Best Super Nintendo Shoot-em-up Music - SNESdrunk

17 of 'em!
[0:21] Gradius III, "Departure For Space"
[1:44] Pop'n TwinBee, "Big Airship"
[4:38] Axelay, "Colony"
[8:45] Super Earth Defense Force, "Stage 5"
[10:36] Space Megaforce/Super Aleste, "Last Boss"
[11:50] UN Squadron, "Thunderstorm Stealth Bomber & Wolfpack"
[14:39] Phalanx, "Assault"
[16:49] Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings, "America"
[19:03] Firepower 2000/Super SWIV, "Stage 2"
[22:15] Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie, "Moonlight"
[25:07] R-Type III, "Stage 1"
[29:04] Parodius Da!, "Theme of Hot Lips"
[29:52] Spriggan Powered, "Track 7"
[31:29] Strike Gunner STG, "Boss Theme"
[33:03] Thunder Spirits, "Stage 6 Boss Battle"
[35:00] BioMetal, "Fight to the End!"
[36:36] Super R-Type, "Solo Sortie"

[@mariodelarubia4076]

music of the axelay is a masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. all the themes

[@retrochill6527]

6:36 AXELAY gives me goosebumps..the earth always appeared in the background..you had to clear the zone..you had to.

[@rollanddev]

I just couldn't get over how the game's name kept conjuring up images of some dude bedding a war-axe.

[@DroidLocks6971]

Love SNES Gradius . It's The Best Version Even With The Slowdown .

[@popeyedoyle6360]

The slowdown made the game better. You could use it to your advantage.

[@gamalielshapira]

Hmm, some of the instruments in Space Megaforce "Last Boss" sounds similar to R-Type III's "Stage 1", different developers (Compile vs. Irem). It's also interesting to hear instrument styles from a single developer carry through several games (for example, the electric guitar in Capcom's UN Squadron and the SNES Mega Man X series).

[@giorgiomx]

"Solo Sortie" for Super R-Type is great!
Check the music for Stage 2 on R-Type III, is like 80s horror movie music

[@edwardgaines6561]

22:15 *Damn, that's catchy!* But obviously you love _Super R-Type_ the most. 👍
Thanks for the comp playlist!

[@vanessagagne5797]

I love your compilations. I listen to them while I work all the time. Thank you!

[@markn1090]

So good. Shumps have some of the best tracks ever and you made a sweet playlist for them.

[@tecnosofttechnosoft3426]

Great selection. Thanks !

[@butane138]

Nice arrangement! Also listen to Darius Force's "Bio," even if you don't like that game. It's epic music.

[@r0b0m1r0]

took a stab at a new playlist. glad you made one for my favorite genre of video games. much appreciated!-)

[@grillskillz]

Please don't stop making these compilations!

[@Evmoius]

Damn...That Gradius song slaps!

[@BodyOpt]

Axelay music is in a league of its own.
Konami know what they’re doing!

[@gfmol845]

See you again in *Axelay 2* ...
... sigh... still waiting...

[@eternisedDragon7]

So, for a few days I've been going through TASVideos' tasvideos.org/ListOfIdeas/SNES.html list of ideas for unTASed games, to check the OSTs of various games out from that list trying to find some more unknown good tracks, and eventually I stumbled over Bio Metal, a game i never knew before (so I don't think I'd be biased in any way towards it), and was and still am amazed by a soundtrack I heard from it. So I looked further, found a reddit thread that was about the most underrated SNES tracks ( www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/53f4wa/what_are_some_of_the_most_underrated_snes/ ), was curious what other people mentioned there, checked through their choices to compare them to what I had found. Some were alright, but I felt that tune I found, even though it is rather short, did fit better into that category of ''best soundtrack with the restriction that the game needs to be rather unknown/underrated'' than anything I saw being mentioned there, however I couldn't make a post there anymore. So then I looked a bit further and got here, and to my happy surprise you actually have a similar Bio Metal track listed among these best, so I guess your research is thorough and alright. ^_^
But yeah I do like that other Bio Metal Main theme by Yoshio Nagashima ( www.infinitelooper.com/?v=skmDS-yuZkA&p=n ) better than the version in the video. I like it so much that I had to put it on infinite loop :D

[@diego_villena]

What in the world is that Phalanx cover art

[@niespeludo]

Haven't finished the video yet, but I hope there's some Un squadron music here.

[@evilblader7]

0:21 Speed up

[@rocko7711]

❤

[@DenkyManner]

Lucky number 17

[@evilblader7]

LOL parodius xDDDD

[@JuanRoosterbeard]

Buenísima

[@Blasterzorz]

hey man whats that guitar song in the beginning

[@theguitardude5769]

bro what's the music at the beginning o.o

[@helderestrela6958]

It doesn’t have that pounch of the yamaha sound chip

[@leanenjoyer8929]

The quiet kid's favorite genre!

[@erasedgen2494]

I can't find that Super SW4 game, Anyone help? It's so familiar too.. looking for rom name too I guess..

[@TheCentralScrrrutinizer]

Because it's called Super Swiv, not Super Sw4.

[@evilblader7]

Or called Firepower 2000

[@J0r]

As an added bonus we don't have to hear that god awful channel intro.

[@MrFedetozzi]

Ssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnessss drunk

[@calebchild4467]

"17 of the best songs from shmups on the SNES"
No I'm pretty sure that would just be 17 songs from Super R-Type and R-Type 3.
Nice try though.

[@markn1090]

So good. Shumps have some of the best tracks ever and you made a sweet playlist for them.