"Gourmet Race" from Kirby's Dream Land 3 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1997)
Composer: Jun Ishikawa
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: HAL Laboratory
"Gourment Race" is the name of the song which was taken from the Gourmet Race mini-game in Kirby Super Star released on the SNES a year earlier in 1996. In Kirby's Dream Land 3 also on the SNES and released in 1997, it is used as the theme in two of the levels, Sand Canyon 2, and Cloudy Park 4. While the song remains super catchy regardless of where it is used in a Kirby game, it never seemed to be fitting in either of these stages. The Gourmet Race game in Kirby's Super Star is a manic race between Kirby and King Dedede, whereas Sand Caynon 2 and Cloudy Park 4 are standard platforming levels in a Kirby game.
All of that being said, I think I prefer this version of "Gourmet Race" compared to the original from Kirby Super Star, which is really just be a matter of taste and I am not saying that this version is better. For me, there is just something to this arrangement, a little more energy and slightly different instrumentation. It just clicks.
I also cannot talk about this song without bringing up how well it syncs up with several sections of Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)."
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
To Walk the Skies in a State Neither Flight or Falling
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