Video Game Music

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Thallid Ice Cream Man

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Name some of your favorite video game soundtracks here. This has been talked about a little bit before, but I'm curious how many of you actually listen to video game music. If you know the name of individual tracks or of their composers, you can post them, but please write the game also.

Some of my favorites:
Final Fantasy series (1-9 by Nobuo Uematsu, 10 by Uematsu / Junya Nakano / some other guy)
Threads of Fate aka Dewprism (another Square game, also by Junya Nakano)
Final Fantasy Tactics (technically not from the series)
Sonic series (16 bit games as well as Sonic CD japanese soundtrack)
Donkey Kong Country (just the first one - don't ask why)
Rayman (just the first one)
Mega Man and Mega Man X series
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (I haven't played the other ones enough to know whether or not I like the music)
Soulblade (home version of Souledge, prequel to Soul Calibur)

When I posted about video game music on the Classic Questions thread about music, Hetemti said he also listens to some, and DÛke has made several references to the music in Grandia II, so I know I'm not the only one who like this stuff...
 
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fuzzy510

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This doesn't truly count (I suppose), but I really like Gran Turismo 3's music. One that counts is Super Mario World.
 
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Apollo

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I like the Tony Hawk 3 soundtrack, which is mostly rock music from a bunch of different bands (like AFI and such).

Mostly, though, I end up putting on my own music while playing other games.
 
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DÛke

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5 games:

Guilty Gear X - The heavy-metal guitar there is so amazing! It actually sounds professional, and no something cheap. Very inspiring too.

Final Fantasy 7 - I never played any FF, except for FF8, but FF7's soundtrack is just my style. The techno tracks are amazing...I used to listen to them on hourly basis. My all time favoruite soundtrcks...

Jet Grind Radio - The funky old school hip-hop flavours this thing has is adorable. Very rich in sounds. The music actually fits the game perfectly...the game itelf is one of the best games I've ever played.

Shenmue - This is a must hear. I didn't like the slow-paced game much, but the soundtrack alone was worth the money. I love it so much, I remixed the main theme, and made it my own song, "Beyond the Within," which some of you have heard. I love it.

Grandia II - My all time favoruite, and probably will never be replaced. This is real music...not just soundtrack...but music as we I know it. Dance tracks, rage tracks, melow tracks...what else could you ask for? They even have hip-hop-sounding remix of the main theme...something for everyone. I also have remixed the main theme of this track, and made it into "Rain Drop," a song some of you may have heard when I released it here.
 
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Hetemti

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Megaman: Classic tunes, kinda short, though.

Sonic: Same as Megaman

Solomon's Key: Only one song, but it's great.

Life Force: Not good if you don't like Synth Brass, but the Medly MIDI is quite nice.
 
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FoundationOfRancor

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My brother orchestrates them as a profession. He's really into most of them.
 
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Darsh

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The music in Super Smash Brothers: Melee, stages Brinstar, Fountain of Dreams, Hyrule Temple, Venom, and Termina Great Bay especially.
 
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theorgg

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Earthbound!!

HOW could ya'll forget the jammin' tunes from Earthbound??
 
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Ransac

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I like FF3, the Opera scene in particular. I also like all of the Tony Hawk soundtracks.


Ransac, cpa trash man
 
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terzarima

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Hey DÛke,

What song from Grandia (I or II) Do you use? Where can I find it?
 
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Jigglypuff

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Who owns the copyright on that music? I assume it belongs to the composer. What are any legal issues involved with arranging and remixing that kind of music?

Thanks!
(- Steve -)
 
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DÛke

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Ademis, I don't know where you could find it, and I'm not sure what it's called. I haven't got the CD on me, I think I've lost it. It's the main theme track of Grandia II, and it is the 4th, 5th, or 6th track on the soundtrack. Grandia II came with the soundtrack...and that's how I have that song. The soundtrack is amazing though; if you ever find Grandia II (the Dreamcast version) being sold somewhere for $20 or so...buy it even if you don't own a Dreamcast. The $20 is worth the soundtrack...to me at least. I really wish you could find it, Ademis, so you can hear the original version and my version (AKA "Rain Drop"). I completely changed the thing...it's more beautiful, naturally. :D

Jigglypuff, to answer your question: the composer does. About the legal issues: it mostly depends. For example, when I recomposed the Grandia II theme song, I couldn't get in any trouble, because I was not going to use it in any commercial use at all. I was not going to make any kind of profit out of it. See, all that is different if I was planning to, perhaps, release it on a new album of mine or something. Basically, you can use anything you want, but as soon as you make a penny using something you didn't make yourself, than you have broken the law, and therefore are able to be convicted of many sorts of things. In the next 10 years, I don't see myself composing music for money, so I basically can use whatever I want. In any way, you can buy the rights to use anything you want if you have the money. Sometimes, even, you can ask the permission of usage, and the company or composer will let you without any payments at all. Enigma's Cretu used Carmina Burana as composed by Carl Orff, for example, but he didn't pay anything...he simply got the permission to use it.

That's how it works...
 
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Jigglypuff

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I have some more questions.

What if I write a composition based on another composition? Or if I write a composition and borrow some passages from, say, the Final Fantasy theme?

Sorry for all these legal questions but I do really want to know and I don't want to get myself into trouble.

(- Steve -)
 
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Demon

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One of my all time favourites is the music from Ghosts 'n' Goblins!

The music perfectly fit the intensity of the action and the monstrous theme of the game!

Anyone else have arcade favourites?
 
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Thallid Ice Cream Man

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I forgot Chrono Trigger. Not a good thing to do...

I also forgot Diablo II, and wanted to put it there, but I stopped liking the music considering how much of it I hear every day when my brother plays it :rolleyes:

I also forgot the Kirby games

Apollo: Which song did AFI do that was in THPS3? I rented the game a while ago, so if you told me some of the lyrics I might remember which one it was.

FoR: Do you mean he writes it, or does he perform it and record it to be put into games, or does he perform music from other games?

Jigglypuff: See the other thread you made.

DÛke: I'd ask you which tracks from FF7 you like, but you'd probably give me names and I know them by when they appear in the game... Is there anyone here who has played FF7 and who knows the tracks by name?

Also, they're rereleasing Grandia II for PS2. I'm a reasonably big fan of RPGs, so if the music is good in general, and the PS2 version also comes with the soundtrack, maybe I might get it.

What music has sentimental value to you? The music from the Sonic games does to me, because the first video game I ever saw was Sonic 2 (I think), and the first video game music I ever became obsessed with was the original Ice Cap theme from Sonic 3. Those of you who named "classic" games like Mario 3 and Mega Man and Mario World might name those tracks, but I'm curious what the rest of you think.
 
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