Game music worth putting on your iPod

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Silent Hill 3 (PS2, 2003)
Akira Yamaoka's You're Not Here from the Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtrack sounds quite a lot like U2's 1983 hit New Year's Day, especially in terms of the driving eighth notes, and reverb-heavy rhythm guitar. There's a sense of urgency in the female vocal and the lyric only rarely strays into cliché. It feels very short, but at 3:41 it's actually perfect single-length. Good stuff.

SilentHill_You'reNotHere.mp3

Justin Towell
Justin Towell

Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.