Awesome Music / Super Mario World

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• The castle music is a dread-filled number as you get closer to the boss, whether it be a wheel of fire-breathing Triceratopses, or the Koopalings themselves. Super Mario Maker finally provided an answer to the question of what this theme sounds like with Yoshi's bongos (since Yoshi couldn't be taken into castle or ghost house levels in SMW). Those bongos add some more beats to the track, but they're a little creepier now, owing to what this stage is...
• The underwater theme is a floaty version of the ground theme, yet it still is just as relaxing as the first underwater theme.
• The main Ground theme carries a lighthearted tune for the exciting start of your journey with Yoshi. The Super Mario Maker 2 trailer version starts off with the original mix and then quickly evolves into a energetic remaster that swaps between game soundfonts and also includes a snippet of "Super Bell Hill" from Super Mario 3D World.
• The athletic theme, a faster variation of the Ground Theme, manages to be both frantic and fun. Here's the Super Smash Bros. Melee remix, featuring a clear bassline and something that sounds like a banjo, which preserves all the fun in the track.
• The Ghost House theme works in all the organ motifs, bells, strings and horror to make this the game's scariest, spookiest level. With Yoshi's bongos in Super Mario Maker here, the horror is enhanced to the sounds of the bongos sounding like hollow skeleton bones.
• The Koopaling/Reznor boss music is also pretty awesome. Obligatory Smash Bros remix here, giving it a Spanish flamenco feel.
• The music for the Bowser battle is sufficiently epic. Then Square-Enix remixed it for, of all things, the Near Victory Fanfare in Fortune Street.
• The credits music is so bubbly that it can be used to make any ending satisfying, especially if you've just rescued Peach from Bowser.
• The Super Mario World Restored OST project. The clean, uncompressed sounds used to make World's music was found in one of the many gigaleaks, and a selection of creators decided to band together and remake (most of) the music with these fresh samples. Needless to say, the end result is unnatural in how clean it all sounds, and is worth a listen to hear these old classics in a brand new way.

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