http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Klepacki

Wikipedia sure taught me something today - you know, this guy's name. Apparently Mr. Klepacki did the Command and Conquer games. With RTS never being my cup of tea, I have no experience with his music. Anyone out there have an opinion? Is he better...than even Tommy Tallarico?

Pretty massive article on the guy though, even more so than Uematsu.

Yes, he is way better than that lousy Craparico. And his scores for C&C and Red Alert are still some of my favorites.

You should check some of his tunes at his own site.

Frank's work in the C&C series is varied.

THe original C&C was rock and techno.  Tiberium Sun was mostly atmospheric.  Red Alert was hard rock and industrial music.

Frank Klepacki is awesome, I stopped playing PC games roughly around the time Red Alert came out, so I've been catching up recently with stuff like C&C: Renegade, which is also really good. His website is AWESOME, has a lot of unreleased tracks.

The only thing is, the official OST for C&C has some annoying sound clips mixed in that aren't present in the in-game versions. I had to dig into the game files and rip clean versions myself.

But yeah, Hell March is a CLASSIC, although I prefer Crush and Bigfoot myself.

I was pretty amazed to see the article myself. I'm not a fan of Klepacki's work, and have unsuccessfully tried to sell my copy of the Tiberian Sun OST several times, but it is nice to see a VGM composer on the front page of anything, let alone Wikipedia.

I did take a listen and what I found was too 'American' for my refined, stuck-up, arrogant tastes. I can't explain why I don't like this style though - Hell March for example is pretty 80's and I love 80's rock.

Perhaps there's just that bias I've always had against American games in general; I wonder if I didn't know that if Klepacki's music was coming from something American I'd still be able to tell. Anyone have any unnamed tracks to test ourselves (I'm sure some of you feel the same way as I do)?

Yes!  Frank Klepacki deserved the respect and recognition as video game composer!  However, there's still a few more tracks that are yet to be put up onto his site.  Here's some that I can think of:

Tiberium Dawn - Canyon Chase (aka Industrial 2), Die!! (with vocals), Heartbreak
Red Alert - Afterlife, Await, Snake, Map Theme

I'm sure Frank still has a number of C&C songs that he has yet to be upped and revealed to the public.  I'd listen anything from his vault.  His website has TREASURE loads of unreleased C&C tracks spanning the entire game series, except for Generals and Tiberium Wars, of course.

I also managed to find a way around his jukebox and downloaded all the non-CD released tracks since they're embedded as MP3's disguised as Flash-embedded files.

discoalucard: The Sega Saturn version has some redbook tracks of Act on Instinct and Just Do It Up without the added samples.  I have the rips of said version.

Oh, and he's currently working on an RTS series by Petroglyph.  This is one of his tracks up for the Hierarchy side:

http://www.petroglyphgames.com/podcast/ … g_clip.mp3

There's currently word that the programmers might add in the jukebox system like the old C&C series.  They also might have customizable playlists to add in your favourite music!  Nothing beats listening to the Kana ~Little Sister~ soundtrack while smashing tanks and attack helicopters.