"Fear Factory" is one of my favorite tracks from Donkey Kong Country, which you could say about almost any song from the game. Something about the slow build of the intro while still being interesting for 29 seconds before the xylophone/marimba instrument comes in. And even then, the keyboard/drums don't let up in the background. Then something about the synth sound at 0:43 to take over the melody is. . . I don't know, it's just perfect. Then at 0:57 when everything else pulls back except the synth(s) is great. Then how the drums and horns come back just as the song repeats is just such a great lead back into the song.
I did consider using one of the versions arranged for the Game Boy Color or the Game Boy Advance, but I think the original is just so ingrained in my brain that I'm like, yeah that one's good too, but this one over here. So that's why we're here.
tl;dr: This song is great and I love it.
P.S. One of the reasons why I landed on this song for this week is because the McElroy Brothers have been playing through Donkey Kong Country for the past seven weeks now in a bizarre way that is highly entertaining and at the same time, aggravatingly frustrating. For the last two (three?) weeks they have been in the Kremkroc Industries, Inc. where the music was featured in Oil Drum Alley and Blackout Basement. It's a fun and stressful watch.
P.P.S. And yes, I know that this version is not directly taken from SNES but the uncompressed audio that was on the DK Jamz CD.
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