He covers the basics of some Kondo influences (among plenty of other j-game composers) but there’s a couple cuts in here I’d never heard of.
Never seen anyone note that Zelda’s fairy fountain probably filled heavily from
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Most of these are timestamped to the relevant section.
J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor - II. Rondeau (BWV 1067)
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Koji Endo / Kaoru Kono - King’s Field - Opening Movie 1
J.S. Bach - French Suite No. 5 in G major - I. Allemande (BWV816)
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Soyo Oka - SimCity (SNES) - Town Theme
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Maga Dog
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Koji Kondo - Super Mario Bros. - Overworld / Ground Theme
Kool & The Gang - Celebration
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Dave Wise - Diddy Kong Racing - T.T.'s Theme
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Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show:
Jungle falls - diddy kong racing (wait for it, about :28)
I have one going in the opposite direction. I just noticed that Kero Kero Bonito did a stealth cover of K.K. Faire:
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Okay might be a stretch but
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tbf that’s just the pentatonic scale and FF has far worse offenders
You can guess this one
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nah this is a good one, a sensation
I don’t hear the FFX Whitesnake one though I desperately want to.
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Ha that does, thanks!
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Do we have a thread for video-games that music lifted from?
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Might be a stretch but the synth drone around 5:40
fucking dead ringer
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whoever the composer for sonic is, should be pretty embarrassed right now for the blunder of plagiarizing one of the biggest bands in japan
also this:
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omg this is like Doom level plagiarism
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