Best Video Game Music
Seeing as how we've got threads for Best and Worst games you've played, how about a thread for your favorite video game music? I'll start us off, and in no particular order...
Banjo Kazooie - Rusty Bucket Bay -- Theme for a level in an oily, grungy harbor, complete with giant cargo ship!
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs - Ragnarok Canyon -- The theme of the first level.
Chrono Trigger - Frog's Theme -- The theme of Frog, a knight cursed to assume the form of a humanoid frog. He has not forgotten his honor or duties as a knight, though.
Command & Conquer - Act on Instinct -- The most recognized theme from Tiberian Dawn.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Hell March -- The iconic theme from the Red Alert series.
Command & Conquer: Renegade - Command & Conquer -- A great theme for the first real mission.
Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2) - Gundorada Workshop -- The giant facility where the secret weapon to fight Emperor Griffon will be constructed.
Dark Cloud - Gallery of Time -- A trip through time, traveling 400 years into the past to unravel the mysterious past of your 'rival'.
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - Hystelic Kingdom -- An awesome upbeat military march from an awesome tactical RPG.
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories - Etna Rock -- The rock theme for Etna, Demon Beauty Queen! (Japanese lyrics, though).
Doom - Hiding the Secrets -- The theme for E1M9 or E1M8, I believe. I forget which level exactly.
Earthworm Jim 2 - Title -- A snappy vocal theme with finger snapping and clapping. Difficult to describe, but just plain awesome.
Final Fantasy 5 - Clash on the Big Bridge -- The battle theme of Gilgamesh, fought on a long bridge that stretches between two continents.
Final Fantasy 6 - Dancing Mad -- The final battle themes. Four separate tiers, one awesome piece.
Goldeneye - Dam -- The music of the very first level.
Homeworld - Agnus Dei -- A sad choral piece, played during the third mission,
Homeworld 2 - Battle 2 -- One of the many battle themes from Homeworld 2.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Laboratory -- It's just plain cool.
Jet Force Gemini - Sekhmet -- One can really get a sense of the majesty of the mighty warship Sekhmet from this track.
Ogre Battle - Revolt (Thunder) -- An upbeat military march, played on many of the early missions.
Seiken Densetsu 3 - High-Tension Wire -- A fast-paced boss battle theme.
Space Station Silicon Valley - Battery Farm -- The theme for level 4.
Soul Blazer - Southera -- Pirate island music!
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together - Avilla Henya -- Played during a mission in the middle of the night, where you must defend a village from being razed.
Terranigma - Dark Side Field -- Played when the player is navigating the frozen wastelands of Dark Side (a world within Earth).
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri - NewHope -- Track played during missions on the planet NewHope.
Tetris - Music A -- The classic game's classic music!
Zool - Candy Land -- An unexpectedly awesome rock piece for a very strange game.
That's all for now... I've already listed far too much. What about the rest of you?
Banjo Kazooie - Rusty Bucket Bay -- Theme for a level in an oily, grungy harbor, complete with giant cargo ship!
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs - Ragnarok Canyon -- The theme of the first level.
Chrono Trigger - Frog's Theme -- The theme of Frog, a knight cursed to assume the form of a humanoid frog. He has not forgotten his honor or duties as a knight, though.
Command & Conquer - Act on Instinct -- The most recognized theme from Tiberian Dawn.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Hell March -- The iconic theme from the Red Alert series.
Command & Conquer: Renegade - Command & Conquer -- A great theme for the first real mission.
Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2) - Gundorada Workshop -- The giant facility where the secret weapon to fight Emperor Griffon will be constructed.
Dark Cloud - Gallery of Time -- A trip through time, traveling 400 years into the past to unravel the mysterious past of your 'rival'.
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - Hystelic Kingdom -- An awesome upbeat military march from an awesome tactical RPG.
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories - Etna Rock -- The rock theme for Etna, Demon Beauty Queen! (Japanese lyrics, though).
Doom - Hiding the Secrets -- The theme for E1M9 or E1M8, I believe. I forget which level exactly.
Earthworm Jim 2 - Title -- A snappy vocal theme with finger snapping and clapping. Difficult to describe, but just plain awesome.
Final Fantasy 5 - Clash on the Big Bridge -- The battle theme of Gilgamesh, fought on a long bridge that stretches between two continents.
Final Fantasy 6 - Dancing Mad -- The final battle themes. Four separate tiers, one awesome piece.
Goldeneye - Dam -- The music of the very first level.
Homeworld - Agnus Dei -- A sad choral piece, played during the third mission,
where you return to your race's planet to find the surface is burning, and there are no survivors left on the planet.
Homeworld 2 - Battle 2 -- One of the many battle themes from Homeworld 2.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Laboratory -- It's just plain cool.
Jet Force Gemini - Sekhmet -- One can really get a sense of the majesty of the mighty warship Sekhmet from this track.
Ogre Battle - Revolt (Thunder) -- An upbeat military march, played on many of the early missions.
Seiken Densetsu 3 - High-Tension Wire -- A fast-paced boss battle theme.
Space Station Silicon Valley - Battery Farm -- The theme for level 4.
Soul Blazer - Southera -- Pirate island music!
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together - Avilla Henya -- Played during a mission in the middle of the night, where you must defend a village from being razed.
Terranigma - Dark Side Field -- Played when the player is navigating the frozen wastelands of Dark Side (a world within Earth).
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri - NewHope -- Track played during missions on the planet NewHope.
Tetris - Music A -- The classic game's classic music!
Zool - Candy Land -- An unexpectedly awesome rock piece for a very strange game.
That's all for now... I've already listed far too much. What about the rest of you?
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Yes, I do have a strange taste for music.
Room of Angel Absolutely chilling song, and one that gets a LOT of play from me.
Killing Time Just awesomely catchy guitar work.
Aye, they were all great, but I tried to restrict myself to picking one song per game I listed. Otherwise the post would've been at least three or four times as long, and I was already pushing it to begin with!
Anyway, best music in a game has to go to The World Ends With You. It's generally pretty removed from what I listen to, but I love it anyway.
Loom and Monkey Island by Lucasfilm
oh there are so many.
Gunstar Heroes - Rescue Yellow!
Resident Evil 2 - Escape From The Underground Lab
For overall soundtracks, these are what I pick...
Shadow of the Colossus (Favorite: Revived Power.)
Psychonauts (Favorite: Meat Circus.)
Grim Fandango (Too many favorites... I'm such a sucker for Jazz... Top favorites has to be Mr Frustration Man, Smooth Hector, and Hi-Tone Fandango.)
Final Fantasy Tactics [the original Playstation version] (Favorite: Antidote.)
I want to say Final Fantasy 7, but that soundtrack is overused in such lists.
Oh god I love Ratchet and Clank 1 so much
Altogether, I think Grim Fandango has the best soundtrack. I think Casino Calavera is my favorite there.
Cave Story was totally kicking crazy rad in terms of its soundtrack too.
This is true. Though my favorite Sam and Max song is still the Ted E. Bear song.
...hmm. Or the mariachis. Now I'm torn.
The early Sonic games had some of the best beepity-boopity music ever, in my opinion. I mean, who doesn't think Green Hill Zone had awesome music?
Final Fantasy has some incredible music. Too bad I don't enjoy any other aspects of that particular series.
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Isn't that 90% recycled(or at least remixed) from the music of other Nintendo games?
I'm problably forgetting a few good ones.
I really liked the theme song for Brawl.Since my school orchestra played the Halo theme last year, I don't see why this couldn't be redone well.
You underestimate the effect of an orchestra on music. I'm not much for 'classical' instruments (I associate them with this really annoying, terrible grating sound that they all seem to have), but there's much more life to a song performed by a group of trained musicians than that same song done in chiptune form.
I think I prefer chiptunes a lot of the time. They sound to have more depth to and charm that I don't get from orchestrated soundtracks.
I think it's down to a matter of taste though.
EDIT: Not anymore!!!
-Chrono Trigger: Chrono's Theme
-Halo: Truth and Reconciliation Suite
-Final Fantasy IV: Battle Theme
-Final Fantasy VI: The Decisive Battle
-Mega Man 2: Dr. Wily's Castle: Stages 1 & 2
-Bomberman: Boss Music
-Breath Of Fire III: This Old House
The entire soundtrack from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
-Sonic the Hedgehog: Green Hill Zone
-Sonic the Hedgehog: Spring Yard Zone
-Sonic the Hedgehog: Special Stage
-Super Metroid: Brinstar
-Super Mario Kart: Rainbow Road
The entire Super Mario Bros. soundtrack
The Castlevania Soundtrack
That's all I can think of now.
2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl- intro theme; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whuZunX8bQo&feature=related
3. "The Sea Theme" from LOZ: Wind Waker; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGal2fBQ3EM&feature=related
"And... erm... door hinge...?"
i also really love earthbound music. lately the onett theme has been getting stuck in my head all the time, and of course "polyanna", which is a really really catchy tune. of course the music for that game was composed by the legendary hip tanaka (metroid, super mario land) so of course it'll be awesome.
and for that matter, i pretty much love the music for any game as long as it's made by hip tanaka, koji kondo, or kazumi "kk slider" totaka.
We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange...
Oh wait, no, actually, Wii Sports.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZb9OcoHNRI&feature=related Do, do, do, do do do do do do do do do...
Ah, how could I forget? "More than Jerks", from Sam & Max! It's better in 205, no idea why. http://files.telltalegames.com/samandmax/music/morethanjerks.mp3
Don't know what I'm going to do once the beta ends, and I can't get my fix of the music for another fortnight.
To Zanarkand (FFX) is awesome too. Especially the version someone made in LittleBigPlanet.
(I guess I talk about LittleBigPlanet too much?)
Another (non LittleBigPlanet related) favourite is the Village of Inoa music from Alundra.
Each and every one.
Ah!I should have put that one in!
Aperture science........we do what we want *trails off*