If you could have any band do a video game soundtrack...

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

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Of course, of course! I know that the likes of Nobuo Uematsu, Yuzo Koshiro, and Michael Jackson working their synthesizer magic will never be topped in the realm of video game music, but think... dig deep... if you were a big time video game director and someone up top said that they wanted to have a single licensed musician compose a score for your game (however unlikely that may be), who would you call to do it, depending on the nature of your hypothetical video game?

If only the Seatbelts from Cowboy Bebop's soundtrack hadn't broken up.

Jazzy space western/kung fu/rail shooter/beat em up game here we come!

[Original_Name]

Oh wow, damn! That works! I'd love to hear/play something like that! See, Mozgus?

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Well Japan actually got two Bebop games already, one of which was a rail shooter on PS1, and the other was a beat em up on the PS2.

Sadly neither was ever brought over to the states though.

EDIT: That having been said though I'd love to see both styles of gameplay combined and brought over here to the US in a single package.

[Original_Name]

I think I heard that they weren't particularly great. But that might have been from my father who's a huge Cowboy Bebop fan, but not so much shoot-'em-ups and beat-'em-ups. I think when he heard about a Cowboy Bebop game he was thinking along the lines of an open world where you fly from place to place in attempts to collect bounties... which would have been a much more sensible concept for a Cowboy Bebop game, in my opinion, if a bit more ambitious (read: expensive). Were they well reviewed? And the soundtracks weren't composed by Seatbelts, were they?

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Bot were pretty well reviewed, here's their wiki pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Beb ... tion_game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Beb ... o_Serenade

Note that the forum cuts off the end parenthesis on links for some reason, so just toss one in at the end of the first link after copying it.

[kingdomheights777]

Dream theater = anything

[Mozgus]

I'm just glad you people don't make videogames. You all must be so grateful for the EA Trax line of games.

[Ack]

Hmm. . . Yellow Magic Orchestra, Mark Mothersbaugh, David Bowie, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground. Those sound like they would work. The Velvet Underground seems like a weird choice but I feel like they would do something clever with it. Also, I second scribes' opinion.

Yellow Magic Orchestra was actually already used for a game. Their song Rydeen was used in the Sega arcade game Super Locomotive.

But then again, what did you expect when they sound like this.

[wip3outguy7]

Pretty satisfied. Most of my favorite gigs are in the Wipeout series. I worship a few artists who were picked for the Ghost in the Shell PS1 soundtrack.

And yeah, Trent did Quake. Too bad the KMFDM soundtrack for Prey never happened. *shrug*

[UBERTRON777]

Yellow Magic Orchestra was actually already used for a game. Their song Rydeen was used in the Sega arcade game Super Locomotive.

But then again, what did you expect when they sound like this.

That's exactly why I wanted it. Which reminds me, Kraftwerk would also do a pretty awesome job. I'll also add Afrika Bambataa and Grandmaster Flash.