Ranking the Best Music From the Donkey Kong Series
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Hi! welcome to day 3 of DONKEY KONG WEEK! All week long we'll be celebrating with Donkey Kong themed videos every day counting down to the launch of Donkey Kong Bananza. Today we're going to be ranking the best and most iconic songs from across the entire Donkey Kong series. This is a series with some of the best music ever so get settled in with us as we listen to these incredible songs. We already know we'll have to redo this list once Donkey Kong Bananza comes out because the songs in that game already feel like they will be next level. What do you think? Tell us your favorite Donkey Kong song in the comments below!
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| 0:00.0 | We are back with more Donkey Kong week. Donkey Kong week is in full swing. Powering on. Wow. |
| 0:08.2 | See what we did there? See what we did. Banana's still look great. They haven't turned brown. Wow. |
| 0:12.4 | They smell good. We are ranking iconic Donkey Kong music today. I think this is the series that has some of the best music ever. |
| 0:22.6 | Yes. |
| 0:23.6 | And we have a few different Donkey Kong games, |
| 0:26.6 | a few of the most iconic tracks that we love. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm sure you guys will feel different, but it's fine. |
| 0:32.6 | And we're gonna be doing a fun, like, blind-seated bracket. Elimination bracket. So we have picked 16 songs from the comprehensive history of Donkey Kong games. Not just country. No, they go beyond that. Right. And we're going to pull them out of a bag and we're going to seed them that way. And we're just going to listen to them and which do we like better. Right. And at the end we're going to have the greatest Donkey Kong song ever. Definitively. Through science, definitively, wow. I'm excited. I'm excited for this. And it will go down in history. It was tough to pick 16 songs. It was like, oh, well, what if I really want this? I mean, you're going to have to bump something else. |
| 1:12.2 | It was not easy. We had to do some elimination already. I know, I know. Just to get down to 16 because the music in this game is so good. So you'll find out what the songs are once we get to seating. But I will say we have, we counted how many songs are from each game. So we'll tease you with that right now. |
| 1:27.6 | We have five songs from Donkey Kong Country to four. how many songs are from each game. So we'll tease you with that right now. |
| 1:27.6 | We have five songs from Donkey Kong Country 2, |
| 1:31.1 | 4 from Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, |
| 1:34.3 | 3 from Donkey Kong Country, |
| 1:37.0 | and then one each from Donkey Kong Jungle Climber. |
| 1:40.5 | Wow, on the Nintendo DS. |
| 1:42.0 | One from Donkey Kong King of Swing on the Game Boy Advance, one from Donkey Kong Country 3, DS one from Donkey Kong king of swing on the Game Boy advance one from |
| 1:45.8 | Donkey Kong Country 3 and one from Donkey Kong 64 are apologies to the games that did not make |
| 1:52.5 | that cut sorry there's a reason there is a reason there is a reason a lot of the times when |
| 1:57.5 | Asan didn't make the cut is because it was a remix yeah some of these existing classic tracks. But do you have a little surprise? I'm going to show you something. Well, you see this? Do you have ready for your mind to be blunt? Well, this is a branded neoprene banana. Sir, isn't it? Well, let me show you something. No, it is not. It's a banana pocket. It's a banana pocket bag. and wow, look at that. We are going to be doing our seating by putting all of our papers into the bag. |
| 2:23.3 | Yes. |
| 2:24.3 | Give a good shake. |
| 2:25.3 | A good shake. |
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