What are the best songs in video games? (that is, music with lyrics)

[AuthenticM]

Musical tracks containing lyrics in video games are often... not good. From my experience, I feel. But some of them are very good! Let's discuss these ones.

One of my favorites has got to be last year's Devil Trigger from DMC5. Shit is so fucking awesome. Everytime I hear it, it pumps me full of energy.



Hopefully whoever produced this song is brought back for DMC6.

 

[Dest]

Do lyrics that are in some language (I believe it's French based though) made for the game count?
Cause if so this

 

[SanTheSly]

 

[Yuntu]

*insert XCX music here*



excuse while im stuck on a different planet

 

[TheXbox]

 

[Wulfram]

Obligatory Baba Yetu

 

[BackwardCap]

 

[Qikz]

Does this count? :D

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Florence + The Machine - Too Much Is Never Enough

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[KOfLegend]

Persona 4 The Golden - Snowflakes

I love wintry music. This is one of my favorite all time tracks now.PS: Hello Steam friends.

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All the vocal Persona soundtracks, really. Plus the entirety of Sayonara Wild Hearts' vocal tracks.

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

I unironically love the first Street Fighter 4 song. Well, the first one.

 

[Jay Shadow]

 

[NESpowerhouse]

 

[SmokedSalmon]

Been listening to this one a lot recently.


The songs in Kingdom Hearts are fun too.

There's probably more songs than I can even think of off the top of my head that I like. I'm actually a big fan of lyrics in game songs. Nier, Metal Gear Rising, Persona, The World Ends with You, and Xenoblade X are all good examples.

Also I hate to admit it, but I've always loved Sonic butt rock too.

 

[Aegis Renfro]

We went this far without Buck Bumble...

 

[Sauronych]

Basically, anything by Darren Korb.

 

[Weiss]

 

[mclem]

Could easily have been Python at their peak.


Also:

 

[QisTopTier]

Probably gonna be this whole game once it's out tbh

 

[Damn Silly]

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Ah, the best Bond theme.

There are probably hundreds I could pick, but instead of clogging up the thread, I opted for Rivers In The Desert. I'm not the biggest fan of Persona 5, but boy that track absolutely fuckin' slaps.

 

[Psamtik]

 

[QisTopTier]

Ah, the best Bond theme.

There are probably hundreds I could pick, but instead of clogging up the thread, I opted for Rivers In The Desert. I'm not the biggest fan of Persona 5, but boy that track absolutely fuckin' slaps.

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I loved when it came on in game, speaking of Persona I've always loved Mass Destruction

 

[My Cow Phelps]

The ending theme of Chrono Cross.

 

[mclem]

Oh, I also have to express my deep and abiding love for the *entire* Sonic R soundtrack.



And, for that matter, the entire Metropolis Street Racer soundtrack.




I put it to you that there is no better pure cheesy pop in videogames.

 

[Chivalry]

 

[Deleted member 61326]

COLORS WEAVE INTO A SPIRAL OF FLAME

DISTANT SPARKS CALL TO A PAST STILL UNNAMED

BEAR THIS TORCH AGAINST THE COLD OF THE NIGHT

SEARCH YOUR SOUL AND REAWAKEN THE UNDYING LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

 

[ElectronicOldMen]

 

[Birdie]

*insert XCX music here*



excuse while im stuck on a different planet

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This. This.

I love this song and it not being in Smash Ultimate is a TRAGEDY.

 

[_Aaron_]

 

[Firemind]

 

[mclem]

Oh, and I should also mention one of the best uses of a song with direct relationship to the storyline itself:



(From Alan Wake)

 

[MrS]

 

[Dyashen]

Killer Instinct and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Both launched in 2013 (with the exception of the TJ Combo theme which came out at a later date some time in 2014).

 

[OmegaNeon]

Would you count songs from Splatoon? They don't really have words, just squid sounds.
Otherwise, my thing is that Jump Up, Super Star! is overrated and Break Free (Lead The Way), the one that plays at the very end of SMO, is AMAZING!!

 

[OmegaNeon]

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YES
YES
THIS IS THE GOD PERSON

 

[purseowner]

Suara thread? Suara thread.






Bonus:

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Tons of good stuff in Brutal Legend, but what's more metal than the Metal God himself singing about leather rebels?

 

[Hailinel]

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Yoooooooo.

Also:

 

[Lacrimosis]

 

[Deleted member 40010]

 

[Onix555]

Every Xeno song

 

[Aleh]

Basically all the songs from the Xeno series are masterpieces, Small Two Of Pieces, Kokoro, Pain, Beyond the Sky, One Last You, Drifting Soul, and all the ones from Xenoblade X. Eyes on Me and Melodies of Life from Final Fantasy, too, and more recently I fell in love with The Edge of Dawn from Fire Emblem. There are so many good songs coming from RPGs!

 

[Kemono]

Metal Gear Solid 5

 

[falcondoc]

 

[FallenGrace]

Ah, the best Bond theme.

There are probably hundreds I could pick, but instead of clogging up the thread, I opted for Rivers In The Desert. I'm not the biggest fan of Persona 5, but boy that track absolutely fuckin' slaps.

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Lyn Inaizumi's voice is amazing. The way she holds this note at the end of this live Life Will Change performance is unreal.

 

[Voxy]

GIVE INTO TEMPTATIOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN

 

[Yossarian]

 

[Zyrox]

SOIYA!

 

[Iori Loco]

Been listening to this one a lot recently.

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Ye, Granblue has pretty good music. I remember the first time I heard Tiamat Omega's theme. It really makes you feel like you are fighting a greater being:

 

[Pyro]

FF: Crystal Chronicles is one of the most underrated FF in terms of music