Comments on: The World Of Goo Soundtrack Is Out, Free, And Amazing https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/ We're back on a default theme because comments broke on my custom one and I don't have the energy to figure out why Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:39:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Thomas "Padre" Lawrence https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-46662 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:35:12 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-46662 Man, this stuff is going to be awesome to Audiosurf, especially stuff like “Tumbler” which utterly changes tempo several times through.

]]> By: Cpt.Muffin https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45891 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:09:44 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45891 I managed to recreate Mirror’s Edge gameplay with music. I simply put on some of my favourite music and had a friend stand by. Then at random intervals he’d randomly stop it and slap me in the face before letting me enjoy the flow of the song once more.

WoG soundtrack = Beautiful however, the serenity and dark humour is encapsulated so well and justifies bumping the game up from goodness to greatness. I go jiggly at the knees for any game that can draw me in with well timed music that creates and works in tandem with ingame emotions.

]]> By: Waste_Manager https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45879 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:46:36 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45879 Best music in a game ever goes to Skies of Arcadia as far as I’m concerned. For saying it was made with midi files, listening to it is so compelling.

…

Now I can’t stop thinking about that bloody game. ‘Moonstone cannon…Fire!’

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45852 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:01:04 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45852 I love Podsafe Christmas Song – but then I like Alvin et alia, at least in small doses.

I think Best Theme would go to Darwinia’s Visitors From Dreams for me. Love it, love the way it fits into the opening sequence. Best of Times beaten out by a nose, and I second that emotion on Battlefield 1942. I suppose it must be easier to do Williamsesque martial themes than other genres, but I don’t hold that against it.

Best Soundtrack would be really tough; I’m not very aware of that stuff. Disqualifying, say, GTA IV‘s hundred-something tracks, World of Goo would probably come in second just for Best of Times and Jelly. I think the original GTA would win out – foreshadowing and one-upping the later series’ fictional talk radio, it has a remarkably diverse group of original tracks that were apparently done by one of the devs and some buddies under fictional band names. (I actually tried to track some of the bands down, you see.) I especially like the driving speed rock song She Was Wild, the cheerful maybe-hip-hop Cess, and C&W satire The Ballad of the Golden Nugget (‘The menfolk found their women scary / ‘cuz they were so big and hairy / they thought of dynamite / to seal them in…’)

If I shift it to Best Score – well, World of Goo would win, but it’d be facing stiff competition from Armageddon Empires‘ little ambient loop. It’s just a muted light classics band with spikes from a breathy flute, but I never got tired of it and it feels so wasteland. Grim Fandango would go in this category too – the music’s awesome, but I didn’t like it as much in the foreground as I expected to.

]]> By: Roadrunner https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45850 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:08:14 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45850 Technically not because it’s soundtrack counts as the audiosurf radio.
Therefore it sucks.
Except for those Jonathan coulton songs at xmas time-

CHRIIIISTMAS ISSS INTERESSTIIIIIIIIIING. LIKE A STICK IN YOUR EYEEEEEEEEEEE.
But I disliked Podsafe Christmas Song, its equally bad as Alvin and the Chipmunks. They use that soundtrack at Guantanamo Bay.
While teabagging victims going “NOOB!”

]]> By: Fish #641 https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45849 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:02:57 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45849 Audiosurf has the best soundtrack. Oh wait, is that cheating?

]]> By: Dave https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45848 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:44:39 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45848 Best music in a game? Morrowind. By a landslide.

Star Wars Battlefronts would have won, but I think that counts as cheating, seeing as it uses the most glorious music known to mankind.

]]> By: Jazmeister https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45845 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:30:27 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45845 I never listen to music in most games; if there’s a sound mixer I turn down the music and play podcasts. Listening to a radio play version of At the Mountains of Madness by the HPLHS while playing spore is… weird.

]]> By: J-Man https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45844 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:27:38 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45844 @Bobsy;

completely disagree with you on HL2 and Deus Ex. Half Life’s was a completely average one, unmemorable. Deus Ex had a brilliant swelling dramatic/techno one, highly memorable.

]]> By: Bobsy https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45841 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:56:11 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45841 Eve’s music is dirge. Bioshock was a good little melange but aside from the songs, largely unmemorable. Deus Ex? No, no a thousand times no. It has a catchy theme tune, sure. But not a good one. It’s catchy like chlamydia is catchy.

Tomb Raider: Legend has utterly amazing music which took me by surprise and blew me away. I use it as the first indicator that Legend is something special rather than the then-traditional Lara-wank we’d expected.

Also special mention to Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magic Obscura for taking the ballsy desicion to score an epic big-RPG with little more than a string quartet. It’s generally awesome, but the “actiony” bits don’t really work. Likewise Grim Fandango was pretty damn awesome. I wish more games would go for small-ensemble soundtracks rather than reverting to big orchestras and tacky techno-rawk bullshit.

Half-Life 2 had a deeply appropriate soundtrack, not always musical but effortlessly creating a recognisable soundscape for a world dominated by a ruthless and oppressive government.

But right now I’d have to say my favourite gaming soundtrack of the past 12 months has been WoW: Wrath of the Lich King. The original WoW score was utter crap, entirely unworthy of the breadth of the game, but with WotLK Russell Brower and Derek Duke have created some astonishingly beautiful music. I’ve got a LOT to say about it, and hopefully I’ll get that rare combo of time/energy to write it up.

]]> By: Oak https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45835 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:41:02 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45835 Clearly, the strangely out-of-place but still awesome ending theme to Half-Life is the greatest game song ever.

]]> By: Jazmeister https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45833 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:29:05 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45833 I played Grim Fandango ages ago, and I remember it was fucking awesome! I remember the beatnik poem blag sequence inspired and equipped me to blag my way into a beatnik community on habbo hotel!

Oh, I did just say that, didn’t I.

]]> By: ad_hominem https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45831 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:27:37 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45831 @ Roadrunner – I have two words for you. Grim Fandango.

I also have some extra words as a bonus. Grim Fandango was my only video game OST on my computer until this post – some of the music on that is terrific.

]]> By: x25killa https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45828 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:21:40 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45828 Time to audiosurf these awesome tracks…

]]> By: Smee https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45827 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:10:51 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45827 @ Cartho: I agree, BF1942’s intro was brilliant. I also enjoyed the Secret Weapons version.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=wNNAixJErEU

]]> By: Cartho https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45826 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:17:36 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45826 Ah the Battlefield 1942 theme tune was awesome

So annoyed they dropped it for BF2 and beyond, although in the little trailers for Battlefield 2142 they had a little sample of it, made me go all tingly when I heard it

Awesome stuff

]]> By: craigp https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45824 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:38:07 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45824 No Battlefield love, Tom?

Eve Online, HL2 and World of Goo for me. And I have a soft spot for the rather embarassing Mjolnir Mix of the awesome Halo theme. It rocks. http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5662

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45821 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:54:17 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45821 It’s a very different question to “Which game has the best theme song?” – where Deus Ex, Halo and Mirror’s Edge would all be jostling for my top spot. For music throughout, it comes down to World of Goo, BioShock and EVE Online. Probably EVE.

]]> By: ZomBuster https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45820 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:33:40 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45820 Yaay, I already ripped all the music from the game but they were all too short! Now I got long version

]]> By: CloakRaider https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45816 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:04:20 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45816 I shall certainly give this a listen.

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45814 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:58:42 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45814 I think that’s a quote.

]]> By: Lack_26 https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45813 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:25:12 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45813 Ha, British commentator on the inauguration just said ‘they [Americans] like to celebrate their history… Perhaps because they have so little of it’.

]]> By: Awcko https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45811 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:38:04 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45811 Aww man, the website seems to have gone down, and just when I was almost done downloading too!

]]> By: Ross https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45809 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:13:39 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45809 I was listening to the wonderful music a second and browsing the internet when something funky happened – an advert for Frost/Nixon started playing moments after the dancey bit kicked in and it just worked. I offer the fact that it took my a while to realise that the speaking hadn’t happened the first time as proof that I was happily fooled.

]]> By: Iain "DDude" Dawson https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45806 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:56:32 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45806 Am I a bad person for not hating the normal speed sections?

Then again, I did grow up in the ’90s.

]]> By: Jamie https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45805 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:51:36 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45805 Fantastic!

]]> By: Roadrunner https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45804 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:23:41 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45804 Oh, and although good, L4D’s soundtrack wears thin quickly

]]> By: Roadrunner https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45803 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:23:20 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45803 The best video game soundtrack is quite clearly the Legend of Zelda series, or simply just Super Mario Galaxy.
There’s something about when a soundtrack is orchestralized into a full, harmonious sound that makes it better.
Nintendo make good sountracks, I can’t really think of a PC game with an outstanding soundtrack….not even Psychonauts.

]]> By: Smurfy https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45802 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:57:02 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45802 lol guize barack obama is now president of teh usa xD

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45800 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:16:37 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45800 “The last of the Goos” brought that ending montage of the ones you left behind flooding back. Music doesn’t usually do that to me. What a delightfully cruel little kick that was too, just like Darwinia‘s tour through the war graveyards. All games that involve helping things should leave you feeling like a barely-adequate wretch but proud anyway.

I was also shocked when “Jelly”, the Blustery Day theme, stomped the clutch and dropped in that guitar. Wow! I’m hoping I haven’t simply forgotten that segment being in the game.

]]> By: skizelo https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45798 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:32:03 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45798 Man, the red carpet level still makes me cry. Oh, and MOM. And the match goos. And the two toads so far away.
I guess the lesson is not to play physics games while depressed.

]]> By: J-Man https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45797 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:31:33 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45797 That song is awesome. So this now raises the million quid question; what’s the best videogame OST?

I’m gonna say first place Deus Ex, second place Mass Effect, third Oni.

]]> By: The Poisoned Sponge https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45796 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:30:22 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45796 Squeeee!

]]> By: Imperial Creed https://www.pentadact.com/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing/#comment-45795 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:29:14 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/index.php/2009-01-20-the-world-of-goo-soundtrack-is-out-free-and-amazing#comment-45795 I do love the start of that track and when I heard the full thing I just burst out laughing when it decended into trashy euro dance.

For me though, Regurgitation Pumping Station is the best. Gotta love the funky guitar.

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