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Billboard's "25 Best" Game Songs List is a Joke; Ignores the Brilliance of Gaming Soundtracks

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After pointing out how Billboard's recent "25 Best Video Game Songs" List excluded music actually composed or recorded specifically for videogames, Anthony Perez of SmashPad writes:

"What's sad is that I had just rekindled my love of gaming music over the Thanksgiving holiday. My cousins are mostly musicians, with one amazing piano player currently studying music at the University of Delaware. Another of my cousins plays both the piano and drums, and when I was hanging with theme, he played a ton of video game songs on the piano including To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X, Aeris Theme and One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII, the Legend of Zelda theme, and a lot more.

When listening to those songs played as pieces of music detached from their respective games, you can hear the emotion and brilliance of them. So seeing such a shitty list from Billboard frankly pisses me off because it doesn't highlight the truly great music that has been composed for videogames."
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CenturionElite - 389 days 14 hours ago
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Wow, I never heard One Winged Angel by the orchestra before. That was great. I've attached for the rest.


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JayTee0902 - 389 days 14 hours ago
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That is a really terrible list. How do you have a list of best game music with NO game music? I agree that video game music is overlooked way too often. There's a lot of awesome pieces of music that have been conducted for videogames. No one will ever respect it though because they're from games. Most people just think of blips and bloops. Hell even some modern day movies show kids playing 360 games, but the sound playing is from like the 8-bit days.
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CrashSpyro123 - 389 days 14 hours ago
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FTA:

"So seeing such a sh*tty list from Billboard frankly pisses me off because it doesn't highlight the truly great music that has been composed for videogames."

Hear Hear. I'm a big fan of the soundtracks from the Lunar games as well.
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blueleopard - 389 days 14 hours ago
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I actually had a professor who thought games were a waste of time and money. He basically lumped it with rap music, saying it was all about money and hoes. He said games were all about mindless killing and blood.

He was a big fan of orchestral music though. I actually played THAT same FF7 song - the sephiroth one - for him and he was like "That was beautiful and frightening."

I told him it was from Final Fantasy VII. He bought a PS2 a couple of weeks later.
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mazirjones - 389 days 14 hours ago
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God damn I love that story.
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FantasyStar - 389 days 13 hours ago
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Professor got owned, but for the betterment of gaming-kind. I'd argue that video-game music rivals with hollywood movies very well. Even surpasses it IMO in some cases.
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Killjoy3000 - 389 days 14 hours ago
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Pretty sh*tty article indeed.

Metal gear Solid
God of War
Hitman
SoTC
Warhawk
Max Payne

All of these game shave absolutely amazing scores, and all of them are ignored.

(BTW, MGS has the best music EVER)

*Alarm Blares* Du-nuh duh duh!!! Dut Dut, Dut-dut-dut!!
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Xiphos - 389 days 13 hours ago
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Horrible list, and I'm also getting really sick of these sites dividing "Top X" lists into way too damn many pages. I can tolerate 4 - 5 on each page for a top 25, but one page for each number? Gimme a break...

Any top video game soundtrack list without Silent Hill 2 is an instant failure in my book.
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ZackFair - 389 days 13 hours ago
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7 - A joke.
It has to be.

There's zero videogame music on that list, where is Final Fantasy? Zelda? Metal Gear Solid? Shadow of The Colossus?
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MIA - 389 days 11 hours ago
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Exactly, they are just cashing in with placing the word video games. The list sucks.
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caladbolg777 - 389 days 11 hours ago
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videogame music VS music that can be listened to in a videogame
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xenogamer - 389 days 8 hours ago
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10 - Hmm if alot more ppl played xenogears they would
have known the master yasunori mitsuda beautiful compositions, Xenogears has the best soundtrack of any medium of entertainment, i suggest you all listen to it, especially Small Two Of pieces, emotion, one who bares fangs at god, the beginning and the end, and mostly everything hes ever done, hes also the composer for chrono trigger.
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Timesplitter14 - 389 days 7 hours ago
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That list just destroyed every ounce of happiness I had in my body and replaced with violent hatred
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pain777pas - 388 days 14 hours ago
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This list is sad. I'm kinda hurt by this. Oh well we all know that licenced music from known bands does not equal greatness the most memorable music are made by quality composers that are not well know. Very dissapointed with this list. Tommy T should spearhead his own list, I think that he would do a great job.
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