Nobuo Uematsu) from Final Fantasy VIII (1999) Mathew Dyason – YouTube creator, Game Score Fanfare & David Housden – Composer ( Thomas Was Alone, Volume, Q.U.B.E. Is that just because games are a more widely accepted cultural medium in Japan? Are Japanese developers and publishers more courageous in their music commissioning choices? Please do let us know your thoughts ( I’d love to be corrected on this, but it also appears that Japan is the only country where an original song from a game has charted significantly. (Please consider the four examples above so obviously brilliant that they don’t require further exposure below.) Interestingly, tellingly, the vast majority of picks involve MOJO - music of Japanese origin, or at least songs created for Japanese games. We can’t fix that here and now, but in an effort to highlight some truly stirring game songs, we asked our pool of friendly game music fanatics: What is your favourite vocal song from a game? And why should other VGM fans hold it close to their heart? Yes, there have been fantastic songs to emerge from games: Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu” from Civilization IV won a GRAMMY José González’s “ Far Away” (admittedly a licensed track) is widely cited as a wonderful moment from Red Dead Redemption Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive” from Portal is hilarious and Jessica Curry’s “The Light We Cast” from Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture recently got an airing in the Royal Albert Hall.īut, often, beloved game songs are only championed among a series’ fanbase, or within our lovely bubble of game music devotees - and not across the wider gaming community, or in popular culture.
As a culture, we don’t celebrate the songs written for video games to the same extent as happens - or at least used to happen - with cinema. Some things just go together: like “My Heart Will Go On” and sinking boats “Danger Zone” and sweaty fighter pilots and “Lose Yourself” and battle rapping.
Ever sing along to a video game song? Learn the lyrics to an emotive title theme? We asked a bunch of VGM connoisseurs about their favourite original vocal tracks from games.
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