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Does the Wii shop music count as a video game song?
Tetris Theme A.
This is one of the songs I hum to myself to get rid of more annoying earworms
There are better pieces of music in this thread, but this one is the strongest earworm.
OG Super Mario NES, World 1-1
Those first 6 notes of 1-2 tho...
What kind of overalls does Mario wear?
Denim denim denim🎵
For some reason the SMB2 theme song is stuck in my head all the time. Something about the jazziness of it.
megalovania is one of the badasses in my book
DuckTales (NES) - Moon Theme. The covers are also awesome.
Opening theme of Civ VI. It‘s Songno di Volare nade by Christopher Tin.
Baba Yetu is also great
This guy studies the old magicks
Minecraft by C418 lives rent free in my head. Sometimes i'll start humming it to myself and not even realize
How has no one mentioned the tetris theme? Dum dada dum dada dum dada dum dada dum di da da da
Lost woods.
Honestly anything from OoT, but Lost Woods, Kakariko Villiage, and Gerudo Valley in particular are ingrained into my gray matter.
The entire soundtrack from FTL is fantastic and catchy and full of ear worms.
It's an old one, but the Outrun soundtrack was proper catchy.
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:
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.
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.
Sonic two when sonic drowns.
A lot from Undertale. Personal favourite is Spider Dance.
Other than this, The Trumpet 4 is catchy as heck.
Mine Windbag Mine is also incredibly catchy as heck, Darren Korb is super talented.
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.
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Baba Yetu - Civ IV (+)
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Hyrule Castle - Breath Of The Wild (+)
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Lorule Castle - Link Between Worlds (*)
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One Final Effort - Halo 3 (*)
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Golem King - Moonlighter
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Song of the Ancients - Nier Series (*)
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Dragonborn - Skyrim
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Far Horizons - Skyrim (+)
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Dragon Roost Island - Wind Waker (*)
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Nate's Theme - Uncharted (*)
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Gusty Garden Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy (*)
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Korobeiniki - Tetris (+)
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Gerudo Valley - Ocarina of Time (+)
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Colgera Battle - Tears of the Kingdom
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This Song - The Witcher 3 (It's the song Aen Seidhe, but without vocals)
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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
As far as Pokemon goes, I've always been partial to the Team Galactic battle theme from DPPT. And though "catchy" doesn't quite do it justice, the night theme for Jubilife City, also in DPPT, is tremendous. Walking into that city for the first time at night was one of the defining moments of my video game life.
And the Shiver City theme from Paper Mario is unforgettable.
I don't think anything will ever beat Still Alive from Portal though.
Everything from Grim Fandango.
We All Lift Together from Warframe goes fucking hard.
The Stupendium made an Outer Worlds song called The Fine Print that also goes hard af for either setting imo.
I can never pick one, so here's a few:
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E1M1(Doom)
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Hell March(Red Alert)
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Character creation music in BG3
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Megalovania(Undertale)
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Coral Crown(Hades II)
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.
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
Literally anything from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Old RuneScape Soundtrack: Harmony
youtube.com/watch?v=JkR7zClEkAo
Suicide run, Mass Effect 2.
Iwatodai Dorm from Persona 3 Reload was the most recent one that really got stuck in my head, but it happens a lot for me. It’s not always video game music, but probably is a majority of the time.
The Driftveil City Theme from Pokemon B&W pops up in my mind quite frequently, I'd say its up there in the list for catchiest Pokemon tunes. Honorable mention for Cave Story's Main Theme (the wii version is clearly superior from all others and I will not accept any other opinions on the matter)
Not what you asked for, but my music taste was shaped massively by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series
It's cheating, but there was a track in need for speed carbon that was catchy as hell. Love me or hate me, by Lady Sovereign
Not technically video game music, but it's one of the few tracks in any video game that I went out of my way to find outside of a game.
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.
Digger (1980's). It used the Popcorn song and nothing beats the Popcorn song.
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