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The Community Jukebox is two days early this week and that’s weird. Hit the jump to find out why.
I realized that having the Jukebox on Wednesdays wasn’t going to work for me anymore.
I didn’t realize it when I started the Jukebox four weeks ago, but since school started, on Wednesdays, I’ll either be at work or at school from 11:00 AM EST to 12:00 AM EST.
So rather than wait five days until next Monday, I’m bringing you folks the bleeps and bloops you’ve been craving two days early.
Anyway, back to the show.
For all you newcomers, here’s how it is. Even though I’ve done a Meet the Mob, there is something important you should know about me.
For some reason, over the years, my mind has acted as a sort of a Roledex for great videogame ditties. (For all you youngsters out there, a Rolodex is an archaic device that people used to keep important contact information on. I guess it’s sort of like an abacus at this point.)
Because of this, every Monday I will be posting fifteen well-known and not-so-well-known videogame songs.
There’s a catch however, or as famed infomercial Ron Popeil would say, “But wait! There’s more!”
I will not be providing all of the songs; I’ll provide only ten. The rest will be suggested – hopefully songs I’ve never heard – and out of all of the suggestions, I will choose five to round out the fifteen.
Ultimately, I would like enough suggestions to switch over to five or even one song donated by myself, thus truly making it the Community Jukebox.
It’s important to note that all submissions will be credited to the community members who provided them.
The only guidelines are that any song chosen must be from a non-music game, or from a music game with original content. Licensed songs are also OK, but they must be from something other than a music game.
This means that Fallout and Grand Theft Auto songs are fair game, whereas Guitar Hero and Rock Band songs aren’t. If licensed songs become too prolific, however, I may stop taking them as submissions.
I hope this guidelines aren’t to strict, but the entertainment is free. As Ron Popeil would say, “Now how much would you pay?!”
Also, to note, I will try my hardest to find the original names of every song, yours or mine, but if I can’t, I will give it a name, and mark it with an asterisk. In addition, all songs are set to open in a new tab, so feel free to click away and have them play in the background as you surf Bitmob or get some work done.
Songs appear in no particular order whatsoever, save that community submissions will be segmented from my choices and shown last.
Each week, I will also be choosing my favorite submission, The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week. The winner will receive exactly nothing, except being last song with this beside their entry: ++good.
As a small guideline, if you’d like to win the The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week, try to pick something obscure or, at the very least, recent. We all know titles like Mega Man and Final Fantasy had great music in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, and I will be featuring songs like these every week (that’s my bread and butter).
But, in the interest of keeping the Jukebox new and surprising, if you can come up with a great song that I’ve forgotten, or, better yet, never heard, you’ll have a leg up on the competition. Just keep in mind what I said at the top, and if you’ve read my Meet the Mob, the size of my game case.
Either way, feel free to submit whatever you like. Please. I can’t reinforce enough that all submissions are welcome.
As an added bonus, I will also try to add an immediate comment about the awesomeness of the winner commenter’s song and why everyone else should pay special attention to it. This will be an in-joke for those who keep up.
Most importantly, since I hope to keep doing this for awhile, only one submission response per person per post. That way I’ll have less to parse, and you folks will be able to submit for an extended period of time. If you sumbit multiple requests, I will not listen to any of them.
Again, only one submission response per person per post.
Anyway, onto the show.
There are two ways to listen:
Method 1: Pick and Choose
1. ‘Splosion Man – Everybody Love Doughnuts (This one goes to Brian Shirk for his awesome ‘Splosion Man review)
2. Legend of Mana – The Wind Sings of Journey
3. Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose – Space Opera
6. Gitaroo Man – Bee Jam Blues
7. Tekken Tag Tournament – Opening Theme
8. The Guardian Legend – Stage 1*
10. Katamari Damacy – Que Sera Sera
Community Jukebox
11. Chrono Trigger – To Far Away Times suggested by Brian Shirk
12. Dragon Quest VIII – Overture suggested by Lance Darnell
13. Chrono Trigger – Chrono Trigger suggested by Alex R. Cronk-Young
14. Final Fantasy VII – Electric de Chocobo suggested by Jason Wilson
15. Conker’s Bad Fur Day – Windy suggested by Evan Killham++good
Method 2: Let It Ride (click here to listen in a separate window)
~James D. The Sophist
P.S. Any feedback to the Let It Ride feature added in Jukebox #3 would be appreciated. It adds a bit of extra work to the Jukebox (about a half an hour). I just want to be sure that you guys are using it if I’m going to go to the extra trouble.
It is useful and it allows you guys to do other things while listening, or as Ron Popeil would say, “To Set it and forget it!!!”