The Advantage

in case you have ever wondered: yes. there is a band out there who has devoted themselves to covering songs from nintendo. this band is The Advantage. they have been around for ten years or so and have had various members. they have a goal of covering every nintendo song. and they are good. real good. ive been listening all morning -- somehow i have always found that nintndo songs are incredibly inspirational and theres nothing better to get me through the work day. here are some tunes of theirs you can listen to:

Super Mario Brothers - Blaster Master (live)
Gremlins - Level 2
Metroid - Kraids Lair
Gradius - Solar Jet Man (live)
Castlevania3 - Medley
Mega Man - wiley
Contra - Aliens Lair + boss
Batman - ROTJ
Double Dragon2 - story + boss