WOZ

Game looks innovative but that intro music... OMG

I would say the music in tron when you have the disc running before you start the multiball, its awful... I replaced it on my tron and was much happier!

Yeah I could see that. BSD gets to me.

No Fear used to wear a little thin on me. Extreme synth guitar riff...again....and again.

Ready...Aim...Fire Gottlieb

High Speed is my pick. Love the sound effects but hate the music.

The primary factor in how I choose a game for my collection is the sound. I play a youtube movie, and I don't watch the game play. I start there. If I can enjoy listening to it 10-20-30 times in a row, then it's a game worth investigating further.

There are some GREAT early 80's Gottlieb games I am avoiding because the sounds in them are too... weak/fragile/cute sounding. Williams dominates in the sound area overall in the 1980s. There are a few exceptions of course: Black Hole, MGoW, Spirit, etc...

BK2K -- the chorus. Every time I hear it I cringe. The fake low-voice laugh is unbearably bad. The verse is good. For this reason alone, I can never own this pin, regardless of how well it's designed, or how fun it is.

I'm pretty sure, laughter in pinball should be saved for drains -- not repeated and over in a song. Then it loses its value.

I started my collection with "best soundtracks" which I award all of them to... Chris Granner. Now, I am starting to imagine trading a few of them out for more early 80's games with ZERO soundtracks, and just blips and bleeps, so I can enjoy listening to music while I play. That's how the early 80's arcades were anyway -- there was a VERY good sound system and loud music playing.

And that's my subjective opinion...
-mof

CSI plays the same 3 notes (does it even count as music?) over and over and over and over. Horrible....

Any AC/DC song before the ball is launched, it is an endless loop of just the first few seconds.

Ive got 3 or 4 choices......

Blackwater 100
Roadshow
Rollergames
Twilight Zone

Dubbbs

"I see you carousing" on POTC when you hit the left option on the ramp leading to the left flipper.

Stellar Wars with the background sound turned on. Worst thing I ever heard and still haunts me to this day.

John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi.
269-979-3836

I love all the music on Black Knight 2000 EXCEPT the post-jackpot music. The pre-jackpot music is awesome but then you get jackpot and then you end up with this 12-second loop that gets very boring very quickly. It literally makes me want to relock the balls and start multiball again just to change the music.

Then you get a high score and what music do you get? That same damned 12-second loop again!

I totally agree on this. In fact I don't really like any of the Thiel tunes other than the cutesy little Gem pop tune. I hadn't even considered using rom hackery to put something else in -- what did you end up replacing it with?

WoZ, Not even close.

Hurricane

Hey you, with the face!

Listen... Sure, you can just throw a game title up there and click "send", which really doesn't tell us ANYTHING at all, since games have many many sounds and various songs. It's fine to do it, but it doesn't communicate anything useful. Too much information is missing.

Now, if you want to communicate something useful...

1. Say what part of the sound track you don't like -- this helps teach people who write music for games, how to not screw up ! (I get to do this sometimes) -- so composers can go watch a movie of the pinball game, and figure out what it is that you don't like about it... If it's easier for you, say "When" this happens -- like "during multiball" I hate the "XYZ"

2. Say WHY you don't like it... Why does it irritate you?

thanks for the effort !
-mof

Sorcerer.

TSPP hurry up music, literally made me sell the game.

Oh come on guys: Heavy Metal Meltdown. It would only take about 30 minutes with me and I'd be done for.

Fish Tales can be quite redundant but for some reason I can live through it!

A few years back I spent ten weeks working as a volunteer shopping machines at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas. Whenever someone came in and fired up TSPP I wanted to die. That game not only has terrible, tinny 8-bit sounds; it has a terrible soundtrack too. TSPP and the one that says "shoot the 8-ball" drove me crazy.

Not sure what you're talking about here, the "ball in shooter lane" music? That ends as soon as you shoot the ball. Full disclosure: I own CSI and I think all of the music is great.

NASCAR and I Can't Drive 55.

Another vote for WoZ here. Sorry Chris, I love your system 11 work.

and the court system will just say no songs that have to do with braking the law.

Oh come on!

HMM, the first game to come stock with mirror blades... made out of mirrored cardboard.

One of my friends worked in an arcade, in the late 1980's. She did not last more than 6 months, then quit. Hearing repetitive call outs, or music, can be stressful.
Like the old joke: 2 guys with last requests standing in front of a firing squad. First guy requests, to hear Achey Breakey Heart a 100 times. The second guy requests, "Shoot me first".

"Quit talkin' and start chalking". "I see you". Just to mention a couple.

replaced it with an excerpt of the song used in the daft punk multiball on the LE (I have a pro)

Can't believe nobody has said Shrek..

*pulls teeth out*

Yup..... Shrek and Funhouse.

have to go with high speed, worst drumbeat ever on any pinball.

Only because it's on the rare side

All this hate for High Speed, I went back and double checked because I did not remember the song being that bad, and its not. Thats some classic 80's sound.

I love all of the music on F-14, I think its so epic and cheesy and fits perfect. BUT, right before the plunge theres this high pitched noise of an F-14 revving for takeoff and when someone is over at my house and walks away from a game without plunging that sound will go FOREVER without stopping or repeating and it will drive me so crazy.

I guess worst music/sound for me is Black Knight when the drop target count down is happening (which is pretty much always.) I think that was a big reason I sold the game.

Disney's Black Hole Water Torture. lol

I still have 2 contesters.

1. WOZ

seriously, is there any 25+ year old guy on this planet that not gets annoyed by that main music?

2. LW3

ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok,ok, ok, ok, ok,

Don't freak me out, thought you meant the theme of Black hole movie; which is the greatest movie song ever.

As for your jam...I love that one. I have the bright orange cassette still

Shooter lane loop track in Party Zone.

SMB

Princess Peach and her constant nagging. Still love the game but.....

SHOOT THE BUMPERS MARIO SHOOT THE BUMPERS MARIO SHOOT THE BUMPERS.

Even in multiball while currently hitting the bumpers she will not stop

Excellent game and very well themed but Peach voice overs could make people wear a straight jacket.

Big house

Until you start a mode, Judge Dredd theme can get repetitive...
No Fear as well.

I nominate that super long 15 minute attract mode song on F14 Tomcat. I've turned the game off more than once to get that thing to stop....

I have an smb and I don't think it's that bad... But anyway this is about music not call outs no? :p

If anybody makes it out to the PBL open house, you'll probably change your answer to Hardbody.