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MOTHER 2 REFERENCES

Randy Newman - Short People

Hirokazu Tanaka explicitly mentions Short People as one of the sources of inspiration for MOTHER, particularly lyrics and chord progressions. The chord progression in Twinkle Elementary School (and by extension in the File Select theme) resembles Short People, and we know both songs were composed by Tanaka because an arrangement was used for the credits theme in the Gameboy Camera.

John Philip Sousa - The Liberty Bell (from Monty Python’s Flying Circus)

Through spectrogram analysis and comparing it with a rip of the sample from the game’s data, it can be determined that this exact rendition was the one sampled in MOTHER 2. It also becomes more consistent because it was included in TVT Records’ “Television’s Greatest Hits Vol. II”, which is also true for other samples.

Television’s Greatest Hits Vol. II - Ben Casey

It is taken from the same library as the previous sample.