Awesome Music / F-Zero

Whether it's the horns from the SNES game, the electric guitar of X, or the trance techno of AX/GX, F-Zero music is all awesome in some form to fit with the intensity of racing at 2,000 km/h.

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F-Zero (SNES)

Worth noting is that the game's manual touts the high quality of its stereo soundtrack, and encourages players to play the game on a TV with stereo audio (which weren't as common back in 1990) to get the most out of these great tunes.

• The Title Theme is short but it gets you pumped to race.
• Results, a calm tune once you beat a race (or rank out/explode).
• Death Wind has a very creepy, militaristic beat with wind blowing on and on that just keeps on going. Fitting for one of the hardest tracks in the game, and the home world of Pico.
• Silence has a nice peaceful start before it picks up.
• Port Town, a chilling drum and bass piece that is the perfect theme song for Captain Falcon's home turf.
• White Land I, with its piano-sounding startup, and then the beat kicks in...and it gets awesome from there. It's reminded several people of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."
• White Land II, the second and more difficult version, features a more intense and heart-pounding rendition and is appropriately fitting for the bane of every player's existence, the dreaded jump.
• Sand Ocean, with its hypnotic drum pattern and exotic melodies, is one of the better songs in the game.
• Fire Field, appropriately enough the most intense song in the soundtrack for the game's final, longest, and hardest circuit.
• And last but not least, the cup victory theme is absolute bliss and perfect catharsis watching your car take a victory lap after you completed the last blood-boiling race!

F-Zero X

• A lot of games have memorable title screen music, but this one especially stands out. It begins with a simple guitar lick that then turns into a New Wave of British Heavy Metal-style groove with an unforgettable shredding melody on top.
• You might have trouble choosing from all 30 of the possible racers for your next Grand Prix but this theme helps with that.
• Option. A nice, relaxed song, particularly with the background choir.
• Grand Prix Ending. Even if you don't make the top 3 at the end, you're still treated to your car driving on the road and the game encourages you to try again, with a song like that, it's hard not to.
• Dream Chaser, the theme of Silence. It also has an 8-bit rendition made for the Mega Man 4 ROM hack Rockman 4 Minus ∞.
• The Long Distance of Murder, the theme song to Red Canyon. It gets even better with the Expansion kit version, which contains an extended intro riff.
• Drivin' Through on Max, the theme to Sectors Alpha and Beta, and the Non-64DD version of Rainbow Road. Sounds perfect to tape the A button down when this song's playing as you, well, Drive Through on Max.
• Fall Down to the Scream, the theme of Fire Field. Pure speed metal, perfect for the track's intensity.
• Devil's Call In Your Heart, the theme song to Devil's Forest, samples the lead riff from "Heartwork" by British Melodic Death Metal band Carcass to absolutely majestic results. No wonder it reappeared in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, 4, and Ultimate completely untouched.
• Rainbow Road, F-Zero X-style. Hear it to believe it. Unfortunately, it’s only available if you're using the 64DD expansion kit, which is Japan-only.
• All Need is 30 Deaths plays during the Death Race mode. It gives off a very "There can only be one!" mood, kinda fitting what the mode is about.
• Climb Up! And Get the Last Chance, the theme song to White Land, also reappeared in Smash and for good reason. That guitar + keyboard combo will send shivers down your spine. The track has a somber undertone to it, as if evoking the imagery of a racer getting a Heroic Second Wind after a major setback. The Expansion Kit version has an extended outro, and is also the version that would be reused for GP Legend and Climax.
• The other four songs exclusive to the F-Zero X Expansion Kit are also just as intense as the main game's soundtrack, which is really saying something. Special mention goes to Big Foot, an intense tune which plays on two of the expansion kit's courses including the last one, and which riffs At Doom's Gate/E1M1, of all things.

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

• Cloud Carpet features some of best guitars on the Game Boy Advance with its theme.
• Tenth Zone East is seen as one of the best songs in the game and for good reason. The intro just gets your blood going, never mind the rest of the song!
• Silence. Interestingly, the track is actually unused due to the fact the only Silence track is available on Single-Pak Play and there's no music. Quite a shame.
• Synobazz. Especially when you race on the championship circuit.
• Empyrean Colony has a very whimsical sounding track for those that make it there.
• Fire Field. Like every other Fire Field, this features heavy guitars. Funny enough, that means Fire Field has been in every game to date.
• The Title Theme. Like the theme in the SNES game, this one also gets you pumped up.
• Credits is a sudden shift from the rocking Cup Results theme but its techno beat is soothing.

F-Zero AX/GX

• For the Glory (Mute City). Don't like the techno sound of it? The game allows you to change it to this instead.
• Dr. Stewart's theme song from GX. Pure trance gold.
• Baba's theme is one part tribal percussion and one part hard hitting techno, tied together with Delay Lama vocalizations to create something uniquely wild and fabulous.
• Pico's theme is like a representation of Pico's bloodlust and aggression in musical form.
• The first question fans will ask is why wasn't Captain Falcon's GX theme included in Brawl. We honestly don't know why they skipped out on it either.
  Forever he will be my hero!
• James McCloud's theme sounds like something out of Top Gun.
  HE IS THE HERO! LEADER OF THE TEAM! DARK GREEN AND SILVER! IT'S THE SUBTLETY!
• Jack Levin's theme is equal parts catchy, campy and awesome, sounding like something he wrote himself back in his pop singer days.
• The Skull's theme is like a futuristic version of a slasher movie villain's theme, making for something both ominous and awesome at the same time.
• Leon's theme is as hard rock as you can get. Keep rockin', baby!
• Super Arrow's GX theme. It'll make you wanna save the world!
• Silver Neelsen gets a blood-pumping rockabilly number that wouldn't be out of place blaring from a truck radio on a drive through the desert.
• Blood Falcon's Theme. Dark, threatening, and metal as hell. "Fly... Over us..."
• John Tanaka's theme. The techno beat makes it sound like an NES game.
• Don Genie's theme. Equal parts Creepy Circus Music, mobster theme, and heavy metal for a ruthless, larger than life corporate powerhouse.
• Digi-Boy's theme. While Digi-Boy himself might be a Base-Breaking Character, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who hated this super-upbeat electro-rock song.
• Spade's Theme is a psychedelic and mystical little track, which works perfectly for a flashy magician like Spade.
• TOO FAST! YOU LOSE, I WIN! Dai Goroh's theme fits the fact he wants to take after his father.
• Lily's theme. A dark, militaristic theme which fits her Child Soldier character.
• Phoenix's theme is one of the best in the game. An awesome Bragging Theme Tune that solidifies Phoenix's character as a tough as nails hero from the future.
  I want you to feel the pressure (We keep the order)
  I know you can't run forever
  No one move without me saying (Or we will take you down)
  You know there's no use in fighting
• Deathborn's theme is an astoundingly ominous mix rock and orchestra, creating an aura of "you are completely screwed" perfect for anyone who's as feared as Deathborn is.
• Feel Our Pain (Fire Field), a fittingly intense Industrial Metal piece with an absolutely epic guitar providing the backdrop to racing at 2200 km/h through the mantle of a heavily mined planet.
• ZEN (Aeropolis) is something that wouldn't sound out of place in AKIRA or Ōban Star-Racers. The bells in the beginning easily catch your attention and it just gets better.
• Osc-Sync Carnival (Lightning) is an appropriately moody aggrotech tune for the industrial nightmare that is Lightning.
• Infinite Blue (Big Blue). Like Mute City, there's also the Cover of Big Blue in-case you don't like the usual song.
• DIZZY (Phantom Road). A really dark techno theme that represents what would be a twisted version of Rainbow Road.
• One Ahead System (Cosmo Terminal), there's only one example of Cosmo Terminal in the game just like Phantom Road, possibly due to the fact they're Nintendo Hard.
• The three songs that made it into Super Smash Bros. Brawl and For Wii U:
  • Brain Cleaner (Replay) has a buzzing guitar carried with absolutely enchanting drums.
  • Shotgun Kiss (Casino Palace) is a funky, Cowboy Bebop-esque drum and bass piece that provides the perfect backdrop for racing through a casino metropolis. Believe it or not, it was also the main inspiration for the Sled Racing theme from Club Penguin.
  • Planet Colors (Green Plant) starts off with a chiptune melody atop a majestic, bassy beat, before suddenly exploding into one hell of an Epic Riff if we've ever heard one.
• The Story Mode ending theme. It has cheesy lyrics, but it nevertheless gives a rewarding feeling, especially after completing all chapters on very hard.
• The Grand Prix Master Class ending theme, Respect to "Result Theme of F-Zero" also gives a rewarding feeling.
• The AX Cup^note Originally released for arcade machines, it becomes unlockable in GX after beating all cups in Master Mode starts out with a bang in the form of "Paper Engine (Outer Space)", an aggressive techno track that plays as you negotiate the course's tight turns and spiraling tunnels, all while staring in awe at the meteor stream happening in the background.

F-Zero: GP Legend/Climax

• The BGM for Lightning in F-Zero GP Legend, and its remix in F-Zero Climax. By far the most intense songs in both games.
• The tracks for Mist Flow, in both its GP Legend and its Climax renditions, are as blood-pumping as one another and perfectly capture the foggy, dreamy atmosphere of the place.

F-Zero 99

• The "race complete" arrangement of Results arranges the original, somber theme into an upbeat, congratulatory tune that's reminiscent of many arcade racing games. It'll make you feel victorious, no matter if you placed 1st or 50th. It's also great to cool off to after a tense race, especially during a Grand/Mini Prix.
• The Lucky Bumper theme is a bouncy, upbeat theme that helps ease the pain of a Crash Out as you get to cause mayhem on the racetrack.
• One of the glitched tracks is a mashup of Fire Field and Mute City I, and it remixes both tracks' themes into something that could fit as a Final Boss theme.

Misc. (Smash, Remixes)

• Fire Field from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Slightly slower, way more awesome.
• The Nintendo Land Version of Big Blue manages to keep the rocking spirit of original while also adding a little techno synth to it.
• Tony Thai, not only are his renditions of F-Zero songs in X's soundfont amazing (he even did Illusion from F-Zero: GP Legend and Tenth Zone East from Maximum Velocity) but he he can also recreate some courses from X in the SNES game and their music.
• With the F-Zero tracks downloadable for Mario Kart 8 comes amazing jazz/rock renditions of the series' most iconic themes: Mute City and Big Blue.
• GaMetal brings us his medley of Big Blue and Mute City, as well as his covers of Fire Field, Dream Chaser, Illusion, White Land, and Death Wind.
• Remix Rave in general, he has done a crazy amount of songs either in an X style, an overall remix or F-Zero songs in other fonts. His more notable series has to go to G64X and Xtreme Velocity, not only doing X style covers but even custom courses in F-Zero X to go along with them as well. Here's some examples.

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