My Top 75 Castlevania Songs (#25-#1)
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2012
- Last section of my Castlevania list is finally here featuring songs from #25 to #1.
This is a list of my favorite Castlevania songs. Why top 75? At first I thought of doing just a top 10 but there were way too many songs that I wanted to include. Soon it was already a top 50 list. Eventually it got from 60 to 70 and finally to 75 songs. This could have easily been a top 100 but I wanted to draw a line somewhere earlier since it had already been quite a big work. I listened through over 1100 songs (that included game over and stage clear jingles plus tons of vampire killer and bloody tears arrangements/remixes so the real number of considerable songs is not that big). After first listening round I cut the number of songs down to about 230 from which I then chose my ultimate favorites after couple more listens. I didn't choose hastily, the order of the songs was formed over months of listening.
So I decided to split this one into 3 videos since it's really long list. I'll let every song loop about once (30 seconds or 3 minutes long song, no matter) and that's one reason why this became so long. Castlevania series has without a doubt some of the best videogame music ever so I hope you have time to watch the whole thing.
Remember, the order of songs is completely based on personal opinion. If your favorite is somewhere in lower positions it doesn't mean that I don't like it. I even had to leave some really good songs out of top 75. I decided to always use the original version of the song. Also no songs that have been originally from other game like Go! Getsu Fuhma, Ryu Kokki or In Search Of The Secret Spell (this one would've been actually pretty high if it wasn't originally from other game).
The pictures were put together using GIMP. I got better using it over time so some of the first images are simpler and probably more boring than the later ones. Here's a list of sites where I got almost all of the pictures used in video:
www.vgmuseum.com (this one has almost everything)
www.castlevaniacrypt.com (with vgmuseum the best, complete package)
www.castlevaniadungeon.net (some very nice pictures + info)
www.chapelofresonance.com (maybe the best for some games (stages part especially), but doesn't have all of them covered)
castlevania.wikia.com (some useful stuff that I couldn't find from other sites)
www.giantbomb.com (some pictures)
thedailypos.org (imagefest for Aria of Sorrow)
spriters-resource.com (for sprites if castlevaniacrypt doesn't have spritesheets)
Also, sites worth mentioning:
www.linnavaanijat.com (very nice finnish castlevania site, has some good info and is also available in english)
www.inverteddungeon.com (really good site dedicated to castlevania)
Everything is owned by Konami. 
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Great list, the Castlevania franchise has such incredible music that you could literally make a top 100 list and not a single track in the bunch will be a stinker.
This is so true. I didn't agree with the order of this list but there isn't a single bad song on it.
Blue serenade :)
An Empty Tome is such an awesome track from an awesome Castlevania game.
Battle of the Holy is SUCH a masterpiece that pretty much nobody's ever heard of. I am SO SO glad that it made it up to Top 3. Also, not surprised that this video is filled with SotN pieces! That game and its OST is one the best ever made!! Amazing top 100, bro!
the tragic prince is a fucking masterpiece, respect
4:52
That solo... Man, Alucard deserve a theme song like this.
MICHIRU YAMANE!!!!! LOVE HER.
MILF
god bless
What an awesome list. Castlevania just has so many awesome tracks that I just had to listen to all 100 of these in a row.
Thanks buddy, I'm happy to hear that!
***** But they're 75....
Alfonso ST There are 100. There was a 100-76 added on later.
Oh, thanks for letting me know.
Truly underrated video. Thanks for putting all 100 of these together with titles and images!
@Lpoeser I actually knew immediately when I started making this list which song would be #1. While I already would change some picks, that one is quite easily my favorite. About DoS, I think I wouldn't change the number of music from the game but instead I'd substitute Scarlet... for Into the Dark Night and drop two highest picks a little and raise Pinnacle some positions... Oh well, what's done is done. I could've picked 10+ songs from both SotN and CoD but wanted some variety.
If you hadn't picked Tragic Prince I would have been SO pissed off at you for not putting Bloody Tears first. Excellent Compillation!
This, from start to finish is THE List! I have listened through the entirety (75) several times, and I am sure to listen several more. I have told every Castlevania junkie I know about this. :)
Awesome job on the selection!.Truly a pleasure to hear your compilation,Thanks!
Hell yeah! now this is a list. I was afraid of not seeing The Tragic Prince (my favorite theme of the whole franchise) but what happened?turned out to be number one. Great work
Great job on these video. Thanks!
Jail of Jewel, Condemned Tower, Pitch Black Intrusion... Most of greatest soundtrack of Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin not being in Dead Cells Castlevania DLC is such a loss 😭
Your #1 favorite Castlevania song is The Tragic Prince.... Hell Yeah!
Great selection!!!
Wow, glad to hear that you enjoyed this that much! Thank you!
In a really weird "strange but true" coincidence, I first heard "abandoned castle" in a video about the different oxidation states of the element Vanadium, lol.
No matter how bad Simon's quest was, Bloody Tears was amazing.
@Time Attack Bad and really cryptic
I thought Bloody Tears and The town music was awesome. I think Simon's Quest had potential to be great. It had the right idea, just executed incorrectly. But maybe that is due to the time frame and technological limitations during that time. It was the first MetroidVania game, but it was running on the NES still. Maybe if they remake the game for PS4 with better graphics and detailed storyline and better bosses and all that, that would be awesome. But it is also the first Castlevania where you actually get to travel all around the place and not just Wallachia i think. You go to other towns and all that.
Castlevania II is shit. But bloody tears will be rembered in history!
Invitation of a crazed moon 💘
Great series. My personal favorite is Bloody Tears, so nice to see it so far up the list.
Love the Destiny of an Emperor sprite! Very cool!
Tragic Prince at the top, good choice. My favorite is probably either Heart of Fire from Aria of Sorrow or Jaws of a Scorched Earth from Order of Ecclessia
What I like about Castlevania is that you could pick any songs of any Castlevania in your Top 10 and you'd be right :D
Maddie agreed every track is classy
I miss the old Gameboy Style... Loved Aria of Sorrow, Down of Sorrow, Order of Ecclesia, Symphony of the night etc.... Wunderfull games... love it
#5 is such a banging song. I play that game on public transport so people can hear the music
gotta love the peaceful theme of lost painting
number 4 was the first song in castlevania i ever heard. after i finished the game it led me to all the other games.
tragic prince is the number 1, well done my friend
Great picks and an over-all awesome tribute to my favorite video game franchise by far. Can tell you put a lot of effort into this ;)
Thanks for the nice words!
Castlevania Bloodlines - Reincarnated Soul had an awesome theme.
#1 - Undisputed best piece from the series. It;s the sole representation of what every Castlevania game has or needs: an absolutely awesome soundtrack!
Awesome list man ! :) My personal #1 (or atleast one of them x) is prooobably "Awake" from COTM
nice selection!
Thumbs up on including Abandoned Castle. That track is awesome!!!!
Congratulations! I now only the tracksound for NES and SNES, now i become more interest in play the others one!!! thank you
Great work.
you put a lot of work into these videos and you did a great job
Yeah: not everyone's fave can make it.
Still, you did an excellent job and many MANY of my faves made it here. And #1 I could NEVER argue with.
so in the end: good work. A+!
Dude your list rocks!! and the number one...GOD awesome nice!!! The f@#!ing tragic prince wow it make every second count ^^
The fact that you put New Messiah in the Top 5 immediately makes this a valid list. It's probably my personal #1 but all the music in Belmont's Revenge is outrageously underrated for being from the game boy circa 1991.
Pretty cool list. Of course mine would have been different but I appreciate your taste in music. Some of my personal favourites were missing though, like "The Arena" from Aria Of Sorrow :(
My personal #1 is perhaps your 23: "Clock Tower"... Close enough :)
I also really liked Top Floor and even Chaotic Realm. Unpopular opinion I know. Dawn had a good soundtrack, but I thought Aria's was superior, mostly. Scarlet Battle Soul is still dope though.
Also enjoyed many of the remixes from Circle of the Moon. Best Vampire Killer/Observation Tower, and Rotating Room/Underground Warehouse + Aquarius/Underground Gallery.
Dayum, i was waiting for tragic prince the whole time. I actually have that song as my ringtone :D
Thank you very much, sir! I'm glad you like it.
Much love for Belmont's Revenge and SOTN - both had fantasic music throughout!
damn !! I Really really love MICHIRU YAMANE (Composser of Castlevania series) !!!
:D
Thank you very much.
Hey, i'm very agree with all this list. It's hard to say which is the best track of whole Castlevania series, but Tragic Prince is not a bad option.
Some tracks that i would have add to this list (i know is impossible to have every one of them lol) are Unholy Vespers form Order of Ecclessia, the final fight theme of Castlevania III an Clockwork mansion (the rotating room) form Super Castlevania IV.
Great job in this list, amazing, congratulations.
Castlevania Simphony of the night Rules XD
oh man i love Tragic Prince!
thank you
u nailed it. Best ones were from GBA and DS
Horrible night? I'm watching this in the middle of the day. :P
Thanks. Abyss Stairway is actually arrangement of "Sinking Old Sanctuary" first heard in Castlevania Bloodlines so it couldn't be here. Sinking Old Sanctuary was of course one of the songs that were really difficult to be left out of this list but there are too many good songs, sacrifices had to be done.
I was expecting to be disappointed, but #1 is also my favorite! :)
Thanks for translation!!
Gracias por la traduccion! :)
My favorite was bloody tears ( the dawn of sorrow version thought) but Tragic prince is great too (just never heard about it before now XD)
Lovely, Who are these lovely these lovely lovely messages from.
"Reincarnated soul" (12 on this list) is BY FAR the best castlevania track afaic.
Tragic Prince is definitely my #1, though Trezire de Spirit and Piercing Silence would HAVE to be my second and third.
In OoE soundtrack there is a version with different instruments and also the intro version of the song. In this list we have the "normal" version. But 3 versions of the same song in the soundtrack, yeah.
Nice
Thanks pal.
the tragic prince es la mejor !!!
Dawn of Sorrow is the best soundtrack overall !! Really love the game as well.
André B Dawn of Sorrow was amazing but have you ever heard the ost for bloodlines?!
Señor Snipey cant stand the way the genesis music sounds like.
Sorry, but aria of sorrow's ost is better
True but Bloodlines has the best ost IMO. Too bad it has very few songs compared to other castlevania games
Peeerfect.
I didn't like the number one, but...
Number 15: Leon's theme
Number 7: An Empty Tome
Number 4: Abandoned Castle!!
Number 2: Bloody Tears!!! Simon's Quest version!!
You are Awesome, Great Video!!
i think sinking old sanctuary(bloodlines), inner quarters(aria of sorrow) and within these Castle walls(castlevania ii) should be in this list, also believe that mortvia aqueduct and wood carving should be in top 25 under, for the rest is a very good list, but my number one is between iron blue intention and wicked child
Rainbow Cemetery or Tragic Prince for me.
castlevania for the most part has some of the best art i've ever seen in a game, just look at Symphony of the Night and Aria of Sorrow! i really hope they go back to that for future games
Really cool list. I´m glad that Bloody Tears didnt earn your first spot. Nice surprise.
I've never EEEEEVER imagined a top 25 of the Castlevania's musics without some thmes of Rondo of Blood !
Only speak in spanish sorry:
Para mi gusto las mejores composiciones son las mas antiguas, pero entiendo que quedan un poco eclipsadas por los pocos medios de la época en comparación con las versiones mas actuales, Castlevania para PSX tiene una de las mejores bandas sonoras, a si mismo la considero la versión que toca techo dentro de los castelvanias en 2D.
I love The SIlence of Daylight.
There were couple of reasons at the time but now afterwards I've been thinking of doing honorable mentions list aka positions #76-#100. Maybe I should do it after all when I have enough time.
WOW!
thnks
*YES, I HAVE FOUND LOST PAINTING!*
ignore the irony with that sentence...
I agree, the soundtrack is super impressive for a game boy game.
kudos for abandoned castle, i love that one and i never see anyone else who likes it.
Symphony of the night; Best OST ever!
why not top 100?? makes more sense to me :P, awesome list though, i keep coming here and let the video going on background, such soothing music :3
Abandoned Castle is THE Hector theme
My favourite one is Sorrow's distortion (Order of Ecclesia - Albus Boss)
Theme #21 is the music from unreleased Castlevania for sega 32X :)
It was just left out. It's a great song for sure and I enjoy it a lot. I guess it suffered some positions because I had many songs from CoD in the list...
Anyway, thanks for watching and thanks for all your comments too.
man,you are crazy....i love the series mostly for the music,lol i would struggle hard to pick my fav 75 and you make a list
......will just listen with joy
Good songs
Could you make a full video with all songs on your countdown? That would rock big time.
If I still have the original files somewhere then sure. That's a good idea. But I don't have high hopes, I'll have to check my old laptop for that.
Ok, I checked my old computer and some usb-sticks but I don't seem to have the files anymore anywhere. I guess it would be possible to convert these videos from youtube and then merge them, but that would most likely result in awful quality.
I love most Castlevania tracks but my favourites will always be Lost Painting, Nocturne, Bloody Tears and Dance of illusions.
SIKED to hear abandoned castle from curse of darkness!!! Easy top 5
100% 10/10 agree with #1 and #2.
Great list, although the hidden track on Symphony of the Night should be in the top 10.
oh and i love festival of servants :D
レオンのテーマはまじ最高。
I'm intrigued by your loyalty to the gameboy games. power to you
i love the most is cotm because i played this game a lot
i think the best music in cotm is in the area of the abyss stairway because it's so memorable
Great list. I had a question though - I don't thinking "Beginning" from Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse is included? Did I miss it? IMO that is the best song of the 8-bit era, so I was surprised to not see it.
Thanks! Beginning can be found somewhere in #50-#26.
Toopelius Ah, see it now. I was gonna say, you hit every other major song but left out that one? This makes more sense. :)
love bloody tears. i was hoping the heart of fire from Aria of sorrow would make it in the top 10
i didn't even see the end or hear the music when i was at number like 70 i was like number 1's gonna be a SOTN song