This Community Jukebox playlist, strangely enough, features myriad grooveable genres. Rock, funk, techno, and disco are all represented. It's weird. It's awesome. And it features an awesomely weird arcade tune!
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. Little Nemo - The Flower Garden
2. The Neverhood - Olly Oxen Free
3. Um Jammer Lammy- Fire! Fire!
4. Advance Wars - Grit's Theme
8. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 - Dig That Groove Baby by The Toy Dolls
Community Jukebox
9. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction suggested by Lance Darnell
10. Bust A Groove – Natural Playboy suggested by Brian Petro-Roy
11. Shining Force II – Wandering Warriors suggested by Alex R. Cronk Young
12. Soul Blazer – Lonely Town suggested by Aaron Rivers
13. Starcraft – Terran 1* suggested by Alex Long
14. Silent Hill: Homecoming – One More Soul to the Call suggested by Evan Killham
15. Lost Odyssey – Prologue suggested by Brian Shirk
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 Stephen and Andrew, I'm informally not accepting remix (or rock) versions of video game tunes at this point. That said, you gave me a great idea that'll have to do with entries like yours in the (very near) future, but I'll keep that close the cuff for now.
Also, Lance, and anyone else, if you choose licensed music, it has to be the studio cut. I love live music... when it's live, but I kind of hate listening to it at home. Don't worry though Lance, I found a studio cut just for you. But, if I can't find one, I'm not going to include it.
I actually go out of my way to listen to all your guys' songs, and if they have low volume or bad audio quality or whatever, I try to find the best one available on Youtube. The Community Jukebox promotes only the highest fidelity of game music!
Comments (20)
I've heard that a large part of Lost Odyssey features such stories spread out over the life of an immortal.
But that's neither here nor there.
Mr. Shirk's pick this week is a beautiful march with a hint of Chinese folk in it. I haven't played the game, but there is definitely something bittersweet in its notes.
And that makes me want to play it all the more.
So congratulations Brian. I may just go and pick this game up soon.
Now, I'm off to listen to the rest of the music.
Good music though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJCQdee8vk
Great stuff James! Love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikiLR4fCZk
And spell my name right next time, would you?
I'll change it as soon as I get home.
Blue Dragon OST- Waterside ~for Piano and Orchestra~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3sT0q8ovU&feature;=PlayList&p;=58F8962444DECE57&playnext;=1&playnext;_from=PL&index;=4
GTA Vice City - The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8
I sat on this fight, playing it over and over and over and over and over again, just leveling up my characters for no real reason at all. I did the same thing in the very first fight, had a character promoted before I even ended up beating it. Yeah, I kinda love Shining Force 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...re=related
There is an actual orchastral version out there, but it's on a CD so I think the licensing keeps it from being spread around too much.
That game had some of the most epic music of that generation, and Kasandora always had a special place in my heart. We actually used it as one of the 'seating' songs on our wedding. I'm a nerd, and my wife is awesome for allowing it.
I can't seem to find a video of the actual game version, the closest thing I can find is someone playing it on the piano, but the guy does an outstanding job of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR66PGksjrQ
Super Mario 64 - Dire, Dire Docks Level Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82mror4mqoc
Gotta go with the theme from "I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...re=related