Ranking the WORST video game Music of All Time (Again)
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- I like to always try to find positives when I listen to video game music because i think seeing the good in things is important. However, does that apply to everything? Let's find out...again...
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Chapters:
00:00 Here we go again
00:17 Baccula - grandia 3
01:51 Bonus: C-R-O-W-N-E-D - Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe
04:03 Controlled Depopulation - Cruelty Squad
06:00 Character Select - Marvel Vs Capcom 2
08:20 The CheetahMen Theme - Action52
09:27 Fun House - Spider-man Animated Series vg
11:30 Burning Men's Souls - Persona Trinity
14:40 Woolie Bully - Bubsy 3D:Furbitten Planet
16:39 Birthday Cake - Jet Set Radio Future
18:32 Guardian Dragon - Dark Souls 2
20:19 Dungeon Man's Theme - Earthbound
21:36 On the Ground Chapter 4 - Drakengard 
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This is the track for jet set radio: ruclips.net/video/dcp5gPf7mhI/видео.htmlsi=WnvYT8MaqdQEN1w3 watch this at the same time in another window if you like. It got claimed so I swapped it out. Sad.
Oooooooh, that makes a lot more sense now
But also, your timestamp for Guardian Dragon should be 18:25, etc. as everything at the end is shifted now
I was wondering like "Damn I guess he *REALLY* hates bossa nova music"
Sorry... But this song still slaps if you appreciate some good roughness...
@@birdflox1337 I like roughness but not this kind
ohh i was like Marco destroyed a bossa banger
I was literally typing "damn, people really do hate jazz" during the persona theme, until the lyrics started 💀
I cackled at the first bar and cried when it just nonchalantly returns to the trumpets.
The funny thing is Trinity Soul is an anime and Burning Men's Souls is only played for a couple seconds at a time as a transition piece between scenes so the lyrics literally never play only the beginning piano and maybe the horns
I immediatelly went "Is that the carpet song?" And yes it was.^^
@@mystrenula3911 i see, then as an OST is fine, the full track is the problem (but it kinda has some kind of charm ngl)
man thought he was spitting bars, when he wasn't even spitting notes
I do find it funny how many people can't tell the difference between "a song that's unpleasant to listen to, on purpose" and "a song that's badly written/composed/performed." If a song makes your uncomfortable, and it's intended to make you uncomfortable, then it succeeded in its goal.
See also: 90% of all music in the Silent Hill games.
Right
We need a third round with ACTUALLY bad video game music. We should be ranking Call of Duty soundtracks.
@@yurifairy2969 eh CoD has had a history of great music. just look at MW2 which was composed mostly by Hans Zimmer. or Black Ops 1 and 2 which have some very iconic songs in them. Such as Savimbi's Pride, Adrenaline, and Rooftops. and let's not forget to mention the zombies soundtrack, both the Easter egg songs and the regular soundtrack.
@@yurifairy2969 at worst cod songs are generic war songs, but at best you have really good stuff like MW2 (2009), World at War and Black ops 1 and 2 ost.
@@frostsoul4199 COD4 had an awesome soundtrack too! All Ghillied up, Charlie Don't Surf, Mile High Club!
honestly there's bad video game music that are bad on purpose, to get a sense of disconfort.
I want bad music that is bad because it's BORING, I want the most uncreative generic fantasy field song
that is also what i want.
@MarcoMeatball the thing is by definition people just don't remember those.
The one that comes to mind is the entire soundtrack of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
@@MarcoMeatball The dungeon theme from The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass.
It plays for every dungeon in the game and you'll be listening to hours of it on every playthrough.
I'm willing to bet that people's dislike for Phantom Hourglass stems in a large part simply because of that.
Disney Fantasia on the Sega Genesis has a soundtrack FULL of horrid tunes, as Coney had found out with Prehistoric Jungle XD
People really need to differentiate between worst songs ever, and songs they don't like
Or good songs that appeared in crappy games like Cheetahman for instance.
@@FiveBagsOfNasu i think 90% of us knew it from cat mario/syobon action and that game is a game of the century
we're in the house like carpet with this one
I was wondering why you said that
Sucks hard since the rest of the song is good
man, they really got some random rapper off the street to do that. XD
@@UltimateGamerCC Even better, "The vocals for the song were lifted from the track Swiny House on the sample album Climax 9 - RAPsody (Vocals II) (0000), by German sample CD company Masterbits."
England is our city
I feel like the submissions for this series come in a few flavors:
-Songs meant to be childlike/whimsical/anything with wooden whistles (Yoshi’s Woolly World, Dedede, etc)
-Songs that are dissonant that are meant to be creepy or morose
-Songs that are good, but too repetitive (character select screen, the march song “on the ground” from near the end of the video
-actual bangers that have no reason being here
Like, over the span of two videos, I’ve heard very little “bad” music
last video was certainly "worse" with some genuinely poorly produced and created tracks. these were mid.
@@MarcoMeatball the entire OST of Drakengard 1 is fantastic actually. It is soooo worthy to be reviewed by you. It IS repetitive, but on purpose obviously. BTW almost every track of Drakengard 1 is a mash-up from samples of various classical orchestrated music (Mussorgsky, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov etc.)
All and all it is such a mad, schizophrenic, brutal experience, I felt in love with it
well it's hard to find actual bad music in video games, because you know, they try to make it good. And just finding some 1 dev game that no one plays wouldn't be any fun either
Honestly he needs to keep making these vids because I get certified bangers to add to my playlist XD
@@MarcoMeatball Resident Evil's Basement remix was indeed a bunch of farts. lol
The Cheetahmen theme is by far the only good thing the game had to offer, im surprised it even got nominated.
Wasn't that track used in Boshy? I certainly heard it somewhere, kinda like meme song
@@Vovich24 Whats Boshy?
@@samsaravalentine8365 its ultrahard platformer indie game. Full name is I Wanna Be The Boshy.
@@Vovich24 yeah I noticed it too and instantly remembered Boshy
@@Vovich24 it was also used in Cat Mario/Meme Mario, you might've heard about it because many RUclipsrs covered it
I'm not convinced the submissions for this series know what bad music is. Most of these entries aren't that bad.
I thought that, too. In fact, Action 52's BEST song was picked (Good Songs in Bad Games), & that same game has some of the worst video game songs in history:
Crazy Shuffle & Sharks are just annoying & hilarious sounds, Hambo's Adventures, Atmos Quake & Critical Bypass will make eardrums bleed, Laser League is literally a drone & Lollipops Level 3 is a broken mess.
I'm still salty someone submitted Giygas' theme.
ITS SUPPOSED BE BE LOUD AND UNPLEASANT BECAUSE ITS NOT THE MAIN SONG, IT INTERUPTS THE SONG
yeah, the entire existence of Cruelty Squad is to present how disgusting a world ran by corporations would be. Everything bad you can say about it is just window dressing for what the game represents. People die so much, that they're revived in flesh automatons, because death is not good enough of an excuse to miss an amazon warehouse workday. You kill a politician for introducing a single percent income tax to rich people. You kill the people you work for as a joke. The "upgrades" you buy can and do make your game actively worse. The only way you can reach happiness is by killing death, life and malice. Also one of the textures is just Elon Musk.
It's also another game in the series of "what is going on in Finland, and why are their games been extra peek lately".
Finnish people are the happiest in the world because they channel all of their dark urges and feelings into creating psychotic videogames (Cruelty Squad, Lakeview Cabin, Funger, Noita etc)
yeah, whoever suggested a song from curelty squad either doesnt know anything about the game, or sneakily/ironically put it there for macro to elucidate on it
@@chaoswraith if they were gonna suggest something why would they NOT suggest Bog business at least? It's hilarious for what its used for, but it would have suited this list far better
@@StormierNikwas gonna say that. Controlled depopulation is the most 'normal' song in the soundtrack. I can only assume somebody suggested the wrong track by accident 😂
Really weird suggestion. The songs are perfect for the game.
Fun fact about the Kirby song CROWNED. It’s actually the theme (obviously remixed) for the final boss of Kirby’s Return to Dreamland. The final boss eventually becomes reformed and makes theme parks for the different characters, including Dedede. Dedede’s Drum Dash is a deceptively hard rhythm game where you have to keep to the beat constantly. So a theme as fast paced as CROWNED makes for a VERY challenging final level. CROWNED is actually widely considered to be one of the best Kirby final boss themes. Though the first phase theme, Under My Control, is just as good too
We really need to get him to listen to more Kirby music
@@BiyikFrostDiaz we really need to get hım lısten to Sectonıa boss theme ıts very underrated ı am not talkıng about phase 2 ı am talkıng about phase 1 Sullied Grace/Dirty and Beauty
I like Under My Control better
aLSO THE SAME GAME HAS A REMIX WHICH IS MUCH BETTER THAN THIS ONE
too bad there isn't any song called under my control...
MvC2 gets a pass for all the incredible mash ups and re-mixes that use "I wanna take you for a ride," as a sound bite.
It is a shame that it was just one bite and not an entire song 😢
God bless the 8-bit Big Band for making an entire 4 minute version of it
Is that a character pick bgm? Why it last that long? The time for character pick should be less than 60s, I think.
@@luthien945sometimes you don't know who you wanna pick, sometimes you're waiting for your friend, when playing online there's also waiting for opponents, sure it doesn't need to be a 3 minute piece or something but repeating the same phrase forever is kinda crazy lol
I HATE repetition. Tekken 2 and 3 have GREAT select character songs, so why is MVC2 so shit? One fucking line over and over.
Crazy how Cruelty Squad was on here but not Bog Business... sewerbros did we lose
the slurpcore was not meant to be
That just means it is canonically peak
Can Bog Business even be classified as music though?
this is a grave insult to us blacksuppositoried and debased splurtchain enjoyers, its so over CEOver
@@Ashurman666 yes
That burning men's souls one had some of the goofiest lyrics I've ever heard.
Pretty sure I heard "He's not a cover he's a quilt"
Nah those bars go hard
Man thought he was Lotus Juice when in reality he sounds more like Hotdog Water
@@BetaDude40That's just Flower Liquid.
You did😅 I love it though.
Vanilla Ice has better lyrics than that
Check it out I'm in the house like carpet
Gonna start using this when I get hone
With that pfp this is a threat
@@thecarpman5 It is.
I feel like Dedede's CROWNED is here because the original C-R-O-W-N-E-D is that much better.
Yeah, it's also a theme not meant to be listened to alone, it's a fast theme made silly to not distract you much in the gameplay
Considering it was on a spinoff game, I would not find it surprising it was composed the way it was
@@BiyikFrostDiaz there are some goated spinoff tracks tho. this one is probably the worst offender
@@xdidudele1529 nah
I think the lesson to take away from this series is that we gamers are just SPOILED for music if this is what we think is "bad".
i agree lol
Not necessarily. Some of this is definitely shit.
@@gaminggoof1542 Oh, yes, some of it, but a lot less than most would think. I mean, at this point we start having to ask a simple question: what makes music "bad"? Is it just that the song sounds unpleasant? Because this ignores the situations where the music SHOULD sound unpleasant because that is the mood the composer is trying to set. The song from Kirby, for instance: it's meant to be jangling and disjointed in childlike fashion, and succeeds. It is intentionally unpleasant. Meanwhile the Persona song is more aesthetically pleasing but does NOT succeed at setting the tone it attempts for because of the quality ("quality") of the lyrics and vocal performance; it is unintentionally unpleasant. I think it is the much poorer song, even though everything besides the vocals are consonant with what is stereotypically perceived as "good" music. And then there's the nonsense with the Cheetahmen song being submitted merely because it's ADJACENT to bad video games.
And so I guess I should amend my original statement. I think the lesson to take away from this series is that most gamers aren't particularly music literate. =)
@@chrisn676 I'm not music literate, but even I heard a couple of these and thought, "This isn't pleasant, but it seems like it's made to fulfill a specific purpose and succeeds at it." Being unpleasant does not mean it's "bad" when something is as context dependent as soundtracks.
Maybe calling this a bad songs hot take would make more sense, at least 3 of the songs here sre iconic and great
Cruelty Squad Ost is not bad, that just fits in the game lol
that just how dystopian,weird,psychedelics,unnerving and uncomfortable the whole game is
Yeah quite a few of these are dependant on context, and if a song purpose is to make your skin crawl, i'm not sure you can say it's bad, quite the opposite
@@iota-09although the basis of the series is looking at how its structured and composed. It’s really obvious to tell when something is composed badly or sounds bad on purpose.
The mo of cruelty squad can be summed up as:
putting a lot of effort into looking like there wasn't any effort put in
Well the developer who made all the music of the game (and everything else in the game) says the music is poopoo caca he makes in less than 30 minutes
@@MarcoMeatball oh. thought you WEREN'T one of those people. I genuinely thought you didn't analyze things in a vacuum... I will not be returning. Really sucks because your first video was a banger and didn't do any of that...? What changed?
I'd argue that Earthbound also has some of the BEST music the SNES has produced. Dungeon Man's weird-ass theme is technically supposed to be bad, because he himself wrote it. This is a man who wants to literally become a dungeon for people to traverse through, and the bad song fits his quirky, weird character. As I recall, he has a 'traveling theme' as well.
Agree.
Yeah Earthbound's music is incredible.
100% its bad for someone out of context.
If i'm not mistaken, the developers had to downgrade the graphics to fit all the music on the cartridge.
@@BeWare_I_Live yeah in context its hilarious
"Check it out, I'm in the house like carpet" a lovely improv jazz was ruined the moment that the voice from beyond spoke those words.
That random unprovoked "turtle" thrown in to the lyrics was the cherry on top. Never cook again, whoever wrote these lyrics. Lmao
Crazy how the entire lyrics can be described as "bro really thought he was cooking with this"
Nah let him cook. We get more laughs when he does.
Fun fact: the rap isnt even from persona. Its a sample from a german studio specialising in makin samples for other uses.
@@nightg4mer810 The Japanese composer (Taku Iwasaki) just wanted some rap and got a sample, but didn't realize how horrible the English lyrics were. Didn't matter for the most part though, since the game was mainly made for Japanese audiences.
@@Conorator wait, Taku Iwasaki made that?! I knew this man was godlike but holy smokes
Context for Dungeon Man from Earthbound: He's a dungeon enthusiast who made a bad dungeon with a bad dungeon theme
Also you really should react to the entire Drakengard 1 ost, it's insane, on purpose
"This music is one of my greatest accomplishments"
Drakengard makes me feel insane
The OST is clearly playing in Caim's head at all times.
The music and sounds in EB were amazingly crafted, the limits that were pushed are insane. I’m having fun picturing someone’s first encounter with its music being this video hahaha, hopefully they see the humor in it rather than being turned away from the soundtrack
He turned himself into a dungeon, funniest shit I've ever seen
Dollar Store Lotus Juice was trying his best.
Flower Water
Please never let this series end LOL
I definitely agree. I liked this video.
Drakengards OST is a godlike OST in Context. out of context it’s repetitive, disturbing and mentally draining. But in context. That’s the point. Also from what I know all of the themes are famous classical pieces remixed into something unrecognisable, I find that so interesting. Also the composer just vanished after making the ost. It’s his masterpiece I guess, so interesting.
Yeah, the sound of Drakengard is intentionally "competent orchestra falling down the stairs while still trying to play". It's *dissonant* - not bad. It's just trying to hurt you.
as a drakengard fan who listen to the full ost on the train I can absolutely agree,
15 hours of torture
Are you referring to Nobuyoshi Sano? He didn't really disappear. He composed for a few more projects over the next 2 years and was plenty active as an arranged for the following decade.
I got confused at birthday cake I guess it got copyrighted? To JSRF Fans it is definitely the most divisive track in a stellar soundtrack.
Yup. Pinned comment.
for a moment I was really confused thinking that was really the song until I found your comment 😂
I love JSRF to death and that's one of my least favourite tracks, it gets annoying so fast and you can't really change it on Story Mode 😅
I was like "this just souds like a shop theme?" Then he mentioned lyrics and im like ????
When I saw in the comments that the vocalist is Noodles from the Gorillaz I liked it twice as much
That Kirby song was only bad because they intentionally made the flute very sharp. Nintendo had a phase where, to be "cute," they purposely made instruments out of tune. A bunch of the Yoshi games did that, as well as K.K. Slider's whistling in Animal Crossing. Drives me crazy, because the songs are otherwise so nice.
Can that definitely be pinned on Nintendo though, if each song was made by different composers?
fucking hell that one synth in Launch Octopus, owwwwwwww.
That isn't a Nintendo thing, that's a Japan thing (for a certain time at least, maybe it's out of fashion now).
Sometimes I think people conflate “bad game” with “bad music”. Action 52 and Bubsy are awful games, but those songs weren’t bad at all. Bad games can have good music, Sonic 06 has one of my favorite OSTs of all time.
Also Drakengard has some much… harsher tracks in it, that one wasn’t too bad
burning men's souls is truly one of the songs of all time
“He not a cover, he a quilt” 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
WHO said the marvel vs capcom 2 character select sucks, imma fight them. it is just a really long loop though so thats fair
TO also be fair, its a character selection screen, you'll be there for like 30 seconds at most honestly
Still, the loop drove me mad
You want an actual character select song that is awesome then try Tekken 2 and 3
I think it sucks as well. Even if it's meant for a quick thirty seconds, that's thirty seconds of 'I wanna take you for a ride' followed by a tiny instrumental piece, then a repeat. As far as character select themes go, it's bottom of the barrel. Only reason it's popular is because it's attached to MvC 2.
@@IshikawaGoemonIt’s a banging 30s though
Mvc3 did it more justice
Some of these I feel people misunderstood the assignment. Like they saw the phrase "worst video game music" and interpreted it as "music from the worst video games," instead of "worst music from video games."
yeah, like drakengard's music was intentionally made BAD.
@@Oybon200 drakengards music is amazing with the game's context in mind
@@MaxSchmidGame yeah i know 🤑
Marvel vs Capcom 2 "Take you For a Ride" is an absolute banger that's 10 seconds long... 8Bit Big Band did an AMAZING fleshed out cover of it... Give it a listen.
Their rendition is absolutely amazing
"Take you for a ride" is actually terrible and I'm glad someone actually submitted it for this worst songs list. It's just nostalgia that allows any of you miscreants to pretend it's good.
@@arkainjalex12 i mean, i don't have nostalgia for it at all and i think it's a banger, but everything's subjective
@@arkainjalex12
nah, I never played the game, and it's great. It's just way too short
The persona fandom goes after burning mens soul because of the lyrics for sure. Like who the hell wrote this. Lotus juice would never
The lyrics are from a rap sample CD. Lotus Juice is on record saying the lyrics are awful that he denied a request to sing it
A shame cause otherwise it’s good. Damn good.
The second he said “Spider-Man funhouse” I got giggler flashbacks. (Also I can’t believe he actually found it except-able lmao)
shoutout to the editor for appreciating Cheetahmen. if anyone hasnt checked out the Boshy remix for that song youre missing out!
The I Wanna Be The Boshy remix is geaat
I'm pretty sure Trinity soul isn't even a game, people just add it because Persona.
Earthbound has so much weird music that I never even realized how grating dungeon Man's theme is. He's literally a man transformed into a dungeon, and that plays inside said dungeon.
The joke is that Dungeon Man supposedly wrote the song himself and since his dungeon sucks so does his music, it's all part of the same joke
@@emile_jeanne Ah, that makes Sense. I like that
when I recommended it I didn't even know trinity soul was an anime lol, I just think burning mens soul is the funniest song I've ever heard and he should hear it too lmao
@@emile_jeanne thats very similar to "really bad song" from everhood ost... dungeon master had to change the story midgame cuz of complaint and the song is supposed to be just thrown together in 5 seconds just like the new story.. tho its not that bad of a song imo
Dungeon man wrote his own theme song and he's no mysician, i can excuse that
I kinda want to make him hear the Pumpkin Hill song from SA2, not because it's one of the worst, but because the lyrics have been written like an hour before recording 🤣 And this song won't get out of my head
Problem is Pumpkin Hill is atleast a 9 out of 10 on a best song o meter😂
I genuinely love burning men's soul because it's like a normal jazz song got plunged into the depths of hell for 40 seconds only to be pulled back up just to continue its day like nothing happened
Sounds like jazz to me
Burning men’s soul is so notorious that we got it on this list even tho it’s an anime
Man some of those don't even come close to that horrid, HORRID options menu song from Sonic Spinball.
honestly if the console had a better soundchip or they used something other than that ear-grating tesla coil, it'd actually be really good
except the ATGames version, we don't talk about that one
@@Imnotdead0424 The YM2612 is actually a great soundchip, as shown by games like Sonic, Ristar and Treasure's games. The issue with most Genesis games is that most of the composers didn't understand the chip and used the awful stock sounds from GEMs, which was an old sound driver. Sonic Spinball was developed by Polygames and not Sonic Team, so the SEGA sound team didn't work on the music, which is why it sounds that bad.
@@Jubilant-- oh yeah i guess that's fair, i was mainly referring to the tesla coil in the soundchip
@@Jubilant-- Weird though, because that's the literal only bad track in Spinball, with the two best (imo) being Toxic Caves and Lava Powerhouse. (boss theme is great, too.)
I feel like a couple of the tracks in these videos are just people confusing "I don't want to listen to this in my car or on a walk" or "this track requires the context in which it exists" with being objectively bad.
Yes. As an example from film, the Jaws theme is kind of unpleasant, I would not put it on while driving or while chilling out at home but... it would be *insulting* to say it's bad.
This series should be rename to the "Funniest" instead of Worst. Lot of the tracks just makes me laugh, these are hilarious.
An interesting tidbit about Birthday Cake is that it's sung by the original singer for Noodle from the Gorlilaz.
The Rapper on that Persona track should never legally be allowed to rap again.
If you call that crap rap 😂
Never cook again
It's strange how this is the first time you've heard "Crowned" from Kirby... if ya ever get to the actual song, a nice paring would be "Under My Control".
oh yeah Burning Men's Souls is here, he finally listened to peak music
10:33 it's like I'm listening to a RUclips poop
More like this song is poop
You aren’t wrong
That's exactly what I thought I was like "This is a ytp in audio format"
Glad to see that Editor and I are on the same page with Birthday Cake lol
I think people are fast to claim a music is "the worst" when it's inside a great game that has many cool musics, when in reality it's often "okay" or just mid, but pale in comparison to the others
The theme to Hong Kong '97 definitely belongs on the list.
WO AI BEIJING TIANAMEN
Nah man that's a banger
True
again, Repetitive? definitely, but bad?? answer me this, do your ears bleed upon extended listening? does it keep you from continuing to play the game because it makes doing that too hard? Repetition is not that big a deal really, i mean yeah it can make a track mid, but there's far worse.
Saloon music from "The Town with No Name".
It took me until The CheetahMen Theme to realize that your scale is backward because that song was a damn banger and I thought you had committed some kind of atrocity by rating it so lowly lol
really? You didn't realize when he rated ALL of them lower than the first song?
@@McBehrer Hey, people are entitled to their opinions. I thought his comments were a little misaligned with where he was putting them, but again, I figured that was just the way he was rating them lol
I agree with the editor, "Birthday Cake" its actually a nice chill tune
I was very confused. He kept mentioning lyrics too
No it’s not but it’s funny. Cibo matto is definitely something
@@JohnathanJWellsThe song being played in the video isnt the actual song, it got removed for copyright
@@pineapplepenguin1759Ah, I was wondering about that too. So it sounds like elevator music because it was. But tbh not bad elevator music.
That said why keep that portion in the video?
@@gaminggoof1542 If he wanted to still have his opinion on the song in the video, think he should have just muted it instead of replacing it with something else, that just makes it more confusing
I can almost appreciate how you know you have it really good with all the top tier music, you need to cut the richness with stuff that makes you cry inside
you need to be on that ceo grindset and listen to more cruelty squad ost, the music is an experience that you have one in a lifetime
The Gambino's Quest of OSTs, that's for sure.
Oh my god I'm so excited for Burning Man's Soul!!!
edit: that muffled, overwhelmed "WTF" did not disappoint. I spent the entire instrumental build up just snickering because, unlike you, I knew what was coming.
A horde of mahvel fans descends upon ye. They want to take you for a ride.
take that fight to the hater that suggested, even Marco is in disbelief.
A few things to note.
1. There are two versions of Action 52. One on the NES and one on the Genesis. The Genesis Cheetahman theme (while still not exactly bad) is way more annoying in my opinion
2. The Dungeon Man's theme is totally a joke track. You literally find a sign that says "this song is one of my greatest accomplishments" in the place where it plays.
3. Drakengard's whole theme is madness and helplessness. The soundtrack being grating and repetative is exactly the point.
The Dedede song sounds like a boss song with the "wrong" instrumentation to me. They had the band for the first world in the studio and made them record the end boss song.
It is final boss theme
It 's magolor soul theme from Kirby Return to dreamland and it has been remixed quite often
Yeah its a final boss theme. The OG is incredible
Fighting game character select music typically plays for 30 seconds or so at a time (could be as high as 60 or as low as 15 depending on the game). Most of the time you hear this right before entering a battle, so these songs set the tone for what’s to follow. Some of them only loop once or twice, and some are long enough to not loop at all. Great examples of character select music would be Actor’s Anteroom from Melty Blood, Gathers Under Night from Under Night In Birth, and the character select theme from Soulcalibur VI (which was even played during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics)
Exactly
I still think they coukd have extended the motif to not feel so repetitive after just 20 seconds, but indeed that's why they didn't give it a longer loop
Glad to see some sensible people
The fact there is a Kirby song in this video makes me want to throw hands
Great, now I want to see Marco listen to the original CROWNED theme from Kirby
Also in terms of terrible VGM's, Eagle's theme from Street fighter 1 is hard to listen to
I wanna see him listen to all of Street Fighter 1's ost
I was shocked to see Crowned's Dedede Drum Dash's rendition on this list, but I'm happy to see you appreciate parts of it! If theme existed in a bubble maybe I'm not sure I would enjoy it as much(?)
But as a rendition in a totally different style and mood to the original Crowned theme, I really enjoy it!
I’m one of the peeps who suggested that Spider-Man song, my bad, I get that it has charm. Just not my cup of tea and I can’t imagine a whole level of it lol
But I reiterate my other options, with explanations for each(copypasting from my original comment with more info added):
Urban Yeti: Sewer Theme (strange meter with off-putting midi choices in an already weird bad game)
The Terminator (NES): the sewers (maybe it would work if it was an area you only visited for a few seconds at a time, but this is just a single note played in repetition)
Street Fighter 1: Sagat’s theme (again, just really grating midi choices, I’d imagine if it were played on real instruments it would sound better)
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer: Lyle and Lottie’s theme (bad on purpose, but very funny)
Wild Woody: Treasure Caves (jerks you all over the place, but also goofy and worth a listen)
Double Dribble: National Anthem (let’s get the one programmer to sing the national anthem, wcgw)
Final Fantasy X-2: Chocobo Theme (again, it might just come down to a personal discomfort with dissonance, but whew, the trumpets)
Evergrace: Buying Goods at Palmira (sounds like it was performed by bees, idk how else to explain it)
Man, we just got such different tastes. That Spiderman Level music, Evergrace OST, FFX-2 are all great. I will say, though I'd agree on Sagat theme midi is... bad, and so is what happened with Double Dribble. Gonna check out the Wild Woody Track because we disagree so much on the other stuff.
@@joshuabateman829 admittedly most of my picks are either for the funny or the shock factor, I would pick a truly boring and uninspired song if I ever remembered any (which is part of why making a ranking of worst songs is hard, people pick things that surprised or upset them instead of stuff they forget about which should be highlighted as mediocre)
I think the Grandia song is in a similar situation to the Basement Theme, where just switching the midi soundfont would smooth things over quite a bit.
Drakengard’s OST is actually incredibly interesting and an experience in itself solely because it samples small parts of orchestral classical pieces such as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Petrouchka to create it’s chaotic, heavily dissonant atmosphere which really completes the game’s grim and twisted story. It’s especially gratifying when the ear starts to find a melody to the chaotic patterns in many of the songs that play during combat. I recommend giving it a listen, maybe you’ll even recognize some samples!
The funny thing about Burning Man’s Soul to me is that I’m pretty sure the entire vocal section is a sample. So someone heard that, made a really good jazz beat for it, and just said “this is good. Put it in the anime”
I actually have Drakengard's soundtrack, and it has my favorite song in any game, route b staff call/ growing wings, but that song is something else
What I will say about ch 4 on the ground is that I like the song, but I can't call it a "good" song
Interestingly, Marco listened to Growing Wings during a NieR/Drakengard music stream. He said it made him uncomfortable and he didn't want to listen to it again. So it surprised me that he actually liked Chapter 4 On the Ground. Though I guess Growing Wings is more dissonant and does something weird with the left and right channels, while Ch. 4 is just repetitive. And also he listened to Growing Wings in the context of it being surrounded by amazing NieR music, while this one is in the context of "terrible video game music".
Another video game OST reaction channel I watch RPGeebz (spinoff of Key of Geebz) actually really liked Growing Wings and saved it to listen to again later.
@@SirStrangefolk yeah I did actually see that other guy react to it too
Someone really hate the composer of that cheetah song for no reason to leave a footnote like that
The cheetahmen ran off…
and now…
*the cheetahmen*
I realized the Cheetahman theme is the cat mario theme lol
Love this series!! I brought up this track after watching part 1, but the Sewer music from Urban Yeti absolutely needs to be covered. It is horrendous.
I think for the marvel vs capcom character select loop, they really expected players to only spend like 10 seconds in the character select screen. Maybe psychologically a short loop will even make people want to get past the character select screen asap, speeding up how fast people go to the actual action.
11:30 Fun fact: the vocals are from a sample cd (Masterbits CLIMAX 6 Rapsody). Listen to it
This might make for a good running series every now and then! Its interesting to see what songs people consider 'bad'. Maybe you could include comments (anonymously) with the submission to see why they feel its a bad song?
I think we need to re-evaluate who compiles these lists lol. I really enjoyed the video!
The character selection screen literally just needs a section without the lyrics and a B section and it's gold
I like how Mark said it was family friendly show, but the Earthbound song was so bad he's like "put it at 10, fuck it." LMFAO
Persona Trinity Soul is not a game, it's an anime.
Sneaky commenters!
it's too good he had to hear it
btw i also wanted to say part 1 of this series and this video has me interested in your channel, subs up. definitely like Video Game Music and will be happy to hear your take on more. wouldnt mind if you did entire video games like as if they were albums.
For birthday cake I think the reason people think it’s bad is because it literally sounds like elevator music. Like I genuinely thought I was listening to a commercial when I was heard it.
“I’m in the house like carpet” 🔥🔥✍️
I just came from the first vid and screamed when I saw burning men‘s soul because its been an inside joke in my friend group for MONTHS
noice
bruh XD 17:53 editor spittin fax though
In fact, I wouldn't even say it is one of the best games, I'd say it is THE best game of all time
MvC2 has the timer on it's character select right? So you're only going to have 30 seconds for the 5 second loop to run maximum
Our poor boy Dedede deserves justice
Cruelty Squad, in or out of context, is one of the most schizophrenic inclusions in any discussion.
The reason why the MVC2 character select music isn't fleshed out is because it's made for a character selection screen. Something you're not spending a lot of time on. I don't think it's terrible at all... well, unless you listen to it outside of the game lol.
Isn't there a timer on the character select screen too? Like you don't have an option to select them slowly
There are many fighting games with a much better Character Selection theme, this is just a lazy excuse marvel fans use.
@@MKMadnessUMVC3’s character select theme is awesome
Even then is just way too short for a character selection menu, I imagine playing this couch co-op would take more than 10 seconds to decide on the character I think
@@Bane_Amestaco-op? What do you mean?
The reason why people put DS2 songs in it is because a large chunk of the community lobotomizes themselves to believe that EVERYTHING about this game is the worst that has ever been.
I don't like a lot of the level and enemy design mechanically, but the music and visuals are not bad at all
Sounds accurate. I actually liked that dragon song.
It's like the weakest OST in the trilogy, and its still pretty good
I actually think that DS2's OST has both the strongest and the weakest songs of the trilogy. Many are very generic, partly because Sakuraba had to compose without finished concepts to actually know what he was composing, but many others are exceptional. Majulah is the obvious one, the song that plays when visiting Vendrik's tomb is spine-chilling, Fume Knight is an accurate musical depiction of fighting inside a forge. And many others are just eery and creepy in a way that capture the game's strongest moments perfectly. It's a flawed game with a flawed soundtrack, but the moments that work are really good.
@@Kloerb TBF I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad DS song
I'm so glad my Fun House recommendation made it on this list, it absolutely snaps my funny bone, it's utterly absurd.
The best part about the rap in Burning Men's Souls is that it's a sample, so someone listened to it and went "Hell yeah put that in this jazz track, it's what we need, this really jank rap."
The whole first Drakengard game is "Anxiety inducing music to work out to (And have a panic attack to)", I recommend some of the other pieces, stellar performance. Your assessment is actually really good given the tone and the MC's state of mind. Growing Wings is genuinely very good and does a lot of the "Chop up classical pieces and rearrange it to create anxiety", very unique identity.
The Evergrace OST is also definitely up there on "What?" because half of it sounds like it wants to be good but they smashed 3 songs together.
Idk how long the levels are in that spiderman game, but that Funhouse song would definitely become intolerable after 10+ minutes
My guess about the Marvel v Capcom select screen is that they needed to save storage space. There's probably a full track somewhere that resolves. They just set a loop and cut it to be able to fit another superhero or something. Just a guess though.
I ADORE Drakengard's soundtrack. Drakengard's music is essentially classical music samples clipped together to make these discordant, horrifying pieces, the soundtrack is supremely unsettling. The game is dark, its themes are dark, it's bleak, a lot of the game's endings are completely hopeless and there is no ending that is truly a good ending, just ones that are less bad. The music is absolutely perfect for a game like that. I would love to see you take a look at some more of Drakengard's music overall. A lot of the music in the first game at least is like that, very repetitive and chaotic, but the discord in it evokes a powerful feeling of dread and panic.
I've been hoping to see Sagat's theme from Street Fighter 1. Someone in the comments described it as sounding like someone is torturing a Sega Genesis, and I have to agree.
Agreed, was about to suggest the same. Apparently it was an attempt at imitating traditional gamelan music, but the attempt really fell short.
I’m really enjoying this series, a lot of these are very comedic 😂
This is my favourite series by you by far. Not everyone understands music theory. But everyone hears when music is bad. Its funny and also informative.
The vocals for Burning Men’s Soul comes from an early 2000s rap sample pack called “Masterbits Climax 6 RHAPSODY” - some other games like Sonic Rush and the first Yakuza use other samples from it.
It genuinely kinda pisses me off to see birthday cake in lists like this so much. It’s such a fucking banger, and it’s seriously my favorite licensed track in JSRF.
We are here once again confusing music meant to sound goofy or unnerving with poorly written music. Media literacy is dead example #385962
Hahahaha
That applies only to Cruelty Squad and Dungeon Man, I think. And maybe Guardian Dragon as well.
@@Banazir-uz9zt and the fun house theme
And the crowned remix Kirby theme
It’s like half the video lol
@@foggy8298 And Drakengard's OST being regular-ish classical music that gets more and more fucked up as you progress through the game. It's not an accident that they ended up with the "sound of classical orchestra falling down stairs trying desperately to stay in tune and rhythm"
Pretty sure the spiderman one sounded like shit
Just found these videos and love them - I'd be really curious how you would react to my all-time favorite video game soundtrack, The Neverhood :)