Nintendo Music Drops Three More Albums, Here's Every Song Included

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa...chill Nintendo. The fans can't keep up.

Tetris is funny because unless Sim Ciry gets negotiated, it will be the only third party IP in the app because Nintendo does in fact own all those compositions outright (see Smash) just not the name Tetris itself

@squidduforeal Actually the Music app specifically is outsourced to a big data company. The kind of guys that do databases for Wells Fargo and other world destroyers; yeah one of those is doing this for Nintendo. I can't say which one cause they'll kill my family, which would be inconvenient at this time, but yes I can use the "my dad works for Nintendo" line to say I know the dudes working on this after a fact. I don't know their schedule, but I do know they work WAY quicker than NERD at least.

And I just finished Mario Picross earlier today. I had been using Dr. Mario (GB) to replace the music, but Tetris would have also made a fine substitute. Now I am curious how different the NES and GB soundtracks are of both games.

I never knew that Korobeiniki wasn’t the original Type A theme! The original release of Tetris in Japan had the “Early Version” listed on the tracklist. Crazy, considering the later Type A theme is just so iconic with Tetris and cool for Nintendo Music to let people listen to Tetris 1.0’s Type A.

@Zeebor15 something similar happens in Mario & Sonic Beijing 2008 DS, where the song Mario Tetris from Tetris DS is used under the name Mario Puzzle Mix.

I decided to download the Nintendo Music app just to see what it was all about. Shockingly, it’s pretty good. There are a lot of great tracks from great games, and I’m glad to see there are more additions being added regularly. I hope Xenoblade Chronicles will make an appearance soon.

GB Tetris theme is one of my favorite game songs ever, not sure it's one I'd listen to outside of the game though lol

As a kid playing Gameboy Tetris, I was always on team "B-Type."

Some third-party music that will probably get pulled from the service in a few years, nice.

Dr. Mario Fever... yes.

Three, wow that's new!

I'm ga lad we got NES DR. Mario. Putting the GB version on here really made no sense to me! 😂

Bring on the nostalgia of the "you cleared 20" song! 😂😄

I don't need a soundtrack to hear the classic GB Tetris theme... One glimpse of the cartridge and it's on loop in my head for at least 24 hours.

I don’t enjoy the music nearly as much as playing the actual games. Not that the music is bad, but it’s not platinum record material either lol

I don’t mean to be pedantic, but calling these ‘albums’ seems inaccurate. An album typically implies a cohesive piece of art meant to be heard in order, whereas these are game scores or soundtracks. The app itself doesn’t use the term ‘albums,’ and given how streaming services have already blurred the concept, it’s worth being precise here.

I'm impressed that they included the "A-Type Early Version". Normally Nintendo loves to pretend earlier revisions of games don't exist, such as with Fire Temple's chanting.

The version of Tetris with the early song is often referred to as the "Minuet Version" among collectors. You can tell by slight differences in the cartridge label compared to the later revisions. It was only ever seen in Japanese cartridges, all international version feature the classic korobeiniki.

I do have a copy of the Minuet Version since I always thought it was a fun piece of trivia, but strangely enough, I don't actually have a regular Tetris cart - as a kid I had Tetris DX instead.
Maybe one of these days, if I see a cheap regular Tetris cart next time I go to CeX, I'll grab it for the heck of it.

@coldbrain In-app "News and updates" post about Splatoon 2 tracks being removed: "Some tracks related to the recently added Splatoon 2 album were made available in error. These tracks could be accessed only by Search and were not part of the album track list."

@Polley001 cool, but I don't think that invalidates my general point. They aren't albums, even if there is one mention of the word as part of a release note in the app. It isn't the term used in the main UX, where they just use 'games' and 'tracks'.

I didn't know Tetris had different levels of endings, I only ever saw the Rocket Launch ending...

@HammerGalladeBro Ah, so THAT'S the plan B

@Not_Soos This is not third party music.

Us: "Hey Nintendo, could you MAYBE pick up the pace and release multiple albums a week on your music app?"

Nintendo: "Hmmm....you know what? Sure. We here at Nintendo understand your desire to listen to our music and engage with our content outside of our games. So we're going to drop THREE soundtracks on the service for this week."

Us: "THREE?! Wow! Okay, awesome! What are they? Tears of the Kingdom? Fire Emblem Three Houses? Xenoblade Chronicles X releases this week, so maybe that game? Oooh or maybe a classic like F-Zero GX or Kirby Air Ride???"

Nintendo: "Better than that! Here's our soundtracks for Dr. Mario, and TWO versions of Tetris, the NES and Gameboy soundtrack! ENJOY!"

Us: "......The Monkey's Paw curls once again."

Bundle music drops are more what I'd like to see, even if they're smaller soundtracks like these.

When they first announced the Music app, I expected them to add one new soundtrack per month—and that's on good months. So I'm super happy to see that we've been getting consistent weekly drops—and now even a triple drop! I think that's the perfect solution for smaller OSTs that clock in at only a few minutes each.

Really hope Android Auto support is added eventually. My kids always want to have Nintendo music playing on the drive to school but I still use plexamp instead of the Nintendo app because of the android auto integration.

Why bother releasing 3DS titles when you could just release TWO Tetris soundtracks instead? Hooo boy, that's one for each ear, thanks Nintendo!

@garfreek Why not? I've played both Fevers back to back & they sound the same

@drypaphmrbro GB misses the iconic title screen and NES just sounds a bit smoother to me. But the GB one definitely has it's charm too!

@EarthboundBenjy The Fire Temple chanting is a different situation compared to this. They changed that because the chanting had to do with an Islamic prayer. With Tetris, they simply changed the music for the sake of changing the music.

MKWii OST when?