MIDI Week Singles: "Mute City" - F-Zero (SNES)

Today's MIDI Week Single is the culmination of the past two weeks, starting with Faceball 2000 then F-Zero X and finally with the very first F-Zero.

"Mute City" from F-Zero on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990).
Play It Loud! Original Soundtrack. Vol. 1
Record Label: Nintendo of America and Nintendo Power
Composer: Yumiko Kanki
Game Developer: Nintendo EAD

"Mute City" is the song that I consider to be the equivalent of the "Overworld BGM" theme from Super Mario Bros. for this game.  Whenever I think of music from the F-Zero franchise, this is the first song that is conjured up in my mind.  For me, it encapsulates the early 1990s, standing in G&G playing F-Zero (later Dr. Potts would acquire the game so I would play it at his house too) and immediately deciding that The Wild Goose was going to be the space car I would drive.  Mute City was the first track so this is probably the most frequently heard song and honestly, I think it's the catchiest from the game, although the rest of the tracks are all great, "Mute City" just has that extra chutzpah.

Just to note, in the N64 game F-Zero X, the name of the track was changed from "Mute City" to "Endless Challenge," possibly because the song titles were originally just the name of the race track they were associated with.

That's really all I wanted to do with this.

Have a nice day.



~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
Increasing Pace

MIDI Week Singles: "All I Need Is 30 Deaths" - F-Zero X (N64)

"All I Need Is 30 Deaths" from F-Zero X on the Nintendo 64 (1998)

F-Zero X Original Sound Track

Record Label: Pony Canon (PCCG-00459)

Composers: Taro Bando & Hajime Wakai

Game Developer: Nintendo EAD

Now, anyone familiar with the F-Zero franchise will probably be wondering why I chose such a random song from such a large catalogue of recognizable music.  Simply put, until last week, my brain had misinformed me about the origins of this particular song.

Up until last week, I was convinced that the melody from this track (starting at 0:22) was from Faceball 2000.  How sure was I about this apparent fact?  I would have put money on it.  I have been so sure that this song was used in Faceball 2000 that since the first time I heard it, probably back in 1999 that I absolutely knew that this song was in that SNES game from 1992.

That is, until last week when I went looking for it.  

Can you blame me though?  Listen to that odd little bit of melody that lasts a mere 10 seconds.  Now go back to last weeks MWS and tell me that this melody would not have worked perfectly in Faceball 2000.  I am just a bit sad that this has not been the case.

Nevertheless, I find this to be a pretty catchy little ditty that lasts 10 seconds amidst rising driving chord progressions (pun not intended).  And despite this song being an original composition and not based off of a weird and quirky soundtrack from 11 years prior, I still like it.



~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
Running In Circles