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4. Overworld Theme
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Spirit Tracks may not have got a whole lot of love when it was released back in 2009, but this Overworld Theme is my one of my all-time favourites. I loved listening to this as I rode the rails through New Hyrule, and it made each journey that much sweeter. With its catchy pan pipe melody and syncopated strings coming through underneath, it takes the best parts of Dragon Roost Island and The Great Sea and adds a barrelling banjo and guitar-style accompaniment to make it one unified theme of steam-powered greatness.
That said, it was actually a pretty close call between this theme, Train Training (the tune accompanying your very first train ride in Spirit Tracks) and the Overworld Theme 2 for this spot– I love Train Training’s jaunty strings and the clockwork nature of the alternate Overworld’s bassline!– but ultimately there’s just something about this track that makes me smile. It’s upbeat, it’s cheerful, it makes you feel like you’re going somewhere, and it’s just the perfect aural travelling companion.
Great list! I don’t think I could pick 10, there’s just been so much great music in the Zelda series. Zelda 2’s warbly “instrumentation” (if you can call it that) bugged me when I was young, but I’ve come to appreciate it and it made me smile to see its main palace music on the list.
I’d love to hear a modern take on the original Zelda’s Level 9 music. Many previous dungeon themes have resurfaced in one way or another but unless I’m forgetting something, I can’t say I’ve heard that particular melody of dread and danger come up again.
Thanks! Ah, yes, Level 9. Man, that music’s creepy. It did, in fact, reappear in Four Swords Adventures in the Tower of Flames, but I know what you mean – it would be great to hear it used more often! :)
My 10 favorites in no particular order.
1. Main Hyrule field theme
2. Gerudo valley
3. Temple of time
4. Fairy fountain
5. 4 gods from majoras mask
6. Bolero of fire
7. Ballad of the goddesses.
8. Song of healing
9. Ganondorf thheme from Twilight Princess
10. Serenade of water.
All great tunes, Lukas! I was actually this close to including Queen Rutela’s Theme from Twilight Princess in the honourable mentions (a re-working of the Serenade of Water), but if I decided that if I included any more then I’d have a never-ending list!
I’m also a very big fan of Ganondorf’s Theme, especially the Twilight Princess version (that final battle music is just epic!), but it’s a close tie between that one and The Last Battle from Ocarina of Time when it comes to my top Ganon music!
Woah, I completely forgot about the Four Swords Adventures rendition! I think I played through that level exactly once… Thanks for the tip! :^)