Follin Tribute - All the Best Amiga OST
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- This video wants to be a tribute to my favourite 8 and 16 bit composer: Tim Follin. His works really gave that special feeling to the sometimes not-so-impressive games which featured his compositions.
All I can say is: thank you, Tim.
Index:
00:04 Ghouls 'n Ghosts (7 tracks)
21:31 Bionic Commando (5 tracks)
35:07 Led Storm (7 tracks)
Enjoy!
ALL of Tim's songs have aged superbly, but then they were way ahead of their time :-) Above and beyond the call of duty every time. Follin = Genius.
Especially Solstice and the leaked "time trax" soundtrack for Genesis (was a vaporware but ost is amazingly good for a genesis)
Just as a heads up to Follin fans, he just released a full-on FMV game on Steam called Contradiction - Spot the Liar, and Giant Bomb did a hilarious Quick Look play of the start of it. (Disclaimer: I am actually in the game. The blonde one.)
+Magnulus i kinda doubt you're in it
+TechNuggets95 And why is that?
It is something a person who wants attention would say.
+TechNuggets95 I said it as a disclaimer, to say that I'm not impartial in my assessment of the game. But of course, if you want to go with your hunch rather than the plethora of videos on my RUclips profile that I've made, one of which is a video of me and Rupert (the man who plays Jenks) messing around making references to the game... Sure! :D
+Magnulus Sounds great! ill be sure to check that game out. :)
25:29 that Star Wars "reference", though....lol
He didn't hide it. He changes the chords of the theme to make it fit the melody. That makes it a proper quote and not a "sounding like" thing.
that made my eyebrows shoot up and I scrolled down to the comments, heh
Music can make a game. All of Tims music on all platforms was superb. Even the 48K speccy
Do you mean the high score table tune with the flutes?That one is amazing.. Many people overlook the G&G music by Tim because it's folky 70s prog. Best music he ever wrote.. masterpieces of composition. I interviewed him once and he admitted that was the best thing he had done... but he was so humble and really didn't seem to like writing game music much.
I can't tell how many times I listened to the LED storm sound track. Especially the tunes starting around 45:30 (so mellow) and 49:10 (uplifting and funky)
you're not the only one lol
Never heard of this game but the song sure is uplifting
Maximum possible respect this music needs to be played by a real prog group with a hammond and it needs to happen 20 years ago dam it.
Also it seems at about the 28 minute mark the composers must have travelled forwards in time to around 2055 and gone to a mixed sentient being jazz bar to write that insanity
When all this was created, prog rock was already a past thing, except for one or another bands. I imagine Tim Follin's music as a mixture of 70s and 80s with both digital and analog instruments such as Moog, Yamaha, Hammond, sample machines, drumpads and analog drums, etc.
I don't see the need to disrespect everyone else. I would have thumbed you up if you'd have left it at, "Always wondered if he knew how good his music really was. Odd time signatures, parallel intervals, augmented & diminished scales, jazzy arpeggios, suspended chords, it's all in there - and all done with taste." Its a really beautiful comment, and a real shame to see it buried in those other comments. Did you mean that you would've bought his music without a game? if so, I agree! I would too!
You know Tim Folin definitely has a good discography when my reaction is "No Solstice, or Sliver Surfer!?" and many other of his best hits of my liking.
Your reaction was surprise that there are no NES soundtracks on an Amiga playlist??
I love Tim's music because it's just so lively. It gives a soundscape that is full to bursting. Bionic Commando on the Amiga, for me, has the best soundtrack on the Amiga.
the c-64 version is legendary!!!!!!
Beautiful Follin! Some of the G&G stuff feels different in spirit than the original, but it's still classic. I never gave the Amiga any attention back in the day, I guess because I was stuck on the classic PSG/FM sounds of the older consoles. It's clear I need to revisit this stuff.
Since I discovered this version I don't listen to the original anymore.
It's like "Ghouls and Ghosts but is a prog rock conceptual album inspired on the game"
I love the Bionic commando music, to use Salsa here is just brilliant...
just imagine if tim follin had collabed with yuzo koshiro. both IMMENSELY talented videogame composers who pushed soundchips to their very limits. :ds:
Tim is so good at this that the AVGN actally bought the soundtrack to Silver Surfer on NES.....one of the games he hates.
Video game music still doesn't get enough recognition. If it did, this guy would be famous, and not just hailed by gamers
He's said in interviews what he enjoyed was the challenge of getting relatively limited systems to do this sort of audio wizardry. He freely admits a lot of his influence is prog-rock. He says if you take the computer away, it's just prog rock, the technical achievement of it isn't there in the same way
I love how he said he pretty much wrote what he wanted to write regardless of the type of game so some of the music didn't really fit the mood. The music was top notch regardless.
Led Storm First Track Always Gaves Me GooseBumps! Tim has been great inspiration.
Great upload! I loved Tim Follin's work since I discovered him from the Chonos title theme, way back on the ZX Spectrum. Thanks for uploading!
Some of the best music I had the chance to experience on the Amiga. Most of his tracks showed such creativity and sheer emotion. Not to mention the tasty sounds he chose and his mastery in arrangements and dynamics.
It's redundant to say all his music kicks butt, so I'll just say you have an excellent taste in music
I think the insane thing is that Tim's first music credit was for a game called Subterranean Stryker from 1985....TIM WAS ONLY 15 YEARS OLD! The guy is a genius, that I only heard about recently.
The G&G tunes were Tim's most sophisticated tunes by far. 19.50 is the high score table ditty.. such a beautiful composition, esp the layered flutes in the final section.
Tim Follin è un mostro!! E' sua anche la colonna sonora di Equinox per Super Nintendo ed è un capolavoro assoluto.
Tim still the best
26:50 THAT STAR WARS
26:50
It's more noticable in the C64 soundtrack I think. I already spotted that there.
*Rings a Bell!* I think I ripped the cowbell from Bionic Commando to my tunes :)
Tim Follins is great.
God damnit, you're too hard on yourself Tim. This is great.
Miles ahead of everyone else.
Ho provato a seguire il link in firma sul forum, gran bel lavoro, Anche se non sono esattamente nel target, apprezzo più la musica di per se. Grazie.
HALnovemilaqualcosa
@ 45:30 OMGosh, that is my JAM!
Would you care to elaborate? ^__^
Just that I really dig it. I'd place it up there with the best of the Plok soundtrack as far as Tim Follin goodness.
Nathan Daniels yeah, some of Plok's songs are great.
It's the best piece of computer game music ever written, that's what!
my favourite are the specy-follin, but these are good too
I think I know where you're coming from. The sounds he got out of the C64 were out of this world (at least out of the C64!) It's brilliant. My hero will always be Jeroen Tel, but Tim's music always moved me too. Agent X2 blew me away with incredible efects such as a ringing phone and alarms in the background enhancing the gameplay experience. As with all standard Amiga music, the stereo needs to be carefully played with to make them sound their best. Can assist with this if the uploader wants.
Great selection. But i like a much Sly Spy too ^^
I agree, some of the best music I've ever heard has been in games over the past 30 years. Those composers created some amazing works.
I really love the Bionic Commando soundtrack on the Amiga. It’s too good!
Tim Follin - Genius !!!
Love the pads @ 11:30
Who could really dislike this ?
30:54 is absolute pure genius
Absolutely love the GNG song...I loaded the game on my C64 and Amiga only for the soundtrack! I even recorded them in a tape back in the days!!! :) :) :)
7:45 one of the best medieval music in videogame history. Although I prefer the Sega Genesis version.
The Genesis version is an arrange to the arcade original. This is a variation by him.
Muy bueno!!, no me extraña que se haya puesto de moda los remake musicales de los videojuegos desde hace unos años, hay una cantidad de obras de arte impresionante, aunque claro, solo los "videoadictos" nos dimos cuenta de ello ya hace mucho tiempo ;)
This makes me sad and happy at the same time 😮
The first level of Ristar sounds like that arrangement of Bionic Commando in the beginning.
His music for Led Storm is one of my fav Amiga music! Need to burn it on CD for my car! Great job Tim ;)
omg! this gave me chills. I still have my A500
kapteinsnute yeah, I've still my 1200 too. 😊
@@Wis76 Hi! does your 1200 still work ?
@@radrich4873 uhm… never had the chance to turn it on… I have it at my mother’s place.
@@Wis76 Ok. Does it have a hard drive ? I ask because hard drives die eventually, so any Amiga that has a hard drive will be unusable once the hard drive fails
@@radrich4873 Yeah, it has a 120Mb HD. Why would it be unusable? You can still use it without an hard drive.
The more I listen to this and other tracks, the more I'm convinced he's a genius composer.
45:27 Any day is a lovely day for Follin
NON RIMUOVERLO MAI!!! VIDEO STUPENDO. NEVER REMOVE THIS VIDEO!!!
Oddio non sono l'unico italiano che lo conosce :'3, lo stimo sia come persona e compositore. Un uomo molto modesto e pieno di talento, veramente da ammirare.
I love the C64 music of Ghosts 'n' Goblins. Ingame and highscore are both phenomenal!
Thanks for including the legit version of the GnG title music, and not the (tragically inaccurate) MOD reconstruction somebody did. Though you didn't have to fade it out prematurely. ;p
Tim Follin will always be nr 1 In my book =)
Unforgettable ! Thanx for thé magic Mr. Follins !
2 of my most favorite amiga tunes ghouls and ghosts and led storm. Back in the days I had these tunes recorded on a tape, and I would listen to them with my walkman every day for months!!
Is there some compilation I can download of all his music collected? Wouldn't bother at all to throw some money at it :~)
This is amazing, thanks so much.
I'm loving it, thanks bud!
While the Amiga version of Bionic Commando sounds quite cool, I personally think that the C64 version is better because ... well, it's almost the same but on a much less capable system.
beautiful time winds\
@Wis76 non so come dire, è che ci trovo dentro una poesia da fiaba che è come se cristallizzasse lo scorrere del tempo, una sensazione bellissima! ^__^
Tim Follin is my god!
If it really matters to you what I think then well, I think we are on completely different wavelengths. I'm not going to presume that Tim is unsatisfied with his life based on your misguided opinion. He's a rich man, if not in money (and that is none of either of our business) then in his creative talent and ability to share them with us right here. He has earned the respect of many fans, and some of them might even be 9 years old, and their opinion is worth at least as much as yours.
ghouls n ghost is a classic hardass capcom game !
25:29 Use the Force, Tim.
I forgot how wide the Stereo separation on an Amiga (due to 2 channels full left and right)
While everyone else was stuck in predictable disco vamps, Tim's music always went anywhere because he had real ability. Always wondered if he knew how good his music really was. Odd time signatures, parallel intervals, augmented & diminished scales, jazzy arpeggios, suspended chords, it's all in there - and all done with taste. WTF he was doing wasting his time with computer games I don't know.
Thank christ he did!
I wonder if Follin is going to comment here soon.
The Mildly Shocked Sunflower [SSB4 Replays] well that would be an honour. Why do you say so, anyway?
@TheCrazyBorg I see what you mean. It sounds like Follin used the same sampled chords trick on the Amiga that he did on his SNES work.
Chris Hülsbeck is okay and he did some good tunes. But as long as we're talking about *esprit* there were a few others I'd rather prefer to count them on top. And Tim is one of them. His fm-skills (BionicCommando) are epic!
Always been a big fan of the first two games but I never tried led storm. The game is pants but its another epic soundtrack by Folin, up there in greatness with Bionic commando and Ghouls n ghosts :)
Also add the boss theme from plok.
what's the second to last track on g&g? it's so gorgeous, i can't even get over it! thanks so much for the upload.
15:39 is pure gold.
L'unico brano a cui posso porre un giudizio negativo è 41:29 di LED STORM. "Long Cave Tunnel" se non erro. Sembra proprio che fosse stato abbozzato molto di fretta. Poteva utilizzare i canali destro e sinistro per gli accordi di organi e di synth... invece ha lasciato parecchio la traccia vuota, coi suoni prevalentemente posti solo su un canale destro, e l'unico suono sul canale sinistro sembra quel rintocco metallico dei piatti sintetici... Peccato!!! Per il resto, TIM FOLLIN NUMERO 1!
3 thumbs down. I guess there were a few Atari ST fans in here.:p
:D
Your hair looks so Tony Stark-ish :) So cool!
I was hung over when I took that picture. I just threw a little water on my hair and snapped the shot. :)
Gamevet So what if I'm an ST fan? I like these tunes otherwise.
Is it possible to download ripped tunes in MOD format somewhere?
@gatemansg1 I think that collaboration would result in a lot of systems burning from the sound chip :)
Tim Follin's version of GnG sounds like it belongs in Game of Thrones! D:
Funny thing is he wrote both soundtracks on the C64 and the Amiga. So really it's his *other* version.
If you really are a fan of the Follins works you have to check this mix guy !!!!!!!
DJ 0000 & Convectorh - FOLLIN'S JOURNEY on google
ENJOY THESE MELODIES & BEAT from the masters Tim & Geoff Follin :D :D
I didnt know amiga had stereo
The bane of boomers yeah, it had 4 stereo 29kHz channels, 2 on both sides. Someone even managed to obtain up to 7 channels with slightly lower frequencies.
Bien boludo bien!
@Wis76 yeah but i mean why not put the audio of the video on a disk and try to sell it
I always wanted to know what the source of the pad sound in the LED Storm tunes is.
His C64.
Concordo, è un peccato che si sottovaluti così tanto! Plok, Equinox, Solstice, Silver Surfer, Spiderman/X-Men, Ecco the Dolphin e chi più ne ha più ne metta...grandissimo compositore.
First Track of Led Storm sounds a lot like Plok! to me.
Great Stuff.
I only prefer the 8Bit (spectrum and c64) Bionic Commando music rather than the Amiga version.
As good as Tim's music was on the Amiga, he was, in my opinion, much more impressive on the C64. Not dissing his 16-bit stuff, no way, but what he managed with the 3 channel SID chip was fantastic.
I'd go so far to say that his ghouls and ghosts compositions were better on the C64 :)
I've have just replied to the comment that is a reply to the Soul Eye's comment!
hmmm... are these just remakes of the arcade versions or are they original to the amiga (and other home computers)?
oohhh my! musical gems from a time long gone.. the stereo separation of the Amiga is close to unbearable on headphones, though :/
If you still care, you can set your audio to mono for the better experience.
Me pareció tierno el:
00.00
15:40
19:52
Missing the cute jingles and high scores from Qix
You're right. Unfortunately I did not know that Tim worked on the Amiga's version of Qix.
***** I never played Gauntlet 3 and at the time of the video I did not know its music was made by Tim. It's a great track, nonetheless, I would have it included for sure.
***** IMHO Tim was a totally different league.
*****
1) Not very much, I'm afraid.
2) Yep, but I've never played it.
3) No. I'll look into it, thanks.
Better yet, since I have all of the other songs, do you think it would be possible if you sent me the song that starts at 32:41 via email?
Aren't most of these arrangements of other people's compositions, though?
Not sure about the GnG title screen, but yeah a lot of these are including elements from the original arcade.
24:35
Do you have the music as MOD files? Could you share?
His Amiga tunes are done in a really unfamiliar and obsolete format - .tf format. So far they're openable in DeliPlayer but it has emulation playback issues, so the best way to listen to it accurately is some accurate Amiga game emulator, as far as I know.
@@brickblock369 it's a custom music driver written by his brother Mike... very common in those days
why not make this an album and sell it
Still preferring C64 Sid music, which sound like authentic chip tune. Amiga stuff on the other hand sounds like a muddy cassette recording of music
Silver surfer?