kid stuff records has been a major fixation of mine for like a year now. i'm so happy i finally get to share my love for it with you all. thanks for sticking with me!
I am 100% convinced that there was at least ONE poor mother in 1982 whose 8 year old was utterly obsessed with Pac Man who had to listen to this as many times as parents of 8 year olds in 2013 had to watch Frozen
The Sonic Bible (which the company used for reference, but gets ignored every time) says Sonic is from Hardy, Nebraska. I'm pretty sure the lore has like 8 different birthplaces.
@@breadcodes Mario is from Illinois, Pac-man is from Michigan, Sonic is from Nebraska. Frogger is from Iowa, Dig dug is from Missouri. Tapper is based in Wisconsin.
That Jack Stauber comparison makes me wonder if records like this inspired him - pieces like Lima Bean Man are pretty obviously inspired by mildly unsettling old kids shows, after all.
Unless you're extremely lucky, you spend way more of your career doing children's records and tampon commercials than you ever will mixing movies or albums you'd ever want to see.
@@robbiewalker2831 donkey kong has become a literal party animal and not by choice, while his time travelling child self has gone missing. cranky's probably dead and i don't even know what happened to diddy
just imagining being a parent and getting one of these for my kid thinking itll be maybe kind of annoying but otherwise reasonable kids music and then watching them inevitably become obsessed with and play it over and over again and how much that would drive me to total madness
(raises hand) That was me. It was great. Also had the audiobooks of Transformers and Return of the Jedi that were mind-bending. Radio plays used to be so good. Podcasts don't play with audio much anymore.
4:45 Fun Fact, the original unused character Bible of Sonic The Hedgehog said that he was born a regular hedgehog near a fast food place in Hardy, Nebraska so you’re not entirely stretching with that joke
The Pac-Rat is also called The Neighborhood Rat because he is the one giving the secret information, not just because he is a literal rat who is in the neighborhood.
The way that Shadow is mixed as if he's whispering directly into your children's ears when they are most likely forced to listen through headphones is perfect fodder for some kind of analogue horror series. Maybe there's something out there with a similar concept, but there's so much social commentary to be mined in looking back to an era where there was a mass hysteria about hidden messages in rock music corrupting children and teenagers, only for it to happen through a series of novelty records that exist solely to cash in on something popular with kids.
The "I am shadow." feels like it's from a completely different piece of media and was added in like a YTP and I had to pause the video for a good four minutes because of how hard it made me laugh
When I first heard Pac-man going "I'm Pac-man, I'm number one, I'm Pac-man, I'm so much fun" I went CRAZY. It was so familiar. Little did I understand that it's very very similar to the intro to Gorillaz song, Clint Eastwood. Thank you KK, for making me go absolutely insane trying to find it.
@@ThwompantsGarbageDumpnope, because Clint Eastwood is built entirely out of a preset from one of Damon Albarn's synths (the video in which this is revealed is amazing and I highly recommend)
The fact I made a fucking Gorillaz joke in this very comments section but didn't even catch this 💀 Same basic chord progression, just major instead of minor. Still fucking hilarious that Damon did jack shit for the most part (save for lyrics obviously) considering the entire sing was just DEADASS taken from a shitty preset loop. Edit: also as a Gorillaz fan the fact the whole album is Lowkey on that Gorillaz penis music type beat has me weak 💀 You could take the vocals out and tell me any of them were some random demos Damon had laying around and I'd just shrug and be half tempted to believe it.
My favorite part of the albums is that it sounds like they were recorded at 1:00 am in a crowded home so everyone had to sortof whisper-shout instead of actually singing
I was just gonna comment that in the right hands, sampling these would go hard. Like, if DOOM was still with us, I just know he could make fire with this. 😭
The Donkey Kong album existing and being actually licensed by Nintendo feels like I've somehow entered an alternate universe just by knowing that it exists.
22 seconds in when i see kid stuff records i know this is going to be incredible. My partner also collects kid stuff records, specifically the Raggedy Ann and Andy ones, and i am prepared for how wonderfully awful these are going to be
watch me make a video like this going through all the raggedy ann records and when i get to telling time is fun i just slam my head against the table while it plays in the background
the bit where the pac man theme gets higher and higher genuinely fills me with stress and rage in a way i can't articulate and makes me physically squirm, and frankly i'm not sure i can forgive you for playing it twice
I'm always fascinated to hear about how the Mario IP was treated before he became established as the Nintendo mascot. I'm sure that there's an alternative universe where he never became Super Mario and he's still bouncing around a bunch of different blue collar jobs.
In case "funstep" isn't a typo, I'm guessing that's an esoteric dubstep subgenre centered around wonky, extravagant sounds and use of children's music samples.
Pac-Man’s narration on the first record scares me. It’s the kind of fear I felt as a child digging through my Grandparents old toy closet and suddenly finding a creepy old doll. It’s a cruel nostalgia for something I never experienced.
Pauline being a name in the DK Record is extra interesting, because it might be one of the earliest times she's actually called that, instead of Lady, in 1982. Likely not the first, but before it was standardized- like the reverse of a Sally (as Flicky Names were not standardized for Sonic).
I had The Pac-Man Album as a kid. I was coming off the Pac-Man Fever album which had a number of great songs that, for a little kid, put you right in the arcade action. I can say that The Pac-Man Album was the single most disappointing record I had as a kid. I don't think I ever listened to more than once.
“Mario Delivers” is misleading given the context of the album. Mario cooks the pizza, Pauline is the one who delivers it. I know I’m nitpicking but they literally state it at the beginning of the record and it’s all I can think about.
It's his restaurant, and the restaurant is named after him, so the transitive property applies. For example, Papa John's also has delivery drivers, so you could say, "Papa John's delivers" or shorten it to "Papa delivers" if you were in the cursed habit of calling the place "Papa's"
Fun fact: Kid Stuff also made a bunch of public domain VHSs, full of classic famous cartoons. They also included “games” in between the cartoons that basically had viewers draw on their TV screen to solve them. Most of those tapes are lost and the only one available online is one for Bugs Bunny.
4:45 the old Sonic the Hedgehog Bible (which was exclusive to the west and not at all used anymore) actually says hes from nebraska, in case that amuses you
Whats funnier to me is I don't even think those are the ghosts' actual names. They have like completely different names and the album just makes up random names for them 😭
No, they actually are the ghosts' names! On the original game's attract screen, the ghosts are referred to as Shadow (Blinky), Speedy (Pinky), Bashful (Inky), and Pokey (Clyde). The more commonly known names are listed as "nicknames".
@@pikksen7905 oh wow, this almost feels mandela effect-like because I've seen that screen many of times and I always thought it just said the nicknames. Thats really interesting! Thanks for the info!
@@kind1e that's the case on Ms. Pac-Man. I grew up around that machine more than the OG pac-man so I'm just learning this now so the names are throwing me off as well lol
@@lemonbreadd4427 ooo yeah this adds to the theory because I definitely had more Ms. Pac man then regular pac man though really not by much. Really interesting stuff
I thought the same thing lmao When I read “terrible video game records” I imagined an arcade machine highschore that peaked at like 10 points or something
when I first discovered the pac man album I was really obsessed with it for a night because it was just so fucking shitty. that night I was staying on a campground and couldn't sleep and I felt slightly like I was going insane and the pac man album didn't help
The fact all the voices on the PacMan album Lowkey sounds like him putting on silly voices makes this even funnier, like this whole thing could just be bullshit but I'd still believe it lmfaooo
My Dad owned the second one back when it released in the early 80s- he's still obsessed with the 'Take the Fruit and Scoot song.' I remember when he found a rip of the album online and excitedly showed my brothers and I... and we were all THROUGHLY disturbed by the insanity of the Narrator's and Shadow's voice acting. It's genuinely so hard to listen to, who could've thought that that was OK to release? Even so, some of the songs are cute. I'm just glad my Dad's childhood was made even a little bit better by these goofy albums.
I have a record from this label in my collection that I found in a 99 cent bin at a record store, it's all about stranger danger. If I remember correctly it's just a guy acting out various creepy things a stranger could say to a kid in a stereotypical creepy voice to a generic 80's sounding backtrack, then a female voice says something like "now what do we say in this situation?" and the music pauses for a crowd of kids to shout "NO!!!" then the music starts again and they do another one. One that I remember specifically was like "heyyy come check out my new camera. Sayyy, you're such a pretty little lady, how 'bout you pose for some pictures for me?" Very bizarre stuff.
I like to imagine the voice actors for these characters disappeared, but never died. They’ve ascended to an eternal void where nobody else could ever reach, besides them.
Starting your Pac Man record off with a purposely uncommercial opener is honestly so avant garde and experimental. People say Nirvana were on a fine line with releasing In Utero but truly, this took balls
I think I vaguely why the opening and closing Pac-Man themes sound so detuned. It sounds like the synthesizer used for this record was 'monophonic', which means it's unable to generate more than one 'voice' (sound) at the same time. In short, the only way to play more than one note together was to program the synthesizer to play multiple pitches with every key press. The theme seems to be going for a ragtime-piano jazz type style, which - as you might imagine - requires the use of frequent and changing chords. But these are no ordinary chords: rather than being simultaneous, notes are often 'rolled' by pressing fingers onto the keybed in sequence (think a finger-based mexican wave, but going down instead of up) , meaning that the notes would not start together and the programming solution I mentioned beforehand would not work. There are many techniques you can use to make up for a lack of available 'voices'. The cheapest and easiest one (and the one they seemed to use on this record) is to create the illusion of chords by rapidly playing one chord note at a time (usually ascending in pitch). You may remember this technique being used in the soundtracks of many NES games. But those usually sound alright. And you would thing rapidly switching between chord notes fits hand-in-hand (pardon the pun) with the 'rolling' motion I mentioned earlier. So what's wrong? Well many synthesizers have a capability called 'portamento', which makes it so that instead of each keypress starting a new pitch from scratch, the pitch of the previous note instead 'slides' up or down to match the pitch of the new note. This helps for imitating instruments like strings or woodwinds. For some ungodly reason, whoever programmed the synthesizers on this record decided to play rolled piano chords this way (maybe to simulate the out-of-tune sound of an old piano?). Not only that, but the portamento time is set so slow that by the time the pitch reaches its intended value, the note is almost done. So it is true that analog synthesizers (especially old ones) are prone to detuning due to issues such as overheating. But I don't think that's the problem here. *The problem is that, for so much of the time the synth is playing, the notes are literally wrong because it's taking its sweet time to get to the right ones.*
Mario did have another voiced appearance in 1983 in the Saturday Supercade cartoon. Since the release date of the record is unknown either of these could be the first voiced appearance for the character. Still the record is never talked about so it is very cool to see.
Given Bally-Midway was in charge of the Pac-man license in America (and famously lost it for stiffing Namco with unlicensed spinnoffs) I wouldn't be surprised if Namco didn't see a cent from the reccords, funny enough.
Dang, you are super right on that pac man song sounding like jack stauber. Obviously it's since he takes inspiration from this era of music but I've never heard one sound so similar.
I see kids’ records and I see Pac-Man and I think of is: “I got pac-man fever! (Pac-man fever) it’s driving me crazy!” I enjoy the switch your channel made to just talking about things you like.
They also did the infamous "Strawberry Shortcake Live" record in which Strawberry LEAVES HOME FOR THE DARK COKE-SPOON DENS OF NEW YORK. Don't believe me?? It's on You Tube.
Yes she did. “Strawberry’s Shortcake Live” was the worst album of its time. No audience, just in the studio. She did bad covers of “New York, New York” and “Celebration”, and “Strawberry Rap” was the bottom of the barrel. She was referring to as “Big Apple City” from the TV special named after the nickname of New York City. Today a new series “Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City” follows the actual plot.
To be honest I like the interpretation of the construction site being the previous site of a zoo as a motivation for Donkey Kong being at a construction site, given where the franchise was at with Donkey Kong Country not yet being a thing (or even Mario Bros. plumbing for that matter)
6:39 god i cant help but see shadow as just a discount shadow the hedgehog idk if it's just my bias with series and names or the incredible voice he has dmsjebtnsbdb
I know a lot about “Kid stuff.” In 1986 they stopped making records and switched to make videocassettes. A weird winky dink and you one from 1988 can be found on my channel. Lje the makers of this record become gametek and maybe become Ljn too. Kid stuff’s winky dink video is probably lost media, and it’s public domain, so maybe check that out. Also have more information about Kid stuff, in around 1988-89 kid stuff maybe switched or filed for bankruptcy. These records are actually pretty weird considering their other output. The kid stuff vhs is public domain which is weird considering all these records are lincensed. Notes: “Oddity Archive,” did one of the Christmas sing along tapes. The winky dink tape features bugs bunny and the winky dink aspect is these weird characters like bugs after one of the cartoons has a girlfriend and I think he has a maze. Just check it out, love this stuff.
That’s why Kid Stuff/IJE shut down by the end of 1986 and then went to formed Gametek as a video game publisher of IJE and put out a boatload of video games based off of game shows like “Jeopardy”, “Wheel of Fortune”, “Hollywood Squares”, “Classic Concentration”, “Double Dare” and others.
When I was a little kid I had a record with just that insane intro/outro tune on it!!! I have no idea where I got it from (it might have been from a promotional offer or something, I remember that it was VERY flimsy), but I very clearly remember constantly putting it on my parents record player and then switching it back and forth between 33 and 45 RPM until someone told me to knock it off. I haven't thought about it in years!
- Some of the songs on the Pac-Man albums sound like bad songs off Magical Mystery Tour. - “[T]he idea of Nintendo letting some random record company have creative influence on their IP seems unthinkable.” - kkclue, forgetting the Phillips CDI - The opening melody in “The Climber” sounds like “At Doom’s Gate.”
I know you said the mayor of Pacville was like if Jerma did a bad voice, I feel like the whole record is secretly a Jerma shitpost. Maybe he listened to these as a kid, which would explain a lot.
My brother bought me a knockoff K.K Slider record off some random website. We put it on our record player and it was some random spanish singer. We go back to look at the website and in the fine print it says something along the lines of "records are only for aesthetics and will not play the correct song." Lmao what a sham.
Funny how we had a very similar phenomenon in Eastern Germany in the 1980s, and I doubt the creators knew about “Kid’s stuff”. There were the “Geschichtenlieder”, story songs, basically children’s songs telling little stories with small acting parts in between, forming one overarching story. They were arranged very similarly to the ones you show here. The concept was created by then famous musician Reinhard Lakomy who was also one of the electronic music pioneers in the GDR. He was friends with Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream, and IIRC got his Moog from him. So it was no wonder that the story songs were heavily using synths. However our versions didn’t tie in with popular media and surprisingly also contained no socialist propaganda but pictured a peaceful unpolitical world which just felt good with small conflicts being resolved by diplomacy and being smart. Some songs are up to date even today like the song about the pet mouse who stepped in for a policeman usually controlling traffic who was absent one day. The mouse causes a traffic chaos but is having fun, because he thinks he is conducting an orchestra of honking cars. This is a great song fitting today’s car infested cities with little breathing room especially for children. The most popular story song albums are “Der Traumzauberbaum” (roughly: the magic tree of dreams) and “Mimmelitt, das Stadtkaninchen” (Mimmelitt, the rabbit of the city). Even if you don’t understand German you should give them a listen.
I love nothing more on this earth than seeing people become fascinated with some weird, confusing, and hyper-specific thing. Thankyou for sharing this with us it's amazing vbfhdnskl
I actually started digging around on the internet after i watched this video to see if that really was Mario’s first voice, and so far, i can’t find a concrete date of release for Donkey Kong Goes Home, only a release year. This actually matters because there’s a TV show called “Saturday Supercade” which had segments based on Donkey Kong and credits a voice actor for voicing Mario. Saturday Supercade first aired September 17th 1983. I want to hunt for a full release date for the Donkey Kong Goes Home vinyl so I can solve this mystery, what a rabbit hole I have fell into.
4:44 "That's like stating that Sonic the Hedgehog is from Florida." Yeah, it's definitely ridiculous. He's actually from Hardly, Nebraska instead, according to the Sonic Bible.
finally someone who's as obsessed with kid stuff records as i am!!! it was so fun to be on the recieving end for once lol. as i only collect the raggedy ann ones (and ive recently completed my collection of the lps!), i loved hearing what they've done with other licenses. i'm curious where you found the names of the voice actors-- that's something i haven't been able to find yet in my research. i definitely heard raggedy andy's voice actor in the second pac-man record. and i must thank you for sharing welcome to mcdonaldland. i need it. i must have ronald mcdonald's terrifying face spinning on my turntable.
I have a pacman record, but it's not from kid stuff records. It's called Pac-man fever and it was released in 1982 right before the crash. The music on it sucks and I found it for 2 bucks at a goodwill. Now that I know there's more than just the one, I will be looking for more >:)
@@annaandrews4252 wtf I need to get on tumblr man You’re telling me this album full of shitty songs about assorted arcade games is popular and common? Holy shit lmao
Slight correction: as far as I'm aware, the first voiced appearance of Mario was in the Donkey Kong Cereal commercials. Other than that, great video. I love arcade-era promotional material. Especially when it comes from Donkey Kong.
Because this was an Old Thing I expected it to lean more orchestral than electronic, so the very first track punched me in the face. It sounded like something from the modern era crafted under three layers of irony.
Probably the holy grail of video game records is a song called Atari by Elmer Farris. You can look it up. It's probably one of the funniest novelty songs I have heard. It's absurdly rare so good luck getting your hands on it.
God your content has evolved since I first started watching you. I remember when you were making Animal Crossing singing videos and one time you even visited my ACNH Island! But I absolutely am in LOVE with the way your channel had been going the past few years. Thanks for providing us with some awesome content :)
Funnily enough, my mom dug up a bunch of old records from somewhere a few weeks ago- the first Pac-Man album included. Listening to the most drunk-at-the-wheel Pac-Man theme was a trip.
I’m fairly certain that by the time that Pac-Man album came out the ghosts already had their canon names of Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde, just to add to the levels of disrespect here.
this is so funny. shadow not only whispers but also so close to the mic that he just speaks in asmr. the discordant pacman theme sends me into hysterics
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kid stuff records has been a major fixation of mine for like a year now. i'm so happy i finally get to share my love for it with you all. thanks for sticking with me!
kay
you are not alone, i've been obsessed with them for a while too
yuh
youre very welcome !!
Very welcome. Also that is so cool
This video feels like we came to your house to hang and now we're trapped listening to your pac-man records
this is what you sign up for when you become friends with me
@@planetclue ayo 💀
@@planetclueif your home is wheelchair accessible i am begging you to trap me in there and melt my brain with these things /j
and I want more. I **NEED** more
@@planetcluei’d like to be friends
I am 100% convinced that there was at least ONE poor mother in 1982 whose 8 year old was utterly obsessed with Pac Man who had to listen to this as many times as parents of 8 year olds in 2013 had to watch Frozen
According to some older youtube uploads of these albums, yes, there were a few.
same as my parents who had to listen to the crazy frog CD, i feel bad about that still
... I was 8 in 2013 and i forced my parents to watch it like 5 times in theaters
@@trombonedude5312 I was like "What does that make you then, like 13?" and then it hit me how long it's actually been.
Man I feel old
I feel like suggesting that Sonic is from Florida is equally terrifying as it is accurate.
The Sonic Bible (which the company used for reference, but gets ignored every time) says Sonic is from Hardy, Nebraska. I'm pretty sure the lore has like 8 different birthplaces.
i always felt like he'd be from california if anything
As a Floridian, I claim Sonic as my blorbo, and consider that statement 100% fact.
he was the Florida man all along...
@@breadcodes Mario is from Illinois, Pac-man is from Michigan, Sonic is from Nebraska. Frogger is from Iowa, Dig dug is from Missouri. Tapper is based in Wisconsin.
“I am shadow…”
I’m just imagining it saying “the hedgehog” and then transitioning into I am all of me
*Speed Highway starts playing*
Most scuffed DJ set of all time
That Jack Stauber comparison makes me wonder if records like this inspired him - pieces like Lima Bean Man are pretty obviously inspired by mildly unsettling old kids shows, after all.
I can see the similarities
It also reminds me a bit of Frank Zappa's various attempts to make stage musicals, that ended up being repurposed as albums
the name "'Lima Bean Man" reminds me of that book 'A Bad Case Of Stripes' and it's,,, really weird and unsettling
The writer of the bad case of stripes should get credit for creating lima beans
@@casanovafunkenstein5090billy the moutain-in
Imagine being the audio engineer that did all of these.
You’d give up.
true depression
I'd go insane
as an audio engineer, i'd honestly do this for free if it meant having time in a studio, since i mostly do my engineering from my bedroom studio lmao
Unless you're extremely lucky, you spend way more of your career doing children's records and tampon commercials than you ever will mixing movies or albums you'd ever want to see.
Donkey Kong being a sad, homesick ape who just misses his friends Pauline and Mario is making me more emotional than it probably should
Given Donkey Kong’s current state, and an identity crisis, I don’t blame you.
@@robbiewalker2831 donkey kong has become a literal party animal and not by choice, while his time travelling child self has gone missing. cranky's probably dead and i don't even know what happened to diddy
Wait, I thought it was Chunky who was dead.
@@SteeleOkami"C'mon Cranky, take it to the fridge!"
"Oh my god, Cranky's dead!"
"Cranky's _in_ the fridge!"
diddy's alive im pretty sure@@rm_steele
just imagining being a parent and getting one of these for my kid thinking itll be maybe kind of annoying but otherwise reasonable kids music and then watching them inevitably become obsessed with and play it over and over again and how much that would drive me to total madness
I have to wonder if shit like this is sometimes made by sadistic people who just want to torture parents
@@aortaplatinum I gotta wonder sometimes.
Some stuff for kids is truly heinous.
Like they can't all be zingers, I get that
But gawd
(raises hand) That was me. It was great. Also had the audiobooks of Transformers and Return of the Jedi that were mind-bending. Radio plays used to be so good. Podcasts don't play with audio much anymore.
I'll bet my parents were glad they got me a little record player that I could use in my own room.
"Pretzels aren't a fruit? ... well they liked Pretzels anyway" why is that actually so funny to me
"They also loved to eat keys. And that one ship from Galaga!"
@@jonothanthrace1530”U-uh… and, uh, ahhhh… BELLS! Yeah, uh, bells.”
Feels like a joke from early Veggietales
pac-man sounds like a one-time homestar runner character
This statement resonates with me on like a spiritual level
I feel like if he was in Captain N, that's what he would sound like.
He sounds like a prototype of Homestar himself!
Thank you
He sounds like big bird from the early seasons of Sesame Street.
You're right, it'd be crazy to think that Sonic is from Florida.
Thank God he's from Hardings, Nebraska.
Wasn't Sonny Hedgehog from Hardly, Nebraska?
actually, he’s from christmas island, australia!
Last time I remembered, I heard sonic was from Buttole, Idaho
He’s also apart of a quilting circle
@@MysticTheFloofBall delete this comment
4:45 Fun Fact, the original unused character Bible of Sonic The Hedgehog said that he was born a regular hedgehog near a fast food place in Hardy, Nebraska so you’re not entirely stretching with that joke
EITHER SONIC IS A GOD, OR HE COULD KILL GOD
@@Orangecatinahoodie AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
A fast food place, huh?
*(makes sounds of an actual baby crying)*
The Pac-Rat is also called The Neighborhood Rat because he is the one giving the secret information, not just because he is a literal rat who is in the neighborhood.
oh my god how did I not notice that
You’re giving the record a little too much credit
I have an image of the Pac-Rat in my photo gallery. *Do not ask my priorities.*
I need to use "the wettest fart in the bathtub" as a phrase more often
yep
From humble pizza girl to Mayor of New Donk. Pauline’s leading a full life.
Such a queen 👑
Fr, girlie made her own legacy
Woke.
The way that Shadow is mixed as if he's whispering directly into your children's ears when they are most likely forced to listen through headphones is perfect fodder for some kind of analogue horror series.
Maybe there's something out there with a similar concept, but there's so much social commentary to be mined in looking back to an era where there was a mass hysteria about hidden messages in rock music corrupting children and teenagers, only for it to happen through a series of novelty records that exist solely to cash in on something popular with kids.
actually a rad idea
i would totally use this idea man... can you give me permission? i can fully credit ya :)
@CheeziorChip333 Honestly if you get permission too I would love to help on that project.
I do like the idea of making album covers for something like this.
That is COOL itd be super awesome if we actually got a horror series for this
The "I am shadow." feels like it's from a completely different piece of media and was added in like a YTP and I had to pause the video for a good four minutes because of how hard it made me laugh
As a YTP creator, I have to agree
love how the guy voicing Mario can't decide whether to do an Italian accent or a French one
Never let Pac-Man cook again. Donkey Kong, however…
Absolutely
I'VE GOT PAC-MAN FEVEEERRR ITS DRIVING ME CRAAZYY
the pac is baaaaaa a a a a. a a a a a a a. a a a a a a a. a. aaaaaaa aa
Well Nintendo always hits it out of the ballpark sometimes, even when it's from other companies using their brand, like illumination and Lego
@@tylermlg2250 Always? (Looks at 1993 live-action film and shutters… Lena is a cool character, though).
When I first heard Pac-man going "I'm Pac-man, I'm number one, I'm Pac-man, I'm so much fun" I went CRAZY. It was so familiar. Little did I understand that it's very very similar to the intro to Gorillaz song, Clint Eastwood. Thank you KK, for making me go absolutely insane trying to find it.
Ain't no way Gorillaz stole the Pac-Man riff 😭
@@ThwompantsGarbageDumpnope, because Clint Eastwood is built entirely out of a preset from one of Damon Albarn's synths (the video in which this is revealed is amazing and I highly recommend)
crazy? i was crazy once
LMAO someome make a mashup
The fact I made a fucking Gorillaz joke in this very comments section but didn't even catch this 💀 Same basic chord progression, just major instead of minor. Still fucking hilarious that Damon did jack shit for the most part (save for lyrics obviously) considering the entire sing was just DEADASS taken from a shitty preset loop.
Edit: also as a Gorillaz fan the fact the whole album is Lowkey on that Gorillaz penis music type beat has me weak 💀 You could take the vocals out and tell me any of them were some random demos Damon had laying around and I'd just shrug and be half tempted to believe it.
My favorite part of the albums is that it sounds like they were recorded at 1:00 am in a crowded home so everyone had to sortof whisper-shout instead of actually singing
Yeah me too.
you have given so many new rare and undiscovered samples to weirdcore music producers, lemon demon fans are gonna be all over this
That's so crazy tho because i was literally just listening to lemon demon before watching this video 🤭
@@flora_7719 AHA! i rest my case!
I was just gonna comment that in the right hands, sampling these would go hard. Like, if DOOM was still with us, I just know he could make fire with this. 😭
I'm sure as fuck using that "I'm gonna play it over and over again" sample, it's so unsettling
what the hell is weirdcore
I wasn't ready for pacman ghost ASMR today but it sure happened
Yeah me too
@@Iluvmuffinzlol 14:28
14:37 *The growl?????????* I'm not sure how to feel about that-
I hope shadow doesn't haunt my every move
“I’m Speedy!”
“I’m Pokey!”
“I’m Bashful!”
“👹I’M SHADOW! 👹”
The Donkey Kong album existing and being actually licensed by Nintendo feels like I've somehow entered an alternate universe just by knowing that it exists.
"Hey CIA, new torture methods just dropped"
why is this so accurate LOL😂😂😂
“PLEASE, NO MORE, NO MORE”
“you *will* have more shadow”
22 seconds in when i see kid stuff records i know this is going to be incredible. My partner also collects kid stuff records, specifically the Raggedy Ann and Andy ones, and i am prepared for how wonderfully awful these are going to be
watch me make a video like this going through all the raggedy ann records and when i get to telling time is fun i just slam my head against the table while it plays in the background
the bit where the pac man theme gets higher and higher genuinely fills me with stress and rage in a way i can't articulate and makes me physically squirm, and frankly i'm not sure i can forgive you for playing it twice
Well, than, I probably shouldn't point out the Clue actually played it four times 😅
Man i cannot wait to see the next pacman LP "Pacman sings the divorce papers"
And “Custody Battle”
“The Divorce Anthem”
@@themilkman9688 "Divorce Nation"
I'm always fascinated to hear about how the Mario IP was treated before he became established as the Nintendo mascot. I'm sure that there's an alternative universe where he never became Super Mario and he's still bouncing around a bunch of different blue collar jobs.
To be fair, Mario still has a lot of jobs he switches between, just... a lot more absurd of a range
Need to hear someone sample these and turn them into funstep music
honestly yeah
what's funstep?
speed them up, run them through soundgooderizer, add some drum loops, and BAM!
In case "funstep" isn't a typo, I'm guessing that's an esoteric dubstep subgenre centered around wonky, extravagant sounds and use of children's music samples.
would guess the same@@dreampillet
Pac-Man’s narration on the first record scares me. It’s the kind of fear I felt as a child digging through my Grandparents old toy closet and suddenly finding a creepy old doll. It’s a cruel nostalgia for something I never experienced.
pacman album intro song is a modern masterpiece, it deserves to be played at the start and end of every album ever.
It should be the only song of every album ever
POLYGON DONUT! I'M YOUR FAN!!!
Holy shit, THE polygon donut
how what why how are you here
PONGON! NYAHAHA!
the "I am shadow" whisper is kinda spooky, but not in a "OOOOoooOOooh spooky monster" but in an out of place way.
Pauline being a name in the DK Record is extra interesting, because it might be one of the earliest times she's actually called that, instead of Lady, in 1982. Likely not the first, but before it was standardized- like the reverse of a Sally (as Flicky Names were not standardized for Sonic).
I had The Pac-Man Album as a kid. I was coming off the Pac-Man Fever album which had a number of great songs that, for a little kid, put you right in the arcade action. I can say that The Pac-Man Album was the single most disappointing record I had as a kid. I don't think I ever listened to more than once.
“Mario Delivers” is misleading given the context of the album. Mario cooks the pizza, Pauline is the one who delivers it. I know I’m nitpicking but they literally state it at the beginning of the record and it’s all I can think about.
I mean
Mario probably delivers in the fact that he makes the best pizzas?
It's his restaurant, and the restaurant is named after him, so the transitive property applies.
For example, Papa John's also has delivery drivers, so you could say, "Papa John's delivers" or shorten it to "Papa delivers" if you were in the cursed habit of calling the place "Papa's"
Vinny and Joel NEED to hear the donkey kong record, it's gonna melt them
Especially considering Vinny’s reaction to some of the DKC cartoon songs!
Love your pfp.. I named my cat after Toki lol
I can just see both of them fucking CRACKIN UP but then getting into it unironically
10:25 dear god I really want Jack Stauber to make a song cover of this
he actually would do something like that as well
@@Iluvmuffinzlol _Jack Stabbed_ still uploads on his patreon
Fun fact: Kid Stuff also made a bunch of public domain VHSs, full of classic famous cartoons. They also included “games” in between the cartoons that basically had viewers draw on their TV screen to solve them. Most of those tapes are lost and the only one available online is one for Bugs Bunny.
Why would they expect us to draw on a tv screen?😭
@sonicfanboy3375 Pretty sure they meant pretend drawing, like tracing with your hand
4:45 the old Sonic the Hedgehog Bible (which was exclusive to the west and not at all used anymore) actually says hes from nebraska, in case that amuses you
Whats funnier to me is I don't even think those are the ghosts' actual names. They have like completely different names and the album just makes up random names for them 😭
No, they actually are the ghosts' names! On the original game's attract screen, the ghosts are referred to as Shadow (Blinky), Speedy (Pinky), Bashful (Inky), and Pokey (Clyde). The more commonly known names are listed as "nicknames".
@@pikksen7905 oh wow, this almost feels mandela effect-like because I've seen that screen many of times and I always thought it just said the nicknames. Thats really interesting! Thanks for the info!
@@kind1e same????? I would of bet my life on their real names being Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde lol
@@kind1e that's the case on Ms. Pac-Man. I grew up around that machine more than the OG pac-man so I'm just learning this now so the names are throwing me off as well lol
@@lemonbreadd4427 ooo yeah this adds to the theory because I definitely had more Ms. Pac man then regular pac man though really not by much. Really interesting stuff
Not me thinking records as in achievements or speed running times 💀
As a lover of obscure trinkets and bobbles I am ashamed of myself
I thought the same thing lmao
When I read “terrible video game records” I imagined an arcade machine highschore that peaked at like 10 points or something
same
Now if he had said LPs or Vinyl Records I def would’ve known instantly
Not going to lie, this is cursed in such a fantastic way. Ive never been so enthusiastic and dreading the rest of a video.
when I first discovered the pac man album I was really obsessed with it for a night because it was just so fucking shitty. that night I was staying on a campground and couldn't sleep and I felt slightly like I was going insane and the pac man album didn't help
ngl this feels like your trolling us and this isn't whats actually on the records. this shit is just too insane
The fact all the voices on the PacMan album Lowkey sounds like him putting on silly voices makes this even funnier, like this whole thing could just be bullshit but I'd still believe it lmfaooo
@@2dootwhen he imitates PacMan's voice he sounds identical, this might be the greatest troll ever. XD
I owned this album as a kid, and bought a fresh copy recently. It's real.
@@KevinJDildonik terrifying
My Dad owned the second one back when it released in the early 80s- he's still obsessed with the 'Take the Fruit and Scoot song.'
I remember when he found a rip of the album online and excitedly showed my brothers and I... and we were all THROUGHLY disturbed by the insanity of the Narrator's and Shadow's voice acting. It's genuinely so hard to listen to, who could've thought that that was OK to release?
Even so, some of the songs are cute. I'm just glad my Dad's childhood was made even a little bit better by these goofy albums.
I just sent this video to my Dad, I'm excited to hear what he thinks. I don't think he owned the first album, nor the DK one.
I have a record from this label in my collection that I found in a 99 cent bin at a record store, it's all about stranger danger. If I remember correctly it's just a guy acting out various creepy things a stranger could say to a kid in a stereotypical creepy voice to a generic 80's sounding backtrack, then a female voice says something like "now what do we say in this situation?" and the music pauses for a crowd of kids to shout "NO!!!" then the music starts again and they do another one. One that I remember specifically was like "heyyy come check out my new camera. Sayyy, you're such a pretty little lady, how 'bout you pose for some pictures for me?" Very bizarre stuff.
WOAH! dude٫ that's creepy.
I like to imagine the voice actors for these characters disappeared, but never died. They’ve ascended to an eternal void where nobody else could ever reach, besides them.
Starting your Pac Man record off with a purposely uncommercial opener is honestly so avant garde and experimental. People say Nirvana were on a fine line with releasing In Utero but truly, this took balls
"I'm the Pac-man" has a strong energy to it I cannot describe
I think I vaguely why the opening and closing Pac-Man themes sound so detuned.
It sounds like the synthesizer used for this record was 'monophonic', which means it's unable to generate more than one 'voice' (sound) at the same time. In short, the only way to play more than one note together was to program the synthesizer to play multiple pitches with every key press. The theme seems to be going for a ragtime-piano jazz type style, which - as you might imagine - requires the use of frequent and changing chords. But these are no ordinary chords: rather than being simultaneous, notes are often 'rolled' by pressing fingers onto the keybed in sequence (think a finger-based mexican wave, but going down instead of up) , meaning that the notes would not start together and the programming solution I mentioned beforehand would not work.
There are many techniques you can use to make up for a lack of available 'voices'. The cheapest and easiest one (and the one they seemed to use on this record) is to create the illusion of chords by rapidly playing one chord note at a time (usually ascending in pitch). You may remember this technique being used in the soundtracks of many NES games.
But those usually sound alright. And you would thing rapidly switching between chord notes fits hand-in-hand (pardon the pun) with the 'rolling' motion I mentioned earlier. So what's wrong?
Well many synthesizers have a capability called 'portamento', which makes it so that instead of each keypress starting a new pitch from scratch, the pitch of the previous note instead 'slides' up or down to match the pitch of the new note. This helps for imitating instruments like strings or woodwinds. For some ungodly reason, whoever programmed the synthesizers on this record decided to play rolled piano chords this way (maybe to simulate the out-of-tune sound of an old piano?). Not only that, but the portamento time is set so slow that by the time the pitch reaches its intended value, the note is almost done.
So it is true that analog synthesizers (especially old ones) are prone to detuning due to issues such as overheating. But I don't think that's the problem here. *The problem is that, for so much of the time the synth is playing, the notes are literally wrong because it's taking its sweet time to get to the right ones.*
Underrated comment. You taught me something today, and I still get to kinda feel like it's lowkey haunted, win/win
This is ridiculous.
shadow ghost needs to figure out he's the one carrying this project.
time for Shadow to go solo and hit the charts.
It was a shame his vocals were left uncredited on Wait (The Whisper Song)
Mario did have another voiced appearance in 1983 in the Saturday Supercade cartoon. Since the release date of the record is unknown either of these could be the first voiced appearance for the character. Still the record is never talked about so it is very cool to see.
*Headphone user warning*
Shadow's voice is like the most creepy unnerving ASMR I have ever heard.
That Pac-Man album is absolutely wild... I need someone to sample it to make some ridiculous electronic music.
I shall do so.
It's criminal that Jake the Watchman didn't make it into the Mario Movie.
Jake honestly seems like a proto-Spike if you think about it.
Given Bally-Midway was in charge of the Pac-man license in America (and famously lost it for stiffing Namco with unlicensed spinnoffs) I wouldn't be surprised if Namco didn't see a cent from the reccords, funny enough.
My headcannon is that "Jump up superstar" from Mario Odyssey is the official sequel to "jump up" from the donkey Kong record.
In the second track, shadow sounds like an asmr creator gone insane.
WE’RE MAKIN IT OUT OF TOYS R US WITH THIS ONE 🔥💯🗣️
imagine going over to kkclues house seeing shelfs full of idogs and pacman vinyls
ok but now I need a small community theater to put these on as stage musicals asap
The actress for Ms. Pacman sounds like a bootleg version of Ellen Greene's Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors.
OMG YESS
TAHTA EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING
To me she sounded like Minnie Mouse 😂
For some reason I fully expected you’d look like a small purple cat with glasses
You gotta love when they can make a good concept album with a complex and gripping story
Dang, you are super right on that pac man song sounding like jack stauber. Obviously it's since he takes inspiration from this era of music but I've never heard one sound so similar.
"This sounds like a voice Jerma would do"
Are we sure this isn't Jerma? Surely he'd be willing to go back in time to do these albums.
I see kids’ records and I see Pac-Man and I think of is: “I got pac-man fever! (Pac-man fever) it’s driving me crazy!”
I enjoy the switch your channel made to just talking about things you like.
All of these records really just feel like elaborate Jerma bits
i'm 5 minutes in and have already had to pause the video several times because of how viscerally horrible these songs are. i love it
I had to pause for soo long after ‘20 floors??????’ because I was laughing so hard ahahahha
They also did the infamous "Strawberry Shortcake Live" record in which Strawberry LEAVES HOME FOR THE DARK COKE-SPOON DENS OF NEW YORK. Don't believe me?? It's on You Tube.
Yes she did. “Strawberry’s Shortcake Live” was the worst album of its time. No audience, just in the studio. She did bad covers of “New York, New York” and “Celebration”, and “Strawberry Rap” was the bottom of the barrel. She was referring to as “Big Apple City” from the TV special named after the nickname of New York City. Today a new series “Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City” follows the actual plot.
To be honest I like the interpretation of the construction site being the previous site of a zoo as a motivation for Donkey Kong being at a construction site, given where the franchise was at with Donkey Kong Country not yet being a thing (or even Mario Bros. plumbing for that matter)
10:30 the jack stauber sounding part is making me wanna binge listen all his tracks its like the most vibest part of the song lmao
"I wanna trade" makes for a powerfull TF2 micspam weapon
"I'm having so much trouble picturing a person being this attached to a gorilla" like anyone here didn't lived through Harambe
6:39 god i cant help but see shadow as just a discount shadow the hedgehog
idk if it's just my bias with series and names or the incredible voice he has dmsjebtnsbdb
I know a lot about “Kid stuff.” In 1986 they stopped making records and switched to make videocassettes. A weird winky dink and you one from 1988 can be found on my channel. Lje the makers of this record become gametek and maybe become Ljn too. Kid stuff’s winky dink video is probably lost media, and it’s public domain, so maybe check that out. Also have more information about Kid stuff, in around 1988-89 kid stuff maybe switched or filed for bankruptcy. These records are actually pretty weird considering their other output. The kid stuff vhs is public domain which is weird considering all these records are lincensed. Notes: “Oddity Archive,” did one of the Christmas sing along tapes. The winky dink tape features bugs bunny and the winky dink aspect is these weird characters like bugs after one of the cartoons has a girlfriend and I think he has a maze. Just check it out, love this stuff.
That’s why Kid Stuff/IJE shut down by the end of 1986 and then went to formed Gametek as a video game publisher of IJE and put out a boatload of video games based off of game shows like “Jeopardy”, “Wheel of Fortune”, “Hollywood Squares”, “Classic Concentration”, “Double Dare” and others.
When I was a little kid I had a record with just that insane intro/outro tune on it!!! I have no idea where I got it from (it might have been from a promotional offer or something, I remember that it was VERY flimsy), but I very clearly remember constantly putting it on my parents record player and then switching it back and forth between 33 and 45 RPM until someone told me to knock it off. I haven't thought about it in years!
it could've been one of those ones you cut from a cereal box!
- Some of the songs on the Pac-Man albums sound like bad songs off Magical Mystery Tour.
- “[T]he idea of Nintendo letting some random record company have creative influence on their IP seems unthinkable.” - kkclue, forgetting the Phillips CDI
- The opening melody in “The Climber” sounds like “At Doom’s Gate.”
I know you said the mayor of Pacville was like if Jerma did a bad voice, I feel like the whole record is secretly a Jerma shitpost. Maybe he listened to these as a kid, which would explain a lot.
My brother bought me a knockoff K.K Slider record off some random website. We put it on our record player and it was some random spanish singer. We go back to look at the website and in the fine print it says something along the lines of "records are only for aesthetics and will not play the correct song." Lmao what a sham.
What a sham indeed
Que Que Slider
lmao what the fuck
Funny how we had a very similar phenomenon in Eastern Germany in the 1980s, and I doubt the creators knew about “Kid’s stuff”. There were the “Geschichtenlieder”, story songs, basically children’s songs telling little stories with small acting parts in between, forming one overarching story. They were arranged very similarly to the ones you show here.
The concept was created by then famous musician Reinhard Lakomy who was also one of the electronic music pioneers in the GDR. He was friends with Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream, and IIRC got his Moog from him. So it was no wonder that the story songs were heavily using synths.
However our versions didn’t tie in with popular media and surprisingly also contained no socialist propaganda but pictured a peaceful unpolitical world which just felt good with small conflicts being resolved by diplomacy and being smart.
Some songs are up to date even today like the song about the pet mouse who stepped in for a policeman usually controlling traffic who was absent one day. The mouse causes a traffic chaos but is having fun, because he thinks he is conducting an orchestra of honking cars. This is a great song fitting today’s car infested cities with little breathing room especially for children.
The most popular story song albums are “Der Traumzauberbaum” (roughly: the magic tree of dreams) and “Mimmelitt, das Stadtkaninchen” (Mimmelitt, the rabbit of the city).
Even if you don’t understand German you should give them a listen.
8:44 This song is literally accurate to [CHARACTER OWNED BY ATGAMES]’s current fate.
I love nothing more on this earth than seeing people become fascinated with some weird, confusing, and hyper-specific thing. Thankyou for sharing this with us it's amazing vbfhdnskl
I actually started digging around on the internet after i watched this video to see if that really was Mario’s first voice, and so far, i can’t find a concrete date of release for Donkey Kong Goes Home, only a release year. This actually matters because there’s a TV show called “Saturday Supercade” which had segments based on Donkey Kong and credits a voice actor for voicing Mario. Saturday Supercade first aired September 17th 1983. I want to hunt for a full release date for the Donkey Kong Goes Home vinyl so I can solve this mystery, what a rabbit hole I have fell into.
All I could find was 1983.
4:44 "That's like stating that Sonic the Hedgehog is from Florida."
Yeah, it's definitely ridiculous. He's actually from Hardly, Nebraska instead, according to the Sonic Bible.
finally someone who's as obsessed with kid stuff records as i am!!! it was so fun to be on the recieving end for once lol. as i only collect the raggedy ann ones (and ive recently completed my collection of the lps!), i loved hearing what they've done with other licenses.
i'm curious where you found the names of the voice actors-- that's something i haven't been able to find yet in my research. i definitely heard raggedy andy's voice actor in the second pac-man record.
and i must thank you for sharing welcome to mcdonaldland. i need it. i must have ronald mcdonald's terrifying face spinning on my turntable.
I have a pacman record, but it's not from kid stuff records. It's called Pac-man fever and it was released in 1982 right before the crash. The music on it sucks and I found it for 2 bucks at a goodwill.
Now that I know there's more than just the one, I will be looking for more >:)
Oh my god i never knew pac man fever came from a record, it circulates every friday on tumblr lol
@@annaandrews4252 wtf I need to get on tumblr man
You’re telling me this album full of shitty songs about assorted arcade games is popular and common? Holy shit lmao
Slight correction: as far as I'm aware, the first voiced appearance of Mario was in the Donkey Kong Cereal commercials.
Other than that, great video. I love arcade-era promotional material. Especially when it comes from Donkey Kong.
holy crap that DOES sound jack stauber-y
they all do, and frankly, it frightens me
Thanks for playing the out of tune pacman theme at the end, it was the real cherry on the top.
Because this was an Old Thing I expected it to lean more orchestral than electronic, so the very first track punched me in the face. It sounded like something from the modern era crafted under three layers of irony.
Probably the holy grail of video game records is a song called Atari by Elmer Farris. You can look it up. It's probably one of the funniest novelty songs I have heard. It's absurdly rare so good luck getting your hands on it.
God your content has evolved since I first started watching you. I remember when you were making Animal Crossing singing videos and one time you even visited my ACNH Island! But I absolutely am in LOVE with the way your channel had been going the past few years. Thanks for providing us with some awesome content :)
I saw his tomogachi video and got shocked it was made by the acnh guy I used to watch
Funnily enough, my mom dug up a bunch of old records from somewhere a few weeks ago- the first Pac-Man album included. Listening to the most drunk-at-the-wheel Pac-Man theme was a trip.
Show her this video! Was she one of the theoretical kids he talked about at the beginning who begged their parents for the albums?
These records kind of remind me of the EP that came with The Beach Boys' Holland album.
Mount Vernon and Fairway, what a lovely story that one is.
I was thinking the same thing! Pac-Man's voice in particular reminds me of Brian Wilson's Pied Piper voice
I’m fairly certain that by the time that Pac-Man album came out the ghosts already had their canon names of Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde, just to add to the levels of disrespect here.
this is so funny. shadow not only whispers but also so close to the mic that he just speaks in asmr. the discordant pacman theme sends me into hysterics