The National Recording Registry, part of the Library of Congress, is a collection of songs and scores that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States”. This is the stuff, selected by experts and historians, that will be stored and preserved so that future generations can listen to the most important music of our time. And in April 2023 the collection has its first piece of video game music.
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As part of the 2023 class, alongside Madonna’s Like a Virgin, Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You and the Flashdance song, Koji Kondo’s The Super Mario Bros. Theme, also known as Ground Theme, was selected. The Registry explain the selection as:
It’s extremely cool that they didn’t just pick it for how iconic it has become, but for technical and artistic reasons as well, the kind of stuff we tend to overlook (or never know in the first place!) when discussing it.
