I haven't listened to it all yet but I must comment on how terrible the first track you posted is. I'm equally as shocked by the fact that people actually managed to enjoy it :/

The only one I truly don't like the is the first one (night theme for New Los Angeles), and the last one (Don't Worry) is...stupid...reminds me of the song that plays during the last cutscene in the original Xenoblade...sounds like something a teenage girl will listen.

With how much characters talk during battles, you probably won't even care about the rap in the battle theme...you will get more annoyed to the constant character yelling.

I dont find the music ugly, I actually like it very much; BUT considering they are from a game they are out of context. Maybe if they were featured in a cutscene they would make sense or in a trailer.

Maybe it is just like the soundtrack of Silent Hill, on which you have lots of songs, but within the game you only have the a song in the credits.

I think that if these songs are taken from gameplay parts they wont have voice, and will be just music.

and Devil May Cry. I love the soundtrack in DMC3 and DMC4.

The Music are not all that bad man... the first two you mention i complete agree, the others are quite enjoyable.
To me the major problem with the Xenoblade X music is the singers not been so good, like when Square make games they only chose great singers to perform the songs.

I concur with the OP.

I have a month off after working 7 days a week for crazy hours and over 40 flights in 2015 alone.

Also I don't have the patience to sit through the ridiculously long and boring cutscenes, so I skip them.

Which music from the OP is better than which music from FFXIII's soundtrack?

This is the way to be more strong.

OT: I didn't listen to them all...but one of the earlier tracks seemed like something straight out of Kill la Kill, which had one of my favorite anime OSTs. In general I don't really mind vocals in games. Worse case scenario I'll just get used to it. I thought the Persona 4 battle song was kinda annoying at first, and now I love that too.

Yeah Nier (and the composer's follow-up work on Drakengard 3) is definitely a highlight of last-gen.

And the Persona series nails the integration of rap vocals in a video game. Catherine too.