Discography of the Streets of Rage series

The Streets of Rage series from Sega is known for its memorable in-game music. It has inspired three soundtracks based on compositions by noted video game composer, Yuzo Koshiro.

Streets of Rage soundtrack

Catalogue Number: ALCA-181
Publisher: Alfa Records
Year: 1991

(all tracks by Yuzo Koshiro; produced by Koshiro and Kyoji Kato)

The first game's music has a warm, Caribbean quality. Koshiro has said he was listening to artists like Soul II Soul, Black Box, Maxi Priest, and Caron Wheeler around the time of composing. The soundtrack versions of the tracks uses the PC88's Sound Board II soundchip rather than the Mega Drive's YM2612.

  1. The Street of Rage
  2. Player Select
  3. Fighting in the Street
  4. Attack of the Barbarian
  5. Round Clear
  6. Dilapidated Town
  7. Moon Beach
  8. Keep the Groovin'
  9. Beatnik on the Ship
  10. Stealthy Steps
  11. Violent Breathing
  12. The Last Soul
  13. Big Boss
  14. My Little Baby (Good Ending)
  15. You Became the Bad Guy!
  16. Up & Up
  17. The Super Three
  18. Name Entry
  19. Game Over
  20. The Street of Rage (Arrange version)
  21. Fighting in the Street (Arrange version)
  22. The Last Soul (Arrange version)
  23. Keep the Groovin' (Arrange version)
  24. You Became the Bad Guy! (Arrange version)

Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack

Japanese US
Catalogue Number: ALCA-443 MCM-10106-2
Publisher: Alfa Records Mars Colony Music
Year: 1993 2000

This is the easiest (note that this is relative to the other 2) Streets of Rage soundtrack to find, having been released in the United States. The tracks on this soundtrack are identical to the Japanese CD soundtrack known as "Bare Knuckle II". Composed and played by Yuzo Koshiro (with a few by Motohiro Kawashima), this is said to be one of his greatest and it shows the power of the 8-bit Mega Drive/Genesis soundchip. The music is described by Yuzo as "hard-core techno". The CD contains 20 tracks and was produced by him and Kyoji Kato. Interestingly some fans have noticed that the song "Under Logic" sounds like The Shamen's mid 90s hit Move Any Mountain and The S.O.R Super Mix is similar to Enigma's Sadeness. Another interesting fact about S.O.R. Super Mix is that it is composed from parts of previous Streets of Rage songs: The Street of Rage, You Became The Bad Guy (being the core of the song), and The Last Soul. The Arranged version of You Became The Bad Guy also has parts of choir similar to Sadeness. The track lists are as follows:

  1. Go Straight
  2. In The Bar
  3. Never Return Alive
  4. Spin on the Bridge
  5. Ready Funk
  6. Dreamer
  7. Alien Power
  8. Under Logic
  9. Too Deep
  10. Slow Moon
  11. Wave 131
  12. Jungle Base (M.K.) & (Y.K.)
  13. Back to the Industry
  14. Expander (M.K.)
  15. S.O.R. Super Mix
  16. Max Man (M.K.)
  17. Revenge of Mr. X
  18. Good End
  19. Walking Bottom
  20. Little Money Avenue (M.K.)

Streets of Rage 3 soundtrack

Catalogue Number: ALCA-5006
Publisher: Alfa Records
Year: 1994

The music style of Streets of Rage 3 has a different feel to that of the first 2 games. Described by Yuzo Koshiro as "fast-beat techno like jungle", it was composed using an Automated Composing System. As with Streets of Rage 2, the soundtrack features tracks composed by both Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima.

Unlike the first 2 soundtracks, the tracks are not in the order that they appear in-game.

The full title of this CD is "Bare Knuckle 3: Iron Fist Scriptures". The disc itself is extremely hard to find.

  1. Fuze (M.K.)
  2. Spinning Machine (Y.K.)
  3. Boss (M.K.)
  4. Beat Ambiance (Y.K.)
  5. Cycle II (M.K.)
  6. KAMADECOCO (Y.K.)
  7. The Poets I (M.K.)
  8. Shinobi Reverse (Y.K.)
  9. Percussion (M.K.)
  10. Moon (M.K.)
  11. Happy Paradise (Y.K.)
  12. The Poets II (M.K.)
  13. Random Cross (Y.K.)
  14. Dub Slash (M.K.)
  15. Inga Rasen (Y.K.)
  16. Bulldozer (M.K.)
  17. Crazy Train (Y.K.)
  18. Cycle I (M.K.)

Not on the CD, but in the game (However included on Disc 3 of Yuzo Koshiro BEST Collection vol.2):

  1. Disco (Y.K.)
  2. ROBO X (Y.K)
  3. Round Clear (Y.K.)
  4. BGM I (M.K.)
  5. BGM II (Y.K.)
  6. BGM III (Y.K.)
  7. BGM IV (Y.K.)
  8. Ending (Y.K.)
  9. Game Over (Y.K.)
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