From Button Mashing to the Concert Stage

[For this post, it will help if you read it with Will Ferrell playing James Lipton from Inside the Actors Studio]

Once in a while, a recording comes along that is so triumphant, mesmerizing, and destined to become lauded and legendary. Toscanini's recording of the Beethoven symphonies and Sir Georg Solti's recording of Wagner's Ring Cycle come to mind.

Well, the next greatest recording, destined to become legendary, is here. From the London Philharmonic Orchestra we are treated to The Greatest Video Game Music. If you have not heard this album, go and listen to it. It will change not only your perspective on music, but it will change your life. Below is a sample (with a smack of analysis):
The titles might be too dark, so here is the rundown. I start off with Grand Theft Auto IV, then Super Mario Bros. (which I compare with Leroy Anderson's Jazz Pizzicato), then the Tetris theme, whose slow generation of energy I compare to Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, Op. 3, No. 2, then I return to the Tetris theme during a klezmer-like style, and conclude with a portion of the theme from Angry Birds that also sounds a bit klezmer-like.