What is the most ear shattering, indefensible, CIA-torture tier, merzbow-through-a-tin-can-on-a-string retro music you can think of. I’m talking even at it’s time, including all the technological limitations, it made you wonder if the composer lost a bet to make the worst shit imaginable. We always hear the best of the best, let’s see the worst of the rest.
I’ll start us off:
?si=d2grK1HoCjNCWh7Z
 Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
 UFOs Are A Psyop Shirt $21.68 |
Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
Obligatory
if this wasn't the first post I'd have been pissed
Also obligatory now that that's been mentioned
The speccy will never cease to amaze me.
This is funny to me because most bad music tends to be in bad or obscure games, but manic miner was very popular. Everyone was just good with “this”.
For someone who gets up in arms at zoomers over modern vidya, I have too much fun giving the Gen X lads at my local a hard time about shit like the Speccy
OI ME SPECCY
%3D%3D
To be fair, you kinda expect this level of quality from a Game Boy port
Wow, they puy FMVs on gameboy, neat!
Nah, that's great.
it actually sounds comically offensive coming out of your television speakers. Like being stabbed in the ears
I love how bad genesis music ranges from funny farts to ear raping saw blades.
The complete negligence the Mega Drive's sound chips were treated with baffles me. So many devs just opting to use the default soundfont without realising the diversity that was truly available, more than most non-streamed-audio consoles. Not before or since has the musical selection for a console had such a high ceiling, with such a low floor.
American developers literally could not into FM synth. They'd throw midi music into software that automatically converted it to FM synth and call it a day. They'd do this on PC too, though for some reason Soundblaster music just sounds weak rather than having that satisfying "ear rape" quality it did on Genesis.
You ever have a song that starts off promising, if somewhat off, but then the composer gets drunk after the first loop and things just spiral from
There is an actual melody in there, it's just that channels 2 and 3 are loud and harsh as frick.
(Video starts with channels 2 and 3, so you might want to turn it down)
I feel Eraser is worse, with the weird time signature. At least you can kinda tell what Spinball's options theme was going for between that game's general sound direction and even the song's general melody.
*from there?
>that fricking Spyro track
I was expecting Copeland to make some weird choices sure but fricking hell something must have actually happened in the studio. I am flabbergasted.
the funny thing about this song is that the only reason why it sounds promising at first is because it samples the gulp boss theme from spyro 2 so the only good part about it literally comes from another game.
Isn't that first part the in-between-level theme from Time Crisis 1 Special mode? The Kantaris hotel one.
I love me some harsh, eargrinding synths. This is precisely what I came in here for.
The last two I’ve heard before but that Golgo one….didn’t anyone think to mention how shrill some of those high tones are? Did not one person notice or care during development?
on HUSTLE comin up!!!
The sounds are good and the music is harmonic, it's just constantly moving in counterpoint at high speed
Sounds fine until someone decided that at 1:05 the melody needs "more chainsaw".
>What is the most ear shattering, indefensible, CIA-torture tier, merzbow-through-a-tin-can-on-a-string retro music you can think of.
THIS ENTIRE OST:
Surprised this hasn't been posted:
The sad thing is the main BGM is a fairly close approximation of the actual theme music. Maybe the developer ran out of time or budget, or was just mildly deaf and/or moronic.
I came here to post Mansion Basement. Truly, the sound of going into the basement.
Anyway, here's some insanity
I miss the now-deleted original upload of that song, it had so many fun comments
>They really captured the feeling of going down into a basement
>"Director's Cut" refers to the composer's salary
>I like how the first note tries to set up the atmosphere, then the song degenerates into a man dying of flatulence with an out of tune trumpet glued to his ass.
>Man, Charlie Brown must have really upset the teacher this time.
>You know, I truly believe this is an actual Samurogochi composition. Mainly because it really does sound like something written by a guy who doesn't know what he's doing and is used to having someone else do his music for him.
I forgot the best one
>I would fake being deaf too if I made music like this.
It actually sounds amazing if you take the exact same music and change what instrument it is in the synthesizer
that's actually good
Yeah which makes me think maybe it was just a frickup on a technical level and he couldn't say anything without blowing his cover that he's not deaf.
The Groose's theme of its time.
This is MKULTRA
This is bad and I also don’t really know what they were going for. Maybe they took 3d marble in a distant dreamlike state too seriously or something
Nah, whoever was in charge of making the soundtrack fricked up. The Japanese version sounds a lot closer to the arcade.
I want to know how the Gameboy version had so much better music.
?si=6M0Tyw61DxzXyp8W
was gonna post that one. Horrendous
GENTLEMEN, BEHOLD!
i rest my case
Music from these two Atari 2600 games by Mythicon. Needless to say, Mythicon is know as a creator of the worst games for Atari, even worse than infamous ET.
Fire Fly
Sorcerer (The game and music starts at 17s)
Speedball 2 US version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVc7n7xKmM
Now compare with the European and Asia version which is closer to the amiga
Doom 32X - The Imp's Song
Unironically anything from the old Sega consoles. That soundchip just sounds wretched.
Only in the wrong hands
>That soundchip just sounds wretched
Only when dirty Amerishart hands touch it. Nips make it sound like this:
?si=8Fd0OBi8RZzGo1yq
>0:18
They just couldn't resist putting in a least one "Sega brap"
I checked out the rest of the wild wooody tracks and they were honestly really good. It's just that one sucks.
The first Ninja-kun game on Famicom is painful. Also the DOS PC port of Bubble Bobble if you're using the PC speaker sound (it does however support sound cards).
Thank you Capcom, for learning you can improve past this
Genesis and Master System were pretty obnoxious but you don't know true ear rape if you haven't experienced the glory days of the pc speaker
>two radio stations
>bloop bloop bloop and bloopbloop bloopbloop
PC gamers will never recover from this tune, and neither will anyone else.
say no more senpai
It's wierd because this game overall has a really good OST. Then it blasts this earrape at you
Yes I know it makes sense in context of the scene in the game, Sakuraba isn't a hack, he made it discordant on purpose
I love san francisco rush but the music is abominable
inb4 what's your name
whhaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Merzbow is good though.
I just used it because the merzbox was an ancient Ganker meme, I actually really enjoy his collaborations with Boris. I haven’t been on that board in like a decade though, too much Kpop and zoomer rap spam, I can’t tell what’s ironic and what isn’t anymore.
Thank you, Ganker is unbearable in current year. Panchiko however was an amazing series finale. No bullshit, I went on Ganker out of habit that day to try and relive the magic and I stumbled upon that thread as it happened. Fricking sucks though, now that high has me checking in regularly to see if the board's gotten good again.
merzbow said he liked my band ;_;
he occasionally tripgays on mu
Casuals.
I know it's probably not much better but NES games audio is a much lower sample rate so it won't sound nearly as tinny
It's funny that glitching old pokemon games only makes the music better.
The Frigate theme from Goldeneye 64. Specifically the opening seconds it was pure ear rape and sounded awful.
great thread. i'm laughing how many tracks there are with tone sequences evoking "emergency, find shelter now, emergency"
There are none.
probably not among the worst offenders, but I absolutely HATED the soundtrack of Rayman on the Jaguar. the "soundtracks" in this game are rarely ever longer than 15-seconds and just earbleadingly bad.
>using a speaker designed to output error codes to make music.
Well, it is certainly ingenious. Did anyone actually play with that not turned off? I'm old enough to remember having PC Speaker as an option, but I certainly never used it instead of the Sound Blaster option.
Old PCs had proper speakers on the motherboard; it was just the circuitry controlling that speaker that was crap in most of them.
PCjr./Tandy 1000 made it work.