After playing Modern Warfare 2, This Troper wondered if my iPod had a mind of its own. When playing the No Russian mission, it started playing Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight (Having a Wonderful Time). When I got to the cutscene where the International Space Station was destroyed, Fly Me to the Moon started playing.

This Troper has been known to slaughter hundreds of enemies in Thing Thing Arena 3 whilst jamming to this.

Reiko-chan is currently watching videos of the Challenge Tower while listening to the radio, and said radio is giving her quite a bit of this. From GoodCharlotte to Wynter Gordon, from Blink 182 to Flo Rida, from Avril Lavigne to Katy Perry... what next?

One afternoon, This Troper, who was very bored, decided to sync a {{Lifetime Movie of the Week}} with {{Dropkick Murphys}} songs. Strangely, watching a building catch on fire while the Dropkick Murphys song "Flannigan's Ball" plays in the background kind of works.

Near this Troper's house, there are very rare occasions where the birds will chirp a very beautiful song. The kind of song you would expect to hear in an old Disney movie. Any time I am fortunate enough to hear it, I will drop whatever I am doing at the moment to listen. They once had a lovely performance at 5 AM, accompanied by a woman sobbing uncontrollably, and screaming death threats at her brother specifically, and then her family as a whole.

This troper goes to a haunted house thing called "the ghoullog". Their October 2010 trailer spatters blood all over classic fifties-ish music in the same fashion as below. It's like "Oh, hey, this is nice fifties music. This MadScientist guy, he has good taste. Wait, what's he doing? HOLY SHIT IT'S A HUMAN FETUS IN A JAR!!"

I'm also writing a story that has one HighOctaneNightmareFuel-inducing scene (Well, I think it's nightmare fuel-inducing. It couldn't be {{Narm}}.) that has a wolfgirl graphically ripping apart security guards while singing "Alouette." The fact that it's a children's song would be scary enough as is (Again, that's only me.) until you realize what the song means.

This troper's sister made this claim when I was playing Fallout 3, due to my acts of savagery to the old-school tunes playing. Also completely averted when my friends and I were playing Star Wars Monopoly (the only one I own) and I realised the need to play my Star Wars soundtracks, which I own all off. Was considered totally awesome by all parties involved. Ever been sent to jail to 'The Imperial March?' Yeah.

This troper was reading a popular high-brow news magazine. The article was about how to define poverty in the rich world. The song that came up on my computer was "Those Who Stay Together, Slay Together" by Chiodos.

This troper typed this rant while sobbing uncontrollably, and listening to I Got A Feeling by The BlackEyedPeas.

This troper remembers a time when "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer was the psych-up song at Dodgers games!

While reading this piece of horror in the disguise of an AxisPowersHetalia fic, I seeked out the most upbeat songs. If you read that fic while listening to "Tik Tok", "Bulletproof", "We R Who We R", "Take It Off" and "Telephone", it becomes ''fucking hilarious''.

This troper has a very disturbing habit of playing ''Ode to Joy'' whenever watching his Zerg forces massacre Terran and/or Protoss bases and their inhabitants. It frequently leads up to an inverted BolivianArmyEnding.

Don't worry, I had a few thoughts about someone being tortured, Saw style (don't know why, though), with the Anvil Chorus playing in the background while the victim screams in agony.

This troper once put "Acceptable In The 80s" on repeat while playing through Ravenholm.

This troper has entire playlists devoted to this. ''{{Diablo}}'' set to Backstreet Boys, ''AgeOfEmpires'' set to soft Beatles, and WarCraft or StarCraft set to stuff like Grieg's ''Morning Mood.''

This troper has a spotify playlist which does this twice. Firstly, it has the flowing guitar solo at the end of Wuthering Heights fading out, and then immediately afterwards...[[AvenueQ I'm not wearing underwear todaaaaaaaaaaay!]]. The second has the theme tune from Halloween which fades out into a group of creepy children chanting a rhyme, then immediately stops. The song that follows immediately afterwards? [[NightmareRetardant I am Very Glad, Because I am Finally Returning Home by Eduard Khil, known to common internet folk as Trololo]].

To this troper, LinkinPark means one thing and one thing only: ''MonsterRancher''.

Seriously? To THIS troper, LinkinPark means nothing but YoshisIsland!

This troper remember the days when he decorates house and shops, designing Sims, and performing simulated daily-life events while listening on Linkin Park. Said troper's game is obviously The Sims!

Similarly, for this troper the euro-pop band Eiffel 65 ("I'm blue, da bee dee da be die...") is inextricably linked to ''PokemonSnap.'' The same goes for the obscure Game Boy Color RPG ''Li'l Monster'' and... Ricky Martin.

She just remembered two more. Smash Mouth (of "All Star" and "Walkin' On the Sun") can mean two games, and two games only: Either ''{{Rayman}} 2'' or ''SnowboardKids 2.'' Either way, it's mighty odd.

Who doesn't listen to S Club while playing violent computer games? Well, apart from everyone who isn't me...

I think I might be the winner. For a day or 2, I tried playing a muted DOA3 with whatever was on the radio. At one point, I had Usher's "Runaway Love". To make this clear to anyone who doesn't get it, it's a song from Ludacris about little girls running from home, during a session of a fighting game.

This troper often plays Silent Hill games, especially Silent Hill 2. And she proceeds to crank "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss" and "The Bad Touch" by The Bloodhound Gang.

This troper once had her MP3 player on shuffle while reading HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows. The song that pops up? Mr.Sensitive by David Cook. A song about a guy who knows the world is crappy, but chooses to ignore it. Yeah...

This troper plays horror games (FatalFrame, SilentHill, Siren, etc.) while listening to Super Robot themes (mostly by JAMProject). This troper finds that it helps very much, even when he is home alone, at night and with the lights out.

This troper would kill the sound completely, and MST it mercilessly in lieu of an actual soundtrack.

This troper plays TheSims while listening to horror game soundtracks.

This troper playing The movies while a trance remix of Cruel angel Thesis with vocals by Vocaloid was playing. The song was surprisingly well done.

Take the most intense BulletHell game you can find. Play it on mute while Enya is playing in the background. You'll either break your mind or AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.

However, most BulletHell games don't need such music switching when fighting a final boss or the last form of it.

This troper likes to listen to her iPod while reading ''The World According To Garp'' on the bus. There have been many such moments of dissonance, but the one that took the cake was Bobby [=McFerrin=]'s "Don't Worry Be Happy" during death scene. She will never watch the music video the same way again (considering who's in it....)

Above troper also, in the middle of ''OneHourPhoto'', started listening to "Kiss Me Deadly" by Lita Ford and "Mah Nah Mah Nah" for '''no reason at all'''. Uh, yeah, I have issues...

This troper, who was terrified by ''DonkeyKongCountry'''s cave music as a child, would play these stages--the very long "Elevator Antics", particularly--while listening to pop music. What?

The hazards of real-life SoundtrackDissonance are pointed out in this {{xkcd}} strip.

This troper loves blasting So What by Pink to Mario games.

This troper was innocently listening to her iPod on shuffle one day, when suddenly song number 666 came up. What song was it, you ask? Just "The Mob Song" from BeautyAndTheBeast. Although this might be more of a ReverseFunnyAneurysm than anything...

This troper has a disturbing penchant to whistle "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" during disturbing death scenes. It's freaking HILARIOUS!

And just now, she happens to be writing an essay on ''A Separate Peace'', specifically the character of Phineas and his extreme childlike innocence. So of course, {{God}} is laughing uproariously when she discovers that she happens to be listening to Paramore's "We Are Broken"; the chorus includes the phrase "What must we do to restore / our innocence / and oh the promise we adored? / Give us life again / cause we just wanna be whole". Oops...

Having CrowningMusicOfAwesome in your playlist is weird when you're just playing solitaire. I mean, solitaire. It's not as if I'm doing anything exciting, like eating a packet of chips.

This troper achieved his best time on expert Minesweeper (81 seconds) with a soundtrack of MontyPython.

This Troper likes to listen to slow, relaxing songs... while playing IWannaBeTheGuy, and loves to put Ball of Ballos in the background when reading XKCD...

This troper has discovered the surprisingly epic experience that is walking around the supermarket looking for Ritz crackers, while listening to ''The Bridge of Khazad-dum'' from the LordOfTheRings soundtrack.

That song makes ''anything'' epic.

Gandalf: "To the snacks aisle!"

This troper and his wife have decided that a certain rendition of ''O Come O Come Emmanuel'' (by Robin Kochis, once downloadable free on Amazon) would make an excellent background music for an epic, bloody battle.

This troper will read/write anything to whatever music she has stuck in her head or playing on her mp3 player, unless she's trying to get into a certain mood. Cue Linkin Park when writing a fluffy story, and the Hare Hare when reading a morbid series.

Unless it's Ryoko's version. Then it makes sense.

True enough, but troper doesn't listen to that one as much as some of the others, so it doesn't ever come up.

During his catering career, this troper has attended dozens of weddings, and is still boggled beyond reason at how often Kanye West's ''Gold Digger'' is played.

This Troper has Tons of random songs on his youtube playlist that he has play while using the internet. Which has led to me linking certain songs to what is in the AMV or thinking of a certain thing I was doing online. This is like the "we are" song from spiderman 2 makes me think "Heroes" or "Your love is a lie" to playing on the pokemon application on Facebook. This has probably caused me some problems but i was a bit mentally screwed up anyway so by that point it didn't matter.

Ever the holiday season of 2005, This Troper cannot play {{Warhammer 40000}} without Speed Over Beethoven playing in his head, and likewise cannot play DanceDanceRevolution without thinking of Tyranids ripping into the Imperial Guard

This Troper's favorite band to listen to when playing fighting games? Coldplay. Most definitely.

Did you play Viva la Vida while playing as M. Bison? That would be awesome.

OF COURSE!!

This troper once made the mistake of listening to cheery classical music while playing a particular bloody match of {{Half Life 2}}. His sanity has not been the same since.

There's nothing cooler to play Civilization, taking over all the rival cities with Depeche Mode as background music

''Every time'' this troper listens to Toccata and Fuge in D Minor (that's the one that goes 'da da daah! dadadadadaaa da...' if you don't know) her sister turns out to be reading romantic manga. She always gets whacked for unintentionally ruining the 'mood' (if it exists *eyeroll* ).

This troper often finds herself playing Aqua's ''Barbie Girl''...while playing {{DevilMayCry}}.

This troper has discovered that the correct soundtrack makes waiting for the bus in the cold and the rain makes it an epic experience. Especially "Tank!".

This troper had to sit through a Danish educational video (with English subtitles) for a mediation class. A dispute concerning two teenagers' basketball game was unfortunately set to cheesy, softcore -ish sultry saxophone music. The whole class snickered whenever it played, or else braced themselves once it started just in case the two lads started doing something inappropriate in the next scene. It didn't help that the film discussed the importance of giving and taking...

Partial example, this troper was reading the Wikipedia page for Ghostwatch while listening to his Windows Media Player playlist of anime music when this started playing! Could have been worse, I could have been ''watching'' Ghostwatch when the music started!

This troper spent part of a night of PVP combat in ''EveOnline'' listening to Moetekke! Sailor Fuku! on unplanned repeat for about 30 or 40 minutes (thanks for glitching at the most opportune time, Winamp!) ... perfect music for the HeroicSociopath to kill by ...

A decade ago, borrowed the PC game ''Quake'' from a friend, installed it, and gave him back the disk, but the soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails is on the game disc. However, I discovered that the game simply references the track numbers from whatever audio CD is in the drive. So from now on, my memories of ''Quake'' are immutably linked to Mars Lasar's Escape.

''Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith'' does the same thing. Which is why This Troper has memories of playing at 6:00 in the morning to Evanescence, which my kid sister left in the compy the night before.

This troper has noticed that he has a habit of whistling this wildly inappropriate ditty while going on killing sprees when playing ''CallOfDuty 4''.

This troper was listening to Christmas carols while reading Swift's''AModestProposal''. All well and good, until "Silent Night" came on. The phrase "Holy infant so tender and mild" took on an entirely new meaning...

Speaking of holiday songs, there's also the wonderful experience of listening to Barenaked for the Holidays while reading TheCallOfCthulhu for the first time.

On that note, this troper was listening to Twisted Sister while reading that book.

For This troper, it was Savatage's rendition of "Silver Bells."

This troper will never be able to think of Bop to the Top without thinking of the Jurassic Park game in which you build your own park. Specifically, the image of an escaped T-rex ready to go and rampage.

Also, recently, she began playing on Ponystars and feeding her ponies while listening to "California Uber Alles."

This troper, due to cheapness, has a bunch of bummed-off MP3s of catchy songs (and not battle-appropriate ones). Due to this, more than once he wound up fighting off zombies in Sven-Coop (which as a built-in MP3 player) to Haddaway's "What is Love?", or punching Morrigan in the face in MUGEN while " Bar" is blasting as hairy men watch. , AFX's "April 25th", Adelhide's stage, a -off raptor and Wolverine duking it out.

This troper takes advantage of this trope while playing Metal Gear Solid 4 by selecting the happiest songs she can on Snake's iPod while he runs through the streets blowing things up with grenades. Her favorite it 'Oishi Two-Han Seikatsu!', a j-pop song.

Personally, I find few things more enjoyable then playing WorldOfWarcraft, hoping on my Death Knight and wiping out legions of enemies while listening to anything by Katy Perry.

Many years ago, this troper suffered a humiliating defeat in a beauty pageant. To comfort me, my mother turned on the radio to get my mind off of it. The first song to come up? "We Are The Champions" by {{Queen}}.

This troper once could not stop whistling "The Worst Pies in London" from Sweeney Todd...while selling pastry. Granted, our scones are more like dwarf bread than anything else, so it might be true, but it's still a bad song to have around in the food business.

This troper's friend once put on Japanese...well, adult viewing material...set the DVD player to play it at 4x normal speed, and cranked ''Yackety Sax''. No one, and I mean ''no one'' lasted more than fifteen seconds before falling over and laughing hysterically.

Anything is funny with Yackety Sax.

Oh gods, just reading that I can't stop giggling.

This troper just watched horrible death scenes from ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' Do Yackety Sax. She was disgusted and laughing at the same time.

This Troper discovered Diablo II and Queen at the same time. Now he can relate battling the hordes of to "Save Me" and "You're My Best Friend". Aditionally, there's nothing like Weird Al Yankovic's polka medleys to be the background music during a whole night studying for the final exams in my university.

To This Troper, ''SonicTheHedgehog'' midi remixes = ''SluggyFreelance''.

This troper played ''Star Wars: Battlefront II'' a lot in 2007 until his computer crashed and he lost the CD code. He had a huge mix playlist that played everything from Foo Fighters to Collective Soul to Marilyn Manson, and he would put on Windows Media Player as he played the game. This led to him zooming through space, dodging clusters of concussion missiles and launching proton torpedoes at Star Destroyers to slow, emotional ballads....which were immediately followed up with "This is the New ".

This troper, while playing ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time'' and rolling through Hyrule Field at night as Child Link, puts on "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire.

Recently, he's taken to putting unfitting music to the endings of ''{{Eversion}}''.

This troper used to enjoy listening to the Lord of the Rings OSTs on the three and a half hour journey between Oxford and Cambridge. Concerning Hobbits would always make her smile. Also, Lothlorien is on right now, thanks to shuffle.

And Concerning Hobbits came on of it's own accord afterwards. I love shuffle.

Speaking of iPod Shuffle. This troper was reading ''CodeGeass'' Stage-0-Entrence when The Dropkick Murphys "Irish Drinking Song" started. Nothing like Alternate Universe political struggles with "Drink'ndrink'ndrink'ndrink'ndrink'ndrink'nfight HEY!"

This troper has "Thnks fr th Mmrs" by FallOutBoy playing while he goes around shooting people in ''SpecialForceOnline''.

"Alsatia" by Galneryus for TheSims. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome?

Two instances with this tropette.. She's got Harvest Moon 64 mentally soundtracked to hide's Greatest Hits album.. which is weird considering Lemon I Scream. And once while playing through the first FLOOD level of Halo 3 (and on) this tropette and her friend (thanks to a parental unit) were listening to Under the Sea and Winnie The Pooh instead of slightly creepy epic orchestra.

Back in the mid-to-late 90's, before mp3s, many games had their soundtrack as CD audio, a different track for each level. Having the wrong CD in the drive when firing up the game led to many, many cases of Soundtrack Dissonance...

The [=PS1=] port of ''RidgeRacer'' was well-known for this feature. During the ''Galaxian'' MiniGame that took place when you started the game, the game loaded all of its game data, save for the soundtrack, into the [=PS1=]'s memory, so after that sequence, you were free to remove the disc.

This troper finds that the most trivial of programming tasks become EPIC when done while listening to Shoji Meguro's "Battle Hymn of the Soul" from the ''Persona 3'' OST, or "Dancing Mad" by the Black Mages. Then again, the Black Mages are nothing ''but'' epic.

This troper once put her iPod on shuffle, and soon found herself listening to "Happy Ending," by Mika, while reading some of the bloodier parts of JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac.

This troper refuses to listen to anything other than The Beatles while playing I Wanna Be The Guy. Not even the later stuff-I mean the love songs and the trippy songs.

This troper, by some strange twist of fate, bought the MCR album "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" at the same time her sister bought Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. And I proceeded to play it on speaker while she played. After that, neither of us could think of think of one without the other.

While studying for his trifecta of Paleontology, Hydrogeology, and International Relations, this troper is currently listening to the most hot-blooded music he can get.

This troper once played her entire playlist of anime songs (about 50 songs) while typing up a fanfiction. Since the songs varied, she wound up going from something as cute as the fourth ending to PowerPuffGirlsZ to ''Nageki no mori''. And the fanfiction had ''nothing'' to do with horror.

This troper is currently typing tropes and looking for tropes while listening to the final boss theme from Super Paper Mario. :D

Fallout 3. Every radio song is happy and jolly. It certainly makes killing raiders seem like a bad thing to do. It depresses me when watching a Raider's head blow open while hearing "Way ba-ack hooome!"

It does the opposite for me. The swing jazz and marching music keeps me chipper while surrounded by zombies and giant scorpions.

This troper is a huge fan of this trope and the Fallout games, and has a huge collection of music from that era. Therefore: when her brother is playing or she's playing ''Fallout 3'' or ''Fallout: New Vegas'', she tends to sync up songs to what's going on in the game. Getting abducted by aliens? Martian Hop by the Ran-Dells. Going after Violet the fiend cannibal? "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley. Shooting up a bunch of Raiders? Kay Kyser's version of "Playmates." Wandering the Wastes at night? Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" makes very good Deathclaw hunting music.

This troper listens to sad love songs like Total Eclipse Of The Heart while playing games like the ''Spyro'' games and one time he was listening to Meatloaf while watching Beauty And The Beast- playing Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad during Gaston's fight with the beast- he also did this a second time but with Tenacious D playing Tribute during the balroom scene. And on occasions listening to "Beat It" by Michael Jackson while playing Zoo Tycoon 2.

This troper's high school coach once sat her team down to meditate before a competition. She then turned on her stereo, which proceeded to play "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy". The be fair, it was an accident.

Another accidental case: this troper was reading the second-to-last chapter of ''Night'' when all of the sudden Fleetwood Mac's mac/dont+ stop_20054276.html "Don't Stop" started playing on the radio.

Nothing like a little Viva la Vida while on TV Tropes, perhaps I should make it SuspiciouslyAproposMsuic by heading to the EvilOverlordList.

As great as the soundtrack is, this troper felt like a bit of a change of pace while playing KatamariDamacy. Inspired by reading this very page, he decided to turn the BGM all the way down, keep the sound effects on, and play the game ''while listening to Slayer''. Hilarity ensued, especially when rolling over people and entire cities.

This Troper tried to convince his sister that EverythingsBetterWith Jazz. To prove his point, he played some Gordon Goodwin over L's death scene in DeathNote. Hilarity ensued.

This troper when still able to work out would love to play nothing but Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and the Ramones while doing any time of bag work on a heavy bag. When said troper runs I have the 3rd stage theme from the original Virtua Fighter game playing for 5 minutes.

I once played World of Warcraft, questing in Ashenvale Forest with 2 hours worth of Pink Floyd songs playing in the background. At 3:30 AM. Talk about surreal...

This troper recently played "Cha-la Head Cha-la" for the BGM in a game of MagicalBattleArena. While it would normally be extremely appropriate music, considering Nanoha et al are more or less Saiyans disguised as magical girls, this troper had set the character selection to random, and ended up with the Gadget Drone from [=StrikerS=]. It was a disturbing fight indeed.

This troper to intentionally create this effect listened to "What A Wonderful World" immeadiately after receiving the news that his mother died.

This troper attended a high school production of ''The Curious Savage''. The music played for the curtain call was, for no reason conceivable to man, Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover.

While playing ShadowOfTheColossus, this troper routinely plays a number of odd songs. These include "Time Warp," "King of Lullaby," "Roaming Sheep," and anything by Voltaire.

This troper found that listening to creepy music helps her concentrate when playing a comedic online game, and when she ran out of songs by TheDecemberists [especially The Hazards Of Love 3, dear god] she looked up the ''Suspiria'' soundtrack on Youtube.

When I was just getting to know anime as a ~11 year-old (thanks Sci-fi Channel and ''VampireHunterD''!) I had concluded two things: Anime is for adults and all the music was SoundtrackDissonance. Giant nearly-KillEmAll cyborg space battle? Cue soft classical music!

This troper enjoys dropping some hardstyle techno and gangsta rap when playing Oblivion. Especially fun/daunting when the latter half was played while my character was a Redguard.

I had a strange experience while trying to print some things out recently, while listening to my video game music playlist on shuffle. The printer wasn't exactly being co-operative, since it kept printing pages on the wrong side, using multiple sheets for one page, and such. It almost felt like a battle with the printer. So, what should happen to play? One Winged Angel. Needless to say, I've never found printing so epic before or since.

I find myself listening to the Alundra Nightmare music while... Reading TV Tropes.

This troper recalls a particularly bizarre experience that occurred while listening to my iPod and waiting for the bus one morning. I was listening to Yuki Kajiura's Ship of Fools, and the Ominous Kajiuran Chanting portion of the song started ''just'' as the bus appeared over the hill. 'Twas a moment of SoundtrackDissonance perfection. You had to be there.

This troper has Weird Al and Tak and the Power of Juju forever linked.

Not sure if this is an example but this troper found herself reading Superdickery's Propaganda Extravaganza (AKA: Anti-Japanese propaganda in comics) and found herself listening to...anime soundtracks. The irony way not lost.

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time usually has an upbeat soundtrack, even in boss battles, it's fast-paced. But when the final boss goes One Winged Angel on you, and you may be ready to drop after three straight battles, and with this music playing, it's kinda telling you "Give up now..."

This troper once played this song while playing through the breakfast routine of ''FateStayNight'', and found it highly narmy. I intend to play Hell March 3 from the ''RedAlert'' series for the next breakfast scene.

TubeDubber was built for this trope. This troper is currently running the first opening the of CodeGeass to the intro for TheSpoonyExperiment.

Back in high school, this troper's iPod, constantly set on shuffle, once cranked out "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" from ''AvenueQ'' while he was reading about World War II in his history textbook.

I was just listening to AFI's "Affliction" while reading the page for BarbieAndTheDiamondCastle. Lo, the irony.

This Troper experienced two cases of Soundtrack Dissonance on two different occasions when she was waiting for a bus. The first time, it was late at night and freezing cold so I listened to the radio to take my mind off it. "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys made me break into a mad cackle. The other time, a couple pulled over in a nearby parking lot to have a screaming argument. What song was playing on their car radio? "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion.

This became a hilarious running gag between me and a friend, we were playing some shooter, I forget which, but whenever my friend was being attacked by some hidious creature and really getting... for lack of a better word, owned. I would play elevator music. Literally, I typed elevator music into youtube and found a soundtrack from a 007 game. Fun times.

Under the Sea from Little Mermaid was playing over the sounds of the Flood from Halo 3. It was... interesting to say the least.

This troper once got himself caught up in a self-imposed challenge to top the scoreboard of a ''Jedi Knight II'' server before he had to leave for school. Listening to "We Are The Champions" while striking people down left and right with no trouble was about the most awesome thing I've ever done in that game.

At this troper's high school graduation, the music that played over the recessional was The Imperial March, as chosen by the graduates.

I've also had "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" come on while programming multiple times.

This troper would put on [=CDs=] when playing Armored Core. This wouldn't count when listening to, say, Macross Plus or Lacuna Coil, but would when listening to the Code Lyoko CD or Newsboys.

And again doth NeoSilverThorn pull this: FirstEncounterAssaultRecon, happily set to his "Greatest Hits of the KamenRider franchise" playlist. There's something to be said for getting nailed by powered armor troops while Final Attack Ride: HIBIKI is playing.

This troper's friend had installed a new sound system in his car, complete with giant subs and everything else necessary to make one eargasm at the sound of an already awesome song. So we started driving around, he took the top down (convertible), turned the volume UpToEleven, and we started headbanging... to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, Mvt. IV. Doubles as TroperTales/WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome

You know what really, REALLY doesn't fit with being mauled by the Infected in Left 4 Dead? DANCER IN THE FREAKIN' STREET.

HandleInvalid read SweetBroAndHellaJeff for the first time while his iPod began playing "Mad World".

A friend was once standing by a beach, just watching seagulls swoop down and fight each other for food... then someone's boombox started sound-tracking this with "Eye Of The Tiger".

This troper once was playing Dead Rising when "Love is my Religion" by Ziggy Marley began playing. Something didn't seem right.

This troper was just reading a review of a particularly {{egregious}} case of IKEAErotica (this one) while listening to classical music. My iPod has a wicked sense of timing. #QUOTE#'''Excerpt:''' His erection is enormous – pointing at an almost 90-degree angle up towards his chin – and his glans is sweating buckets of happy juice. #QUOTE#'''iPod:''' OOOOOOOO FOR-TUN-A!

This troper attended the New Year celebrations of his town. During this, slideshows of the different events which took place during the last year were projected. One of the songs that were used ? Tenacious D's Classico. This troper had to struggle for not bursting into laughter (to give them credit, it happened in France, so it's likely they didn't realize what the lyrics were saying).

This troper once heard a Cruel Angel's Thesis remix at a ''supermarket''.

WHERE IS THIS SUPERMARKET?

Around Scarborough, it's a place called Top Food Supermarket. (Being a Chinese supermarket, it makes sense... somewhat.) Also, I heard a song that wouldn't sound out of place in a SuperRobot show in that same supermarket not long ago. It had a calming piano piece in the bridge, making for ''double'' SoundtrackDissonance.

Steel Komodo was once playing {{Tekken}} 6, practicing some of King's chain throws against Alisa. Thanks to the Custom Soundtrack option, he was listening to "Ain't That a Kick In The Head?" by Robbie Williams - appropriate to the High Roller's Club stage. Now, just imagine this: #QUOTE#'''Robbie:''' How lucky can one guy- #QUOTE#'''King:''' RAWR! *crack BLAM CRUNCH!* #QUOTE#'''Robbie:''' I kissed her and she kissed me. #QUOTE#''(King headbutts Alisa in the crotch. Cue mad laughter from my brother.)''

Which version of T6 were you playing? Because Reiko-chan hasn't played it in a while, and can't remember whether the PS3 version has that option. Also, you are ''awesome'' for being able to do King's chain throws. I can't do them to save my life. /irrelevancy

This troper watched the head explosion scene from Scanners while listening to Ne Tou Ge De Reset!, Tsukasa's character song, which is quite possibly one of the cutest songs known to man. Needless to say, it was unsettling.

This troper used to listen to Black Eyed Peas' Where is The Love on repeats while playing Snowmuncher on Neopets. Soundtrack dissonance, or just plain pissed off?

Same troper gleefully subverts the trope by listening to ''Oishii Two-Han Seikatsu'' while browsing eBay.

Finally, this troper actually owns said Chicco pull-string musical duck that plays "How Much Is The Doggie In The Window" posted to the main trope page. Bought it for the {{Narm}} value (and the fact that the duck sorta remotely looks like Flick. He also owns one of the said dollar-store musical toys that looks cute but plays that bitter tune that is Fur Elise, just because it is a cheap ripoff of a Sankyo/Kiddiecraft musical toy of the same design that plays the more proper "How Much Is The Doggie In the Window" which he has decided to start collecting just because the design's that of a cute puppy in a doghouse.

This troper once watched her brother playing ''{{Fable}} 2'' while ABBA played in the background. Cue slaying hordes of Hollow Men in dramatic slow motion with flourish after flourish lit by glowing orange motion lines and Christmas-light experience orbs on the way out of a ruin ''as Super Trouper played''. I swear, it was a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

This troper was listening to "Rumpus" from the ''WhereTheWildThingsAre'' soundtrack until she came upon the news of Andrew Koenig (Walter Koenig's son)'s suicide, upon which she immediately hit the pause button. *wince*

With the help of Tube Dubber, This Troper has created Hamster Dance: Total War. It's as hilarious as it sounds.

This editor once, in a state of boredom, replaced "Glass Soldier", the "sad" music in ''{{Iji}}'' with Sweet Georgia Brown, and "Further", the ending theme, with the ''{{Space Jam}}'' theme song (both taken from ''{{Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden}}'') death was incredibly surreal.

Now replicated thanks to Tubedubber. (And while we're messing with Iji and the Barkley soundtrack, I also made this. The lyrics actually fit pretty well.

This troper plays some random creepy music in the background while playing MitadakeHigh. Normally this works, because it's a murder mystery game. Sometimes... The game isn't quite that serious.

Not exactly covered byt his trope since it was a sound effect, not music, but I'll put it here anyway. Me and my brother were watching Halloween (07 version) in the living room while my mom was watching a game show in the nearby room. Several times, when Micheal killed someone there was an airhorn noise, taking all the mood out of the scene (I don't think I'm supposed to be laughing at Michael Meyers brutally stabbing the hell out of someone, but something THAT perfectly timed doesn't happen often).

This British troper once watched a televised response by the Liberal Democrats to the budget statement with Stress by Justice playing in the background. It was utterly terrifying.

This troper once came up with an idea for a video with clips from ''Saving Private Ryan'' set to "Last Regrets" (the opening theme song for Kyoto Animation's 2006 version of ''Kanon'').

This troper tends to invoke Soundtrack Dissonance from time to time; sometimes on purpose, and sometimes not. Some noteworthy examples include:

{{Doom}} and assorted '90s pop songs. I will never forget mowing down hoards of demons while listening to MMMBop

{{Klonoa}} and AvengedSevenfold. What was weird, though, was how well the two fit together...

MarioKart and BlackSabbath. It's hard to beat racing on Rainbow Road while Neon Knights plays in the background, or blasting through Bowser's Castle while listening to War Pigs

IWannaBeTheGuy and {{Disturbed}}. After all, getting hit by gravity-defying apples is just another way to die

{{MapleStory}} and IronMaiden. I enjoy exploring the Kerning City Swamp while listening to Ghost of the Navigator

Another example came when writing a death scene in a story I'm working on while listening to music collection on shuffle, when "Genius in France" started playing. I admit to laughing about it; how unfitting it was to a point of being amusing.

This troper was working on a comic and in the process of drawing a death scene when iTunes shuffled to "All You Need is Love". It was hard deciding whether to laugh or not.

This troper was once listening to Disney songs while researching crime in South Africa. It was an odd experiance, to say the least.

My mom has a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek on the TV while we're eating dinner. My dad is blaring Rod Stewart's GreatestHitsAlbum downstairs. I look up and realize I'm watching a husband give his wife two black eyes and lock her in the basement... with "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" added to the soundtrack.

My brother and I share a room, and therefore a radio. We alternate between months who has control over what we listen to as we sleep. I have an audio cable hooked into it that my brother likes to jack his iPod into on his nights. He puts it on shuffle... and I sleep to the soothing sounds of BANANA PHONE IN G MAJOR.

While visiting his father, this troper has ended up playing ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' main series games while CountryMusic was playing in the background.

Once, playing TeamFortress2, the server I was playing on had one of those micspammers who actually enhances the experience, ya know? The music in question? Disney songs. Mostly BeautyAndTheBeast. It was bizarrely awesome.

Just today, Gancena was purposely listening to a ''very'' upbeat trance song while writing. The characters were talking about their past and present suicidal urges. It was weird.

This troper gave up trying to write a Ten Song meme with her own iPod. She was trying to go for happy, upbeat, true love. All she got was Bullet For My Valentine, Rammstein, System of a Down, and the whole of Gereen Day's 21st Century Breakdown. "OTL

This troper once was raiding Naxx in WorldOfWarcraft, and the group got to Heigan [[ThatOneBoss the Discomancer]] the Unclean. After explaining how to do "the dance" that the fight is famous for, the Raid Leader said he was going to play a song over the ventrilo-- and if we didn't down the boss before the song finished once, we sucked. His song of choice: The damn Mamboleo!. 4 DPS died due to laughing so hard they literally did not move at all during the fight.

Ever found yourself halfway through watching {{Watchmen}} online when suddenly an advert at the side of the page starts singing about scratchcards?

I don't know if you've ever heard of the game "The Revenge of Shinobi", but playing that while listening to Bad Romance is one of the funniest things ever. A serious game where the main character (called Joe) is trying to rescue his girlfriend (or whetever she is) from the clutches of an evil genius...being outshined by a song about prostitution. It makes sense in context.

Ever have sex to the Price is Right theme song? Or play Pandemic II while listening to Taylor Swift? This Troper has.

Fun fact: the Xbox360 has a built-in music player, which works well for online play. This troper has played {{Halo}} to the somber sounds of Mozart's Requiem.

Same guy as above who replaced the ''{{Iji}}'' music with that from ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' - the ''Barkley'' music seems to be a magnet for this to me. I once clicked away from a tab I was on, forgot what I was reading, and started to play the ''SpaceJam'' theme song out of the game's soundtrack, because why not. Then I clicked back and saw what I was reading. I immediately burst into laughter.

This Troper plays Game/{{Quake}} to Love Is On Fire by The Italo Brothers and during the final boss battle listened to Stamp On The Ground by the same band.

This troper has this happen to her very often, as she has only general playlists, which have music in all different styles. Listening to Almost Dead by Powerman 5000 while looking at pictures of kittens is... ''odd'', as is listening to Beautiful World by Utada Hikaru while reading a particualarly violent FanFic, or fighting a particularly tough trainer in a Pokemon game. Happy person, angry/sad music. Angry/sad person, happy music. Strange...

This lady is contemplating the plot details of a novel that can basically be boiled down to a Terminator-esque plot appropriate for children. She formulates the story in her mind while listening to the soundtrack of ''Les Misérables''. Yes, her android character is somewhat upset about getting blown up, rebuilt and repurposed as a killer robot, but there's a lot of unsettling Cognitive Dissonance lying around when your brain combines the idea of androids singing passionate revolution songs.

This troper has written pieces of one of her darkest fanfictions to date while happy J-pop or 80s music plays on iTunes.

Ah, it's so surreal when this happens in this way: I'm reading ''{{Demian}}'' and as I come to the line "'So you wanted to take your life, Knauer?'", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" starts playing on my iPod (the song, if you don't know, is perhaps the most saccharinely upbeat and happy song on The Beatles' otherwise tumultuous and largely disjointed White Album...aside, perhaps, from "Good Night", which while not very upbeat is very saccharine, but that's not the point of this example at all. In fact, just ignore everything in these parentheses if you get what I'm saying without having to read them).

A comedic one: while playing Timesplitters, the first song that came up on this troper's computer (yes, I have a PS2 in the same room as my computer, but my parents were out when I tried this) was "Ticket Outta Loserville." Admittedly, it would have been ironic if I'd been playing on the subway level (visual gag potential if someone gets run over by a train during the song), but, as this happened in October 2010...

iPod on shuffle, surfing TVTropes, I follow a link on {{Deadpool}}'s page without pausing the music...and watch Deadpool and Dante beating the crap out of each other to the tune of Handel's "Messiah." #QUOTE# For unto us a child is born''I love me some gun!''

This troper was once listening to "Earth Angel" by The Penguins when committing a senseless massacre in a subway station in ''GrandTheftAutoIV''.

This troper was part of a collective ''double'' soundtrack dissonance. At our club's Japanese music disco, the resident broad-minded CoolBigSis of our circle of friends was telling us about her hate for babyfur in her FurryFandom. She had to describe what it ''was'' first, all while the theme to ''{{Ponyo}}'' was playing in the background. A bit later she was describing some weird sex videos she laughed her arse off at; the theme to ''MyNeighborTotoro'' was put on just as she got to the most {{brain bleach}}-worthy moments.

This troper plays the whole collection of {{Doom}} games, with musics by Mami Kawada (ShakuganNoShana) and Houkago Tea Time (K-ON!). These reduce the fear factor of the game by 90%.

While reading ''OrderOfTheStick'''s Azure City Siege Arc, this troper listens to "I Don't Think Now is the Best Time" from ''Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End''. For many strips, the music hits the tone well, but for strips like this it really, really doesn't

This troper has done it sometimes, particularly with MMORPG's that have a built-in customizable playlists where you can add your own music by putting it in a correct folder. Her older brother was usually on the edge of laughter as they were killing gigantic monsters and running away from them to gothic metal love songs or 80's rock ballads.

This Troper was walking around the mall today and overheard a woman rocking a toddler to sleep while singing Eminem and Rihanna's song ''Love the Way You Lie.'' Considering the subject matter of the song, it was more than a little disconcerting...

This troper has a nasty habit of quietly playing "Que Sera, Sera" on his phone whenever he's walking at dark, quiet places at night with a timid person.

This troper closed out one of her fics with Hitomi no Tsubasa, which is the saddest song in {{Code Geass}}, playing in the background while the credits rolled. The song closed out a {{Crack Fic}} parody of {{Summer Wars}} that crossed-over {{Axis Powers Hetalia}} and {{The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya}}. Then, in another {{Crack Fic}}, the pirate characters from {{Axis Powers Hetalia}} (France, England, Spain, and Netherlands), my OCs, and the Piece}} Straw Hat Pirates, Eleven Supernovas, and Shichibukai singing In the Dark of the Night from {{Anastasia}}, which made the tone of the scene Whiplash}} kind of dark. They sang it after some characters from {{Eureka Seven}}, {{Kuroshitsuji}}, {{Sengoku Basara}}, {{Ouran High School Host Club}}, {{Jyu Oh Sei}}, {{Fairy Tail}},{{Baccano}}, and {{Axis Powers Hetalia}} sang Promiscuous Girl and before Izaya and Shizuo sang Baby by Justin Bieber.

Listening to Gattai Nante Kuso Kurae while reading SweetBroAndHellaJeff = CrowningMomentOfFunny.

Eromenos: The Beginning is a dark story detailing Cloud and Sephiroth's... relationship in the years before Sephiroth leveled Cloud's hometown. Naturally, this troper found herself listening to Aqua's Bumblebee several times.

This Troper hates his neighbourhood because of this. While I edit or act out the NietzscheWannabe page (or any dark depressing page for that matter) or just try to remember ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' or Mozart's Requiem, people play Justin Bieber, pop or ice cream music outside.

Right now, This troper is writing a scene where a character is being told he's dying. While listening to Thermostat.

Right now, This troper is playing MonsterHunter with his buddies, while Hare Hare Yukai is blasting out of one of my buddies' phones - and we're hunting Deviljho LOL

This troper would like to someday make a pants-wettingly creepy horror movie set to cheerful jazz music from the twenties, thirties, and forties.

For a real head trip, try reading about ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' (specifically, our page and its own wiki) while listening to upbeat ''GurrenLagann'' music (specifically, Break Through the Dream and Sora Iro Days). It's not the first time I've done that, too - thanks to an earlier attempt, I cannot look at Kyubey without thinking of the Slap Chop rap.

Similarly, I've played ''MortalKombat9'' while listening to the Scatman song in the background. It's so weird it almost CrossesTheLineTwice.

This troper played through Bioshock with Leekspin set on loop as the backing music. It was ''surreal''

This troper recently watched the new trailer for Doctor Who (the 2011 season, if anyone reads this in 2012 or later) and had to fight not to have "The Poet And The Pendulum" play through his mind while watching it. Disturbingly, it actually suited the trailer very well...

Same troper also enjoys playing Rayman 3 while listening to Metallica. Especially "Enter Sandman" after the language selection screen.

This troper was listening to "Two Princes" when she tripped and smacked her mouth against her bed, nearly tearing it apart, and cried for the duration of the song and well beyond that.

Final Boss of Super Mario Galaxy & Naked Arms by T.M.Revolution, 'Nuff Said.

In GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas, "Today Was A Good Day" by IceCube is one of the few songs This Troper likes on the GTARadio station Radio Los Santos. Late in the game, I caught it while driving back to CJ's hood the riots were raging around. Not exactly a good day, eh?

From This Troper: FirstEncounterAssaultRecon. PhineasAndFerb soundtrack. That is all.

This troper once had bad news broken to her while she was listening to this. It made the whole thing a bit easier to digest.

This troper once read about Pol Pot atrocities while listening to the Flaming Lips' version of What a Wonderful World.

This troper once purchased a can of coke in a supermarket while "Bridge Over Troubled Water" played over their radio.

He also has managed to connect Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell 3: The Monster's Loose with Elite Four battles. The fact that the CD literally finished when the end credits did sealed it for me.

This troper recently watched LordKat blasting zombies in Left4Dead to the soundtrack of vintage WeirdAl. My personal favorite tunes included "Amish Paradise", "Gump", and "Everything You Know Is Wrong". "The Night Santa Went Crazy" seemed oddly appropriate, as did "Hardware Store" when played during TeamFortress2.