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[GCX]

This hasn't been asked in a while so I thought it could result a fun thread.
Anyway, there really aren't too many amazing vocal songs in video games that are composed specifically for the game. Which are your favorites?

I'll start with:

Alan Wake - The Poet and the Muse

Such a great and beautiful track. Old Gods of Asgard is Poets of the Fall in disguise for those who don't know.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

We did this thread a couple of months ago, but any song with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn from Silent Hill. Lovely voice.

Also, dug Late Goodbye from Max Payne 2... and Snaaaaaaaaaaaake Eater

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Portal and Portal 2.

Still Alive
Exile Vilify
Want You Gone
Opera (Italian, but still lyrics)

 

[The Xtortionist]

That one F-Zero GX song where they're singing about F-Zero.

Edit - Actually there were two of them

 

[elohel]

lunar silver star story COMPLETE!

 

[Salsa]

No More Heroes 2 - Philistine

No More Heroes - Its Kill or be Killed mix

 

[The Felo]

Blue Dragon - Eternity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5eW9g5sOZY

End this thread right now.

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

Eternity - Blue Dragon Boss Battle Theme

Indestructible - Street Fighter IV Intro

If you can't already tell, I like cheese

And Late Goodbye is also awesome.

Edit: Barely beaten on Eternity, but I went through the effort of posting proper links

 

[Jigsaw]

niernierniernierniernierniernier

 

[StuBurns]

Want You Gone

That's the one.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Red Dead Redemption, also.

Far Away
Compass
Dead Man's Gun

 

[elwes]

This hasn't been asked in a while so I thought it could result a fun thread.
Anyway, there really aren't too many amazing vocal songs in video games that are composed specifically for the game. Which are your favorites?

I'll start with:

Alan Wake - The Poet and the Muse

Such a great and beautiful track. Old Gods of Asgard is Poets of the Fall in disguise for those who don't know.

That game has one of the best soundtracks.

Faye Wong - Eyes On Me

Spoiler

Come on, you knew someone was going to post this.

 

[B.K.]

Small Two of Pieces

Stars of Tears

 

[Varshes]

You were there - ICO

 

[John]

What a thrill...

 

[ULTROS!]

Xenogears - Small Two of Pieces




I also like Koda Kumi - Real Emotion, I hope I'm not the only one though.

 

[Salsa]

Oh, somehow forgot about rythm games. Said this many times before, but this might just be my favorite videogame song ever:

Um Jammer Lammy - Got to move

Also, Parappa the Rapper - Instructor Mooselini's Car Rap

and of course

 

[Electivirus]

Unlimited SaGa - Soaring Wings - Masashi Hamauzu.

I win.

 

[Jintor]

That game has one of the best soundtracks.

Faye Wong - Eyes On Me

Spoiler

Come on, you knew someone was going to post this.

I'm with you tbh

 

[Salsa]

I win.

i won

 

[Stinkles]

Halo monks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bat1QaCtDhY

Spoiler

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. - repeat to fade.

 

[Ikkarus]

Lunar Silver Star Harmony Opening Theme

Soo good.

 

[JWong]

No Metal Gear songs? or maybe I just don't recognize them.

Calling to the Night is my favourite.

 

[Electivirus]

i won

I win more.

 

[Dark Schala]

Nier:
Song of the Ancients / Devola
Hills of Radiant Wind
Kaine / Escape
Emil / Karma

Persona 3:
Burn My Dread
Mass Destruction
When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars
Wiping All Out
Time
Way of Life

Persona 4:
Pursuing My True Self
Signs of Love
Your Affection
Reach Out to the Truth
Heartbeat, Heartbreak
Heaven

The World Ends With You:
Calling
Three Minutes Clapping

Suikoden:
Genso Suikogaiden Vol 1 - Currents
Genso Suikoden III - Transcending Love
Genso Suikoden - Avertunerio Antes Lance Mao (After the Battle)
Genso Suikoden II - La Passione Commuove la Storia
Genso Suikoden II - Due Fiumi

Randoms:
Tales of the Abyss - Karma
Sonic CD - Sonic Boom
Sonic Colours - Reach for the Stars
Sonic R - Work it Out
Sonic R - Living in the City
Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers~Le Tresor Interdit/The Unstolen Jewel (Definitely one of my favourites--one of the first songs I ever tabbed out myself and played for a recital)

 

[UnluckyKate]

You were there - ICO

It took 14 post, but you nailed this thread good sir.

 

[Buckethead]

No Metal Gear songs?

Carla White - Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday

 

[greycolumbus]

Acceptance gave me goosebumps.

Also, Smash Bros. Brawl theme

 

[LevityNYC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7BGnlTZmQ

Melodies of Life
Final Fantasy 9

 

[ULTROS!]

Probably the most depressing vocal song I've ever heard: Silent Hill 4 - Room of Angel

 

[Dreamwriter]

The end-credits song to Aquaria - yes, a little independent game made by two guys, yet it had a great vocal ending song (after a ton of awesome non-vocal music during the game).

Lost to the Waves

 

[Persona7]

Persona 3 and 4 are really good


also, bayonetta OST

 

[UnluckyKate]

Probably the most depressing vocal song I've ever heard: Silent Hill 4 - Room of Angel

I prefer Letter from the lost days

 

[Rewrite]

Most of the Sonic R soundtrack. Number One has beautiful vocals to me and in general is my favorite track out of the whole soundtrack.

 

[Ozzykamikaze]

Metal Gear Solid - The Best is Yet to Come

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6miaTf1gF4g

MGS3 - Snake Eater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbFAZ2ztlE

They're both MGS just because those were the only two video game songs with vocals that came to mind right away. I feel a bit ashamed that I can't think of any others.

 

[Articalys]

The World Ends With You:
Calling
Three Minutes Clapping

Hell, almost everything from that game works.

Anyway, Devils Never Cry.

 

[ronito]

Not "the best" but ZoE2: Beyond the Bounds if really wonderful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niruwh4UwS8


For me the best is "The Beginning and the End" from Xenogears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJsIEUk2I4

 

[RadioHeadAche]

What a thrill...

One of my favorite opening credits ever.

 

[Dark Schala]

Most of the Sonic R soundtrack. Number One has beautiful vocals to me and in general is my favorite track out of the whole soundtrack.

The Sonic R Soundtrack is godly.

It's so good that I can feel the sunshine!

 

[-COOLIO-]

kingdom hearts music

 

[Electivirus]

Final Fantasy XIII - Born Anew - Masashi Hamauzu

Goddamn.

 

[Jintor]

I just wanted to thank Salsa for making me think of No More Heroes and going on to look up all of Desperate Struggle's soundtrack on YouTube. This shit is the bomb.

 

[Corran Horn]

The Legend of Dragoon - If You Still Believe

 

[Relax.MX]

Final Fanatasy 8

 

[JWong]

kingdom hearts music

I don't like Utada Hikaru...

Yoko Shimomura's orchestral work though.

 

[abstract alien]

Sonic and The Secret Rings - Unawakening Float

This is my shit, and its on one of my favorite sonic levels to boot.

 

[Electivirus]

I don't like Utada Hikaru...

Yoko Shimomura's orchestral work though.

How about Destati, then?

 

[Hunter-Zero]

You are not here from Silent Hill 3, really awesome song

 

[Hiltz]

I'll post my choices with brief samples of the lyrics provided.

God Hand - Ending Credits song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAga2AjfZlg

"Dragon kick your ass into the milky way (milky way!)
Don't act like you don't like the ball buster (ball buster!)
My Arm, my arm, my arm, my arm, my arm, my arm
I'll summon up the power of the God Hand!"


No More Heroes - The Virgin Child Makes A Wish Without Feeling Anything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y35Q7xXmTUQ

"Despair, the end of the world
I hear the rising phoenix in my dreams
And the virgin child made her wish upon a star
That night her mother talks no more"

Metal Gear Solid: Portable-OPs - Calling to the Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBvOK2ebPBo&feature=related

"In the sun we see fighting over lines
All our dreams and wishes we send home for safe keeping
Fighting for what’s right
Calling to the night"


Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Hell Frozen Rain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUYh0pT6MM

"In your mind's eye lives a memory
Hard to find, blinded by sorrow
And her cold voice sings a melody
Hear her sing, hell frozen rain falls down"

Always On My Mind - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwjaab1ChbA&feature=related

"Maybe I didn’t love you quite as often as I could have,
And maybe I didn’t treat you quite as good as I should have.
If I made you feel second best, I’m so sorry I was blind.
You were always on my mind."

Acceptance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkajjogjGu0&feature=related

"Night falls—strange colored walls: My eyes deceive what is wrong with me.
Deep in the night you think everything’s right.
Tell it to yourself—say it’s just a nightmare.
Something is telling you nothing can change where you are again."

When You're Gone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh5JHzlLthg&feature=related

"Objects in my room—they might be telling me something soon.
Still you ask me how I feel. I feel lost—that’s how I feel.
I know there’s something I’ve forgotten—like a time, a place, a shattered memory.
For me, it’s more than I can seem to handle: It’s the pain my mind is writing on the wall."

 

[kever0nicas]

Indestructible - Street Fighter IV Intro[/URL]

Oh the agony.