I mean I'm seeing a lot of Tron legacy, but Tron Ares has a fantastic soundtrack and I'm in no rush to actually watch the film
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I'd pay money for someone to deepfake jared leto out of it.
There's a game for the SNES called Act Raiser, I think it was by Quintet or Taito or Square, one of those. You play Actual God taking back the world from Probably Satan, you do this partly in a side scrolling platforming combat style, and partially in an overhead city building style. Surprisingly good soundtrack for a game as weird as it is.
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Lord of the Rings: Vol I for SNES. The game is worse than mediocre. It’s utter trash. I remain convinced they blew the budget on the soundtrack! It does a lot of things you really don’t hear that often on the SNES! Amazing!
I liked Stealth's soundtrack when it came out. Radio had gotten quite corporate-stale at the time, and the tracks had a upbeat rock personality I did not know I wanted to explore. I'm no audiophile, and it is not something I actually pursued. It was just something I noticed at the time. I rarely take notice of stuff like that.
In terms of movie music in general, anything from John Williams is amazing to me. I think it is because John has a knack for communicating logical empathy and emotions in music that tells a parallel story within the scenes of the movie. He is not creating a simple background soundscape or echoing the emotions the visual storytelling. Instead, he is sneaking in behind you from the shadows and taking on a staring role in your experience without ever announcing himself or allowing you to see how he expands the performing stage. After that initial experience of the film, when you hear any small part of John's score, that entity he conjured comes to life again, reminding you of his unspoken staring role in ways no one else I know of is capable. Some others certainly create beautiful backgrounds and soundscapes, but I have never experienced anyone else that conjures a presence in the same way as John Williams.
Williams has a gift for creating a general theme, character motifs, and layers of the music that don't just sing but tell you the story you're seeing. He's our Mozart or Beethoven who was around at the right time to use the vehicle of cinema to paint his pictures.
The TV show Suits has a great soundtrack, but I’d argue that it’s not mediocre though.
I've been trying to get into that because I crave juicy legal stuff. Bit tired of the supergenius-assholes trope we see in Sherlock, though, and it seems like Mike is a super genius and his boss Harvey is a genius asshole. Yes I let YouTube shorts dictate what new shows I delve into ✋😔
It’s not a super-genius thing, it’s a perfect memory of thing’s he has read and the super memory trope is rarely used in the show. So you’re safe. Even when it is used, it’s somewhat explained well.
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Willow for the NES has some songs that will still randomly take over the ol' jukebox of the brain to this day.
This is tricky because I always find thst the best art, no matter the funding or size of a team behind it, is paired with great music. I'll try and get one for each category though.
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Movies:
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- Star Wars Sequels like SOLO and The Force Awakens (Rey's theme + the third trailer's medley.)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), might not count as mediocre but i found it hard to follow. The music is done by this brilliant composer Wojciech Kilar who also composed for the perfect and very memorable film, Le roi et Le Oiseau
- Probably another controversial suggestion - Pirates of the Caribbean
Games:
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- Sims 4. Its soundtrack is so incredible but the game is just not entertaining to me. Also see: The Sims Medieval and Spore (nice job, EA...)
Shows:
- il Medici a Netflix original
Homeworld 1, and to a lesser extent Homeworld ~~Cataclysm~~ Emergence
Homeworld 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKakINXjl8&list=PLD0D2EBCAC686A04A
Homeworld ~~Cataclysm~~ Emergence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4JiPBEvAHY&list=PLBSJGuLhR_uHO9AmCmpLBxz4BgarPZpRU
Shatter. Got the OST alongisde the game from one of the early Humble Indie Bundles, spent far more time listening to that OST than playing it.
A load of Amiga games I could mention - Shadow of The Beast, Shadow Of The Beast 2, The Killing Gameshow, Turrican 2, Blood Money - mostly Psygnosis. They were known for it at that point.
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starfield's soundtrack is absolutely jaw dropping, probably zur's best work yet
Not a mediocre game but the opening track of Civilization IV, The Lord's Prayer, is magnificent. It won a Grammy.
It won a Grammy.
IIRC it was the first song from a video game to do so.
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To Live and Die in LA soundtrack by Wang Chung is arguably better than the movie.
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Pretty obscure, but a 1994 PC game based on the Lawnmower Man movie called Cyberwar. Came with the OST on CDROM. It was my jam in middle school.