Gaming Music you Dislike

Magma said:
Gaming soundtracks where every theme is a variation of a main theme tend to bug me.
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I find that it really takes away from the soundtrack variety, and makes it feel less exciting when you reach a new area in the game. The last thing I want to hear in the advanced stages of a game is yet another remix of the same old theme. I still love a few soundtracks that do this, though (like Yoshi's Story, Wario World and VB Wario Land).
 
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I was pretty impressed with how well the Wario Land series tended to do this with the simple hardware of the Game Boy and yet recent games tend to fall pretty flat. Aside from the aforementioned awful kazoo music, the rest of the music in Yoshi's New Island just drones on.


 
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Angler of Lake Asparagus said:
The original Pokemon games for Game Boy that were insanely popular when I was a tween. I always found their music unpleasant and grating compared to other GB titles I'd played, especially older/less popular ones made by Nintendo R&D1 and Rare Ltd.

Years later when Smash Bros started paying homage to the classics with elaborate remixes, I got pretty cheesed off that those Pokemon games were the only thing to receive any real attention in the vast Game Boy library (apart from a remix of Super Mario Land's ruin theme).
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@607 Not too sure why you gave me a "disagree" rating. Are you disagreeing that I found the music in Pokemon less pleasing than other GB titles? I wasn't calling it bad, just mentioning why I personally disliked it (which is literally the purpose of this thread).
 
Angler of Lake Asparagus said:
@607 Not too sure why you gave me a "disagree" rating. Are you disagreeing that I found the music in Pokemon less pleasing than other GB titles? I wasn't calling it bad, just mentioning why I personally disliked it (which is literally the purpose of this thread).
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Yes.


Anyway: other than the already mentioned abomination that is Yoshi's New Island, I don't think there are any original soundtrack themes that I dislike. There are some very bad ports around, though... Especially on SNES and Amiga I've encountered arrangements of themes that are also on DOS or Atari ST that could've been done better.
 
This game and its music is awesome, but i kinda dislike this one is particular.

It is pretty good, until you get into that ear-piercing sound near 50 seconds in, and its worse in-game.
 
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