Pickin' Colors With Mario Paint
October 04, 2016
Spend enough time with Mario Paint for the Super NES and the game's title theme song will become lodged in your brain. It happens so easily since the song is happy, catchy, and toe-tappingly perky. Video game music site OverClocked Remix strikes again with "Pickin' Colors": Steve Snider's live performance of the Mario Paint theme done in a bluegrass style with actual mandolins, banjo, guitar, and bass. Here's OCR's David Lloyd commenting on the performance:
The source lends itself surprisingly well to the rhythm & feel of such "old time" music, and while the arrangement repeats itself a bit & judges had some minor recording gripes, the unanimous feeling was that this revised version represents a creative, expressive, and most of all FUN take on the theme.