Bitmob Community Jukebox #14: Everybody's a Winner Edition

This week's playlist is simply awesome. I got so caught up in  waffling about the Double-Plus-Good pick of the week that I almost broke my own rules and chose two!

A lot of the participants are putting me to shame at this point. So, if you like video game tunes, do yourself a favor!

Also, the Jukebox's layout has been renovated this week. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Finally, as always, newcomers should hit the jump and check out the latter portion of the post for submission instructions.

There are two ways to listen:


Method 1: Pick and Choose


My Selections

1. Soul Blade - The Edge of Soul

2. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker - Dragon Roost Island

3. Final Fantasy VI - Terra's Theme

4. NiGHTS: Into Dreams - Suburban Museum

5. Street Fighter II - Ken's Theme (SNES Version)

6. Metal Gear - Jungle Theme* (NES Version)

7. Snatcher - One Night in Neo Kobe City (Saturn Version)

8. Air Zonk - Cyber City

9. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars: Beware the Forest's Mushrooms

Community Selections

10. Grandia - The Theme of Grandia suggest by Alex R. Cronk-Young

11. Borderlands - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant suggested by Evan Killham

12. Panzer Dragoon - Flight suggest by Brian Petro-Roy

13. Everyday Shooter - Level 1 suggested by J. Cosmo Cohen

14. Half-Minute Hero - Last Battle suggested by Brian Shirk

15. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona PSP - Satomi Tadashi Pharmacy suggested by Jasmine Maleficent Rea++good


Method 2: Let It Ride


(click here to listen in a separate window)


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 submit multiple requests, I will not listen to any of them.

Again, only one submission response per person per post.

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

P.S. If you remember Brian, I said you inspired me to choose a particular song this week,because of the woodwinds in your last selection. That song is the Wind Waker Dragoon Roost Island song!

Ahhhhh... Wind Waker. My favorite 3-D Zelda. Wait? Did I just say that where someone could hear?!?

Comments (16)

Rea or Shirk, Shirk or Rea!

You two really put the screws to me this week. But, ultimately I had to choose Jasmine's selection.

Of course all of my Double-Plus-Good picks are somewhat biased, but I have to say this one especially so. There something vaguely slack-key about the sound, and it reminds me of one of my favorite songs ever.

Hello Goodnight by the Aquabats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2XvdHbbMTs

Also, I'll let you in on a secret that Jasmine mentioned in her comment last time. The song lyrics describe what the items you buy in the store do in the game.

Amazing!

Big shout outs to Shirk, Petro-Roy, and Cohen too!
James DeRosa , November 09, 2009
Haven't had the chance to read this post yet James, but just letting you know that the link is incorrect. Maybe I gave you the wrong one last time. Anyway, here's the real link to last battle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...L&index;=24
Brian Shirk , November 09, 2009
I'm really digging the new format! It's nice to be able to just have the selections right at the top, instead of scrolling to the bottom.

Also, I got nothing for next week. Argh! I'm really going to have to think about it...
J. Cosmo Cohen , November 09, 2009
A Pure Soul - Way of the Samurai 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWG35vMDN4c

One of my favorite games. Every game in this series has such powerful thematic music.
Jasmine Maleficent Rea , November 09, 2009
Hmm...I almost suggested Dragon Roost last week, but for some reason I thought you'd already used it. Blast.

Anyway, my pick is Castle Crashers - Forest Entrance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUBK0zUpSs
Evan Killham , November 09, 2009
As far as the Art Style goes, Wind Waker was my favorite too...

My suggestion:

The Main Theme from Oblivion. I have heard it a million times and I still love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3EOibiVzq4
Lance Darnell , November 11, 2009
I hope this is a new one. This one song prompted me to buy my first game OST straight from Japan.

Tales of Legendia - Enemy Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1e-t03B610
Chris Whitehead , November 11, 2009
Alright James, here's my suggestion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3SC8DjhUhE

It's from the first level of Super Stardust HD. I love it because it's fast enough to keep you on your toes, but memorable enough to not fade into the background. Enjoy!
J. Cosmo Cohen , November 11, 2009
I've got your suggestion right here. It's the Grandia 2 battle music. I've been listening to this song ever since the Dreamcast version came with the OST. Great track!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONfsUCAARE
A.J. Minotti , November 11, 2009
Great stuff. I especially loved hearing the Grandia theme again and Dragon Roost Island.

And I'm glad to see that someone else appreciates The Wind Waker James. I loved that game's art style, dungeons, and music.
Brian Shirk , November 11, 2009
Not sure how this music appreciation string of posts escaped my attention before, but now you're in for it: I love video game music.

I was a bit alarmed to go over the previous posts and not see a single Neo Geo game. Too rich for some gamers' blood? I bought one on eBay ten years ago and I don't regret it. As my debut on the jukebox, I nominate this rocking track from Metal Slug 3, "Desert" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOc2hjvqUZk
Daniel Feit , November 12, 2009
Heading back to my Nintendo fanboy roots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRjEBqGsI2o
Travis McReynolds , November 12, 2009
Here's a pick for this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVYmDcc8MY&feature;=related
Brian Shirk , November 12, 2009
My first submission!

This one's from Lufia II - It's the major dungeons' theme and let's you know that you are, in fact, about to fight one hell of a badass boss who is eight times your damned size.

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

Mark T. Whitney , November 12, 2009
@Mark- Love that song. Lufia II has some awesome music.
Brian Shirk , November 12, 2009
Alex R. Cronk-Young , November 15, 2009

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