Sega Genesis: The Album

[VinnyT]

(And yes I love the irony of a American Sega Genesis album using a Japanese Mega Drive picture)

This is a project I've been considering. I want suggestions/links to songs you think you should be on a compilation of Genesis music. This is the 1st of a series that will have more albums if it takes off, so some rules will be in place for this particular album. If you like a song that doesn't fit in the rules, I'm planning other compilations so it'll eventually get it's time to shine.

1. Background/title music directly from the game itself. No remixes or live recordings

2. Must be from American released Genesis games. No 32X/Sega CD because I'm considering doing single albums for those unless it seems that a full 32X or CD one wouldn't really work.

3. I'm trying to stick to 12-15 tracks, as in this could be a real CD you could burn and have if you wanted.

Others I'm planning if this takes off:

32X: Mushroom Madness
Sega CD: Spinning Sounds
A New Inspiration: Music influenced by Sega (Remixes/live recordings)
Rockin' With The Little Black Box: Music to play by (Songs you play during a session, or get you pumped for a game etc)
Mega Drive Megapack (European only titles. Not sure if this one's getting a full album)
The Beginning: Sega Mega Drive in Japan (Japan only titles)

So, yeah. This could be a giant train wreck and go nowhere, but I hope not. If we could eventually turn this into a giant music project It'd be pretty damn awesome! So, start throwing me ideas/downloads to see what makes it on the first album.

PS: If anyone has better album cover skills then please show me. I just realized the picture I used would work better on the influence one, so I'm willing to change it.

EDIT: A personal list so far. Not final by any means just my suggestions.

Sonic-Marble Zone
Streets of Rage II- Level 3 Cave
Earthworm Jim 2- Lorenzen's Soil
Outrunners- Travel Seaward (forgot this had a name until I randomly looked on Youtube just now)
Castlevania Bloodlines- Stage 4 (or Iron Blue Intentions according to Youtube)
Beyond Oasis-Boundless Cliff ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyHA_SZ15kc )
Shining Force II-Dwarf Village
El Viento-Stage 1
Wonderboy in Monster World- Underwater theme ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og_L4KuHyig )

[NeoVamp]

(And yes I love the irony of a American Sega Genesis album using a European Mega Drive picture)

Wut?

[VinnyT]

Wut?

I meant Japan.....

Well were off to great start.

[TmEE]

how about homemade MD music ?

[The Jackal]

My suggestions:

- Gene Gadget Zone (Sonic 3)
- HydroCity Zone Act II (Sonic 3)
- Doomsday Zone (Sonic & Knuckles)
- Main Theme (ToeJam & Earl)
- Title Screen (Zero Tolerance)
- Death Theme (Shadow of the Beast II Genesis)
- Stage 1 (The Lion King)
- Level One (Tiny Toons: Buster's Treasure Hunt)
- Title Screen (Story of Thor)
- Level 1-1 (The Ooze)
- Level 2 (Zombies Ate My Neighbors)
- Mad Doctor: Cart Section (Mickey Mania)

[VinnyT]

how about homemade MD music ?

That would go in the "music influenced by" one. I was figuring it'd be a sort of Overclocked only thing but if someone on here threw me something they did and it fit, then it could go on easily. That'd be pretty cool!

[TmEE]

I have quite a few tracks done on pure MD, both remakes and original creations.

Here's a selection of the better ones :
http://8bc.org/members/TmEE/

[The Coop]

A few suggestions with links...

"Flood of Power"- Midnight Resistance
"Requiem for the Nameless Victims"- Castlevania: Bloodlines
"Metal Squad"- Thunder Force IV (Genesis metal baby)
"Stage 1-1"- Mega Turrican
"Into the Deep Blue Sly"- Master of Monsters (absolutely beautiful song)
"The Habam"- Red Zone
"Chinatown"- The Revenge of Shinobi
"Moon Beach"- Streets of Rage
"Fighting in the Street"- Streets of Rage
"Flugelheim Museum"- Batman
"Ending Theme"- Batman
"Organic Beat"- Phantasy Star IV
"Staff Roll"- Phantasy Star IV
"Mango!"- Super Fantasy Zone
"Sortie"- Gauntlet IV
"Adventures of Iron"- Gauntlet IV
"The Grubby Dark Blue"- Thunder Force III
"Truth"- Thunder Force III
"Prairie"- Devilish
"Omake 3"- Thunder Force IV
"Omake 2"- Thunder Force IV
"Setting Out"- Elemental Master

[M4R14NO94]

Oh this one's gonna be sweet

Suggestions:

-Main theme of any of the ToeJam & Earl games
-Flying Battery Act 1 (Sonic & Knuckles)
-Shamrip (Track 3 from Lotus 2 RECS)
-Main theme from Chuck Rock
-Spring Yard (Sonic 1)
-Pretty much anything by Matt Furniss
-Funk Funk Funk E (ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron)
-Boss Battle (TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist)
-Either Canterbury Plains or the main theme from Top Gear 2
-Hot Fire (OutRun 2019)
-Magical Sound Shower (OutRun)
-The main theme of NHL Hockey
-Anything But Tangerines (Earthworm Jim 2)
-New Junk City, Level 5 or The Queen's Lair (Earthworm Jim)
-Any track from Streets of Rage 2
-The Shinobi (The Revenge of Shinobi)
-Main theme from Powerball/WrestleBall
-Any of the tracks from Rolling Thunder 3 (on the subject, I find it rather weird that almost all tracks either begin with or have the word "Bad" in the title)
-Shinobi (Shinobi 3)

[Ace]

Don't forget Metal Squad from Thunder Force IV:



And one little note: make sure any and all tunes are recorded off a Model 1 MegaDrive or Genesis like in the video I linked(it's my own video, FYI). Most tunes that are available for download were recorded off emulators, which all get the sound wrong to a certain extent.

[joshvox]

Other than various tunes from "Revenge of Shinobi" that have already been mentioned, my favorite music on pretty much any game is the intro and first level music from "The Adventures of Batman and Robin." The rest of the music may be awesome too, but I have no idea since I have yet to beat the second level boss!

[NavesRegge]

Toss some Space Harrier in there. The main theme most definitely should be on the album if anything.

EDIT: Also, I decided to toss together another album cover just because I felt like it. Take a look:



Looks pretty shit, doesn't it?

[kokujin]

Other than various tunes from "Revenge of Shinobi" that have already been mentioned, my favorite music on pretty much any game is the intro and first level music from "The Adventures of Batman and Robin." The rest of the music may be awesome too, but I have no idea since I have yet to beat the second level boss!

Keep at Batman & Robin, it gets better.
Batman & Robin-Space Boss
Gauntlet IV-Transparent Obstacles
Streets Of Rage 3-Moon
Red Zone- Walking
Kakumen Boss no Theme
AWS Pro Moves Soccer-Introduction
Granada-Smashing Street
Monster World IV-Heart of Icegrave
El Viento-Park
Battle Mania Daiginjou-Iron Casanova
Alien Soldier-Soltype
Some more later

[The Coop]

Don't forget Metal Squad from Thunder Force IV:

I didn't


A few more possibilities...

"Stage Two"- Alien 3
"Main Title Part II"- Alien 3
"Main Table"- Dragon's Fury
"After the War"- Final Zone (skip to 6:40 in video)
"Back to Square One"- Herzog Zwei
"Take it Easy"- Herzog Zwei
"Ending Theme"- Mega Turrican
"Main Theme"- Road Rash
"Opening"- Sword of Vermilion (beginning of video)
"Last City"- Sword of Vermilion
"Turtle Swing"- TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist
"Alleycat Blues"- TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist
"Star Base"- TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist
"Stage 1"- Whip Rush
"Stage 2 (Underwater)"- Whip Rush
"Stage 6"- Whip Rush
"Legend of Harrier"- Space Harrier II

I couldn't find all of them on YouTube, but you can find them on Project2612.org if you want to listen.

[VinnyT]

Toss some Space Harrier in there. The main theme most definitely should be on the album if anything.

EDIT: Also, I decided to toss together another album cover just because I felt like it. Take a look:



Looks pretty shit, doesn't it?

That's 10,000x better than mine. So it goes. I may commission you to do some future albums.