been donloading all of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ Original Sound Tracks (in the spc format) and have listened to a good number of them. in the process, i have found many Obscure(?) Oddities that are very Interesting, and maybe even among the best on the console. so i figured it might be fun to talk about soundtracks/music (including homebrew stuff!) from the Snes Gaming Console.

Do-Re-Mi Fantasy
really cool and unique ost that never left japan. reminds me a lot of some of the stuff on dami's snes album "distant islands", but i have 0 clue if it was an influence lolololol

Bounty Sword
Neat Japan-only SRPG ost. definitely on par with some of the best on the console, but the game lacks a fan translation

Dharma Dojo
Japan-only Puzzle game with a neat OST

I like to listen to the snes tom and jerry soundtrack on loop for as long as I can take
most of my favorites aren't unknown or anything cause it's just the normal turtles in time sparkster actraiser soyo oka shit. but I fucking love the stunt race fx ost. and I like the game a lot too once I psych myself up for the slideshow

This is my favorite piece of music on the SNES
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=32975

I think the OST of 2048 is underrated too

The Turrican series has long had a following, stemming from their Amiga roots but my intro was Super Turrican. The SNES publisher really enjoyed playing the dolby sound. The game itself is really over the top and I feel like all parts were put together separately, so I find a good chunk of the soundtrack to still be enjoyable without reminiscing on the game. Good on the original composer for selling on bandcamp
https://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/album/turrican-soundtrack-anthology-original-sound-version-vol-2

Clock Tower's soundtrack is sparse and is mostly a reworking of one song over and over, and I might associate my fonder memories with how the songs fit perfectly for the tension of the horror in this game. Of course the stand outs are "Don't Cry Jennifer" and "Kerosene" but I know it's the same freaking song with different treatments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKGj-NyL544
I was genuinely angry when I finally got around to playing the PSX sequel. Forget the cheezy voice acting, I was pissed they didn't keep this melody


Demon's Crest - I guess a capcom game isn't obscure and I know a lot of people prefer the gameboy game over this for gameplay, but I just love the soundtrack so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue7ZrhXB-og&list=PL89B635DF21CEF816

Chris Huelsbeck, also known for making the VERY FIRST tracker-like program called Soundmonitor, even before Ultimate Soundtracker! Anyways,

my favorite obscure SNES OST is called Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri. It's apparently a spooky visual novel game, so it has a number of spooky tracks, but my favorites are the more melodic and more rhythmic ones. But this OST is always on my vgm playlists.
https://youtu.be/i2WzM15_C-A?si=JVrLRTOmvuzHeFTp&t=1690

Another fun one is 4-Nin Shougi, with some really cool meditative tracks.
https://youtu.be/rv5kO_eQgUc?si=VDajhCFe6CeqOxlP&t=426

RPG Tsukuru Super Dante (aka RPG Maker) actually has some really good music! Really well done versions of some kind of 'standard' jrpg songs
https://youtu.be/SidDJg8nzDE?si=J7m58SAiThME3ZUO

Inazuma Serve Da!! has some good music, especially the Staff Roll:
https://youtu.be/RW-I_E7OJSE?si=GE2wGAZahSN_Qcju&t=647

Gundam Wing: endless duel is a really great guitar-centric ost, almost rivaling mega man X

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhPt7n-ALrSBV8vjtao7my13ce9I8eWc6

you don't gotta recommend obscure stuff exclusively!!

4ChannelsOfNoise already mentioned it, I love the Clock Tower OST too :D

Last bible iii gets an honorable mention from me, as does terranigma

There are so many that are good though

well if we aren't talking obscure we got https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRvYkrrpMKo

Last Bible III - People mostly know it for the Underworld Forest song that got popular on SMWC, but the whole OST is really magical. The fact that it doesn't use any echo at all continues to be impressive to me, and some of the samples used are really awesome. A very ethereal, extraterrestrial sound.

Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie - This soundtrack is like taking a walk along the rolling green hills of the valley countryside nestled in the mountains. Some of the peak of SNES orchestra music, the instruments almost dance around each other.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - The number of motifs racing through the game is hard to track, but it ties the world together so wonderfully. Most of the Chapter themes, especially in the first half, are bangers just by themselves, and even though the samples aren't always top-notch quality, the compositional chops here is phenomenal.

Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand - I've never played an Ys game but this just has a lot of good and cozy tunes.

Just a few. I could think of way more though, haha.

I just remembered the soundtrack of ISS International Superstar Soccer (normal and deluxe) has pretty good OST too

what no earthbound?????

straight up would stand out on a warp artists' compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6TEXfM3x5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGzXG4W_dc

Here listed are games with music I like, and some standout tracks from each.

I think all the Dragon Quest games on SNES have really evocative soundtracks, even I and II, there's something so quaint, yet grand about the way the small instruments are orchestrated. Good echoey sounds.
I - Overworld

III - Prologue

VI - Town

Drakkhen has a pretty weird soundtrack, but there are some really relaxing and interesting tunes in it. Has that early SNES vibe to it. I find early SNES game tunes using stock sdk sounds to have really fun music! (Super Mario World, SimCity, Pilotwings etc.)
House in Air Area

Staff Roll

SimCity - Budget

The JP exclusive Nintendo published games on SFC have good music too! Sutte Hakkun and Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajima are ones that come to mind.
Sutte Hakkun - Stage 6

Sutte Hakkun - Stage 9

Marvelous - Gina

I'm a big fan of Kentarou Haneda's music composed for Wizardry, and he certainly does not miss on the SNES ports of Wizardry V and VI, they both have a very classical vibe to the music, with Wizardry V almost sounding like a film score at times, and Wizardry VI having more ambient and immersive tracks while still having score-like tracks.
Wiz5 - Title

Wiz5 - Inn

Wiz6 - Dungeon 1

Both the Uncharted Waters games on SNES have very cozy seafaring tracks done by Yoko Kanno, although the first game I will admit is an acquired taste, with the simpler and sometimes detuned sdk instruments, though I like it. The second game however, has really good music with great piano sounds and latin/jazz elements!
1 - Occidental Port

2 - Wind Ahead

2 - Empty Eyes

As a really big Puyo Puyo fan, I've played the crap out of almost every Puyo game, which includes the SFC games. I would say for normal listeners, Super Puyo Puyo 2 has better music than Super Puyo Puyo 2 Remix, because Remix has kind of crusty instruments, but for some reason, I really prefer the crusty, detuned, sound that the Remix version has. It tickles my brain in a funny way. The spinoff Nazo Puyo games also have fun tracks with a lot of variety.
Area B - 2

Remix

Area C - 2

Remix

Nazo 2 - Intro

For you fans of Earthbound music wishing for more, I recommend Snoopy Concert, a JP exclusive Peanuts game for SFC that has some fun tracks, with a familiar sound to them. Hirokazu Tanaka worked on the music for this game, as well as Earthbound.
Pine Crest Elementary

Theme of Linus

Theme of Peppermint Patty

For a cute, silly, and overall jolly vibe, I really dig the soundtrack to Motteke Oh! Dorobou, a SFC game by Data East, which is full of fun-spirited tracks. The game itself is kind of like a board game centered around stealing and heists, but there is no translation and no .spc rips of the soundtrack for some reason, so I don't know where most of the songs play.
Overview

Board

???

Lord of the Rings on SNES is a boring game, and not a good adaptation of the source material, but it has some absolutely epic music. I even like the Moria themes and the stuff that is more on the ambient side, it's pretty immersive.
Title

Town

Nazghul

and a bonus!!!!
The Might and Magic III soundtrack for Super Famicom! An unreleased Japanese localization of the game was planned, but it was ultimately canned, and recently a YouTube channel by the name of Xeen Music miraculously managed to upload recordings of the soundtrack from the composer, Takeshi Abo, and the music is awesome! I truly think if the game was released, a lot of video game music enthusiasts would be listening to it. Sadly, probably will never see the game or a .spc rip of the soundtrack, since it is ultimately lost to time.
The Playlist on YouTube