Your favorite music from Monkey Island
What is your favorite music from the Monkey Island series, and why? You can give your favorite from each game or out of all of them or both.
Sign in to comment in this discussion.
Comments
EDIT: The original rock version
Revenge: Governer Phatt's Theme, Stan's Theme, Mad Monkey, Largo's Theme
Curse: "A Pirate I Was Meant To Be"
Escape: Micro-Groggery
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine: Chicken Bazooka, Barbery Coast, Russian Theme
Screaming Narwhal: Intro Sequence, Screaming Narwhal (hand)
Spinner Cay: Spinner Cay, Coranado's Shack, Battle with Morgan, "Good" LeChuck's Theme
Leviathan: Bugeye's Theme, Morgan's Theme, Coranado Encounter
Trial and Execution: Club 41, Courtroom, Mo's Demise
Pirate God: Graveyard, Crossroads, LeChuck Battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN_MtRdryhc
I also really like the song on the ship to monkey Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVarzPcBJzs
I also love morgans theme Desinge theme A pirate I was ment to be ghost ship shuffle Voodoo ladys themes (especialy TMI version) and Stans Mi2 and versions after theme
Revenge: Largo's Theme, Captain Dread's theme, Guybrush getting captured, Stan's theme, Rum Roger's theme, the tunnels
Curse: Mocking the Voodoo Lady, the Barbery Coast, Captain Rottingham's theme, A Pirate I was Meant to be, The wreck of the Sea Cucumber, Blood Island, The Goodsoup Hotel themes (all of them), Stan's theme, The Undead lovers,
Escape: The Voodoo Lady's theme, the three SCUMM bar themes, Lucre island, Ozzie's theme, Jambalaya Island, the Knuttin Atoll themes, Stan's theme (It's best version), Admiral Casaba's theme, The first church of LeChuck... Orthodox
Tales: De Singe's theme, The swordfight, Roe Island, Hardtack and Trenchfoot, human LeChuck's theme, De Cava's theme, Bugeye's theme, the courthouse, club 41 (especially the swordfight), psycho Elaine's theme, all of Chapter 5's music.
Also, this accordion version of The Barbery Coast is awesome beyond words.
Oh, and I almost forgot one: the Curse difficulty select music.
I think lua has something to do with the programming of Escape.
EDIT: Damn, beat me to it.
I put it in because it was what Guybrush says when he sees the bar. Of course, he may have said something totally different, so it could be a more heavily disguised reference than I'd thought
Secret: Melee Island, Ghost Ship Shuffle, Guybrush + Elaine
Revenge: Woodtick (One of my absolute favorites in the series!) Largo, Governor Phatt's Theme
Curse: All of it. This game has one of the most incredible soundtracks of all time, IMHO.
Escape: The new Scumm bar
Tales: DeSinge, Club 41, the end credits of ch. 4
The SCUMM Bar and LeChuck's theme are always fun to listen to as well
The thing with Special Edition, may just be me, but it feels like it's missing continuity, I don't know what it is that Land does, but when the music in Tales has that feeling too, it's just something about his style that was lost when the new team re-recorded the tracks!
SMI: Main theme (always loved how they worked the Lucasfilm logo into it), SCUMM Bar (especially the SE's), Guybrush and Elaine (on the docks), LeChuck's final theme, Melee overview, the Journey.
MI2: Main theme (again), Stan's theme, Woodtick, Voodoo Lady, LeChuck's voodoo doll theme, Phatt Island, Jail, Captain Kate + sinking, the Underground Tunnels, and Captain Dread's.
CMI: Main theme (again), Murray's Introduction, Puerto Pollo, Plunder Island, Barbery Coast, Fighting With Rottingham, the part where Van Helgen rocks out (it's so ridiculous it's hilarious), the Jazzy Voodoo Lady theme, Danjer Cove, LeChuck's stories, the Goodsoup Family Crypt, and, of course, "A Pirate I Was Meant to Be".
EMI: Prosthesis shop, the wood place, Knuttin Atoll, Melee Town, the SCUMM Bar theme.
Tales: The opening on the ship, Flotsam (especially near the Narwhal), DeSinge (lab + talking), Spinner Cay, Roe Island, the ship theme (when you're looking at the map), McGillicutty's theme (especially when he's on the ship), LeChuck's happy theme, the part where Morgan has a sword up on Winslow's throat, Morgan's sad theme, manatee talking, all of DeCava's, the manatee's mouth, reviving Morgan, the part where the mutineers chase you (it's appropriately wacky), interrogating the mutineers, Flotsam at night, the part where DeSinge says "Oh Sreepwood, you have no idea of the value of that which courses through your body", the jungle at night, the end of chapter four, the swordfight area in the land of the dead, the thief area, the crossroads, the final battle, especially when Guybrush throws his shred of life into the portal (the build-up in the music is incredible), and the best of them all, the "ship at sea"/"ship at dock slow"/"ship at dock fast" themes (they were used in the Season trailer).
Is that like waxing the men of low moral fiber's peg leg?
In LeChuck's Revenge i love EVERY theme. I've in my heart woodtick (inside Wally's house) and Phatt Island's Jail. But i really lova all of it, without distinction.
The best is in "Evil Theme", of LeChuck, Largo, and Underground Tunnel.
In Curse my favourite are Puerto pollo, Duel with Rottingham and Rollercoaster of Death. Of course "A pirate i was meant to be".
In EFMI i hate almost themes, with exception to Scumm Bar.
In Tales i love the first Lechuck Theme, and all Themes on Rise of Pirate God. I really Like the theme of De Singe.
Sure, if he's into that.
In Escape I like a lot, but I really like the first one where you are tied to the mast.
In ToMI the Opening theme, Guybrush vs. Hand, DaCava's Upset and Honeymoon Quiz theme and LeChuck vs. Guybrush (Final Battle) are my top favorites, but it's so hard to pick just a few, Michael Land have really done an amazing job in ToMI.
I gotta say I don't know how people can prefer the MI2 opening theme to all the others. It's slowed down, not very interesting, and a little dull. It's not bad, but it's not that good.
LCR - Largo's theme, underground tunnels
CMI - "A Pirate I was Meant to Be", Barbary Coast theme, all the music in the roller coaster (though I realise they are just remakes of LeChuck's theme!)
EMI - the Lua Bar (actually a remake of the bigfoot party tune from Hit The Road!)
TMI - Spinner Cay theme, human LeChuck, court room theme
In general: LeChuck's theme (especially SMI and CMI), Stan's theme (especially EMI) and the MI title music (especially LCR)
Another piece of music I just remembered that I really like is Kate Capsize's theme. Which incidentally is yet another one that's recycled in CMI and TMI (don't know if it appears anywhere in EMI as well, but you get the idea).
Main Theme
LeChuck Theme
Voodoo Theme
Guybrush and Elaine Theme
The Scummbar Theme and Ghost Ship themes are great also.
HOWEVER, MI2 runs a very close second in the soundtrack department. My favorites from MI2 are Woodtick's theme, and the part of the crypt where you bring Rapp Scallion back to life (near the end of the MP3)
Although I really don't like EMI, I did like this song, the one where you're on the clifftop on Monkey Island hurling boulders, ie: Boulder Machinery.
The one song I really loved from ToMI was in Chapter 5--it was the song that played when you stepped into the jungle clearing with the dead seagull. Seriously, I go there, pause the game and just sit there listening to the music for heady lengths of time. Sadly, there's no MP3 of it yet that I can find.
Finally, let's see. . my favorite MI1 song is, typically, The Scumm Bar theme.
LCR - I can't easily pick a favorite from this game. It's my favorite video game soundtrack of all time, but I'll give standout mentions to the Diving theme, Woodtick, Captain Dread, Largo, Underground Tunnels, and the main theme.
CMI - The main theme which is also my favorite rendition of the theme song ever, A Pirate I was Meant to Be, Sea Cucumber, Falling off the Cliff, Rollercoaster of Death, and several others I can't think of off the top of my head.
EMI - None, really, since I haven't finished the game yet.
TMI - Crossroads, Human LeChuck, Diving, DeSinge, Flotsam, Club 41, and God LeChuck.
I really like the Rhyming song from CMI that Haggis and the crew sings also.
But honestly, all the music of games 1-3 and Tales is amazing. It is not easy to create catchy melodies, and yet there are so many here.
In MI1 I always had a soft spot for the Ghost Ship Shuffle, even though it was such a short loop, but the SE made it even better. By the way, what's with the MI1:SE soundtrack negativity in this thread? I know there was a lot of disagreement about the SE but I thought the brilliance of the soundtrack was at least something that the vast majority of people agreed on.
Anyway, MI3's soundtrack is great but doesn't have any particular standouts in my mind. I guess the music during the finale and the various voodoo lady interior/exterior musics count.
In MI4 I quite liked the the Palace of Prostheses and some of the Lucre Island stuff.
In Tales all of the Chapter 5 music is definitely my favourite.
Demetris