Taito's house band ZUNTATA compiled the music from the first three Puzzle Bobble arcade games, and Kazuko Umino's compositions are absurdly catchy. "Let's Go to Pao Pao Island!" is the kind of bouncy, sugar-rush melody that lives rent-free in your head for weeks after one listen.
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The Nakayama MIX arrangements take familiar themes and push them through different filters, giving songs like "April Forest" a completely new texture. Even the seasonal demo tracks have personality, with the Christmas cut being unreasonably festive.
Fifty-nine tracks across three games worth of material, and not a single dull moment. If you've ever dropped bubbles in an arcade cabinet and couldn't stop humming afterward, this is why.