Songs that sound like Earthbound

This playlist I made was partly inspired by Earthbound (especially 'Summers')

https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/1jVK51XMMxtWHS3yW5IXaN?si=bCUzIMS4T6aM7k86kJggSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApJkWt5Sp4

wow!!

hahaha

wow indeed

the earthbound (well, more mother 3) starts around 1:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRWtkdREOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGHQgCvQMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--rfbWJq7SY

https://musicfordreams.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere-junior-i-a-collection-of-cosmic-childrens-songs

certain tracks stood out in regards to thread relevance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9adJKhtZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjTWVPrVFE

kind of a mother 3 feel to that one

just dropping in here in case anyone wanted to know and was not aware that Chip Tanaka (who worked on the music for Earthbound and a bunch of other Nintendo games) has a new album out on Bandcamp

https://chiptanaka.bandcamp.com/album/domingo

(think I'd missed this thread before, will be checking out the youtubes now - or once I've finished listening to Tanaka's Snoopy Concert music for Super Famicom/SNES. Earthboundish vibes plus Vince Guaraldi "Linus & Lucy" motif all over the place)

(yeaahhh I stole both these from a Frank Cifaldi tweet, hat tip etc)

Beautiful Wikipedia sentences of our time:

Among specific musical influences, Tanaka has cited Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, Stackridge, Yabby U, the Flying Lizards, Prince, Lalo Rodriguez, My Bloody Valentine, Frank Zappa, Keiichi Suzuki, Hal Willner's various artists compilations, Sly Dunbar, Jah Wobble, and the Slits.

Madalyn Merkey - Please Don't Keep Me Waiting (Side B)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFw6Jk0Gjz4

再生ハイパーべるーヴ - Pink Metallic Crusaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFBc-O29Dnc

much of colin newman's 'it seems' qualifies for this thread imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbPW9vwbREA

chihei hatakeyama's music often sounds v earthboundy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9MLOnIbEYE

chara "private beach"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TGtYEazoSI

mr. g "meditative state (reflective)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asXg_R0GuZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQNLq1huYQ

just found out about this, new arranged versions of various earthbound tunes from keiichi suzuki himself released this year. he provides vocals too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJMnWEezS8E

probably the most proto-earthbound i've heard from suzuki's previous work

i love this video that highlights one of hip tanaka's idiosyncratic compositional techniques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQ_HO7rZhI

this song by miki nakatani and ryuichi sakamoto has a certain ethereal earthbound-y quality, i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ShKUHmnQU

oh, that's blocked for me but now I'm curious. I love that first nakatani album that sakamoto produced. which one? "chronic love"?

oh that's annoying, this one should work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKjgrE1G0I

song in question is track 2, 雨だれ ("amadare" ["raindrops"])

i think this is her best album, futuristic micropop w/ impressive production work from sakamoto and nobukazu takemura. love the peak y2k aesthetic / gen-x soft club cover art

I literally just came here to post a track lol

https://soundcloud.com/vanishingtwin/zuum

hard agree on the y2k shiseikatsu cover art, totally rules (x-post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIgeh8PEQXI

just the start really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIIFk0CiV04

^Excellent pull, has both the longing sweetness of something like "Smiles and Tears" AND a touch the weirdo electronica that soundtrack does so well. Also thank you for making me aware George Riley has a new album out!

jun chikuma's (bomberman hero) latest one sounds v v earthboundy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7pexiaVuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgcT_Q0t2rU

tenda village

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKl5poUmWuw

There's a bunch of Earthbound comparisons in the Stereogum review for the latest Kate NV album:

https://www.stereogum.com/2214730/kate-nv-wow/reviews/album-of-the-week/

elton vincent “coda”

https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/track/coda

Trans-4M "Atharvaveda"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875kmd4GXMA

Not to mention a very Earthbound/Mother-looking globe on that Trans-4M cover.

Spotted this one ages ago, but I've yet to see it included in any of the Earthbound samples lists.

The Lava Springs theme has to be a sample from Jon Hassell and Brian Eno's "Delta Rain Dream":

Lava Springs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSkrXD7LPc

Delta Rain Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4MxODnbKks

getting "this video is not available" on my end... but I do have that record handy, and whoa, that does sound really similar!

I hear serious Moonside vibes in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBUEgCWR3lw

tay-k “gotta blast”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttX9kiL0L9k

Miroque (ミロク): Botanical Sunset (植物の夕焼け) (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwaSB3i1nzY

Very nice bedroom ambient stuff. Track 1 in particular could come right out of Earthbound, but the whole album kind of has that vibe. Courtesy of the lovely FOUND/SOUND blog: https://www.fondsound.com/interview-miroque-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AD%E3%82%AF/

Typo correction, the blog is called FOND/SOUND.

midori - "I・NO・RI"

that little slide whistle sound that repeats throughout...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMt3UKdqBU

hmm timestamp didn't seem to take on the embed but it's the one at 31:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXHAp8ls5k

Good one, I love that song.

yeah all the weird electronic noises in the beat def feels like something you'd hear in a video game