The other day, I was with some friends online and we were enjoying some fandom music together, a lot of it from back in 2011. At that point, I idly wondered what the oldest extant Pony track was, barring actual show tunes of course. Having poked around a bit, the best I can come up with is this. Quite impressively, it's not by a long-forgotten obscure artist but by someone who remains a very well known musician a decade on: none other than Eurobeat Brony (Odyssey).
Now, I don't think many people would say this was his best fandom track, But it holds up surprisingly well for such an early track; certainly the production values are well in advance of many 2011 pieces. Of course it's more than likely that people were making fan songs before this, but the odds are that they were on 4chan and so are long inaccessible. (If you know otherwise, please do let me know!) As things stand, Eurobeat Brony's song is the oldest one that I know of.
This was uploaded to the "Bandpuffs" account (which may have been called something different then; I don't know) on 28th January 2011. That makes it ten years and two days old as this post goes up. On 29th January, Eurobeat Brony's version of "Winter Wrap Up" appeared on the same account – and 26th March saw the release of Super Ponybeat Vol. 1 on Bandcamp. Was that the first Bandcamp brony release? No idea. But what a decade of music it has been.
Almost assuredly not the oldest track, there are so many artists who've deleted their accounts. But it's really interesting to know what the oldest track you can still listen to is. :D
ReplyDeleteThere may be older ones that still exist; if the artist was someone obscure it could be hard to find. After all, you come across a lot of people who think "Trouble is a Friend" is the oldest G4 PMV when it's not. I'll mention it if I do find something older than Eurobeat Brony's track, though. :)
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