The most unfitting music in a shmup

[Captain]

The most unfitting music in a shmup for me was the mid-boss of the fnal stage of Hydorah.
Wacky accordion music or something...

how about yours?

[fireleo4]

The 2Unlimited Soundtrack just don´t fit. The game was crap too. Also the Score of 1942 is horrible. Sounds like the soundchip has some serious issues.

Regards,
Rynex

[Captain]

Blasphemy, the Runex theme rocks!

[BIL]

I've never found Salamander's bouncy stage 2 or 4 BGMs suitable, in comparison to either the game's sci-fi style or the much darker stage 1, 3, 6 and boss BGMs.

I guess the feeling was mutual at Konami since those (along with stage 5's) are exactly the ones replaced in Life Force, the awesome "Thunderbolt" being a real standout. Unfortunately Life Force, unlike the still very sharp-looking Salamander, looks like shit these days with its half-hearted palette swaps and garish colours, so the audio benefit is firmly cancelled out.

Come to think of it, it sounds awful too with the gimmicky "talking car c.1986" announcer.

[Kollision]

Master of Weapon stage 5. Just retarded music, it seems the composer was having a seizure or something.

[louisg]

PSX port of Viewpoint

[Captain]

Why is the game called View point anyway...I always wondered...

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

Both Truxton games. You see the skull motif thinking you're in for the most metal shooter of all time only for an overwhelmingly whimsical soundtrack to try and sedate you while shit is trying to kill you everywhere. Also, R-Type is one of the darkest shmups out there, but you'd never guess it while rocking out to The Third Lightning's soundtrack. Also, Vimana's Bit Man is hysterical. It's almost like a sound zebra finches would make.

[Estebang]

Zed Blade.

Thread over.

Still, it's a guilty pleasure, and notable for being one of Manabu Namiki's first soundtracks.

[Darkseed]

2nd stage in Border Down. Goddamn those first few bars are so obnoxious it's like punishment for dying.

Seriously I don't know what crack they were smoking when they put a 70's sitcom theme in a futuristic badass shooter.

[Kollision]

2nd stage in Border Down.

Are you serious?
that's the best BGM in the whole game!
And I don't think it's unfitting at all...

[mrsmiley381]

2nd stage in Border Down.

Are you serious?
that's the best BGM in the whole game!
And I don't think it's unfitting at all...

I wouldn't go that far, but I do think it's a pretty fitting and enjoyable track.

[Vamos]

Zed Blade.

Thread over.

Still, it's a guilty pleasure, and notable for being one of Manabu Namiki's first soundtracks.

Wait wut? Zed blades soundtrack is both awesome and perfect.

[evil_ash_xero]

Border Down always struck me as really odd.

[ratikal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzjIubw ... age#t=387s

Is this a shmup or Crazy Bus?

[Deca]

2nd stage in Border Down.

Are you serious?
that's the best BGM in the whole game!
And I don't think it's unfitting at all...

Girl of Power is my fucking jam. Purple Town is amazing as well, Border Down is probably my favorite work by Yack.

[gameoverDude]

1942's main theme sounds like some guy spitting into a microphone and another one spamming a dog whistle.

I love Zed Blade's BGM- especially stage 3. And I wouldn't give up the Border Down tracks for anything else. "No Good Place" from stage 2 in BDRemix owns.
No Good Place- BDRemix stage 2

PSX port of Viewpoint

QFT. Why in the blue hell did EA have to get rid of the Neo-Geo BGM tracks? The PS port is sacrilege on these grounds, and also for the framerate cockups (*cough* the stage 3 boss is impossible on PS1). I'm not saying that the alternate music is shit, it's just that I'd have preferred the original arcade tunes be kept in. The new tunes should have gone into a different game.

[MathU]

The North American version of Bio Metal has that hilarious soundtrack where all the music is replaced by sports jams like Are You Ready For This.

[Austin]

The elevator music found in Border Down. The weird-ass music in G Darius. Some of the happy sounding tunes in Grind Stormer. Oh, and Truxton.

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

The weird-ass music in G Darius.

Of course you realize, this is implying that it's completely normal to be shooting at spaceships shaped like fish. Against psychedelic backgrounds no less.

[Kollision]

I haven't put much time into it, but the OST in Giga Wing 2 was quite disappointing given the intensity of the game. Nothing like the great tunes in the original.

I hope I'm wrong, because I want to play it soon.

[ebarrett]

Is this a shmup or Crazy Bus?

Apparently MAME causes P-47 Aces music to glitch horribly for some reason - it's not supposed to sound like that. The actual B-SHIP music is some quite generic synth-guitar boss music, but still - it's actual boss music. During STGT one of my savestates (shmupmame 3b) randomly caused it to unglitch. Slot 'v', load it as soon as you load the game; if you load any other savestate before it, or let the game run for long enough for any other music to play, the music most likely won't unglitch in the savestate. It also goes back to being glitched as soon as the next track starts.

Of course, none of that helps making P47A a less horrible tankhumping abomination.

The weird-ass music in G Darius.

Repent!

[mesh control]

I haven't put much time into it, but the OST in Giga Wing 2 was quite disappointing given the intensity of the game. Nothing like the great tunes in the original.

I hope I'm wrong, because I want to play it soon.

Huh.
I always thought Giga Wing's soundtrack was terrible, but 2's was great. Stage 3 boss music is intense.

The weird-ass music in G Darius.

Repent!

Maybe we should just make one shmup music thread. We have 3 or so active right now....

[Rozyrg]

Both Truxton games.

The contrast between highly aggressive, vicious looking enemies and high-spirited music is just one of many things that makes Truxton special. You could say the bright colors also clash with the heavy metal "skulls on everything" look; but it still works amazingly well.

There's just something about classic TOA shooters, they'll beat you down with brutal difficulty; but they sound so friendly at the same time. No matter how badly I lose, somehow I'm always left with a warm feeling inside.

[shmuppyLove]

Hmm, I'm gonna go with Gekirindan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ2z0smM2Xk

The music isn't bad per se (Zuntata!!), I just don't think it fits with the game at all.

[Rozyrg]

I normally love ridiculously upbeat music to go with my shooting (see the Truxton comment above); but Gunbird 2's chirpy, hyper-saccharine soundtrack was always just a bit too much for me. In terms of actual sugar, it'd be like having a king-size Zero bar when a small piece of chocolate would satisfy...urrgh.

Granted, I don't think it's necessarily bad and it's really not that unfitting considering the game's overall tone; but still, I just think they went a tad too far.

[BPzeBanshee]

I found Baryon: Future Assault's music pretty unfitting. Near-awful because you can barely hear it but more so unfitting.

Also, I'm with the comments about 1942. Spitting and whistling is about right.

[stryc9]

Why is the game called View point anyway...I always wondered...

Nice one.

[Sumez]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzjIubw ... age#t=387s

Is this a shmup or Crazy Bus?

Whoa, that's hilarious! What were they thinking!?

[Captain]

Read the posts, it was a glitch.