Bitmob Community Jukebox #8: Get It! Edition

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

5. Einhänder - Street

6. X-Men - Junk Factory*

7. Astyanax - Stage 1*

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 never played Lost Odyssey, though I've always wanted too. I'm especially interested in getting my hands on these DS game books I'm always hearing about.

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.
James DeRosa , September 27, 2009
Thanks James, that's great that you liked it. I definitely recommend getting Lost Odyssey, especially since you can probably find it for less than $20 now. The gameplay may be a bit old school (I'd call it a hybrid of FFIX and X), but it's actually my favorite title this console generation. I really liked the short stories, characters, and music. It was disappointing that they didn't include one of my favorite stories in the actual retail package though. You had to preorder it from Gamestop, but I'm sure that it's available online.

Now, I'm off to listen to the rest of the music.
Brian Shirk , September 27, 2009
I've never heard of Astyanax, but that's an awesome song.
Brian Shirk , September 28, 2009
I want to pick the music from Star Fox 64 i don't care which score either.
Toby Davis , September 28, 2009
@Brian: Astyanax is complete shit. It's a side scrolling action game for the NES. The only impressive thing about it is the size of the player-controlled character. Almost as a big as a Punch Out fighter.

Good music though.
James DeRosa , September 28, 2009
@James- Damn, I was hoping there was another NES gem I missed...thanks for the heads up.
Brian Shirk , September 28, 2009
Late entry: WipeOut Pulse - Tokyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJCQdee8vk

Great stuff James! Love it.
J. Cosmo Cohen , September 28, 2009
Sorry! Forgot to put it as a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJCQdee8vk
J. Cosmo Cohen , September 28, 2009
Pick for this week is the ending credits theme from Skies of Arcadia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikiLR4fCZk

And spell my name right next time, would you?
Brian Petro-Roy , September 30, 2009
@Brian Sorry about that! Simple typo. I can't change it right now because I'm at school and the computers are too wimpy to even handle myblog.

I'll change it as soon as I get home.
James DeRosa , September 30, 2009
Here's one for this week:

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
Brian Shirk , September 30, 2009
If I am not too late -

GTA Vice City - The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8
Lance Darnell , September 30, 2009
Shining Force 2 - Final Battle

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
Alex R. Cronk-Young , October 01, 2009
Sorry about the live cut James, I will do better in the future!!!
Lance Darnell , October 01, 2009
ActRaiser - Kasandora

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
Jon Shults , October 01, 2009
Just call me J Cosmo Cohen Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR66PGksjrQ
Jon Shults , October 01, 2009
Super Mario 64 - Dire, Dire Docks Level Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82mror4mqoc
Nicholas Michetti , October 02, 2009
Sorry, adding it as a link:

Super Mario 64 - Dire, Dire Docks Level Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82mror4mqoc
Nicholas Michetti , October 02, 2009
Okay...sorry it's late.

Gotta go with the theme from "I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...re=related
Evan Killham , October 02, 2009
Gitaroo Man - Tainted Lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1CMCIJB7A
Aaron Rivers , October 04, 2009

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