What's your favorite Shake It/Shake Dimension track?

This game has way too many amazing tracks, and not only is it my favorite soundtrack from a Wario game, but possibly my favorite soundtrack out of everything Nintendo's ever made. I could talk about at least 5 runner up songs, but if you had to narrow it down to one, which one would you pick?

I think I might have to go with Creep Blue Sea. I just love how trippy and beautiful it sounds and the way it progresses. The organ at the start gets me ready to dance (and I like the key change when it loops too) and then the little bits of piano, the way the beat and that EWI sounding synth kick in, the violin and harps being nice additions too

Captain Syrup's theme was pretty funk

most of the escape themes are so good but this ones especially neat cuz it sounds like Cuphead

Always quite liked the escape themes here. Like the one for ghost houses:



Also this one for the ruins levels. If you played through Launchpad Labyrinth, it's probably stuck in your head by now:



Still have a fondness for Glittertown/Neon City, even if it's recycled from Wario World:



This one feels really relevant right now too lol:

I'm not the biggest fan of Shake It's OST, because in a vacuum it sounds good but compared to Kozue Ishikawa's work on the original trilogy or the wide and weird variety from 4, most of the tracks don't stand out to me as capital Wario. That might be the instrumentation, which is reused in future Good-Feel games (I played Kirby's Epic Yarn first, so I'll always think of that game when I play Shake It) making it feel less unique. There are some tracks I do like though!
Stonecarving City is a great "return to form" theme for the series, and leaves a very strong first impression. If any track had to be in Smash, I'm not frustrated this was their pick.
Mt. Lava Lava feels like a follow up to Wario Land 4's Fiery Cavern, and it doesn't disappoint in that regard. Love the Greenhorn Forest callback too.
Bad Manor also feels like another callback to the haunted house from Land II. It has the same unnerving feeling as one of the themes from that game which commonly played in those stages.

Really Ilini said:

Stonecarving City is a great "return to form" theme for the series, and leaves a very strong first impression. If any track had to be in Smash, I'm not frustrated this was their pick.

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Stonecarving City just screams Wario to me, idk what it is if it's the way it's articulated or something, but it just fits, like Greenhorn Forest or WL3's theme it just feels like Wario to me

CM30 said:

Always quite liked the escape themes here. Like the one for ghost houses

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This game uses the Greenhorn Forest/Ruins motif a lot more than I remember, already 3 of the songs in this thread have it, Mt. Lava Lava, Glittertown, and now I'm noticing it in Boogie Mansion




I wasn't going to since I said narrowing it down to one, but I'll mention a few of my runner up picks.
Again Mt. Lava Lava, my favorite is the two guitar parts
The escape theme of Mt. Bighill is a bop
The unused Plumber's Cave track, which I believe was going to precede the escape theme used in Foulwater Falls. (I like both of them and it's cool they went with gospel, they share the SMB1 underground motif and it's cool when you hear it, iirc they had similar file names too)
I also love Whoopsy Desert's themes and Wreck Train has a ton of personality too and I gotta stop myself here don't I