Found a truly fantastic rendering of the "Into The Wind" track from Gradius III:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC0Q8fy_M8M

The problem is this particular rendering in Youtube has been somehow fubared. It's like the guy passed it through a bad dynamic compression or something before uploading, so the volume is constantly getting adjusted like a bad analog recording. Anyway, it is certain that the track did not originally have these problems. In fact, there's another version of the same track here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhsayTKfss

And the problem with this version is that it's been sped up for some reason.

Anyway, yeah, hoping somebody knows what collection this version of the BGM came from. (I can verify it's not in the "Gradius Ultimate Collection", which seems to maintain specifically only the arcade versions of Gradius music.)

The second video is the correct version. It is this album KICA-1001 | GRADIUS III - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/325), I can upload a lossless of this, but not now.

Thanks for the quick reply. It looks like that collection is already available here so we're all good.

Sorry for the late, I was busy. Here is:

GRADIUS III [REUP] (Thanks to Executable, the original uploader)
グラディウス III



Catalog Number KICA-1001
Release Date Feb 21, 1990
Publish Format Commercial
Release Price 3000 JPY
Media Format CD
Classification Original Soundtrack, Arrangement, Drama
Published by Konami
Composed by Konami Kukeiha Club
Arranged by Konami Kukeiha Club
Performed by

～VGMdb～ (http://vgmdb.net/album/325)

FLAC / CUE / LOG / SCANS



[900221][KICA-1001] GRADIUS III (FLAC+CUE+LOG+BK)[447MB]
～MEGA～ (https://mega.co.nz/#!ON5xUITb!LIe020XJWBH-Ni0Sa7l9mCXHrQqoxma9TxuK9TR9zTc)
pw: Sun7


～ENJOY～

I hate to necro this stuff, but would it be possible to get another upload? I can't seem to find this album anywhere, and all the links I've seen are dead.

Yes! I'm also looking for this one. : (