List of references in music

"Almost Unreal" Music Video
The Roxette song, "Almost Unreal," was featured in the Super Mario Bros. film as the first song in the credits. There are two versions of the music video, one with references to the film and one without. The former includes images from the film and several minor references, including one of the king's Mushrooms and and several warnings of De-Evolution. The video ends with the main character being De-Evolved into a lizard, which crawls out of his clothes. The scene of the lizard is cut out of the latter version of the video, along with the De-Evolution warning. In both videos the main character plays a video game, progressing through levels as the video continues.

Birdo
Birdo is a song by Horse the Band. It is loosely based off the Nintendo Character Birdo. The song uses electronic 8-bit sounds with electric guitar. It is in Horse the Band's 3rd album The Mechanical Hand.

"Game Gonna Cost a Fee" by Chamillionaire
It is mentioned that I ride with bananas and shells like Mario and Luigi, "bananas" and "shells" referring (respectively) to banana clips and shotgun shells.

"Ignorance Is Bliss" by the Jellyfish
The song is narrated by Bowser, speaking to Princess Toadstool.

NESkimos
NESkimos is a band that plays metal versions of music from Nintendo games, including Super Mario Bros. 3.

"The Arcade" by Hypercrush
The song's first half talks about the Power Glove.

Super Mario Bros 3
A song sung by the Mexican group, Allison. Curiously, only one line in the song actually refers to Super Mario Bros. 3.

"Video Game" by Resonant Sun
In Resonant Sun's "Video Game," they describe Super Mario Bros..

"Video Games" by KJ-52
Mario and Luigi are mentioned in the lines I was down to one life and didn't have another / but now I'm super like the Mario Brothers.

"What It's Like in Japan" by Logan Whitehurst & The Junior Science Club
This song, featured on the album "Very Tiny Songs," describes Japan (from which Mario originates out-of-universe) in a manner clearly modeled after a typical Super Mario Bros. level, featuring sound effects from the game and having its last line (That's what it's like when you go to Japan) sung to the tune of Super Mario Bros. 's Game Over theme.