#dkc music

[m00nb04rd5]

Tiki Tak Tribe (Donkey Kong Country Returns)

[vgwater]

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[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 30/04/2024

guess what​?​?​?​?​?​?​?​?

Season 2 Featured on: Haltmann's Highest Quality Video Game Rips

Ripped by alden wolf

Requested by eg_9371! (Request Form)

It's Gonna Be May!

Saying that SiIvaGunner has in-jokes is perhaps the most obvious statement of all time - it is an in-joke upon which the entire channel is built upon. Yet there's obviously always different LAYERS to each joke, how obvious each of them are - and even today, there are many running gags on the channel that fly over people's heads despite having followed along for so long. Indeed, such is the case today with guess what​?​?​?​?​?​?​?​?, as requestee eg_9371 made me aware of a channel in-joke that's been running quietly in the background for the better part of seven years as of today. All of it built on one simple truth - tomorrow, it's gonna be may.

To reiterate - beyond the funny ha-ha memes we all know like Mr. Grand Dad and more, the SiIvaGunner channel is filled with little nods and gags that oft go overlooked. I of course covered 5 Nights of Snop Dog recently which is a great example of one, there's how rips like Kill & Learn (Recut Ver​.​) reference a running joke by long-time mashup artist Triple-Q about how Sonic Adventure 2 and Kill la Kill have an immeasurable amount of similarities, rips like Kermit in the Ocean being spiritual successors to very specific years-old rips on the channel - you get the jist. Some of these gags eventually get special attention on the channel through specific channel events, but such has not yet been the case with guess what​?​?​?​?​?​?​?​?'s joke - it's a gag that's stayed in the background since its very beginnings, and is only being kept running by a select few rippers. If you're listening to the rip now and it still hasn't landed yet, you may need to be enlightened to the ways of hit boy band *NSYNC. Or, well, really the band itself matters very little compared to the song of choice - It's Gonna Be Me.

Boy band music has a pretty interesting track record on SiIva in general, honestly. One Direction, Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, *NSYNC - to me the typical audience that obsesses over these kinds of bands feels at odds with my image of the average SiIvaGunner fan, and yet whenever they're prominently pushed I get reminded of just how good their music can be when wielded by good rippers. We've had two explosively quality events focusing on two bands in particular, the Big Time Rush takeover of Season 5 with Famous Surprise and the One Direction day of Season 7 with Beautiful Dreamer. *NSYNC hasn't had the same explosion of notoriety, but It's Gonna Be Me in particular has stealthily appeared on the channel every year since 2017 on April 30th. The joke is originally an ancient Tumblr meme from 2012, based on the way singer Justin Timberlake (yes!) pronounces the titular line in the song as "It's gonna be May" - the joke writes itself, and so Tumblr users have annually celebrated the day-before-May in Timberlake's honor.

eg_9371 writes in his request for this post that he's actually one of the most active rippers in keeping this joke going on SiIva for all these years, which I find extremely commendable, and it all started in Season 2, with guess what​?​?​?​?​?​?​?​?. It's a rearrangement of the song in the style of Donkey Kong Country 2's Mining Melancholy, a track most notable for its rhythmic percussion of steel drums sounding like steadily-working pickaxes deep in the mines. Its a fantastic track on its own, yet that percussion especially is a shockingly natural fit for the harpsichord(?) backing prominent throughout It's Gonna Be Me. Mining Melancholy's usual percussion and other parts of its melody stick around for large parts of the rip, making it more of a melody swap/mashup of the two than a full rearrangement a la Sog-Gee Ambiance - but it only serves to enhance the two tracks used, giving It's Gonna Be Me a more melancholic sound and Mining Melancholy a more self-assured feel in return, a super interesting blend of moods. I don't think the It's gonna be May bit would have worked nearly as well if the rip it was paired with wasn't of high quality, and guess what​?​?​?​?​?​?​?​? clears that threshold effortlessly - its a great rip that's made me appreciate the quality in both songs used.

*NSYNC rips have, again, continued to show up in all the years since, always on the dot, often even deliberately placed as the LAST rip of April 30th to drive the joke home. I think it's really sweet that the joke has stuck with eg_9371 in particular, likely in part due to alden wolf's initial contribution to the bit - he's even made It's Gonna Be Me rips on dates completely unrelated to the beginning of May, just because its a genuinely fun song to listen to. There's tons of these "secret" gags left to find on the channel, reoccurring dates or rips that reference jokes from other rips that are years-old by now - and really, a huge part of the fun in running this blog is getting to discover so many turning gears of the channel that I'd never been made aware of. Keep an eye out for these gags yourself - and keep an eye out on SiIvaGunner channel itself later today, to see if It's Gonna Be May for yet one more year.

[king-k-ripple]

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 3 (Reupload)

Battle! (Lorekeeper Zinnia) from Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire

vs.

Gang-Plank Galleon from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Battle! (Lorekeeper Zinnia):

For a battle so easy, they go so hard. Violins in a game full of trumpets, use of xylophone, plus a tragic backstory of a woman trying to fulfill the last request of her best friend

Gang-Plank Galleon:

King K Rool was one of the hypest reveals in Ultimate and this was a part of that. Just the absolute energy in this song. It’s so good!

[sirfowlman]

This cover of the DKC theme is not only good, it banana slams!

There's also a bit of mash-up of other DKC songs thrown in there for good measure.

[its-ya-girl-phoeni]

@zay-does-things

Blowing into a bucket of water using a tube in order to emulate the lava sounds from the original track is genius, ngl.

[the-iron-shoulder]

omggggggg fam insaneintherain is making VGM again!!!

[ravenwolfie97]

i feel like there are influences from donkey kong country and sonic in some of pizza tower’s music am i crazy or am i onto something

[saucebou]

Shout outs to this guy on yt thats making extended versions of songs from the Donkey Kong Country show

Here are some of my favorite bangers

[musicalueion]

[OST] Donkey Kong Country [1994]

Alternative Name: Super Donkey Kong

Video Game

Artists: David Wise, Eveline Novakovic, Robin Beanland

Developer: Rare

Publisher: Nintendo

Donkey Kong Country is available to play on:

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Game Boy Advance

Nintendo Switch (Nintendo Switch Online)

Super NES Classic Edition

And was formerly available to play on:

Wii

Wii U

New Nintendo 3DS

[thedyf]

OC ReMix #486: Donkey Kong Country 'Christmas Cave' [Ice Cave Chant] by ...

[mintyaquagreen1675]

Calling all Donkey Kong fans, check out what my friend made!

[wombocombo4x3]

clinton kong country 2: bill's kong quest