Worst songs from the best OSTs?

[Elysian]

Nothing will ever beat C418's music though, when you ask someone to think of Minecraft music I think 90% of the time the first song that'll come to mind is Sweden.

Gotta be Minecraft/calm1 for me:

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

DKC2 has one of the best OSTs in any platformer, but there's only one song that doesn't quite match the quality of the rest:

It has some strange whiny instrument that I think brings its listenability down a notch.

I'm still mad there was no C418 music in Smash. I get that the original songs wouldn't fit, but not even one remix?

I'm still mad Steve wasted a slot in the roster.

 

[Grub]

Easy answer.

Not that this is a bad song, it’s just by far the least good one in an OST that’s nearly full of masterpieces. I know every other song in Melee by heart but I can barely remember this one past the first minute or so.

I hate how that version is censored. As a kid playing dk64 the line 'hell of a guy' from a kid friendly nintendo game was one of those things that stuck. Hearing 'heck of a guy' playing smash was jarring. The song itself is pretty annoying and was cringey even when I was a kid.

 

[Croaking Spider]

DKC2 has one of the best OSTs in any platformer, but there's only one song that doesn't quite match the quality of the rest:

It has some strange whiny instrument that I think brings its listenability down a notch.

You know it's an old-school Rare game when the weakest track on the OST is still good. Seeing DKC2 reminded me of the Goldwood theme from Jet Force Gemini. It's not a bad track, it's just very... jungle, I guess? It sounds like it'd fit better in a Donkey Kong title to me. It fits the visual design of the level well.

It really stands out next to pieces with haunting choirs and orchestral sections. Especially tracks like the S.S. Anubis and Cerulean themes. The track composition in this game was great.

Robin Beanland (what a British name) really is something else. He also helped bring us this little beauty. There's just something wild about how much sound people have been able to squeeze out of the technology at the time.

In retrospect, Jet Force Gemini deserved more love than it got. I'd play a modern day Jet Force Gemini with co-op. It'd basically be a less autistic Earth Defense Force (or a proper Lost Planet 2 sequel).

 

[Two Dollars]

I hate how that version is censored. As a kid playing dk64 the line 'hell of a guy' from a kid friendly nintendo game was one of those things that stuck. Hearing 'heck of a guy' playing smash was jarring. The song itself is pretty annoying and was cringey even when I was a kid.

Even weirder because Melee was rated T, so they could have very easily gotten away with just using "hell". But I know what you mean; hearing any kind of strong language in Kid Icarus Uprising was jarring to me even amongst the overt sexual innuendos.

 

[Kheapathic]

Easy answer.

Not that this is a bad song, it’s just by far the least good one in an OST that’s nearly full of masterpieces. I know every other song in Melee by heart but I can barely remember this one past the first minute or so.

Reminds me of one of the boss themes in Star Ocean 3; not the typical boss music, with "rap" in it.

The funny thing about the lyrics, is they're in other games like Persona 3; and if I'm remembering correctly, they're generic sounds off some sort of sample platter, and thus aren't copyright.

 

[ShitLurker]

Gonna now bring FFVIII to the table. The game's mechanics were a mess with the junction system and everything being set to your level, the story is mid at best and the main character is one of the bigger assholes out there and leaves you thinking "this would have been so much better if Laguna was the main character". But it's OST is an absolute banger and I'd dare say my favorite FF soundtrack.

Buuuuut not all of them are winners

Silence and Motion is the track that plays in the obligatory secret high tech city. It's... peculiar alright. I'm not going to say it's bad, but it's so experimental and different to everything else that it stuck with me but not for the best of reasons

This in the game with one of the best overworld themes out there

EDIT: Oh, also forgot to add one of the grooviest battle themes out there too

 

[Kheapathic]

Gonna now bring FFVIII to the table. The game's mechanics were a mess with the junction system and everything being set to your level, the story is mid at best and the main character is one of the bigger assholes out there and leaves you thinking "this would have been so much better if Laguna was the main character". But it's OST is an absolute banger and I'd dare say my favorite FF soundtrack.

Buuuuut not all of them are winners

Silence and Motion is the track that plays in the obligatory secret high tech city. It's... peculiar alright. I'm not going to say it's bad, but it's so experimental and different to everything else that it stuck with me but not for the best of reasons

This in the game with one of the best overworld themes out there

EDIT: Oh, also forgot to add one of the grooviest battle themes out there too

I enjoyed VIII because of it's wonky/busted ass system; as annoying as it was to grind magic spells at times, but the FMVs were amazing looking for the PS hardware, too bad that and the soundtrack can't make up for all the other lackluster decisions.

Worst Track - Timber Owls

Who are the Timber Owls, well some might call them terrorists due to what they end up trying to do (kidnap a national politician). But they're pretty incompetent, mainly because they're led by Rinoa and they're really more of her rebellion against her military general father; and he turns a blind eye because he knows she's not that fucking good at anything. But still, they try to kidnap the President of Galbadia (and fail, but that's because it was a body double), and then move on to trying to assassinate the next head of state. We're literally trying to do some CIA nation flipping shit, and this is their music?

I'm not sure why, there are a number of excellent tracks on the OST; but somehow, across all the games, FF8 has my favorite Chocobo theme.

 

[Tactical Neural Implant]

Ultimate Doom, Doom II and Final Doom have amazing soundtracks but this is borderline unlistenable.

 

[Brain Power]

Can we put songs from games that haven't been released yet?

The rest of the soundtrack is probably going to be great, but what were they thinking when they put this niggermumblerap shit as the intro song for a very japanese game?

 

[Anti Bully Ranger]

Tokyo Xanadu is weak as far as sound goes for Nihon Falcom as its production happened during a transition of their JDK band due to managerial incompetance. While Nihon Falcom fans tend to over rate the music a bit, it is shocking that this piece of shit made it into a game made by Falcom. Singa, the guy who made this is a free lancer who had to fill in departing members and thus went from small backround BGM elements to having his poorly mixed songs with his facination with untuned instruments in a game.

You buy the Xanadu 30th anniversary game expecting some cool leitmotif of La Valse Pour Xanadu, or at least something good like Silver Will, but you get this instead.
https://youtu.be/o4q9otOwb_o?si=-k4kMaU562AGPXqh

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

There's just something wild about how much sound people have been able to squeeze out of the technology at the time.

That's the version from the CD soundtrack that came with the game. But honestly, even the SNES version is great. Rare milked the SNES for everything it was worth sound wise, basically one of the few non-jap studios that were able to match Capcom/Square/Nintendo.

Tokyo Xanadu is weak as far as sound goes for Nihon Falcom as its production happened during a transition of their JDK band due to managerial incompetance. While Nihon Falcom fans tend to over rate the music a bit, it is shocking that this piece of shit made it into a game made by Falcom. Singa, the guy who made this is a free lancer who had to fill in departing members and thus went from small backround BGM elements to having his poorly mixed songs with his facination with untuned instruments in a game.

You buy the Xanadu 30th anniversary game expecting some cool leitmotif of La Valse Pour Xanadu, or at least something good like Silver Will, but you get this instead.
https://youtu.be/o4q9otOwb_o?si=-k4kMaU562AGPXqh

It's pretty mediocre but I don't know about calling it a piece of shit. I've heard worse.

 

[std::string]

Wouldn't call RS3's soundtrack one of the best (Kenji Ito is good at battle music and little else) but this one sticks out as a total failure of music direction.

Annoying ambient jungle noises and some amen break ripoff on a short loop. Whatever.

Unfortunately the jungle in RS3 is one of those annoying mazes that repeats the same screens over and over and have fun listening to this for hours if you can't figure out where to go.

 

[Soycast Guy]

I really don’t like this song from Nier Automata.

The English one is the worst, because you can actually hear the horrendous and cringe lyrics. I’ve never understood why people like this song. Overall Nier Automata has a pretty decent soundtrack, not as good as Replicant, but nothing was bad like this one.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

All the songs from the Bionicle video game on PS2/PC are great environmental tracks that set the mood and tone for the biome you're in, but there is one that I think falls short:

In the same theme of Lego games, the Drome Racers game has an amazing, high energy, and dynamic OST. The worst one in the lot would be Monument Park. Really bland track.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I loved playing Dragon Quest Monsters as a kid, and this song isn't awful or anything, but the rest of the OST is better, and you can't help but compare it to Pokemon's battle themes, each of which just shit all over it, no contest:

I really don’t like this song from Nier Automata.

The English one is the worst, because you can actually hear the horrendous and cringe lyrics. I’ve never understood why people like this song. Overall Nier Automata has a pretty decent soundtrack, not as good as Replicant, but nothing was bad like this one.

Damn, that's not good, I forgot this version exists. I think the jap and instrumental versions are good, but this choice of singer is terrible. Might just be my nigger fatigue but I don't like her.

 

[Brain Power]

I really don’t like this song from Nier Automata.

The English one is the worst, because you can actually hear the horrendous and cringe lyrics. I’ve never understood why people like this song. Overall Nier Automata has a pretty decent soundtrack, not as good as Replicant, but nothing was bad like this one.

God, it sounds like some Celine Dion Oscar-bait shit.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Damn, that's not good, I forgot this version exists. I think the jap and instrumental versions are good, but this choice of singer is terrible. Might just be my nigger fatigue but I don't like her.

The English singer for Nier Automata was really bad. She has an extremely unattractive voice. Emi Evans at least makes this song somewhat more bearable because she has a beautiful voice.

 

[Pissmaster]

The most out-of-place song in Dance Dance Revolution:

Payday 2 plays a single looping song throughout your entire heist, and if you have it set to random, you might wind up heisting to a remix of Jingle Bells, which is annoying:

This song makes sense in context in-game, but isn't great when you're going through the OST:

 

[Str8Bustah]

Beatmania overall has some absolute bangers, but then you have this trashy meme song which gets played constantly for no other reason than that it's an earworm.