The rain and the wind ambiance help to convey the atmosphere for the levels it plays in, in which you're climbing up the sails of a pirate ship.

Jib Jig has an adventurous feel to it, with a tune that sounds like something you would hear as part of a sea shanty.

While we don't quite get that, what we instead got was an incredibly calming and atmospheric song, even borrowing the catchy beat from Phil Collins, and it works just as well.

With a name like Bayou Boogie, you'd probably expect an extremely upbeat and jazzy tune.

Sadly, 'Disco Train' is pretty much always drowned out in-game by the fireworks and rail screech effects in the levels where it's played, to the point that the kick-assery of the tune can only be appreciated via the OST.

Disco Train and Funky the Main Monkey.

Swanky Swing, played at Swanky's Bonus Bonanza, and the alternate version with brass instruments played before each bonus area, which sadly is never heard past the first part.

The song's multi-layered composition of pipes, synths, and bass is all the more impressive when one considers the 64kb SRAM limits of the SNES' soundchip.

Kannon's Klaim is a perfect fit for the game's mine levels, especially in the second world.

It's so awesome that it earned its own remix in Super Smash Bros. It starts out with a soft, catchy pirate's jig with an accordion, and then explodes into a loud, exciting big band song complete with trumpets, piano, and drums. Rool's theme, and Klomp's Romp from the first level, playing only on the 'Rattle Battle' stage.

Snakey Chantey is a fun, jazzy remix of King K.

And of course, it was given a remix in Brawl.

Stickerbush Symphony, a trance-like soothing techno track that is widely regarded as not only the best track in the series, but also one of the greatest video game tracks of all time as well as composer David Wise's masterpiece.

It's a harrowing track that mixes into the ambience with an impressive tune.

Hot Head Bop plays in Lethal Lava Land stages.

And the GB version from Donkey Kong Land 2. A spooky and threatening military march that plays as the overworld theme in Donkey Kong Country 2 on Crocodile Isle during the quest to rescue Donkey Kong.

Bonus Room Blitz, the buoyant theme played in most of the Bonus Rooms, uses pipes and xylophones to convey a sense of fun to the various minigames that can bestow extra lives on the player.

It conveys perfectly the feeling of desolation of crossing a hostile, snowclad mountain all by yourself.

Northern Hemispheres, the snow level theme, is terribly atmospheric.

Misty Menace, sounding like something straight out of a horror movie, will send chills down your spine as you avoid the Rockkrocs, or keep the faulty lights on in the pitch-black mines.

Funky's Fugue is just as funky as the name suggests it's hard to resist dancing along to it.

Life in the Mines supplies a tense, dramatic atmosphere to the various underground mine levels.

The Game Boy Color version is slower than its 16-bit counterparts, giving it a more ominous feeling.

Treetop Town is almost infectiously catchy and fun.

Fear Factory provides a suitably grim and sinister accompaniment to the 'industrial' levels in the Kremkroc Industries zone.

Ice Cave Chant, the music for Slipslide Ride, practically radiates the shimmering beauty of an ice level with synthesised harp and glockenspiel.

Mine Cart Madness provides an appropriately ominous soundtrack to the first game's Best Level Ever.

DK Island Swing, the first level music, is three awesome tracks for the price of one, the first being one badass drumbeat, the second bright and energetic to get the player fired up for the fun ahead, the third eerie and atmospheric (and, in the first level, Jungle Hijinks, often kicking in just as the sky clouds over), and all three of them providing some of the series' more familiar Recurring Riffs.Even the music at the map screen is catchy!.

Forest Frenzy is a just plain fun accompaniment to the various forest levels in the first half of the game.

Voices of the Temple is ominous and mysterious.Aquatic Ambience, a soothing, trance-like track that's perfect for just falling into slowly.Gangplank Galleon starts out sounding like a merry sea chanty played on a squeeze box, only to become a dark and ominous piece of 16-bit pirate metal after a few seconds (complete with a shift from a bright major key to a gloomy minor key) as the final boss fight against King K.

As soon as the game starts up, the title theme provides a delicious taste of what's to come, starting with the original title theme for the NES release of Donkey Kong, before shifting into a rocking electric guitar remix that progressively transitions into a short, ambient track akin to most of the stage music.

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