I'm pretty sure the slow version has never played in the seres. Presumably the slow version is how it was originally recorded, but it's played at double speed when used as BGM.

It actually did play at least once.

Oops. Well, disregard that, then. Now I feel dumb.

Added unreleased tracks for http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/153#Music as "Waninoko's Energetic Dance" and "Team Rocket Celebrates".

These 4 episodes were running Movie 3 promotion, and of course they weren't present in the copies. Oh well, not a big loss.
BTW, some of the "one-time" tracks do end up playing more than once, like "Snowball Attack" in Episode 158.

http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/155#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/156#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/157#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/158#Music

Unreleased music:

Episode 158:
13:43 (Nyarth suggests to go to the town and steal the other Psychic Pokémon)

Its always good to have the original airing whenever possible but these older Japanese airings are hard to come by so many years after they originally aired.

Added the track in episode 158 http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/158#Music as 'Rocket Gang Steal Psychic Pokémon'

The music for Movie 3 is now up as well: http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/572#Music

The Kogane/Goldenrod City arc is up!

http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/159#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/160#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/161#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/162#Music



Thanks a lot for putting up the samples. Some of the ones in Movie 3 are definitely used later in the series. I still can't understand why the producers don't seem to use Movie 2 BGM. The next movies are really going to be easier to do, since most of their music is released (or at least half of them). And their music is used in the series for sure.

Can someone just confirm if the song in Episode 162, at 04:48 is the one that I assigned? Thanks in advance.
Other than that, nothing to report.

Yup, Pokemon Neo is the right track there, I guess that's the first time the anime used the track.

I officially hit mid-Johto, as the episodes that I watched were quite boring, except for the first.

http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/163#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/164#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/165#Music
http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/166#Music

Unreleased music:

Episode 166:
01:37 (The group watches a Poppo being chased by an Onidrill in the air.), might well be from the 3rd Short.

I'm almost certain it remember hearing that tracker the other day somewhere else. I think its Movie 3 BGM actual but I'll have to review it again before adding it as a new unreleased track.