIDI piano versions of songs from the two games in 2006. The latest release in the series, Mother 3, has two soundtrack albums: Mother 3+, released in 2006, and the online-only release Mother 3i in 2007.

The games' soundtracks have received primarily positive reviews, and the music itself has gone on to some popularity. Multiple piano sheet music books of pieces from the series have been produced, and the "Eight Melodies" song originally featured in Mother has been included in some Japanese music textbooks. Music from the series has been used in the Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games, has been played in orchestral game music concerts, and been remixed for websites such as OverClocked Remix.

Mother

Mother (マザー, Mazā), later re-released as EarthBound Beginnings, is a role-playing video game published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console in 1989. The game's soundtrack was composed by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka. Tanaka was a video game composer working for Nintendo who had previously composed for games such as Super Mario Land and Metroid , while Suzuki was a composer and musician for bands of many different genres. [1] The NES was only able to play three notes at a time, which Suzuki has noted greatly limited what he was able to produce, as he could not create some of the sounds he wanted. [2] Melodies and themes from some pieces from the soundtrack were reused in the other games in the series. "Pollyanna", "Snowman" and "Humoresque of a Little Dog" make an appearance in all three games.

Mother
Jacket m.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 21, 1989
RecordedTokyo, Japan
London, England
Bath, Somerset, England
Genre Video game music
Length1:03:47
Label CBS/Sony
Mother Music Revisited
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2021
Genre Video game music
Length(Disc 1) 48:22
(Disc 2) 56:47
Label Nippon Columbia

Some of the music from the game was recorded as a studio album by Suzuki and Tanaka in collaboration with various artists entitled Mother. The album was released by CBS/Sony on August 21, 1989. It consists of eleven tracks, seven of which are English vocal arrangements of songs from the game created by Suzuki, David Bedford, Takeshi Saitoh, and Michael Nyman. The lyrics to these arrangements were written by Shigesato Itoi. Each of the first ten tracks were performed by a different artist or group such as Catherine Warwick and St Paul's Cathedral Choir. [3] The pieces were recorded at eight different studios in England, and a final 16-minute capstone track, "The World of Mother", included most of the tracks from the game itself played back to back in their order of appearance in the game. [4] The album cover shows the word "MOTHER" in a shade of brown over a red background; the letter "O" of "MOTHER" is replaced by an image of planet Earth, also with a brownish tinge. The soundtrack was reissued on February 18, 2004, by Sony Music Direct with its tracks digitally remastered, a song from EarthBound entitled "Smiles and Tears" was added, and the track "The World of Mother" was replaced with a version that is six minutes longer. [5]

Despite being recorded in England, the album was only available in Japan, as the game was never released outside of the country until a Virtual Console release over 25 years later. Following a Kickstarter campaign, the American independent record label Ship to Shore PhonoCo worked with Sony Music to reissue the album on vinyl record in 2015. [6] Only 2,000 copies were pressed, though a limited run of CD albums was also produced. [4] [6]

Slugmag's Gavin Sheehan gave a positive review to the soundtrack. [4] He noted the experimental style of the tracks, which he credited to the experimental style of the game itself as well as the relative newness of the genre of video game music at the time. [4] Reviewer Patrick Gann of RPGFan received the album well, saying that he enjoyed the variety of genres presented in it, though he noted that the lyrics were "trite and cheesy", though still "catchy". He also applauded the production value, calling it "incredible, especially for 1989". [3] Square Enix Music Online, in their review of the album, called it "a happy little gem with quirks and surprises". Unlike RPGFan they felt that the sound production quality was not as good as it could be, but they still felt that the pieces had "stood the test of time in terms of good music". [7]

In 2021, Mother Music Revisited was released for CD, streaming, and vinyl, containing new versions of ten tracks from the game, arranged by Suzuki, recorded with live instruments, and featuring vocals by Suzuki. The CD and vinyl albums were released on January 27, with streaming versions released a week later. A deluxe version of the cd album includes a second disc containing the original Famicom tracks from the game; this disc was also previously released on vinyl on December 25, 2019. [8] [9]

Track list
No.TitleMusicArtistLength
1."Pollyanna (I Believe in You)"Keiichi SuzukiCatherine Warwick3:42
2."Bein' Friends"SuzukiCatherine Warwick, Jeremy Holland-Smith5:13
3."The Paradise Line"SuzukiJeb Million3:44
4."Magicant"Hirokazu Tanaka 4:21
5."Wisdom of the World"SuzukiCatherine Warwick4:42
6."Flying Man"Suzuki Louis Philippe 4:49
7."Snow Man"Suzuki, Tanaka 3:51
8."All That I Needed (Was You)"SuzukiJeremy Budd4:43
9."Fallin' Love, and"Tanaka 6:18
10."Eight Melodies"Suzuki, TanakaSt Paul's Cathedral Choir5:46
11."The World of MOTHER"Suzuki, Tanaka 16:32
2004 bonus tracks
No.TitleMusicLength
11."The World of MOTHER"Suzuki, Tanaka23:53
12."Smiles and Tears (Demo Track)"Suzuki, Tanaka4:47
Mother Music Revisited track list
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Pollyanna (I Believe in You)"Keiichi Suzuki4:13
2."Bein' Friends"Keiichi Suzuki6:04
3."The Paradise Line"Keiichi Suzuki4:10
4."Magicant"Keiichi Suzuki4:32
5."Wisdom of the World"Keiichi Suzuki5:34
6."Flying Man"Keiichi Suzuki5:02
7."Snow Man"Keiichi Suzuki4:30
8."All That I Needed (Was You)"Keiichi Suzuki4:50
9."Fallin' Love, and"Keiichi Suzuki3:28
10."Eight Melodies"Keiichi Suzuki5:53
Mother Music Revisited Deluxe Disc 2 track list
No.TitleMusicLength
1."MOTHER EARTH"Hirokazu Tanaka3:30
2."MY HOME"Keiichi Suzuki1:10
3."POLTERGEIST"Hirokazu Tanaka0:43
4."POLLYANNA (I BELIEVE IN YOU)"Keiichi Suzuki1:50
5."BASEMENT"Hirokazu Tanaka1:38
6."BATTLE THEME1"Hirokazu Tanaka1:20
7."BATTLE THEME2"Hirokazu Tanaka1:19
8."BATTLE THEME3"Hirokazu Tanaka1:50
9."HUMORESQUE OF A LITTLE DOG"Hirokazu Tanaka1:05
10."SOUTH CEMETERY"Hirokazu Tanaka2:21
11."BEIN' FRIENDS"Keiichi Suzuki1:42
12."CHOUCREAM ZOO"Hirokazu Tanaka1:35
13."CAVE1"Hirokazu Tanaka0:44
14."MAGICANT"Hirokazu Tanaka2:38
15."WISDOM OF THE WORLD"Keiichi Suzuki1:35
16."TWINKLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL"Hirokazu Tanaka1:55
17."FACTORY"Hirokazu Tanaka2:03
18."THE PARADISE LINE"Keiichi Suzuki2:21
19."SNOW MAN"Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka1:57
20."ADVENT DESERT"Hirokazu Tanaka1:39
21."AIRPLANE"Hirokazu Tanaka1:33
22."TANK"Hirokazu Tanaka2:01
23."RUINS OF DESERT"Keiichi Suzuki1:17
24."EASTER"Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka1:15
25."LIVE HOUSE"Hirokazu Tanaka0:53
26."ALL THAT I NEEDED (WAS YOU)"Keiichi Suzuki1:34
27."CAVE2"Hirokazu Tanaka1:29
28."HOLY LOLY MOUNTAIN"Hirokazu Tanaka2:13
29."FALLIN' LOVE, AND"Hirokazu Tanaka1:54
30."POLLYANNA (I BELIEVE IN YOU)"Keiichi Suzuki1:19
31."EIGHT MELODIES"Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka1:17
32."GIEGUE"Hirokazu Tanaka0:44
33."ENDING"Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka4:10

EarthBound

Mother 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushū
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Soundtrack album by
Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, and Hiroshi Kanazu
ReleasedNovember 2, 1994
February 18, 2004
Genre Video game music
Length59:49
Label Sony

EarthBound , known in Japan as Mother 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushū (MOTHER2ギーグの逆襲, Mazā Tsū Gīgu no Gyakushū, lit. "Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back"), is a role-playing video game published by Nintendo for the Super NES video game console in 1994. Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka reprised their roles from Mother as composers for the game, and were joined by assistant composers Hiroshi Kanazu and Toshiyuki Ueno. [10] In an interview with Weekly Famitsu, Keiichi Suzuki commented on how the SNES gave the composers much more freedom to compose what they wanted than the NES, which made development of the music for EarthBound much easier than for its predecessor. This freedom was partially a result of the larger memory space available, because one of the many problems the composers had in the first game was trying to get all of their music on to the cartridge. Another advantage was that the SNES could support playing eight notes at the same time, which when combined with the increased sound quality meant that he could compose music for the game in a similar fashion to how he would compose music for real life. Suzuki cited John Lennon as an influential figure to all the composers while the soundtrack was being developed, as his songs about love matched up with the feeling of the game. [2] [11] Critics and players have noted similarities between parts of some songs in the game to popular songs, including several suspected homages to songs by Lennon and the Beatles. [12] Legal issues surrounding these similarities were suspected to prevent the game from being released on the Virtual Console outside of Japan, but these rumors would end up being dismissed by Bill Trinen, Director of Product Marketing for Nintendo of America. [13]

In a Famitsu interview, Shigesato Itoi said that the amount of music that they fit into eight megabits of space, one-third of the total size of the game, would be enough to fill two Compact Discs if released as a full album. He ascribed the amount of music to the "disorderly", or broad, number of styles of music that were included by Tanaka and Suzuki. He also noted his belief that EarthBound was the first video game to include vibrato, or "string-bending", in its music, and described one of the differences between the music of EarthBound and Mother as that this game had more "jazzy" pieces. [14] Suzuki has estimated that he composed over 100 pieces of music for EarthBound, including pieces that did not make it into the game, and says that his favorite was the music played when the player rode a bicycle in the game, which he had actually composed before starting work on the game. [2] The "OK desu ka?" that plays after the player chooses the character's name was recorded without Itoi's knowledge by Hirokazu Tanaka, and also appeared in Mother 3. [15]

The soundtrack album for EarthBound was released by Sony Records in Japan on November 2, 1994. It was re-released a decade later on February 18, 2004, by Sony Music Direct. The album has 24 tracks, where many of these tracks are arrangements combining several pieces from the game into one piece. The final three tracks on the album consist of remixes of multiple tracks merged; for example, "Room Number (PSI MIX)" is a remixed version of several pieces of music played in different shops and hotels in the game combined into one song. [16] The album was released again in 2016 by Ship to Shore as a set of two vinyl LP records; originally released in four character-themed color options, there exist eight different colorways as of 2018. The album, named Mother 2, uses the same tracks and artwork as the original soundtrack release. [6] [17]

Vincent Chorley, in his review of the album for RPGFan, praised the original game music, applauding it for "conveying emotion and atmosphere, and then playing around with this mental image". As for the album itself, however, he was disappointed in the way that it merged tracks together and kept tracks based on a single song short, saying that "many of the tracks are so short that they are impossible to enjoy in their entirety". [16] The vinyl release was praised by Jeremy Parish of USGamer for its sound quality and the soundtrack's "towering achievement in game music", but he felt that the music was not very "listenable" on its own, and that the album did not fit the LP format as well as an album originally produced for the format would have. [17]

Track list
No.TitleMusicJapanese titleLength
1."Prologue" (from "Strike Back", "This Is No Time to Be Sleeping")Hirokazu Tanakaプロローグ1:05
2."Theme of Onett" (from "Let the Adventure Begin")Keiichi Suzukiオネットのテーマ1:20
3."Theme of Twoson" (from "Boy Meets Girl")Suzukiツーソンのテーマ1:22
4."Theme of Saturn Valley" (from "Kon'nichiwa")Suzukiサターンバレーのテーマ0:49
5."Theme of Winters" (from "Snowman", "Winters White", "The Wind Blows", "Tassy!")Suzuki, Tanakaウィンターズのテーマ3:46
6."Theme of Threed" (from "One Day For Sure")Suzukiスリークのテーマ1:33
7."Theme of Doko Doko Desert" (from "Super Dry Dance")Tanakaドコドコ砂漠のテーマ0:53
8."Theme of Fourside" (from "Held in a Skyscraper")Suzukiフォーサイドのテーマ1:47
9."Theme of Moonside" (from "Boris' Cocktail", "Moonside Swing")Tanakaムーンサイドのテーマ0:57
10."Theme of Ramma" (from "The Far East", "The Traveller Can Hear the Song", "The Discipline of Mu")Suzuki, Tanakaランマのテーマ1:57
11."Theme of Summers" (from "Private Breeze")Hiroshi Kanazuサマーズのテーマ1:02
12."Theme of Scarabi" (from "Bazaar", "Carabiner Ska (Scorpion's Poison)", "Pyramid")Suzuki, Tanaka, Kanazuスカラビのテーマ3:05
13."Theme of the Dungeon Man" (from "Megaton Walk", "Enjoy the Dungeon", "Yellow Submarine")Tanakaダンジョン男のテーマ1:15
14."Theme of the Cursed Jungle" (from "The Jungle Opens Its Eyes")Suzuki魔境のテーマ1:38
15."Theme of the Gumi Village" (from "Listen, You", "Falling Down Falling Down")Suzuki, Tanakaグミの村のテーマ0:58
16."Theme of the Underworld" (from "Earth's Love Song")Suzuki地底大陸のテーマ1:35
17."Theme of Magicant" (from "Eight Melodies (From the Bottom of the Memories)", "Welcome Self", "Labyrinth of a Dream", "Sea of Eden", "Power")Tanakaマジカントのテーマ4:43
18."Theme of the Great Underworld" (from "Crossing Space and Time", "Becoming Robots", "Space Tunnel", "The Place")Tanaka最低国のテーマ1:31
19."Theme of the Final Battle" (from "Disappear!")Tanaka最終戦闘のテーマ4:06
20."Theme of Love & Peace" (from "Because I Love You")Suzuki平和のテーマ2:07
21."Ending Theme" (from "Good Friends/Bad Friends", "Smiles and Tears")Suzuki, Tanakaエンディングのテーマ9:31
22."Room Number (PSI Mix)"Tanakaルームナンバー (PSI MIX)4:00
23."Hula-hoop (PSI Mix)"Tanakaフラフープ (PSI MIX)3:35
24."Another 2 (PSI Mix) ~ And Goes On"TanakaANOTHER 2 (PSI MIX) ~and goes on5:14

Mother 1+2

Mother 1+2
Studio album by
Kimitaka Matsumae, Kenji Kondo, and Tomoko Kataoka
ReleasedAugust 20, 2003
Genre Video game music
Length1:01:28
Label Toshiba-EMI
Mother 1+2 midi Piano Version
Studio album by
Shunsuke Sakamoto
ReleasedMay 27, 2006
Genre Video game music
Length55:38
Label Sky Port Publishing

The video game Mother 1+2 (MOTHER 1+2, Mazā Wan Tsū) is a port release of Mother and EarthBound (Mother 2) by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance, released in 2003. Despite its title, the eponymous album is an arranged album. It was released by Toshiba-EMI on August 20, 2003. The first ten tracks from the album are from Mother, while the last 16 are from EarthBound. Unlike the original soundtrack albums, the Mother tracks on this album did not include any vocal arrangements and the EarthBound tracks were not composed of tracks merged. Another album for the collection, Mother 1+2 midi Piano Version, was released three years later on May 27, 2006, by Sky Port Publishing. The album contains MIDI piano arrangements by Shunsuke Sakamoto of songs from the two games with its music covering many different moods, from "lively to sedated". Like the soundtrack album, Mother 1+2 midi Piano Version had its first ten tracks taken from Mother and the other 16 from EarthBound, but with several different tracks than the first album. [18]

Kyle Miller of RPGFan, in his review of the Mother 1+2 album, called it "a quality collection of uplifting, passionate songs". He preferred the Mother tracks to the EarthBound ones, as he felt that the second half of the album contained more "gimmick" tracks, but still called both halves "unique, fun, and well done overall". [19] In his review of the Mother 1+2 midi Piano Version album, he concluded that while "fans of midi piano music" would enjoy the album, that the soundtrack album was the superior of the two. His criticism was mainly based on the fact that, while the tracks were "well orchestrated pieces", "played masterfully", and retained the "quality of the compositions" of the originals, the "wacky instrumentation" of the original pieces did not translate to piano arrangements, causing the tunes to "lose some of the spirit that they are known for". [18]

Mother 1+2 track list
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Mother Earth"Hirokazu Tanaka1:48
2."Pollyanna (I Believe in You)"Keiichi Suzuki1:58
3."Bein' Friends"Keiichi Suzuki1:49
4."Humoresque of a Little Dog"Hirokazu Tanaka2:09
5."Eight Melodies (Toy piano Version sx)"Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka1:35
6."Wisdom of The World"Keiichi Suzuki1:52
7."TWINKLE Elementary School"Hirokazu Tanaka2:14
8."Snowman"Hirokazu Tanaka2:06
9."The Paradise Line"Keiichi Suzuki2:29
10."Eight Melodies"Keiichi Suzuki, Tanaka3:31
11."Onett's Theme"Keiichi Suzuki2:16
12."Twoson's Theme"Keiichi Suzuki2:30
13."Threek's Theme"Keiichi Suzuki2:13
14."Saturn Valley's Theme"Keiichi Suzuki1:30
15."Bicycle's Theme (Kurukuru Pedal)"Keiichi Suzuki1:36
16."Winter's Theme"Keiichi Suzuki3:05
17."Hospital Dub (Call the Doctor)"Keiichi Suzuki2:15
18."Lucky Nice Blues"Hirokazu Tanaka2:14
19."Fourside (Held in the Skyscraper)"Keiichi Suzuki2:22
20."Hotel (Pearl Necklace)"Hirokazu Tanaka1:09
21."Summer's Theme"Hiroshi Kanazu1:55
22."Ramma's Theme"Keiichi Suzuki2:29
23."Eight Melodies"Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka1:30
24."Light of Life"Hirokazu Tanaka2:09
25."Because I Love You"Keiichi Suzuki3:31
26."Smiles and Tears"Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka7:21
Mother 1+2 midi Piano track list
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Pollyanna (I Believe In You)"Keiichi Suzuki0:57
2."Bein' Friends"Suzuki0:49
3."The Paradise Line"Suzuki0:55
4."Magicant"Tanaka1:14
5."Snow Man"Suzuki, Tanaka0:56
6."All That I Needed (Was You)"Suzuki1:31
7."Wisdom of the World"Suzuki0:46
8."Fallin' Love, And"Tanaka0:52
9."Eight Melodies"Suzuki, Tanaka3:27
10."The World of Mother"Suzuki, Tanaka9:40
11."Onett's Theme"Suzuki1:20
12."Twoson's Theme"Suzuki1:19
13."Saturn Valley's Theme"Suzuki0:49
14."Winter's Theme"Suzuki3:45
15."Threek's Theme"Suzuki1:37
16."Dusty Dunes Desert's Theme"Tanaka0:50
17."Fourside's Theme"Suzuki2:02
18."Summer's Theme"Hiroshi Kanazu1:13
19."Scarabi's Theme"Suzuki, Tanaka2:43
20."Dalaam's Theme"Suzuki1:07
21."Deep Darkness' Theme"Suzuki, Tanaka1:26
22."Lost Underworld's Theme"Suzuki, Tanaka1:40
23."Magicant's Theme"Tanaka1:32
24."Love & Peace"Suzuki2:01
25."Ending Theme"Suzuki, Tanaka8:49
26."Room Number"Tanaka2:16

Mother 3

Mother3+
Soundtrack album by
Shogo Sakai
ReleasedNovember 2, 2006
February 2, 2007 (iTunes version)
Genre Video game music
Length28:48
Label Tokyo Itoi Shigesato Office
Mother3i
Soundtrack album by
Shogo Sakai
ReleasedFebruary 6, 2007
Genre Video game music
Length1:05:55
Label Tokyo Itoi Shigesato Office

Mother 3 is a role-playing video game published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console in 2006. The music for the game was composed exclusively by Shogo Sakai, who had previously composed music for games such as Super Smash Bros. Melee and Kirby Air Ride . Series developer Shigesato Itoi stated that Sakai was given the position because he understood Mother 3 the most, given that he could not use Keiichi Suzuki or Hirokazu Tanaka, the composers for the first two games, as they were both busy with other projects. Itoi also said that given the massive number of songs in the game, over 250, he needed someone who had a lot of time to dedicate to the project and who could focus exclusively on it. [20]

"Love Theme", the main theme of Mother 3, was composed late in the game's development; earlier in development Itoi intended to use the "Pigmask Army" theme as the main theme of the game. During creation of an important scene in the game, however, Sakai was asked to create a song that would have a greater impact than the Pigmask theme; upon its creation it was chosen to be used as the main theme instead of the "Pigmask Army" song. Itoi claims that, given how quickly Sakai composed the song, that he had been "waiting for the order" to make a song like "Love Theme". Itoi requested that "Love Theme" be playable on a piano with only one finger, as the "Eight Melodies" theme from Mother had gained popularity and been played in elementary schools due to its simplicity. [20]

The MOTHER3+ soundtrack album was first released by Tokyo Itoi Shigesato Office on November 2, 2006, and then distributed through the iTunes Store on February 2, 2007, featuring an additional bonus track, "MOTHER3 – theme of LOVE". [21] [22] Another album of music from the game, MOTHER3i, was released on February 6, 2007, by Tokyo Itoi Shigesato Office in the iTunes Store and other online music services. Like the EarthBound soundtrack album each track of Mother3i is a combination of several tracks from the game itself, though it still does not cover all of the tracks from the game. [23]

Kyle Miller of RPGFan gave a warm reception to Mother3+ in his review, saying that it "retains the same quirky, but thoughtful feel so well captured by the previous entries in the series" and was "a worthy addition to the Mother musical canon". He enjoyed that it included both songs that were new to Mother 3 and pieces originally from previous entries in the series. He felt that the weakest tracks on the album were those that used real-life instruments, while he named "Snowman" as the strongest. [21] Square Enix Music Online was not as pleased with the album; although the reviewer agreed with Miller on which tracks were the best and worst, they were very critical of the fact that the album contained "only nine or ten distinct themes from a pool of perhaps one hundred viable choices". They also disliked the fact that the pieces were "by design short and repetitive". [24] They instead recommended the Mother3i album, which, though "missing the iconic 'Love' theme and perennial series favorites like 'Pollyanna'", had "more engaging arrangements, less cloying sentimentality, and a wider variety of themes". They also noted the improved sound quality of the album over the original Game Boy Advance version. [25] Mother3+ reached position #24 on the Japanese Oricon charts, and stayed on the charts for three weeks. [26]

Mother 3+ track list
No.TitleJapanese titleLength
1."We miss you ~Love Theme~"We miss you 〜愛のテーマ〜 (We miss you 〜Ai no Tēma〜)3:39
2."Theme of D.C.M.C."D.C.M.C.のテーマ (D.C.M.C. no Tēma)2:26
3."Samba de Combo"サンバ・デ・カンボ (Sanba de Kanbo)2:37
4."Bon Voyage, Amigo"ボンボヤージュ・アミーゴ (Bonboyāju Amīgo)2:08
5."Big Shot's Theme"おえらいさんのテーマ (Oeraisan no Tēma)3:15
6."Time Passage"タイム・パッセージ (Taimu Passēji)1:55
7."A Certain Someone's Memories (Pollyanna)"だれかさんのおもいで(Pollyanna)(Darekasan no Omoide (Pollyanna))2:58
8."Snowman"スノーマン (Sunōman)3:13
9."16 Melodies (Beginning)"16メロディーズ(はじまり)(Jūroku Merodīzu (Hajimari))2:58
10."We miss you ~Love Theme~ (Inst.)"We miss you 〜愛のテーマ〜(Inst.)(We miss you 〜Ai no Tēma〜 (Inst.))3:39
Mother 3i track list
No.TitleJapanese title (literal translation)Length
1."Welcome to MOTHER3 World (from "Fun Naming", "Welcome!", "True Welcome!")"Welcome to Mother3 World3:48
2."Tazmily is the Stage (from "LOG-O-TYPE", "Something Strange is Going On", "Run, My Dog, Run!")"舞台はタツマイリ Butai wa Tatsumairi2:44
3."Twist And Battle (from "Mr. Batty Twist", "Rock and Roll (Mild)", "Mischievous Blues")"Twist And Battle4:33
4."Gentle Rain (from "Confusion", "Somewhere, Someday", "Gentle Rain")"どうすることも Dō Suru Koto Mo ("What Should I Do?")4:59
5."Mambo and Battle (from "Mambo de Battle", "And El Mariachi")"哀愁のマンボ Aishū no Manbo ("Grievous Mambo")3:40
6."Theme of Duster (from "Sorrowful Tazmily", "Morning Already", "Mind of a Thief")"ダスターのテーマ Dasutā no tēma3:22
7."The Castle of Osohe (from "Ragtime Osohe", "Osohe Castle", "Etude for Ghosts")"オソヘ城にて Osohejō Nite4:59
8."Funky Monkey Dance (from "Chapter 3 ~ Monkey's Love Song", "Open Sesame Oil!", "Open Sesame Tofu!", "Monkey's Delivery Service")"奇妙なダンス Kimyō na Dansu ("Funky Dance")4:39
9."Oh, Pig Mask (from "Piggy Guys", "Unfounded Revenge")"嗚呼、ブタマスク Aa, Butamasuku3:14
10."Memory of Tazmily (from "Happy Town?", "And Then There Were None")"タツマイリの思い出 Tatsumairi no Omoide4:21
11."With Magypsy (from "Pink Shell", "Magypsy's Home, Sweetie-Pie")"マジプシーと Majipushī To3:26
12."Do Not Disturb (from "Astonishing March", "Wasteful Anthem", "Formidable Foe", "Intense Guys")"じゃまをしないでくれ Jama o Shinaide Kure4:47
13."Flowers (from "Shower Time Ballad", "Letter from You, My Sweet", "Mother?!")"Flowers4:22
14."Theme of Bad Boy (from "Porky's Porkies", "Master Porky's Theme", "Battle Memory Medley")"Bad Boyのテーマ Baddo Bōi no Tēma7:10
15."From Utopia (from "Isn't This Such a Utopia?!", "Suspicious Flying Object", "His Highness' Theme", "Memory of Life")"行きどまりの街から Ikidomari no Machi Kara5:51

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Music from EarthBound was arranged for the piano and published by DOREMI Music Publishing in 1995. The book contains 16 scores, with some covering more than one song from the game. "Onett's Theme" was also included in "Game Music Piano Solo Album", a book published by DOREMI with sheet music from many different games. [27] Sky Port Publishing published a book of piano arrangements in 1996 for the release of Mother 1+2 containing 27 pieces. [28] The "Eight Melodies" song from Mother received some popularity, and was included in some Japanese music textbooks due to its simplicity. [20] A full sheet music book for Mother has never officially been made available, but after its release on the Virtual Console as EarthBound Beginnings, the entire soundtrack was transcribed by a fan into sheet music. [29] Super Smash Bros. , a series of fighting games published by Nintendo featuring characters and music from established video games, has included several songs from the Mother series. Super Smash Bros. Melee featured a few songs from the series: "Bein' Friends", "Eight Melodies", "Pollyanna", "Fourside", and "Sound Stone". [nb 1] Several songs from Mother 3 were included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl , including "Love Theme", "Unfounded Revenge", "Smashing Song of Praise", "You Call This a Utopia?!" and "Porky's Theme". Brawl also included "Humoresque of a Little Dog" and "Snowman" from Mother, and also featured "Mother" and "Mother 2" from Melee. [30] Several tracks from the series did not make it into Super Smash Bros. Brawl but still exist inside the game's code, such as "Because I Love You", "Eight Melodies", "Smiles and Tears", and "Hippie Battle". Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U adds new remixes of "Magicant / Eight Melodies", arranged by Yoko Shimomura, "Smiles and Tears", arranged by Toru Minegishi, and "Onett Theme / Winters Theme", arranged by Asuka Hayazaki. The 2015 video game Undertale , inspired by EarthBound, includes several homages to the game's music in its soundtrack. [31]

"Because I Love You" and "Eagle Land" from EarthBound were played by the Tokyo Memorial Orchestra for the second Orchestral Game Concert on September 15, 1992, as part of a five concert tour, which was later released as a series of albums. "Because I Love You" was again played in their third concert, and was the only song to make an appearance in more than one concert in the tour. [32] [33] A medley of songs from all three games was performed at the "Press Start -Symphony of Games- 2006" concert in Tokyo. [34] Selections of remixes of music from the series also appear on Japanese remix albums, called Dōjin, and on English remixing websites such as OverClocked Remix. [35] A group of remixes of Mother and EarthBound music was released as an unofficial download-only album titled Bound Together by a group of artists from OverClocked Remix and elsewhere on October 29, 2006, containing 48 remixes and almost three hours of music. [36]

Notes

  1. A medley of "Bein' Friends" and "Eight Melodies" is titled "Mother" in the game, and "Pollyanna" is titled "Mother 2". "Fourside" is called "EarthBound", and parts of "Sound Stone" are used in "EarthBound" and Ness's victory theme.

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