Music to... No One's Ears!

strawberry | she/they | picking the worst songs from video games and making them fight each other >:)

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And the winner is...

MANIC MINER TITLE MUSIC! CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING OFFICIALLY CROWNED THE WORST VIDEO GAME SONG OF ALL TIME!!!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this tournament! I hope you all had a great time and it was so much fun doing this with everybody!!

If you want to see more from me, feel free to check out @str4wb3rry-mi1k !! Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Also, here is a link to the original masterpost I created for the tourney, in case anyone wants to look at it. Sorry for not updating the poll list after a while lol

The tournament has begun! We are currently in round 4, and each poll will be open for a week. I will also be reblogging each poll 12 hours a

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Both of the final contenders are worthy to the throne. Manic Miner would be a meh song if it was just the notes on the keyboard being played on a regular piano but it is also on such old hardware that it kills the ears to listen to. This Is Where You Are Caucasian sounds like listening to English after getting the language center of your brain obliterated by a laser accident in the science lab.

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project sekai losing has me very shocked considering how popular it is. and still a british dev from the 80s clears. i have seen polls where one side just sweeps simply because it's popular. but this is not the case here. i don't believe in recency bias anymore. my whole worldview is shaken. i learned a lesson from this tournament that i cannot put a name to yet

a beautiful moment indeed

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if we may nominate one more honorable mention for the road: we HAVE to mention Stroll Music from Doshin the Giant. it plays randomly in gameplay, and also the end credits. we are not convinced it was composed, we think it was spawned.

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Hello,

I would like to submit a honorary mention that only came out a few days ago. Because while I do believe that most songs in the Splatoon series didn't deserve to be in this tournament, this one does:

Splatoon 3: Crab N' Go (Spring Fest)

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some propoaganda: this is where you are destination caucasian boy at least had good fundamentals, and a decent instrumental. it just has utterly awful lyrics.

the beverly hills cop theme is completely dogshit. it is genuinely, physically, overwhelmingly painful to listen to. to improve it would to be to... simply listen to the original song, the version they didn't make for the video game. there's no real salvaging that one, you simply go back to the drawing board and make a new cover of the song.

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manic miner propoaganda: it's very funny how they give you an on-screen piano to play its theme, as if you'd ever willingly try to play it after hearing it from the game itself

sorry for posting this after the fact but i feel it should see the light of day

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just realized i missed some propaganda asks from during the tourney 😭 i'll still post them tomorrow sorry for not responding until now though lol

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we dunno if this sent properly but. one final honorable mention for the road: Doshin the Giant - Stroll Music. words fail, just LISTEN TO IT.

thanks for the recommendation! btw i will post a final announcement post before the end of the week to round out the tournament :3

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Worst Video Game Song Tournament FINALE

This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku

VERSUS

Title Music - Manic Miner

FIGHT!

Which is the worse song?

This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy

Manic Miner Title Music

Voting ended onMay 13, 2024

I would recommend listening to as much as you can of each song before voting, but how you choose is up to you! Remember to be civil in the tags and replies! I'm leaving propaganda out for this round to make the decisions as independent as possible!!

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THE RESULTS ARE IN!!! Congratulations to Manic Miner for winning the contest, I'll make a final post to round things out later today!

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Worst Video Game Song Tournament FINALE

This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku

VERSUS

Title Music - Manic Miner

FIGHT!

Which is the worse song?

This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy

Manic Miner Title Music

Voting ended onMay 13, 2024

I would recommend listening to as much as you can of each song before voting, but how you choose is up to you! Remember to be civil in the tags and replies! I'm leaving propaganda out for this round to make the decisions as independent as possible!!

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last poll goes up tomorrow!

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see here's our logic. Caucasian destination boy at least has decent instrumentals, it's just got dogshit lyrics. we already wouldn't want to listen to manic miner's theme if the instrumentals WEREN'T fucked, but the fact they are makes us hate. Manic Miner is worse to us

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final match should go up in the next couple days, this one decides it all!!

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I like how the finals are going to be a showdown over what makes a "Bad Videogame Song". A song that is not good vs a song that is good but it's being screeched at you by a robot from the '80s.

truly the ultimate showdown

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Worst Video Game Song Tournament Semifinals Match 1

This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku

VERSUS

Main Theme - Beverly Hills Cop (PC)

FIGHT!

Which is the worse song?

This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy

Beverly Hills Cop Theme

Voting ended onApr 26, 2024

I would recommend listening to as much as you can of each song before voting, but how you choose is up to you! Remember to be civil in the tags and replies!

Propaganda under cut:

This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy:

"holy shit this song was suppossed to be what vivid bad squad (one of the bands in the game) was trying to surpass their entire first story arc. also this song was pulled out right after taiga (guy singing this song) told them that their idol is dead. and then they lost to Caucasion Destination Boy. jesus christ."

"[This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy] is so bad lyrically it's funny. Like, truly a monsterpiece."

"#I'M SORRY THAT'S THE SONG VBS IS TRYING TO SURPASS???? 💀"

"#I KEEP FORGETTING ABT THIS 'SONG' #same energy as im in the house like carpet"

"#HAHA YES IM SO HAPPY CAUCAISAN DESTINATION IS ON HERE #NO WONDER TOYA’S DAD HATES MODERN MUSIC 🔥🔥🔥"

"#HOLY SHIT THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE CAUCASIAN ON THE DASH #AHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA #EVERYONE LOSING THEIR SHIT OVER THAT SONG WHEN IT DROPPED WAS SO FUNNY"

"#[This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy] brought me to tears"

#i thought the title of [This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy] was a joke until i played it

"#LETS GO CAUCASIAN #TIME TO THROW YOUR FURB"

"#oh god [This is Where You Are Caucasian Destination Boy] sounds like if imagine dragons had a lobotomy"

"#THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE CAUCASION DESTINATION BALLING SWEEP"

"#dude This Is Where Youre Caucasian is just so bad"

Beverly Hills Cop Theme:

"Hyper compressed and sounds like a dying ice cream truck. Awful to the point where it wraps back around to being good."

"Not going to mention in the propaganda that its the crazy frog song ??"

"#god I fucking love Axel F if it sounded like a crashed GBA so much it's atrocious #and the random stops mid-song"

"#[Beverly Hills Cop Theme] felt like i was listening to my computer have a seizure and die #yup. that video game song sure can bad"

"#yknow beverly hills cop theme is the best rendition of axel f i ever heard #purely because it sounds like getting an mri and i love mris <3"

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Worst Video Game Song Tournament Semifinals Match 2

Title Theme - The Adventures of Rad Gravity

VERSUS

Title Music - Manic Miner

FIGHT!

Which is the worse song?

Rad Gravity Title Theme

Manic Miner Title Music

Voting ended onApr 26, 2024

I would recommend listening to as much as you can of each song before voting, but how you choose is up to you! Remember to be civil in the tags and replies!

Propaganda under cut:

Rad Gravity Title Theme:

(none included)

Manic Miner Title Music:

"#but then i heard [Manic Miner Title Music] #just 2 seconds probably #and now the only emotjon that occupies my brain is fear #legit maybe i wont be scared when it wont be dark outside but like i dont think id survive listwning to the whole thi g"

"#however bad you think manic miner is gonna be you are VASTLY underestimating it"

"#seriously [Manic Miner Title Music] hurts #but it's also so funny"