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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:32 am Post subject:
Gotta defend Elite's title music. Not really technically great or even appropriate, but I find myself humming it now and again and it gets me itchin' to trade some space narcotics.
I agree with Armalyte, matrin walker's titles are great in several games, though a lot of his stuff does have the same sound.
When I was a kid it didn't get any better than the Ghostbusters theme and you could press space in time the the chorus.
Nowadays I think Kenneth Arnold's Ultima music is some of the most atmospheric. _________________
Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Age: 41 Posts: 267 Location: Manchester, England
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:31 pm Post subject:
Some others to add to the list: mainly title screen only numbers:
Firefly - one of Fred Gray's most under-rated pieces in my opinion. Catchy melody and great lead make for a cracking effort.
Draconus - Adam Gilmore at his finest. The filter sweeps throughout the lead really give it some depth, and the second part where it speeds up the melody adds more too.
Turrican II - people often forget about this Markus Siebold tune because they're too busy pressing fire to play the great game, but when listening on a bug-free copy of the disk, there's a storming bassline which drives you on.
Rubicon - nice multispeed Jeroen Tel piece to get you in the mood, and really well composed too. _________________
Also the titletrack from Flimbo's Quest by Reyn Ouwehand (which they later used in Corruption, the discmag) was a pretty catchy tune.
Other titletracks that I loved were Tusker by Matt Gray, Turbo Charge by Odie and B-Bobs, again by Thomas Detert.
Phobia and Xenophone definately deserve to be mentioned aswell! _________________
Cybernoid doesn't count, but I wanted to say I prefer the original one over the sequel's.
NO!! No no no...
The sequel's soundtrack is sooooo much better!
Well now that I have your attention anyway, I always wanted to ask you if SLF stands for Synthetic Life Form? _________________
Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 588 Location: Ireland, Belfast
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:04 pm Post subject:
Some great tunes mentioned so far; especially Rambo, Platoon, Thrust and Uridium. Nobody mention Parallax so far? One more title tune I enjoyed was Alleykat. Some might think it a bit cheesey but I always thought it rose to a nice climax. _________________
Cybernoid doesn't count, but I wanted to say I prefer the original one over the sequel's.
NO!! No no no...
The sequel's soundtrack is sooooo much better!
Well now that I have your attention anyway, I always wanted to ask you if SLF stands for Synthetic Life Form?
I'll have to listen to them again, I love them both but as far as I remember I slightly prefer the original.
Yes, that's correct. It is of course the name of the main character in Hawkeye. _________________
My top games: 1.Hawkeye, 2.Uridium, 3.Creatures II, 4.Delta, 5.Bubble Bobble, 6.Ikari Warriors, 7.Armalyte, 8.Bionic Commando, 9.Archon, 10.Buggy Boy.
It's hard to say which one is best, since there are so many masterpieces out there. Platoon and Green Beret, as mentioned earlier, are two of them.
Super Dragon Slayer and, of course, Commando are two of the best if you ask me. _________________
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