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submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I thought of this post entirely because I have the Pokémon Center theme from Pokémon HeartGold SoulSilver stuck in my head, and it has wriggled in over and over for months despite me hearing and actively playing other music.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

for me it’s perhaps Metro Exodus end scene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm locking my answer in on the old Minecraft music. Literally EVERYONE knows it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

All versions of moon over the castle from the gran tursimo series, the version from GT4 goes hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Hang On main theme tune is excellent. The soundtrack to Hang-On and Super Hang-On are both top tier.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfvmJtB2gs&pp=ygUSaGFuZyBvbiBtYWluIHRoZW1l

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Iunno how this wasn't mentioned, but Payday 2 has a lot of catchy / going-hard songs.

Gonna leave 3:

  1. Hot Pursuit
  2. Evil Eye
  3. The Mark
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Tim Follin:

Solstice

Silver Surfer

Time Trax

Pictionary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Naaaaa na-na-na-na-na-naaaa na na, na na na-na naaaaaaaa!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Also Unbreakable Determination from Ninja Gaiden 1.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that's why I didn't link it. I can hear the riff and even play the riff on guitar on a moments notice

Friend says "play me something" and I immediately play that riff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

The main theme of Papers, Please: https://youtu.be/DbBB1j5qAFs

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

My time has come. As someone who almost exclusively listens to instrumental soundtrack from movies and games, including from games I have never played, these are the ones that most often get stuck in my head (in no particular order). A plus "+" indicates a song that got stuck in my head regularly before I ever played the game, while an asterisk "*" indicates a song that still gets stuck in my head, despite being from a game I have never played at all.

  1. Baba Yetu - Civ IV (+)

  2. Hyrule Castle - Breath Of The Wild (+)

  3. Lorule Castle - Link Between Worlds (*)

  4. One Final Effort - Halo 3 (*)

  5. Golem King - Moonlighter

  6. Song of the Ancients - Nier Series (*)

  7. Dragonborn - Skyrim

  8. Far Horizons - Skyrim (+)

  9. Dragon Roost Island - Wind Waker (*)

  10. Nate's Theme - Uncharted (*)

  11. Gusty Garden Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy (*)

  12. Korobeiniki - Tetris (+)

  13. Gerudo Valley - Ocarina of Time (+)

  14. Colgera Battle - Tears of the Kingdom

  15. This Song - The Witcher 3 (It's the song Aen Seidhe, but without vocals)

  16. Bloody Tears - Castlevania (*)

But finally, the song that I credit with making me obsessed with instrumental soundtrack, because I fell asleep with it playing on repeat for a whole night at the age of 5, and then lost the game cartridge, so I forgot what it was from, and which I would get stuck in my head roughly once a month throughout my entire childhood until I finally found the song THIRTEEN YEARS LATER:

Ω) Town Theme - Final Fantasy II

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Lost woods.

Honestly anything from OoT, but Lost Woods, Kakariko Villiage, and Gerudo Valley in particular are ingrained into my gray matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Literally anything from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

The festival song or cascade theme, both from mario odyssey.

I also really like celeste's soundtrack

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Suicide run, Mass Effect 2.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

I can't pick just one, honestly. Aside from the Tetris theme and World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros., I consider these to be not only catchy but also iconic:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I can never pick one, so here's a few:

  • E1M1(Doom)

  • Hell March(Red Alert)

  • Character creation music in BG3

  • Megalovania(Undertale)

  • Coral Crown(Hades II)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hell March! The Red Alert 2 version is the best one to me, maybe because it was the first I heard or because it just feels punchier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The second one isn't bad, but I like the more trash metal style and less overwhelming bass in the first.

Which I guess is why Iove Andrew Hulshult's remake of E1M1

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Doom E1M1 on my soundblaster and my Roland MT-32, all pumped through my surround sound system in my concrete dorm room in late 1992 and I won’t hear otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

E1M1 is great, top tier music.

The level clear screen music, E2M8, E1M8, and E1/2M9 tracks are all other top tier track contending for the throne.

Doom II introduced a few more bangers too, but I'm not as able to call the level codes to mind off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

Easy answer for me, chemical plant zone from Sonic the hedgehog 2

https://youtu.be/RmGCFYIrLps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

We All Lift Together from Warframe goes fucking hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The Stupendium made an Outer Worlds song called The Fine Print that also goes hard af for either setting imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Some other bangers are the entire Silent Hill 3 sound track (You're Not Here and I Need Love are my personal favorites) and My Dark Disquiet by Poets of the Fall from Control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

For me it's Gyromite: Gyromite - NES

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Ever since I first heard it a few months ago, it has never left my mind for even a second.

Free by Crush 40

Sadly this great song was tied to a spin-off series killing game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I feel like Sea Shanty 2 from Old School Runescape is a strong contender. Even if you have never played Runescape there is a good chance you know it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How has no one mentioned the tetris theme? Dum dada dum dada dum dada dum dada dum di da da da

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Back when groceries were cheaper, I would hum that while putting items on the belt to get scanned.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Not what you asked for, but my music taste was shaped massively by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I recently obtained a unicorn of a CRT and have been replaying this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Man the soundtrack alone could get me to play Katamari games. I got a birthday gift card recently and was deciding what game to get, when one of the OSTs came up on YT Music and I listened to it for like a week straight. Immediately got We ❤️ Katamari + DLC on 80% sale.

Could scream that shit in my car honestly.

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