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Topic	Para ranks every classic Mega Man stage theme
Paratroopa1 04/21/21 3:10:23 AM #158:	75. Dr. Wily 2 (Mega Man 4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Txs_rI0bk Normal Mega Man 4 songs don't exist, so the weird twist to this one is that Minae Fujii envisioned a percussionist who was playing the drums in a cave about a mile away and doesn't even know what song they're playing drums for so they're just kind of flailing around and probably getting attacked by bats. Anyway, I really like this one, they took the 'drama' knob up to 11 and I think it's an appropriately exciting build up for refights that are mostly just waiting for invincibility periods to end and a final boss that they forgot to draw. I just hope they remember to save the guy stranded in the cave he sounds like he's having a LOT of trouble 74. Dr. Wily (Mega Man IV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACqY11nnGw It kind of hurts my heart to be knocking off these GB themes one after the other, because I do think they deserve some love and highlighting some of these more obscure themes is why I decided to expand the list as far as I did. I don't know who did the MMIV soundtrack (or really any of the GB soundtracks aside from II) but you can tell they were like, I've got just one chance to write an original stage theme for this game, and hell yeah, I'm going to just give it the most badass riff you ever fuckin' heard. The good shit is the bridge section from :30 on though, some real interesting progressions in there 73. Wood Man (Mega Man Soccer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oUpPZvBTE Kind of like I said about Mars in relation to Mega Man V, the weirdest thing about this track is that there's nothing weird about it as all. In a soundtrack full of like psychotic blues/funk clown orgy music, Wood Man's theme is completely normal and almost totally interchangeable with its MM2 counterpart. I actually like this theme more! I don't even know if that really stands as a hot take, because I'm pretty sure this is the theme that people will most remember from this game - I'm pretty sure I've heard people use it in youtube videos and shit before. This is about as buttoned up and serious as Mega Man Soccer is going to get, and honestly, this isn't even a bad use of this game's particular patchset - the flutes and brass both sound totally fine and none of the accompaniment sounds out of place (bass is a little weak though). Like, did they get someone totally different to write this one? The fact that there's this one totally normal track in Soccer only increases Soccer's strangeness. Dumb fun fact: Wood Man is one of three robot masters to have three different unique stage themes! The other two are Needle Man and Tengu Man. It's really weird that Wood Man and Needle Man both share the distinction of having stage themes in both MMII and MMS. 72. Elec Man (Mega Man Soccer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN8KvaI4mKI AGHGHGHG WHAT the first five seconds of this theme are like a sudden panic attack and the rest doesn't really give me time to recover because it was written like someone was composing off of a post-it note that just said "I heard a Stevie Ray Vaughn song on the radio once like ten years ago." The utter absurdity of this track speaks for itself, it kind of shreds surprisingly hard, and I am absolutely here for Mega Man Soccer's utterly deranged SNES-chic blues rock, as soon as I stop seizuring on the floor in terror. This one's difficult to process, but I've always liked a challenge. 71. Dr. Wily 1 (Mega Man 8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvCfyOoAII I've always been low-key obsessed with whatever the hell is going on in this theme. It kind of rules, and I'm not even going to hold the fact that this is the theme of JUMP JUMP SLIDE SLIDE against it because this is kind of the only good thing about the level. Every single instrument that was chosen here is weird - that almost grumpy-sounding lead synth, the mechanical percussion noises that sound like a broken animatronic, that little triangle that chimes in once every 10 seconds or so, "Hi, I'm the triangle in this song for some reason!" The weirdest and most wonderful part about it is that it all just grooves so much harder than it has any right to. I think I gave Mega Man 8 a little bit of a hard time on this list for not conforming to my idea of what a Mega Man theme ought to be, and to be fair its competition on this list is fierce, but consider this something of an apology - this is everything BUT what you would typically expect from a Wily 1 theme and I think it's brilliant and it plays to the soundtrack's strengths wonderfully, whatever the hell those strengths are. <cite>Paratroopa1 posted [p:953062605] in Para ranks... [t:79360411]...</cite> <quote>75. Dr. Wily 2 (Mega Man 4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Txs_rI0bk Normal Mega Man 4 songs don't exist, so the weird twist to this one is that Minae Fujii envisioned a percussionist who was playing the drums in a cave about a mile away and doesn't even know what song they're playing drums for so they're just kind of flailing around and probably getting attacked by bats. Anyway, I really like this one, they took the 'drama' knob up to 11 and I think it's an appropriately exciting build up for refights that are mostly just waiting for invincibility periods to end and a final boss that they forgot to draw. I just hope they remember to save the guy stranded in the cave he sounds like he's having a LOT of trouble 74. Dr. Wily (Mega Man IV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACqY11nnGw It kind of hurts my heart to be knocking off these GB themes one after the other, because I do think they deserve some love and highlighting some of these more obscure themes is why I decided to expand the list as far as I did. I don't know who did the MMIV soundtrack (or really any of the GB soundtracks aside from II) but you can tell they were like, I've got just one chance to write an original stage theme for this game, and hell yeah, I'm going to just give it the most badass riff you ever fuckin' heard. The good shit is the bridge section from :30 on though, some real interesting progressions in there 73. Wood Man (Mega Man Soccer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oUpPZvBTE Kind of like I said about Mars in relation to Mega Man V, the weirdest thing about this track is that there's nothing weird about it as all. In a soundtrack full of like psychotic blues/funk clown orgy music, Wood Man's theme is completely normal and almost totally interchangeable with its MM2 counterpart. I actually like this theme more! I don't even know if that really stands as a hot take, because I'm pretty sure this is the theme that people will most remember from this game - I'm pretty sure I've heard people use it in youtube videos and shit before. This is about as buttoned up and serious as Mega Man Soccer is going to get, and honestly, this isn't even a bad use of this game's particular patchset - the flutes and brass both sound totally fine and none of the accompaniment sounds out of place (bass is a little weak though). Like, did they get someone totally different to write this one? The fact that there's this one totally normal track in Soccer only increases Soccer's strangeness. Dumb fun fact: Wood Man is one of three robot masters to have three different unique stage themes! The other two are Needle Man and Tengu Man. It's really weird that Wood Man and Needle Man both share the distinction of having stage themes in both MMII and MMS. 72. Elec Man (Mega Man Soccer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN8KvaI4mKI AGHGHGHG WHAT the first five seconds of this theme are like a sudden panic attack and the rest doesn't really give me time to recover because it was written like someone was composing off of a post-it note that just said "I heard a Stevie Ray Vaughn song on the radio once like ten years ago." The utter absurdity of this track speaks for itself, it kind of shreds surprisingly hard, and I am absolutely here for Mega Man Soccer's utterly deranged SNES-chic blues rock, as soon as I stop seizuring on the floor in terror. This one's difficult to process, but I've always liked a challenge. 71. Dr. Wily 1 (Mega Man 8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvCfyOoAII I've always been low-key obsessed with whatever the hell is going on in this theme. It kind of rules, and I'm not even going to hold the fact that this is the theme of JUMP JUMP SLIDE SLIDE against it because this is kind of the only good thing about the level. Every single instrument that was chosen here is weird - that almost grumpy-sounding lead synth, the mechanical percussion noises that sound like a broken animatronic, that little triangle that chimes in once every 10 seconds or so, "Hi, I'm the triangle in this song for some reason!" The weirdest and most wonderful part about it is that it all just grooves so much harder than it has any right to. I think I gave Mega Man 8 a little bit of a hard time on this list for not conforming to my idea of what a Mega Man theme ought to be, and to be fair its competition on this list is fierce, but consider this something of an apology - this is everything BUT what you would typically expect from a Wily 1 theme and I think it's brilliant and it plays to the soundtrack's strengths wonderfully, whatever the hell those strengths are. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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