True dat!

can we use songs from video games?

Throwing my hat in for the chance at Wasteland 2 with some nostalgic game music.

1) Bastion OST - Spikes on a rail
2) Frank Klepacki - Bigfoot
3) Frank Klepacki - Hell March
4) Mega man 2 - Intro
5) Diablo - Tristram
6) Gothic 3 - To battle
7) Street Fighter 2 - Guile's theme
8) Warcraft 2 - Track 2
9) The Ink Spots - Maybe
10) Starcraft - Terran 3

Compiling this list actually makes me want to install some of the RTS games mentioned above...

Thanks for the chance akhliber. +1

Songs from video games are fine.

*I'll be catching up on more of your posts today while I rest and do a bit of house cleaning. Thanks again for the entries so far, and I hope you all enjoy your week! :)

I'm in for a $5.99 game! Here's my mix: Canadiana - 10 great songs by Canadian artists. It's a little more mellow than I originally anticipated, but I started dragging and dropping songs, and it is what it is. It's not necesarily the greatest hit(s) by any of these artists, but they are all great songs nonetheless.

1.) The Watchmen - Middle East

2.) The Tragically Hip - 38 Years Old

3.) Blue Rodeo - Lost Together

4.) Tea Party - Heaven Coming Down

5.) Our Lady Peace - Innocent

6.) Tom Cochrane and Red Rider - Big League

7.) Barenaked Ladies - Lover's in a Dangerous Time

8.) The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings

9.) The Watchmen - All Uncovered

10.) Spirit of the West - Far Too Canadian

I'm in for 5.99 thank you very much

here's my list:
1. Lenny Kravitz - Live
This one brings back memories of when I was young and played a lot of great games like Eye of the beholder 1 or ODT and more and I had Lenny Kravitz's album 5 on the background. Still one of my most favourite albums from a brilliant musician.

2. Cooly's hot box - Take me home tonight
This one brings back memories of when I was on sort of an internship as a gallery custodian and librarian and whatnot, it was like two rooms altogether lol :D, and I usually started my workday with this song

3. Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy
When I first played System Shock 1, I had this often in the background, since I couldn't run the game with any sound :D. I also played GTA 1 for the first time with this song, again no gamesound but I still had loads of fun.

4. George Michael - Spinning the wheel
When my sister had her first job at another town's hospital, we often drove up there to visit her. The drive was long, I was little and I often got carsick. The music helped distract me from feeling sick and it introduced me to one of the most brilliant vocalists ever.

5. Rage against the machine - Bombtrack
Like a lot of other people, I discovered the band via Matrix soundtrack lol :D. However it became one of the bands that felt like my kind of jam on multiple levels that it was able to stay in my playlist after I ditched my "angry puberty struck teenager" musical taste :D.

6. Smashing Pumpkins - Everlasting gaze
I never listened to Smashing pumpkins much. I played the album, with this as its opening song, when I was on my way to the first university exam I ever took, a rather small and not very difficult one thoiugh. But since I passed the exam, I played the album everytime I went to a university exam. Until my mp3 player got kinda broken lol :D.

7. Tori Amos - Spark
Actually the story is the same as with the previous one, except this time it was the song I played right when I left the classroom and walked home :D. And also with the exception of "not listening very much" part. I listened to a lot of Tori Amos stuff before :D.

8. David Bowie - New angels of promise
Once again a videogame connection. Omikron: the nomad soul, for which this album was made and where this album appeared prior to it's regular CD release, introduced me to the works of a musical genius of 20th century (and 21st as well). And Hours... is probably still my most favourite David Bowie record to this day :D.

9. Depeche Mode - Shake the disease
This band is with me since early childhood, along with other synthpop stuff. A timeless music that probably helped shape me into what I am today. I'm not saying it made me into a good person, although I'm always trying to be a good person, but I think it had a good influence on me. But maybe it just made me wear black lol :D.

10. Gackt - Kalmia
I was into a lot of japanese music at one point and it taught me to go with the music even if I didn't fully understand what is it all about. And it also made me look for what various other countries produce since japanese music has some interesting specifics to it that pop up even when the artist tries to adjust to the latest global pop music trends.
And for this song in particular, it's from an album that is curiously multilayered and it's very different than whatever the artist, one of Japan's most successful and well known artists, ever produced. It's always very interesting to come back to it after some time and discover some new subtle thing about its patterns and melodies etc. So aside from bringing up memories, it's also great to listen to.


Well, I hope you find my list at least a little bit interesting. It's not a list of the best songs, it's a list of some songs that are close to me in some way.

in for aarklash or a 6 buck game

and i call my playlist:

cyberpunk action mix

1. perfect dark ost carrington institute

2. deus ex ost unatco

3. perfect dark zero ost datacore demolition

4. crusader no regret ost theme

5. system shock 2 ost ops 2

6. deus ex ost synapse

7. unreal tournament ost the course

8. unreal tournament ost botpack #9

9. unreal tournament ost foregone destruction

10. mass effect 2 shadow broker dlc ost combat music

11. mass effect 2 overlord dlc ost combat music

12. quake 2 ost quad machine

13. perfect dark ost carrington institute defence

14. deus ex ost return to nyc

i call this playlist:

mil sim mix

1. ut99 mod infiltration theme
you can download the mod here

2. ghost recon ost action

3. ghost recon ost theme

4. mgs vr training ost main menu

5. ofp ost theme

6. mgs4 ost encounter

7. unreal tournament ost mission landing

8. ofp ost heroes

9. ofp ost slow blades

10. 7th liveless

Never heard of him before.
Also, the video is super strange, but it's one of the few I actually kinda like.

i call this playlist:

japanese epics mix

1. shining force 3 ost flowing river light of the moon

2. suikoden ost forgotten days

3. suikoden ost an old irish song

4. suikoden 3 ost glittering blade

5. valkyria chronicles ost street fight

6. valkyria chronicles ost battle

7. suikoden 2 ost battlefield without light

8. valkyria chronicles ost hard fight

9. shining force 3 ost flying dragon of the battlefield

10. star ocean 2 ost pyroxene

Please count me in for The Critter Chronicles! I love the idea for this giveaway akhliber. I enjoy hearing music from all over. Good luck to everyone.

Here is my list which I will call the Pick Me Up Mix:

Money for Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47Rhv_2MwQ

You Shook me All Night Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2qQmj0_h4

Born in the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ

Start me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmJxw65xkps

Copperhead Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk

Walk This Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4uESRCnv8

Pour Some Sugar On Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIB9Y4OFPs

You Really Got Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ffgqjcH40

I Want to be Sedated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLlLtSG7xe4

Long Cool Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP94PlEtsEQ

That's Not my Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c2OfAzDTI

Hello and thank you for the giveaway.
I would like to be in for Wasteland 2.

Here is my 80/90s list in no particular order. Actually I never really enjoyed this kind of music back then or rather ... I never actively listened to it (it just played everywhere), but it now gives me a huge throwback to my early childhood. Since english is not my first language I had absolutely no idea what all this songs were about, so it was just the sound of it.

1) Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own
I almost forgot that this song existed. When I was at elementary school age I heard it quite often and it sounded so unique. There is an earlier 80s version but I only knew the 1993 remix.
I didn't even know that this was a song from Freddie Mercury until a few months ago. My sister wanted to share her love for Queen and introduced me to some of their lesser known songs, including that one.

2) Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache
I really love her husky voice in this one... and for me it's a heartache too bearing the nostalgia while listening to it :P

3) Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
Speaking of female husky voices, this one comes to mind. The singing is kind of strange but haunting at the same time.

3.2) Erasure - Sometimes
This one reminds of accompaning my mom buying groceries and stuff. Sometimes we (my brother and I) got some candy or comic book and on our way back home we stopped at the park for a while.

4) Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Man, building that list starts to hurt, lol. This song reminds me of the time, when my brother, the neighbour's kid and I were playing outside all time, sharing WWF-cards/stickers, watching Ducktales etc. I needed 20 seconds in the song to recognize it.

5) Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw
I can't connect this song to a particular situation or something, it was just there and takes me back in time.

6) 4 Non Blondes - What's Up
This song defines a summer in italy in the 90s. My family, my uncle and my aunt went on a holiday together. It was one of the best holidays, especially because my uncle was/is a great guy. Sadly, they divorced a few years later and I never saw him again.

7) Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Ace of Base - I Saw The Sign
Most times, I only know one songs from 80s/90s-bands. But from the 90s Ace of Base there are a couple of songs which are a nostalgia-trip. So here are two AoB-songs which have the most impact on me.

8) Nena - Nur geträumt
I think songs from Nena were the only ones where I knew the singers name when I heard the songs. Maybe because I could understand the lyrics for once. This is one of the few german speaking musicians they played in the radio. (Falco was another one)

9) OMD - Walking on the Milky Way
In 3rd or 4th grade, we went on a school trip for one week. It was the first time being away from my family for so long and being a sensitive kid and all, a few days in and the homesickness was unbearable for me; I broke down and got physically sick with fever and so on. I was sent home with some other ill kids a day earlier, lol. Yeah, this song was there and reminds me of that, because it played in the school bus. In my brain, the song is also linked to the taste of the "milky way" chocolate bars, which I loved as a kid. ;)

10) The Police - Every Breath You Take
This feels like 8yo me being at home at a rainy sunday afternoon and playing Lego.

That's it, it was my pleasure. Hope you enjoy some of these. :)

edit: I realized, that I gave two songs the number 3. I just leave it in.

Born in the USA as a "pick me up" song? It's a great song, but a somewhat odd choice for that theme.

Have you heard the b-side remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jXqSKdrYcw
Not for everybody, and not her best b-side/remix by any stretch, but it's uh... dark, anyway.

As a bonus, it's her love song to the (original) Karate Kid.

I'll go in for the $5.99 for kicks, though with a big pool odds of winning aren't good (which may be a good thing).

After multiple attempts (spent a while on a Canada list and scrapped it at #8), I'm just going with this untitled general indie mix:

Flaming Lips The Gash
Bonobo & Andreya Triana - Wonder When
The Books - An Owl With Knees
Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do
St. Vincent - Regret
Kishi Bashi - Hahaha pt. 1
LCD Soundsystem - All I want
Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard
Rhye - The Fall
Sigur Ros - Hljomalind
Of Montreal - The Repudiated Immortals
Grimes - Symphonia IX

Might need some adjustment for pace, but bounces up and down slightly throughout but with a general downward slope.