Kingdom Hearts or The Weather Channel? Music Quiz 

It's looking like #11, #15, and #20 have been the toughest of the bunch. If you want to hear more music that is uncannily similar to KH songs, check out this comparison: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nEjIKNUYSA0.html

Honestly the biggest takeaway here is that The Weather Channel has some major bops

*Turns on Weather Channel* *Hears Dearly Beloved* I..what.

Whoever connected these dots between Kingdom Hearts and The Weather Channel deserves a Nobel Prize or something.

At first I was like "I got this, I love Kingdom Hearts" then the first two songs played. I don't got this.

"So what kind of music do you listen to?" Me: ☀️🌤🌦🌧🌩🌪🌪

Chip: CAREFUL SORA! WE GOT AN ALERT OF AN F4 TORNADO IN YOUR VICINITY! Dale: YEAH, WATCH OUT FOR FLYING COWS!

Chris Kennedy and Yoko Shimomura need to drop an album.

So what I'm getting from this is that weather alerts sound like gummiship soundtracks

The fact that ive never played a kingdom hearts game but was still able to sus out the difference between the two solely based on the fact that i live in an area riddled with various storms in my life is frankly alarming

I’ve played every weather channel game. This will be a cinch.

I guess the takeaway is that Chris Kennedy should be brought on to the Kingdom Hearts OST team

Imagine hearing a storm was coming your way while Kingdom Hearts music played in the background

One of the Kingdom Hearts tracks being called "Cloudchasers" is really, really funny.

WHY ARE PEOPLE COMPOSING BANGERS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL?!?

using that specific very unique section of unbreakable chains is such an evil trick for this lmfao

What was Mother Nature cooking in 2006 for Chris Kennedy to drop this banger?? I lost my winning streak thanks to that man!!

"This might be a good spot for -" Gets sent flying into the air by an actual tornado

So what you're saying is, The Weather Channel has some DEEP Yoko Shimomura influences. Which is pretty badass.

the biggest giveaway is how compressed to hell the weather channel themes are

This video was just made so we could we could all hear the most KH2-sounding music the weather channel has ever played back in 2006 lol

The fact that 8 & 9 are so close they could be reprised is amazing

That was insane- who goes that hard on weather alert sounds

Putting Darkness of the Unknown and Storm Alert 2006 next to each other was so sneaky lol.

this is the one quiz ive been studying for my whole life

I love how what started as one song sounding like yoko shimomura has now evolved into a whole genre.

My lack of knowledge of the DDD ost finally came back to bite me, tarnishing my otherwise perfect score because I didn't recognize #15

The most concrete evidence I have for being traumatized by Kingdom Hearts is hearing any kind of gummi ship music and immediately feeling so much rage.

I never would have expected to get fooled by Weather channel music

finally something that has hit my niche as someone passionate about both kingdom hearts and the weather channel

Me: "oh that's definitely kh music" Video: "the weather channel" Me: "Oh that's for sure weather music" Video: KH music

I got 5 songs in and I’m already gonna have stop due to a racing heartbeat, sweaty palms, and my integrity as a gamer at stake.

When the heartless are basically misunderstood weather reporters.

I feel proud in myself that after the first two notes I instantly recognized the coded track as from coded. I think I should put that on my resume

As an east coaster, one of these Weather Channel songs I am VASTLY familiar with because they always play it for hurricane updates. Missed 2 and they both happened to be composers for KH that were not Yoko Shimomura LOL this was a fantastic video

15 out of 21-- When I heard song 20, I was like "well, I would HOPE this isn't on the Weather Channel, I think I'd have a heart attack??!"

If I had a nickel for every time I mistook a weather channel song for a Kingdom Hearts song, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

That...was a surprisingly difficult quiz. After song 9, I legit was having trouble distinguishing except for obvious KH songs I knew by heart.

**Turns on Weather Channel on Radio** Radio: **When you walk away**

the fact i struggled this hard to get about 75% of tracks right tells me one thing: kingdom hearts has some weather channel-ey ass music

I came into this with limited knowledge of both, and got about 70% right. It was more music theory then anything else; with a few exceptions, the Kingdom Hearts songs were constructed with many different instruments forming different melodies in unison, sometimes creating dissonance with each other in the more combat oriented themes. The Weather Channel, meanwhile, had more basic pieces with bombastic repeating melodies meant to catch your attention. There was only a few that didn't follow that simple formula.

the way I could tell each and every track cuz I had the Kingdom Hearts OST in spotify on loop

Song 7 being called "Cloudchasers" really isn't fair LMAO

Chris Kennedy calm down, it's only a 50% chance of rain!

In Argentina there's a weather channel that actually uses an edited version of Cloudchasers lol

_Opens Weather Channel_ _Hears Darkness of the Unknown_ Well, I guess it's gonna be cloudy with a chance of *_BUILDINGS_* today. Also as a Kingdom Hearts fan for many years, *_this shit is giving me an existential crisis right now._*

As someone who played every kh and the mario & luigi games, I'm pretty familiar with shimomura's common instrument choices and what kinds of progressions she favors, so if I didn't recognize it and it didn't sound like her I presumed it was weatherscan. Because of this, its the kh tracks that weren't hers and went out of her norms that tripped me up.

TIL The Weather Channel has some mindblowing bangers

“The storm can’t get us her-“ *Goofy screams as he’s blasted away by an EF5 tornado.*

I learned about The Weather Channel Bangers on an AbsolBlog's videos, the Kingdom Hearts vibes are unreal

Song 21 doesn't even sound like something from either Kingdom Hearts OR The Weather Channel. It sounds like something you'd hear in Bendy And The Ink Machine. The fact that it IS Weather Channel music is crazy.

Man, this was really fun to do. Thanks for compiling this. I got three wrong myself, the Rinzler theme, the dream drop distance drop theme, and the Union cross theme. It was challenging but very satisfying. I found that not trying to remember every song in the series, rather remembering what instruments they usually use helped a lot. So when you hear a song using an instrument they never really use, it was probably a weather channel song. The most obvious were the coded one, cause it clearly was a DS midi or something similar sounding, and the weather channel song with bad quality, since KH has clear music everywhere.

The only song I missed was #9. Considering I don’t play kingdom hearts AND I’m pretty sure I never even touched the weather channel, I’m incredibly pleased. What a fun quiz idea

what a great idea i loved this

I don’t know how you came up with this concept, but you forever have my respect, my good chum.

I'm not the most knowledgably on Kingdom Hearts but this was WAAAAAAAY harder then it should have been

#20 is so iconic to me, that was the first music medal I got in KHuX, I played it over and over again. It's also one of my favorite Melody of Memories levels to play.

The only reason I aced this quiz is because I know the entire soundtrack of every single KH game. If I wasn’t disgustingly obsessed I would have easily failed. And now I need the Weather Channel’s playlist on my itunes

The tracks from the handhelds were what really got me.

Possible Spoiler but one thing that helped me was that Yoko Shimomura usually added more notes in a medley if that make sense, and the weather channel themes usually are a bit more ambient.... Idk how else to describe it

That clip for song 11 was almost indistinguishable for me… Chris a true KH fan

As an avid weather fan and a diehard kh fan this is one quiz I can proudly say I aced.

was having a bad day and literally bursted out laughing when I saw this video in my recommended. thank you

Imagine Heartless coming out of the clouds and fuckin Storm Alert is playing

Song 6 got me, it sounded so Kingdom Heartsy even though I hadn't heard it before, I guessed KH

imagine the weather channel forecasts a storm and song 20 starts playing 👁👄👁

I missed #2 #9 and #11 The first union x song really tripped me up. Then the 9 and 11 just straight surprised me, I didnt know the weather channel could go that hard!?

Song 19 is what always plays when there’s a hurricane coming and it is the biggest bop of all of these. Used to be prepping the condo I worked at on the Seawall while dancing to it.

19 out of 21. I've never played a KH game (I want to someday). I know just enough about Shimomura's style to recognize it. It also helps having known the 2006 Storm Alert theme ahead of time.

This is how you distinguish the true fans from the newbies

Thank you for this, I’m glad more people are getting put on to how good The Weather Channel’s music is. And how many fucking Yoko Shimomura-isms exist all throughout its history. If anyone wants more weather channel music Trammel Stark has by far my favorite songs ever made for the channel.

Thanks for this. People have been sleeping on the Weather Channel. When I was little, my mom put it on to help me sleep.

Song 9 literally sounds like it could appear in a section that follows Darkness of the Unknown

After the first two tracks I was feeling like this was going to be easy, but then I gradually realized KH and TWC must have been roommates in college

the first song is when you know shit is really going down outside lmao

I did so improbably bad on this quiz it’s making me rethink everything that led me to this moment

The number one key difference is percussion and instrument choice. Kingdom hearts very rarely uses guitars and is almost never to hard or groovy, like if you could reasonably listen to it at a party, then it's not kingdom hearts. They love their horns and violins, not to big on guitar riffs and drum beats.

Damn. I was going pretty strong until you dropped a Sonic Adventure 2 track for track 16. I know the quiz said KH or Weather Channel, but I legit was like, "There's no shot this isn't a Sonic the Hedgehog song" LOL Seriously, how did I never know Yoko could compose the greatest Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack of all time? Somebody get this lady to just do every game soundtrack man.

Not knowing the weather channel or Kingdom Hearts and still getting most of these right made me feel so unbelievably cool

Weather Channel actively trying to stress us out

Four wrongs! Now I really need to check out that weather channel ost

ah yes, hearing "A Fight To The Death" on The Weather Channel..

16/21. This was much harder than I expected.

i guessed Kingdom Hearts on 20 purely because if that started playing on the weather channel i'd be 100% certain the forecast would be that we're all about to die. you did a GREAT job at picking kh songs that are less likely to be known and don't have any immediately recognizable leitmotifs tho!! i got most of them right but not all, 17 got me because i started trying to listen for how the instruments sounded and that one was quite a bit different lol

Very clever using the gummi ship music for this! I'm familiar enough with Kingdom Hearts music that I could tell most of the Weather Channel songs right away because of elements that sounded distinctly unlike Kingdom Hearts, often the type of drumbeat and rhythms they used. The only one I missed was 15, though I had a close call with 2

Love how you picked so many gummi ship themes cause they'd be less recognizable lol

Finally, my obsession with watching the weather channel and the KH series pays off.

I've hardly ever played a Kingdom Hearts game, but I played the heck out of the Mario and Luigi series as a kid, I can recognize a Shimomura track from a mile away.

I've been trying to find who composed Storm Alert 2006 for a while, thank you very much

I’m literally screaming!! Ok not really because it’s still early but I am dying inside laughing so hard at this!! Why is this so incredibly entertaining?! I feel like I got most of them correct, but definitely surprised with a couple. And really surprised with how hard the weather channel comes with their compositions

It was unironically easier to guess based off of the audio quality rather than the actual music on some of these. Incredible

As someone who barely knows this weather channel exists & hasn’t played a full game of Kingdom Hearts, I was doing pretty good until 9 & 10. Now I’m gonna put on the weather channel when I want dramatic background music!

This might be the best thing I’ve ever seen! WHY ARE THEY SO SIMILAR?! This is true music nerd humor😭

Adding what I think prior to each answer. Opening - Og and Unchained χ's Dearly Beloved. One of my favorites. Then again every Dearly Beloved is the best. Song 1 - Weather Channel Song 2 - A Nameless Planet, field theme for the Cy-Bug Sector in Union χ. I looked into so much about the χ saga for the first time recently, so it's still generally fresh on my mind and my obsession over KH, especially its OST has led me to becoming quite familiar with most of it. Song 3 - Floating in Bliss, for the Atlantica and Port Royal gummi ship routes in KHII. The least intense of the route music, pretty nice and fitting for the aquatic settings of the worlds they lead to. Song 4 - Weather Channel Song 5 - A Fight to the Death for the first Armored Xemnas fight in KHII and later the first part of the Saïx fight in KHIII. Surely this one would be easy, it's the start of such an amazing final boss. Song 6 - Weather Channel Song 7 - Cloudchasers, for the Olympus Coliseum and Pride Lands gummi ship routes in KHII. Strange that these are the only separate routes to share a theme unlike all the others who share themes with each other who are side by side on the world map. Song 8 - Darkness of the Unknown, specifically the first segment for the gummi ship-esque wyvern phase in KHII. Even more specifically, this is the PS2 version. I love this track a lot. Song 9 - Weather Channel, more specifically my introduction to it and its oddly high quality and KH-esque selection of tunes. It's the Storm Alert for 2006. Song 10 - Asteroid Attack, for the Land of Dragons and Beast's Castle gummi ship routes in KHII. Song 11 - Weather Channel , Storm Alert again. Song 12 - Weather Channel Song 13 - Deep Drop, battle theme for The World That Never Was in DDD. A fitting choice for the 13th song in this video. Song 14 - Weather Channel Song 15 - Rinzler Recompiled, for his boss encounter at the end of Sora's version of The Grid in DDD. Song 16 - Hazardous Highway, for the Agrabah and Halloween Town gummi ship routes. It seems that someone likes the KHII gummi ship route music. I do to, definitely my favorite of the three games' selection. Song 17 - On the Debug!! from coded. Also specifically the og mobile version that was used as a special theme during battle when using debug attacks., which I would not have expected as the version used, but pretty neat to see. It's also coded acknowledgement in general and that's awesome enough on its own. I don't care how filler it is, coded is awesome as a GAME, because this is a GAME series that has more elements to it than just the story. It doesn't matter how filler the story is if the GAME part of the GAME is awesome. Song 18 - Weather Channel Song 19 - Weather Channel Song 20 - Unbreakable Chains, for the final encounter with Vanitus in Ventus' story. It might generally just be a slower tempo version of Enter the Darkness, but I do quite enjoy the other adjustments in the track, especially the Sora part. Another fitting number for a song as well. 13 of darkness, 7 of light, a total of 20 pieces to forge the χ-blade. Song 21 - Weather Channel Ending - Failing a mission in χ. My Kingdom Hearts-ing is too much for these quiz videos to be difficult most of the time, a problem shared with other quizzes like this for other media I like. It's unfortunate, but a negative I must deal with as a person who delves far too deep into the media I enjoy.

Chris Kennedy was really cooking.

By far the one of the most creative videos ever. You have a great ear

Perfect score! 😃 Gotta say, I'm a little surprised at the amount of comments that apparently didn't recognize song #15. I always thought the Rinzler boss fight song was really good and captured the tone of that fight super well. But #6 almost got me, the piano notes matched KH vibes so much that I was tempted to say KH.

song 6 started playing and i said "thats from bleach"

Plot twist: they're all Weather Channel, even Simple and Clean.

This is the content we crave, bravo quizmaster