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    EarthBound Beginnings (Mother 1) 
  • The Mother games' signature song: "Pollyanna (I Believe In You)".
    • As far as the actual in-game versions go, they aren't too shabby; Mother, Earthbound, Mother1+2, and Mother 3.
    • Also the Smash Bros. version. Definitely one of the better remixes from Melee.
    • Here's an acoustic and flute cover with vocals. The singing is even better than the original, slowing down the tempo making for a rather soothing rendition.
    • And yet another cover, this one with an acoustic jazz flavor, also incorporating flute. Primarily taking Melee's version as inspiration, it keeps close to the tune while adding some variations of it's own.
    • Yet another jazz remix, but mixed with funk and its own fantastic vocal track with two vocalists.
  • The EarthBound Beginnings title theme, also called "Mother Earth" or "Time Passage", is a surprisingly tender, emotional track for the title theme of a NES game, and its beautiful combination of warmth and melancholy deftly sets the tone for the story to come.
  • Snowman, aka the Winters theme appeared in MOTHER/EarthBound Beginnings, MOTHER 2/EarthBound, MOTHER 3, was remade for MOTHER 1+2, appeared in a remixed form on the MOTHER soundtrack (which was an incredible album considering it was more than just a BGM-rip) and of course has the obligatory Brawl remix which makes it even more haunting and beautiful.

    EarthBound (Mother 2) 
  • The hotel theme is a short, but surprisingly emotive song.
  • The Bazaar theme is an enrapturing Arabian-styled tune.
  • The surprisingly catchy Pyramid theme, also with some Arabian influences.
  • These two/themes, playing respectively before and after the Kraken fight, is a soothing sea shanty that'll make you bob in your seat.
  • If you can't yet get enough of the Runaway Five jazz goodness, check out this theme.

    Mother 3 
  • "Ode to Ancestors: 8th Movement" works as a Moment of Awesome, since it puts several well-known pieces of classical music together. "Family Matters: 2nd Movement" also works for the same reason.
  • "Porky's Porkies" is a bizarre, yet supremely awesome, 8-bit track, used for the battle against the Mecha-Porkies.
    • While not complete, this guy's remix probably counts as well.
    • By the same token, that little song that plays when DCMC comes to the rescue. Surprisingly good, considering it's something most people probably won't hear all the way through.
  • One Word: "Mother!?" As if Chapter 6 of Mother 3 wasn't poignant enough, this song really drives it into absolute Tear Jerker territory.
  • "Sunflowers and Illusions" is especially tragic yet hauntingly beautiful.
  • "Dry Guys" and its faster remix "Even Drier Guys". Its whimsical and slightly melancholy tone coupled with an accordion and an excellent piano solo captures the top quality standard for music in the game as well as the tone of the story.
  • "Intense Guys". It seems like okay boss music, until you realize that... "Whoa, that's not a boss I'm fighting. It's a freaking golden bat." Possibly the most epic non-boss tune in existence.
  • "Volcano! Inferno!". A slow yet exciting piece, perfect for exploring a volcano.
  • "A Railway In Our Village?" is sadly only played in the beginning of the future.
  • Piggy Guys is so awesome that it received an epic remix that contains another song which SHOULD have been in Brawl.
  • Any theme that has the leitmotif of the Pigmasks, an awesome little tune that fits quite possibly Nintendo's most vile evil organization.
  • Though they were basically a spinoff of the Runaway Five from EarthBound, DCMC was an in-game rock/jazz band that took a few of the best Awesome Music candidates from the game and made them a million times more Awesome. For example, the "DCMC Theme", a remix of Duster's "Mind of a Thief" tune.
  • "Fate" and "Serious" have a catchy recognizable beat that, unfortunately, is a little difficult to combo to. Here's an awesome remix of these songs too!
  • "Natural Killer Cyborg". An amazing rockin' theme that assures the player they are going up against a massive super-robot, and it's even got a bit of "Beat It" mixed in for extra awesomeness.
  • At the end of Mother 3, the most beautiful songs from the trilogy are reprised, including (surprisingly) the EarthBound Beginnings main theme. What makes it go into absolute Tear Jerker territory, though, is the reprise of "Pollyanna (I Believe in You)", played as you take the boat ride to Porky's room. What makes it so sad is that Porky has crossed the Moral Event Horizon so many, MANY times, in such horrible ways, that you know there's no way he can have a happy ending, and also that you're surrounded by mementos from EarthBound: turns out he really did like Ness as a friend after all, huh?
  • Both "Dangerous Guys" and "More Dangerous Guys" feature a fantastic saxophone line that you just can't help but smile when listening to either.
  • "Bon Voyage, Amigo". Only a game like Mother 3 can make what's supposed to be the joyous occasion of completing your party, a Tear Jerker moment.
  • "It's Over", a remix of the Love Theme played at the climax of Mother 3 where The Masked Man AKA Claus finally comes to his senses and says one last goodbye and apologizes to Lucas before killing himself. It's... very sad.
  • "Gentle Rain", a very peaceful and soothing track. The Mother 3i remixed version combines this with a remix of Confusion, the music that plays when Flint finds out Hinawa has been killed in a not precisely tactful manner, perfectly conveying a sense of shock and loss.
  • The entire game kicks off with a little song called "Fun Naming". It's a gentle, moving piece that helps welcome the player to the Mother 3 world. And after that, this song accompanies a sweeping view over the Nowhere Islands.
  • "The Attic's A Dungeon!?" is pretty easily overlooked, playing in only one pretty short area, but that doesn't stop it from being an awesome beat.
  • "The Green Train's Fun Too!" sums up the joy of riding a green-colored train.
  • The normal train music is really awesome, really making use of the electric guitar.
  • "A Tiny, Enormous Miracle", one of the game's most heartwarming pieces of music. Especially at the 1:05 mark, when it changes to a beautiful reprise of "A Railway In Our Village?".
  • "Open Sesame Tofu!" will make you unable to resist bopping your head along with Wess's dance.
  • "Memory of Life", the very last song of the entire franchise. A soft, heartwarming track that is all but saying "the happy ending is finally here, after all this time."
  • "And Then There Were None" captures the loneliness when you return to Tazmily Town to discover it's been reduced to a ghost town.
  • "Monkey's Delivery Service", though not as sad as "And Then There Were None", is still damn hard to listen to without getting teary, as it embodies all the shit Fassad put Salsa through. Halfway in, a quiet synth joins the main flute/oboe melody, but one eighth note behind, and only on the left audio channel. Could this represent Salsa, forced to quietly and obediently follow his bombastic master?
  • After going through a long adventure, seeing the ending, the "The End?" screen and its secret, you're treated to a roll call of the characters you met in the game, set to [1], appropriately called "Curtain Call". The way it starts, you can almost hear an entire audience roaring with applause in your head.
  • "LOG-O-TYPE", a grand, majestic theme that plays when the Mother 3 logo appears in the intro of the game. To quote a YouTube commenter, "The first time you heard this, you knew you were in for one hell of a game".
  • "Accelerondo". It's used as the battle theme for the walking tombstone enemies, whose gimmick is that they walk towards you... slowly... until they very painfully strike. And the music sounds slow and lumbering at first, until it gets faster... and faster... and faster...
  • "And El Mariachi", used for battles against the cactus wolf. Sounds absolutely nothing like battle music. Is still awesome.
  • The song for the credits, "16 Melodies", combines all three main themes from each Mother game. It starts out with brief snippets of the "Mother 3 Love Theme", "Eight Melodies", and "Smiles and Tears", then plays the first full verses of "Eight Melodies" from EarthBound Beginnings and EarthBound's "Smiles and Tears", and finishes with a reprise of Mother 3's "Love Theme", this time played in full, which ends its last remaining verse very triumphantly. It's uplifting, tearjerking, and heartwarming all at once as it embodies the strong end to this trilogy of great games.
  • The Game Over theme, "Stand Up Strong", is - like pretty much everything else in Mother 3 - beautifully tearjerking, in that it embodies the serenity of death: it's pretty much a funeral tune, played with an organ. It is, essentially, "you can now rest in peace" in musical form.
  • "Something Strange is Going On", the song that plays during the Epilogue of Chapter 3 and after Leder tells the party his lengthy story of the Nowhere Islands, is absolutely phenomenally fitting for the times it plays. It gives the feeling that Lucas is growing into a true hero in the former scenario, and a feeling of having the fate of everything in your hands. One of the most underrated pieces in the soundtrack.
  • "Tragic Reconstruction" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: the player's first glimpse at the horrific creations of the Pigmasks. The music conveys both the frightening nature of the cyborg caribou, but also the sorrow of the cybernetics eating its soul.
  • "Life's An Inner Turn Radius" is a slow-paced, laid-back remix of the Pig Army theme which is great to listen to.
  • Despite not being (technically) the final boss, Porky gets a suitably awesome battle theme in "Master Porky's Theme", in which Sakai brings together the Pigmask theme, "Monkey's Delivery Service", and "Smashing Song of Praise" into a piece of music as epic and blood-pumping as his battle theme from the previous game, yet with a tragic, almost-but-not-quite-hopeless feeling that really says "this is it". A fitting theme for possibly the series' most devious yet complex character.

Alternative Title(s): Earth Bound Beginnings, Earth Bound, Earth Bound 1994

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