This is the Video Game Music Thread

For fans of sega/sonic stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3AS3AlxIo

wao @ that snowboard kids track -- never even heard of that game

gran turismo 3 had some great nobukazu takemura electronic jazz-lite grooves for the menu music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO-_c8gIeE0

are there any really great VG soundtrack albums out there? I've had the one for Katamari Damacy for years and I love it (even though I never played the original)

― frogbs, Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:37 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't understand how the Fez OST hasn't shown up here yet. It's pretty amazing. And the remix albums are amazing on a different level.

Totally agree about Katamari. I love all of the soundtracks to those games.

Beatrice Martin's soundtrack for Child Of Light is very pretty.

I'm also currently way into Tangerine Dream (et al)'s original music for GTA V.

Listening to Lalo Schifrin for the first time and getting vibes from the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjwbT7Ti_Cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMejGSLU29M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDzXxdxWFl8

http://store.bravewave.net/album/retro-active-pt-1

starts at 0:06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ET4Y1HaxE

earthbound, then chrono trigger. no other game OST comes close to those two. mother 3 as a sequel to the impossible standard set by EB is pretty impressive, though, making good use of familiar themes and adding some great ones to the pool. "close your eyes, sugar" is such an excellent canon in d riff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rmb4Ld-qPE

following CT, xenogears is also worth a listen - yasunori mitsuda was still in his golden age at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFcTfHdOOSI&t=274

the whole thing really but i particularly enjoy the bookshop theme at 4:35 and the city map music at 6:55. keep in mind that this game is basically responsible for me leaving home and moving to new orleans and living there for 15 years so i am not super objective.

jfc the midi trumpet riff in the city map music is so hot

https://medium.com/cuepoint/enter-the-jungle-donkey-kong-country-vs-hip-hop-7b2b5abc8271

Sometimes. There was one tune that I wrote for a game called Snake Rattle N’ Roll, on the Nintendo. I guess they were on a strict deadline, but I didn’t realize how close it was. I’d been out drinking on a Saturday night until 4 in the morning, and they called me up, and said “can you come over and finish up this product,” and I said “no, I’m in too much of a bad way.” But they kept telling me, “we’ve got to get this product out.” So I said “okay, fine, but you have to come and pick me up, because I can’t drive.” And so they came and got me.

So you had to write the song? Did you sober up on the way to the office?

Absolutely not. I wrote this tune very much under the influence of alcohol. On top of that, writing music on the Nintendo is a bit of a process anyway, because this isn’t musical notation. Everything is done in hexadecimal code. Letters and numbers, basically writing everything out in a primitive text editor.

Right.

And I’m rushing, and completely inebriated. And I played it back once I was done, and I thought oh, this is just awful. But they listened to it, and they loved it. And it made it into the final game. Two days later they’d wrapped the game up and shipped it off.

LOL always loved the Snake Rattle n Roll music.

would it kill him to say the words "eveline fischer"

(to be fair, all the samples mentioned in the article were from david wise tracks, I checked, but fischer did a non-trivial amount of the soundtrack -- a lot of the later levels, I want to say, could be misremembering, so maybe they weren't as low-hanging nostalgia fruit.)

(with David Wise; composed the tracks "Simian Segue", "Candy's Love Song", "Voices of the Temple", "Forest Frenzy", "Treetop Rock", "Northern Hemispheres" and "Ice Cave Chant"[1])

the snow theme was always my favorite from DKC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTzPj_RcIy4

Finished listening to Castlevania: Lament Of Innocence. Apart from Symphony Of The Night, I've found all the Castlevania soundtracks I've bought quite frustrating. From the 00s, most of them used dance beats in a way I feel didn't work most of the time and spoiled the atmosphere. All those soundtracks have really great moments, there is lots of impressive things going on but overall I find them inconsistent. Sometimes I'm not sure why some tracks aren't that evocative. For the Advance and DS games Michiru Yamane was usually working in collaboration so I don't really know who did what.
She gets to try loads of stuff on Lament Of Innocence and Curse Of Darkness, both are 2 discs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W355pnsGgEw

in my head today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOb0CcSA04c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGyr8uwJ9cE
I've had this running in my head since 1983. My favorite is when you "die" and it goes into minor-key funeral march and then peps back up when you hit your X and get back on track!

Correction: 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1tjupBlSyc

Someone show Lee Scratch Perry "Cool Spot" for the Genesis.

done and done

or prince jammy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2imCQh5mRUE

I couldn't find this on youtube so I captured it in MAME and uploaded it. This loop is so cool and futuristic.

Oh my gosh, this evokes at once "A Rainbow in Curved Air" (the frantic percussion) and Ravi Shankar (duh) and the X-Files theme and also like Seefeel or something?!? This is INCREDIBLE!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6NgA48KWc0

the "dire dire docks" music is the one that sticks w me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTl0ky4DcHA

Kondo is so boss

in my head this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_aiHo3aJg

Yuzo Koshiro is a genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se-9zpPonwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efPcKJ4cOk

maxo grinding out great OSTs just lately
http://maxoisnuts.bandcamp.com/album/rustbucket-rumble-ost

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OUmGG8UNFo

argreetha 5 years ago
No matter what The Joung hero does, He need to die
Such a sad end for this hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWdxWqhzV4I
#mood

I get that Actraiser song you linked stuck in my head monthly

sea of eden *chills*

I get that Actraiser song you linked stuck in my head monthly

― Vinnie, Monday, May 30, 2016 11:52 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siWqlVob8zg

OutRun soundtrack gets 30th anniversary vinyl reissue

man, the streets of rage iii soundtrack is legitimately flat-out amazing. kawashima gets crazy gabber sounds out of the sound chip on tracks like "bulldozer" and koshiro does this super-dissonant take on techno to where the time he's doing mr. x's intro music i swear to god he's gone flat atonal.

yeah, that soundtrack blew my mind the first time i heard it, like, "this is from a SEGA game???"

anybody know of some other techno that sounds like it? i'm not very knowledgable about it.

surgeon's "basictonalvocabulary" is the only thing that comes close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUl-sttC1ag

well 1 > 0! thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4IP7olBoWw

has made regular (welcome) appearances since childhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tgL9_1Sq2o