Not sure if it's too against the spirit of the thread, but the FFXV Stand By Me Cover started me down a path of listening to some original covers of existing songs I've liked in recent games.
The closing song over Wolfenstein: New Order was one I enjoyed and led me to the original Chris Issack version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiTn4j7gVvY
Just Cause 3 had a pretty interesting cover of Prodigy's Firestarter over the opening credits as another one.
Anyone know of some games that have repurposed licensed music into fairly different cover version?
Hello fellow video game music people! May I suggest a particular podcast revolving around this topic? Two of them, actually.
Super Marcato Bros host a very thoughtful series delving into various video game music categories, and actually bring a bit of musical experience to the table. They're very diligent about crediting the specific composers of particular tracks as well, which I like. They also don't play more than necessary from each track, instead using their time to get to the meat of a song and how it contributes to the feel of a game.
Top Score is hosted by Emily Reese, and she conducts interviews with game composers. I especially recommend her interview with the composer for Ori and The Blind Forest. It's a bit shorter than most podcasts, but well worth it.
Hello fellow video game must people! May I suggest a particular podcast revolving around this topic? Two of them, actually.
Super Marcato Bros host a very thoughtful series delving into various video game music categories, and actually bring a bit of musical experience to the table. They're very diligent about crediting the specific composers of particular tracks as well, which I like. They also don't play more than necessary from each track, instead using their time to get to the meat of a song and how it contributes to the feel of a game.
Top Score is hosted by Emily Reese, and she conducts interviews with game composers. I especially recommend her interview with the composer for Ori and The Blind Forest. It's a bit shorter than most podcasts, but well worth it.
The current episode of Super Marcato Bros is about Megaman 9/10, and they do an excellent job of picking apart some of the reasons I did and didn't like certain tracks. I love hearing people with actual composing knowledge talking technical about pieces I know intimately just from repeat listens.
Super Marcato Bros new podcast is about Undertale, if you're into that kind of thing. And let's face it, if you're in this thread, you probably are, a little bit.
It's great because one of the brothers didn't play it, and the other hasn't finished it. They manage to pull some very surprising insights about certain characters and certain musical contexts, just based on qualities of the particular tracks. Even in direct contradiction to their own perceptions!
The brother who played it talks about not making it to the end, and thinks that Asgore is a big-bad Ganon-type villain, but when they're listening to the Asgore track, they remark on how it's final battle track that isn't very "dark".
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Thanks again to @Didgeridoo for turning me on to Super Marcato Bros. I've been going through the archive picking out interesting looking episodes, and today I found out that one of the brothers created a Metroid tribute album.
Now, this isn't a remix album. This is an album of new compositions that thematically, instrumentally, and technically resemble metroid tracks. And they're very good.
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The closing song over Wolfenstein: New Order was one I enjoyed and led me to the original Chris Issack version.
Just Cause 3 had a pretty interesting cover of Prodigy's Firestarter over the opening credits as another one.
Anyone know of some games that have repurposed licensed music into fairly different cover version?
Edit: Oh wait, it was the imitator who posted bait and switch videos. That went from bad news to good news.
he always just makes a new account with backup urls/mirrors
Super Marcato Bros host a very thoughtful series delving into various video game music categories, and actually bring a bit of musical experience to the table. They're very diligent about crediting the specific composers of particular tracks as well, which I like. They also don't play more than necessary from each track, instead using their time to get to the meat of a song and how it contributes to the feel of a game.
Top Score is hosted by Emily Reese, and she conducts interviews with game composers. I especially recommend her interview with the composer for Ori and The Blind Forest. It's a bit shorter than most podcasts, but well worth it.
The current episode of Super Marcato Bros is about Megaman 9/10, and they do an excellent job of picking apart some of the reasons I did and didn't like certain tracks. I love hearing people with actual composing knowledge talking technical about pieces I know intimately just from repeat listens.
no the bait and switch videos are fantastic what is wrong with you
Officially added to my chillax playlist.
It's great because one of the brothers didn't play it, and the other hasn't finished it. They manage to pull some very surprising insights about certain characters and certain musical contexts, just based on qualities of the particular tracks. Even in direct contradiction to their own perceptions!
Unrelated:
https://supermarcatobros.bandcamp.com/album/child-of-the-chozo
Now, this isn't a remix album. This is an album of new compositions that thematically, instrumentally, and technically resemble metroid tracks. And they're very good.