Still Alive
That’s the video game song that gets in my head the most.
Interestingly, despite how it’s not as good of a song, I probably think about Want You Gone about as often as Still Alive. It doesn’t really come through as a song, just the phrases. “Now I only want you gone.” “You’ve got your short sad life left. […] I’ll let you get right to it.”
I wish Want You Gone was more popular, because it’s genuinely a better song and plays the relationship double entendre so well.
Still Alive from Mirror’s Edge is also excellent.
They really had to give the ending credits song the same name huh.
Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time
Lots of great music in that game
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Lots of good Final Fantasy tracks from Nobuo Uematsu and Chrono Trigger/Cross ones from Yasunori Mitsuda too. But Stickerbush Symphony was the first video game music that really moved me, like more than your average SNES soundtrack. David Wise went hard on those Donkey Kong Country games.
That’s one of my favorites! Also Aquatic Ambience from DKC. I used to pause the game on that level and just listen to the track.
The whole DKC2 soundtrack is solid gold. I’m hard pressed to find tracks that aren’t amazing.
Very true, of the 3 DKC snes games DKC2 had the best music overall.
Hmmm.
Maybe Dragon Roost Island from The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Music track or racetrack? ;)
Interesting. If they had said, “What is your absolute favorite track from a racing game?” I would have interpreted the question differently.
It’s hard to choose an absolute favorite, but I really like First Steps from Celeste.
Alpha by C418 - The background music to the End Poem in Minecraft
Great pick. This track is transcendent.
If I had to choose one song, it would probably have to be Undertale from Undertale. The acoustic guitar brought me to tears. Honorable mentions to Rith Essa Mime from Jet Force Gemini, Stone Tower Temple from Majora’s Mask, Smiles and Tears from Earthbound, Fear the Dark from Aquaria, and Ocean Planet Aquanid from Bomberman 64: The Second Attack.
Baba Yetu from Civilization 2005 is the first video track to win a Grammy.
Nordschleife
Vigil - Mass Effect
The End Run from Mass Effect 2 is also high up there.
Recency bias, but Lumiere from Expedition 33 is also incredible.
Presidium and Uncharted Worlds are also really good.
M4 Faunts is genuinely one of my favorite credits songs too. Mass Effect soundtrack is just way too good.
You can’t do this to me. Don’t make me pick just one.
Let me have six at least.
I’ll give you two albums worth:
*Bastion OST
*Transistor OST
Theme from Monkey Island
Not one track, but I love all the biome specific music in Terraria.
The CD-rom for Mechwarrior 2 could play in a standard CD player. Track one was the data for the game, but the remaining 22-odd tracks were the in-game music. We used to listen to the Mechwarrior 2 soundtrack while playing everything else. I still love that music.
