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What's In My MP3 Player: Earthbound "Snowbound" OC Remix

Posted by Nadia Oxford

 

“Snowman,” the tune that has carried the Mother/Earthbound games through its wintry spots since the first title on the Famicom, is one of my favourite pieces of game music. I actually heard the song in Super Smash Bros Brawl some months before I played Earthbound and had a name for the it. It's a peaceful bit of music, if not a little melancholy—again, my first encounter with Snowman was the background music of the Abandoned Zoo level in the Subspace Emissary, and it wasn't a cheerful visit (If someone were to make a list of the least joyous places on Earth, I imagine an “Abandoned Zoo” would be close up there with a broken-down Disneyland inhabited only by snaggle-toothed hobos and sick dogs).

I rough out five months of the year in a harsh, dead climate, so the sleepy warmth of the Winters boarding school in Earthbound, accompanied by a soft version of “Snowman,” produced an atmosphere I appreciated. My brother believes winter exists to make snowboarders happy, my dad believes winter exists to swear at, but I believe winter exists to wind us down, bring us closer to our friends and family in warm, happy gatherings.

Until the cabin fever sets in and we kill each other.

“Snowbound” is a trance-style OC Remix of Snowman. It's not as peaceful as its source material, but it's just the thing to rouse you from your winter blahs, should you be suffering from them. There are still many, many days before the Earth once again feels Demeter's gentle kiss.

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AlexB said:

Snowman is also the only music from Earthbound that is reused in Mother 3 as the background track, too, so I'd guess it's special even to Itoi.

Before the rabid Mother 3 fanbase attacks me, I'll say yes, there were Mother/Mother 2 songs in Mother 3, but I'm fairly certain this was the only one that looped as background music in a section of the overworld.

January 24, 2009 11:06 AM

Amber Ahlborn said:

Nice remix.  Somehow I missed this one during the months after first discovering OCR that I rabidly began trying to DL everything.

January 25, 2009 7:35 PM

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