This is why I need some education in classical music.

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:29 am

The Airship theme in Super Mario Bros 3 is actually Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War". I had no idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets

Someone please wiki edit that shit under the popular culture section:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet ... ar_culture

Post by **SnowKitty** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:39 am

waht the fuck O_o wow... i did not know this lol

Post by **aaron** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:40 am

yeah. should also mention the useage of mars in return fire.

Post by **HeavyMetalMe** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:53 am

THE PLANETS!

When I saw the title of this, I wanted to repeat the Sirius jazz station slogan which is "Smart kids listen to classical music, but the cool kids listen to jazz."

Something like that- yeah, I'm off topic. But Mars is a genius composition.

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:43 pm

Clubbed To Death uses the start of one of the Planets too, cant remember which one though :s

Post by **marurun** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:47 am

It isn't Mars exactly, but it's clearly influenced by it. Mars is much cooler whereas Mario 3 derives a similar beat and initial theme and just repeats it endlessly. Nintendo wanted to use Bolero for the Zelda title music but it was still under copyright and they wrote their own theme instead, thank god.

That said, there is lots of badass classical music, particularly at the cusp, the late 1800s, early 1900s, of modern orchestral music.

Oh, and while Mars is 5/4, the airship music is 4/4. Try listening to Mars long enough and you'll feel off-balance. It's great.