"Music" redirects here. For information on the albums, see Music Albums.
Introduced in Homestuck, the [S] command prefix indicates when a page has sound. While not conventional for a webcomic, this nonetheless means that epic moments are accompanied by equally epic music. Homestuck uses music for a variety of purposes: Haunting Solos, Background Music, and Casual Listening.
Thirty or so squeaky notes played on the flute Jade finds. As she doesn't know how to play it, all the notes are off-key and she mostly just plays them to be silly.
A feline funeral dirge for Jaspers and (when arranged for different instruments) a wild west song complete with melodic whistling and hoof clopping. · By Michael Guy Bowman
And the second half of Eternity Served Cold ♫ from Cherubim. The song was used in [S] Caliborn: Enter, but this part specifically only barely started at the end of the flash.
A large mash-up of many songs used for the End of Act 4 flash. Some of the songs include Upward Movement, Sburban Jungle, Squiddles, Atomyk Ebonpyre, Black, the Problem Sleuth theme song and Beatdown. · By Toby "Radiation" Fox
A number of remixes of previous tracks, tunes from EarthBound and altogether new songs are used in the Flash game Alterniabound. Many of them can only be heard by accessing the sound test room using Ctrl-T. All tracks are by Toby "Radiation" Fox unless otherwise noted. Almost all of the tracks are featured, albeit remixed, in Homestuck Vol. 6 ♫.
Karkat's Theme· Also plays here, although it's miscredited as Crustacean.
Frustracean· A remix in the style of Hardlyquin. The song file from Homestuck Vol. 9 contains only 50 seconds of actual sound. The first 25 seconds was used for [S][A6I1] Karkat: Mental breakdown., and the last 25 seconds for the hidden flash [S] Cage: Reveal plan., the 1:57 minutes in between is complete silence.
A song originally from Radiation's EarthBound Halloween ROM Hack that can only be described as metal, played during the destruction of the Trolls' Derse, Aradia's unexpected ascension, and Tavros' fateful battle with Vriska. A longer version of "Megalovania" included in Alterniabound, taking in motifs from Spider's Claw. Written by Toby "Radiation" Fox with sweet guitars by Joren "Tensei" de Bruin.
A song that plays when you enter a shop in Secret of Mana. Originally appears in the sound room in Alterniabound, and is later used in Terezi: Read note. By Toby "Radiation" Fox.
Two songs by Toby "Radiation" Fox were included in Alterniabound in Vriska's secret room. They were credited only as "two shitty nic cage songs". One was later released in Volume 6 as Nic Cage Song ♫, which briefly quotes the other song.
As Alterniabound's sequel, Kanaya: Return to the core has many songs, though lesser than the avalanche of music from Alterniabound. Like it's prequel, almost all of the songs are by Toby "Radiation" Fox, save for "Heir Conditioning".
Another Alterniabound successor, Equius: Seek the highb100d has at least the same amount of songs as the previous flash, [S] Kanaya: Return to the core – or, for the sake of readability, Returniabound. Though unlike the last two flashes, only two of its songs are made by Toby "Radiation" Fox.
This song actually has nothing to do with Homestuck. Andrew Hussie, being the bastard he is, stole it from Dave Strider's comic and credited to the artists on HIS music team. It's on the credits page and everything. · By David Ko
Rediscover Fusion Remix, originally used in Jade: Open FreshJamz! (among other songs), replaced by "Crystanthemums".
Kinetic Verdancy, originally also used in Jade: Open FreshJamz! (among other songs), replaced by "Potential Verdancy".
Skaian Dreams (Remix) and Can't Sleep, Harlequins Will Eat Me, originally used in John: Sleep (the beginning of the song) and in John: Wake up (the later part of the song), replaced by John Sleeps and Skaian Magicant.
Several Remixes (of Kinetic Verdancy and others) and Shatterface by Jared Micks, originally used in Rose and Dave: Shut up and jam, replaced by several other songs.
Several Beat Samples, originally used in Dave's Beat machine replaced by other beats.
Versions of the flash videos with their original music can be downloaded for free here.
Despite this awe-inspiring list of sick beats, several of which are lyrical, no named character has ever been voiced in-comic in any way. The closest example is in [S] Descend, where the tracks "Squiddles Theme" and "Friendship Aneurysm" interrupt the song. The Squiddle from "Friendship Aneurysm" is named in the track itself, but this section does not play in the comic.
After the release of coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, which had a number of lyrical tracks, Radiation released a fewresponses in regards to the voices in the music. He declared that there were no canon voices, Squiddles and Plumbthroat excluded, "But that doesn't mean you can’t enjoy some lovely vocal interpretations!!!", which is the best advice of all.
Lord English releasing the Vast Honk can be considered canon, although it's questionable whether this counts as a voice.
Mark Hadley, the composer of Harlequin and Sburban Countdown previously provided official music for defunct sprite comic Kid Radd - Homestuck's multimedia predecessor. Hadley remixed two of his fan tunes (Bogey's Theme and Radd's Theme) to create the music that accompanied the comic's end sequence.