Donkey Kong Country (video game)/Awesome Music

The Donkey Kong Country series has some of the most awesome VG music ever written.

The cartoon has its own page. To name a few tracks from the games:

Donkey Kong Country

Gangplank Galleon
- And its remix Rattle Battle in the second game.
- The proper name of the Rattle Battle remix is Snakey Chantey, for those looking beyond Youtube.
Aquatic Ambience, a soothing, trance-like track that's perfect for just falling into slowly.
- It even has an awesome arranged version.
- And this Metal Cover turns it into a different form of awesome almost entirely.
Forest Frenzy!
Even the music at the level choosing screen is catchy!
DK Island Swing, the first level music.
- Also Mine Cart Madness, the ominous music for what is arguably the first game's Best Level Ever.
What about Ice Cave Chant?
Don't forget Fear Factory!
Treetop Town. Arguably, the GBA version is even better.....and then somebody mixed them together.
And of course, Life in the Mines.
Funky's Fugue
Bonus Room Blitz played in most of the Bonus Rooms.

Donkey Kong Country 2

Welcome to Crocodile Isle A spooky and threatening track that plays in the awesome Donkey Kong Country 2 as you enter the Kremlings island to rescue Donkey Kong.
- And the GB version of the above from Donkey Kong Land 2. Not quite subtle, but still pretty epic.
Stickerbrush Symphony, a trance-like soothing techno track that is often voted one of the best video game songs of all time.
- Of course, if you hate the Stickerbrush levels with a passion that borders on sociopathic obsession, then Stickerbrush Symphony is enough to send you into fits of rage at the memories of dying over 30 times. Others may find the music being the only thing keeping them from breaking their controllers and TVs on those stages due to how calm, mellow, and soothing the track is due to it playing on such difficult types of stages.
Mining Melancholy
Disco Train, and Funky the Main Monkey.
- Sadly, "Disco Train" is pretty much always drowned out in-game by the fireworks and rail screech effects in the levels where it's played, to the point that the kick-assery of the tune can only be appreciated via the OST.
  - Markus Machado does the impossible and makes Disco Train even more awesome.
  - As does OCRemix's "Serious Monkey Business" album.
Bayou Boogie deserves to be up here.
Or Jib Jig.
- OverClocked Remix was already mentioned, but Rare Respite can't go unmentioned.
The Boss theme from Donkey Kong Country 2 (Boss Bossonova) is damn epic, and really suits the mood when you've got things like lightning in the background of the boss battle. Listen to it here
Forest Interlude. Add in the wailing Ghost Ropes and you got a sad & epic song.
In a Snow-Bound Land. Arguably even better than its DKC counterpart.
Hot-head Bop.
Krook's March/Castle Theme. Epic castle music, and now used by a million and one ROM hacks and fan games!
Crocodile Cacophony, K. Rool's battle theme.
Flight of the Zinger. The name implies frenzy, but the song is all about winding you up with slow tension.
- The DKL2 "Wasp Hive" isn't nearly as subtle, but it's an awesome tune regardless.
Certainly one of the most epic tunes in the series is Lockjaw's Saga.
Donkey Kong Rescued one of the most underrated Donkey Kong Country songs ever.

Donkey Kong Country 3 - SNES Version

Rockface Rumble
- Someone got the idea of overlaying this song with "Mining Melancholy". The resulting epicness can be found here.
  - From the same guy, there's a mashup of Hot-Head Bop and Treetop Tumble.
Jungle Jitter, from DKC 3, isn't quite the classic Donkey Kong Country theme, but it's deliciously groovy in its own way.
Mill Fever, possibly the most jazzily mellow tune in the series since DKC 1's Treetop Rock - it helps that it's a down-low blues number.
Nuts and Bolts. It's DKC 3's factory theme, and it has an awesome guitar solo.
Also from DKC 3, Pokey Pipes.
Don't count out the Opening theme for DKC3, the second best opening in the series.
To be honest I'm one of those youngsters that didn't grow up with DKC (except the GBA remakes) but Stilt Village is just too friggin catchy.
Big Boss Blues is ominous and highly awesome.
Frosty Frolics is a really pretty and mysterious song that just perfectly fits snow levels. Too bad it was replaced by...... this.

Donkey Kong Country 3 - GBA Version

Say what you will about the DKC 3 GBA soundtrack, but its versions of Water World and Stilt Village (the former of which is an Aquatic Ambiance remix) are both splendid.
- Its versions of Mill Fever and Cascade Capers also equal, if not surpass, their SNES equivalents.
Listen to its version of Rockface Rumble. Dang, those drums are catchy.
Nuts and Bolts from this game is pretty catchy.
An awesome boss theme is the music of Arich and Kroctopus.

Donkey Kong Land

The Game Boy Gaiden Series, Donkey Kong Land, has some gorgeously good music to itself as well. Kremlantis from the first DKL game is a terrific track even in cheesy GB 8-bit.
Big Ape City has one of the catchiest 8-bit basslines of all time.
Blimp On! Blimp Off!
There's also the rockin' Monkey Mountain theme, which goes high and low and all over. Hum it with me now! Dah dah dahdahdah, deerrr ner ner ner...
The 8-bit remix of 3's "Enchanted Riverbank." It puts more emphasis on the melody, and really lets it shine through.
The chiptune version of Lockjaw's Saga somehow manages to sound as epic as the SNES version.
The Boss music is pure, gratuitous awesome. Think of all the rock bands which just can't approach this kind of catchy.
The Donkey Kong Land 2 version of Donkey Kong Rescued arguably surpasses its 16-bit counterpart.

Donkey Kong 64

Even if Grant Kirkhope composed the music in place of David Wise, Donkey Kong 64 had some phenomenal music, probably some of the best the N64 ever had such as:
- Fungi Forest
- Gloomy Galleon
- Frantic Factory (especially that wind up!)
  - Also, the Boss Remix version that plays when you fight Mad Jack. Especially that laugh!
  - Here! Listen to it! Now!!
- Crystal Caverns
  - And bah golly it's BOSS REMIX!
- Jungle Japes.
  - Trivia: "Jungle Japes" as a title has by and large supplanted "DK Island Swing" as the title of the song. This version of the music is especially fun due to the song having layers of Banjo-Kazooie awesome.
  - The Boss Remix belongs to one Army Dillo, who was also the Crystal Caverns boss after some cybernetic enhancement.
- The DK Rap is So Bad that it has to be put on this page.

Donkey Konga

The Donkey Kong-A-Go-Go from the second game. So funky!

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Even though Kenji Yamamoto of the Metroid Prime series is the new composer and there are mostly remixes, that doesn't make the music any less awesome. One such theme is Mine Menace/The Rocket-Barrel stages.
Another such remix... Jungle Hijinx.
- Here is the theme of King Of Cling, it's an AWESOME remix of the second half of the DK Island Swing.
Palm Tree Groove, a.k.a. The stages that make DK and Diddy look like they stepped into the world of The Rub Rabbits. Smooth jazz, baby.
- Here is the version that is played in the volcano.
Let's add an original song: Feather Fiend, the 7th boss.
Another original tune from one of the volcano stages: Bobbing Basalt.
One of the best remixes for Fear Factory. And the surprisingly catchy Music Madness stage too?
For some more remixes of older DKC songs, we have Northern Hemisphere, Forest Frenzy, Treetop Rock, Voices of the Temple, and most of all, Life in the Mines!
What about Tidal Terror? (which is another remix of Northern Hemispheres) You can really hear the influence of Metroid Prime here.
Although each and every mine cart stage contains its own unique cover of "Mine Cart Madness" from the original DKC, "Rickety Rails" is the only one to feature an entirely new arrangement of the piece. And IT. IS. AWESOME.
The remix of "Aquatic Ambiance". So soothing.
The final boss theme, which sounds a lot like the Bryyo music from Metroid Prime 3.
The World Map remixed "Simian Segue" every time it could: Variable Mix at its best.
Another original song: Mast Blast.
Yet another original song: Trophy.

Remixes

Overclocked Remix. That is all.
A remix by Panmandan that fuses both versions of Mill Fever into one extremely chill package. The synth in the GBA version perfectly accentuates the bass of the original.
- And another that fuses both version of Treetop Rock. That percussion.
Some guy mixed together "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins with some DKC2 tunes, mostly Bayou Boogie (since its drums sound very similar to "In the Air Tonight"). The result is pretty impressive.

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