So here we are, the first edition (And hopefully not the last) of ‘What Music Means.’  In this series, I will remix a song and you will hopefully enjoy it.  Or not.  Sometimes it may be good, sometimes it may be bad.  You don’t know.  That’s half the fun.  It’s like opening a box of cereal for the toy.  You might get the super-rare Shredder Power Ring, or you might get your 400th Michaelangelo.  Just be glad your mother bought you 400 boxes of cereal just so you could get your toys.

BUBBLEPUZZLE SUPER REVOLUTION DX is the name of this first song.  Bubble Bobble was my favourite of all arcade games ever, and there was something about it that could make you feel completely badass just from playing it.  It didn’t matter that you were playing a game about fat little dragons who blew brightly coloured bubbles in order to entrap happy little wind-up toys, in order to rescue your fat little girlfriends from a fat old alcoholic, all the while with the same song blaring over and over again in the background.

Ironically, I think that the song was my favourite part of the game.  I have never lost that song to the far corners of my memory, even when I’ve got stretches of years without hearing it.  That song, as cheery as it was, made you feel like the saviour of all mankind.  Or fat-little-dragonkind.   Y’know, whatever.  It’s all cool to me.

The feeling it instilled, from start to finish, was surprisingly similar to, on a smaller scale, performing on stage.  This was reinforced by everyone crowding around, more people coming to gawk the further you got.  Rounds of applause and frenzied whooping would be heard ’round the block when the game would show ‘And today’s record is..!’

In short, Bubble Bobble is METAL.  There is no other word for it.  And so, in tribute, I have written the preceding thrash-metal remix of the main theme song.

Later on, the Puzzle Bobble, or Bust-a-Move series was released: A puzzle game that was, lo and behold, about popping bubbles.  It still starred Bub and Bob, the lovable little lard lizards, but now they got less exercise, and would mostly just stand around, using a crossbow to shoot bubbles at other bubbles.  Now, this game didn’t make you feel anywhere near as badass.  Something in that area was lost in translation.  But the voice acting in Bust-a-Move 2DX was so perfectly abyssmal that I couldn’t resist inserting it into my already completed track in an equally abyssmal fashion.  If you’ve ever played that particular incarnation, you probably just got said voice acting out of your head within the past couple of weeks.

Now is the beginning of a fantastic story!  Let’s make a journey to the cave of monsters.  Good luck!

You’re welcome.