Favorite Music Discussion Thread

[Raregold]

So it's recently come to my mind exactly how wonderful the music of the Pokemon video games are. I have been listening avidly myself to re-orchestrations made by HappyDragonite for a while now. My question for everyone here is what are some of your favorite pieces from the Pokemon series? This can include re-orchestrations by fans of Symphonic Evolutions, or even raw music from the games. Also how do these pieces effect you emotionally?

As for me some of the pieces I have come to love the most would have to be: Canalave City, Unwavering Emotions, and Eterna Forest. These pieces always help manage to calm me due to their slower paces.

 

[Pandora]

For now, i'm in love with unova route 10, sinnoh route 209, route 228 and hoenn route 111 and route 113.
I love darker or edgy songs, like Mt Pyre, N's castle, Viridian Forest, Laverre City, Santalune Forest, oreburgh cave, Black city, tin tower, abandoned ship, etc..


Pokemon has a lot of good music, is hard to list just one. Also, most battle themes are pure epicness.

 

[Raregold]

Cynthia's battle theme has to be one of the best in the series. How is Laverre City exactly edgy?

 

[Pandora]

Cynthia's battle theme has to be one of the best in the series. How is Laverre City exactly edgy?

i dont think laverre city is edgy, i was referring to other musics that i listed like black city for example.
But laverre cityt has a creepy fairytale feel,,,not sure if creepy is the right word anyway lol

 

[Raregold]

I shall go and take a listen to see if it is the right word.

 

[Esserise]

Oh, there are so, so many tracks that I love.

Those Who Inherit Eternity and Zinnia's battle theme are two of my absolute favorites. The latter may actually be my favorite out of any track, but I'm not committed to that just yet (only because there are so very many good ones of course).

I admit that I was a bit worried about how they would handle a number of Hoenn's themes in the remakes, but they pretty much nailed all the ones that I was most concerned about - Route 111, Route 113, Maxie/Archie's battle theme, Heavy Rain, and Drought. Overall, it's an extremely strong soundtrack upgrade - other tracks that I really like from it include Coexistence, Route 119, Route 120, Route All Of The Water Ones When You're Not Surfing, Ever Grande City, Lilycove City... the list goes on and on. Oh, and I quite like the theme that the introduced for Wally, and the subsequent transformation that it undergoes during the Victory Road battle. Also, the Primal Reversion battle theme is clever in how it reverts to the old GBA mix in certain sections.

For XY, I'm very fond of the Kalos Region theme, all three variations of the Friends theme, Santalune Forest, the Gym leader battle theme (although the Successor variation that plays during the Mega Evolution battle against Korrina is even better), Route 4, Prof. Sycamore's theme, Together with Shauna, Route 8 (a particular favorite), Glittering Cave/Route 14, Geosenge Town, Shalour City (right up there with Zinnia's battle theme), Coumarine City, Team Flare's battle theme (and Lysandre's variant), Laverre City, Dendemille Town, Anistar City, Kiloude City, Lysandre Labs (so jazzy!), An Eternal Prison/AZ's theme, Xerneas/Yveltal/Zygarde's battle theme, Route 18, Victory Road, the Pokémon League, the Elite Four's battle theme, Diantha's battle theme, and Looker's Sorrowful theme. Cyllage City and the Super Training themes are pretty fun too!

I don't honestly remember much of HGSS's soundtrack. But there are a couple of tunes that I remember liking. Dark Cave/Ice Path immediately comes to mind, and then follows the mixes of Ecruteak City of Cianwood City (although I still prefer the original on those ones). Sprout Tower is good, and the National Park... well, that one was somewhat surprising. It's definitely not what I was expecting, but it is nevertheless an interesting take, which I think might actually make me like it more. Route 38 and Route 42 are as good as ever (okay, not as good as the originals, but still solid), and the new Route 47 theme is very lovely. Route 26 is stunning as usual. Other good ones are - Vermilion City, Route 11 (then again, I love the Route 11 theme in all its forms, and the sample of it that they included in the Reshiram/Zekrom battle theme in BW was unexpected but made me very pleased), Viridian Forest, Lavender Town, the Kanto Gym Leader battle theme (although the FRLG mix is still my favorite by far), and the Credits theme. I really like the GSC version of the Victory Road theme too, but the HGSS version doesn't live up, in my opinion. The original Dragon's Den and Tin Tower themes are also amazing and superior to their remade counterparts.

From FRLG, I love: S.S. Anne, Blue's encounter theme, Champion Blue's battle theme, the Kanto Gym Leader theme (as mentioned), Route 11 (as mentioned), Viridian Forest, Lavender Town, Route 3, Team Rocket Hideout, Silph Co. (can't really stress this one enough), Sevii Islands 4-5 and 6-7 (I know these are actually Johto songs but I prefer how FRLG mixed them), the Bicycle theme, and Deoxys's battle theme (yes, it's technically part of the FRLG soundtrack). For the ones of these that exist in RBY, I think it can also be said that I love those versions as well. And, speaking of Yellow, Jessie & James have a terrific encounter theme.

I'm just going to make lists for DPP and BW/B2W2, because of the sheer number.

DPP:

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- Twinleaf Town
- Route 201
- Lake Acuity/Verity/Valor theme
- Prof. Rowan's theme
- Lucas/Dawn's theme
- Sandgem Town
- Jubilife City
- Oreburgh City
- Route 203
- Barry's encounter and battle themes
- Gym Leader battle theme
- Eterna Forest (that's a huge favorite)
- Bicycle theme
- Hearthome City
- Route 209
- Solaceon Town
- Canalave City
- Route 216
- Snowpoint City
- Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf's battle theme
- Team Galatic's HQ theme (especially brilliant)
- Cyrus's battle theme
- Mt. Coronet (another one I'm extremely fond of)
- Dialga/Palkia's battle theme
- Sunyshore City
- Route 225 (this one also rivals Zinnia's battle theme for me)
- Global Terminal theme (from Platinum)
- Looker's theme
- Distortion World
- Frontier Brain battle theme (yet another one of my top favorites in the series)

From BW/B2W2:

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- Route 1
- Dreamyard (big favorite)
- Team Plasma's battle theme (I prefer the original over the sequels' mix, but both are great)
- Terminal Gate theme (easily the best of them)
- Nacrene City
- Gym Leader battle theme
- Gym Leader's Last Pokémon (a stroke of brilliance)
- Skyarrow Bridge
- All five of the main Musical songs
- Gear Station (my favorite mix of the Battle Tower theme)
- Anville Town
- Both of N's battle themes from BW
- Driftveil City
- Chargestone Cave (especially as you get deeper and deeper - actually, that's something that I completely loved about these games, was the variable scoring on the music, like how some songs would drop in pitch as you got lower in the environment, and others would add instruments when you walked and that varied by season... it showed me that a lot of care was put into the details)
- Celestial Tower
- Cedric Juniper's theme
- Relic Castle
- Opelucid City (particularly in White Version)
- Route 10
- Victory Road (again, I absolutely love how it adds layers to the track as you pass through the Badge Gates)
- Pokémon League
- Elite Four battle theme
- N's Castle Bridge
- N's Castle
- Reshiram/Zekrom's battle theme
- Ghetsis's battle theme
- N's Farewell
- BW credits theme (you can probably tell how much I enjoyed the last part of these games)
- Game Sync
- Entralink
- "Someone Else's Entralink"
- Marvelous Bridge
- Route 12 (big favorite)
- Undella Town (Autumn/Winter/Spring)
- Cynthia's battle theme
- Alder's encounter and battle themes
- Abyssal Ruins (big favorite)
- Lacunosa Town
- Village Bridge
- Aspertia City
- Route 19
- Floccesy Town
- Hugh's encounter and battle themes
- Virbank City
- Castelia Gym
- Funfest Mission theme
- Nimbasa Gym
- Driftveil Gym
- PWT final battle theme
- Cheren's B2W2 encounter theme
- Lentimas Town
- Reversal Mountain (both versions, although I prefer White 2's)
- Frozen Oplelucid
- Marine Tube
- Humilau City
- Route 22
- Route 23
- Colress's battle theme
- Champion Iris's battle theme
- Black Tower interior theme
- White Treehollow interior theme
- B2W2 credits theme (yet another big favorite).

Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky has an excellent soundtrack as well, but as I only ever watched Marriland's EOS series and never played the game myself, I don't feel as though I am familiar enough with it to say which tracks are which. I just remember liking a lot of them.

 

[Eggseggseggseggs]

Cant' go wrong with the Mystery Dungeon games if you're looking for good music. Some of my favorites as far as songs that really pump me up are the Primal Dialga and Rayquaza themes. Other great themes are the regular VS Boss theme, Sky Tower, and Temporal Tower. Colosseum has some great battle themes too, like the Colosseum Semifinal Theme, Trainer Battle Theme, and Cipher Peon Theme.

Far as main series games I've played I really liked how the music in 4th and especially 5th gen sounded. Some stand out examples I can think of are the Gym Leader Theme and Cynthia's theme from D/P/Pt which sounded really suitably intense, and even more intense is Giratina and Arceus's themes, especially Arceus's which sounds like you're fighting something horribly powerful and dreaded, but also kind of alien, which makes sense since it is essentially a god. The Frontier Brain music sounds incredibly Peppy and fun but also adventurous and always makes me feel ready to do do anything.

And for the 5th gen, the champion theme for bw2 is also very peppy and fun and I love it. I also love Colress's theme especially the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1", but my absolute favorite is song in a main series game and maybe one of my faves period is To Each Future from Black and White. It sounds so much like an "amazing grand adventure" song and using it right at the end after the climax of b&w was perfect.

I remember playing late at night when I was supposed to be in bed cause it was a school night and beating Ghetsis's Hydregin with my favorite pokemon of the gen (Audino) after almost losing it, and then the ending made me feel so emotional and like I fought hard to get there and then to top it off that theme hits. it was awesome and I was so into it just head banging under my blankets. So yeah. I have a bit of an emotional attachment to it.

 

[GhostLucario]

I've always had a love/hate relationship with the games' music. For me, being forced to listen to the same old, tired tune for hundreds of hours is awful.
I also blame the techonological limitations on the terrible music from earlier games. As technology has progressed, also has the game's music. Nowadays I do have plenty of favorites

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RBY/FRLG
Route 14/15 especially the anime version. I get very excited and hyped for adventures whenever I hear it.
Gym leader battle
Lavender Town: I love everything that is dark, creepy and twisted. Like this song.
Champion theme

GSC/HGSS
I love these pieces of music so much. So many good memories...
Route 30/Route 34
Ice Path
the music that plays when Kimono Girls summon Lugia/Ho-Oh in HGSS. Beautiful.
Route 26/27: This song makes me tear up. I love it!

RSE/ORAS
The RSE versions were fine but ORAS really stepped up in the soundtrack department. Love almost every new theme introduced in ORAS,
Route 104/116
Route 110
Route 113: One of my favorites. Love the trumpets.
Route 120
Sky Pillar (ORAS version): I love church-like music, to this was a very nice surprise to me.
Wally's battle theme (ORAS) Amazing. I have no words
Zinnia's theme, in all of its variations. It's just too epic!
AZOTH theme: My absolute favorite of any pokemon game.

DPP
Gym leader battle.
Eterna Forest/Old Chateau So creepy!
Route 206
Route 209 This makes me feel nostalgic and I don't know why.
Route 210 very nice.
Distortion World: because it's dark and twisted like my soul

BW/BW2 I love the music in these games soooo much.
Gym leader battle. This is my favorite out of all gym battle themes. The sense of urgency is amazing!
N's theme
Openlucid City in White version.
Route 10 SSB Wii made me love this theme so much.
Victory Road
Entralink: This is one of my favorite themes and probably in my Top5
Black City
Alder's theme
To Each Future (BW ending theme): Another one of my favorites.
Castelia Gym: sooo awesome. I love that in BW2 each gym had its own music.
Lentimas Town: love the Spanish feel.
Strange House
Frozen Openlucid
Route 23

XY: this is (for me) the pinnacle of pokemon game music. I love almost every track in these games but I'll try to choose only my top faves
Kalos region theme
Sycamore theme: This sounds so French. For me, one of the best!
Dark skies
Shalour City
Scary House
Laverre City: I love this music
Route 15/16
An Eternal Prison (AZ's theme) makes me cry every single time!
Xerneas/Yveltal/Zygarde theme
Snowbelle City
Champion Diantha
Emma's thene: so sad!