There’s already a thread for sharing any and all game music and one for posting yr all-time favorite stuff, but this is different.
Post mixes or medleys or suites etc compiled from entire game soundtracks which are intended to be listened to as one continuous album-like thing (if a soundtrack is like this by default, post it!). Sometimes I want to listen to a variety of a game’s music but don’t want to trudge through the filler tracks on the OST, or I don’t want to listen to a song which loops five times before it goes into the next track. Sometimes a guy wants to take an abridged Mother 3 journey without listening to 6 hours and 40 minutes of music. Doesn’t absolutely need to be “album length,” whatever that means, but under an hour is a nice number of minutes.
Not looking for arrange albums, remixes, or reorchestrations unless it is a straight adaptation of a whole soundtrack. Still looking mainly for mixes of the music in the game!
Don’t care at all what kind of music it is, but you lose points if the words “lofi,” “chill,” “to study to,” or “Nintendo music to play while you’re alone on the floor” are in the title. Also anything with an emotion in the title (“melancholy,” “relaxing,” “sad,” “happy Nintendo music to comb your lawn to,” etc) is not what we want here. Both of these are overwhelmingly the sort of thing which pop up when you search for mixes covering a single game.
I’ll share some examples (which almost break my own dumb rules):
MOTHER SERIES MIX (too long for one game but this is three games kept separate in the mix)
@“captain”#p44501 the quake ost was what got me into nine inch nails freshman year of highschool. still one of my favorite nin albums, and the only one that's actually industrial.
@“captain”#p44668 hmm, fair enough but I have to imagine someone who enjoys industrial might at least have a fun time with Downward Spiral
iirc, i heard an interview one time with trent reznor wherein he explained with some exasperation that the industrial label was put on him by the music press. they were using industrial as a plain adjective to describe his music without knowing or caring that "Industrial" was a proper noun signifying an existing genre of ambient music.
no disrespect whatsoever to the downward spirial, but the resemblence between the downward spiral and "Industrial Music" isn't even like the familial resemblence between cousins, they're like two totally different guys wearing the same shoes.
i call nin generally pop-industrial. i prefer pop-industrial to industrial, generally, but i love the vibe of the quake soundtrack. it's like a pile of damp, moss covered rubble.
I highly recommend Sleeping Cocoon’s (AKA EMMA AKA HECKSCAPER) Line-Out series. She does remasters of old (mostly very obscure) vg osts and then presents them in a very nice album-format package. Also her website is cooooool. https://www.heckscaper.com/gst/index.html
Most of the ost’s are available on her YT channel, where she also posts a bunch of obscure japnanese music, like non-vgm by vgm composers which is usually pretty interesting/good
Here’s a couple of my favorites
Also right now I’m working on a mix of the entire Bomberman Hero OST, which is meant to be a more streamlined way to appreciate the entire soundtrack. Will post it here when it’s done :D
@“pasquinelli”#p44675 Rereading my comment I feel like I came across as flippant, so apologies for that. I‘m not really down with genre labels and have found it off-putting in the past when I’ve seen NIN described as “not even industrial, man!” as though any music owed it to the listener to conform to a particular genre classification. And because as you said, it's not industrial! It is, broadly speaking, pop music which for one or two albums borrowed some industrial textures/sounds.
@“fugazi57”#p44677 fugazi this website is RAD!! Giving one of Sleeping Cocoon‘s (AKA EMMA AKA HECKSCAPER) album packages a cursory listen. And I’m extremely looking forward to the Bomberman set. (Oh man I recognize BGM_LOBBY from that N-LOG Soft video!! )
Rewriting the rules of the thread IN REAL TIME again to say what @"Moon"#220 has done in sharing an OST and then rearranged tracks as complements to the original is good and hot stuff.
i listen to so many of these lol. i’m always hunting for good melodies
have not tried the bravely series beyond 5 minutes of the demo for II but have been enjoying this lately
was pretty into this for a while. “frontier village” really gets me. have not played this game though
it was raining today so i had this on. this person posts good stuff. they have a bias for ps1 which i enjoy:
this star ocean 2 medley is an ol standby for me. not much so2 appreciation on game music youtube unfortunately
this my PERSONAL FF piano playlist which you may peruse…i have listened to the VII, VIII, IX and X piano collections exhaustively and have separated the wheat from the chaff. every song on here is gold. love to put this on while cookin din or somethin
@“captain”#p45293 I should really learn to follow my own threads
_no promises_ but someone (maybe you?) mentioned this exact thing in the [Forum Technical Feedback thread](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/1095-forum-technical-feedback) and after shane showed me links to the forum software and how/where extensions are curated I did a bit of reading. I was thinking of making an extension that did exactly this, as a simple first go at doing something with Flarum.
Maybe this coming weekend? Maybe not!
...but if I do, I'll let shane know and then maybe you'll have a setting you can toggle to auto-follow your own discussions.
@“tapevulture”#p45298 i still checked those vids out anyway :)
@“rejj”#p45317 I did not mention that in that thread, but I recall it being mentioned and thinking at the time, “lol I wouldn’t need that, I follow all my threads diligently :sunglasses face:”
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