its crazy that if you want authentic prog rock in a video game your options are basically final fantasy or fucking plok for the snes if this dude kept going he would have been making whole ass concept albums for M&Ms kart racing on the wii
Uematsu and the Follin brothers carried the prog rock genre on the vgm industry HARD. Such a shame that every other FF that didn't have Uematsu as the lead composer didn't have a prog rock track and now Tim Follin seem to have quit the industry altogether.
Dawg I was looking at Plok soundtrack comments and I keep seeing something I wish I didn’t know. The game music industry ain’t gonna be the same anymore 😔
tim follin be like “hmmm yes i will now put 13/4 time signatures in my children’s game soundtrack” edit: yes, 13/8 has a lot more fluidity to it that 13/4. tbf all i did was count. yall the music nerds lol
it wasn't the most frustrating platformer I played on SNES in elementary school but it was definitely up there. great design but no functional save feature. I don't think I ever actually beat it.
It feels like the song just screamed its heart out, got lightheaded and dizzy, and had to regain its composure. And I mean that positively! It sounds amazing
When I was sixteen I did register a demo tape which contained a medley of plok's best tracks (Beach, Akrillic and Gehome cave). Never performed it live but it was very fun to play 😊
RIP Geoff Follin, you blessed us with some of the greatest VGM OSTs and I'll forever be grateful for that. You were truly a master composer and I thank you for your work.
“Yeah I’m boutta make a song with a time signature of 12/8 and a bpm of 81 as well as adding the most harmonious heaven ascending chords you’ve heard in your life into a children’s game” - Geoff Follin probably
If I've been told correctly, this even uses less channels than the SNES is capable of (citation needed, I highly recommend double checking this I just can't be bothered at the moment)
@@retronymph SNES can do 8 channels. Title Theme uses all 8, but when it comes to gameplay some games tended to reserve some to leave room sound effects.
Came here to give my respects to Geoff Follin for making some of the craziest game compositions with so much limitation. Real shame none of them blew up until decades later but better late than never. RIP
When I first heard that he died I literally cried for a long time. He was one of the best Video Game songs ever and if there is a Plok 2 there should be a Tribute to him like at the end of the game where it shows respect to him and how he made a impact and other stuff.
Wow! I remember placing my cassette player (yes!) next to my SNES and turning the volume up to the music of this level and recording it on tape so I could listen to it on my Walkman! One of many I recorded! Thanks for reliving my childhood! It still sounds as awesome to me now today then when I was a kid! ❤
Good for you. My dual cassette karaoke stopped working in 2017. Every time I turn it on, it makes an awful buzzing noise and I can’t even play my cassette tapes.
I haven't heard this since I was 12, and I was right by remembering it's the best music ever written for a video game. It sounds like something off of Yes's Tales of Topographic Oceans. Amazing.
3:36 feels like a direct tip of the hat to the organ solo part near the end of "Close To The Edge" where it feels like the whole band is tumbling down into a ravine...
It sounds super great when you listen to it for the first time but now to me who listened to this like 50 times this feels like a song that plays when I deep sleep
Funny thing to consider: unless you sat there and dragged ass playing the stages this song played on, you'd almost never hear the song in it's entirety because of how long it is. God damned masterpiece of a track. Amongst my favorite on the system.
Song is mostly in 3/4. Watch at 0:55. Now at 1:04 its in 13/8! Before settling back to a slow and long 4/4, or common time, for the finale at 1:09. And with two drum hits it settles back to 3/4th again :)
It absolutely blew my mind, I was 9 years old playing this game, and I loved the OST so much I'd just sit the controller down and let it play. It gave me weird feelings I didn't quite understand; it helped develop a personal interest in keys and bass, which is my favorite thing to do these days lol
This is the most "My Singing Monsters fan song" song I've ever heard outside of the MSM community, which is even crazier when it was made with five SNES audio channels
@Olaf Well, weird coincidence if it is the case. Anyway, this track in particular has some sound similarities with some MD instruments, but it's overall more refined than its. MD is not capable to handle sampled instruments in multichannel such as drums, chords, trumpets, etc. Tim Follin did an one and only MD soundtrack for the unreleased port for Time Trax in 1994. He said he regrets not be able to compose more soundtracks with the Megadrive chip. Oh, he would shine on
I get the feeling that Follin was only ever given a brief description of the game and, in his mind, he likely envisioned it being bigger and more impressive than what it actually turned out being. Thus all these amazing ambient songs were made... for an admittedly pretty underwhelming game.
I listening to this and making genuine faces of astonishment as I hear what I can only think as music that so far ahead of its time you can call me the angry video game need cause I gotta go back to the past and play this game
Miyamoto was actually nearly on board to help design and publish Plok to create more competition and beat Sonic, since he thought it was a great platformer concept, he ended up not collaborating.
Yeah, that could be. But the 2:04 sounds kinda gloomy. It made me think of some towns I used to live in where the populations dropped and they turned into ghost towns. I did get lonely feelings from it.
Gorgeous music helped by incredible sound programming talent. But one should not forget Geoff Follin's contributions who to my knowledge mostly wrote the actual music
its crazy that if you want authentic prog rock in a video game your options are basically final fantasy or fucking plok for the snes
if this dude kept going he would have been making whole ass concept albums for M&Ms kart racing on the wii
And classic Castlevania
Uematsu and the Follin brothers carried the prog rock genre on the vgm industry HARD.
Such a shame that every other FF that didn't have Uematsu as the lead composer didn't have a prog rock track and now Tim Follin seem to have quit the industry altogether.
Another great example of oldschool prog rock in VGM is Risk of Rain 1 and 2
Kenji Ito is also a Prog Rock VGM Composer. I think Uematsu was his Partner in FF Legends a.k.a. Saga for Gameboy.
Nah hed be making music for Cheggers Party Quiz: New Russel Grant's Astrology mode
Progressive Plok
Yacht Plok
plok rock
Prog Plok
Tales of Plokographic Oceans
Selling Akrillic by the Plok
Rest in peace, Geoff Follin.
I really wish I didn't have to find out this way :/
seriously? RIP
@@rogerbaskin1084 yes and I wish it wasn't true
Dawg I was looking at Plok soundtrack comments and I keep seeing something I wish I didn’t know. The game music industry ain’t gonna be the same anymore 😔
NO WAY
Plok is a Tim Follin album that comes with a free game
Indeed.
0:55 is the most ethereal thing i have ever heard out of an SNES game
Yo your comment's featured on a different video, thought you should know.
It really gave me weird vibes but it is indeed great
@@r.henryjr.1533which video?
I might be levitating ngl
@@moosesues8887:o
tim follin be like “hmmm yes i will now put 13/4 time signatures in my children’s game soundtrack”
edit: yes, 13/8 has a lot more fluidity to it that 13/4. tbf all i did was count. yall the music nerds lol
what part of the song is in 13/4?
12/4*
I think the part in 13/4 is in 1:04 to 1:10, it's the only one that "adds" beats, the rest is 12/4, or just 3/4 four times.
LOL right? And I love it XD
@@Slurpgerk no
In an alternate reality, Tim gets the respect he deserves and this is regarded as one of the best songs ever put on the system
In an alternate reality, Plok! is a big hit and we have him on Super Smash Bros.
@@budakbaongsiahyes!!
@budakbaongsiah this sadly comes with the loss of the soundtrack.
@@budakbaongsiahI deadass wanted plok more than any of the other fighters ngl (cept maybe Steve and hero)
@@acidfish4857 imagine the movesets and how different it would be compared to other fighters
tim follin on his way to put transcendental prog rock anthems in a mascot platformer:
I have never played Plok nor watched gameplay of it. All I know is that it has a bomb-ass soundtrack.
Same
Play the game then
I played it after finding the soundtrack. It's... not good lol
Don't bother, the game itself isn't that great. It's quite infuriating actually.
@Doom Reverb im sorry that i wasnt born earlier and therefore didnt grow up playing the snes :/
This song was my alarm during my apprenticeship. Was the only thing who made my day bearable.
+alysdexia Fuck you, Castleton.
musics the only thing that makes my everyday bearable especially school
@alysdexia Shut the fuck, I'm gonna punch you.
@@Sigurdur5 I think their account got terminated, pog
@@rmissing3361 lmao lesgo
I love how this unassuming mascot platformer game on the SNES that no one played just has Yes for its soundtrack.
It's a repetitive enemy hunt for half the game and then it has some annoying gimmicky vehicle stages at the end, no wonder no one played it 😂
@@thewindthatblows Game would honestly be fine if it had a save system.
@@thewindthatblows atleast the idea is original unlike that dumbass brown bobcat
it wasn't the most frustrating platformer I played on SNES in elementary school but it was definitely up there. great design but no functional save feature. I don't think I ever actually beat it.
1:27
I like how at this point , it sounds like the music is catching its breath
I've always heard the music channels on a console being called "voices", which would fit your comment!
@@joahvannimoussa3510 instances of key presses being called "voices" are also pretty common in soundfont MIDI players.
@@Mizu2023 cool!
It feels like the song just screamed its heart out, got lightheaded and dizzy, and had to regain its composure. And I mean that positively! It sounds amazing
I’ve always loved this song. You know a song is epic when it doesn’t loop until after the 3 min mark. I want to hear a live band perform this
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i think you will like yes lol
@@Mreoewwmrow this song always reminded me a whole lot of yes
@@Mreoewwmrow Prog rock in general I think
When I was sixteen I did register a demo tape which contained a medley of plok's best tracks (Beach, Akrillic and Gehome cave). Never performed it live but it was very fun to play 😊
RIP Geoff Follin, you blessed us with some of the greatest VGM OSTs and I'll forever be grateful for that. You were truly a master composer and I thank you for your work.
you mean Tim follin?
@@robotwrench his brother did 75% of this OST
@@inkywright oh
@@robotwrench Yeah both Follin brothers were gods of video game music. It's just that everyone remembers Tim over Geoff, which is unfortunate.
@@SnancyNegative People are just about starting to discover Geoff, which is a bit bittersweet, but I'm glad to see it.
“Yeah I’m boutta make a song with a time signature of 12/8 and a bpm of 81 as well as adding the most harmonious heaven ascending chords you’ve heard in your life into a children’s game”
- Geoff Follin probably
for an E rated platformer game
It sounds like prog or jazz rock, drum is fantastic.
Jazz rock! That makes sense, I was trying to think of what this would be categorized, parts of it sound like straight up Weather Report.
it reminds me of Tarkus a lot.
@@roknindo Jazz rock is also commonly called "Fusion" !
@@DoodlezMusic Indeed! Tis' my favorite genre of music next to hip-hop. (Weather Report and The Roots are also my two favorite bands, as an aside)
@@roknindo You should def check out Guthrie Govan, Kiko Loureiro's solo album and some japanese stuff from the 70s like Casiopeia!
0:54 the highlight of this whole soundtrack, and some of the best music ever put in a SNES
True and it is true that obscure games are the ones with the best music
makes sense given the larks pfp that you'd like this lolol
0:55 This is the first music piece from a video game that makes me want to cry because of how good it is
SAMEEE
I love how Tim made sure this early 90s platformer had some yes style prog to jam out to. He knew his audience!
The Follin brothers were all influenced by prog rock, particularly Yes and Genesis.
How is it even possible for this to be on the Super Nintendo? Wow
Because the Follin brothers.
If I've been told correctly, this even uses less channels than the SNES is capable of (citation needed, I highly recommend double checking this I just can't be bothered at the moment)
@@retronymph SNES can do 8 channels. Title Theme uses all 8, but when it comes to gameplay some games tended to reserve some to leave room sound effects.
Apparently even Miyamoto didn't think it was possible, and just assumed they must have had an audio coprocessor on the cart until proven otherwise.
The power of creativity and sample sounds™
Came here to give my respects to Geoff Follin for making some of the craziest game compositions with so much limitation. Real shame none of them blew up until decades later but better late than never. RIP
When I first heard that he died I literally cried for a long time. He was one of the best Video Game songs ever and if there is a Plok 2 there should be a Tribute to him like at the end of the game where it shows respect to him and how he made a impact and other stuff.
Rest in peace, Geoff Follin. May your soul be blessed.
Ok ok now sthup
@@daniellap.stewart6839 What's wrong with what he said?
@@Mykst its just another immature child roaming free on the internet without parental supervision
@@omiadera Yeah. I did check their channel out of curiosity and based on their info and videos I can't say I am surprised really.
@@daniellap.stewart6839Please just let the person share condolences to someone who passed away, there's nothing wrong with it.
people sleep on this SO MUCH, best song in the entire fucking ost
It really is so freaking good. The part from 0:55 to 1:25 makes my brain tingle as does the final quarter of the song
Wow! I remember placing my cassette player (yes!) next to my SNES and turning the volume up to the music of this level and recording it on tape so I could listen to it on my Walkman! One of many I recorded! Thanks for reliving my childhood! It still sounds as awesome to me now today then when I was a kid! ❤
@@brudermurus9972 weird but ok
You're not alone in recording vidya music with cassette. It was all we could do.
I still got my Sony dual tape deck and cassettes.
This would sound nice as a chillwave song
Good for you. My dual cassette karaoke stopped working in 2017. Every time I turn it on, it makes an awful buzzing noise and I can’t even play my cassette tapes.
The music takes 3:45 until it starts looping. It's a *Super Nintendo* game
I haven't heard this since I was 12, and I was right by remembering it's the best music ever written for a video game. It sounds like something off of Yes's Tales of Topographic Oceans. Amazing.
3:36 feels like a direct tip of the hat to the organ solo part near the end of "Close To The Edge" where it feels like the whole band is tumbling down into a ravine...
Don't forget about this song, ever.
i wish i could delete my memory and listen to 0:54 for the first time again
That part sounds like a deep sleep dream
first time listening and I am mind blowed
It sounds super great when you listen to it for the first time but now to me who listened to this like 50 times this feels like a song that plays when I deep sleep
Rhythm heaven fan found
@@FigureFarter me too
Rip man. thank you for being the one to push the gaming industry forward with your amazing music. this and your boss theme will never be forgotten.
The amount of research i did to find this song again is actually crazy.
come and get em Obama
I only found this with Obama, and Obama gave this piece to me.
@ I couldn’t remember the name of the song or the game, I had to look through a year of my history
how'd you originally find it?
@@someonerandom704 I got no idea I just sorta locked in
1:09 This is the most majestic piece of music i've heard on the snes
The music is amazing, Tim Follin made the best music.
Otouto, did you remove the low pass filter or is your video low quality.
@@thenintendogenesis6084 this is without the filter
@@elysian778
My man answered a 2-year-old comment.
@@thenintendogenesis6084 without filter
@@skyjack1 Yes you did.
This sounds like the kind of song you'd hear browsing at a dusty, rustic outdoor flea market on a hot and sunny afternoon.
heh, flea
heh, flea
heh, flea
fleh, hea
aelf, heh
genuinely cannot stop listening to this. i once listened to it 7 hours STRAIGHT. do i regret it? nah. still not bored of it.
Everyone talks about 0:55 but 2:38 - 3:18 genuinely had me replaying for thirty minutes straight
Plok is now 30 years old this year
Wow
@@GavTV29yeah
And we still don't know who owns the rights to this game...
@@budakbaongsiah Its the Pickford Brothers
@@Nanami_Chiaki-u2vThey own the rights of the characters, not the game itself. If they do, they would've re-released the game on many platforms.
This took my ears to the ethereal plane of existence
I know right? 😫😶🌫
thank you coney
so true 🙏
0:55 genuinely brings a tear into my eye. its ethereal
Funny thing to consider: unless you sat there and dragged ass playing the stages this song played on, you'd almost never hear the song in it's entirety because of how long it is. God damned masterpiece of a track. Amongst my favorite on the system.
Just remember this is on the snes.
0:54 this part man….just wow
Insane chord progression.
This song coming out of a SNES is the equivallent of: ''technically bees are not able to fly, but they do regardless''
Real
1:09 - 1:29 Is the thing that's gonna play in my mind's 20 second highlight reel right after death
0:00 - 0:54: cute innocent little melody
0:55: *ethereal hymns of the plokinator*
There was no need to go so hard for fucking plok!
the man can't stop himself, just listen to the Solstice theme and then look at the game it's for
Tim is a god. Dude could turn a funeral into a rock concert if he saw fit.
@@cactusmanofdestiny3708 And he’d do it with just the Church Organ alone.
@@rickyrns1059 Spot on.
@@rickyrns1059 "And now, In the Garden of Eden, by I. Ron Butterfly."
The drums are incredible, it's all sampled!
Song is mostly in 3/4.
Watch at 0:55.
Now at 1:04 its in 13/8!
Before settling back to a slow and long 4/4, or common time, for the finale at 1:09.
And with two drum hits it settles back to 3/4th again :)
1:55 amazing
that part gives me the chills! it's so good!
This is my all-time favourite video game song. It's incredible.
This whole soundtrack sounds like a Gentle Giant album.
It absolutely blew my mind, I was 9 years old playing this game, and I loved the OST so much I'd just sit the controller down and let it play. It gave me weird feelings I didn't quite understand; it helped develop a personal interest in keys and bass, which is my favorite thing to do these days lol
This is the most "My Singing Monsters fan song" song I've ever heard outside of the MSM community, which is even crazier when it was made with five SNES audio channels
Love this music too! Reminds me of Genesis old music
I can tell heavy Genesis, Yes and Rick Wakeman influences in this
@Olaf Well, weird coincidence if it is the case. Anyway, this track in particular has some sound similarities with some MD instruments, but it's overall more refined than its. MD is not capable to handle sampled instruments in multichannel such as drums, chords, trumpets, etc.
Tim Follin did an one and only MD soundtrack for the unreleased port for Time Trax in 1994. He said he regrets not be able to compose more soundtracks with the Megadrive chip. Oh, he would shine on
I frickin love the part about halfway through when the flutes come in. So sick
I get the feeling that Follin was only ever given a brief description of the game and, in his mind, he likely envisioned it being bigger and more impressive than what it actually turned out being. Thus all these amazing ambient songs were made... for an admittedly pretty underwhelming game.
imean he's always made amazing music for crappy games
@@Terracrafty He and the Pickfords go way back though. They went into this knowing pretty much what they were getting!
I mean yeah maybe but he also went mega hard on just the title screen for pictionary so I'm thinking he just goes all out no matter what
They said they were gonna collab with miyamoto on this game... If only
Underwhelming? Bruh it was pretty out there for a SNES game
0:54
Sounds like a 70s anime
I'm really feeling it! Lol
@@Sebastian-xy3xk I agree
nice chords and melodies
Holy shit this is epic... I can listen to this for hours.
It's amazing
Don’t mind me, just getting my daily dose of good music goosebumps.
Nintendo licensed prog rock, i love it
The section starting at 0:55 screams ethereal prog, and I'm here for it. RIP Geoff.
for those don't know, the guitar of this theme, is the longest guitar sequence in the game.
I listening to this and making genuine faces of astonishment as I hear what I can only think as music that so far ahead of its time you can call me the angry video game need cause I gotta go back to the past and play this game
0:54 - 1:27 That part didn't need to hit as hard as it did! I love it!
This sounds like a combination between Waterworld for SNES and Yoshi's Island. It blew my mind.
Two more of the best soundtracks on the SNES.
*1:03** AAAAHAHAAAAAH! I'VE NEVER BEEN SO ENTHUSIASTIC IN MY LIFE!!!* 😆😆😆😆😁
0:55 this is how weed must feel like
During the first few times it feels like 0:55, but after a few years, it starts feeling like 0:49.
that change over at 2:25 is breathtaking. I totally forgot i was listening to the PLOK soundtrack hahahahah wtf!
That guitar solo like part at 2:36 gets me every single time
Unbelievable how good this is
rest in peace Geoff Follin :(
I wonder what Shigeru Miyamoto thinks of this song, hopefully he really is into Plok
This is a big island theme. I think it shows up a few times
miyamoto literally had the game checked because he did not believe the snes could run music like this
@@takacon695 I was kinda also thinking how this detailed music is running on such hardware, but anyway, the limitations just make the song better.
@@takacon695 really?
Miyamoto was actually nearly on board to help design and publish Plok to create more competition and beat Sonic, since he thought it was a great platformer concept, he ended up not collaborating.
The 1:04 mark is completely fucked.
My whole body is melting
Rest in peace Geoff Follin.
one of the best pieces of music to trace the planet
Gentle Giant! That's what it sounds to me. And Boy, is this amazing music!
Yes, definitely. Some bits of other tracks even remind me of "Just the Same" off of "Free Hand".
IT JUST KEEPS GOING
0:55 - Ooh…?
1:10 - 🌊🎧🌊
It made me somehow sad, but I still love it.
Maybe It's because of nostalgia song gives.
Yeah, that could be. But the 2:04 sounds kinda gloomy. It made me think of some towns I used to live in where the populations dropped and they turned into ghost towns. I did get lonely feelings from it.
I does give off a “Lonely ranger” vibe.
the chords moving around 1:11 sound SO much like tarkus even the drums
tbh if you rearranged the little intro rythm you could prob make Eruption im p sure its just fourths
This part at 3:18 🥹 love it!!
I get to the drums around 1:10 and I’m like how is this on a SNES cartridge?
1:06 COME AND GET EM OBAMA
OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA AAAAAEAAAAAÆAAAEÆAAAAAA AAAAA
"hey tim folin we need some plok music"
"prog music"
"No, we said plo- holy shit this slaps nvm"
my favorite part - 0:48 - 1:26 imo
@1:09 I can feel my very soul transcending to a higher, holier plane of existence. 😩
This melts my brain and reforms it like rocks or metal
also glass
This track soothes my very soul, and yet lifts it higher with each relisten... epic track
I was looking away at like the minute part, and the way the music just got really epic made me turn back towards the screen and say wth? Its too good
0:53 the best
Got the game back in 1993 when I was eleven. Still playing it today and still in love with the music. 🤩
bro whoever made the plok soundtrack is the fuckin bomb
It was Tim Follin. If you've never heard any of his other game music tracks, you're in for a treat!
@@redpheonix1000
*Tim and Geoff Follin
@@redpheonix1000 omg, troll physics!
tim follin is a genius
jfc 0:55 sounds like final fantasy 8. Way ahead of its time here.
Everyone praises 0:54, but can we show some love for 3:18 too? ;)
that part LITERALLY MADE MY JAW DROP. so freaking good!
This track is badass
1:54 God those pads are beautiful
This sounds like something made for Animusic, I love it
Damn this is amazing.
This games ost has opened my ears to vgm more than any other ost I’ve heard
I CANT KEPT LISTENING TO THIS IS A BANGER😭😭
Gorgeous music helped by incredible sound programming talent. But one should not forget Geoff Follin's contributions who to my knowledge mostly wrote the actual music
0:54 wow, this new Tame Impala track is great