Your top 10 ADVENTURE GAMES' soundtracks.

[Mataku]

I know there's a video game soundtrack thread, but i never seen ANYWHERE one for JUST adventure games. So let's make one, dammit!
It doesn't necessarily has to be a countdown, just a top 10 list.
But, please try to refrain to list any action-adventure or RPG-Adventure games (like Pokemon\Zelda and the likes). Let's make it 'pure' adventure. Also, don't just bring a generic 'series' name, but specific games only!

JUST Dugh IT!

My own (no particular order):

King's Quest 6
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
The Dig
The Longest Journey
The Neverhood
Simon The Sorcerer 1
Leisure Suit Larry 7
Book of Unwritten Tales
Machinarium

[Icedhope]

1. Sam and Max
2. Monkey Island
3. Leisure Suit Larry
4. Kings quest
5. Freddy Pharkas
6. Space Quest
7. CSI
8. Beneath a steel sky
9. Indigo Prophecy
10. Al Emmo: The lost Duchtmans mine.

[Secret Fawful]

1. Monkey Island 2
2. Broken Sword 1
3. Curse of Monkey Island
4. Broken Sword 2
5. Syberia
6. Sam and Max Hit The Road
7. Kings Quest 6
8. Space Quest 5
9. Trilbys Notes
10. Gabriel Knight 1

[Mataku]

sam&max HTR? i really don't remember any particularly good music from there. The music was sorta just "there". wasn't bad, but wasn't overly good either.

[MusicallyInspired]

This was hard.

1-Space Quest IV
2-King's Quest V
3-Conquests of Camelot
4-King's Quest VI
5-The Secret of Monkey Island
6-King's Quest I (Remake)
7-King's Quest II+ (AGDI Remake)
8-Space Quest I (Remake)
9-Prisoner of Ice
10-Conquests of the Longbow

Others that came close but never made it to the top 10 (in no order):

Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle
Monkey Island 2
Full Throttle
The Dig

I notice that most LucasArts soundtracks are just pretty ambient and in the background...which is suiting, but doesn't make for very many memorable themes.

Originally Posted by Icedhope

1. Sam and Max
2. Monkey Island
3. Leisure Suit Larry
4. Kings quest
5. Freddy Pharkas
6. Space Quest
7. CSI
8. Beneath a steel sky
9. Indigo Prophecy
10. Al Emmo: The lost Duchtmans mine.

He said the rules were for specific games not series in general.

[wefeelgroove]

Not in any particular order...

-The Dig
-The Journeyman Project 2 (Sure, it's mostly ambient noise, but it's cool-sounding ambient noise)
-Machinarium
-Gabriel Knight 1
-Gabriel Knight 2
-Gabriel Knight 3 ()
-Grim Fandango
-Secret of Monkey Island
-King's Quest 7
-Sam & Max seasons 1&2 (I am totally not cheating, shut up)

[GuybrushWilco]

I don't remember how good the music was in a lot of these games, but i'll try at a list.

1. Space Quest III
2. Curse of Monkey Island
3. Myst - (every bit an adventure game as Journey Man Project 2
4. The Dig.
6. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
7. Full Throttle
8. Kings Quest 6

[Darth Marsden]

I don't think I can give you ten! I'll try though...

- Tales of Monkey Island
- The Longest Journey
- Sam & Max (Series II)
- Broken Sword - The Shadow of the Templars
- The Curse of Monkey Island
- The Dig
- Discworld Noir

...um. That's all I can think of! The majority of soundtracks I remember are from Platformers and RPGs, rather then Adventures.

[Scrawffler]

In no specific order:

-Simon the Sorcerer 1
-Simon the Sorcerer 2
-The Secret of Monkey Island
-Monkey Island 2
-The Curse of Monkey Island
-Loom
-Full Throttle (everything - the songs and the MIDI tunes)
-Sam and Max Hit the Road
-Sam and Max Season 1
-Sam and Max Season 2

MI2, CMI and S&MHTR do have a few tracks that are quite forgettable, but I still think the majority of it is very good.

Out of the ones I've chosen, probably the soundtrack I notice the least while actually playing the game is Loom, because the music is so scarce. But what is there is good, even if some of it isn't original to the game.

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

The majority of soundtracks I remember are from Platformers and RPGs, rather then Adventures.

I must admit I also remember platform game soundtracks more easily than adventure games. Probably because in general soundtracks in platformers are particularly tuneful and catchy (though sometimes annoying too!) whereas adventure game composers seem to go for a more ambient feel.

[der_ketzer]

-Sam and Max Season 1
-Sam and Max Season 2
-The Dig

[S@bre]

Grim Fandango
Curse of Monkey Island
Sam & Max Save the World
Myst III

[tredlow]

Hmm...
1. The Neverhood (Can't argue with Terry Scott Taylor)
2. Sam and Max season 1 and 2 (Most relaxing to play on stereo at home)
3. Monkey Island
4. Grim Fandango
5. Full Throttle
6. SBCG4AP (The music is very faithfully Homestar Runner)

aand... that's all the Adventure games with awesome music that I remember...

[Mataku]

Is the music situation in adventure games that bad that a TOP 10 was too much?

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by Mataku

Is the music situation in adventure games that bad that a TOP 10 was too much?

No, it's just that I don't pay attention to the music of videogames while I play them. In fact, the music situation is so good in adventure games that I can actually make a list of what I find special.

Favorite music from non-adventure games?

Silent Hill. Though, in some ways, you can see that as an adventure game, and in some ways, it's mostly the atmospheric noises than the actual soundtrack.

Aand... Parappa the Rapper.

[doggans]

I won't be able to think of ten off the top of my head, but here are the most memorable soundtracks to me:

Sam and Max Hit The Road - if only for the "pleasantly understated title sequence", which is one of the catchiest game themes in history and I was slightly disappointed that Telltale didn't license it when I first played Season One.
Sam and Max, the seasons - My disappointment was short-lived, as the soundtrack for the games turned out fantastic. Especially the musical numbers like the War and Ted E. Bear songs
King's Quest VI - This is my favorite game of all time in any genre. It's not flawless (it's a little too easy to get stuck in the labyrinth), but, hey, every other game starts out with at least one flaw: they're not King's Quest VI.
King's Quest V - This game has MANY more flaws than KQVI, but the music isn't one of them.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - iMuse is the most important invention in history. I could walk around Woodtick for hours, just listening.
Curse of Monkey Island - Maybe relies a bit heavier on arrangements of the main theme than previous installments, but still a delightful soundtrack in every way.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - I'm a huge movie soundtrack nut, yet I listen to the opening titles sequence track from FoA more often than I listen to any of the movies' versions of Raider's March. And I have the Barnett College themes stuck in my head basically whenever I visit a college campus.

[Zat]

Well all 3 Gabriel Knight games pretty much take the cake for me.

Other than those, any and all LucasArts adventures are always great in their music department; especially Monkey Islands and Indy and the Fate of Atlantis are stuff that I'd listen even from my mp3 player.

The Longest Journey's music also gets an honorary mention.

[Albo Abourt]

1 - Monkey Island 2
2 - The Dig
3 - Monkey Island 3
4 - Indy 4
5 - Sam e Max
6 - Grim Fandango
7 - DOTT
8 - Sam & Max (seasons)
9 - TOMI episode 5
10 - Full Throttle