Music that sounds like Super Metroid

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We've had the Donkey Kong Country thread. Thought we could do something similar for Super Metroid? It's got its own special foggy alien vibe that I always loved.

There's a specific watery noise that happens in Underworld's 'Stagger' that takes me immediately back to exploring the eerie catacombs of Crateria back in 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctSqwx7mXoQ

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 August 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link

i can't think of any additions but i support the goal of this thread

dyl, Thursday, 4 August 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link

very much support this

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 4 August 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link

the stranger things theme song has a bit of a metroid vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpHNlx0pPIU

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 4 August 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

there's a bunch of them on that guy's youtube channel and they are all excellent

the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Ibq5q0Bwk

a bit, maybe

punksishippies, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link

man i grew up with the us version too but the fds soundtrack is definitive for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5UrRI6WvNw

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_BRL4GD_4

erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBh_JinGbE

Not so much the vibe, but the piano part always reminds me of Brinstar Red Soil area in Super Metroid

Vinnie, Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjVMCSot2s

PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link

Kreidler have a bit of a Super Metroid vibe about them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1RFviFfC5A

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link

are we talking NES or SNES?

clouds, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link

I used to play the SNES version but happy to do cross-platform.

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link

this is definitely my favourite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnRRni1iQns - still get it stuck in my head sometimes

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link

the electronic vocal stabs there always get to me

the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link

yeah, like 16-bit Orchestra Hits, except not shit.

Something really insidious about the whole Metroid aesthetic. It would be lazy to compare it to the Alien films. The theme I just posted comes quite near the start of the game after you go around exploring empty catacombs for quite a while in near-silence. Then you enter a room, trigger something, and when you walk back out the place is crawling with beasties.

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEfcYClZif4

clouds, Friday, 7 October 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link

i wish i could find more music like that melancholic theme that plays when you're in the lower swamp areas

clouds, Friday, 7 October 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link

if you listen to the analogue synth remake of brinstar, it can easily be a track off of camel's snow goose

F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link

this is really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0CNm6E9IA

F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link

fast forward to 0:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3UgDxxe5Q

F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link

that would be a specific reference to the ending music in metroid nes but it was reused in some way or another in other iterations

F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link

nine months pass...

this is kind of great: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Qa0KkENVn8FTX0sOj64QQ

Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 31 July 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

Just hurry up and release this shit on vinyl okay?

Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link

eight months pass...

completed it yesterday. took me 8 hrs and I only got 75% of the items which is pretty lousy considering how much I played it when I was younger. some parts are ridiculously tricky.

anyway I think someone mentioned it upthread but there's actually a really lovely bit of Japanese style cool jazz niceness that takes place in some of the Maridia sections that's at odds with the menacing vibe of the rest of the game

Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSTHg3O8-4

Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9ZVPTTZ1U

oder doch?, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:16 (five years ago) link


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