As arguably one of the best made games of all time, Super Mario Galaxy must have one of the best video game soundtracks I’ve ever had the pleasure to hear. This particular song is a remix of an old school Super Mario 64 track, Bowser Star Reactor just pumps you up for the battle ahead. Tune in, enjoy.

Nintendo – Super Mario Galaxy – Bowser Star Reactor

I just recently completed Shadow of the Colossus, and I have to say, one of the worst demos I’ve ever played, one of the most epic games I’ve ever played. To give you an idea of how bad this demo was… I completed it, 3 times, trying desperately to like it (Huge fan of Ico here), but couldn’t get into it… luckily, my buddy Kristi had the full game and had me try it out. Amazing. Far from the best game I’ve played, but definitely one of the most immerse and epic. Here’s the key: The soundtrack! Here’s tune from one of the fights with the colossi. Epic, loud, orchestrated, you can’t do much better than this for boss music.

Try the game if you haven’t already! Its pretty damn good!

Sony Computer Entertainment – Shadow of the Colossus – The Opened Way ~ Battle With the Colossus

If you haven’t played Street Fighter 4 yet, go out and get to it. By far my favorite game in the series. One of the things that makes this game so badass is the soundtrack. Enjoy this double take today, with 2 songs! I’m sure I’ll be pulling more jems from this OST as time goes on, so stay tuned!

PS3 – Street Fighter 4 – Theme of Ryu

PS3 – Street Fighter 4 – VCN Stage

If you’ve been listening to the podcast, you know that I’m a huge fan of World of Goo. A great independent game for PC (Windows, OSX, Linux, no one gets left out!) and WiiWare. The game starts as a standard physics simulator, but then quickly tries to teach you something. The meaning of life? Who knows… MOM would. But it sure is tasty.

-The Musical Sign Painter

2D-Boy – PC – World of Goo – Brave Adventurers

If you like this, I’m sure you’ll like the full soundtrack! Amazingly enough, Kyle Gabler is giving this away for free!! You should pay him a visit or send him an email at ‘Kyle (at) kylegabler.com’. We’ve put the zip file here for your convenience, but its all thanks to this man! Its a rare occurrence that we can release an entire soundtrack without legal repercussions, so head over to his site and pay him a visit!

Kyle Gabler – World of Goo OST – (ZIP-85Mb)

Buy World of Goo Today! All your friends are doing it!

- The Entrepreneurial Sign Painter

Ok, this is one of my favorite Zelda song’s of all time. Its catchy, melodic, and salsa. Yes. Salsa. Its a wonderful example of a stereotypical desert theme and a completely batshit crazy example of a Zelda song. Its so god-damned different from the rest of the music in the entire series that it absolutely deserved a plug.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Gerudo Valley

Konami – Silent Hill – Tears Of…

I wrote a review for The World Ends With You a while back, and as you know, I loved it. One of my favorite parts about this game is how the music quickly goes from grating, offensive, and against the norm, to catchy, fun, and empowering. Here’s Shibuya, one of the most common tracks in the game. Enjoy! This particular track has an almost Jet Set Radio feel to it. Very scratchy, very awesome.

Square-Enix – The World Ends With You – Shibuya

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Anyway, without giving you the history lesson I could teach, Rush is a Canadian band that got famous with their single “Working Man,” made progressive rock history with By-Tor and the Snow Dog, and then sold a shit ton of albums, and now they’re in the rock and roll hall of fame (psyche).

If there is one Rush album that your favorite Rush fan doesn’t own, it’s Caress of Steel. It was supposed to be their big epic breakthrough with one 12 minute track about Lord o

f the Rings and one 20 minute track about a fountain.

Now I know that sounds good to the nerd in you, but did they really think the masses would catch onto this?

The first three songs are the potential singles. (Bastille Day, I Think I’m Going Bald, Lakeside Park) Bastille Day is in fact a solid song, with catchy punk/metal riffs laced all over its juicy pussy. Tasteless as it sounds, it is entirely true. The following two tracks are absolutely the two worst Rush songs of all time. I Think I’m Going Bald sounds like the lyrics were written by someone who wasn’t going bald, and Lakeside Park is as cheesy as it sounds.

If Caress of Steel is a woman, Bastille Day is a nice vagina, I Think I’m Going Bald is her ugly over sized pimple, Lakeside Park is her Butterface, The Necromancer is her perfect small boob, and The Fountain of Lamneth is her gigantic boob.

What a weird looking bitch.

The Necromancer is a great track that twists and turns through many angles, and overall creates a great sense of you hearing the story from some old traveler.

The Fountain of Lamneth is one of Rush’s best songs, despite many people trashing this entire album. It tells the story of a boy growing up all the way to his finding of the Fountain of Lamneth, and he realizes that the journey is really the important part of his life. It’s not what he has at the end of his life, but what he made with the time he was given. A section of this song is very experimental, and some noise musicians I believe have taken influence from it, considering this was released in 1975.

So go, give this a listen. Become not only a video game nerd, but a music nerd.

Just found this while browsing the interwebs. Doctor Octorok has just released an amazing Christmas album! His site is getting hammered right now, so we here at 72 decided (along with just about half the internet) to lend a hand and throw a mirror up here. Give this stuff a listen. Its made for the Christmas Nerd in you. 8-Bit Jesus is a classic NES-style take on the Christmas carols of old, and by God do they rock! Hit his site up and give him a comment or two!

Link to Doctor Octorok (And to the music)

This link to the music pack in case his server is loaded!

Again, total thanks to Doctor Octorok for this amazing set!

Damn! As if one remix by JigginJonT was enough! Here’s another to satisfy your F-Zero Remix cravings. A piano remix of Big Blue, one of the most recognizable songs from the F-Zero world. I’m a huge fan of piano music, but mix F-Zero and a piano and you’ve pretty much have an instant post from the Battletunes perspective.

Hit it up again:

OC Remix

JigginJonT

OC Remix – F-Zero – The Flood Plain