THE GAME: bit.ly/3D5DfBD NEW ALBUM: bit.ly/3D4tPGD COOL MIX THAT I DID: bit.ly/2ZQDMJw KNUCKLES: t.co/YCiv2enI0g?amp=1 PATRONE: www.patreon.com/user?u=2285408 hell yeah new video. like i said, i kinda crowbarred this script together out of bits n pieces from my next Very Cool Very Big video, but i hope this still stands on its own as a cool lil thing : )
I feel like nobody really understands the essence of gaming aesthetics like you do. you were raised in the skung, molded by it, and now I feel like you are actually creating vocabulary and a place to talk about and conceptualize these audiovisual ideas we all have tried to grasp and failed. seriously great work
yeah since i had to figure most of the visuals up on the spot, rather then just using gameplay footage, i had to teach myself a few new tricks to keep things interesting lol. i rendered like 3d and stuff. even used shaders, its wild.
29:53 - My favourite thing about _Extreme Paintbrawl's_ soundtrack is that supposedly Todd Duane just sent the devs a bunch of demos he'd made, to show them what he could do as a starting point, and the devs just used those demos without a second thought. I'm so glad they just did that, it's truly incredible stuff.
That Front Mission music unironically slaps. Not sure how people don't like that one. Also there's a version of the Crazy Bus music out there which adds blast beats. And it's... not bad?
I paused the video in the middle of the front mission part to go find the song, I wish the names of the songs had been given. It's called "Rock" but all the versions I can find sound quite different (same song, just different mixing)
People probably just heard the drums in the opening and assumed something went wrong before the rest of the song kicks in and you realize those massive fucking snares are a very deliberate choice
not even joking, this video made me inspired to try music composition after being too anxious to try it for so long. seeing "bad music" with a perspective like this made me worry so much less about being a beginner to it
Yeah same here. Vid did a great job flipping my perspective on it, especially the "Sometimes posting cringe is just a thing you need to do to find your true self", ngl. Thanks Thor.
I've been composing music for 10 years and my advice is... just do it, and experiment with everything you like until you find your own style, and then keep on making stuff, even if the stuff you make at the beginning sounds a bit strange or not conventional, experimenting and playing around with the sounds is the best way to learn how to make your own sounds
Being a single game dev right now and having to do music with no idea of how to music myself, this really gives me more confidence in experimenting. Thank you, I appreciate this video so much.
@@LeonikkiJohni hey man I'd like to talk more about this. I will do it for free tbh. If anyone else sees this and is an independent game developer or independent movie maker I will make your music and I will more than likely do it for no money, but I want discuss what happens if the projects DO make money and even then it would be for a tiny percent because I love what I do and I love working with sound and want a different way to approach my art form.
i love all the thor high heels videos where it’s like “here’s a non traditionally good thing that i like” cos it’s very relatable to me someone who also likes shit like that
ua-cam.com/users/clipUgwXlh4wAgT5OjEZLMF4AaABCQ just made a quick clip - youtube limits it to 60 sec so i couldn't get much else without it being weird but it's a start if you just need an easy reference like i did lol
there’s something uniquely crunchy about finishing a presentation about indonesia in which i go over all that i learned in the last day involving gamelan music and then having that knowledge instantly validated by the street fighter 1 segment of this video. can’t imagine anyone else has had that specific experience how fun
The really extreme "bad" midi sounds always hit different i think because of the way our generation learned computer based creative arts, mostly by self teaching. When you dont know what a switch does on the pirated software you're trying to learn and you dont have a corporeal teacher to ask then of course you just flip every switch, one by one, all the way to max just to see what they do, especially since many effects are imperceptible in small doses, and sometimes those experiments lead to "damn that kinda hits" moments of discovery. The enginuity that you get to infer from bad midi music is really engaging for me because of this background. Great vid as always Thor love ya.
This is how I feel with all of the King of Fighters 2001. From ost to art to story it is very much all of these vibes. Ost is short and somewhat grating y2k elevator music. Main bad guy built up the whole saga is killed and then the guy that kills him is a weirdo. Art is super exaggerated on the features which is a contrast to the rest of the series realistic shinkiro art. I love it.
I'm like that with XI and 2003, mostly because it has the best team (I love Gato, Billy and Yamazaki, having them in the same team was insanity for my teen mind). 2001's ost tho, hella catchy, love it too. Original zero's strikers are so cool too, love that Krizalid redesign a lot. Cant really agree on the art tho, that Andy portrait still pisses me off a little, as I main him.
@@volantblade2024 I love Nona’s art, I felt it brought a new and modern dimension to a lot of the characters, I feel like a lot of the fans we wherent used to it but it’s amazing I also take inspo from them and Hiroaki.
Crusty music is criminally underappreciated. Its like opening a finely-aged cheese that nobody liked the flavor of at the time but age has made it into a skungy masterpiece.
I've finally found a perfect description to the Cruisin' USA theme. Truly the daddiest of jams, and it's been living in my mind rent free for the last 27 years.
Found this channel today. Don't know why I clicked on this video. Was expecting some guy shitting all over bad music. This video has so much positivity and it makes me so happy.
This video just gives me good vibes whenever I watch it. I sort of get "after-school lesson from my gamer music teacher who wants to teach me how to break the rules and color outside the lines" kinda vibes from it
esperanto from megaman zero four is my favorite piece of vidya music ever, whale farts and all. the sonic series as a whole is the embodiment of that "i am cringe but i am free" meme.
well Thor, I took at the San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing OST business for you and revealed this "mystery for the ages": Gunnar Madsen composed the OST for the Arcade; he talks about it on his website, which you can easily find. He shares some very interesting insight into his productions for Atari, on the "games" section on his website. Doug Brandon was apparently the responsible for the N64 arrangements and some original tracks from there also; he credits himself on his website as well. So there you go Thor, now you can dive into this rabbit hole if you so desire; cheers.
when i was a little kid I'd get crazy sick with dangerous fevers and id go into this comatose state and I swear music very similar to this stuff would play in my head.
Thank you so much for this video. It's given me the inspiration I needed to get back into my music. I've been in a huge rut recently when it comes to my productions, but I don't know. Something about this video is really eye opening. It's just nice to know that there really are people out there who try and understand what someone was going for instead of just saying, "Wow, that's bad." I appreciate people like you.
@AwfulLawful_ Well, extremely close approximations of objective truths, also based on science communities paradigms and the idea that established theories can potentially be falsified at some point. But I getcha
Gamelan music is specific to Java and Bali (and some other parts of Indonesia that's highly influenced by Java). Gamelan being played for places inspired by other parts of Indonesia (say Sulawesi or Papua) would be inaccurate and cringe inducing. Which makes it x100 more cringe that they used it for Thailand, a country that doesn't even border Indonesia. It's like if they used the traditional Berber music of nomads from the Sahara for the Roman colloseum. Cos yknow, it's still the medditerranean lol. Also, I have to say this is your best video in awhile imo keep up the good work man.
if you want vgm pieces that use Gamelan in a better way, Hyness's themes, specifically Hooded and Unhooded, are the way to go, as it was chosen specifically because Gamelan is played during traditional shadow puppetry ceremonies and Hyness is a puppeteering cultist
Just found Hazel's channel and thought "She reminds me of THH" and then she shouted you out. And then you shouted her out. And that just makes me feel happy for some reason. ALSO: SoR3. Everyone hates that soundtrack but I love it. It just goes too hard for most normies. That's just what techno and hardcore did in 1991 or whenever that game came out clearly I'm too lazy to look it up. ALSO ALSO: GRATS! on becoming a Jogo Composer! I shall buy it now.
Im so glad you talked about the Blue Dragon ost. To this day my brother and I will randomly yell "THIS IS THE BEGINNING" at one another and the other will launch into a mumbled mess of syllables in tune with how we remember the guitar riffs to go
My first 360 was dying during Blue Dragon and watching it produce ever increasingly trippy graphical glitches to the sound of absolute peak buttrock was such an experience I didn't even mind.
A fucking brazilian newsstand cd-rom?! I... I had to stop the video and jump right into the comments, man. God fuckin almighty. Some of those mfs were like 50% mugen, 20% fps mods, 20% emulators with rom hacks coming straight from hell and 10% some bullshit like Redneck Rampage. The whiplash of going from that to shit like "DBZ vs. Mortal Kombat" was something that must have had warped our minds irreparably. Anyway, back to the video. PS: Your editing just went from amazing to godlike. Congrats!
5:00. I never understood why the basement theme in RE1 was so bad until now. Thanks for the explanation! I honestly think that most of the soundtrack in RE1's Director's Cut is really good, particularly the creepy mansion themes and the emergency theme at the end when the lab is about to explode. Yet most people I've seen here on youtube say the Director's Cut is bad because the soundtrack sucks. Aside from that 1 track in the basement, I believe the soundtrack is creepy, unique and a good OST.
@@bonnierabbit1413 That's right. I know that the first DC version came with no DualShock support and had the original soundtrack but the one that supports the DS controller (and had the other OST) also says "Director's Cut" on the cover.
@@robertnomok9750 I am aware of that, yes. But the soundtrack itself isn't the scam. The scam is his career and so-called "accomplishments". Even if he lied and had someone else compose this particular OST for him, my original point is that the music isn't bad. It's quite effective and creepy. What he did or didn't do doesn't change that.
7:00 my friends and i really had a lot of fun with these cds, in brazil it was too normal to buy at newsstands, on the street, or literally in a vegetable store, i remember one for ps2 that had super nintendo games, and another for pc that literally had a library of flash games installed.
That combination patreon crawl/game plug is is the most incredible version of either thing that I've ever seen. How many patreons get to say that in this tier you will be murdered?
I cannot articulate the hype when the Rush ost started playing. God damn have I not heard that in a long time. Never even occured to me as unusual because it was one of my First Games
Blue Dragon is just pure bliss, you can tell Umetsu was working with someone who he looks up to and just shows. I love it. As far as I can know with the Resident evil music. while delving into the whole Playstation and how it handles music it does use MIDI data, but it also contains sample/wave data as well so someone somewhere must of known it was a trumpet sound they had bundled together. San Fransico rush has a a Lotus III vibe kind of, and both absolutely slaps. Also Fairlights were mega expensive during the 80's and are just as expensive to own now. In fact it was so expensive another (well renowned) sampler called "The Emulator" was made as a cut down version which in turn had it's own Cut down version. If you want a wild ride of how quickly things were developed you should definitely check the history of samplers in the 80's it was definitely a technological wild west.
Far from the awfulness of the ones that you've showcased, but one of my favorite terrible game ost tunes is "The Ring: Terror's Realm - Most Annoying Music Loop" as it's called on YT, check it out if you haven't. It's so out of place for a horror game (which it tries to be), playing for the first ~20 minutes of the game nonstop, accompanied by cringeworthy dialogues and animations... It's really something else. Excellent video btw, and the editing is outstanding, my dude. Can't wait for mysterious ps3 games!
That office theme ain't even that bad. Or it wouldn't be; it's just that piano stabs are way too *loud*. Some of the music in that game is pretty alright.
Ay im the dude with the pacman music recommendation comment you responded to. I listened this new album a week ago and I genuinely believe that you have transcended into becoming a true music artist. The soundtracks back to back have the sounds that have influenced my tastes for majority of my life. So you are a literary The True Neutral on this spectrum of new genre Others on this group I would consider Ex. Machinegirl- chaotic evil (infinite potentially) Home shake- lawful neutral (Give it to me) Icytwat- lawful evil (D.A.N) ETC. You are the baseline of this new wave of music in my opinion. And it made me feel this very specific and familiar feeling. Let me know if you want some more examples of what I mean. I've been listening to the things you've made but The Yth is your Renaissance My Guy.🤌👉👉
*whole ass segment about FM alternative* Shlappin' Game deserves more love, yeah, and that soundo was an experience when i first ran into it. Love ya Thor
Pretty ironic since the sentence “there’s no such thing as objectivity” is objectively wrong What you were probably referring to is “there’s no such thing as objectivity in critique of media” but we need to be hyperbolic to get those clicks
gamelan may be an indonesian instrument (rather a collection of instruments), but piphat is played in thailand. There's nothing out of place by that track being in a Thai stage.
I ended up looking up gamelan music. The band was super coordinated together. I can definitely appreciate the musicianship involved! Definitely sounds different but kinda cool!
I enjoy watching many UA-camrs, but these videos are just on another level man. Something about the way u write loose ends together and edit around the script is just so pleasing to watch. You got some mad talent for this UA-cam thing u know
I'm surprised and also bittersweetly delighted, because it's a hidden gem, that ThorHighHeels doesn't have 1 mil subs. I hope the channel grows for his own benefit in the future, regardless of what the channel may develop into many of these videos are classics. I enjoy the special flavor he adds and the review topics he chooses. Great channel!
I LOVE THIS VIDEO! A couple little things that might help (although maybe I'm misremembering?) I think Barry Leich did San Francisco Rush (and also did Cruisin' USA) I think the Sonic 3 blue sphere theme appears in Sonic Eraser. Don't quote me on either of those, as it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I remember both being the case.
San Francisco Rushs "Whoa!" sample is legendary. It gets used in the first stage of Einhänder and in a boss battle theme of Ragnarok Battle Offline. Shit is LEGENDARY i tell you. Whoooooooahoahoaaaa!
A lot of the stuff mentioned in this video is also featured in an album I downloaded nine years ago called "Bad Music Collection" that doesn't seem to have any trace of it left online any more - it was from the same site that I downloaded a packaging of the WipEout HD / Fury soundtrack titled "WipEout HD Fury GST" from. The Bad Music Collection album has embedded cover art in the MP3s that TinEye shows also doesn't exist online anywhere now. Just thought this was interesting, and wondered if THH happened to come across this album too.
god, i recently stumbled on your channel and the number of things you say that put things i have felt in my soul about games and shit into actual words i could never quite find myself is incredible.
Your stuff has developed into such its own aesthetic. Thanks for keeping it going. Had some good laughs throughout. And freaking Crazy Bus gave me a legit headache.
As a noisician (really, check my channel, its all full albums of noise I made) and also a long time producer of electronica, I appreciate your picks here and your perspective on noise. I recognize it's not for everyone, even my fiance can't stand my harsh pieces, but there is something to be said for pure chaos. I agree that it can be cathartic and often is sought out for that reason, but what got me into noise in earnest (and what made me take the dive into total noise after producing stuff that was much closer to your musical output for a solid decade and a half) was learning to embrace the meditative side of noise. It has a quality that is unlike any other genre, that when listening to it my internal dialogue is so overwhelmed that it eventually (after my brain stops resisting) falls completely silent. The result is a sort of empty and thought free state that persists until the track or album ends and leaves in its wake a sense of complete annihilation of normal thought. It was what Merzbow and other "japanoise" artists did for me and what "unlocked" the value of noise for me. I won't say that it was easy to get there, but at this point I genuinely enjoy the loud, harsh and formless qualities of noise. I also am much more interested in timbre and texture in all music as a result which I guess replaces in a way the missing groove, melodies and other normal traits of music that you mention missing in noise. Either way thanks for noticing and acknowledging the overlooked, oversaturated ("ANYONE CAN DO IT" yes, thats the point. but also not everyone does so...) and misunderstood genre that I have dedicated myself to creating in.
Hey let me add this to my original wall of text: The OST on Streets of Rage 3 (Bare Knuckle 3 if you want to play as the "problematic" gay character) is a perfect fit for this list. All of it is gnarly, harsh and distressing, not to mention being the direct follow up to one of the most forward thinking and iconic soundtracks of all time on SoR2 (the interview with the creator makes it clear he was ahead of the curve on how popular techno and dance was about to be and choose to give 2 that vibe deliberately) but yeah how hated the soundtrack for 3 is should speak to that. Also I have a version of the sega genesis soundcard in my DAW and "notoriously difficult to program" ain't the half of it.
I love this kind of music. Worst beats of all time, Songs with every note in C, major songs reworked into a minor key, replacement meme songs, time signature fuckery, mash-ups combining the worst possible matched songs…It started as a “joke”, but I found myself enjoying every song in this video. I would say I regret my taste in music, but being able to have fun with stuff other people think is trash is great honestly. Skung for life.
3:39 People were mostly making fun of the facial animations of Andromeda, not the way the protag actually looked. Her weird, forced looking smile being the funniest example. The facial animation in general for Andromeda was quite the meme, especially given the fact it dropped for the PS4 and shit.
Just giving a shout out to demonstrate my appreciation for that Multi-game PC CD-ROM displayed at 6:55. Back In the Early 00s where access to official stuff were next to none, those 10 bucks CDs that came together with magazines pretty much saved my days. Not to mention some cool demo/softwares featured on them... Probably the kind of stuf THH would be into case he lived in Brazil. ;)
I loved this look at "bad" video game soundtracks. Actually inspired me quite a bit to start farting around with my various sample packs, haha. So awesome that you are a game composer. I'm struggling to get that started. Been wanting to do that for awhile.
The dissolution of the very concept of objective truth is at the core of the contemporary fascist movement, here in the States. So, forgive me if I vehemently disagree with the second of your opening points. The first is fine of course. edit: Give the Vagrant Story ost a listen sometime, start to finish. It has its own weird energy that can be effective in many contexts, and a lot of it people would not guess to be game music based only on listening to it. It's definitely "a mood" lol. regarding Uematsu and 70's music... Siamese Dream will always be my favorite album, and that didn't change after listening to Black Sabbath and noticing that certain guitar riffs or sequences were clearly very inspirational to Corgan when making SD.
10:51 oooooooh that gave me instant Secret of Mana vibes. There are one or two tracks in there that - as a quick google session told me - apparently are very much inspired by this music. Nice, did not know this.
It makes sense that you mention being friends with Hazel. I can hear a lot of her in your delivery and editing (or maybe you in her delivery and editing ..?)
uh well i was here first LOL but ye we inspire each other a lot for sure. guess it was bound to happen when u openly discuss video ideas together n shit : )
Nice Digerati disc you showed at 6:54. Pretty sure I had that disc. During my first few years with my PC around 2007 I had no internet, and those discs were insanely cool to me. One of them had I-Mockery's Castlevania 2: Priest Battle which I really liked, and showing that to a family friend led me to learn about NES emulators and NES games. I then went on a retro gaming adventure and trying to understand how these games were made that pretty much shaped who I am today. What you said about our taste being a product of our past really resonated with me because of that.
Editing here is nuts and really makes this channel feel like it's own distinct world. it's unpolished yet intentional which gives it a relatable and most importantly Fun appeal
also that Nagano track fucking rules - never heard it before. i suggest listening to Fire-Toolz if you wanna hear beautiful new age aesthetics blended with the ugly intensity of metal music
I don't play videogames and I'm deaf. I'll assume this is a good video Mr. Heels. You shouldn't wear heels though they're bad for your feet. Stay away from complex carbs too. Diabetes isn't worth it.
THE GAME: bit.ly/3D5DfBD
NEW ALBUM: bit.ly/3D4tPGD
COOL MIX THAT I DID: bit.ly/2ZQDMJw
KNUCKLES: t.co/YCiv2enI0g?amp=1
PATRONE: www.patreon.com/user?u=2285408
hell yeah new video. like i said, i kinda crowbarred this script together out of bits n pieces from my next Very Cool Very Big video, but i hope this still stands on its own as a cool lil thing : )
Can you share the titles of the tracks you use in you videos. I'd appreciate it.
Music sounds great, hope the game isnt shit
Very cool
SF Rush soundtrack sounds like they heard Command & Conquer's OST, thought "hell yeah", and went ham.
Dude, the taste!! Fucking impeccable. Keep it up, Mr Boots!
I feel like nobody really understands the essence of gaming aesthetics like you do. you were raised in the skung, molded by it, and now I feel like you are actually creating vocabulary and a place to talk about and conceptualize these audiovisual ideas we all have tried to grasp and failed. seriously great work
if I ever use the term RAISED IN THE SKUNG, MOLDED BY IT know its because of ur comment lol
@@thorhighheels thank you king
Perfect phrasing to describe thor
Whoa
Thor the skung king
Defending Sonic Chronicles' OST? Hello, Based Department? We're gonna need a bigger base.
What are you doing in these parts? Go make me more videos!
You have some good taste in UA-camrs.
It's the cybernetic shell man from the hit Sonic The Hedgehog series !
hey cybers hell
My guy
is it just me or is the editing on like a whole new level on this one?
I’m a minute in and this shit has been banging with it
yeah since i had to figure most of the visuals up on the spot, rather then just using gameplay footage, i had to teach myself a few new tricks to keep things interesting lol.
i rendered like 3d and stuff. even used shaders, its wild.
@@thorhighheels yea man well done!
It's supes tight and I love it
@@thorhighheels Quality content as always
i love the idea of Akira Yamaoka working behind the scenes to subtly fuck with the soundtracks of otherwise innocent winter sports games
I am now certain that bit got him the Silent Hill gig.
Yup.
First spooky game and now much less spooky game
29:53 - My favourite thing about _Extreme Paintbrawl's_ soundtrack is that supposedly Todd Duane just sent the devs a bunch of demos he'd made, to show them what he could do as a starting point, and the devs just used those demos without a second thought. I'm so glad they just did that, it's truly incredible stuff.
I can't believe this man just played crazy bus music for like a minute and decided to just shout over it
YO THAT "THIS SOUNDS LIKE PRIMUS COVERING DRAGONFORCE SARCASTICALLY" COMMENT IS THE BEST THING IVE EVER HEARD
The "Pikachu Sanging" part had my ribs splitting like 50-11 times.
Ribs is touchin'.
That whole ps1 san francisco game was pretty much like that song
Yup
I love how the "side video" that was originally part of another script is still 36 minutes long and extremely well made
I thot this thing was like 20 minutes at most until during editing I noticed that I had passed the 30 minute mark LOL
LMAO, yeah i remember this whole "side video" part
Never thought i'd get a half hour video out of it
@@thorhighheels worth it. I love a nice long video on a subject like this
That Front Mission music unironically slaps. Not sure how people don't like that one.
Also there's a version of the Crazy Bus music out there which adds blast beats. And it's... not bad?
I paused the video in the middle of the front mission part to go find the song, I wish the names of the songs had been given. It's called "Rock" but all the versions I can find sound quite different (same song, just different mixing)
i dig it. makes me wanna listen to Armored Core : Last Raven. also Front Mission OWNS.
People probably just heard the drums in the opening and assumed something went wrong before the rest of the song kicks in and you realize those massive fucking snares are a very deliberate choice
@@MateriaGirl its called rock - edit
here is crazy bus in the theme of doom ua-cam.com/video/85JDuZ-QYII/v-deo.html
love how the thumbnail burns by retinas just i hope this music sears my ears
not even joking, this video made me inspired to try music composition after being too anxious to try it for so long. seeing "bad music" with a perspective like this made me worry so much less about being a beginner to it
Yeah same here. Vid did a great job flipping my perspective on it, especially the "Sometimes posting cringe is just a thing you need to do to find your true self", ngl.
Thanks Thor.
I've been composing music for 10 years and my advice is... just do it, and experiment with everything you like until you find your own style, and then keep on making stuff, even if the stuff you make at the beginning sounds a bit strange or not conventional, experimenting and playing around with the sounds is the best way to learn how to make your own sounds
Go, slay the day
Fuck it ig I'll go pirate a DAW now
Nice
Being a single game dev right now and having to do music with no idea of how to music myself, this really gives me more confidence in experimenting. Thank you, I appreciate this video so much.
Hell yeah
Hey dude. I make music and would totally do it for you
@@tigmil8116 I appreciate the offer and I wish I could hire but I don't even have a single cent on me to even pay you for help in this.
Let's show them how it's done
@@LeonikkiJohni hey man I'd like to talk more about this. I will do it for free tbh. If anyone else sees this and is an independent game developer or independent movie maker I will make your music and I will more than likely do it for no money, but I want discuss what happens if the projects DO make money and even then it would be for a tiny percent because I love what I do and I love working with sound and want a different way to approach my art form.
i love all the thor high heels videos where it’s like “here’s a non traditionally good thing that i like” cos it’s very relatable to me someone who also likes shit like that
I desperately need the "they sangin" segment as its own video
ua-cam.com/users/clipUgwXlh4wAgT5OjEZLMF4AaABCQ just made a quick clip - youtube limits it to 60 sec so i couldn't get much else without it being weird but it's a start if you just need an easy reference like i did lol
Done: ua-cam.com/video/BdqB8-HU8Vk/v-deo.html
I revisit this video like twice a year at this point because it feels like going to a museum. nourishing enrichment for my brain and soul
I am adding "skung"/"skungy" to my lexicon now and using it as often as possible.
Thank you for the gift of fire.
skung and stank are words that describe my very soul
Also adding “some real boopin-ass qualities”
You should check out the music for the SNES game Faceball 2000
I've never heard music quite like it and I think you'll love it.
hey ink ribbon what's your favorite powerviolence band/album
or favorite harsh noise wall band/album
there’s something uniquely crunchy about finishing a presentation about indonesia in which i go over all that i learned in the last day involving gamelan music and then having that knowledge instantly validated by the street fighter 1 segment of this video. can’t imagine anyone else has had that specific experience how fun
The really extreme "bad" midi sounds always hit different i think because of the way our generation learned computer based creative arts, mostly by self teaching. When you dont know what a switch does on the pirated software you're trying to learn and you dont have a corporeal teacher to ask then of course you just flip every switch, one by one, all the way to max just to see what they do, especially since many effects are imperceptible in small doses, and sometimes those experiments lead to "damn that kinda hits" moments of discovery. The enginuity that you get to infer from bad midi music is really engaging for me because of this background. Great vid as always Thor love ya.
This is how I feel with all of the King of Fighters 2001. From ost to art to story it is very much all of these vibes. Ost is short and somewhat grating y2k elevator music. Main bad guy built up the whole saga is killed and then the guy that kills him is a weirdo. Art is super exaggerated on the features which is a contrast to the rest of the series realistic shinkiro art. I love it.
The kof 2001 artist is one of my biggest inspirations
I'm like that with XI and 2003, mostly because it has the best team (I love Gato, Billy and Yamazaki, having them in the same team was insanity for my teen mind). 2001's ost tho, hella catchy, love it too. Original zero's strikers are so cool too, love that Krizalid redesign a lot. Cant really agree on the art tho, that Andy portrait still pisses me off a little, as I main him.
@@volantblade2024 I love Nona’s art, I felt it brought a new and modern dimension to a lot of the characters, I feel like a lot of the fans we wherent used to it but it’s amazing I also take inspo from them and Hiroaki.
@@joejoejoej9763 2000 to 11 is when kof was the most interesting for sure
KoF 01 Clark win sprite be like
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I first watched this video a year ago when I was sick and miserable with covid, and it cheered me up. So glad to have discovered you ThorHighHeels
Crusty music is criminally underappreciated. Its like opening a finely-aged cheese that nobody liked the flavor of at the time but age has made it into a skungy masterpiece.
u bandwagoners will listen to anything made of MIDI tbh
@@hyakugame i have zero idea how to interpret what you just said, is this some kind of analog purist hogwash
@@hyakugame What exactly are they 'bandwagoning' here lol
I've finally found a perfect description to the Cruisin' USA theme. Truly the daddiest of jams, and it's been living in my mind rent free for the last 27 years.
The pikachu singing part is golden, made me go nuts i swear
Found this channel today. Don't know why I clicked on this video. Was expecting some guy shitting all over bad music.
This video has so much positivity and it makes me so happy.
One of the things I look forward to the most in your vids are the thumbnails and this ones doesn’t disappoint!
This video just gives me good vibes whenever I watch it. I sort of get "after-school lesson from my gamer music teacher who wants to teach me how to break the rules and color outside the lines" kinda vibes from it
The "pause to read" thingy, lord is it full of twitter speak. It's almost like another language, but he does speak like that in his videos too.
esperanto from megaman zero four is my favorite piece of vidya music ever, whale farts and all.
the sonic series as a whole is the embodiment of that "i am cringe but i am free" meme.
Ok, I have to listen to the whole OST from Front Mission Alternative, it slaps.
I dig how much your videos have been improving to a very specific, high heeled flavor.
well Thor, I took at the San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing OST business for you and revealed this "mystery for the ages":
Gunnar Madsen composed the OST for the Arcade; he talks about it on his website, which you can easily find. He shares some very interesting insight into his productions for Atari, on the "games" section on his website.
Doug Brandon was apparently the responsible for the N64 arrangements and some original tracks from there also; he credits himself on his website as well.
So there you go Thor, now you can dive into this rabbit hole if you so desire; cheers.
when i was a little kid I'd get crazy sick with dangerous fevers and id go into this comatose state and I swear music very similar to this stuff would play in my head.
Does that make you like it more nowadays bc of some kind of nostalgia, or less bc trauma?
Your videos belong in an art museum based off vibes and graphics alone.
I agree. this guy's a true artist
Thank you so much for this video. It's given me the inspiration I needed to get back into my music. I've been in a huge rut recently when it comes to my productions, but I don't know. Something about this video is really eye opening. It's just nice to know that there really are people out there who try and understand what someone was going for instead of just saying, "Wow, that's bad." I appreciate people like you.
Also, love the fuck out of the San Francisco Rush soundtrack. That shit goes so hard.
“there’s no such thing as objectivity” is the closest thing to an objective truth out there
@AwfulLawful_ Well, extremely close approximations of objective truths, also based on science communities paradigms and the idea that established theories can potentially be falsified at some point. But I getcha
Gamelan music is specific to Java and Bali (and some other parts of Indonesia that's highly influenced by Java). Gamelan being played for places inspired by other parts of Indonesia (say Sulawesi or Papua) would be inaccurate and cringe inducing. Which makes it x100 more cringe that they used it for Thailand, a country that doesn't even border Indonesia.
It's like if they used the traditional Berber music of nomads from the Sahara for the Roman colloseum. Cos yknow, it's still the medditerranean lol.
Also, I have to say this is your best video in awhile imo keep up the good work man.
if you want vgm pieces that use Gamelan in a better way, Hyness's themes, specifically Hooded and Unhooded, are the way to go, as it was chosen specifically because Gamelan is played during traditional shadow puppetry ceremonies and Hyness is a puppeteering cultist
"Heels, here's a video software; it might come in handy if you, the MASTER OF EDITING, take it with you"
Thus a legend was born.
I'll be examining THIS
@@rhaeven "THIS!"
- Barry Burton, philosopher
Just found Hazel's channel and thought "She reminds me of THH" and then she shouted you out. And then you shouted her out. And that just makes me feel happy for some reason.
ALSO: SoR3. Everyone hates that soundtrack but I love it. It just goes too hard for most normies. That's just what techno and hardcore did in 1991 or whenever that game came out clearly I'm too lazy to look it up.
ALSO ALSO: GRATS! on becoming a Jogo Composer! I shall buy it now.
I've been watching hazel recently too. Happy surprise they knew each other since they have same vibes for videos.
Hey another SoR3 lover here!!.
asking this to everyone who sees it, SoR2 OST or SoR3?
@@limmynade both
I will say I prefer SoR1 and 2 soundtracks overall, but 3 overall is still fine.
Except for this song: ua-cam.com/video/jvSkKbRRMkM/v-deo.html
Im so glad you talked about the Blue Dragon ost. To this day my brother and I will randomly yell "THIS IS THE BEGINNING" at one another and the other will launch into a mumbled mess of syllables in tune with how we remember the guitar riffs to go
My first 360 was dying during Blue Dragon and watching it produce ever increasingly trippy graphical glitches to the sound of absolute peak buttrock was such an experience I didn't even mind.
A fucking brazilian newsstand cd-rom?! I... I had to stop the video and jump right into the comments, man. God fuckin almighty. Some of those mfs were like 50% mugen, 20% fps mods, 20% emulators with rom hacks coming straight from hell and 10% some bullshit like Redneck Rampage. The whiplash of going from that to shit like "DBZ vs. Mortal Kombat" was something that must have had warped our minds irreparably.
Anyway, back to the video. PS: Your editing just went from amazing to godlike. Congrats!
The most unnerving thing about this video isn't the music, it's the implication that there is no meaningful difference between Gex and Yoshi.
5:00. I never understood why the basement theme in RE1 was so bad until now. Thanks for the explanation! I honestly think that most of the soundtrack in RE1's Director's Cut is really good, particularly the creepy mansion themes and the emergency theme at the end when the lab is about to explode.
Yet most people I've seen here on youtube say the Director's Cut is bad because the soundtrack sucks. Aside from that 1 track in the basement, I believe the soundtrack is creepy, unique and a good OST.
You're talkin about the DualShock version
@@bonnierabbit1413 That's right. I know that the first DC version came with no DualShock support and had the original soundtrack but the one that supports the DS controller (and had the other OST) also says "Director's Cut" on the cover.
Maybe because entire soundtrack is a scam? It was made by a guy who pretended to be deaf compositor.
@@robertnomok9750 I am aware of that, yes.
But the soundtrack itself isn't the scam. The scam is his career and so-called "accomplishments". Even if he lied and had someone else compose this particular OST for him, my original point is that the music isn't bad. It's quite effective and creepy. What he did or didn't do doesn't change that.
We all agree that constant crashing, inconsistent frame rates, and Bethesda levels of glitches are bad (objectively)
7:00 my friends and i really had a lot of fun with these cds, in brazil it was too normal to buy at newsstands, on the street, or literally in a vegetable store, i remember one for ps2 that had super nintendo games, and another for pc that literally had a library of flash games installed.
the crazy bus music is quite literally random pitches, and the "drum beat" is just the generator integer overflowing into lowest possible freqss LOL
I hate that I said drum beat lol.
script said steady rhythm but my ape brain just completely blasted thru that sentence incorrectly without noticing
@@thorhighheels am just sharing something i learned from a youtube short two days ago dw
One thing I gotta say is that Sonic Brotherhood's battle themes (Sometimes) are fucking fire
That combination patreon crawl/game plug is is the most incredible version of either thing that I've ever seen.
How many patreons get to say that in this tier you will be murdered?
You and Hazel are easily my favorite creators I've found recently! Can't wait to see what you guys make in the future
I cannot articulate the hype when the Rush ost started playing. God damn have I not heard that in a long time. Never even occured to me as unusual because it was one of my First Games
Blue Dragon is just pure bliss, you can tell Umetsu was working with someone who he looks up to and just shows. I love it.
As far as I can know with the Resident evil music. while delving into the whole Playstation and how it handles music it does use MIDI data, but it also contains sample/wave data as well so someone somewhere must of known it was a trumpet sound they had bundled together. San Fransico rush has a a Lotus III vibe kind of, and both absolutely slaps.
Also Fairlights were mega expensive during the 80's and are just as expensive to own now. In fact it was so expensive another (well renowned) sampler called "The Emulator" was made as a cut down version which in turn had it's own Cut down version.
If you want a wild ride of how quickly things were developed you should definitely check the history of samplers in the 80's it was definitely a technological wild west.
17:45 that vocal sample sounds SO MUCH like the vocal from Gut's theme in Berserk.
This guy's channel is amazing. Thanks for making this type of niche content
16:00 i lost my shit and had to dance jfc i can feel the sweat on it
I swear, most of these tracks are the platonic ideal of pre-made vaporwave tracks. Or maybe it's just me having Vektroid flashbacks.
Nah.
This probably inspired vaporwave
Far from the awfulness of the ones that you've showcased, but one of my favorite terrible game ost tunes is "The Ring: Terror's Realm - Most Annoying Music Loop" as it's called on YT, check it out if you haven't. It's so out of place for a horror game (which it tries to be), playing for the first ~20 minutes of the game nonstop, accompanied by cringeworthy dialogues and animations... It's really something else.
Excellent video btw, and the editing is outstanding, my dude. Can't wait for mysterious ps3 games!
That office theme ain't even that bad. Or it wouldn't be; it's just that piano stabs are way too *loud*.
Some of the music in that game is pretty alright.
I've played Sonic Chronicles so much as a kid that the music genuinely sounds fine to me
I played it through DSMuMe on a PC that could not handle DSMuMe and I basically Ulilillia'd the entire soundtrack by accident
I'm gonna print some frames of your videos just to hang in my wall
This is some top notch art
Ay im the dude with the pacman music recommendation comment you responded to.
I listened this new album a week ago and I genuinely believe that you have transcended into becoming a true music artist. The soundtracks back to back have the sounds that have influenced my tastes for majority of my life.
So you are a literary The True Neutral on this spectrum of new genre
Others on this group I would consider
Ex.
Machinegirl- chaotic evil (infinite potentially)
Home shake- lawful neutral (Give it to me)
Icytwat- lawful evil (D.A.N)
ETC.
You are the baseline of this new wave of music in my opinion. And it made me feel this very specific and familiar feeling.
Let me know if you want some more examples of what I mean.
I've been listening to the things you've made but The Yth is your Renaissance My Guy.🤌👉👉
*whole ass segment about FM alternative*
Shlappin'
Game deserves more love, yeah, and that soundo was an experience when i first ran into it. Love ya Thor
31:17 Your hairstyle is as bold as your music taste. Absolute king.
Well. I expected many things from that video, but I didn't expect to see damn Capitan Pronin here, of all places.
Pretty ironic since the sentence “there’s no such thing as objectivity” is objectively wrong
What you were probably referring to is “there’s no such thing as objectivity in critique of media” but we need to be hyperbolic to get those clicks
gamelan may be an indonesian instrument (rather a collection of instruments), but piphat is played in thailand. There's nothing out of place by that track being in a Thai stage.
I ended up looking up gamelan music. The band was super coordinated together. I can definitely appreciate the musicianship involved! Definitely sounds different but kinda cool!
I enjoy watching many UA-camrs, but these videos are just on another level man. Something about the way u write loose ends together and edit around the script is just so pleasing to watch. You got some mad talent for this UA-cam thing u know
I'm surprised and also bittersweetly delighted, because it's a hidden gem, that ThorHighHeels doesn't have 1 mil subs. I hope the channel grows for his own benefit in the future, regardless of what the channel may develop into many of these videos are classics. I enjoy the special flavor he adds and the review topics he chooses. Great channel!
That Pikachu segment was everything I ever wanted and more 🙏 I would die for him.
this is hands down the best editing on a UA-cam video I've seen yet
You're 100% right - the sonic spinball ost was fucking baller.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!
A couple little things that might help (although maybe I'm misremembering?)
I think Barry Leich did San Francisco Rush (and also did Cruisin' USA)
I think the Sonic 3 blue sphere theme appears in Sonic Eraser.
Don't quote me on either of those, as it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I remember both being the case.
San Francisco Rushs "Whoa!" sample is legendary.
It gets used in the first stage of Einhänder and in a boss battle theme of Ragnarok Battle Offline.
Shit is LEGENDARY i tell you.
Whoooooooahoahoaaaa!
A lot of the stuff mentioned in this video is also featured in an album I downloaded nine years ago called "Bad Music Collection" that doesn't seem to have any trace of it left online any more - it was from the same site that I downloaded a packaging of the WipEout HD / Fury soundtrack titled "WipEout HD Fury GST" from. The Bad Music Collection album has embedded cover art in the MP3s that TinEye shows also doesn't exist online anywhere now.
Just thought this was interesting, and wondered if THH happened to come across this album too.
I need that album.
god, i recently stumbled on your channel and the number of things you say that put things i have felt in my soul about games and shit into actual words i could never quite find myself is incredible.
wait all of this was supposed to be bad? when i hear it i just think "damn this reminds me of injury reserve"
Eternity from Blue Dragon gives me strength everytime I hear it. It's incredibly hype as fuck
Your stuff has developed into such its own aesthetic. Thanks for keeping it going.
Had some good laughs throughout.
And freaking Crazy Bus gave me a legit headache.
i was sold on this channel when you started bringing up new words like "skung" and talking about the bips and boops
As a noisician (really, check my channel, its all full albums of noise I made) and also a long time producer of electronica, I appreciate your picks here and your perspective on noise. I recognize it's not for everyone, even my fiance can't stand my harsh pieces, but there is something to be said for pure chaos. I agree that it can be cathartic and often is sought out for that reason, but what got me into noise in earnest (and what made me take the dive into total noise after producing stuff that was much closer to your musical output for a solid decade and a half) was learning to embrace the meditative side of noise. It has a quality that is unlike any other genre, that when listening to it my internal dialogue is so overwhelmed that it eventually (after my brain stops resisting) falls completely silent. The result is a sort of empty and thought free state that persists until the track or album ends and leaves in its wake a sense of complete annihilation of normal thought. It was what Merzbow and other "japanoise" artists did for me and what "unlocked" the value of noise for me. I won't say that it was easy to get there, but at this point I genuinely enjoy the loud, harsh and formless qualities of noise. I also am much more interested in timbre and texture in all music as a result which I guess replaces in a way the missing groove, melodies and other normal traits of music that you mention missing in noise. Either way thanks for noticing and acknowledging the overlooked, oversaturated ("ANYONE CAN DO IT" yes, thats the point. but also not everyone does so...) and misunderstood genre that I have dedicated myself to creating in.
Hey let me add this to my original wall of text: The OST on Streets of Rage 3 (Bare Knuckle 3 if you want to play as the "problematic" gay character) is a perfect fit for this list. All of it is gnarly, harsh and distressing, not to mention being the direct follow up to one of the most forward thinking and iconic soundtracks of all time on SoR2 (the interview with the creator makes it clear he was ahead of the curve on how popular techno and dance was about to be and choose to give 2 that vibe deliberately) but yeah how hated the soundtrack for 3 is should speak to that. Also I have a version of the sega genesis soundcard in my DAW and "notoriously difficult to program" ain't the half of it.
Therapist: ThorHighHeels raising his voice isn't a thing, he can't hurt you
ThorHighHeels: 25:40
I love this kind of music. Worst beats of all time, Songs with every note in C, major songs reworked into a minor key, replacement meme songs, time signature fuckery, mash-ups combining the worst possible matched songs…It started as a “joke”, but I found myself enjoying every song in this video. I would say I regret my taste in music, but being able to have fun with stuff other people think is trash is great honestly. Skung for life.
Same
Thank you for helping me realize that my headset does indeed have highs that are much higher than is realistically safe.
3:39 People were mostly making fun of the facial animations of Andromeda, not the way the protag actually looked. Her weird, forced looking smile being the funniest example. The facial animation in general for Andromeda was quite the meme, especially given the fact it dropped for the PS4 and shit.
Just giving a shout out to demonstrate my appreciation for that Multi-game PC CD-ROM displayed at 6:55.
Back In the Early 00s where access to official stuff were next to none, those 10 bucks CDs that came together with magazines pretty much saved my days.
Not to mention some cool demo/softwares featured on them... Probably the kind of stuf THH would be into case he lived in Brazil. ;)
I loved this look at "bad" video game soundtracks. Actually inspired me quite a bit to start farting around with my various sample packs, haha.
So awesome that you are a game composer. I'm struggling to get that started. Been wanting to do that for awhile.
Damn your editing is getting way better. Ngl I like this new movement from yah.
Ps. Thanks for giving love to Front Mission Alternative.
Your editing skills are something else
Very misleading title as everything in here was a banger. Great video thank you ThorBoy
The dissolution of the very concept of objective truth is at the core of the contemporary fascist movement, here in the States. So, forgive me if I vehemently disagree with the second of your opening points. The first is fine of course.
edit: Give the Vagrant Story ost a listen sometime, start to finish. It has its own weird energy that can be effective in many contexts, and a lot of it people would not guess to be game music based only on listening to it. It's definitely "a mood" lol.
regarding Uematsu and 70's music... Siamese Dream will always be my favorite album, and that didn't change after listening to Black Sabbath and noticing that certain guitar riffs or sequences were clearly very inspirational to Corgan when making SD.
10:51 oooooooh that gave me instant Secret of Mana vibes. There are one or two tracks in there that - as a quick google session told me - apparently are very much inspired by this music. Nice, did not know this.
Yeah
It makes sense that you mention being friends with Hazel. I can hear a lot of her in your delivery and editing (or maybe you in her delivery and editing ..?)
uh well i was here first LOL
but ye we inspire each other a lot for sure. guess it was bound to happen when u openly discuss video ideas together n shit : )
Nice Digerati disc you showed at 6:54. Pretty sure I had that disc. During my first few years with my PC around 2007 I had no internet, and those discs were insanely cool to me. One of them had I-Mockery's Castlevania 2: Priest Battle which I really liked, and showing that to a family friend led me to learn about NES emulators and NES games. I then went on a retro gaming adventure and trying to understand how these games were made that pretty much shaped who I am today. What you said about our taste being a product of our past really resonated with me because of that.
"Jogo" is not only Portuguese for "game", it also means "(I) play" :ooooooo
(but it's pronounced differently blablabla)
Editing here is nuts and really makes this channel feel like it's own distinct world. it's unpolished yet intentional which gives it a relatable and most importantly Fun appeal
also that Nagano track fucking rules - never heard it before. i suggest listening to Fire-Toolz if you wanna hear beautiful new age aesthetics blended with the ugly intensity of metal music
I don't play videogames and I'm deaf. I'll assume this is a good video Mr. Heels. You shouldn't wear heels though they're bad for your feet. Stay away from complex carbs too. Diabetes isn't worth it.
You are at your best when you're talking about music. That Pikachu tho, really had me thinking about Glee Club from Rhythm Heaven on DS
15:40 that's so BEATS
Great patron list.
3:08 this music did something to my brain to where the only correct response was laughter