Your top 5 SHMUP soundtracks?

[Galderic]

Sorry, I can't limit it to 5

In no particular order:

Einhänder
Battle Garegga
Axelay
Hyper Duel
Zed Blade/Operation Ragnarok
R-Type Leo
Pulstar
Blazing Star
Dodonpachi Daioujou
Mushihimesama (Shinju heading to the forest / The One who is always in the forest)
ESPGaluda
Ibara
Ikaruga
Final Soldier
Last Resort (Last Resort CD soundtrack & ROM cartidge)
Thunder Force III,IV,V
Phalanx
Zanac Neo
Assault Suits Valken
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[ROBOTRON]

Hmmm....lots of folks went past 5 choices.

6. Gradius V
7. TEMPEST X
8. Layer Section
9. Space Megaforce
10. Einhander

Honorable Mention:

R-Type Delta

[Limbrooke]

1. Radiant Silvergun
2. Battle Garegga
3. Raiden 3
4. Twin Hawk
5. Soukyugurentai

Honourable mentions:
Gradius 5
Gradius Gaiden
Thunder Force 5
Ibara
Ketsui...

[Icarus]

In no order at all:

Ibara
Battle Garegga (both OST and AST)
Hyper Duel (preferably AST)
Einhander
Senko no Ronde
Border Down
Chorensha
Gradius Gaiden
Raiden DX (New Release ver.)

[howmuchkeefe]

My top five:

1. Gradius V - Nostalgia works well on me
2. Ikaruga - So does epic, pretentious music
3. Perfect Cherry Blossom
4. ESPGaluda - Catchy
5. DOJ

[llaoyllakcuf]

no particular order:

19XX
Dimahoo
M.U.S.H.A.
Raiden
Viewpoint

others: HELLFIRE, NEXZR, Rayxanber III, Omega Fighter, Blast Wind

[neorichieb1971]

Last Resort Neo CD
Parodius


Thats it for shmups. I can't really remember the games for their music.

[Generiname]

If were talking about real cd soundtracks I'm into:

Taito Game Sound Music 3 - Syvalion
Psyvariar 2 OST
Mushihimesama OST
DDP DOJ/Espgaluda Perfect remix
Shikigami no Shiro 2 OST Music of world order

[Fenrir]

TSK!!!

1) APIDYA!!!!111!1

I mean... Chris Huelsbeck in his finest hour! Those of you who didn't play it should really look it up and you'll see. Before the awesome graphics, before the tricky strategy, before its originality... the soundtrack struck me almost fatally. The musically bombastic meadows level, the thrilling and haunting percussions in the bass boss of the swamp level... the techno eighties trash in the high tech levels... and the superlative end credits soundtrack (that made it to a music CD too)... it's just too wo00t!

2) Agony (a piano solo for the title screen? I mean - )
3) Ikaruga (I admit it's wonderful - I wish I had the soundtrack)
4) Mushihimesama (I fairly liked it until I started to love it once reached the last stage - expecially the horned beetle before the last boss. It's a great soundtrack. Too bad that the last boss has a very washed-up chorus BGM)
5) Macross - Ai Oboeteimasuka on Sega Saturn. (The very 80's trumpety movie BGM in all its glory.)

I wrote 5 because it's been asked 5, but there are many, many others around worth a mention.

[gameoverDude]

Not in any particular order, here are a few of my favorites.

Ketsui & Dodonpachi Dai-ou-jou
Border Down
Ibara (Guardian Angel rocks)
Chaos Field
Zed Blade (Manabu Namiki again)
Metal Black (how could I have forgotten this one? Well, now here it is.)
Thunder Force IV (Stage 8's BGM seems to pay tribute to a Judas Priest song in which I've heard a similar riff.)
Last Resort (the city BGM "Jack to the Metro" kicks - the soundtrack seems like it's from the same composers who did the great KOF'94 BGM.)

EDIT: Now I'm counting Ketsui and DOJ as one, since they both are one on CD. More favorites added.

[ccovell]

Wow, I'm getting deja-vu about this topic. Anyway...

1) Lords of Thunder
2) Nexzr (GREAT low-bass synth)
3) Zed Blade (It's 1992! Let's TECHNO-RAVE!)
4) Gate of Thunder
5) Verytex (Hitoshi Sakimoto rocks!)
6) Gradius III
7) Terraforming
eight) Thunderforce III/IV
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Sorry, I can't limit it to just 5.

[Middlemoor]

Warsong...oops, sorry, this is for SHMUPs.

[ghibli99]

In no particular order...

Thunder Force IV
Pop'n Twinbee
Ordyne
Gradius Gaiden
Guwange

...impossible to limit it to 5.

[ROBOTRON]

Last Resort Neo CD
Parodius


Thats it for shmups. I can't really remember the games for their music.

GOSH...

I forgot about Last Resort. It had kickin' tunes...especially the city stage. Alpha Mission II has awesome tunage as well.

[Twiddle]

radirgy
battle garegga
armed police batrider
metal black
raiden fighters (all of them)

[louisg]

Darius Gaiden
Battle Squadron (ami version, title music-- longtime favorite)
Thunderforce IV (amazing patch work)
Lords of Thunder
Space Megaforce

Hon. Mentions:
Blood Money intro tune =-)
Soukyugurentai
Thunder Force III and Elemental Master
Axelay
Under Defeat (blazing solos with brassy chords!)
wow, too many to list.. can I go for Metal Slug 2's train tune?

[D]

radirgy
battle garegga
armed police batrider
metal black
raiden fighters (all of them)

This is the type of thread to keep us in line
This is what it takes for us to make neat little lists?
I kiiiiiid I kiiiiid
So everybody else hates Batrider now?
*confused*

And Twiddle as far as your list goes, I trust you now, I guess I have to check Metal Black again.

This thread was written under the influence of
Batrider music (played backwards, make me do all kinds of strange things )

What's with "honoroble mentions"? Is that the thing to do nowadays?
I kiiiid, I kiiiid

Forgot to thank click-stick dot com. That was a beautifully great site, where I got the Batrider tunes from. Thanks buddy.
Honorouble mention goes to click-stick.com
There, I jumped on the bandwagon

[LUNardei]

Uhm, let's say:

1. Mushihimesama
2. Ketsui
3. Ibara
4. Ikaruga
5. DOJ

[gunbird18]

Yeah, I'm thinking there was a Top 3 thread some time ago. So the deja vu is natural.

Well, here we go again:

1. Dangun Feveron
2. Dangun Feveron
3. Dangun Feveron
4. Dangun Feveron
5. Dangun Feveron

Could someone tell me if the composers of Dangun made any other OSTs? That was such an original idea at the time, just blows a lot of standard shmup fare out of the water.

I remember getting the Batrider OST off of click-stick's site as well. Great stuff. Really can't go wrong with any Raizing OST. Especially Souky!

[JBC]

1. Viper - Phase 1
2. Battle Garegga
3. Gradius Gaiden
4. Blazing Star
5. 1944 - The Loop Master

Anything that i can shop for groceries AND defeat opressive militaries too has got to be awesome.

Honorable mentions - Thunder Force IV and Raystorm...

[shimeril]

1. Soukyuguentai
2. Guwange
3. Dodonpachi

4 & 5 I may take a raincheck on - my brain is out to lunch.

[sjewkestheloon]

i've never even thought about shmup or game soundtracks until recently when i realised how much i love the music for gunbird and the opening tunes and rocking stuff in gynoug (wow). i may have to try and pick up some cds and get em on my player for the walk to work.

ot but i also love the outrun songs especially the arranged ones on outrun 2006

[Kaiser]

1.Gradius gaiden (first three guardian's music rocks of course i mean first part of stage
2.Einhander(Really awesome techno soundtrack i've ever heard)
3.Thunder force V(I really like soundtrack on this one! stage 5 music is best in the game)
4.Mushisesama(i have bad typing with this but music last stage is really cool)
5.R-type delta(Don't ask why)

[the allett]

Tiger Heli (level3)
Border Down (level 5)
TF V (level 3)
Ibara (Level2)
super Darius 2 (level 1)

mark

[DEL]

1. Omega Fighter
2. Psyvariar 1 - later levels (as in ISO replay) - lost this DVD, want to replace it badly!
3. Truxton - looking for OST, no luck so far.
4. Gemini Wing
5. Ketsui & DOJ

other mentions:-

6. Gradius II Gofer PCE
7. Pulstar
8. Raiden Arranged tracks PCE
9. Hellfire
10. G. Darius 'Adam'.

[mulletgeezer]

3. Truxton - looking for OST, no luck so far.

Me too. Have you ever tried using M1 to record a soundtrack and then convert to mp3? Not as good as a real OST but it can produce some good results, like the Batrider soundtrack that was on click-stick.com which i believe was done that way.

[DEL]

mulletgeezer - I have found one way to record the Truxton soundtrack. I pause the PCengine Hucard at points during the game and simply record the tracks using my Hifi separate system. The useful thing is that the tracks still play from the Hucard whilst the game is paused.

[ccovell]

What a rigmarole.

Tatsujin on the PC-Engine has a sound test. Play a game to 7100 points, then reset the system (Run + Select). At the title screen press and hold Select, then press Run.

Or you could download the HES ripped music (here) and play them/record them in WinAmp. The same goes for the GYM tunes from Truxton on the Genesis.

[nZero]

VGM seems to be the way to go for Genny tunes at the moment. I still like the arcade version's music the best though, and M1 is the way to go for that.

[agony]

1. ESPGaluda
2. DoDonPachi DOJ
3. Ikaruga
4. Mushihimesama
5. IBARA

I love them