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WLCVGR — Video Game Radio
Playlist: Donkey Kong Country & Land — Thrill Ride Themes
Video Link: https://youtu.be/DmtGVpzz99c
Subject: Curator's Commentary
 
 
🎵 General WLCVGR Playlist Notes 🎵
♪ This playlist contains minor–major spoilers, depending on your tolerance for "spoiler-tier" content.
 
♪ In order to best preserve the sound and feel of the music as it was originally intended to be heard, this playlist consists only of music that can be found within official "Donkey Kong Country" and "Donkey Kong Land" video games.  Tracks of the following categories will not appear in the playlist: Officially sanctioned arrangements found outside of the games, Unofficial fan-created arrangements, & Unofficial fan-created original soundtracks for fan-created games/mods.
 
♪ Exhaustive comprehensiveness was the goal of this playlist.
 
🎵 "Donkey Kong Country & Land" General Playlist Notes 🎵
♪ Though they are canon games in the series, the games "Donkey Kong Country Returns" and "Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze" will not be represented in this playlist.  This is largely due to the chiptune/synthetic sound of the original 90s games contrasting very heavily with the high-quality/live-recorded sound of the modern games.  In terms of playlist enjoyment, placing the two types of songs next to each other is a bit jarring and not conducive towards consistent listening.
  ♪ Future "Donkey Kong"-themed playlists may include music from these aforementioned games.
 
♪ Only the "DK Country"/"DK Land" series will be represented in this playlist.  All other Donkey Kong games (including "Donkey Kong 64") are not considered part of this particular series.
 
♪ Unlike the Game Boy Advance ports/remakes of "Donkey Kong Country" [1] and "Donkey Kong Country 2," which feature faithfully arranged renditions of the original games' soundtracks, the Game Boy Advance port/remake of "Donkey Kong Country 3" features an entirely newly composed soundtrack that bears no resemblance to the original.  Due to this, "Donkey Kong Country 3's" soundtrack will be always be represented separately from the original SNES DKC3 soundtrack.
  ♪ Very worth noting is that the track titles for the new GBA compositions match up one-to-one with the track titles for the original SNES compositions.  For example, both soundtracks feature a song titled "Pokey Pipes."  However, the compositions for the two songs are completely different!  This can easily lead to confusion when referring to track titles for DKC3, further supporting the curator's decision to keep the two soundtracks separate in these playlists.
 
♪ Tracks in the playlist have been arranged in chronological order (according to release date) to best give the listener a "feel" for how the hardware technology evolved over time.
 
🎵 Playlist-Specific Notes 🎵
♪ The "Thrill Ride" theme is a collection of all the music tracks featured in high-pressure stages (often featuring an automatically scrolling screen and/or tight time restrictions).
 
♪ The track "Chase" from "Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!" has been included in this playlist due to its overall high-tension sound and feel.  While "K. Rool Returns" is an ending cutscene theme, it has been included in this playlist for its compositional similarity to other tracks in this playlist.
  ♪ Furthermore, the completely separate composition of "Chase" as appearing in the GBA port/remake of "Donkey Kong Country 3" is indeed used as an actual stage theme in that game's version.  This helps cement the SNES rendition's inclusion in this playlist.

♪ "Donkey Kong Country 3's" [GBA] version of "Jangle Bells" appears in this playlist, while the original SNES rendition does not.  This is because the two compositions are completely different in every way.  The SNES version of "Jangle Bells" is a festive, winter-themed tune that only plays during bonus games while a cheat code is turned on.  The GBA version of "Jangle Bells" is a tense, moody track that is used for the luge ride stages, thus only this version's inclusion in this playlist.