The song that plays during the opening cinematic for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, but the melody has been replaced with “Goodbye Geno” from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Both songs share a similar vibe, and play during a cutscene in a side-Mario game, but one plays at the beginning of a game, and the other plays near the end. They’re also both songs that make my eyes well up.
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No Time to Waste (Meta Knight’s Battleship) – Kirby Squeak Squad
This is the theme that plays in the room before the Meta Knight battle in Kirby Squeak Squad, but the melody in the “Legendary Air Ride Machine” portion has been replaced with “Dance of Gold” from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The joke is that both songs sound similar.
Qeynos – EverQuest
This is the theme that plays by the gates of North Qeynos, but the melody has been replaced with Green Greens from the Kirby series, solely due to the first three notes of the melody being the same. They also both happen to be “level one” areas. This was my first rip to be accepted on the channel.
Carl’s Adventure
Back in 2015 my buddy Carl Doonan asked me to write him some music for his demo reel. He hummed a little tune and sent it to me, and I wrote a bouncy Kirby-styled song around it. I even incorporated his humming into the final track.
I wasn’t familiar with FamiTracker, so I wrote the tune in LSDJ, then added the DPCM drums in post. A trained ear can tell the difference between the NES and Game Boy’s channels, but my ears sure couldn’t.
Super Buck World
This is the Buck Bumble theme, rearranged to sound like the Super Mario World overworld theme. It’s my most popular track, with more than 7,000 likes and 294,000 plays.
Pumpkin-Flavored Eggnog
This was my first single released to Bandcamp. It’s an original song, named after the season that makes me happiest: autumn! It didn’t have to be based on anything, really, I just wanted to write a happy tune.
Someone Stole All of the Lyrics
A year after Storm Blooper Special: Someone Stole All of the Remixes, we released Volume 2, featuring even more renditions of Storm Blooper’s song. In addition to contributing the ice cream truck sound in the intro track, I submitted an arranged version of Someone Stole All of the Ice Cream with my own lyrics. Scroll down to sing along!
Someone stole all the ice cream,
Now I’m quite saddened,
Wish I had bought some,
Sadly I hadn’t.
I need some ice cream,
I’m on a mission,
I need my daily
Nutrition.
Could someone point me in the right direction,
All I want is to purchase that tasty confection
Can’t someone, anyone, help me to acquire,
The creamy deliciousness that I so desire.
Someone…
Stole all…
Of the…
Ice cream…
Someone stole all the ice cream,
Why can’t I find it?
Here is the freezer,
Nothing behind it.
Nothing can beat my,
Frozen obsession,
I’ll just melt into
Depression.
(BRK solo)
Neopolitan, mint chocolate chip,
banana split, topped with cool whip
orange sorbet, vanilla bean,
coffee chip, filled with caffeine
Strawberry swirl, pistachio,
And don’t forget cookie dough,
Please wake me up from this bad dream,
So I can get my ice cream!
Who stole all of the ice cream,
I have a craving
If I don’t get some,
I’ll stop behaving.
I’ll have that ice cream,
Some day, I swear it,
And when I do I
Won’t share it.
Chiptune Poop
This song was featured on the ChipWIN April Fools album, “Chiptunes=#SrsBsns,” an album full of meme-themed chiptunes. The subject I chose was Youtube Poop, and I used sample kits and custom waveforms to recreate various YTPMV fads and memes in the Game Boy’s wave channel. Structurally, it’s not the most inventive song. I took several Kitsune² songs (which were popular YTPMV sources) and mashed them together to make the background music, resulting in a I V vi IV chord progression. Recreating the meme instruments and making them recognizable was my main focus.
Raichu A Love Song
This was featured on the Nerdfit Valentine’s Day album Love, Lasers, & Lackluster. I decided to step away from the singing wave channel, and figured I’d base a chiptune cover on an old meme: the fact that Sara Bareilles sounds like she’s singing “I’m not gonna Raichu a love song.” Most of this track is a straightforward chiptune cover, but when Sara would ordinarily sing “write you,” the song cuts out and the Raichu cry from Pokémon Red and Blue plays instead. I also imitated a few Pokémon sounds throughout the song, and it ends abruptly with Raichu being caught and the victory fanfare playing.
All Star (MAGShrek’d remix)
This is an LSDJ remix of All Star, by Smash Mouth. The song features some custom wave channel instruments (such as the BRK instrument and the Clean Electric Guitar midi patch), and some sample kits (such as the Colossus Roar, a MAGFest staple.) I didn’t attend MAGFest 2013, but my roommates mentioned that there were posters for Shrek on ice everywhere at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. About a week later (perhaps coincidentally), the first trace of the “Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life” meme appeared. A small circle of my chip scene friends started referencing the meme, so I assumed Shrek had become a MAGFest meme.
The following year, I attended my first MAGFest, and I wrote this cover to perform at Chipspace Open Mic. For every subsequent year that I attended the Fest, I played a slightly different version. Those differences are as follows:
2015 – Improved the “whistle” solo, included a sample of Dan screaming “Get outta here!” from Game Grumps, to accompany the Mycaruba sample. The Grumps were set to attend that year, so I made these changes in the hopes that any of them would be nearby while I was playing.
2017 – Replaced the samples in the breakdown with Buck Bumble vocal samples (the full set including this version can be found here)
2018 – Replaced the whistling with Meet the Flintstones and replaced the Game Grumps samples with samples of Joel’s reaction to 7 Grand Dad
2019 – Changed the notes to Meet the Flintstones, used Snow Halation in part of the whistling solo (later uploaded to SiIvaGunner as Main Theme – Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown)
2020 – Removed the entire melody and replaced it with Haunted House (a live performance including this version can be viewed here)