Favorite SNES music

[electricmastro]

A thread about music favorited from the SNES. For me, I tend to favor the bouncier, energetic melody-driven songs, especially if they also have a slower tone that manages to give it a sort of elegant grace to it. My favorites include:

 

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - Hot Head Bop:

 

 

Final Fantasy V - Clash on the Big Bridge (Battle vs Gilgamesh):

 

 

Spanky's Quest - Underwater:

 

 

Spider-Man & X-Men: Arcade's Revenge - Gambit:

 

 

Super Castlevania IV - The Forest of Monsters:

 

 

 

Edited April 25, 2022 by electricmastro

[Steven Pendleton]

Here's one that I'm sure nobody else will mention: the beta version of Simon's theme.

[Punisher5.0]

 

 Could name any sound track from the trilogy but this level has it all for me. Awesome sound track, cool sound effects and those neat looking light shafts peeking through the trees.

 

 

This one is for blowing my mind back in the day.

[electricmastro]

Most people prob like the main Dark World theme the most from this game, but I think I might prefer the dungeon version more:

 

 

[SlidellMan]

-The Donkey Kong Country trilogy (Or anything else that Grant Kirkhope, Robin Beanland, David Wise, and Evelyn Novakovic did for the system.)

-Tales of Phantasia

-Star Ocean

-Super Mario World 2

-The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse

-Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose

-Super Castlevania IV

-Super Turrican 1 & 2

-Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

-Demon's Crest

-Kirby Super Star (KSS Ultra felt off, and more ways than one.)

-Nosferatu (I wish Koji Igarashi would consider remaking this.)

-Mega Man X-X3

-Actraiser 1 & 2

-Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma

-R-Type 3 & Super R-Type

-Star Fox

-Treasure of the Rudras

-Earthbound

-Gradius III

-Contra III: The Alien Wars

-Skyblazer

-Spawn: The Video Game

 

Yes, that is a lot.

[electricmastro]

8 hours ago, SlidellMan said:

-Super Mario World 2

Featuring one of the happiest songs ever:

 

 

[SlidellMan]

I have made at least three cover songs from that game. They can be found on my Band Lab page.

[Bloodreign]

No one's given a mention to the entire soundtrack of Plok, a decent game that somehow got a fantastic soundtrack that pretty much blew away anything on a cart at that point.

Edited October 24, 2022 by Bloodreign

[Kirk_Johnston]

In terms of quality sound, I'd put Actraiser right up there:

 

 

One of the tunes that I think is really impacting though is this one from Tetris Attack (literally made me cry):

 

 

Also, because you totally wouldn't expect to hear something this kickass on SNES:

 

 

And there's all the big-hitters that everyone loves, like Star Fox, F-Zero, Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, etc.

Edited October 24, 2022 by Kirk_Johnston

[Wayler]

My top 3 SNES soundtracks as a musical experience would be:

1. Super Castlevania IV

2. Axelay (a shocker, I know)

3. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

the top 2 are by the same composer: Taro Kudo, the only soundtracks he did for the SNES. Oh what could have been...

 

As for individual songs that haven't been mentioned, here's a few:

The title screen/intro for Stargate is a real banger, even though the rest of the game is a bit crap.

 

 

Lemmings 2 has a few good tunes and my favorite is for the Space Tribe

 

And finally, the whole soundtrack for Waterworld is truly a hidden gem, but that's understandable because the game itself is garbage. This soundscape deserved a better game. Just listen to Map or Diving.

 

[SlidellMan]

Enjoy!

[91SNESplayer]

Toy Story? It has a good soundtrack but the sound quality in particular is excellent, very clean and crisp unlike the muddled sound that some people associate the system too.

Also, who could forget The Lion King! The soundtrack is fantastic.