Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection

Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection
Compilation album by the Metal Gear series
Released	July 18, 2007
Genre	Video game music
Length	64:53
Label	Konami Digital Entertainment
Producer	Norihiko Hibino
Metal Gear series chronology
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Original Soundtrack (2006) Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection (2007) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Original Soundtrack (2008)

Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection is a compilation album released by the video game series Metal Gear on July 18, 2007. The album contains songs from various games in the series, as well as a new song titled "Metal Gear 20 Years History — Past, Present, Future —", a medley spanning the whole series. The album was produced by Norihiko Hibino, who also composed three of the album's songs and co-arranged two tracks.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Metal Gear 20 Years History — Past, Present, Future —" (instrumental)	various composers[1]	14:25
2.	"Snake Eater"	Norihiko Hibino	2:57
3.	"Virtuous Mission" (instrumental)	Harry Gregson-Williams	6:06
4.	"Yell "Dead Cell"" (VR remix; instrumental)	Hibino	2:27
5.	"Who Am I Really? — Memories of Hal — Reminiscence" (instrumental)	Hibino	8:00
6.	"Metal Gear Solid Main Theme — The World Needs Only One Big Boss!" (instrumental)	TAPPY, Gregson-Williams	5:47
7.	"Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday"	Rika Muranaka	7:37
8.	"Zanzibar Breeze" (instrumental)	Mutsuhiko Izumi	5:37
9.	"Calling to the Night"	Akihiro Honda (music), Nobuko Toda (lyrics)	3:16
10.	"The Best Is Yet to Come"	Muranaka	5:53
11.	"Calling to the Night" (piano version; instrumental)	Honda	2:48

Game references

• Tracks 1 and 11 previously unreleased
• Tracks 2 and 3 from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Track 4 from Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
• Tracks 5 and 7 from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• Track 6 taken from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• Track 8 from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
• Track 9 from Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
• Track 10 from Metal Gear Solid

Personnel

Performers Cynthia Harrell – vocals on "Snake Eater" Carla White – vocals on "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday" Natasha Farrow – vocals on "Calling to the Night" Aoife Ní Fhearraigh – vocals on "The Best Is Yet to Come"

Music Norihiko Hibino – production, arrangements on tracks 1 and 5 Yojiro Kudo – executive production Hideo Kojima – executive production Takahide Ayuzawa – arrangements on tracks 1 and 8 Shinya Kiyozuka – arrangements on tracks 5 and 11 Mutsuhiko Izumi – arrangements on track 8 Yukie Fuse – mastering Kazuki Muraoka – supervision

Artwork Ichiro Kutome – direction, design Hiroshi Banno – coordination Akira Kato – photography Yoji Shinkawa – illustrations

Notes

1. ^ "Metal Gear 20 Years History — Past, Present, Future —" is a medley of a number of compositions previously released on various Metal Gear games.

References

• "Metal Gear 20th Anniversary ~ Metal Gear Music Collection". Game-OST. http://www.en.game-ost.ru/info.php?id=710. Retrieved March 27, 2009. 
• "Metal Gear 20th Anniversary ~ Metal Gear Music Collection". Square Enix. http://www.squareenixmusic.com/albums/m/metalgearanniversary.shtml. Retrieved March 27, 2009.