Bitmob Community Jukebox #5: Labor Day Edition

I hope everyone is enjoying their day off. Here's some sweet tunes to go with the hamburgers!

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 videogame songs.

There's a catch however; I will not be providing all of the songs; I'll provide only ten. The rest will be suggested - hopefully songs I've never heard - and out of all of the suggestions, I will choose five to round out the fifteen.

Ultimately, I would like enough suggestions to switch over to five or even one song 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. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Main Theme

2. Castle Crashers - Race Around the World

3. Kirby's Dreamland - Green Greens

4. Mega Man 8 - Tengu Man Stage

5. Lagoon - Phantom Hill*

6. Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil - Shattered Past

7. Suikoden - Distant Mountain

8. Silent Hill 4: The Room - Room of Angel

9. Skygunner - Wishing of an Eternal Sky


Community Jukebox

10. Xenogears - Flight suggested by Brian Shirk

11. Maniac Mansion - Dave's Theme suggested by Lance Darnell

12. Psychonauts - Title and End Credits suggested by Evan Killham

13. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Snake Eater suggested by David Matos

14. Final Fantasy VI - Kefka's Theme suggested by Alex R. Cronk-Young

15. Loco Roco - Main Theme suggest by J. Cosmo Cohen++good


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

~James D. The Sophist

P.S. I loved all six suggestions so much that I just couldn't cut any of them this week!!

Comments (19)

I don't know what to say about J. Cosmo's selection. The Loco Roco theme. It's like being punched in the face by rainbows.

Or maybe it's more like getting kicked in the groin by sunshine and newborn kittens.

What every it is it's happy.

You could play this at your own mother's funeral, and I would be impossible to weep.

Also, Evan, you've been dethroned.

It was a good run.
James DeRosa , September 08, 2009
Argh, typos! Gotta remember to proofread comments.
James DeRosa , September 08, 2009
Or maybe it's more like getting kicked in the groin by sunshine and newborn kittens.

Ha ha ha! Nice. Thanks again for doing this. Hopefully I'll be back with another suggestion later.
J. Cosmo Cohen , September 08, 2009
Gunsmoke NES game theme music
Toby Davis , September 08, 2009
Oh man, Skygunner! I always wanted that game but never bought it. Great intro tune!
J. Cosmo Cohen , September 08, 2009
@Toby What Level?
James DeRosa , September 08, 2009
just the theme music does not matter the level all are great
Toby Davis , September 08, 2009
I really liked the Castle Crashers tune!

Here is my pick for next time:

Anything Goes by Cole Porter from Fallout 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aeQ3DmKU7A
Lance Darnell , September 08, 2009
Love Kefka's theme. I made up my own lyric's for it at one point or another.

If I was to pick a song, it would be Get a Weapon from Mega Man 3. Here's link to an awesome rock version created for Rock Man's 20th anniversary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk6UunywFAk
Mike Minotti , September 08, 2009
Alright, my suggestion: Patapon.

Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osYXmb3grTM
J. Cosmo Cohen , September 08, 2009
@ Lance - Great choice! You should check this out, it's actually pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...re=related
J. Cosmo Cohen , September 08, 2009
@Cosmo - Okay, that is pretty damn cool!
Lance Darnell , September 08, 2009
I feel like I could cheat since I just listened to Sophist 2.5 in which you listed your favorite game soundtracks but I'll stick with Act Raiser - Bloodpool
Alex R. Cronk-Young , September 08, 2009
@Alex: Thanks for keeping that close to the cuff!
James DeRosa , September 08, 2009
Hmmmmmmm...wanted to use that exact Silent Hill song. Shit.

Okay, gonna go with the North American opening song from Wild Arms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHplrHVD1DQ
Evan Killham , September 10, 2009
I'm listening to music while editing pieces for Bitmob! Nice to venture out of my usual clasical/jazz editing background music.
Jason Wilson , September 10, 2009
@Jason - This is for you. Yu have probably heard it a lot, but here it is anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbN0g8-zbdY
Lance Darnell , September 10, 2009
Damn you Evan! I've already written #6 and that was on there.
James DeRosa , September 11, 2009
So...do I win?
Evan Killham , September 11, 2009

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