Other PS1 games follow suit a while afterwards. It goes from the occasional 1 second skip at the start of the round, to doing it more often, to not being able to read the BGM files at all, to not being able to read the disc at all. My Tekken 1 discs are also the ones that are the first to stop being read whenever my current PS2 laser starts to die / need cleaning.

I'm glad to finally read that someone else has the same problem, and on an entirely different pressing of the disc. I posted on Tekken fansites asking if others had the problem, but I think they were more concerned with the latest games in the series rather than the classics. The 2nd copy I bought was still GH, but brand new as opposed to the somewhat scratched and buffed copy I originally had. The reason I have two? My first GH copy had the exact same music skipping/stuttering problem within the first second of a stage, and it was driving me crazy. Sorry if necroposting is frowned upon here, I just found this forum while trying to figure out which version of Tekken 1 I should buy to replace my (two) Greatest Hits (>_<) copies.

Tekken 1 music