Bitmob Community Jukebox #12: A Bit of Melancholia Edition

There are a lot of wistful songs contained in this edition. Also, strangely enough, there is a redoubling of The Addams Family effort donated formerly by Jasmine Rea.

Anyway, if you like blending the aural and the emotional, this your Jukebox. (Though there are a couple of rocking tunes too.)

This edition of the Jukebox is like the end of a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film or a studio Ghibli animation. It's a little bittersweet.

Also, to any newcomers, make sure you check the submission guidelines listed after the jump.

For all you newcomers, here's how it is. Even though I've done a Meet the Mob, there is something important you should know about me.For some reason, over the years, my mind has acted as a sort of a Roledex for great videogame ditties.  (For all you youngsters out there, a Rolodex is an archaic device that people used to keep important contact information on. I guess it's sort of like an abacus at this point.)

Because of this, every Monday I will be posting fifteen well-known and not-so-well-known video game songs.

There's a catch however; I will not be providing all of the songs; I'll provide only the remainder of the total fifteen. To clarify, most will be suggested - hopefully songs I've never heard - and hopefully only a few will be chosen by me.

Ultimately, I would like enough suggestions to have it so that five, or even one song is donated by myself, thus truly making it the Community Jukebox.

It's important to note that all submissions will be credited to the community members who provided them.

The only guidelines are that any song chosen must be from a non-music game, or from a music game with original content. Licensed songs are also OK, but they must be from something other than a music game.

This means that Fallout and Grand Theft Auto songs are fair game, whereas Guitar Hero and Rock Band songs aren't. If licensed songs become too prolific, however, I may stop taking them as submissions.

Also, to note, I will try my hardest  to find the original names of every song, yours or mine, but if I can't, I will give it a name, and mark it with an asterisk. In addition, all songs are set to open in a new tab, so feel free to click away and have them play in the background as you surf Bitmob or get some work done.

Songs appear in no particular order whatsoever, save that community submissions will be segmented from my choices and shown last.

Each week, I will also be choosing my favorite submission, The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week. The winner will receive exactly nothing, except being last song with this beside their entry: ++good.

As a small guideline, if you'd like to win the The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week, try to pick something obscure or, at the very least, recent. We all know titles like Mega Man and Final Fantasy had great music  in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, and I will be featuring songs like these every week (that's my bread and butter).

But, in the interest of keeping the Jukebox new and surprising,  if you can come up with a great song that I've forgotten, or, better yet, never heard, you'll have a leg up on the competition. Just keep in mind what I said at the top, and if you've read my Meet the Mob, the size of my game case.

Either way, feel free to submit whatever you like. Please. I can't reinforce enough that all submissions are welcome.

As an added bonus, I will also try to add an immediate comment about the awesomeness of the winner commenter's song and why everyone else should pay special attention to it. This will be an in-joke for those who keep up.

Most importantly, since I hope to keep doing this for awhile, only one submission response per person per post. That way I'll have less to parse, and you folks will be able to submit for an extended period of time. If you sumbit multiple requests, I will not listen to any of them.

Again, only one submission response per person per post.

Anyway, onto the show.

There are two ways to listen:

Method 1: Pick and Choose

1. Fable 2 - Theme

2. Mega Man 3 – Snake Man

3. Super Mario Galaxy - Good Egg Galaxy Theme

4. The Lost Vikings - Viking Village*

5. Lunar: The Silver Star Story – Sad Piano Theme

6. Mother 3 - Love Theme

7. Illusion of Gaia – South Cape

8. Ico - Heal


Community Jukebox

9. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - Troupe Gramarye suggested by Jasmine Maleficent Rea

10. Super Mario 64 – Bob-omb Battlefield suggested by Jason Wilson

11. Fester's Quest – Overworld Theme* suggested by Aaron Rivers

12.  Courier Crisis – What You Believe by Big Drill Car suggested by Travis McReynolds

13. Grand Theft Auto 3 – Non Piu Andrai (No Longer Will You Go) from the Marriage of Figaro by Mozart suggested by Lance Darnell

14. PixelJunk Monsters – Bye Bye Monsters suggested by Alex R. Cronk-young

15. Flashback: The Quest for Identity – Conrad's Memories suggested by Brian Petro-Roy++good


Method 2: Let It Ride (click here to listen in a separate window)

~James D., read at The Sophist, heard at, Sophist Radio

P.S. Sorry this is a little late.

Comments (16)

Brian Petro-Roy's suggestion is amazing. Really, just think about it.

Most song in the 8 and 16-bit eras focused on melody (and I love those songs for that), but the creators of the SNES Flashback didn't use melody as a fallback, like Japanese developers did.

Flashback's (and Out of this World's before) added a bunch to what could be done with limited 8 or 16-bit sounds.

This out of the world tune totally reminds me of a more professional tune done by Aphex Twin called Flim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHkUg-QCwk

As a last thought, this edtion of the Jukebox came late because I had the first two way tie in my mind.

Informally I want to award Alex R. Cronk-yound Single-plus good for Bye Bye Monsters.

This song is also amazing, and, on another Jukebox, it would have won.
James DeRosa , October 26, 2009
If I'm honest, it also came a bit late, with comments misspelled (sorry, Alex) because, due to mid-terms, I was falling asleep while writing it.
James DeRosa , October 26, 2009
I actually have an entry.

Dark Cloud 2 - Rainbow Butterfly Woods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgEbIoB11Y

Great selections this week, everyone.
Evan Killham , October 26, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiD-Ga8vQqQ

The Ecliptic Express - Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. I couldn't find a cleaner-sounding version than this, but I have the imported album. I may remedy the quality problem by the end of the week.
Jasmine Maleficent Rea , October 26, 2009
@James: I will forgive the misspelling of my last name because of the mid-terms.
Jasmine Maleficent Rea , October 27, 2009
Here's a track for this week: The End Of Agony from Half Minute Hero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65a2AF5pvI&feature;=player_profilepage
Brian Shirk , October 27, 2009
Great songs this week! I was thinking about picking that Mother 3 song last week, but good thing I didn't.
Brian Shirk , October 27, 2009
Hey, my first ++good! Cool!

Well, I hate to disappoint everybody, but I'll probably be getting it again this week. I haven't submitted this song yet because I didn't think you guys were ready for it, but I think you might be able to handle it now.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the pure, undiluted awesome of "We Are Burning Rangers" - just try not to pass out from the pure RADICAL when you listen to it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-HuHJwH0Q
Brian Petro-Roy , October 27, 2009
I love this weekly post.

My suggestion for next week:

Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird from GTA: San Andreas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY
Lance Darnell , October 27, 2009
Oh no Lance. Do I HAVE TO!
James DeRosa , October 27, 2009
@Lance - Sweet tap-dancing Christ...
Evan Killham , October 27, 2009
Also @Lance - Just razzin'.
Evan Killham , October 28, 2009
@James & Evan - Is Freebird not acceptable? Okay, give me a few hours to think about it.
Lance Darnell , October 28, 2009
Alright, this week I'm submitting the Fourside theme from Smash Bros Melee. Break out the emm effing glow sticks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2zqwnP0QaQ

And come on Lance, can't you just get your fix at the local Cracker Barrel. Or whatever they have up there- maybe Tim Hortons?
Travis McReynolds , October 28, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVykp7tmUM


This one is special for James.
Alex R. Cronk-Young , October 31, 2009
Crap. Why do I always hit the quote button instead of the link button? Oh well.
Alex R. Cronk-Young , October 31, 2009

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