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In 1991, Nintendo and MCA Records released a compilation album titled "Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin'" mostly featuring songs unrelated to Nintendo by numerous rock and pop acts, although the original intention of the album was for the whole release to feature songs based off of Nintendo franchises. The album booklet featured a short comic loosely based on Super Mario World that was written and illustrated by the team responsible for the "Nintendo Comics System" comic book series released in the early 1990's. The comic and the album's release were designed to promote children's literacy, and was dedicated to Bobby Brooks, a talent agent passionate about promoting that cause who was killed in a 1990 helicopter crash that also took the life of blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan.
The most notable thing to come out of this album's existence is an officially-licensed original song based on the Mario series titled "Ignorance is Bliss" written by Andy Sturmer and his then-girlfriend Sarah Wirt, and performed by Sturmer's psychedelic pop band Jellyfish. Sturmer, despite not being interested in video games, took it upon himself to make sure the song's lyrics remained relevant to the Mario series by directly basing them off of the album booklet's comic, which featured an illiterate Bowser ranting to Princess Toadstool about his plans of turning Dinosaur Land into fossil fuels and using his newfound status as an oil tycoon to join the real-life Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as well as how much he hates reading. Sturmer later described the song as a "mini-opera" that was "a lot of fun to write".
The most notable thing to come out of this album's existence is an officially-licensed original song based on the Mario series titled "Ignorance is Bliss" written by Andy Sturmer and his then-girlfriend Sarah Wirt, and performed by Sturmer's psychedelic pop band Jellyfish. Sturmer, despite not being interested in video games, took it upon himself to make sure the song's lyrics remained relevant to the Mario series by directly basing them off of the album booklet's comic, which featured an illiterate Bowser ranting to Princess Toadstool about his plans of turning Dinosaur Land into fossil fuels and using his newfound status as an oil tycoon to join the real-life Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as well as how much he hates reading. Sturmer later described the song as a "mini-opera" that was "a lot of fun to write".
Wiki article about the album:
https://www.mariowiki.com/White_Knuckle_Scorin%27
"Ignorance is Bliss" fanmade music video by Brandon Clark (with fanmade spoken word intro based on the comic):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEQKEoaojA
History of the song:
https://www.weirdomusicforever.com/weird-news-and-interviews/2017/3/7/roger-joseph-manning-jr-talks-new-projects-jellyfish-beck-and-more
History of the album:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-17-ca-55-story.html
Andy Sturmer's thoughts on the song:
http://albumlinernotes.com/Fan_Club__Box_Set_2002_.html
https://www.mariowiki.com/White_Knuckle_Scorin%27
"Ignorance is Bliss" fanmade music video by Brandon Clark (with fanmade spoken word intro based on the comic):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEQKEoaojA
History of the song:
https://www.weirdomusicforever.com/weird-news-and-interviews/2017/3/7/roger-joseph-manning-jr-talks-new-projects-jellyfish-beck-and-more
History of the album:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-17-ca-55-story.html
Andy Sturmer's thoughts on the song:
http://albumlinernotes.com/Fan_Club__Box_Set_2002_.html
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