Topic: Jump up super star sounds familiar

Is it just me or does Mario odyssey’s jump up super star just sound like a jazzafied version of Super Mario 64’s bomb-omb battlefield theme? What do you lovely people think?

If you want I can leave links to bomb-omb battlefield theme and jump up super star with no vocals

I've been playing Picross 3D: Round 2, and I'm pretty sure this is one of the songs that plays during some levels. I'm not certain as I don't have Odyssey yet but it sounds the same.

Ok there not at least the same I looked at piano covers for the 2 and look nothing alike

It uses sounds and melodies from the original Donkey Kong.

heres a familiar sound

It's too far off to make any concrete conclusion about intended similarities, but I can see why our ears think that this is the case! The two pieces share similar big brass sounds, are in the same key (this goes a long way), and have one moment where the chord progressions line up extremely well.* However, the feel of JU-SS is big-band rather than jazz-funk, is much faster, has more lavish chromatic chords, and has no significant melody similarities to BoB.

There are a few more similarities: Both songs go to IV on the second strain, and the "odyssey ya see" vamp is like BoB's 3rd strain, which is kinda vamp-like with its constant rhythm. This is overall structure, and it affects how a song progresses, making a huge impact on our emotional connection with the song. This, however, completely falls apart in JU-SS once the band cuts out, then modulates into an unrelative key in the refrain, and all semblance is lost.

*As for rough chord progression similarities, the one really close one occurs in the first phrase in each song after the intro. Take a look at the base lines: the same chord-by-chord, but at different rates.

JU-SS: I _ _ : _ _ :IV _ _:III IIIb II V:I
BoB - : I _ _ :IV _ _:III _ IIIb _:II _ V _:I

That's pretty striking right there! Though all in all, it's not supposed to be a direct reference, and whether or not the composer implemented these small nuggets to make the piece sound more familiar to us is... impossible to say for sure.

P.S. That would be pretty crazy, right? I can totally visualize an explanation where the game's composer points to the first phrase's chord progression, points to the land-on-IV in the second strain, and demonstrates how those two factors were intentional in make JU-SS sound secretly familiar, without us being aware of it. But that's conspiracy talk Make of it what you will.