# Your favorite adventure game soundtracks **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [May 24, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637 "2017-05-24T23:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Gffp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/gffp/32/12183_2.png) [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/81 "2017-05-28T01:32:27Z")
Yes. When it comes to addressing a worldwide audience, it’s more the typical association, than the real thing. In Monkey Island reggae works really well, because the original games are a depiction of a fabled piracy era, mixed with many elements of modernity. It’s an imaginery of the place, instead of the real place depicted with historical precision. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/82 "2017-05-28T01:42:42Z")
It´s a bit like the current trend of stereotyping 1980s movie scores. While a good deal of movies actually had your synth scores by Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Brad Fidel, John Carpenter, Giorgio Moroder, Harold Faltermeyer etc really the majority of (especially genre movies) is still classically orchestral. But the synthesizers feel more distinctive to a modern audience to that particular era. ---
**Author:** ![Gffp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/gffp/32/12183_2.png) [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/83 "2017-05-28T02:06:00Z")
Yes, that’s an interesting matter. If we want to find a difference, I’d say that in the case of stereotypes such Nepal music in Zak and 1980s movie scores, there’s something that really existed and that is depicted as more important than it was (the use of synthesizers), or that belongs in the same period but in a near region (indian musical instruments in supposed nepali music). In the case of Monkey Island soundtrack, it’s more than this, it’s a construction of a fabled setting with elements that go beyond the time and space to fit a modern, emotional and fabled idea of what is characteristic of that zone, no matter if it’s from a totally different period. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/84 "2017-05-28T02:14:55Z")
There might be a big difference between geographical/cultural errors and anochronisms. You can´t really feel anachronsisms (especially in cases when all involved are long dead) but geographical and cultural errors can be more tangible to those concerned. But you know, I´m really used to not minding that stuff. I´m from germany but I can really enjoy the part in European Vacation where they are in germany even though it´s actually set in a part of austria that is much closer to italy than to germany. ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/85 "2017-05-28T08:24:10Z")
This one will stick in my mind forever. Please, pardon me if it’s not an adventure. But I think it’s remarkable anyway. I purposely decided to avoid to put an mp3 of this on my car’s ipod… it pushes you to speed up. ---
**Author:** ![MFaross](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/mfaross/32/151_2.png) [@MFaross](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/MFaross)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/86 "2017-05-28T10:34:31Z")
Yep. Last ninja still one of the best. Crazy what sound could be achieved in a c64. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/87 "2017-05-28T11:13:09Z")
Monkey Island Theme on Eight Floppy Drives: ---
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/88 "2017-05-29T22:55:20Z")
About pirates, the whole pirate culture that most people believe is accurate was actually created by scratch by Stevenson in “[Treasure Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island)” and reinforced by movies and other works (including Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride) that were inspired by Stevenson’s book. As you said, reggae rhythms in Monkey Island soundtrack have been chosen because people now correlate this genre of music with the Caribbean area, but even if Monkey Island had “Fifteen Men on the Dead Man’s Chest” in the soundtrack, that would have been another choice unrelated to real history. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/89 "2017-05-29T23:01:04Z")
It´s been really long time since I´ve seen “Master & Commander” but I seem to remember there was a scene where they play music on board, I think the era might be just about right and it´s not a downright pirate movie so maybe that kind of music would be close to the real thing? If there is such a thing as serious music culture in the carribean in colonial times at all. ---
**Author:** ![maritzac](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/maritzac/32/2220_2.png) [@maritzac](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/maritzac)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/90 "2017-05-29T23:16:03Z")
Probably scottish/irish sea shanties. ---
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/91 "2017-05-29T23:34:57Z")
I’ll share with you a video of “ **Safe In Arms** ”, another song from the soundtrack of [Gray Matter](http://store.steampowered.com/app/260570/Gray_Matter/), performed live by **Raleigh Holmes** and the **Scarlet Furies**. 🙂 A little bit of **adventure game history and context** : this song has been composed by Robert Holmes, Raleigh’s father and husband of adventure game sensation [Jane Jensen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jensen). 🙂 (I wonder whether @RonGilbert ever interacted with her) Robert was the composer of the soundtrack of [Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Knight:_Sins_of_the_Fathers) and its sequels. [Full Gray Matter soundtrack on iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gray-matter-original-soundtrack-by-jane-jensen/id398598822). ---
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/92 "2017-05-30T22:45:28Z")
I have remembered a song that is really a work of genius. I know it very well _not_ because I played the adventure game it comes from but because I’ve always been a Monty Python fan and I have discovered it a long time ago searching for songs written by Eric Idle. Here it is: Song title: **That’s Death** Game: **Discworld II** Author: **Eric Idle** * * * > **Click here to show the full lyrics** > > There’s a place you’re always welcome > That’s as nice as it can be > Everyone can get in > ’Cause it’s absolutely free! > > That’s death > No need to take a breath > Just lie around all day > With not a single bill to pay > Hooray! > > That’s death > No more sicknesses or flu > If you’ve lived beyond your means > You can die beyond them to > Boo hoo! > > Well the greatest and the finest > Have already died > Why not simply join them > On the other side? > > That’s death > Say farewell to all your bills > Rip up all your wills > And pop your final pills > Amen! > > That’s death > It’s a tete-a-tete with fate > If you’re not feeling great > Then it’s the best way to lose weight, mate > > Nothing here to hurt you > No one’s here to nag > Come die with me > If your life’s a drag! > > That’s death > The wealthy and well-bred > All of them are here > And they’re all completely dead > > That’s death > No more headaches, no more pain > Of the millions who’ve died > No one came back to complain! > > You can’t take it with you > You can’t keep what you’ve got > So why not just lie back > And simply rot? > Just simply rot > It’s so cool it’s hot > > That’s death! ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/93 "2017-05-30T22:50:22Z")
Nice! Has a clear “Galaxy Song” vibe to it! ---
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/94 "2017-05-30T23:20:02Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Master & Commander I’ve not seen this movie and I’m not an expert about which music was actually popular among pirates, but I know for sure that classic songs like “Fifteen Men…” have been definitely created by Stevenson. Some real “sea shanties” can be found in this website: > **[Pirate Music & Sea Shanties](https://www.thepirateking.com/music/shanty_lyrics.htm)** > > Sea Shantey Lyrics, History, and Pirate Performing Groups! ---
**Author:** ![asterothe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/asterothe/32/550_2.png) [@asterothe](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/asterothe)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/95 "2017-05-30T23:53:37Z")
Monkey Island theme (to be precise MI2 opening theme) by far! Michael Z. Land! I became deeply attached with MI music since the original came and I play them regularly in my car. Indy of course but it would be unfair to count the theme as a game soundtrack. Sierra’s Phantasmagoria had great theme too. My screen name comes from that song. ---
**Author:** ![asterothe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/asterothe/32/550_2.png) [@asterothe](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/asterothe)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/96 "2017-05-30T23:55:00Z")
> [@Ema](#): > > This one will stick in my mind forever. > > Please, pardon me if it’s not an adventure. But I think it’s remarkable anyway. > I purposely decided to avoid to put an mp3 of this on my car’s ipod… it pushes you to speed up. Interestingly race games had real good music. I loved Super Cars 2 theme so much! Lotus Esprit Turbo Challange was great too. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hAN1ole9WnU/maxresdefault.jpg "Amiga music: Super Cars II (menu - Dolby Headphone)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAN1ole9WnU) ---
**Author:** ![asterothe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/asterothe/32/550_2.png) [@asterothe](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/asterothe)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/97 "2017-05-31T00:23:45Z")
And how did I forget Cruise for a corpse. This opening theme is unforgettable to me: Generally speaking Delphine adventures ranked #2 for me after LucasFilm(Arts) ones. ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/98 "2017-05-31T08:40:18Z")
> [@asterothe](#): > > Cruise for a corpse. This opening theme is unforgettable to me Yeah, but speaking of Delphine games, the intro that I have watched countless times was the “_Out of this world_” (“_Another World_” in Europe) intro! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/G1EGP2EyWe0/hqdefault.jpg "Another World (Amiga Game Intro)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EGP2EyWe0) Maybe it’s a bit off topic, since it doesn’t have a remarkable soundtrack, but… it was a really thrilling intro, and deserved to be mentioned somehow 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/99 "2017-05-31T09:56:47Z")
I have greatly appreciated THE DIG soundtrack. Not only what you hear during the intro, but every soundtrack in the game. Michael Land touched my heart. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637/100 "2017-05-31T11:40:17Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > Maybe it’s a bit off topic, since it doesn’t have a remarkable soundtrack I wouldn´t say that. I think the soundtrack helped the mood of the game greatly. I replayed the anniversary edition on steam latly which has a difficulty setting I refer to as “humanly possible”. Good example of a game I´d love if it was a movie(because I just love the style), but damn playing it was no fun at all! > [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > I have greatly appreciated THE DIG soundtrack. Also a deeply atmospheric score! [Previous page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637.md?page=4) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/your-favorite-adventure-game-soundtracks/637.md?page=6)