What’s up everyone? Thought I’d get a thread rolling on music since I am drowning in studies at university and I use music like this to help me study and concentrate on my writing.
How do you think the new Forza soundtrack stacks up to others?. On the whole, I don’t think the Forza Motorsport (2023) soundtrack is bad, but it isn’t knock-your-socks off good, either. I haven’t listened to the OST for previous FM’s yet though.
While I didn’t include it in my list, special mention has to go to Forza Horizon 5’s OST. It’s really really good, especially with all the radio stations included.
Right now, my hands down favorite for racing game OST is F1 23’s OST. It’s just banger after banger after banger.
Some of my other favorite gaming OST’s, racing and others:
Elden Ring Armored Core 6 Mass Effect 2 (All three are good though) NFS Underground 1/2 Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty OST (Hands down the GOAT for me. All the radio albums and original score is just sublime)
Also, special mention to this song, which is my favorite of them all. It’s SO GOOD. It has real Casino Royale and Skyfall vibes where Phantom Liberty was doing the whole spy thriller thing. Phantom Liberty
I turned off the music in FM23 within the first hours of playing. I normally listen to audiobooks in my Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 headset while racing, tuning, and creating car designs.
I don’t really like FH5’s soundtrack or the radio station system as a whole. I’d rather have an option to play custom music or a custom playlist out of the tracks in the game that I do like. I usually just switch off music altogether and play YouTube videos in the background.
Some of my favorite game OSTs are Doom (2016)/Eternal, Gran Turismo 3, PS2 era Ratchet & Clank and Motorstorm Pacific Rift.
FM really doesn’t catch me. I thought the FM7 soundtrack was kinda cool, but only because it was so different from all other racing titles. FM6 definitely ingrained itself into my brain, but it’s not really something I would listen to, cause it’s just background music.
The Soundtrack of FH2 Hospital Records Radio will always be special to me because the 2014 DnB just hits different.
And FH3 is def good to I mostly like the Pulse radio station.
None of those games have a decent soundtrack accept cyberpunk 2077 i recommend music from musynx & Djmax Respect even tho I’m more into metal music here is some metal bands I Enjoy Listening to Slipknot Metallica Tallah system of a down chop suey prison Kim Dracula make me Famous daron malakian scars on broadway if you enjoy metal & haven’t listened to metallica slipknot or system of a down I highly recommend giving them a Try.
I just usually listen to my Spotify music because I have better music choices than most recent games do. It pretends that I listen during my road trips.
My favorite game OSTs are:
NFS Most Wanted 2012
NFS Most Wanted 2005
NFS Hot Pursuit (2010)
Test Drive Unlimited 2
NFS Undercover
Gran Turismo (mostly Songs performed by Masahiro Andoh and Daiki Kasho)
NFS The Run
NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)
These are one of the OSTs I grew up with. NFS MW got my first glance to Rock music. Until later on, Black Betty hits hard in Underground 2!
The Forza Horizon songs I like are:
STARSET - Satellite (FH4 XS)
I Prevail - Rise (FH4 XS)
The Ghost Inside - Aftermath (FH5 Epitaph)
Poptropicaslutz - Bittersweet Teeth (FH5 Epitaph)
Magnolia Park, Derek Sanders - Feel Something (FH5 Epitaph)
Bring Me The Horizon - Teardrops (why would they pick an explicit song for an E-rated game?) (FH5 XS)
Nothing But Thieves - Unperson (FH5 XS)
DREAMERS - Fake It Till I Make It (FH4 Pulse)
Plague Vendor - New Comedown (FH5 XS)
Plague Vendor - Live More (FH5 XS)
White Lies - Come On (FH3 Vagrant)
White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground (FH1 Rocks)
blink-182 - Bored to Death (FH3 Vagrant, FH5 Mixtape)
Avicii - Levels (Skrillex Remix) (Original song is also good btw) (FH1 Bass Arena, FH5 Mixtape)
Galantis - Runaway (U & I) (FH3 Pulse)
Eric Prydz - Liberate (FH2 Bass Arena)
Chromeo - Jealous (FH2 Pulse)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy (FH1 Rocks)
Fred V & Grafix - Sunrise (FH4 Intro, FH5 Mixtape)
WALK THE MOON - Headphones (FH4 XS)
Architects - when we were young (FH5 Epitaph)
And my opinions on each artist featured in FH soundtracks:
Thanks to FH4, I discovered STARSET and I Prevail, which I turned into a fan of their other songs. I became a Rock/Metalhead lol, it’s my #1 genre.
The Black Keys’ “Lonely Boy” is also in NFS The Run’s soundtrack, even their singer and guitarist of the duo band, Dan Auerbach, performed “Heartbroken, in Disrepair” for NFS The Run as well.
One of White Lies’ songs are in other games such as NFS Hot Pursuit and DiRT 2 such as “Bigger Than Us” and “To Lose My Life.” I even heard more songs from them, especially the latest ones.
Nothing But Thieves also had decent songs such as “I Was Just a Kid” in NFS Payback and “Life’s Coming In Slow” in Gran Turismo 7.
For Poptropicaslutz and Magnolia Park, I heard they collaborated to make a song together called “Catastrophe”. It’s so badass like a hard banger that they worked together, even if they were part of the same record group - Epitaph Records. Also, Poptropicaslutz made alternate versions of “Bittersweet Teeth” and they sounded great.
The Ghost Inside had one cool song from 2012, known as “Engine 45”, and they collabed with Point North with “Safe and Sound”.
WALK THE MOON has their biggest hit I listened to, which is “SHUT UP AND DANCE”, and as for its lead singer Nicholas Petricca, I heard his performance in Morxgn’s “Home”, which the original song is in DiRT 4’s soundtrack.
I listened to a few other songs from BMTH, Galantis, and Avicii.
I listened to Eric Prydz’s other song, “Pjanoo”, which appeared in GTA TBOGT.
Because of such racing games, it helps me find a lot of great music. Unlike NFS Unbound, the entire soundtrack there is trashed out like utter garbage. A lot of people compare between Unbound and old NFS games in terms of soundtracks because the old ones are filled with Pure Nostalgia as part of our childhood.
I don’t usually hear FH2’s OST that often, jsut really not into it much till I found some of its hits on YouTube lol
Nice. I had heard I Prevail for the first time when they did that Taylor Swift cover a while back. Haven’t listened beyond that, maybe I should check them out.
I’ll def listen to a few of the one’s you listed, especially the NFS one’s. One of the Youtube creators I follow is Raycevick and he really helped me gain an appreciation for game OST’s and how it affects gameplay. He says a lot of good things about the NFS soundtracks.
Apologies for Giving the Wrong Impression I Wasn’t Trying To Kick out other genres of music I have Autism If you don’t Mind could you help me understand it Better as I Thought it was any music I do like other types other than metal but it’s very nit picky
The wording of your message made it seem as if you dismissed the wide array of genres listed in favor of mentioning some of the most popular bands of the last 30 years. It appeared as a very close-minded perspective.
Everyone is entitled to their taste and opinion, of course. I try to treat music the same as I would someone’s religion. Even if you think its the worst thing ever, it’s not really your problem. Let people like what they want to like. (Exception: someone is hogging the aux cable and forcing their preference on others)
If you haven’t given other genre’s a try, consider opening your horizons! I’m a huge rock and metal fan too, and some of the bands you listed are on my all-time favorites list. Since you like Metal, you should check out the last link I shared. It’s a band called Polyphia. Think of them like a crazy metal band with little to no lyrics, and hip-hop and jazz influences. It’s so unique and techniquely brilliant. Its a favorite of mine when I want to get stuff done.
I personally find it hard and very distracting to listen to music heavy on lyrics while I’m trying to read. It all runs together in my head and I can’t focus on one or the other. Especially since music is kind of all-encompassing sensory-wise for me.
thankyou it helped Alot It means alot & explaining how it came across that’s the thing with the internet to its wording & using the right idioms as it can come across as insensitive to others there’s a big list of all different types of genre in Djmax Respect. musyNX. I’ll try again i also like classical music but fast. Techno is a great genre I really Enjoyed the music from the first Horizon game & Queen
Their songs sounded and inspired like they are the new alternate of Linkin Park. Because they have two singers like one is the lead and one is the rapper. Their songs are mostly Rap Rock. Btw, Linkin Park is one of the first rock bands I listened in my life.
None of their songs are in Forza games but I just discovered them a few months ago with one song called “My Name”. And now, I listened to more of their songs and I loved it. Even their latest album “Blackout” had so many bangers! Maybe I might wish that one of their songs should appear in a new Horizon title soundtrack. (FH6)
Trust me, you’ll end up liking their songs once you listen to some of them!
Thanks bud, unlike what I’ve seen some other kids in my generation listening to bad music, which is mostly today’s rap and pop music. I got great taste of music unlike them.
I like music if it sounds great, decent, and meaningful. And not trash. I also loved listening to 80’s, 90’s, and 2000’s music. Speaking of Rap music, I like Eminem, and many old-school rap music from the 90’s-2000’s. And for Pop music, I like the ones that are 10+ years old because I grew up listening to those as a kid, and they sound nostalgic.
The FORZA Motorsport OST, in my honest opinion and observation, is just like how the game is, bland and lifeless.
I feel like I am in MS Flight Simulator or something. So disappointed in the new Motorsport from car graphics, lightning, colors, visuals and car sounds to overall presentation (paint booth, main menu & music etc).
The game just is stale in every way! I badly want to to see this game turn around and return back to its peak visuals and car sounds similar to FH5. GT7 has a dynamic and upbeat jazz music and has a wonderfully lively menu system with a 3D topographic view to interact with.
I fully agree F1 23 has some amazing soundtracks in its Menu!
