May 23rd, 2018 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 3 | 4 Comments

The Super Soul Bros. band has done a lot of great game music covers over the years, and if you’ve been to any conventions or seen any Fangamer events, you’ve probably seen them in action. They’re a lot of fun and put lots of energy into their music. They recently released an album dedicated to EarthBound/MOTHER series music that I absolutely love, so I wanted to make sure I share...Read More »

October 4th, 2017 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1 | 10 Comments

The New Japan BGM Philharmonic Orchestra always puts out some amazing music, and it’s always a treat when there’s new MOTHER series stuff. Here are a couple newer ones that I wasn’t aware of: M2 – Smiles & Tears M2 – Gray Hand Bus: M2 – Hospital Theme: M1 – All I Needed Was You: M1 – Wisdom of the World But wait! That’s not all! There...Read More »

May 30th, 2017 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1, Videos | 4 Comments

A fan named Ari composed an Eight Melodies arrangement last year for a local orchestra to play: Hiya Mato! My name is Ari and I’m apart of UT Dallas’ Video Game/Anime Orchestra Ensemble. I’m apart of their music production team, and for the past 9 months I’ve been working on a Eight Melodies Arrangement/Transcription based off the track of the same name from the Mother 198...Read More »

July 16th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Videos | Comments Off on EarthBound Eight Melodies w/ Lyrics

I shared this on a past EarthBound Central Live, but it’s too good not to share here! This is a cover of the Sound Stone music from EarthBound, with some new lyrics added: The musician also added this info in the description: Earthbound is my favorite RPG of all time. By sheer chance I came into posession of a copy when I was about 9 years old and the impact the game had on me was immeasura...Read More »

July 8th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Videos | 2 Comments

I shared this on EarthBound Central Live the other day, but it turned out to be too cool not to post here! Pishi sent this in a good while ago: Hi ‘Mato! I found this very good rendition of the two Earthbound themes. Unfortunately I don’t know much about the band. And here’s the video: The first part is Fourside’s music, and the second part is Twoson’s. You can skip ...Read More »

November 21st, 2013 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 3 | 1 Comment

Jdaster64 – the fellow behind the Video Game Variations albums that we’ve looked at previously – has his new album ready, and as promised it’s full of MOTHER music! Here’s what he says: My second album of Nintendo piano arrangements is finally available on Loudr.fm! Like the first, it prominently features the MOTHER series, including the following tracks: “Be...Read More »

August 21st, 2013 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Videos | 12 Comments

The Super Soul Bros is a band that “plays live video game music, with soul.” It’s also comprised of some of the guys who work on EarthBound Saga! (Wow, EB Saga has its own Wikipedia article 😯 ) In one of their most recent concerts they played a version of the naming screen music from EarthBound, check it out! The other songs they played this concert are online for you to list...Read More »

May 20th, 2013 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Videos | 11 Comments

A couple fans have sent me links to this music video of the Onett theme: He’s done this with a lot of other game music too, like this! Check them all out here! ...Read More »

February 23rd, 2013 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1 | 9 Comments

Jdaster, whose piano work we’ve seen before here, recently released an album of live jazzy piano music of video game music, including a number of songs from EarthBound. You can see/hear a preview of the album here: The EarthBound/MOTHER tracks on it are: Wisdom of the World (MOTHER) Threed, Free at Last (EarthBound) Snowman (MOTHER) Winters White (EarthBound) Smiles and Tears (EarthBound) ...Read More »

February 17th, 2013 | Audio Stuff, Videos | 7 Comments

Robbie Benson, aka Ness from EarthBound Saga, has a band called Super Soul Bros. They performed live video game music during FanimeCon 2012 in San Jose last May, and one of those songs was a soulful, jazzy arrangement of Snow Wood Boarding School from EarthBound. Check it out! Watch more Super Soul Bros. videos here, and check out their album, too! They’ve got lots of good music from Zelda,...Read More »