My playlist: OCR Vox

[Devsman]

So I have a playlist I've been working on for a couple of years now; finally decided to share it! I have a couple I've put together, with different criteria, so the criteria for this one was:

1. Must have prominently-featured vocals (not just background OOH AHH)
2. Must be from a game I like, or at least a game with music I like
3. Cannot be featured on an album I already listen to separately

Now, this is pretty rough criteria--I bent or outright ignored the rules for a couple of tunes I just really liked. So if your remix doesn't appear, please don't take it personally! I probably just never played the game it comes from, or already had the album, or maybe just not personally a fan of the genre, may even just be newer than the last time I added stuff, etc.

It is (rather uncreatively) titled OCR Vox. I just put together a youtube playlist for it:

(1) OCR Vox - YouTube

Here is the track list. I separated it out into discs, like some of the OC ReMix albums do. Each disc has its own opener and closer, and of course I sorted them all based on what felt to me like the most natural progression musically.

 

DISC 1: This disc was mostly composed of tunes that felt like intros to me.

1 (Disc 1 opener). Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 'Lost in a Nightmare' by Palpable.

2. Donkey Kong Country 'Permutation' by Nicole Adams, injury & Entheogen.

3. Mega Man 4 'Standing on Top' by Flexstyle and Jason Covenant. 

4. Donkey Kong Country 2 'A New Place' by injury, M.J. Ault, Nicole Adams & Tepid

5. Super Metroid 'Kindred' by Jillian Aversa & zircon

6. Ocarina of Time 'Generations' by DrumUltima, Jillian Aversa, XPRTNovice & zircon

7. A Link to the Past 'The Goddess Gets Groovy Tonight' by Garrett Williamson & Sir Jordanius

8. Mega Man 9 'Daft Drafts' by zircon

9. Donkey Kong Country 3 'mojo gogo' by prophetik

10. Final Fantasy VIII 'Eyes on Me (Not Faye Wong)' by FFmusic Dj & Rydia of Mist

11. Mega Man 2 'Smooth Steel' by Malcos & zircon

12. Street Fighter II 'Ryu Next Generation (RNG)' by jdproject

13. Chrono Trigger 'Lucid States' by ambient & DragonAvenger

14 (Disc 1 closer). Ocarina of Time 'Lullaby of the Sky' by Jillian Aversa and zircon

DISC 2: Discs 2 and 3 were for tunes that had an "act 2" feel; which I know is really vague, haha. I mostly split them up because otherwise there would be this one disc twice as long as the others.

1 (Disc 2 opener). Final Fantasy II 'Grind My Crank' by XPRTNovice

2. Metal Gear Solid 'Never Go Away' by Chris | Amaterasu, Claire Yaxley & Dj Mystix

3. Chrono Trigger 'The Incredible Singing Robot' by Star Salzman

4. Mega Man 10 'Going Commando' by Brandon Strader (What happened to this one? I can't seem to find it anymore on OCR or anywhere else; naturally, I had to omit it from the yt playlist.)

5. Mega Man X4 'My Choice' by Brandon Strader (Ditto. I did find it on youtube, but it was uploaded by someone else and I didn't want to perform a faux pas if these were deliberately deleted)

6. Final Fantasy 'Find Your Way' by Darangen

7. Chrono Trigger 'Forever Until Tomorrow' by Paul Baxter and Star Salzman

8. Mario Kart DS 'Charade' by Hale-Bopp

9. Ocarina of Time 'Namors Gnudlib Theme' by Sir Jordanius

10. Mega Man 'Call of the Cut Man' by MEGAROCKMAN

11. Final Fantasy IV 'Over and Under' by Jason Brian Merrill

12. Donkey Kong Country 2 'Clouds Away' by Bekah Jones, DiGi Valentine and Palpable

13. Mega Man 9 'Concrete Heart' by AkumajoBelmont and Jason Covenant

14. Chrono Trigger 'Town Life' by djpretzel and Geoffrey Taucer

15 (Disc 2 closer). Ocarina of Time 'They SeeMe Rolling' by anterroir, Chimpazilla and timaeus222

DISC 3: Disc 2, part 2!

1 (Disc 3 opener). F-Zero 'The Freedom of Zero' by Harmony

2. Donkey Kong Country 2 'Us Monkeys Together' by Flickerfall

3. Legend of Zelda 'Hyrule's Angel (The Sleeping Beauty)' by Game Over

4. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 'Oil Ocean (WT-40 Mix)' by PlanetSkill

5. Mega Man X2 '(Don't Wanna) Hurt You' by Jorito

6. Final Fantasy VII 'Holding Hands' by DrumUltimA

7. Super Mario Bros. 'The 2-2 Blues' by brentalfloss

8. Super Mario Kart 'happy breakfast' by posu yan

9. Mega Man 3 'Blue Reflection' by injury

10. Donkey Kong Country 3 'My Red Hot Pursuit' by Wintermute

11. Sonic Adventure 2 'Knuckles' Unknown from M.C.' by Jose' the Bronx Rican

12. Mega Man 4 'Get a Weapon Weapon' by MMvsUSAF

13. Final Fantasy VII 'The Rules of the Road' by XPRTNovice

14. Mega Man 3 'Cataclysmic Clash' by Game Over

15. Final Fantasy VIII 'Shine Tonight' by Poolside

16 (Disc 3 Closer). Mega Man 7 'Seventh Climb' by Cyril the Wolf

DISC 4: These are mostly songs that sounded like closers to me.

1 (Disc 4 opener). Katamari Damacy 'Prelude, Fugue and Groove' by Gamer Symphony Orchestra

2. Legend of Zelda 'Rabbit Joint Cover' by The Rabbit Joint

3. Ocarina of Time 'Solace' by 2P & David L. Puga

4. Kingdom Hearts 'Destiny Forgotten' by adrian and Diodes

5. The Wind Waker 'Rime of the Wanderin' Seafarer' by zyko

6. Mega Man 9 'Smooth As Honey' by Sir Jordanius

7. Sonic Adventure 2 'Graveyard Theory' by Zone Runners

8. Nier 'Ancient Dreams' by Dj Mustix and Sabrina Valenzuela

9. Sonic Adventure 'Chaos Nightmares' by PrototypeRaptor

10. Mega Man 'Light's Out' by Game Over

11. Final Fantasy VI 'Anathema, Quietus & Apotheosis' by HeavenWraith

12. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 'SZRC Anthem' by Flexstyle and OverClocked University

13. Mega Man 2 'For You' by AkumajoBelmont

14. Sonic the Hedgehog 'Finality (Radio Edit)' by Cyril the Wolf and JH Sounds

15. Metal Gear Solid 3 'Innocent Deception' by Claire Yaxley and Dj Mystix

16. Mega Man X 'Dreams Come True' by Protricity and Star Salzman

17. Final Fantasy VI 'Forever, Young Rachel' by David Saulesco and Poolside

18 (Disc 4 closer). Chrono Trigger 'The Place We Knew' by Claado Shou, Jillian Aversa and Reuben Kee

DISC 5: What gives? Why is there a disc after the closers? And why is it overrun with Xenogears remixes? Well, long story short, these are where most of my 2020 updates landed. For previous updates, I had been mixing the new tunes into the existing four discs but they were getting so long already that I decided to add a fifth disc. And I just so happen to have played Xenogears (and a few other titles) for the first time shortly beforehand.

1 (Disc 1 opener). 3D Pinball: Space Cader 'Interst5llar  5a5uke 5ever' by Sir Jordanius

2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV 'Pizza in the Van' by Chidi Enyia, MMvsUSAF, Roqsteady and Samara Smith

3. Xenogears 'Pillar of Salt' by Star Salzman

4. Star Ocean: The Second Story 'This Love, Our Love' by DusK

5. Mass Effect 'One Small Step' by Moire' Effect

6. Xenogears 'Ragnarok' by FFmusic Dj and Geoffrey Taucer

7. Sonic the Hedgehog 'Live at the Springyard' by Harmony

8. Xenogears '7 Years Broken' by djpretzel

9. Final Fantasy VIII 'Wings of Freedom' by Forest Elves

10. Super Mario Kart 'A Road That You Go' by DiscoCactus

11. Xenogears 'My Child' by Abadoss, DragonAvenger and Nutritious

12. Mega Man X8 'Es-cop-ay' by KingTiger

13. Xenogears 'Hymn of Aveh' by katethegreat19

14. Mega Man 9 'Tornadosaurus Rex' by PrototypeRaptor

15. Street Fighter II 'The Ken Song' by jdproject

16. Final Fantasy 'Vivo Revenis' by Jordi Francis and Shadow Dreamer

17. Suikoden II 'Do You Remember?' by Jorito, JoyDreamer, Lauren the Flute, Trev Wignall and XPRTNovice

18. Kingdom Hearts 'Protect Your Kingdom' by Smooth4Lyfe

19 (Disc 5 closer). EarthBound 'Home Again' by Dale North

 

I think that's all correct. Please let me know if you see any mistakes, spelling errors, differences in order, etc. Thanks to all the remixers named above, and many who were not (because this is not an exhaustive list of all the remixes here that I really love)!

Edited April 12, 2021 by Devsman

[Daylectorbr]

Thanks for putting these on youtube, you definitely earned 1 subscriber. Thank you!

[Cyril the Wolf]

I never realized how many vocal remixes there were on OCR.

Neat.

[Devsman]

9 hours ago, Cyril the Wolf said:

I never realized how many vocal remixes there were on OCR.

Neat.

Yeah, I was surprised at first too. And this isn't even close to all of them. There were hundreds, probably thousands of them last time I searched.

[Jonathan David Arndt]

@DevsmanHow do you search for remixes with lyrics?

(I tried some time ago with downloaded files, and a text search for "lyrics" turned up... well, hundreds of them. But I was never really sure if that search was conclusive.)

 

[Devsman]

3 hours ago, Jonathan David Arndt said:

@DevsmanHow do you search for remixes with lyrics?

(I tried some time ago with downloaded files, and a text search for "lyrics" turned up... well, hundreds of them. But I was never really sure if that search was conclusive.)

 

When you find a remix with a tag you want to search, you can just click the tag and it will bring up everything that has been tagged with that tag.

https://ocremix.org/tag/lyrics-original

https://ocremix.org/tag/lyrics-existing

You can also browse all tags here:

https://ocremix.org/tags

Though the site does warn that this is still beta and might not work well.

[Jonathan David Arndt]

Nice. Also, looks like there are tags for "vocals-male" and "vocals-female."

That is great for the online search! (but I guess there is always a possibility that data will be incomplete)

[Daylectorbr]

Some tags has no records though, so it's still better to look it up on YT.

[twiilit_]

For the two tracks that were removed in Disc 2, it looks like they were deleted. There's a page on OC ReMix that shows which remixes were deleted and why, and both of them are on it.

[Devsman]

So I just did my 2021 update, haha.

 

New additions:

Mega Man X 'Rolling' by Maverick Astley

Donkey Kong Country 2 'All Aboard the Glitter Express' by Light Pillar

Ocarina of Time 'To See Like Me' by Bowlerhat feat. Felix Brassel, Pierre Vyncke, Gregory Ksiondzyk, Dirk Bosman, David Jans, Chae Yeon Lee, Hee Hyun Lee, Louise van den Heuvel, Arno Grootaers & Rebecca Driesmans

Sonic the Hedgehog 'Speeding Towards Adventure' by Azzykay316, Final Kingdom, Furilas, Jorito & Tuberz McGee

Mega Man X5 'Never Gonna Give (Up the Funk)' by Jorito feat Tuberz McGee, Anton Corazza & Eino Keskitalo

Final Fantasy VI 'Dream 'Til Tomorrow' by Earth Kid

Street Fighter II 'Family Man' by Overclocked University & Moonlapse

Golden Sun: The Lost Age 'What I Want to Say' by Vylent and TSori feat. Spy Girls

 

Fixed mistakes:

Added Metal Gear Solid 2 'Big Shell West Bristol' by BenCousins. I accidentally left it out when I first put the yt playlist together.

Moved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV 'Pizza in the Van' by Chidi Enyia, MMvsUSAF, Roqsteady and Samara Smith to the end of the playlist, where it was supposed to be.

 

Many thanks again to all the Remixers who have contributed to the site!

 

4 hours ago, twiilit_ said:

For the two tracks that were removed in Disc 2, it looks like they were deleted. There's a page on OC ReMix that shows which remixes were deleted and why, and both of them are on it.

Hm, I took a look and it says they were removed by request. There are a whole lot of ReMixes from this author that were removed by request. Huh. Well, I suppose that's all anyone needs to know.

Edited April 23, 2021 by Devsman

[Jonathan David Arndt]

Some kind soul has put all the removed ones on github:
https://williamjacksn.github.io/ocremoved/

 

[CJohnson]

Tons of awesome remix I can listen to, great job OP!

Edited May 1, 2021 by CJohnson