Music good enough to be VGM

[Khoregard]

Just listened to Portisheads album Third, and one track, Machine Gun, is titular and reminscent to a few different VGM tunes I've heard.

Anyone else out there know of any artists/tracks that are reminiscent of VGM?

[EC2151]

Isn't it better to flip that question around?

Jus' sayin'.

[WillRock]

Anything by joe satriani.

Instrumental music with an emphasis on catchy melodies. His music could be in any video game circumstances I reckon, his style of rock is quite diverse. He's actually got some tracks of his in video games iirc, but not much.

Also, Vince Dicola deserves a mention, Training montage would make great video game music.

[Binjovi]

I always thought "Closing In" by The Living End felt a lot like a medley from some unknown RPG. It begins with what might be random battle music, goes into a cave/dungeon theme, then to a boss/miniboss battle; finally finishing on the random battle music again. Pretty cool song too.

[Nabeel Ansari]

Zircon's "Antigravity" should be obvious:

Warhead, Nitronic, Mindbender, Art of Zen, Speed of Light, etc. are really great tracks, all with melody emphasis and would easily fill up a video game soundtrack well.

[Salluz]

Isn't it better to flip that question around?

Jus' sayin'.

It's true man, music has taken that turn. Once upon a time VGM = bleeps, now games feature orchestral masterpieces and the radio is worse than an Atari soundtrack from 1977.

[Brandon Strader]

Just listened to Portisheads album Third, and one track, Machine Gun, is titular and reminscent to a few different VGM tunes I've heard.

Anyone else out there know of any artists/tracks that are reminiscent of VGM?

.....titular? :blush:

Kansas.

Thread closed.

[Less Ashamed Of Self]

Didn't I JUST start a thread like this?

[Fishy]

Anything by joe satriani.

I basically listened to Professor Satchifunkilus and the Mysterion for a lot of FFXII postgame. It worked really well. It has that mystery about it.

[Monobrow]

Tori Amos *_*

[Strike911]

Make fun of me if you will but seriously...

Yanni.

I've casually thought a few of his tracks would be a perfect fit in some kind of introspective title. Hell, almost 90% of this stuff could fit as a JRPG town theme.

[DrumUltimA]

I guess this is shameless self-promotion, but I played a piece on my recital called "And Legions Will Rise" by Kevin Puts, and I always thought it could be in Shadow of the Colossus. Not totally happy with my performance of it but it's the only one on youtube: