First I'll to talk about the music I've added between then and now just to get it out of the way or as a kinda warmup.
Sonic Adventure: it feels kinda wrong putting this on the list before any other Sonic games, but I just haven't really listened to any of those games songs resently, but they'll definately get on here eventually. There's a lot of pretty good stuff in here, but one really stands out.
Theme of E-102γ- https://youtu.be/xnz-_KOkjJ4?list=PL2KFeZXOXBrraooKj44ZvMYL9xlquKGMV -This song is really great, it has the robot-y electical noises and percussion contrasting the soft, slow, almost sad piano, it really fit's the character.
There's one more that's above par.
Sweet Punch (Hedgehog Hammer)- https://youtu.be/Uiu91x4Hmgc -Oh, man this song is so damn catchy, it kept me playing that stupid mini-game for way longer than anyone concivably should.
Mario Paint: this game had some good music, I don't really have any that I like more than the rest, but I could probably listen to all of it for hours on end, it's just so realxed and/or catchy. Exept for Creative Exercise, I never cared for that track…
I also have a track from the currently unrelesed Mother 4 and on top of that it's a track that, they changed later in devopment (much to my dismay). I already did a writeup on this song in an argument on reddit so I'll just copy paste that here with some edits for context.
Level-Up Themes (beta)- https://youtu.be/Mj7yUKgo7cQ -
>Travis's glockenspiel (or whatever it is) it's pretty much just the basic level-up music for all other mother games anc since Travis is kinda the one who leads the team it fits that he has the rhythm track that keeps everyone together.
>Zack's piccolo is similar sounding to Travis, but they're brothers so that makes sense.
>Meryl's violin, it alternates ears in a waltz-y kindPost too long. Click here to view the full text.