EarthBound - The Cliff That Time Forgot [HQ]

High quality upload of The Cliff That Time Forgot. From the soundtrack of EarthBound, a fantastic and strange RPG for the Super Nintendo.
The EarthBound soundtrack was composed by Keiichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Kanazu, and Hirokazu Tanaka. Also credited are Akio Ohmori and Ritsuo Kamimura.

[@Novika75]

I don't know how to describe this song, the cave is so strange and bizzare, the music sounds like triumphant, like the game is saying "you're winning!" but distorted, kinda like foreshadowing a big twist, like the main problem is not resolved yet, everything feels corrupted. Also, isn't this cave supposed to be in the middle of nowhere, empty space? which makes it even more unsettling

[@Djimee_Andrax]

The first time I heard it, I was like "uh, that's strange" Now, I find this tune extremly scary, agonizing... and ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF THIS LITTLE, SMALL CHORD at 0:08. I couldn't explain why. It's like the song revealing its true nature, dropping that tiny music note. This track tries to refrain its negative emptiness. Yeah, we shouldn't be here.

[@nickolasjensen9648]

Imaru!

[@Novika75]

@@nickolasjensen9648 yes! hello!

[@DannyPageOfLight]

Funny thing about the distorted "You're winning" message is that, from the cave's perspective, you've already won years ago, but not from your own.

[@nickolasjensen9648]

When you find a dead KZbin channel.

[@tece0577]

The Channel That Time Forgot

[@jarofdelisauce2266]

When you find a map that was in beta for too much time...

[@DCNRS90YT]

Or an unfinished piece of artwork.

[@dhtelevision]

Nickolas Jensen I know you’ll hate me for this but: Sky Did Minecraft

[@Ohmman]

when you join an old empty roblox game

[@cookiecutter5176]

I like to imagine this is all Ness and The Gang hear when traveling through this area. They don't hear wind. They don't hear eachother. They don't even hear their footsteps. Only this. Blaring.

[@KimonoFlareonGX]

...We shouldn't be here.

[@KnightofFunnyJunk]

Words cannot even begin to describe how anxiety inducing this part of the game is. Think about it. When you're wandering on thru in the Lost Underworld and you go thru a strange outcove thinking its just part of the intended story path and then suddenly...nothing You're in the void. There is zero explanation as to why this land formation even exists almost to the point where it makes you believe this entire section of space does not exist in a temporal sense. Its like its own little pocket dimension that Giygas somehow materialized into being to tell you "if I destroy the universe this is all you'll see. Nothing. Forever." Imagine getting faded by a 10 year old boy and you get so angry about this you threaten to erase all time and existence because you're so outraged by it. Take the L.

[@Rankerquat]

The calm before the storm, if you will.

[@certifiedbigboy2201]

Or rather, the calm after the storm.

[@demodeus2472]

@@certifiedbigboy2201 Or actually both, because it’s the place where we should travel back in time to defeat Giygas, but until that it’s still alive

[@WOLFM0THER]

This sounds very fitting for those who are about to go into adulthood. It’s supposed to sound great, but at the same time it’s terrifying

[@rootbeer5356]

Time forgot that love is all you need

[@onlookerofthings6029]

This song never creeped me out at all, but reading the comments makes me start to.

[@Tayce_t]

I would always imagine a random moment from my past and try to "look around" and focus on the environment and objects. Since there were no cameras back then, all the details are lost

[@Tayce_t]

This song makes me think of that

[@HanSanwich]

I don’t know why _this_ particular song freaks me out as much as it does. There are other songs in the game that should freak me out more, but this one is the most disturbing to me.

[@nuepisode4781]

I feel the same. I mean, the whole area is so freaky. Imagine being a few hundred miles deep in the earth, and you find a cliff with green grass looking over what looks like infinite emptiness. Then imagine hearing this track. So lonely

[@MxArgent]

For some reason this song makes me think of a decaying throne room, a derelict chamber falling apart hundreds of years after the kingdom who's leader once occupied it perished. Considering the role the Cave of the Past serves, it's not unfitting.

[@joelsanchez7650]

It makes me feel like that too. The music plays as I stand at the begining of a red carpet, only to watch every last bit of the lovely room crumble to nothing and be lost and forgotten for eternity.

[@extrez]

When I got to this point I was like "Did I win?"

[@majoravideos4393]

kinda funny how you can enter this place from the lost underworld, then you see that entrance when you pass through the whole area

[@BigCheeZeMan]

I mean it's not funny it's an intentional design choice

[@Quagking_02]

This song sounds like I just learned how I'm going to die but not when

[@JoyOfCreativeService]

For whatever reason, this song really reminds me of the Hell theme from Coronation Day. Like there's a party going on somewhere nearby, and you should be happy. But you weren't invited, and the party's been over for centuries.

[@TylerLeeJones]

this sounds like I'm being told I'm dead and whatever force is communicating it to me is trying to break the news gently but still fills me with dread and despair

[@flaco3462]

It feels like a dream like there is nothing in here at all and yet there is something the song feels strangely empty like it makes me turn into tv static there's nothing here except distant noise

[@awfulpancakes]

this comment is perfect

[@EPOCHGAMER64]

""you'll .. be ... freezing ... at .. the bottom .. of hell""

[@DJCalliean]

There's nothing you can do that can't be done

[@chonenjuanpi]

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung

[@user-ms7ez6tu7b]

Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy

[@jasontheredfox]

Nothing you can make that can't be made

[@FroopLoots]

No one you can save that can't be saved

[@TyperMarlinGames]

The floor is made out of floor

[@thebrokenrattle]

I remembering having the most uncertain feelings as I stepped into the cave. Something was very wrong here but I didn't know what....yet.

[@DJ_CARCINOGEN]

forget lavender town THIS THEME HAUNTS ME

[@wasd_wasd7504]

Ngl this gives me chills but in like a good way

[@liamreeves344]

It's not Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, it's All You Need is Love. They used the drum beat from the Sgt Pepper's Reprise when you have dungeon man with you, that's probably what you're thinking of

[@GiordanDiodato]

which is part of the 1812 Overture.

[@jackwirtz5822]

+Giordan Diodato I agreed. I can't take stop listening to this music before I actually manage to make it towards that area! This song is so empty, that all I can think is total blackness, and also strange.

[@emptyspotlight]

+Giordan Diodato actually it's from the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise"

[@D3ci]

This song feels wrong. Like something triumphant yet distorted after so many long years of emptiness. The esoterically hazard spiral that exists in the cave only adds to the eeriness. It reminds me in a way of humanity, all but an outcry in to the emptiness of time and reality, trying, beseeching, begging to be heard.

[@mariorox81]

I call this one "Trying to Work While Sleep Deprived".

[@rafaelcosta7427]

This song is just perfect for thos area, especially considering the first time you hear it, and later in the game finding out what it was

[@joseg9446]

All you need is love reference

[@DanielWalker-wn7vr]

The Feel About This Song Feels Ominous

[@PROPLAYEN]

this song is so damn creepy

[@chonenjuanpi]

All You Need is Love

[@floopydoodle3082]

Almost sounds like something thats in EATEOT (Everywhere at the end of time)

[@charlie891]

the song is actually the intro to the beatles song "all you need is love"

[@Wattson-ston]

Imagine a white steel hallway with a door at the end with windows shining light each whike this plays

[@mattresssurveyor]

Nope, this song is taken from the horns at the start of "All You Need Is Love", the Dungeon Man song is the one taken from Sgt. Pepper.

[@kimmolaine8069]

This song is scary.

[@CH3R.N0BY1]

void music

[@omberonilink4118]

This makes me think of a Pyrrhic victory; you’ve won the war and the trumpet is weakly proclaiming your victory…while you stare at the bodies of all the fallen soldiers.

[@Electricspaceodyssey]

This song is the first couple notes from 'Sgt. Peppers Lonley Hearts Club Band' by the Beatles - This game sampled alot of beatles references and melodys for this games music - even the npcs reference the beatles a few times, the ***erday (yes/no) joke in onett or the fact that ness/friends use a YELLOW SUBMARINE to leave the second desert. Pretty legendary stuff. The music after the meteor hits and ness is outside is 'strawberry fields forever' (the ending part before the song fades out), etc

[@tgirltouhou]

it's been a decade but you're wrong it's the trumpets from "all you need is love"

[@tece0577]

This song has more trumpets than the whole Pokémon RSE soundtrack....

[@zuzmaxgemini2183]

why are all people creeped out because of this music I mean it's not scary it's awesome

[@leightonpetty4817]

zuzmax Gemini I think the main unsettling-ness of the song comes from that _oh-so-very-slight_ misalignment with the trumpets, along with the quite bass droning in the background. It creates a feeling of wrongness concealed by a feeling of awesome.

[@cosmicparsec9463]

I think it's because of the disruption this song makes to the game. It's a very different stretch than anything that's come before in the game.

[@TsunamiOfTape]

This low key is reminiscent of that one scene in monty python and the holy grail when bedevere and king Arthur had walked across the bridge and were now traveling through the plains

[@user-ms7ez6tu7b]

Love love love

[@mrnukes797]

Feels like entering heaven

[@grande1900]

All You Need Is Love

[@5dollarsanhour]

All you need is love intro...?

[@karenthecaring2801]

spoopy 😱

[@rafadesenhista]

"robotic step step step step step step step step step step step step step"

[@averageundertalehaterwhois3347]

DDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDEEEEEEEEEEEEEDEEEEEEDEeEeEeEeeeeeee deeeeeDeeeeDEEEEEEEEDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@happy.time.boredom]

Hey Dialga, remember that cliff?

[@Electricspaceodyssey]

Oh yea, I stand corrected. :)

[@zDraven763]

a song that's a little similar to this is Hell from a SMW rom hack called Coronation Day

[@cumbiagaze]

And right here that the shit starts

[@Quadraxon]

If you guys look up a song called "Crunk Muzik" by the Diplomats, they almost sound similar regarding the trumpets.

[@growlie2676]

This music repeats to much.

[@godlyvex5543]

zoooOOOOP

[@goofy-ahh101.]

The Beatles.

[@tsitracommunications2884]

Sounds like an American anthem theme

[@PrincePoo]

nice yume nikki ost

[@SmilyCookieBone]

Tony Soprano

[@rexolve1032]

So it turns out this is the very first part of the actual song by Cory Johnson 2x

[@boofboof666]

Mante Armstrong no, cory johnson made an awesome album BASED off earthbound. If you read the albums desc on its bandcamp page it says so

[@baserocks1]

good shit i am going to make a beat out of this. For an update check out my page in the near future vgtrax

[@yidasjdjasgd4054]

sounds like a band warmup