Post your flavor of the month VG music

[BIL]

Why are songs with that specific siren always amazing? Sega loves that sample the most, but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVXeWfFTFGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkfT2CFP0cY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovju1aNan54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOioeP0HtTI

Wailing sirens = danger, pursuit = instant renegade cool. Tekken 3 PSX Remix Heihachi is my favourite. Faaack, that record scratch sample be hawt

[Lander]

Why are songs with that specific siren always amazing? Sega loves that sample the most, but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVXeWfFTFGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkfT2CFP0cY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovju1aNan54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOioeP0HtTI

If we're talking siren songs, how about a full siren solo courtesy of DMCV?
Its ol' dad from DMC1 is bangin' as well, but the aggressive pace and more trancey sound of the newer incarnation presses all of the right buttons for me.

As an aside, Capcom sure put a lot of effort into doing sick remixes of the OG boss themes only to hide most of them behind short and easy minibosses.
Despite V having a soundtrack swap menu, you have to bust out a hex editor and overwrite the DMC2 tunes in order to hear Grilled Tandoori Smoke and Psycho Machine with any regularity.

Wailing sirens = danger, pursuit = instant renegade cool. Tekken 3 PSX Remix Heihachi is my favourite. Faaack, that record scratch sample be hawt

Aw yes, the sound of genuine actually-cool-not-just-pretendin' 90s cool

[XoPachi]

I love this genre of VGM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpz0EBlUL50

[BareKnuckleRoo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO1evF7sJps

Here's one of the best pieces of "overworld" music I've ever heard in an RPG. It's from a PC game made in QBasic called "Kids of Karendow" that basically did an RPG with South Park Season 1 style humor, with a battle system that's actually pretty good, and numerous minigames (an arcade has several of smaller games they'd previously made they included in this). Apparently they're working on a remake too now.

The music however was done by a guy who went by the handle "Groovin'" and it was EXCEPTIONAL. I've uploaded the entire soundtrack to my Youtube channel. The battle theme (last boss especially) and several of the dungeon themes are fantastic.

[Udderdude]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut_pS5UptE4

[XoPachi]

If we're talking siren songs, how about a full siren solo courtesy of DMCV?
Its ol' dad from DMC1 is bangin' as well, but the aggressive pace and more trancey sound of the newer incarnation presses all of the right buttons for me.

As an aside, Capcom sure put a lot of effort into doing sick remixes of the OG boss themes only to hide most of them behind short and easy minibosses.
Despite V having a soundtrack swap menu, you have to bust out a hex editor and overwrite the DMC2 tunes in order to hear Grilled Tandoori Smoke and Psycho Machine with any regularity.

Unrelated, but I never noticed your avatar moves all this time. Shit's like a jump scare.

[SuperDeadite]

New MSX hardware has been on fire the last few months. Here's Ys II on the latest creation: "PC-60m55W" which is a double OPN (YM2203x2) real chip cartridge.

https://youtu.be/wH7dR84KJxI

[BIL]

God damn, SFVI stage/character select "REINVENT THE GAME" is some A1 hot-blooded self-referential shonen fighting love

I've been a failure, I've been a success...

Them universal devotional vibes The pain remains.

New MSX hardware has been on fire the last few months. Here's Ys II on the latest creation: "PC-60m55W" which is a double OPN (YM2203x2) real chip cartridge.

https://youtu.be/wH7dR84KJxI

Balls-hard bass and ephemeral highs. My usual Ys II benchmark track soundin' good!

DIAD's self-titled debut LP remains the best Castlevania soundtrack without a Castlevania game. Goth-hued progressive metal with elegantly brooding interludes and furied, shredding neoclassical peaks, yearning to accompany a grimly purposeful pitch-black invasion.

[XoPachi]

https://youtu.be/yqRlJ1ljsGE

I might cry.

[Lander]

From Nibiru keeps sneaking its subtle blend of 80s synth bass and ABRAISIVE MODEM NOISE GAH FUCK back into my playlist.

This must be how a Mechanicus feels looking at Ork engineering; there's no reason why this should work, yet clearly it does.

Unrelated, but I never noticed your avatar moves all this time. Shit's like a jump scare.

Working as designed
And not the only stealth avvie around either, since I nicked the idea from [Username redacted under article 3a of the Sneaky Poster's Code]

[BIL]

Back in love with HIDE-KAZ, and the unmistakable sullen post-punk fires he contributed to NMK STG canon; specifically Thunder Dragon, and its Martin Hannett circa Unknown Pleasures / Movement combos of bludgeoning, guttering diesel engine guitars and disarmingly twee, plaintive lead voices. WILD THUNDER makes a promising first impression with its sneering, swaggering riff and dead-eyedly pistoning backbeat, but it's IN THE RAIN that steals the show, its possessedly violent drums earning the Spanish title BATERIA. Even the On Standby BGM PRESAGE is outstanding, a mechanistic statement of icily-controlled violence.

>Attack Ships On Fire In The Rain

I've only rarely found classic chiptune scores that conjure the raw tub-thumping, string-snapping garage-band fury Kaz seemed to have on tap; Black Heart is every bit as woundedly fiery, a Stab In The Your Black Heart, the INH-conversant might say! USAAF Mustang and Task Force Harrier don't possess the same darkly incendiary charisma, but if you dig purposeful, gunmetal n' asphalt abrasion, they too will deliver in spades.

[XoPachi]

Sonic Heroes had bomb presentation and some of it was oddly underrated. Like Lost Jungle. This song went stupid.

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

Really matched it's theming of being at the forest floor where animals are now hostile against Sonic & Co, things seem much larger than you, rains can now be a detriment, and the harder robots start to appear in specifically this act. There's a lot more to say about the level but the song is what really hits for me. It matches the dramatic tonal shift from the bright, breezy, and sunny Frog Forest where you're dominating the jungle canopy.

[BIL]

Rugged as fuck arrangements of NO ESCAPE and the sadly little-heard (in its ripping AC incarnation) HOTTER THAN HELL from Super Contra. Arcade OSV is already balls-hard but this is just binbag full of beer bottles on a brick wall brutal. The arranger has tons of other great stuff, with a keen ear for golden age late 80s AC BGM. That's a fookin instant sub from me m8

[Lander]

The oddly catchy line drifting through the cacophony of a traffic jam; a white whale that would probably be a hell of a tune if you could hear the full thing in isolation.

Haven't actively thought about Earthbound in a while, so this is probably a subconscious defense mechanism to try and replace I Am Impact with a less well-worn earworm

[BIL]

Left Huntdown's chapter 1 load BGM on loop for the last ten minutes, so it's entitled to a rec here. The loadtimes being trivial, it was very considerate of them to have a "PUSH START" prompt in-game!

Gorgeous OST for a surpassingly good "If they won't, we fuckin will!" Elevator Action III / RETURNS ONCE AGAIN. While I kinda blank on a lot of the faux-retro stuff ("Where were you in the mid-90s, assholes?!" Hootie and other such pseudo-rootsy shite dominated our airwaves 3;), this is the better sort of homage; one that forges its own fiery identity. The game's bullseye 2000AD vibe and the BGM driving it is damn near impulse enough.

[sunnshiner]

I've been playing Sega Rally Championship on the Saturn again and I absolutely love Conditioned Reflex.

[Lander]

John Hassink's Theme of Adventure (OPL4 ver.) from Myths and Dragons on MSX has stuck with me since hearing it recently. Music to stride forth and bash orcs to.

Stage 1 from Torvak the Warrior on Amiga is another, but the version I want - with an audio bug that makes the kick drum sound like a zzt-zzt printer motor - is lost somewhere in the formative years of Amiga emulation. Proper version's still good, though.

[XoPachi]

https://youtu.be/DK_O2f5cxEs

[XoPachi]

God I love Japanese music. This game's OST is really unique to me.

https://youtu.be/8I2KZ9tTBfU?

[Lemnear]

the best Megaman

Winter Sound

[hazys]

Dungeon Explorer II - Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DubbKlzB1vE

[XoPachi]

I love music like this in video games. It's that rising and falling synth that really makes this for me. Sounds so cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4kndh7rvpk

[BIL]

Ending themes. What are they? (■｀w´■) While Cadash's OST isn't one of Zuntata's strongest, imo - perfectly serviceable, but not a patch on the barbarous splendour of Rastan - the melancholic midtempo rock of its staff roll BGM feels like an aspiring Falcom JDK vocal track. Very good!

Filmic effect reminded me of Strider (NES)'s OP theme, which I recall Jonny2x4 saying actually was a vocal track, with a demo cassette somewhere out there. Ungodly rare, I'm sure. You can totally hear it in the arrangement, and it's clear the OP itself was going for an OVA style, ala Ninja Gaiden's TECMO THEATER. I wonder if something more than the fiery but short tie-in manga was on the cards. A1 composition; always dug its oscillation of the wistful and furied. *shing*

Rounding off with Elemental Master's "Setting Out." While Elemental Master's OST is a titan of its catalogue and medium, killer from end-to-end, I likewise get a similar quality jolt from the staff roll. Nothing seals an OST's effect quite like a good sendoff!

...even if I just learned via my ol' VGM buddy Cecil's page that Yamanishi and co were doing another spot of quality thieving. (shades of TFIV nicking part of Yngwie Malmsteen's "Soldier Without Faith" for its OP "Lightning Strikes Again" - sweet Jebus, takes me back, those uploads of his )

Could also cite virtually all of Natsume's FC/SFC action titles, particularly the absolutely lyrical Kage, and the formidably sombre, knowingly-titled "Revolutionary Victory" from The Ninja Warriors Again - rivalling even its classic ZTT predecessor, the similarly well-named "Paradox," going for the elegiac, moreso than the inescapably ominous. The people seeing this said 'History repeats itself...' versus "Don't... kill me...!"

[Udderdude]

Ending themes. What are they? (■｀w´■)

Reminds me one of my fav. ending tunes is "The Day Peace Returns to Planet Meru" from Detana!! TwinBee. Great soundtrack overall, though. Gotta listen to it again once in awhile.

https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/bells-wh ... eru-ending

[BIL]

Reminds me one of my fav. ending tunes is "The Day Peace Returns to Planet Meru" from Detana!! TwinBee. Great soundtrack overall, though. Gotta listen to it again once in awhile.

https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/bells-wh ... eru-ending

Ha, I never knew they officially named the flying castle "Sky Fortress Laputa" ! Figures they were keyed into all the good stuff, such a gorgeous production from Shuzilow and co.

Goddamn, Hidenori Maezawa and Michiru Yamane on the same OST. Crazy looking back at the talent Konami used to field.

EDIT: was rewatching some old runs and realised I'd totally forgot Metal Slug 4's "End To The War" ! Hell of a sendoff.

I like MS4 a lot, as a mission pack deal. Likewise, I'm fond of its BGM with caveats. The instrumentation is notably excellent, and the tunes are generally good, but it leans a bit too grey. Not unlike MS5's quality but somewhat out-of-character heavy metal. HIYA's OSTs finely balance unalloyed valour, raucous farce, and breezy feelgood, inimitably tailored to Akio and co's legendary black-comedic style.

That said, ala the big exception of Mission 3 / Snowy Road's happenin' Monty Norman riff, this would've done any of the Nazca trilogy proud.

[Lander]

Where's the VG music thread...
Where's the VG music thread...
Where's the VG music thr-

WHOPPAH! Astounding OST!



Sea of Stars - Original Game Soundtrack (Discs 1-3)

This has wholly subsumed my listening habits for the last month or so; hours and hours of good tunes across three discs, each with its own distinct musical style. Lovely 80s anime style for the cover, too.

Highlights include:

Encounter Elite! - High energy percussive boss battle with an esoteric soundfont.
The Frozen Peak (Day) - Just good.
Dance of 1000 Suns - Destined bassline.
Hills of Determination (Day) - A returning face from The Messenger, rendered better than ever
The Watchmaker - Pretty tick-tocks and carriage clocks.
Zephyr and Sky (Day) - Transcendant syncopation.
The Mountain Trail (Night) - Advencha!
The Mole Masons (Night) - Pleasant cave town.
Encounter Elite! v2.1 - Tier one, back for more
The Frozen Peak (Night) - Still good, but now slightly contemplatative.
Hills of Determination (Night) - More of The Messenger, now laid-back.

And just about everything in the Y'arr matey! pirate-themed Disc 3, all of which sounds like it's being performed in a cosy folk tavern thanks to some choice use of acoustics and INHALE sounds on the woodwind performers.

As a bonus apertif, this cover of Encounter Elite by Pontus Hultgren is very good too, mixing up the Day / Night styles with some orchestra for yet another unique take on what may be the OST's finest tune

[XoPachi]

[In my best Bernie Sanders impression]

I am once again asking for your help in finding me more VGM similar to a vibe I'm currently into.
Please God get me more of whatever this is. https://youtu.be/vB-vQuuWETU

[Lemnear]

[In my best Bernie Sanders impression]

I am once again asking for your help in finding me more VGM similar to a vibe I'm currently into.
Please God get me more of whatever this is. https://youtu.be/vB-vQuuWETU

I know Alvion (thanks to Malicious) but i didn't know this ChainDive, it seems too cool! OMG but what soundtrack does it have?
Thanks for this discovery!

My flavor of the month VG music
Ridge Racer 6 - Chasing All My Dreams (Ending Credit)

[XoPachi]

Ridge Racer 6 - Chasing All My Dreams (Ending Credit)

Man, this sounds so much like Richard Jaqcues and TJ Davis. 'u`

[it290]

[In my best Bernie Sanders impression]

I am once again asking for your help in finding me more VGM similar to a vibe I'm currently into.
Please God get me more of whatever this is. https://youtu.be/vB-vQuuWETU

This just sounds like... techno? I mean it's super far off from something like Jupiter Jazz.