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• If you're a fan of jazz music, then you can't go wrong with the soundtracks to pretty much every SimCity game since 2000. Their composer, Jerry Martin is a genius. The songs are especially awesome due to the fact that they aren't just jazzy sounding melodies, but full, complete jazz songs, right down to the amazing improvs, which aren't generally used so completely in regular gameplay elsewhere (generally being only used for credits or special sequences and such), and they have a great band besides, especially in:
  • SimCity 3000
    • Central Park Sunday
    • South Bridge
    • Updown Town
    • Seriously, of all the SimCity 3000 Music, Sim Broadway is the most upbeat and dynamic.
    • The Ambient and Epic New Terrain, which almost always plays when you're staring at a blank canvas that will become a new city.
    • Also, pretty much all the extra music from Unlimited (unfortunately, the last track, Howling Wind, couldn't be found).
    • O RLY?
    • How is Magic City not on this list yet? Six minutes of distilled, beautiful awesome.
  • While the literally horrifying graphics of Sim Copter left much to be desired, the soundtrack went a long way towards making up for it. Some of the best tracks:
    • The Career Menu theme, and the orchestrated version that plays as the Hangar Backdrop
    • Jazz 5 especially shines among the jazz tunes (just listen to that sax!), but we've also got Jazz 4 and 6
    • Techno 1, 2 and 3.
    • DO NOT forget Techno 4.
    • How can you forget Rock 1?
    • Classical station. RIDE OF THE FUCKIN' VALKYRIES. Enough said.
  • Don't forget Streets of Sim City, which received the same Jerry Martin treatment in the music department. Although the soundtrack in entirety never tops Sim Copter's, many of the songs were recycled into The Sims and even The Sims 3. Just give these a listen:
    • Jazz 1, 3, 4, and 5. Also, this.
    • Techno 2, 3 and 5.
    • Bluegrass 3 and 6 ("I'm just a splatter...splatter...splatter on the windshield of life.")
    • The entire hard rock playlist ("YOU'RE THE CZAR IN YOUR GOOD OLD KICK-ASS CAR!").
    • ...and then there is the garage music, which is predominantly composed of garage noises.
  • Sim City 4 has one memorable BGM track that is stunningly awesome: Epicenter.
    • Uh, you forgot Rush Hour, which is a rather spicy jazz piece that is very suiting for a city full of highways, shopping malls, offices, and "busy" areas in town.
    • Sim City 4 also has Wheels of Progress
    • The Morning Commute from the Rush Hour expansion is even more stunning.
  • Then there's Street Sweeper.
• No love for the SNES version of SimCity 1? For shame!
  • While we're on the subject of the SNES version: "Village" and "Town" were orchestrated for the second Orchestral Game Music Concert back in 1992. This is every bit as awesome as it sounds.