1. World of Goo Beginning
This is the main theme of World of Goo, and the first chunk of music I wrote for the game, specifically for our first trailer. I wanted the theme of the game to somehow reflect the song Libertango by Astor Piazzolla, which was the track I used in the original Tower of Goo prototype back in school. Listen for a similar chord progression once the melody kicks in.
2. The Goo Filled Hills
3. Brave Adventurers
A livelier version of Ode to the Bridge Builder.
4. Another Mysterious Pipe Appeared
5. World of Goo Corporation
6. Regurgitation Pumping Station
From a soundtrack I wrote for a friends short film about going on a date with the devil.
7. Threadcutter
From one of my small games, Blow.
8. Rain Rain Windy Windy
From a soundtrack I wrote for a short kids movie. Writing kids music was difficult.
9. Jelly
Music I wrote for a virtual reality world. You are in a subway. And you are a giant banana.
10. Tumbler
11. Screamer
Almost didnt include this one in the game, but a friend convinced me a few days before we finished. Im glad he did!
12. Burning Man
Theme I wrote for a friends drama/mystery series. I recorded two friends singing single notes, and then I was able to play them back with my keyboard to get a "choir". This became the theme for "progress" in the game. A variation is used for MOMs theme.
13. Cog in the Machine
You can hear a clip from this track in one of my other small games Robot and the Cities Who Built Him
14. Happy New Year (tm) Brought to You by Product Z
Recorded some great singers from Carnegie Mellon. This is the first time the "whats up there anyway" theme can be heard. You can hear the same theme in the tracks Years of Work and The Last of the Goo Balls.
15. Welcome to the Information Superhighway
I wrote this one back in high school, which makes me feel old. You can hear a nod to phantom of the opera in a section of the organ part. I had forgotten this song existed, and was glad to find it burned onto an old rotting cd-rom. I think this was the first time I ever recorded someone singing. Only the second half of this clip is used in the game.
16. Graphic Processing Unit
17. Years of Work
18. My Virtual World of Goo Corporation
Originally written for a friends NES game Dikki Painguin.
19. Hello, MOM
20. Inside the Big Computer
21. Are You Coming Home, Love MOM
22. Ode to the Bridge Builder
This was the second track I wrote for the game. The goal was to make a variation on Amazing Grace, in the style of those old western soundtracks by Ennio Morricone.
23. The Last of the Goo Balls and the Telescope Operator
24. Best of Times
This has become the unofficial second theme to World of Goo, after we used it in our second trailer. I originally wrote this for an animated short film I made with some friends. I recorded a bunch of performers all huddled around a single microphone in my bedroom to get the layers used in this track. Drums were made by banging on chairs and cardboard boxes.
25. Red Carpet Extend-o-matic
I wrote this in 2001 as a joke for a music class in undergrad. Only the beginning of this song is used in the game, and for only one level, but it has become one of the most requested pieces of music. So, heres the "full song", but it comes with a warning - this song is designed to sound like every cheap 90s dance song ever made. The singer is great though, an astrophysicist named Jessica. I gave a her a chainsaw for her wedding and we never spoke again. The end.
26. World of Goo Corporations Valued Customers
27. World of Goo Ending
Main theme to World of Goo, and used in our third and final trailer.
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POSTED IN: INDEPENDENT.CO.UKRobert Hanks
A dreadful thing has happened to me ? so dreadful that I can hardly bring myself to speak about it.
For some time I have suspected that ? please, try not to despise me ? that Im starting to like folk-music; and this week, the diagnosis was confirmed: I managed to listen to the Mike Harding programme (Radio 2, Wednesday) from beginning to end, without ever feeling the urge to rush over and switch it off.
Im not sure what to do. Once upon a time, I could have glued the dials of all the radios in the house to Radio 3, but these days youre not safe even there, what with Late Junction. God knows where it will all end: no doubt the firm, clear baritone Ive taken such pride in reduced to a nasal drone. Do they still wear baggy jumpers? Will I have to wear one?
At least this meant that I heard Hardings guest, Roy Bailey, described in the billing as a "folk veteran and activist", who comes with testimonials from people like Billy Bragg. Bailey was an interesting man, but just as interesting to me were the questions that werent asked: in particular, whats the link between folk music and left-wing politics? I suppose the reason Harding didnt bother asking is that its assumed ? folk is, by definition, the music of the people.
But the people arent always good socialists. Earlier in the day, as part of a series of essays and poems called Made in England (Radio 4, Monday to Friday), Patrick Wright talked about a song called "Roots" by the West Country folk duo Show of Hands, in which they lament the fact that the English, unlike other peoples, have become disconnected from their own traditions and music. A few weeks after Wright first came across the song, he heard the pair in a radio interview eagerly dissociating themselves from the BNP, who had taken the song up.
Wrights essay was about the danger of invoking an image of Englishness so rooted in the past that its in opposition to any kind of progress: he brought up the example of Hilaire Belloc and G K Chesterton, who gave literary respectability to a brand of patriotism thats nostalgic, beery and amusing, but eventually rather disturbing, bound up as it was in their cases with anti-semitism. As a example of a different type of Englishness thats forward-looking, he gave Broadway Market, a street in east London.
This was where I pricked up my ears, since Broadway Market is on my own doorstep. A few years ago it seemed, as Wright put it, "beyond hope of improvement or recovery" ? the kind of place you felt uncomfortable walking after dark, and short of incentives to visit by day. But in the last three years, with the arrival of a Saturday farmers market, some very nice caf?s and a bookshop, its become a thriving centre of boho chic. Looking at anti-yuppie graffiti, and hearing about conflicts between the market and property developers wanting to take advantage of its popularity, Wright said "Its as much a weekly resistance movement as it is a market."
At this point, I decided he hadnt thought this through. Broadway Market may come across as bohemian and, with its stalls of organic meat and artisan bread, rooted in ancient traditions, but its basically a place where the middle-classes gather of a weekend to chat and spend money on their ? our ? middle-class pleasures. Its the class-consciousness that really makes Broadway Market representative of England.
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