Most inappropriately placed music

[kei17]

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EPISODE 190

You mean this, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWKda2x9QQ#t=3m15s

[jjgp1112]

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EPISODE 190

You mean this, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWKda2x9QQ#t=3m15s

Yes.

[Raki]

When Cell's powering up against Gohan in episode 186 (and yes, that's episode 186, not episode 190), they pick the completely wrong music for it. They used the Spirt Bomb theme from Movie 7, one of the most peaceful songs in the entire show. And yet, the whole fucking Earth is shaking, several characters are screaming, there are animation lines all over the place, and buildings are collapsing.

I love that piece of music.

[JulieYBM]

I thought it was a funny little contrast.

[Kendamu]

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EPISODE 190

You mean this, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWKda2x9QQ#t=3m15s

Yes.

Actually, that was pretty cool. In that context, it comes off as incredibly "Oh, shit!"

[linkdude20002001]

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EPISODE 190

You mean this, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWKda2x9QQ#t=3m15s

It reminds me of the ending to Mother 3. But I have to agree with jjgp1112;it's kind of awkward to have that song there. There's nothing remotely happy about that scene(aside from the music).

[NeptuneKai]

I laughed when I saw this scene first. The funny music makes Saiyan soldiers look pitiful.
I don't understand why Shigeru Miyashita (who did the selection of musics in the entire series exept Kai) put a nonserious BGM from DB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtfKuSAH ... 8#t=04m22s

I don't really have an issue with that piece being used there. I mean we all know what's going to happen to the Saiyajins. The music just sounds like it's attempting to support the dramatic irony of the situation as opposed to taking it dead seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWKda2x9QQ#t=3m15s

Wow that is a bizarre choice of music.

[Rocketman]

One piece of music that's been bothering me is in a recent Kai episode, where ReaCoom breaks Gohan's neck. The scene would be so much better with that deadly silence like in Z, but for some idiotic reason they have to throw in "Destiny." It's a good song, don't get me wrong, but WHY did they have to use it here?

I don't know the song "Destiny", so I'm just going to assume it's identical to The Price Is Right's theme.

[caejones]

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EPISODE 190

You mean this, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWKda2x9QQ#t=3m15s

Yes.

Meep, that song is awesome!
... But I do think it sounds too triumphant at several points there.
(Woah obvious synth! )

I'm not sure which episode, but toward the end of the Fake Namek stuff, when Vegeta is making his exit from Freeza79, the music suddenly sounds as though there should be a fast-paced action sequence going on... but it's just Vegeta running and people giving freaked-out responses.

[edit] Blah accidental necropost! -_- ... Forum with less new threads than all the others... grumble... [/edit]

[penguintruth]

I just discovered an instance of inappropriately placed music in DBZ.

There's a scene where Goku and Gohan are training in the Room of Spirit and Time when Gohan tells Goku what Piccolo said about him being too soft to train his son, and Gohan tells Goku to attack him like he intends to kill him. He reasons that if he dies, that is all he's capable of. It's a pretty dramatic scene.

Except that the cutsie "Gohan and Piccolo" plays during it.

Eventually, the music does change to a more serious-sounding tune, but it seems like it probably should have much earlier.

[caejones]

I just discovered an instance of inappropriately placed music in DBZ.

There's a scene where Goku and Gohan are training in the Room of Spirit and Time when Gohan tells Goku what Piccolo said about him being too soft to train his son, and Gohan tells Goku to attack him like he intends to kill him. He reasons that if he dies, that is all he's capable of. It's a pretty dramatic scene.

Except that the cutsie "Gohan and Piccolo" plays during it.

Eventually, the music does change to a more serious-sounding tune, but it seems like it probably should have much earlier.

I don't remember if it's the same point (I don't think so), but I recall Gohan and Goku's training in the RoSaT being backed by rather playful music when it was far from playful... Yeah...
That's one of the first things that comes to mind when I want to think of when the music is used inappropriately. (The other is the music for the Kid Buu fight, but not because it's inappropriate so much as it's too generic.)

[Adamant]

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EPISODE 190

You mean this, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWKda2x9QQ#t=3m15s

Yes.

Using this type of music with chorus and all to represent the apocalypse is hardly unique to Dragonball. It's perfectly appropriate music for this scene.