The WORST Video Game Music OF ALL TIME 

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 : )

is it just me or is the editing on like a whole new level on this one?

i love the idea of Akira Yamaoka working behind the scenes to subtly fuck with the soundtracks of otherwise innocent winter sports games

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

I can't believe this man just played crazy bus music for like a minute and decided to just shout over it

Defending Sonic Chronicles' OST? Hello, Based Department? We're gonna need a bigger base.

YO THAT "THIS SOUNDS LIKE PRIMUS COVERING DRAGONFORCE SARCASTICALLY" COMMENT IS THE BEST THING IVE EVER HEARD

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.

The "Pikachu Sanging" part had my ribs splitting like 50-11 times. Ribs is touchin'.

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 love how the "side video" that was originally part of another script is still 36 minutes long and extremely well made

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.

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

I desperately need the "they sangin" segment as its own video

love how the thumbnail burns by retinas just i hope this music sears my ears

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 am adding "skung"/"skungy" to my lexicon now and using it as often as possible. Thank you for the gift of fire.

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.

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.

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

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.

The pikachu singing part is golden, made me go nuts i swear

Your videos belong in an art museum based off vibes and graphics alone.

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.

One of the things I look forward to the most in your vids are the thumbnails and this ones doesn’t disappoint!

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.

Ok, I have to listen to the whole OST from Front Mission Alternative, it slaps.

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.

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 most unnerving thing about this video isn't the music, it's the implication that there is no meaningful difference between Gex and Yoshi.

I dig how much your videos have been improving to a very specific, high heeled flavor.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.🤌👉👉

“there’s no such thing as objectivity” is the closest thing to an objective truth out there

We all agree that constant crashing, inconsistent frame rates, and Bethesda levels of glitches are bad (objectively)

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?

That Pikachu segment was everything I ever wanted and more 🙏 I would die for him.

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!

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 swear, most of these tracks are the platonic ideal of pre-made vaporwave tracks. Or maybe it's just me having Vektroid flashbacks.

"Jogo" is not only Portuguese for "game", it also means "(I) play" :ooooooo (but it's pronounced differently blablabla)

This guy's channel is amazing. Thanks for making this type of niche content

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

I enjoy watching many RU-vidrs, 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 RU-vid thing u know

One thing I gotta say is that Sonic Brotherhood's battle themes (Sometimes) are fucking fire

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.

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.

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've played Sonic Chronicles so much as a kid that the music genuinely sounds fine to me

this is hands down the best editing on a RU-vid video I've seen yet

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

ohhh this is one of my favorite videos of yours! Would love to see even more by you on musical topics. :>

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.

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.

*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

Your editing skills are something else

16:00 i lost my shit and had to dance jfc i can feel the sweat on it

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.

I'm gonna print some frames of your videos just to hang in my wall This is some top notch art

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.

31:17 Your hairstyle is as bold as your music taste. Absolute king.

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.

Very misleading title as everything in here was a banger. Great video thank you ThorBoy

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.

wait all of this was supposed to be bad? when i hear it i just think "damn this reminds me of injury reserve"

17:45 that vocal sample sounds SO MUCH like the vocal from Gut's theme in Berserk.

Thank you for helping me realize that my headset does indeed have highs that are much higher than is realistically safe.

Im sorry all ur videos slap but this has to be my favorite! The love and care you give to these tracks warms my heart 🥺💕✨

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!

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've watched your stuff for a long while now. Your channel is so unique and appreciative of just pure art, it's inspirational. You share what you enjoy, and it really shows. I'm always happy with the newest video you put out, and it's really cool to see all the hard work you put in be appreciated and expressed even better with every update. Thank you for that, and perfectly encapsulating that unquantifiable yet real feeling for nostalgia, even for games I have never heard of or played. Plus all the music you've introduced to us is just MWAH.

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!

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.

Man, I love your editing! keep it up! Also, have you played Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere? It has some real bangers straight from the late 90s

Awesome video loved the editing and I'm definitely gonna check out some of these tracks!

Its always a welcome surprise to see your video pop up in my sub feed. Loving this video

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 ..?)

15:40 that's so BEATS Great patron list.

Damn your editing is getting way better. Ngl I like this new movement from yah. Ps. Thanks for giving love to Front Mission Alternative.

Everytime I come back to see if I am finally in the exact niche mood needed to enjoy one of your Very Good Videos I am amazed at the growth of this channel. I think I first saw it and you were getting less than 10k a video, and now it’s like woah check it out

Awesome video as usual! Could you start adding names for games that you present in your videos? I am not native English speaker and sometimes it can be difficult to understand more obscure names (especially in Japanese). For example, in case of Suikoden 5, I could not understand how the name was written and the CC translation gave "sweden five".. I only managed to find name of the game by searching Lady Sialeeds. In case of the Blue Dragon, I don't think that the name was mentioned at all? I only managed to find it by searching with party members "shu jiro kluke marumaru".

I genuinely see liking something and thinking something is good, as two separate opinions. They tend to overlap a lot, but they're still separate ideas. For example, I think GTR 2 is a great racing game, but I have zero interest in it so I don't like it. Or I personally like a lot of basic songs with pop structures and techno music, but I'd never call them as good. Broccoli is a healthy vegetable, but I despise eating it. Etc, you get the idea.

New favorite channel. Keep up the good work boss!

Man your videos are always worthwhile

Yo, I would really like to know where you're getting those super chill forest backgrounds from. Thanks!

The Death Crimson dude (Mr. Watanabe) is a certified grade-A legend. What an exuberant and enthusiastic dude. He made me smile.

i just wanna thank you for this video. its wierd as hell but its so fun listening to new weird and somehow funky new songs. keep it on brother

Dude your videos are awesome, you have a way of peering into games that somehow opens it up and gives it value that I couldn't see before! even if I've played the game a billion times

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.

I’ve always enjoyed more esoteric content and this fit to a tee. Kudos for this one, top tier nonsense as always! Super subjective stuff is the most interesting Because of one’s belief. If a point can be defended, it’s a good one:)

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

I was feeling down, but then I saw you posted a new video....two days ago. Great timing youtube algorythm ! Still, I'm going to enjoy this