The current Flvxxvm Florvm project represents me finally jumping on a bandwagon that Lee Whatley had the sense to get off of about 5 years ago. I am talking about the bandwagon of 8-bit videogame music being reinterpreted by current artists.

You can find all kinds of remixes of old Nintendo music out there, that are much fancier than anything I can come up with. My idea is much simpler:

Using the actual game music as a karaoke-like backdrop, layer on my own vocals and intruments, with lyrics that have nothing to do with the game. The lyrics will be dead straight, not humorous, although they are allowed to be overly dramatic.

Yes, the "name that game" quiz I posted last week was just to whet your appetite for this!

The first fruits is http://www.cba.ua.edu/~matt2/flvxx/8bit/kissed_your_ruby_lips.mp3. This is the music from the "Muda" level of Super Mario Land, with these lyrics:

Who can know what's in another's heart?
Words can't say; there's no use to even try.
But all at once I kissed your ruby lips,
And I'll never be the same again.

Spent my life out on the lonely road.
Trying to find something that once was mine.
Only once I kissed your ruby lips,
And I can never love that way again.

As I face the end of my earthly life,
all my thoughts go back to that place and time.
Only once I kissed your ruby lips,
and I'll never feel that way again.

Please try to imagine Neil Diamond singing it. That's who was singing it in my head when I wrote it.

Yes, I am aware that Nintendo could sue me for this. Bring it on, Wario! Make me famous!

Link in article is broken. Can you post a new one?

I eventually re-named all the MP3 files so that the directory would sort in "album" order.

http://www.cba.ua.edu/~matt2/flvxx/8bit/01_kissed_your_ruby_lips.mp3