Mewgenics: OST

Wow a score of 1.95? Do you people have no concept of fun? Don't forget that we can see what your submissions for the user list too!

Okay, now that I've stepped down from my high horse, I do agree with the sentiment that the Mewgenics soundtrack isn't a suitable album for any list like this, for a few reasons, though the primary one is just that soundtracks have more to prove to justify their inclusion, which was a complaint I had with Dimery's list. The only two other game soundtracks I see are Katamari Damacy, and Silent Hill 2, both of which merit their inclusion, unfortunately Mewgenics does not meet that criteria. However that isn't to say that there's no musical value in this album, quite the opposite in fact.

Mewgenics, from what I can tell online, is an indie turn-based based post-apocolyptic game about cat breeding. A very strange concept for a game, but unimportant to the quality of the album, which is actually pretty damn impressive.

Mewgenics has a pretty long runtime of an hour 38 minutes, most of which is either vocal jazz or jazz pop and is about either cat related topics or about death/spooky topics (dead cats, zombies, skeletons) complete with haunted house-esque music for those songs. In terms of genre it floats around a bit, there's a fair amount of country, rock, and rockabilly but it seems to be trying to stay consistent within a American 50s to early-mid 60s theme so any genre you can think of that was big around that time probably plays some role in this album. A large amount of the jazz songs also have kind of a spy movie theme to them, which is interesting I guess.

As alluded to earlier, I actually think these songs are extremely well done for the most part, this album clearly isn't a joke suggestion. Lyrically they take a more humorous tone, it's not an album to take with much seriousness, but I think the good musicianship, with the genre hopping and the comedic tone of the lyrics contributes to a fun experience. I've listened to this album twice now, and despite being over an hour and a half long, neither time have I felt the album dragging.

This does lead me onto the biggest negative, and unfortunately it's killer: The album doesnt feel like a standalone experience. Having not played the game it feels like I'm missing important context to a lot of this album, and it feels like something for fans of the game (which makes total sense, it's an accompaniment piece to the main course) rather than casual listeners like I, which immediately makes it ineligible for any list in my opinion. To its credit some songs do try to mitigate this. There's a series a songs about a big bad character (e.g. Crystalline Dreams being a spider, Throbbing King being about some kind of despot) which I'm going to assume are boss characters, and the lyrics give some background into these characters and as a result the lack of context isn't as bad as it could be, but it's still disqualifying. Also it came out this year. Props to having the most recent album on the board, but it's far too early to suggest anything that's been out for under 8 months is worthy of being here

The last song is a parody of the Monster Mash for some reason. Also one of the songs was a jazzy rendition of the danse macabre with lyrics about zombies, which I found to be delightfully amusing.

Should it be on the main list: No

Top 3 songs: Them Kitty Bones, Down With the Devil, Feline Invader

Not eligible, as it's a game soundtrack, not an album. Also ineligible as it is absolute horseshit.

Look, I went into this being aware of this edgelord game and its fanbase, but I tried not to let that affect me.

Having said that, this whole album is just a long (loooooooong) and boring list of cabaret songs about cats. Pass.

Feel like we are starting to scrape the barrel with these entries