https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3g0Ts60220
― pomenitul, Friday, 13 November 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyBn3x0zCc
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
some serious waking the witch vibes on this track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJYbU2D4wgM
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
The soundtrack to Hades is great and I just nominated it in the heavy music thread. I've been thinking a lot about game music lately because of it. I also got a Switch and started playing some older titles on their NES/SNES apps and remembered how much I love the Donkey Kong Country music. Mario 2 also has great music. Just bookmarked this thread and am going to check out a lot of new (to me) stuff.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
this existshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDhcKp2XAhs
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
this game and OST is goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhuOkxllZpc
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
this is pretty goodhttps://leyawn.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-bird-world
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link
This one is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRvYkrrpMKo
― Evan, Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQxGy5maIQ0
so good
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
feeling it
― I Am The Lionel Richies (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link
One of my favourite things is YouTubes of people covering tunes from Chrono Trigger.
Kara Comparetto does some lovely piano versions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgI8Aw3sqmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkp72WR0hX8(although I've noticed nearly everyone struggles to get that quick slide quite right)
― I Am The Lionel Richies (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
wow you can tell the difference immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajYLHvFL0sU
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD-vbw8Jmuyg3JYDxm1QPPj1mP3soOVExhttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/super-high-fidelity-mario-the-quest-to-find-original-gaming-audio-samples/
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
fascinating effort/scene but i wouldn't say their end products are necessarily aesthetically 'better' than the compressed versions we heard from the cartridges
― dyl, Saturday, 6 February 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
richer!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
i'm not really a fan of the SMW recreations, they're an interesting curiosity but the way the original SNES version of the soundtrack sounded was so heavily coloured by the compression that these ultimately don't have the same feel to them at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lndBgOrTWxo
i do really like the DKC ones people have done though, the compressed versions of the samples on the cartridge weren't anywhere near as coloured by the compression so it really does just sound like a clearer version of the original
― ufo, Saturday, 6 February 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
finding that lovely too!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEDX-2M7Qk
― xzanfar, Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
zero mentions of "one-winged angel" in this thread, which is a shame because it's truly batshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDD-iYkHBhc
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
an all-time classic transformed into stars of the lid's next album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3a8zqTzats
― dyl, Monday, 8 March 2021 08:11 (three years ago) link
Loop Hero has some really good SNES-chip music. there are like 8-12 different songs and they all rule
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 March 2021 08:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjAzHlmJ2l8
― eisimpleir (crüt), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
That was one of the first game soundtracks I bought on CD, but I never played the game
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 April 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
i might be mistaking this for SoM, but i believe there's a rom hack that lets you provide the soundtrack as WAV files and are played uninterrupted by the other sounds on the screen which constantly take away instruments from the soundtrack
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 2 April 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
a stone cold classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTdZedIqU98
― eisimpleir (crüt), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
koshiro is GOTY
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 14 May 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
Not sure where to post this, but I have this Cool Notes 12" and the synthesizer and overall vibe of this track have always made me think of some lost Japan-only import SNES game:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EOhMRtfYA
In fact, just playing it again reminded me of Hal's Hole in One Golf:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFVVlbwndI
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Monday, 27 September 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
The course zoom around at 0:50 is the jam
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Monday, 27 September 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
streets of rage ii is coming to switch online, so maybe i'll actually play the game after jamming the soundtrack for so long
banger, right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1ULTDTdiY
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 September 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/dragon-quest-composer-koichi-sugiyama-has-died-1847815597
disgusting politics notwithstanding, he was an unequivocally great and influential composer of game music. always loved this 8-bit samba from a Japan-exclusive FDS backgammon game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-rIpXeRj9A
― missingNO, Thursday, 7 October 2021 08:01 (two years ago) link
Listening to all this stuff brings home why I love so much current Balearic revival stuff, and also fusiony things like Pat Metheny
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 7 October 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
Man, Mickey Mouse Castle Of Illusion had some pure bangers on it, especially towards the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzLd8p4mc0M
The Game Gear/Master System version also had some choice cuts. I wish there were versions of Spotify but I guess Disney would intervene
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 28 November 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
Posted a while ago about how the Hylics games have some of the most original visuals I've seen in recent times, soundtrack is great toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdwVwX1hWzAhttps://masonlindroth.bandcamp.com/album/moonage-lobotomy-a-hylics-2-musical-expansion
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3BQsCCwo8w
turn it up!!!
― aegis philbin (crüt), Saturday, 2 April 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
here's one I discovered via the Cardiacs Discord, not hard to figure out why it showed up there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UrsaKcZHI0
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
That was by Tim Follin, who was a wizard. I remember his 8-bit music on the ZX Spectrum, where he managed to play polyphonically with a one-note speaker by rapidly switching notes. He also did this, which is fantastic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
Of the games I've played more recently I remember liking FAR: Lone Sails, which is a little bit like Michael Nyman:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj98RoU4HSE
And also Gris, which is a much better game than I expected:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM3w76XbExY
And NaissanceE, which has its moments but the soundtrack is neatly done (it's made up of existing pieces):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlTPLyGfZI
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
thanks for those, I've been looking up Tim Follin videos and found this really good (and long) one which showcases a bunch of it. it also explains how he did it and why he was so ahead of everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC1dTzyb5Gs
the Pictionary one made me laugh out loud, it's so inappropriately intense.
I'm in awe of how good all this stuff is. very much on the Tim Smith/Tatsuya Yoshida/Gentle Giant level but with an added element of rave/techno music. the joke of course is that virtually every game he wound up doing sucked!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
also he was quite young when he made most of this - he was barely 20 when he did all that wild NES music!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
Manabu Namiki - Sally (select) from 'Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu - Black Label' (2010)
Manabu Namiki - Vertex (Stage 1), same
― meisenfek, Saturday, 17 December 2022 10:27 (one year ago) link
i can't believe this is just a throwaway joke song for a fake bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKmt3oA7Vfg
love the MBV harmonies on the chorus
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
lol wtf, that is legit
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
currently I've been jamming the Silver Surfer title screen music a lot, like can you imagine hearing this come out of your NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNpSPt30uSA
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
that's wild, definitely have never heard the NES sound like that. doesn't surprise me that he came from the C64 scene, very remniscient of SID-tracker tunes
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
This is my favourite 'Final Fantasy' related track, totally immense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al1MOxgQGf4
― MaresNest, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
hell yeah, there's a whole genre of lush Japanese pop music that sounds like that and I'm always looking for it
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
Me too, the apex is this and the 'Ghost In The Shell SAC' theme.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kuE-yEs5VM
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 January 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
WELP i just dug in a little bit and it turns out both the songs we posted were composed by Mitsuto Suzuki, that guy rules i guess
also looks like he did a shoegaze album with the vocalist from the kamekame track: https://www.discogs.com/release/15719043-Mojera-Overkill
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
That Plok track Frogbs posted is so wonderful.
Can't recall what thread this album was mentioned on but this guy is worth bringing up againhttps://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-diaspora
He has a youtube channel where he does cover versions of videogame tunes
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 January 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
this is gorgeoushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MygaMv5fVRY
― c u (crüt), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:18 (eight months ago) link
reminds me of this fav of minehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKwI4myq2dk
― ciderpress, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:45 (eight months ago) link