Gran Turismo - The Good Music Thread

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Menu music- GT Sport (I'd like to thank the game for introducing me to Hotel Costes music)
Race music- Tied between Sport or 6 due to the no. of Daiki Kasho songs present.

My all time favorite race music would have to be these.




For menu music....



And lastly On My Way by MAKOTO.


So glad I get to hear those songs with Transmission Mode in terms of the menu music I listed.
 
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this one yet:



Dear PD, please take all of these in-house menu pieces and remix them for future games like you did for the first generation.
 
Original 1970 version of London in the Rain is pretty funky. Blossom Dearie is one of my favorite singers. ie Someone to Watch Over Me.

 
Let me tell a small story about how I fall in love with the music of GT Sport.

There was a small chorus in the school which I was a part of. We were preparing for singing a 2 minutes long song in our native language. We prepared for it for a month, without any luck. The whole thing was a complete disaster, no one knew the correct lyrics. After 10 hours of singing that so called disaster on a Friday night I decided to listen to the soundtrack of GT Sport. And after some time this song came:

I learned the lyrics of this song in less than 2 hours. It is so catchy that I felt the need to learn it. :lol:

TL;DR: You know something is right with the soundtrack of GTS when you can learn one of the songs of it which is in a language you have never learnt and spoken than another song in your native language. :bowdown:
 
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My Gran Turismo music folder collection has 645 tracks as of today :lol: So picking the best from that isn't going to be easy, but here goes. Also note that despite playing the US version of GT1/2, my introduction to the series was the JP version, so unlike most people I have more affinity to Moon Over The Castle than Chemical Bros. The Cardigans and SURV1VE is the only Western openings that can stand up to MOTC in my opinion. Second caveat, I used music during driving only in GT1/2, after that I turned everything off except menus so I don't really care about the driving music in the later games.

GT1 US





GT1 JP (apart from OG MOTC obviously)

Many people don't know this but From The East's original version was in GT1 as Toyota dealer music 👍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27R_BAhp2xg

GT2 US (apart from The Cardigans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypr18UmxOas
For me, the best menu music ever and one I associate most strongly with the spirit and nostalgia of 90s JDM that Gran Turismo so perfectly encapsulates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJdU544NmyU

GT3/4 I didn't personally play, so I feel unqualified to pick anything. Honorably mention to the Orchestral MOTC for GT4 intro and Light Velocity which suits the arcade menus perfectly in both games.

GT5P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXS44BBwgM
And of course, hearing the remixed MOTC in the ending video was always awesome.

GT5
Honorable mention to Soul On Display (not going to repost as someone has done so) and Just One Second (458 Italia trailer :drool:), but the best for me are these two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MbfBJOhryg
Make sure to wear earphones for this one ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wud6inCZgQ
Yuki Oike also has 3 great pieces (Globe, Passion, Wind), but I'll save him for the next game ;)
The ending song, Day To Live, always brings a tear to my eye as well. Precursor to We Are One in later games as a "uniting" song for motorsport fans everywhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOnwmF9SEIc

GT6
Honorable mention to Looking For You, I know a lot of people think this song is sappy but I like it anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZurNS50ug
And Yuki Oike came back with 4 great pieces this time (Aquarius, Alony, Red, White Out), I'm only going to post one to save space since this post is getting super long :crazy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0PKXsflZY

GT Sport
Personally it's the weakest in terms of menu music for me. The atmosphere and elegance is still there but not too many songs that "hook" you in. Most are pretty forgettable and NO PD I DON'T LIKE LONDON IN THE RAIN :scared: :lol: The only saving grace is RAM's Symphonic Theme, which I'm going to post the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwEeTB7B3tQ

Bonus Round
Apart from the mainline games, PD has always been a master at making trailers with music that suits perfectly, here are my favourites throughout the years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqgDez6GHAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHiYZQwDuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AONjznZp22I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7TyXvDHgYI

That's a wrap folks, thank you Kaz for having good taste and here's to many more years of the same auditory enjoyment :cheers:

EDIT: Didn't know GTP has a limit for embedded videos. It's fine I guess, didn't want to waste Jordan's bandwidth :lol:
 
There have been some fantastic responses here - thanks! Brought back some great memories.

I forgot all about these ( track below, never heard of them outside GT and this track pushed me to buying the album! It will just be "a noise" to many of you :-) )

Noted there are differences between release regions and some of the tracks I haven't heard before.

 
LeGeNd-1
My Gran Turismo music folder collection has 645 tracks as of today :lol: So picking the best from that isn't going to be easy, but here goes. Also note that despite playing the US version of GT1/2, my introduction to the series was the JP version, so unlike most people I have more affinity to Moon Over The Castle than Chemical Bros. The Cardigans and SURV1VE is the only Western openings that can stand up to MOTC in my opinion. Second caveat, I used music during driving only in GT1/2, after that I turned everything off except menus so I don't really care about the driving music in the later games.

GT1 US





GT1 JP (apart from OG MOTC obviously)

Many people don't know this but From The East's original version was in GT1 as Toyota dealer music 👍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27R_BAhp2xg

GT2 US (apart from The Cardigans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypr18UmxOas
For me, the best menu music ever and one I associate most strongly with the spirit and nostalgia of 90s JDM that Gran Turismo so perfectly encapsulates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJdU544NmyU

GT3/4 I didn't personally play, so I feel unqualified to pick anything. Honorably mention to the Orchestral MOTC for GT4 intro and Light Velocity which suits the arcade menus perfectly in both games.

GT5P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXS44BBwgM
And of course, hearing the remixed MOTC in the ending video was always awesome.

GT5
Honorable mention to Soul On Display (not going to repost as someone has done so) and Just One Second (458 Italia trailer :drool:), but the best for me are these two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MbfBJOhryg
Make sure to wear earphones for this one ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wud6inCZgQ
Yuki Oike also has 3 great pieces (Globe, Passion, Wind), but I'll save him for the next game ;)
The ending song, Day To Live, always brings a tear to my eye as well. Precursor to We Are One in later games as a "uniting" song for motorsport fans everywhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOnwmF9SEIc

GT6
Honorable mention to Looking For You, I know a lot of people think this song is sappy but I like it anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZurNS50ug
And Yuki Oike came back with 4 great pieces this time (Aquarius, Alony, Red, White Out), I'm only going to post one to save space since this post is getting super long :crazy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0PKXsflZY

GT Sport
Personally it's the weakest in terms of menu music for me. The atmosphere and elegance is still there but not too many songs that "hook" you in. Most are pretty forgettable and NO PD I DON'T LIKE LONDON IN THE RAIN :scared: :lol: The only saving grace is RAM's Symphonic Theme, which I'm going to post the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwEeTB7B3tQ

Bonus Round
Apart from the mainline games, PD has always been a master at making trailers with music that suits perfectly, here are my favourites throughout the years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqgDez6GHAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHiYZQwDuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AONjznZp22I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7TyXvDHgYI

That's a wrap folks, thank you Kaz for having good taste and here's to many more years of the same auditory enjoyment :cheers:

EDIT: Didn't know GTP has a limit for embedded videos. It's fine I guess, didn't want to waste Jordan's bandwidth :lol:
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GT1 had such an interesting soundtrack.
 
LeGeNd-1

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Add to that pretty much the rest of the GT1 OST for me. I share so many memories with these songs thanks to GT1.
  • Garbage's As Heaven Is Wide doesn't get enough praise for just how good the song is. It feels like Shirley's granting you the faith and power of the underworld to win races, especially on Special Stage Route 11 where it felt like you must succeed before the night is over and the world returns to day. Still listen to that song regularly.
  • Cubanate's songs feel like pure energy, though I'm glad the soundtrack pickers chose to include the instrumentals. They turn any bland race into a heated battle for supremacy.
  • 90's Feeder was underrated. Sure, Sweet 16 had a dark subject matter but it's because of that darkness that it unleashes some heated emotion (especially the 'come a little closer to me' bit). Shade and Tangerine were just full energy in songs, Chicken On A Bone reminds me of Deep Forest's sunset every time. All of Feeder's songs sounded and blended so well together as if your listening to your own feelings and memories...
  • and when Ash's Lose Control played, I just knew it was business time, rushing around whatever track I was on in whatever car I picked. Doesn't matter, 1st place.
I want to thank whoever composed GT1's PAL soundtrack because they inspired my own music tastes as a kid. This song list pretty much made GT1 for me.
 
Crazy Taylor
I LIKE LONDON IN THE RAIN!!!
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I dont. Or I didn't. Actually, some kind of submlinal voice is telling me I do. Yes, yes, I do like london in the rain.

This one and "Murder".

Watch out.

......

There are very few tracks in GT Sport that stand out to me as music to drive to. They're not all bad though - far from it. I don't mind the first 2 mins or so of Far Journeys.

I'll admit to playing music from usb more than once in game.... when not playing seriously - which is when I want to hear the car/track sounds.
 
sundaydriving
I dont. Or I didn't. Actually, some kind of submlinal voice is telling me I do. Yes, yes, I do like london in the rain.

This one and "Murder".

Watch out.

......

There are very few tracks in GT Sport that stand out to me as music to drive to. They're not all bad though - far from it. I don't mind the first 2 mins or so of Far Journeys.

I'll admit to playing music from usb more than once in game.... when not playing seriously - which is when I want to hear the car/track sounds.
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Don't have to listen to either anymore. Praise the guy who did the 'transmission mode bit'. Has amazing menu music from previous couple of games.
 
^Yes Transmission Mode is a godsend. I turned it on when it was released and never looked (heard?) back. I do miss the jukebox option in GT5/6 where we can mix and match which songs we want to play though.

LaSupra
Add to that pretty much the rest of the GT1 OST for me. I share so many memories with these songs thanks to GT1.
  • Garbage's As Heaven Is Wide doesn't get enough praise for just how good the song is. It feels like Shirley's granting you the faith and power of the underworld to win races, especially on Special Stage Route 11 where it felt like you must succeed before the night is over and the world returns to day. Still listen to that song regularly.
  • Cubanate's songs feel like pure energy, though I'm glad the soundtrack pickers chose to include the instrumentals. They turn any bland race into a heated battle for supremacy.
  • 90's Feeder was underrated. Sure, Sweet 16 had a dark subject matter but it's because of that darkness that it unleashes some heated emotion (especially the 'come a little closer to me' bit). Shade and Tangerine were just full energy in songs, Chicken On A Bone reminds me of Deep Forest's sunset every time. All of Feeder's songs sounded and blended so well together as if your listening to your own feelings and memories...
  • and when Ash's Lose Control played, I just knew it was business time, rushing around whatever track I was on in whatever car I picked. Doesn't matter, 1st place.
I want to thank whoever composed GT1's PAL soundtrack because they inspired my own music tastes as a kid. This song list pretty much made GT1 for me.
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I know right. Maybe because the older games have such few tracks and music, some songs just tend to play when you're on certain tracks. I always associate Heave Is Wide with SSR11, Lose Control with Grand Valley, and TMF's High with Test Course. In GT2, Cold Rock The Mic is linked to Red Rock Valley and I Think I'm Paranoid with Tahiti Road.

Whenever I listen to these songs and close my eyes I'm instantly transported to those lazy Sunday afternoons in the late 90s, blasting in my GTO Twin Turbo without any care in the world. In fact I'm a bit scared of losing the "time capsule" effect that I try not to listen to these songs too much. When I heard Windroad in GTS GT League I flipped out, but over time it also made me more immune to the music and lost that feeling of looking at GT2 arcade mode...

I played the NTSC version so Feeder didn't quite embed itself into my nostalgia unfortunately. Their only song that I liked is the one used in GT3 intro :/
 
I do like the Mirror System songs featured in GT Sport, wish they included more such as Batu Bolong and their take on Perfect Stranger's Free Cloud (both are from their N-Port album, which also includes the ones that are featured in the game itself). Then we got the Latin Lovers Mix of Cafe de Flore and Morenito as my other faves. As for the Race music, we obviously got the Daiki Kasho songs from GT4 onwards, Run Boy Run, Tone Poem, and oddities such as LIFE/THRILLS and Riot, the latter being from some guy who made This Is America!

One unique thing about GT3 A-spec's NTSC version is that Goldfinger's 99 Red Balloons (in turn their take on Nena's 99 Luftballons) was a full English version instead of the original, which has a German part before the outro.

Full English (Timestamped to 2:29)


Original (Timestamped to 2:28)
 
seadog777
There have been some fantastic responses here - thanks! Brought back some great memories.

I forgot all about these ( track below, never heard of them outside GT and this track pushed me to buying the album! It will just be "a noise" to many of you :-) )

Noted there are differences between release regions and some of the tracks I haven't heard before.

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Dude that song's intro is my freakin' ringtone.
 
What's that piece of choral menu music which is just a woman opera singer ooohing and ahhing...

Cant seem to find it anywhere. Maybe not noted in the OGM.
 
A track very occasionally comes up which I like, and I always miss the track name / artist when I look bottom left. So I decided today to go through the music library and identify it.
Started at the top. Have a guess where it was.....:irked:



Oh, name not on the video..... (nice video whoever did it!).... Woodkid, Run Boy Run.
 
Daiki Kasho is the only redeeming feature of the GTS soundtrack. Anyone who can criticise that while saying nothing of Courtney Barnett or RIGHT AFTER THE BREAK doesn't deserve ears

That said, it's nice to watch them live and see what autotune does:

 

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