OCR00970 - Super Mario Bros. 3 'Battle Rocks' [Archive]

Mustin

04-17-2003, 06:07 AM

Wouldn't call this funk, but I will call it freakin' fantastic.

I kinda wish the notes stayed more true to the original, but the intrepretations are good.

Excellent sample qualities, and this Blues Brothers-esque piece just sounds fabulous.

Sounds like the "Runaway Five" got a hold of Mario.

Is it me, or does Super Mario Bros. 3 inspire the strangest mixes?

Dhsu

04-17-2003, 06:29 AM

I already reviewed this in WIP. To be brief, this is AmIEvil.

'Nuff said.

Trance-Canada™

04-17-2003, 06:54 AM

8O HOLEY SHIT MAN!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS :D , that's one kick ass song, the hole thing :o , I don't think I'll listen to anything else for a long LONG time.

I really can't get enough of the extremely sweet sax solo in the middle 8)

Jared Hudson

04-17-2003, 07:58 AM

All I can say is wow. By far the most acoustic sounding production done electronically I've heard on this site. Great job...this one is a keeper.

I'm VERY curious on what samples you used. Sounds like you used the Memphis Horns library, but I might be way off. I've got to know what killer samples those were. INCREDIBLE! Great job using them too!

Jared

AarowSwift

04-17-2003, 10:25 AM

I'd just like to say that this is one of those songs that's become an instant favorite of mine. One of those mp3's that just sits in Winamp by itself, eternally looping.

Nara_kun

04-17-2003, 11:18 AM

this piece really rocks! like the saxophones.. this song is something i will listen to very often :) groovy! i love it!

Evil Oni Link

04-17-2003, 11:23 AM

nice job :D

wethamster

04-17-2003, 01:53 PM

...........Im spechless i ...i...i THIS ROCKS i am evil, please cuntinue with the good work, and i hope you keep this style, of music up. Ive heard everything, i am evil has made, but this has got, to be the best remix yet. 8O 8O 8O

Scotty B.

04-17-2003, 02:16 PM

This is SO James Brown meets Blues Brothers meets Mario.

UNH!!! HA!!! SO FUNKEH!!! HA!!! GET DOWN!!! KISS MAHSEFF!!! GOOD GOD!!!

...

Yeah.

Great job! :D

Mustin

04-17-2003, 02:16 PM

Jared - I agree. Definitely sounds like The Memphis Horns library.

WolfMaster

04-17-2003, 02:36 PM

This is saaaweeet!
I seem to have a habit of posting only when I really really like the song
and this be one of them.
Awsome work man

Jimmy the Lip

04-17-2003, 04:00 PM

Oh, I'm certainly glad this one got through the Judges so fast. I listened to this when AmIEvil put it up on the forums for public comment, and since I loved it then, I love it now. The rising brass and intro help to build up to the song itself, and when it gets in, there's no stopping it. The saxophone tes this bluesy gem, with brass blares and rolls in the background to add to the effect. An organ comes in at about the :55 mark, giving a little more variety to the piece and keeping it from getting too repetitive - that is, if it could possibly get repetitive. The jazzy riff with the improv sax therein is very snazzy, and during the last forty-five seconds the brass takes backseat to a somewhat eclectic organ solo in the foreground. AmIEvil has always put out quality ReMixes, and jazz mixes are usually some of my favourites, so this lives up to all expectations. "Battle Rocks" has a very realistic, human feel to it and the instrumentation is very well done both in arrangement and the quality of the sound. This one is definitely one that'll be staying on MY playlist for some time to come. Thanks, djpretzel. Thanks AmIEvil. Thanks OCR!

JesustheDarkLord

04-17-2003, 05:13 PM

This is a great song, and IMO is a wonderful change of pace from the other SMB3 songs on the site.

Ryan8bit

04-17-2003, 06:04 PM

This is really great. It's not my favorite kind of music, but I really like it. The only thing is that it could probably have gone on for twice as long and I wouldn't have known it.

AmIEvil is hands down one of my favorite artists on this site. How do you do it?

Neimonster

04-17-2003, 06:32 PM

Great song man, you ARE evil :twisted:
On a sidenote: are you working on something, Ryan?

Joe Redifer

04-17-2003, 07:45 PM

Excellent. The bass line kind of reminds me of Virts' old Dr. Mario mix which was/is also excellent, but I like this better. The sound samples are great. Not sure what I can really add to this discussion. Excellent!

Psycrow

04-17-2003, 09:50 PM

The lead gets a wee bit lost behind the rest, so it coulda been a hair or two louder, but other than that, w00t w00t :)

progressive

04-18-2003, 04:43 AM

I would have preferred a more strict melody, but what the hell you get a 10 for presentation. Great job.

Dart

04-18-2003, 04:54 AM

THXZ buchys now that song will stay in my head for the rest of tonight
GOOD JOB

Domukaz

04-18-2003, 07:37 AM

This track rocks. Period. I can picture this being in a crime-caper flick like Ocean's Eleven or The Italian Job, in a montage where the criminals are getting organized and everything. Either that, or it's the perfect night-cruisin' track.

Ever since hearing Mustin's awesome Sax skills in Controlled Jazz and The Atomizer, not to mention Cecil's Jinn & Juice, I've had a soft spot for the sax, and this piece is like a bolt outta nowhere. With awesome instruments, a good supporting piano, and a solo in the middle that I adore, this is easily one of my faves.

9/10 for its somewhat too-electronic organ.

Mustin

04-18-2003, 02:09 PM

Thanks for the props, but that's not all me. Most of the sax we record is Nathan Mcleod (Nate Cloud).

RiceLikeWhoa

04-18-2003, 07:26 PM

Not that this is a bad piece, it is a very nice jazz piece...

However, i liked AmIEvil's FF6 Death On the Snowfield much more

Veovis

04-19-2003, 01:59 AM

I don't like this style too much, but it is well done. Loved amievil's 'death on the snowfield' and 'let there be light' much much more though...got any more of that comin'?

LuckyXIII

04-19-2003, 05:26 AM

WOW. Easily one of the best remixes on this site. This sounds like music from a deleted scene of The Blues Brothers. At first I was a bit skeptical (as I was when I first saw The Blues Brothers). But after the first time I realized, wow, something amazing just happened here. The second time around I noticed my foot was tapping and my head was bobbing the entire time.

Dig.

Kamikaze Noodle

04-19-2003, 05:26 AM

This is awesome! I'm not sure what genre I'd call this. It isn't exactly funk, but it DEFINITELY isn't jazz. Or at least I wouldn't call it jazz. Well anyways, while I enjoyed the whole song, I loved the soloing a lot more than the rest of it. Sometimes it seemed almost... corny. But like I said, it's awesome, and very deserving of the first "FUCKIN" I've ever seen Darkesword put before "SOLID". :D
AmIEvil R0x0rz j00r b0X0rz!!!!11

Protricity

04-19-2003, 07:21 AM

I didnt like this song as much as other AmIEvil works. I think it concentrated way too heavily on style and samplage and not nearly enough on arrangement to do the great original justice. I didnt like the new chords or the static beat. It had some nice improv though which is always good. Way too short though.

IceRaptor

04-19-2003, 03:24 PM

DUDE, I normaly hate jazz and that old timey music, and maybe i still do... But this one i do like.

Any ways this remix OWNS, it sounds really good.

I like the creativity.

I give it a 10/10

GOOD JOB!!!

gilead42

04-19-2003, 03:49 PM

Great work!! That was heaven for me. Good job.

Andrew

04-19-2003, 04:34 PM

I was very impressed with this arrangement! It extraordinarily fills the gap that the Nintendo Entertainment System's sound left it. AmiEvil has definitely exposed the full potential of this piece, making it in the most logical and wonderful style.

NightWish

04-19-2003, 06:11 PM

Wow. This is nicely done! Though I already figured that this type of remix would be done as Super Mario Bros 3 music sounds jazzy already, I'd say that this remix is a nice extension to the already great SMB3 music. Nice.

Ryan8bit

04-19-2003, 11:11 PM

On a sidenote: are you working on something, Ryan?

I'm always working on something. If you really want to know more, you can PM me.

OverCoat

04-22-2003, 06:29 AM

It's hard to distinguish music composed on a computer and a live piece these days. I'm going with live piece. There's NO WAY this sound could be replicated with any Gigasamples or soundfonts or crap like that. Then again... if it is, it's THE most realistic computerized composition... ever...

EVAR!

Anyways, regardless of it being live or not, I thoroughly enjoyed this remix. It made me of course, think back to the 70s, and the Blues Brothers. This is a swingin groovy song. Must download.

Mustin

04-22-2003, 01:18 PM

It's hard to distinguish music composed on a computer and a live piece these days. I'm going with live piece. There's NO WAY this sound could be replicated with any Gigasamples or soundfonts or crap like that. Then again... if it is, it's THE most realistic computerized composition... ever...

Maybe you don't play one of these instruments or something, but you can tell it's fake.

Great brass samples, though. In passing, most probably wouldn't be able to tell it wasn't real (until you turned it up).

AmIEviL? Yes, you are.

LuckyXIII

04-22-2003, 07:17 PM

they ARE samples?! Wow...i had entertained the possibility cuz i thought there were a couple times the sax coulda slurred some notes instead of it being so staccato...but man. wow. where does one find samples such as these?

MacDaddy Mike

04-23-2003, 12:47 AM

Sax isn't brass.

Trance-Canada™

04-23-2003, 02:40 AM

Sax isn't brass.

Who said it was?

The Xyco

04-23-2003, 02:44 AM

GOOD GRAVY I LOVE THIS THIS TRACK!!!
i've loved almost ALL of AmIEvil's pieces, but this one takes the f**king cake!!! a real smooth yet pounding beat that you can really dance to. Will make your most depressed feelings shatter like a martini glass to granite. altho i could say it sorta moves away from the original at points, that doesnt mean it cant be SOME SERIOUS TUNAGE!!!

MAJOR THANKS to AmIEvil for making such an awesome track, you dunno how many of my bad days you just turned around

Kamikaze Noodle

04-23-2003, 04:53 AM

Heh, you guys thought it was real? The drumbeat alone gives it away. Although that is a nice rimshot sample...

Jared Hudson

04-23-2003, 07:16 AM

If you want samples like that.....BUY them.

Memphis Horns...I've been wanting these for a LONG time.

http://www.ilio.com/ilio/memphis/index.html

LuckyXIII

04-23-2003, 07:32 AM

If you want samples like that.....BUY them.

Memphis Horns...I've been wanting these for a LONG time.

http://www.ilio.com/ilio/memphis/index.html

Well of course...teehee...how else would one get them?

*clicks link*

Wooie - the high-quality things of life ain't free, that's for sure.

LOVE your Metal Gear May Cry Mix by the way.

BeanbagSkratchbob

04-23-2003, 08:28 AM

O.K. so I rarely post a ReMix ReView.

But when you can SEE those guys in their blue tuxedos playin' those horns in your head...it's a GOOD MIX. :D

incinerator

04-25-2003, 06:49 PM

Wow...incredible mix. Props to AmIEvil for making this bluesy/jazzy/whatever-the-hell-it-is remix that just won't leave my head! 8)

TheKingOfFightingGames

04-25-2003, 10:54 PM

Possibly the best Jazz I have ever and will ever here! Awsome remix of a song I never thought could sound so good.

MacDaddy Mike

04-26-2003, 05:03 PM

Elex Synn

04-30-2003, 03:01 AM

Holy shit this rocks!! I swear I must have listened to it a good 4 times straight when I forst heard it.

We need more mixes like this.. However you would classify it.. I'd say it's jazzy/blues, but that's just me.

Mega props for this one man! MEGA PROPS.

Trance-Canada™

04-30-2003, 05:29 AM

Who said it was?

Well...

Great brass samples
they ARE samples?! Wow...i had entertained the possibility cuz i thought there were a couple times the sax coulda slurred some notes instead of it being so staccato

that doesn't mean they were specifically speaking of the sax as being a brass instrument, there are brass in this song you know?

lefty

05-02-2003, 04:59 AM

50 posts?? good god... i wish R&G stuff could warrant this kind of a response...

good stuff indeed... but i was hopin for something a little more rock or metal from infamous amievil...

well ill definately look forward to more..

Blaster Atoms

05-02-2003, 06:54 PM

MacDaddy Mike

05-02-2003, 08:26 PM

they ARE samples?! Wow...i had entertained the possibility cuz i thought there were a couple times the sax coulda slurred some notes instead of it being so staccato

Yeah, right. Nothing about a sax here.

frobnitz

05-13-2003, 07:49 PM

This remix is excellent, I love to listen and dance along with it = ) I give it a 9.8/10 style sofistication uniqueness

Good stuff!

StealthRPGcat

06-13-2003, 01:56 AM

Brings back memories! Great song... Now i wish i had my old copy of Super Mario 3.... darnit...

Mirai Gen

07-08-2003, 04:41 AM

Gahhh! HOLY SHIZ-ITE! I was laughing and crying and cheering all the time when I heard this. Hilarious, wonderfully remixed old school song. Got the funk!

OK OK. The lazy swinging intro that models after the original track is a great touch. Another one is the well-performed drums, and the nicely played sax/trumpet later on about :45 in. And also the sax's groovin' add on at the end is WONDERFUL! Too damn good!

Horadrim_Bearer

07-08-2003, 03:10 PM

I personally dislike this mix. It takes away some of the quality the actual theme had (and, back then, it was low quality)
I blame the original being so poor for this poor remix...

Firewraith

09-25-2003, 01:06 AM

AmIEviL, I must commend you on this awesome mix. It has become my official theme music. XD I blast it when I'm just crusin' around my campus, and people either think I'm insane, or really dig it. And in fact, a few people even recognized it as your mix. ^^

Catchy as hell, I never thought I could like a song from SMB3 so much. Or bob my head so much to it. XD Keep up the great work!

LibertyCabbage

10-07-2003, 02:15 AM

hot skippy damn the instruments and the play was teh jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT!!

too repetitive and boring, it had no spirit :( i think the problem was it didn't stray far enough from the original song... normally this would be a GOOD thing but the original song is too repetitive and boring so there's the problem :(

just disappointed that it sounded so good but I didn't like it :(

The Protricity

10-08-2003, 11:51 PM

This remix is stupendous! The beginning (in my opinion) is hilarious, and then it gets down to business with a great take on the original song. This remix, at times, kind of reminded me of the "Blues Brothers" theme from their first movie (one of my favorites). Good stuff!

Cano

10-09-2003, 03:43 AM

OMG!!!
I imagined a fucking goomba with a sax, dark glasses and a black suit, a koopa playing the battery, outfited the same, and another danged goomba playing organ in the background, outfited the same. all this while mario pulls up in a black lincoln or someting, outfitted the same!!! definately impressive. I always found this piece funny, but this one takes it to the limits of fun, and of koolness. you just cant stop tapping yer foot and bobbing yer head. awesome, and the overall mood of the song is really kool. one of the best remixes in OCR.

Cano

yay! the real song shoulda been like this.

kirbenvost

02-02-2004, 11:30 AM

lol, this is awesome! such a funky and cool old-school sound... I like that electric piano (not to mention that little subtle synth near the beginning), and the ska-ish sound in the middle is really cool! :D AmIEvil just gets better and better.

bouncerboy15

02-03-2004, 12:14 AM

Great mix. Nice sax tone and such. 10/10!

Thornless Rose

02-03-2004, 01:02 AM

Definitely one of the most memorable pieces at OCR. I love listening to this as it reminds me of my childhood days playing SMB3. I was never good enough to beat the levels so i'd just play in battle mode with my friends.

8/10

Bren

04-03-2004, 11:17 AM

DAMN. I love this song. I never get bored of it. I love that dirty sound the sax has (I dont know how else to describe it) and that first part the sax just pops in...blah I dont know what im saying so screw it...DOWNLOAD THIS SONG DAMMIT!!!

Corporal Eschebone

04-04-2004, 05:23 PM

Heh, I like the percussion in this mix combined with the saxaphones. Pretty good mix, possibly one of the defining mixes of OCR.

Great King Rat

09-11-2004, 09:51 AM

Nice. First it doesn't take away from an already groovy bassline, then it adds a very nice melody, and those cheesy bits that I only usually hear on poor pop songs. The electric piano stops the melody from getting boring before the sax solo. The sax is very good. Bad sax = killer. This should be heard without hesitation

demosthene

11-26-2004, 08:42 PM

Well. I can only assume that my brain somehow completely failed to function the first time I heard this, cause I didn't remember it at all. Then, just now, I played it accidentally while attempting to play something completely different and.... WOW. This just rocks. That's all there is to it really.

Txai

01-06-2005, 01:37 PM

Yeah! Great funky/jazz. The Battle Theme from Mario with saxophone and organs is excellent. I liked. Two thumbs up.

Bilde

01-24-2005, 10:23 PM

This remix just rocks, I just love the Blues Brothers style it's funky'ing nice 8)
This is perfect for improviseing blues on my piano, blues and Nintendo music is the perfect nicely combination :D
Higly recommended downloading.

Pip is uh.....

03-14-2005, 02:55 AM

WOW. WOW.WOW this is nice! I loved all 100% of this mix. From begining to end it was awesome. The horns and recording quality were superb. AmIEviL is one of the most varied and intriguing mixers on this site. Let this mix be a testament to his glory. Download it now!

Generic Asian Guy

07-07-2005, 11:25 PM

STEFAN HAS GOTZ DA FUNK!

Nineko

07-23-2005, 05:58 PM

ok, time to review "Peter Gunn's theme".
oops, I mean "Battle Rocks" :lol:

nothing to say, I love blues brothers, and other posts in this thread already tell about this similitude.
amazing instruments here, wonderful blues arrangement, this masterpiece is awesome!

my evaluation: 29/30

Cheginator

09-04-2006, 07:48 PM

Love it. Amazingly well done with a nice 'feel good' theme. :D Brilliant ending and a really great counter melody. Kudos and I'm looking forward to more just like this!

Opterion

01-14-2009, 05:01 AM

Jazz is one of my favorite genres. Period. To see it this well done for one of the best games on the NES that I've played, Especially the sax work (it's what I play), is just what I should expect from someone like AmIEviL.

Pachi Risu

11-19-2009, 10:57 PM

Great, just great. More like this please.

Crulex

02-27-2010, 08:47 PM

Whoo! Hit me! I can hear the James Brown/ Blues Bros. riffage in this piece, and I'm loving it! The sax used for this remix nails it perfectly. Great work with the horns as well. It's quite a gem that I almost missed here.

RobinHood3000

07-29-2010, 07:03 PM

Reminds me a little bit of Baby Elephant Walk, by Henry Mancini. I dig it.

08-27-2010, 06:19 PM

dang, somehow my original review to this got deleted.

I love the intro, the performances, and especially that sax. This song hits it's stride and brings it on home with a combination of groove and style.

The brass sounds excellent, and the solos are solid. A definite OCR classic.

Holy Land

10-08-2010, 01:25 AM

This is HOT.

DarkSim

12-09-2010, 05:05 PM

Incredibly good stuff right here. Whenever I feel like listening to something a little bit different from OCR, this song always goes on. Groovy, upbeat, great solos, and the samples are exquisite. Always brings a smile to my face and a tap to my foot :-)