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[mendelpalace]

"The Golden Eel [Comix Zone Arr.]"

Original by Ween, arrangement by KnightOfGames.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 26/01/2024

​THIS RIP WAS MADE BY TEETH GANG

Season 3 Featured on: The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Collection '17​-​'19

Ripped by UUN4 Visuals by KnightOfGames, "Teeth Gang"

Look, uh, feel free to skip the visuals on this one if you're sensitive. There's a lot of, teeth, in this one.

I really don't know how I was able to forget about ​THIS RIP WAS MADE BY TEETH GANG for so many years, when I specifically recall being there on the channel the day it went up. It might just've been due to Halloween 2018 being a rather understated and not very memorable event in general, mainly there to tease the next year's Halloween blowout of Spooktacular III - a by contrast amazing event that I covered briefly in Battle with Jeffinite. Yet the music to Gimmick! was on my mind for some unknown reason as of late, and one YouTube search later, I'd rejoined the Teeth Gang.

The SiIvaGunner channel is pretty inextricably tied to the Chiptune community, right down to where several members of the team almost exclusively make chiptune rips. As a result, the channel's rips have featured a good number of games that neither you or I may find particularly nostalgic or even good, but that are beloved by chiptune artists for their lovely sound - Viva La Robocop and Beautiful! ~ Curveball of Sean Kingston come to mind as two examples of this that I've covered on the blog. The NES game Gimmick! is somewhat of a special case, though, thanks to its develope Sunsoft. Despite not having all too many games under their belt that could be considered genuine classics, Sunsoft is still remembered by a lot of gaming enthusiasts specifically for how they made consoles like the NES/Famicom and Sega Genesis positively sing. Gimmick!, released late into the Famicom's life, is the perfect embodiment of that, celebrated in some ways as the de-facto game to showcase just what the NES is capable of doing (Follin soundtracks notwithstanding).

That's the backstory for why I was out looking for rips of the game, anyway - as for the reason why TEETH got involved to result in ​THIS RIP WAS MADE BY TEETH GANG, that's an area I was woefully undereducated on. It's likely that many of those reading this had the chance to grow up more closely attached to Nickelodeon's cartoon programming of the early 2000s, and by extension had some truly iconic bangers embedded into your minds. I'm again speaking as an outsider, but - good LORD, discovering that My Shiny Teeth And Me had over 20 million views on YouTube left me completely flabbergasted. Do you remember just two days ago in Guilty Eyes Creeper where I discussed just how many rabbitholes there are to fall into on SiIvaGunner? Yeah, this is a prime example of me doing just that, as recently as this week.

Because yeah - even though I first saw THIS RIP WAS MADE BY TEETH GANG, my lack of familiarity with the song made me not really care for the rip's audio (which was also because the visuals were, naturally, a lot more memorable for the wrong reasons). Five years later, I can officially confirm that My Shiny Teeth And Me is a fucking BANGER that I wish I'd given a chance sooner, partially carried by the vocalist being a member of 2000s boy band NSYNC, but also just the melody and progression being very catchy in general! And when arranged through the aforementioned beautiful Sunsoft-y sound of Gimmick, it's a perfect fit - the sugary pop cheer of My Shiny Teeth And Me fits the sound of Gimmick, and Happy Birthday in particular, like an absolute glove. The main melody, bassline, percussion - though its all playing within the limitations of the original Famicom track, it still manages to sound just as full of life as the song its arranging.

And look, I've been throwing shade toward the choice of giving the rip visuals, but I'll say it - I think even back then I found it pretty fucking funny. Learning in hindsight that "TEETH GANG" is actually just members of the SiIva team submitting their own teeth edits for the rip, ballooning the size of contributors to this otherwise simple rip, just makes things even funnier. THIS RIP WAS MADE BY TEETH GANG was indeed made by teeth gang, and through the simple combination of the three different rabbitholes its made up of that I chose to explore, its now become a rip I'll never be able to forget.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 08/02/2024

mlp racism anthem (comix zone arrange)

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume GS

Ripped by KnightOfGames

Requested by Corb! (Discord)

When I initially read the request asking for this to be covered (reminder - google form is on the pinned post!), I noticed something really interesting in the note the requestee attached. mlp racism anthem (comix zone arrange), as you may note by the initial acronym in the title, is a rip based on a joke from the My Little Pony franchise - and the requestee noted that the franchise had seen surprisingly little coverage on this blog despite being such a big part of the channel. And yeah: to my knowledge Determination is Magic is still the only directly MLP-related rip to be featured on the blog, with Field of Love and Cringe and SING A SONG ABOUT HOPES AND DREAMS as...edgecases, I guess. But it wasn't until I got this request that I started thinking...yeah, MLP HAS been a pretty big part of SiIvaGunner since its beginning, hasn't it?

Thing is, though, back in the early days of the channel, it always felt to me as if the MLP-posting was sort of...not meant to be taken seriously - to be taken as part of "cringe culture" rather than as actual appreciation of the show. The example that always sticks out to me is JoJo Wrap Up (My Little JoJo: Friendship is Manly), an early Season 2 rip that presents itself as a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure rip before bait-and-switching to a mashup of one of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's many cheerful, peppy, "cringe" songs. Given that the time around 2016/early 2017 was effectively the very peak of cringe culture, you can imagine for yourself what the outcome was - it became the third-most disliked video on the entire channel, with comments filled with salt from fans of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure cursing the very idea of combining their favorite franchise with MLP. Combined with the fact that JoJo fans were already getting plenty messed with intentionally by the SiIva team back in the day, as I covered in Hen'yoku no Piraman, and you get a pretty prominent example of the typical way MLP was treated back in early SiIvaGunner. A popular, cringe and gay kids show, and therefor prime material for trolling and nothing more.

As the years went on, as the team matured (and those who failed to were kicked off), and as the internet landscape as a whole changed for the better - you got the sense that My Little Pony was gradually becoming more of a sincere household name on the channel. Sure, its presence wasn't all *too* much higher than it had been in the past, but the act of using the show for trolling or intentionally-bad rips had all but ceased entirely overtime - which is, of course, how we got excellent rips like Determination is Magic. More than that, though - we in the audience were slowly made to realize that the SiIvaGunner team had several people on it who were far bigger fans of the show than we'd ever been led to believe.

Because sure, ripping the Friendship is Magic intro theme, ripping Winter Wrap-Up, sampling the show's most memetic clips in YTPMVs - that's all well and good. But mlp racism anthem (comix zone arrange) is something else entirely - an arrangement of one of the SEVERAL songs featured in the My Little Pony: A New Generation movie, which released just *three days* prior to the rip itself. There's not a hint of irony in sight, no popular song that Danger, Danger seeks to "ruin", and it isn't even using a song that's particularly popular within the nostalgic part of MLP's fandom. Much like the rip 88811, one that remains an all-time favorite for me, mlp racism anthem (comix zone arrange) is nothing more but a killer Genesis arrangement of a fantastic song. Part of the appeal of Danger, Danger in the A New Generation movie to begin with is that, it's the sole hard-rocking track of its kind in a movie otherwise filled with pop and cheer (the "racism anthem" of the title is referring to how Danger, Danger is the movie's villain song). Which in turn makes it a perfect fit for the soundscape of Comix Zone - there's nothing the Genesis does quite so well as rendering the sound of shredding guitars, and KnightOfGames utilizes it to absolutely fantastic effect here.

I'll likely be covering a good few more rips using the My Little Pony franchise in the future, and I'm really glad this submission alone reminded me of just how prevalent the series really is on the channel nowadays. With those bitter, cynical years far behind us, SiIvaGunner is able to stand proud, with full sincerity, as a celebration of ALL parts of internet pop culture - the concept of "cringe" be damned!

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 26/11/2023

kirby will never have drip *spits out cereal*

Season 5 Featured on: Legends of the Western Sunset ~ The SiIvaGunner All​-​Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection

Ripped by KnightOfGames

Kirby's a rather prominent face on SiIva - above even Sonic and Mario, it seems to be the franchise that receives the most love out of anything else by the team. The love for Kirby is so foundational to the channel that its practically what the entire series' lore is built upon, as both of its first two story arcs, The Reboot and Christmas Comeback Crisis, were both directly built on the general machine-takeover theming of Kirby: Planet Robobot. Yet the love is primarily built on the series' stellar legacy of music, a library as recognizable as it is varied and plenty experimental. Kirby Canvas Curse for DS has some of the series' most interesting sounds, and its one I always look forward to hearing ripped.

kirby will never have drip *spits out cereal* was really just one out of a sea of incredible rips, yet its one that always catches me off guard in my playlists, if only for the absurdity of it all. The conceit of the rip is similar to something like Loopdeloop Griddy, of just seeing what happens when you mash up rather inherently goofy music with that very particular blend of hip hop music, in a way trying and failing to make the original track sound "cooler". As the track name infers, its part of the bigger shitposting trend of giving characters Drip, or hypebeast clothing, to present them as cooler than they are - Goku Drip, for instance.

Yet what I love about kirby will never have drip *spits out cereal* is that it kind of...doesn't fail at being baller? That particular sound that Canvas Curse has in its soundtrack, that mechanical whirring and whizzing, paired with the DS' compression - it forms a pretty sick backing beat to lift up the overlaying vocals of Faucet Failure. It all harmonizes damn well despite being a seemingly simple mashup - despite the sources appearing to be absurd picks, and the joke practically being built on their disconnect, I do think it really works out in the end!

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 12/07/2023

THE NEW TEAM 10 FORT​!​!​! [Francis Flow: Original Mix]

Season 3 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume L [Side B]

Ripped by KnightOfGames

Man. As someone who's followed both SiIva and general meme culture pretty actively during the mid-2010s, there are few things as funny as seeing It's Everyday Bro gradually become accepted by the SiIva team and fanbase. What started out as an obnoxious flex-song uploaded at the height of the Paul brothers' relevancy, became an anthem for ironic shitposting due to just how recognizable its main beat had become.

To me the funniest part of it all is that its all pretty recent history thats intertwined with SiIva itself, sort of like the channel's relationship to stuff like Friday Night Funkin'. The original It's Everyday Bro was released in the midst of 2017, and slooowly crept into some occasional SiIva rips during the tail end of Season 2. On the song's 1-year anniversary in Season 3, however, it made its presence all too known. The hysterically named It's "It's Everyday Bro" Day Bro takeover was just that: A whole day dedicated to nothing but rips of everyone's least favorite influencer and the theme that had haunted trending pages for weeks on end the year prior. Keep in mind, this was also a few months after Logan Paul caused a giant storm of controversy with his Japan Vlog, so public opinion had effectively plummeted on the two as a whole: Nobody wanted more to do with them.

The Paul brothers would eventually become mainstays on the channel in a pretty funny way - a lot of Jake Paul rips made after this Season 3 event, for instance, are now labelled as (JP Mix) in reference to his initials, and the two keep showing up in weirdly irregular spurts compared to other SiIva memes. Its extremely entertaining to keep up with, especially now that they're officially part of the CCC lore as of Season 5, and because It's Everyday Bro itself is genuinely an incredible audio source.

Through the zany nature of the original Fort Francis track and the instantly recognizable It's Everyday Bro beat, THE NEW TEAM 10 FORT​!​!​! [Francis Flow: Original Mix] is able to work wonders despite not even incorporating any of Jake Paul's vocals, as many other rips during the takeover did. I think that's part of why I was drawn to this rip in particular, as to an unknowing listener it basically just sounds like a weird Trap-adjacent rearrangement of the original theme, that's still able to go hard in its own way. Its understated in a way that somehow makes the joke even funnier, which to me speaks to just how good of a ripper KnightOfGames really is. Even with the simplest concepts, he's always able to deliver exactly what you ordered in the highest quality possible.

[mendelpalace]

Snowman Fusion Collab 

Artists: Niko+, Monotonemonkey, Dooki51, Zoom Guy, New Guy, Scribblenaut19, Matsu Muhō, Scribble1k, NutellaFrenchToast, Harley201, The Duane, KnightOfGames, LarryInc64, vince94, Supahstar

SiIvagunner and crew made a lovely medley of the theme of Snowman in Mother, done in the style of several different games, musicians and genres. 

@spaceauddity & @titleknown, I think you’d love this for various reasons. As well as anyone who likes the music of the Mother series and hearing game tunes done in very different styles. 

[pabsterthelobster]

My favorite rip from the recent SiIvaGunner album release. I remember coming across the original song ages ago, and when I heard this in the 2-and-a-half-hour long upload, I just felt a wave of joyous nostalgia wash over me. To this day, I've never actually played TF2, so most of my enjoyment of the game came from community-made content like this.

Godspeed to you, RubberFruit, wherever you are.

[aquacycle]

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