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Strong Songs

The Music of The Legend of Zelda [Recast]

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Few video game series have a musical tradition as rich as The Legend of Zelda.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, Kirk here with an episode that I originally ran just about a year ago,

0:09.6

but that I'm bumping up for an obvious reason with just a couple of weeks until the release

0:14.2

of the Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, the world has caught Zelda fever, and I'm

0:19.0

pretty sure that the only cure for Zelda fever is listening to podcast episodes about

0:23.8

the Legend of Zelda.

0:25.9

Just a couple of months ago I recorded a guest spot on another podcast talking about Zelda

0:30.1

music.

0:31.1

I think that episode isn't out yet, but you'll probably see it when it does come out

0:33.9

and it should be really cool.

0:35.2

In the process of researching for that guest spot, I went back and re-listen to this episode

0:39.1

that you're about to hear, which contains analysis of a whole bunch of Koji Kondo's

0:43.1

Zelda music from his original 1986 theme to the ways that original theme turns up in 2017's

0:49.0

Breath of the Wild and a whole bunch of stuff in between.

0:51.6

There is so much music in this episode.

0:53.7

I was struck all over again by how dense it is listening back to it, there's definitely

0:57.5

some stuff that I'd kind of forgotten that I talked about, and then I was glad to listen

1:01.8

to myself talk about it kind of an uncanny experience, but also a lot of fun.

1:05.8

So even if you've heard this episode, or you've listened to it when it first came out,

1:09.4

I hope that you'll take the time to listen again, because it really is a pretty dense

1:12.8

one even by strong song standards, and there's a lot of music in here to unpack and appreciate.

1:19.5

I am so excited for Tears of the Kingdom.

1:22.0

I don't think I'll do another full episode of the show about the music from that game,

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