Video Game Soundtracks
Description
Double-jump into these legendary video game soundtracks, featuring old favorites and new classics.
Quickstats
Playlist Length
0 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes
Playlist Followers
661844
Source
Artist, Discovered On, Spotify Category
Playlist Last Updated
September 15, 2023
Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Somewhat Popular
Style
Instrumental
Average Release Decade
2020s
Main Genre:
Mixed
Reddit Info
Reddit Post
TBH, as a general concept, genre is kind of funky to begin with. (and also genre as a music choice algorithm guide is not very good. In fact, all music algorithms are bad - from shuffle to ones that find new music. Please hit subscribe for my ramblings) But back to genre.... **Tl;dr - Genre is defined by a massive, weird, arbitrary combination of factors most closely related to "How is this listened to", not any property of the music** It's an arbitrary label we give to define how a song has some abstract, shared relationship to other songs/is NOT related to other songs. The relationships that we used to say "these are similar, these aren't" are almost fully abstract, they can based informed heavily by time-period (Classical - Baroque - Romantic), socio-economic factors (rap - punk), geography (Grime - Soca - Reggae), even publishing label (Stax or Motown - and I bet you didn't even know they were different :P). These abstract labels are fine pre-globalised music when your environment informs what you listen to because one thing we no-longer realise is that genre is kinda social label too, we use it to identify the people listening and making that music - Dude with overalls, working boots and a banjo? Oh he's a bluegrass musician.... wait, we have ideas of how music would be grouped that we haven't even heard, based on a person? But now though, how do people group music that they listen to? So many ways, some people go for a feeling - upbeat, fast tempo playlist, chillout slow playlist etc. Some people by OG context - film/game music. The weird shit is that genre isn't even a good way to divide acoustic properties of music, even though there is often similarity in. It's no coincidence that the rise of music accessibility lead to more fusion stuff because people went - "Hey, both rap and metal incorporate dense soundscapes; 'instrumental' non-standard use of voice; have shared thematic topics....and I enjoy the feeling of both because of that" - [And then we end up with a Welsh Heavy-Metal-Jungle-Dub-SkaPunk-Fusion band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-kmLkfFrtU&ab_channel=BielerBrosRecords). So now spotify is out there trying to find a way to divide music genres in ways that make sense to people, but people vary too much. I think the concept of "game music" is daft... What is it? What's the similarity between the Halo theme and a chip-tune in terms of sound? Basically zero. [Hilariously, the curated game music spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXdfOcg1fm0VG?si=03f51501da9e4ebe) list shows the problem with that, they've ended up choosing essentially just ambient-orchestral game music to the point where they even have a string quartet arrangement of the song from portal, Still Alive. The reasons why you consider any 2 songs as being in the same playlist are not the same as me, and spotify is trying to find an average, but the average person doesn't exist.
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Subreddit
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Reddit Username
Huwbacca
Reddit Timestamp
12/2/21 5:43
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