Awesome Music / Sam & Max: Freelance Police

• The opening credits theme from Sam & Max Hit the Road. "Cheesy retro ambience" never sounded so awesome.
• The opening credits theme from the Sam & Max: Freelance Police cartoon, a psychotic hard bop piece that nicely sums up the cartoon's charming madness.
• The main themes to each of the Telltale Games seasons:
  • Sam & Max Save the World. Sam & Max Save the World Remastered has both short and extended forms.
  • Beyond Time and Space.
  • The Devil's Playhouse.
• World of Max. The Save the World remaster uses a chill instrumental version as its menu theme.
• "Just You and Me (and Ted E. Bear)" is the insanely catchy theme of the totally legitimate Ted E. Bear's Mafia Free Playland and Casino. It's pure jazz joy, and the instrumental version used while walking around the casino is just as good.
• The War Room. Great horn and drum combo here.
• War Song. Political correctness? The president is a violent sociopath! There is no such thing as PC.
• The driving theme, "Cruisin'".
  • More than Jerks Cruisin with lyrics, used as the credits song in one of the episodes.
  • Sticking with low bit music, the composer J.E.J shows us he can excel in other genres (for the record, he is the voice of the C.O.P.S.) than jazz.

• "Cogs in Motion" is like something out of a factory scene in a silent black-and-white 1930's cartoon, which makes it awesome. (It does play in a factory (of the 30s themed Toy Mafia).)
• The Godfather certainly had its effect on the Toy Mafia episode.
• For the remaster of Beyond Time and Space, instead of using the slightly-tweaked arrangement of "City Streets" from Save the World that was used in the original release, it was decided to create an entirely new track, "City Streets Saunter". Compared to "City Streets", this track is overall a more upbeat, jazzier tune, befitting the livelier atmosphere of Beyond Time and Space's streets.

• The ominous "Fugue and Dies Irae".
• Season 2 has a time travel episode. Back to the 80s!
• According to composer Jared Emerson-Johnson, each of the Telltale episode contains as much music as an average 30-hour console title. So these games are really concentrated with music of awesome. If an area is reused, the music is reused too - and a lot of areas are reused in Season 1. Even then, some of the tracks are remixed, so to speak, in later seasons. Sybil's office in particular has extra musical accompaniment in Season 2 that wasn't in Season 1.

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