Top 10 Best C64 Music (video)

[Nogitec]

They rly know how to do game music back in 80`s! These day`s game music is shit to compare these diamonds.

[TheJaatinen]

monty on the run 1 :D



[TheAnderman]

Nice list! Big fan of the ol' SID chip.

[Bookaswede]

Best one in 10th. place....hmmm...wierd

[tweakiepop]

Commando...when film based games were (often) great

[De19thKingJulion]

Outrun: that car has only two gears! what is it? a Powerglide?

[alperoz49]

none of them can beat Ocean Loader 4

[Max404s]

I really disagree with this Top 10. It seems to consist of American C64 games, when the British games were much better.

If you want to hear REALLY good C64 music from back in the day, check out the Uridium theme tune, and ANYTHING done by Rob Hubbard!!

[orensist]

@Max404s Dude? Monty's revenge is number 1 and One Man's Droid is in the list! both - Rob Hubbard's finest.

[Max404s]

@orensist Ah, okay, I am not familiar with those two games. I was thinking of the half dozen or so C64 games with music by Rob Hubbard that I had, like 'I, Ball' and 'Crazy Comets'.

Bubble Bobble was great too!

[archivesbc]

@Max404s Guys, Commando is also Hubbard's :) - in his lecture (it's somewhere in Youtube in 3 parts) he explains that it was one of the gigs he had to do and did it in just over a night and early morning he was ready for the presentation, and since he was the first at the office, he just hooked up seven c64s and had them blaring the score at top volume - man, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when they stepped in

[Max404s]

@archivesbc Ah, okay. It was over 25 years ago!

I actually saw Rob Hubbard at a Commodore User show in London, back in 1985, promoting 'Crazy Comets'. I also saw Julian Rignal from Zzap 64!! walking around with a girl.

[archivesbc]

@Max404s I was just getting my head around basic at that time :) was only 10

[Max404s]

@archivesbc So was I. It would have been before August, when I turned 11. I was with my dad, but when I was going to Amiga shows a couple of years after I went to with friends or my own.

[Max404s]

@archivesbc And Simon's BASIC, FTW! The cartridge added a lot of features, and I never even ran out of memory even though you only had 3KB to plat around with.

[enderleit]

All good music, but I fail to see how Last Ninja 2 is not #1. :D

[swinetastic]

Ocean Loader 3 is awesome!

[MPSecare]

put all this music over a hard beat and you have instant dubstep

[bazzjedimaster]

i like how in the commando's tune you can really feel how the Bionic Commando Rearmed remix of the song was inspired by it

[cyntaxgbr]

Omg I had that last game. Had no idea what it was called though

[gandolfoilmarrone]

Last ninja 2, what a game... i still play sometimes in ccs64 :D

[IdigN1]

I think the Monty on the Run theme was one of the best.

[datawraith3080]

no Arkanoid?? come on it is the BEST

[hamedma]

where is spy vs spy?

[hamedma]

omg Ocean, I miss it

[76MKIIDub16V]

I still love that music from Last Ninja !! woooo this beams me back ........

[gabba2k]

verrrrry best ZeeZixty-fFour-greetings @ you, my scenefellows ! :)

[TailsX97]

SID!

8bit madness

space harrier

[sttrife]

Now THIS is a list I can agree with!! Monty first, ocean loader second, two most brilliant songs for c64!

[markzilla6969]

commando and monty were my favourites, oh and crazy comets(if you dont fire the weapon!)

[whit1972]

Bubble Bobble - best game ever !

[benjie414]

how is it that c64 music is better than NES, when NES is twice as powerful?

[7c3c72602f7054696b]

@benjie414 the sid in the c64 is far superior.

it's "only" 3 channels plus a hacked "4th channel", but all 3 channels have access to a high pass/band pass/low pass filter and you have the choice of using the sawtooth/square(adjustable duty cycle)/triangle waveforms and white noise on all channels, while the nintendo is fixed. given that the c64 can easily place drums and bass in one channel and leave the other two for music/fx while the nintendo needs 3....that's the jist of it anyway.

[benjie414]

c64 music is so much better than NES.

[therealb3yond]

boulderdash !!

[CydonianTR]

The Last Ninja 1-2-3 musics should always be at the top of your list!

Also Myth soundtrack!

Both of these games were products of System 3 and it was the best game producer in C64 world during 1980s & 1990s!

[Simon0]

awesome vid.  but i did prefer the splash wave track for outrun.. (think the one in the vid is 'magical sound shower')

[TheRealDutchOwner]

Nintendo removed Giana Sister off the market, but they allow a remake on the DS?!

[GregHolden10]

All great, dude, but what about "Thing on a Spring"?

[JackTorranceReDruM]

commando kicked ass. Giana SIs also . Oh my god I ferel nostalgic. Loved those game.Even now playing games like Crysis or Dead space, I love these games. And it aint all bout th enostalgy. you reallyh have fun playing even now. 20 years later. OMG i sound nostalgic :)

[poobslag]

my favorite C64 artist is "jeroen tel", sad to see him not represented here! i think some of his best is "savage", "scout", and "rubicon", don't know if you've heard those tunes but they're golden!

[marcocap24]

i love outrun's musics!!

[byurefcezarc]

Firefly is the best, in terms of music, in my shy opinion. Great Giana Sisters is an obvious rip-off; the name says all.X3

[TheDendzer]

a bomb jack gdzie?

[FadingVitals]

i miss two of the greatest : Turrican and Iron Lord

[TheCommodore64Player]

@FadingVitals Turrican will be in the next C64 music mix I'll make ;-)

[ZwiekszoneRyzyko]

U didn't pick up grenades :>

[TheDane2006]

Yehaa finally one i can agree with a bit, it a good choice of best soundtrack

[andyandyband]

Thank You Creator!

my Dad

[zbret]

I always loved the music when playing "Suicide Express". I tried so hard to stay alive just to hear the midpoint and end of the song (it repeats if you do).

[RabidRaccoonUK]

I always used to get Bubble Bobble stuck in my head as a kid, now it's going to happen all over again!

[hellodarkness84]

I just found 2 C64 VSTs on my FL Studio Program and I was really happy with the sound so that is what brought me here. I've never played a C64, but I'm hoping to find one someday that works for my retro game collection. Awesome video!!

[Dehmlack]

Bubble Bobble ? Not really, sounds like a toy for a littlone...

!!! U forgot Shadowfire and Enigma-Force, great games, best music!!!

[Dehmlack]

Bubble Bobble ? Not really, sounds like a toy for a littlone...

[teatromanka]

Bubble bubble :)))))))))))))))))

[Oliontti]

Giana sisters..it's the one for me also..Bobble bobble omg!!! Outrun...and that batman, i remember u could change the music with space while in start.

I still have the C64 fullu functional <3

[limzog9]

Any one in England want a c 64 ?. London .

[limzog9]

Any one in England want a c 64 ?.

[Guthan94]

where i can get music like this but made in xxi century, i dont know how its called now;p

[haci2x]

3. Jeep commnd

2. Commando

1. Usagi Yojimbo

:D

[bollwerk69]

No Martin Galway in this Top Ten - are you crazy???

[AndreasJanke]

Haha... Great stuff :D

[viciouswhips]

wait a minute, Last Ninja 2 is #10 ??

But hold on where the hell is Last Ninja 1 ???????????

You off your trolley? I will accept that you never heard of it before or you have no C64 taste. Ben Daglish + Anthony Lees MUST be in this list somewhere......

[brayozz]

good old times, ehh

[Provokator1980]

No international karate? laaame :P

[scottjacko87]

The last one sounds heaps like Matt Furniss eventhough its not

[HardWarUK]

5 kiddie widdies didn't like this because their little iiddie dillie tune was not in the list!

[HardWarUK]

I worked for Firebird for a bit and loved their games!

[ruckmens]

dude you forgot the menu music to grand prix cuircut...

[Jonasboll]

Great video but delta force should have been in it :)

[TheCommodore64Player]

@Jonasboll Check out my video 10 Great C64 tunes for Delta ;-)

[YesHellFrozeOver]

@Jonasboll

Great. But what about Knucklebusters? Hubbards Finest....

[Acid1K05]

cool

[DRMusicRoom]

I like Monty the best, sounds like music for a game that is so serious you'll never forget it.

[ProgrammedForDamage]

I could have sworn Firely and Rastan had the same load music. Mind you my memory is not what it used to be.

[evermaxa]

Yesss...Last Ninja 2 da best !!!

[BigALittleARon]

Did the ninja just wink at me? 0:22

[hewey999]

one man & his droid sounds veery JM Jarre (in a good way!)

[HardWarUK]

You don't know, back in the day, how many Mom and Pop's came into our C64 store when Bubble Bobble music was playing! We sold a few C64's of the back of the cuteness of it, and explaining how there were so many non-violent games for the machine! :)

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Why does the theme for A Man and His Droid sound like it'd fit right into a fast-paced survival horror game?

[AtlasRedux]

Giana Sister .... probably worlds most played game removed from stores xD

[AldebaranProspekt]

These musics are epic, i think about them while i run in the sunset into the infinity.

[telemetry9]

The C64 was a bit of a musical genius. It could do 8 bit beeps to fabulous octave warps and oscillations. I wish they had made an updated c64 with more colour and more sound channels. Two sid chips and a slightly faster process ( but still 8 bit).l

[AtlasRedux]

@telemetry9

Yeah, the SID chip was friggin' awesome, and I wish later consoles ( like the first Nintendo 8-bit ) would have adapted it!

[8bitfanaat]

Funny you have Ocean Loader on nr 2: one of my most favourite tune ever on c64. Many consider other loaders to be great but I like this one best! Nice vid!

[keesvbb]

That Commando tune.... brings back memories....wow!!

[Boscoloantonio]

Firefly intro = Combat School intro!!!

[mattgfc1893]

one man and his droid is a classic first of all u must get to top then u down a tube then u got got to match the droid up in correct order love it

[realisticHomeboy]

What's up with some of the video being from zx spectrum though?

[HardWarUK]

@realisticHomeboy The very early C64 games didn't look much. It took a year or so for programmers to get the hang of it....

[realisticHomeboy]

@HardWarUK And?

[tiberianfiend]

Wow, Giana Sisters is pretty damn shameless.

[SVL0RM00N]

WTF? Where's Fairlight?

[GuitarHeroTerminator]

Bubble Bubble FTW!

[tlusta74]

How about MYTH - History In The Making from System 3. Anyhow, the best C-64 game makers company at that time...Unforgetable music, gameplays and what is most important - the games itself...I love System 3!

[x2029]

Great tunes, liked most of them. Monty on the run is also my choice for #1 from this set. Lets see the other video>>

[calculus400]

Some awesome tunes here. Which level in Last Ninja 2 is that tune from?

[guydeus]

I'll never forget Druid II intro music... and Friday 13th...

[stomekz]

greeeeeat tunes

[ken00kenny]

c64 forever. amen to that. The ocean loader (any incarnation for that matter; they're all good) still chills me to the bone.

[TempestSower]

You have missed one of greatest music themes from c64: Snare

/watch?v=pydnH0tJuE8

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[MedievalBlackRaven]

omg I'm only 15 and I have even played Bubble Bobble when I was young :D BEST GAME EVER!

[xoen6]

...to be kid, again...my only dream.

[CamoKiid]

lol at giana sisters being a near enough exact game design as mario, except it has a better soundtrack.

[amispensseli]

looks like you have never played last ninja XD

[xoen6]

@2010mustang2 lol @ that comment.

but nvmd...

[merlin07756]

Great! Thanks for sharing!

[willblock]

This was one of all my all time faves on c64, pure fun.

[damirzs]

Supremacy and Crime Time :D

[davestewartlondon]

I'm pretty sure that the one man and his droid music was was also used in Zoids, no?

[tsuihark]

The only reason the Outrun music is here because the originals were great. The conversion is really, really awful :(

[DeLe1000]

Super Cycle?. :(

[gombabacsi]

sadly, but Command music is not Hubbard work

but Hubbard the best of course :) and Tim Follin... and etc :)

[TheCommodore64Player]

@gombabacsi Well, according to Wikipedia's Commando and Rob Hubbard page it was compoased by him and there is even a little story about how he wrote the music over there. Perhaps he did not write music for the arcade version, but he did the music for the C64 conversion. There seems to be different composer for every arcade conversion.

[HenningBeermann]

hey as you might see in the scores of commando featured in this video hubbard wrote the music ;)

[HenningBeermann]

hey as you might see in the scores of commando featured in this video hubbard wrote the music ;)

[TheParaz]

@gombabacsi The title screen of Commando says Music : Rob Hubbard, could it be more obvious than that? =D

[thearchiveable]

@gombabacsi

Commando tune is 100% by hubbard!

[gombabacsi]

one man and his droid: one of the best music ever!

[heikkint]

Surprised that Caped Crusader was included. It's music, all of them, seems unappreciated gems. Theese are technicaly good, not just catchy like bubble bobble and one man and his droid. catchy is not equal to good imho.

[maxhall1]

Top watch!

[KorsakowSyndrom]

Einfach unglaublich was mit dem 64er damals musikalisch möglich war. Und man kann meines erachtens Jean Michel Jarre ( bei allem Respekt ) und die anderen Synthie Künstler nicht in einem Atemzug mit den Musikmacheren des C64 nennen, denn die Synthie Künstler hatten Steuereinheiten wie Keyboards oder andere mit dem Rechner verbundene Eingabegeräte mit dennen sie all ihren Kram einspielen konnten (Einige hatten auch mit Bandmaschinen gearbeitet).

[KorsakowSyndrom]

@KorsakowSyndrom.. Und wer jemals mit dem 64er wirklich versucht hat mal Musik zumachen weiß das das Mühsame stundenlange Schreibarbeit war. Dagegen wirken die Disco-Synthie Leutchen von heute (Fruity Loop, Rebirth, Cubase, Notator, u.v.a.) wie verwöhnte Kiddies. Die müssten genauso wie die 64er Musiker Musik machen. Dann würde es garantiert weniger Computer-Synthie Musiker geben. Was gilt die Wette? Denn soviel Mühe konnten sich nur die wahnsinnigen Programierer der alten Computer machen.

[spermapieru]

Hehe, I can't believe you said the controls were good in last ninja(s). I thought they were terrible, every riverhopping etc. kind of thing led to imminent death because the controls were that terrible :)

[starscreamer76]

& the theme for Transfomers on the c64 was awsome too.

[starscreamer76]

I remember the game loading theme for Giana sisters on c64 was much better than the in game theme...cant seem to find it though.

[bitrille]

great tunes !!

[rubensxzxz]

la de ghosts n goublins esta buena

[FeNsTa]

seem to remember the "one man and his droid" tune but really dont remember the game..... stupid brain......

[raven012000]

Cool! One thing I have to say about the C= 64 is that the SID6581 was ahead of its time in computer music. :-)

[TheOldschool81]

Lol Wut? ----Last ninja should be number one !

[j8mm3r]

I can live without Treasure Island Dizzy, but no Wizball?? Shame on you!

[mattsprinter]

Outrun should have had more drums added.

[RyanSEW666]

Manic Miner !!

[12354blahbla]

1:35 damn that game looks gay.

[Zenon66]

Mostly old time games were impossible - or almost - to reach their end.

[Hunwulf76]

Commando

<3

Best Game Music ever!

[Phacioco89]

Yeah!

[Awesomo4003]

I liked the music of the first Last Ninja more.

[dockthoor]

As for me, Giana Sisters theme I consider the best. Such a classic.

[wdowa94]

I LOVE COMMODORE

[r8qt7]

where is impossamole

[iLoveMickie]

Could you please put out just the Bubble Bobble In Game Theme?

[transfixedtornado]

1 man droid is totally Jean Michael Jarre Equinoxe (pt.4&pt.5)-esque. :)

[chrispsk8]

Turbo Charge was full of awsome tunes level 2 was the best.

[critanime]

The music from The Last V8 always gets me rocking

[SickmanDamian666]

The SID chip was the best! I got some as ringtones

[critanime]

@SickmanDamian666 I have a collection of SID music on my computer in their original format. I then use something called SIDPLAY to play them. I currently have the ocean loader as my ringtone.

[SickmanDamian666]

The only problem I had with the Batman music is that when you picked up an item or went to the status screen, the music would restart so you only heard the first 30 seconds or so. Very repetitive

[furryraver199]

outrun was on the commodore? now it on of the most well know games

[arrogancy]

Needs more Robocop, which might be THE memorable C64 music

[DasMirkoLP]

5:40 Reminds me on Super Mario Bros. O_O

[Lemmy556]

Yes.Its Giana Sisters. It was Mario for computers,but it got banned by Nintendo

[Simon0]

@DasMirkoLP its known for being a total mario ripoff.

[krantzbucks]

My faves were Mail order Monsters and the Racing Destruction set

[VenlyssPnorr]

Racing destruction set was awesome....if you could stand the hour-long load times on cassette!

[Databamse]

I remember the first time I played this game. The incredible excitement over playing it. It was the most exciting game at the time. The thrill. But look at how old it is today. Incredible.

[ACNC1]

Now we know where la roux gets all her music

[EricBarbman]

No Martin Galway ?

[TheCommodore64Player]

There is one Galway on my second c64 tribute, "10 great c64 tunes", and that one is Ocean Loader 2. If I make a third one I'll at least include Comic Bakery of Galway. There are so many great c64 tunes it is not that easy to compile a top10 list ;)

[halaszlo]

Where could I get this Batman remix? It is cool.

[JessicaRabbit1975]

Am I the only one who remembers how nice the theme was for Thing On A Spring? Or that one, Nightmare on Elm Street? How about Rupert's Toy Party, or Alice In Wonderland? Oh I'm off to find those lol but these are good too don't get me wrong ;)

[TheCommodore64Player]

I admit Thing on a Spring is quite catchy, but I already have about 20 nice tunes that I think are worth a video and should narrow it down to 10 and release it as a video... However, I see somebody has already uploaded the entire Things on a Spring tune on Youtube...

[newcoleco]

There is something I don't understand and it's why judging a music based on the quality of the game?

Of course, your memory tends to associate a game with its music. And if you did like the game, listening the music will remembers you the game.

But a music is not a game, and vice versa, so why saying that because the game was not so memorable therefor the music can't be memorable... I disagree.

[Sheepy007]

You are definately missing 'Delta' on the list, the best Hubbard tune ever for me

[TheCommodore64Player]

Yes, it's a great tune, but I added into my second C64 video "10 Great C64 Tunes" ^^

[RundFyrkant]

@Sheepy007

look no further check out my remix

[ANation0nceAgain]

@Sheepy007

Actually the music from Delta (the High Score music) isn't actually by Hubbard either.

It's a Philip Glass number 'Koyaanisqatsi' :-)

[Wakkajakka]

The music composer/composer's for Monty on the run were way ahead of their time.

[Sheepy007]

It's Rob hubbard

[offroad229]

love c64 remeber my 7 years old gift i have that one

[turrican64]

martin galway is god !

[skeemag]

never played one man and his droid looks mad as cheese :)

[Ambjorn81]

had a game that had the song from one man and his droid for a loader game, and its 1 of my fav c64 songs

[fpm1979]

Bubble Bobble has a rather anoying tune. Definitly not my favourite.

[TheCommodore64Player]

Very true, but it was one of my favorite games and had such a catchy tune that stuck into my head so I just had to put it here xD