Still Alive
Still Alive from Mirror’s Edge is also excellent.
They really had to give the ending credits song the same name huh.
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.
Shoutout to You Wouldn’t Know, which rounds out the trilogy of songs.
Goodbye, my only friend
Oh, did you think I meant you?
That would be funny
If it weren’t so sad
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.
Probably Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.
I didn’t play the game back in the days, heck until now I have only played the 1st title, but this song sounds so good and I have 0 nostalgia googles about it (although weirdly it emits some nostalgia to me regardless).
They definitely cooked with the DKC OST.
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.
Baba Yetu from Civilization 2005 is the first video track to win a Grammy.
Only right answer
Legend of zelda theme for the NES. I’ll never get tired of it
Recent favorite:
The track when you fight Consort Radahn in Elden Ring. I am absolutely OBSESSED with the man who sings that one part… You’d have to listen to it and you’ll spot who I mean. He has such a powerful voice, you can hear him over the rest. It’s just awe inspiring.
(So glad I can finally gush about that song)
Hmmm.
Maybe Dragon Roost Island from The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
That track has so much nostalgia for me, I found myself having to fight through tears during the Colgera battle in Tears of the Kingdom.
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.
You can’t do this to me. Don’t make me pick just one.
Let me have six at least.
If you mean music, it depends on how you can define 'from a video game. If it has to be in the game, The Last of Us by Gustavo Santolalla. If you can allow a bit of a stretch to gameplay-adjacent spaces, it’s Daylight’s End from League of Legends. Lots of fun music in the LoL space but, without exaggeration, that one was so beautiful I wept when I heard it.
Now if you mean race track: probably Mist Falls from Ridge Racer 7. So much SPEED and adrenaline next to a calm buddha.
I think the main theme from the second is better. Really reminds me of Feel Good Lost by BSS. I mean, he song, but that whole album is very much a similar vibe and I think you should check it out if you havent
I still prefer the original, but it’s still Santolalla so it’s good.
Hadn’t heard of BSS before. Thanks.
Red Alert, Hell March
I couldn’t pick just one.
- From The Witcher 3:
- Whiterun theme (unforgivably absent from the OST albums)
- Fields of Ard Skellig (a version of the folk song “Fear a Bhata”)
- From Skyrim… hard to pick out favourites
- From Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (Jeremy Soule again): The Art of War. It opens boldly but there’s a moment when it’s just twinkling in the strings, percussion and a little piano with almost no melody. If at that moment you happen to be watching the trajectory of your artillery arcing towards the enemy, and then the theme comes back as they land… sublime.
- From The Witcher 3:
Too many favourites to name, but here are a few examples
- lots of Nobuo Uematsu songs in lots of games
- small two of pieces from xenogears
- simple and clean from kingdom hearts
- xenoblade chronicles 2 Ost, especially gormott when the ‘vocals’ kick in
- take control from control
- wide awake from Alan wake 2
…
So many great ones, but if i had to pick only one
Current one is this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IunbXWab1_Y from Clair Obscur Expedition 33.
(But I’m overall in the fucking bag for this game at the moment.)
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire.
There are some great answers here already, but nothing else makes me want to kick off a new run-through like this does.
