No, THIS is the best: your favourite bits of game music. READ THE OP.

cj iwakura · February 2009

Lando wrote: »

I didn't read past a few pages in. I tried to add tracks that aren't "given" for the games listed. Sorry for any duplicates.

PS2

Persona 4
True spoiler for those who haven't finished the game. So hard choosing between this and "The Almighty"

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3b3ggcyJlY

Shadow Hearts: Covenant

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjaKhGLkXw

PSX

Final Fantasy IX

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-ddnBsOr8

Vagrant Story

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8E8PsIgp3Y

Einhander

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hJbe7YXsLU

Sega CD

Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
This one starts slow, but at about 47 seconds...

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-S4p-ppC0

NES

Ninja Gaiden II

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3sBCyhFePE&feature=channel_page

These are quality selections.

Asamof the Horrible · February 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPusDZOPB48&feature=related

I can't stop listening to it!!

Lando · February 2009

Asamof the Horrible wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPusDZOPB48&feature=related

I can't stop listening to it!!

The only thing more impressive than the track itself, is that someone actually got far enough to hear it.

cj iwakura · February 2009

Guess I'm morally obligated to share this, since it's my second favorite track from the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6fbyFQF0Kc

Flippy_D · February 2009

Fixed/updated links in OP.

Idoliside · February 2009

Sonic 3 Chemical Plant Zone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYB7iLZNWE

NickTheNewbie · February 2009

Sonic 2

Helloween · February 2009

I've always enjoyed this one

Contra 3/Super Probotector Stage 3

Domhnall · February 2009

My pal learnt to play the Chemical Plant music on the keyboard during a long car ride once. It was quite fantastic.

Idoliside · February 2009

Domhnall wrote: »

My pal learnt to play the Chemical Plant music on the keyboard during a long car ride once. It was quite fantastic.

Yeah i've learnt it too, fantastic chord progression especially if your into funk.

TurnpikeLad · February 2009

Chance Thomas always puts one totally amazing song in the middle of otherwise relatively uninspired scores. Here are a couple examples.

Dance of Mystery and Intrigue - Quest for Glory V

http://www.last.fm/music/Chance+Thomas/_/The+Dance+of+Mystery+and+Intrigue?autostart

Tom Bombadil's theme - Lord of the Rings Online

Spoiler:

Jobastion · February 2009

I see a distinct lack of funk*.
PC:

Interstate 76: Intro Theme (and accompanying video)
I've still got this CD in my car. Just for those times when I need to feel funky while traveling.

Spoiler:

To this, I shall add

Jet's N Guns (Gold): Hero

Spoiler:

Edit: Well dang, looking up that JnG stuff, I just discovered that the band also did a remake of the Bionic Commando theme for Capcom. It is classy.
Car issues continue, my pick from NOLF shall come later.
*Vigilante 8 non-withstanding

NickTheNewbie · February 2009

The fan arranged version of the contra 4 soundtrack, tentatively titled "Rocked'n'Loaded," has been in production for the past year. Here's a sneak peek of some of what you'll hear, including slap bass that was never ever meant to actually be played live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZNJtLjjN8&fmt=18

Darmak · February 2009

NickTheNewbie wrote: »

The fan arranged version of the contra 4 soundtrack, tentatively titled "Rocked'n'Loaded," has been in production for the past year. Here's a sneak peek of some of what you'll hear, including slap bass that was never ever meant to actually be played live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZNJtLjjN8&fmt=18

That's pretty fucking impressive. Also, Contra 4 has a pretty good soundtrack, I'd like to hear this when it's released.

NickTheNewbie · February 2009

Check out his other videos, too. He has an actraiser medley, cyan's theme from ff6, and sonic 3 marble garden. It's a pretty broad range of styles. Actraiser is symphonic metal, sonic is funk, and cyan is some kind of prog.

cj iwakura · February 2009

On a similar note, there's a lot of guitar players doing renditions of Persona 4 music, to awesome results:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89-rCBtTnBk
(My favorite song from the game)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656S0exttTA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzyxpzRmYCw

Sorenson · February 2009

Ys in general has always had some dang good music and is known for its boss battles, but when they started doing the 3D games a few years ago they decided to combine those two traits and make FUCKING AWESOME boss music alongside the FUCKING AWESOME regular music.

Do note that some of these might revert to lower-quality versions, so follow the links for HQ stuff.

Ys IV: The Ark of Napishtim

Spoiler:

Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Spoiler:

cj iwakura · February 2009

I remember being stunned at how metal the boss theme in Ys Book 1 was on the VC.

NickTheNewbie · March 2009

X-posted from the Ys 1+2 thread for anyone who cares:

Holy shit, this month's Dwelling of Duels is an Ys theme. Check back at DoD at the end of the month to see what fucking awesome covers people are going to make from the series.
http://dod.vgmix.com/current.php

RCagent · March 2009

Seriously, why the fuck does a character select screen music be this awesome?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BXvPvRPfo

This song would get stuck in my head so damn much, and I would usually hesitate to select a character just because I wanted to hear it more.

Oh, and the Volcanic Rim stage in Street Fighter IV has the best music in the whole game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqnhhtPNw1c&fmt=18

LittleBoots · March 2009

NickTheNewbie wrote: »

The fan arranged version of the contra 4 soundtrack, tentatively titled "Rocked'n'Loaded," has been in production for the past year. Here's a sneak peek of some of what you'll hear, including slap bass that was never ever meant to actually be played live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZNJtLjjN8&fmt=18

As someone who as been playing bass for over 9 years I must say that video is both awesome and depressing as it makes me realize what shit I am at bass.

The Dude With Herpes · March 2009

LittleBoots wrote: »

NickTheNewbie wrote: »

The fan arranged version of the contra 4 soundtrack, tentatively titled "Rocked'n'Loaded," has been in production for the past year. Here's a sneak peek of some of what you'll hear, including slap bass that was never ever meant to actually be played live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZNJtLjjN8&fmt=18

As someone who as been playing bass for over 9 years I must say that video is both awesome and depressing as it makes me realize what shit I am at bass.

Nah man, don't do that to yourself. It's too easy to recognize the Jaco Pastorious and Fleas of the world and say "fuck, they're so awesome, I must be shit". Just because you're not cream of the crop doesn't mean you can't be really good and do well in the role you need to in a band or whatever it is you're doing. It's just a sobering reminder that there's room to improve when you hear dudes like this.

I played Bass for yeaaaaaaars only to stop after getting out of the military for lack of anything to play or people to play with. Seeing this doesn't make me feel like "man, I sucked", it just makes me feel sad I stopped playing at all.

EDIT: Oh and Victor Wooten, if you needed more awesome.

Agentflit · March 2009

Hey dudes, FYI:

The Contra 4 soundtrack was done by Jake Kaufman, aka Virt, who has made a lot of excellent music.

Seriously, every song is like a masterpiece.

Duki · March 2009

The two Fairlight themes on the old Spectrum are probably my favourite bits of game music.

The first is the one that plays at the start of the video, and the second starts at about 53 seconds in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMeCM6XfNoc

Cherrn · March 2009

Good call on Jet Force Gemini. That game has fantastic music overall. I crave a remake/re-release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VFHoo_kNL8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLjINpwB9_k

Edit: Perfect Dark also has some great tracks, done by the same guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whjfd7pqaTo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV3RC2sDwQs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9OA-57bVqI

busfahrer · March 2009

It's probably been posted before: My favourite piece of game music, hands down, has to be the music from the first level of Doom, in all its midi-y glory.

Spoiler:

Flippy_D · March 2009

That really is such a great, great track, bus.

Fencingsax · March 2009

I think my favorite thing about SMG is that almost all the tracks use the same basic theme, and yet they are all kickass in a different way.

Flippy_D · March 2009

Super Mario Galaxy? The actual melodies are very different, they're just stylistically collusive.

Music!

I am a sucker for Kazenone from FFCC:

Spoiler:

And I really enjoyed, actually, Blizzard's one-off song from WoW: Lament of the Highborne:

Spoiler:

werehippy · March 2009

You have to love Halo's soundtrack.

Especially great is Rock Anthem For Saving the World.

Spoiler:

You feel like such an epic badass when that kicks in, though there are a ton of other moments that do the same thing throughout the series.

Olivaw · March 2009

I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but you're all wrong

I was wrong

I have found the greatest piece of game music, and coincidentally, it is also part of the greatest game

METAL FIGHTER: AMERICA'S NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM

Duki · March 2009

Best MOH music imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLiRgNFvfGw

edit: Scratch that, best FPS music in general.

psyck0 · March 2009

I just saw Video Games Live in Kitchener, Ontario. They played some fantastic music like Halo (see 2 posts up). They also played MOTHERFUCKING CHRONO TRIGGER FOR THE SECOND TIME EVER!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwoI23NteU0

Flippy_D · March 2009

<3

I still think CT and CC between them have the second-greatest OST of all time.

Operative21 · March 2009

Not sure if this one has been posted yet or not (my apologies if it has already), but I rather enjoyed this particular piece from Dawn of War II's soundtrack.

Spoiler:

And then there's ye olde intro music to Thief: The Dark Project

Spoiler:

And who can forget the frantically paced music from the Medical Science wing of the Von Braun in System Shock 2?

Spoiler:

Akatsuki · March 2009

Man, I wish they played CT when they came to Portugal, I would've shat myself. It was still awesome though

SirUltimos · March 2009

psyck0 wrote: »

I just saw Video Games Live in Kitchener, Ontario. They played some fantastic music like Halo (see 2 posts up). They also played MOTHERFUCKING CHRONO TRIGGER FOR THE SECOND TIME EVER!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwoI23NteU0

I was there too! Did you go on the Friday or the Saturday?

Drakmathus · March 2009

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 for the PC featured something pretty neat in its soundtrack, opera.

There is a track for all 6 towns so I picked the Necromancer's on here since that is the town I usually play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDNazBgimqQ

GreasyKidsStuff · March 2009

Man I'm going to Video Games Live in May, pretty excited

NickTheNewbie · March 2009

Anyone remember kage/blue shadow/shadow of the ninja?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7ipeWsQJg

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