arrangers: []
catalog: N/A
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Original Soundtrack
composers:
- link: artist/5673
  names:
    en: Kyle Gabler
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discs:
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  name: ''
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: World of Goo Beginning
    track_length: '1:09'
  - names:
      English: The Goo Filled Hills
    track_length: 0:25
  - names:
      English: Brave Adventurers
    track_length: '1:07'
  - names:
      English: Another Mysterious Pipe Appeared
    track_length: '1:18'
  - names:
      English: World of Goo Corporation
    track_length: 0:17
  - names:
      English: Regurgitation Pumping Station
    track_length: '3:40'
  - names:
      English: Threadcutter
    track_length: 0:55
  - names:
      English: Rain Rain Windy Windy
    track_length: '2:45'
  - names:
      English: Jelly
    track_length: '2:38'
  - names:
      English: Tumbler
    track_length: '1:52'
  - names:
      English: Screamer
    track_length: '1:36'
  - names:
      English: Burning Man
    track_length: '1:49'
  - names:
      English: Cog in the Machine
    track_length: '4:03'
  - names:
      English: Happy New Year (tm) Brought to You by Product Z
    track_length: 0:54
  - names:
      English: Welcome to the Information Superhighway
    track_length: '1:56'
  - names:
      English: Graphic Processing Unit
    track_length: '1:05'
  - names:
      English: Years of Work
    track_length: '3:39'
  - names:
      English: My Virtual World of Goo Corporation
    track_length: '1:05'
  - names:
      English: Hello, MOM
    track_length: 0:06
  - names:
      English: Inside the Big Computer
    track_length: '2:21'
  - names:
      English: Are You Coming Home, Love MOM
    track_length: '3:02'
  - names:
      English: Ode to the Bridge Builder
    track_length: '1:25'
  - names:
      English: The Last of the Goo Balls and the Telescope Operator
    track_length: '1:00'
  - names:
      English: Best of Times
    track_length: '3:41'
  - names:
      English: Red Carpet Extend-o-matic
    track_length: '4:04'
  - names:
      English: World of Goo Corporation's Valued Customers
    track_length: 0:13
  - names:
      English: World of Goo Ending
    track_length: '1:09'
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lyricists: []
media_format: Digital
meta:
  added_date: 2009-01-20T11:06
  edited_date: 2022-09-14T15:23
  fetched_date: 2026-06-05T21:36
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name: World of Goo Original Soundtrack
names:
  en: World of Goo Original Soundtrack
  ja: World of Goo Original Soundtrack
  ja-latn: World of Goo Original Soundtrack
notes: 'Soundtrack released by composer on his website. Downloadable from:

  http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/

  Music from World of Goo

      Thank you to everyone who emailed asking about a World of Goo Soundtrack. This
  is probably as close to an "official" soundtrack I''ll ever make for the game World
  of Goo. I''m making it available here on my personal portfolio for free. I wrote
  much of this music specifically for the game, but many of the tracks were excerpts
  from music I had written previously for various small projects, or just for fun.
  This soundtrack includes the full versions of most of those songs, as best as I
  was able to recover them. Notes accompany the tracks below.

      The majority of the instruments you''ll hear are computer instruments, with
  a few live performances on top to add a bit of warmth. For the older music, I used
  one of those Sound Blaster cards that let you load samples into memory. More recently,
  I''ve been using the freeware sfz soundfont sampler. I have an m-audio keystation
  49e midi keyboard for picking out melodies. Influences include Danny Elfman, Vangelis,
  Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, and all the big movie guys. I grew
  up listening to them, and they remain a big influence in everything I write.

      Thanks, and enjoy the music!

      Kyle

      (at) kylegabler.com

  Track Notes

        1. World of Goo Beginning

        This is the main theme of World of Goo, and the first chunk of music I wrote
  for the game, specifically for our first trailer. I wanted the theme of the game
  to somehow reflect the song Libertango by Astor Piazzolla, which was the track I
  used in the original Tower of Goo prototype back in school. Listen for a similar
  chord progression once the melody kicks in.

        2. The Goo Filled Hills

        3. Brave Adventurers

        A livelier version of Ode to the Bridge Builder.

        4. Another Mysterious Pipe Appeared

        5. World of Goo Corporation

        6. Regurgitation Pumping Station

        From a soundtrack I wrote for a friend''s short film about going on a date
  with the devil.

        7. Threadcutter

        From one of my small games, Blow.

        8. Rain Rain Windy Windy

        From a soundtrack I wrote for a short kid''s movie. Writing kid''s music was
  difficult.

        9. Jelly

        Music I wrote for a virtual reality world. You are in a subway. And you are
  a giant banana.

        10. Tumbler

        11. Screamer

        Almost didn''t include this one in the game, but a friend convinced me a few
  days before we finished. I''m glad he did!

        12. Burning Man

        Theme I wrote for a friend''s drama/mystery series. I recorded two friends
  singing single notes, and then I was able to play them back with my keyboard to
  get a "choir". This became the theme for "progress" in the game. A variation is
  used for MOM''s theme.

        13. Cog in the Machine

        You can hear a clip from this track in one of my other small games Robot and
  the Cities Who Built Him

        14. Happy New Year (tm) Brought to You by Product Z

        Recorded some great singers from Carnegie Mellon. This is the first time the
  "what''s up there anyway" theme can be heard. You can hear the same theme in the
  tracks Years of Work and The Last of the Goo Balls.

        15. Welcome to the Information Superhighway

        I wrote this one back in high school, which makes me feel old. You can hear
  a nod to phantom of the opera in a section of the organ part. I had forgotten this
  song existed, and was glad to find it burned onto an old rotting cd-rom. I think
  this was the first time I ever recorded someone singing. Only the second half of
  this clip is used in the game.

        16. Graphic Processing Unit

        17. Years of Work

        18. My Virtual World of Goo Corporation

        Originally written for a friend''s NES game Dikki Painguin.

        19. Hello, MOM

        20. Inside the Big Computer

        21. Are You Coming Home, Love MOM

        22. Ode to the Bridge Builder

        This was the second track I wrote for the game. The goal was to make a variation
  on Amazing Grace, in the style of those old western soundtracks by Ennio Morricone.

        23. The Last of the Goo Balls and the Telescope Operator

        24. Best of Times

        This has become the unofficial second theme to World of Goo, after we used
  it in our second trailer. I originally wrote this for an animated short film I made
  with some friends. I recorded a bunch of performers all huddled around a single
  microphone in my bedroom to get the layers used in this track. Drums were made by
  banging on chairs and cardboard boxes.

        25. Red Carpet Extend-o-matic

        I wrote this in 2001 as a joke for a music class in undergrad. Only the beginning
  of this song is used in the game, and for only one level, but it has become one
  of the most requested pieces of music. So, here''s the "full song", but it comes
  with a warning - this song is designed to sound like every cheap 90''s dance song
  ever made. The singer is great though, an astrophysicist named Jessica. I gave a
  her a chainsaw for her wedding and we never spoke again. The end.

        26. World of Goo Corporation''s Valued Customers

        27. World of Goo Ending

        Main theme to World of Goo, and used in our third and final trailer.

        Thanks for listening!

  (c) Kyle Gabler'
organizations:
- &id001
  names:
    en: Kyle Gabler
  role: publisher
performers: []
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platforms:
- Nintendo Wii
- PC
products:
- names:
    en: World of Goo
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id001
related:
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2022-05-28'
  link: album/120816
  names:
    en: World of Goo
    ja: World of Goo
    ja-latn: World of Goo
  type: game
release_date: '2009-01-20'
release_events: []
release_price:
  price: Free
reprints: []
stores:
- link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1271470/World_of_Goo_Soundtrack/
  name: Steam
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/11745?perpage=99999
votes: 0
websites:
  Official:
  - link: http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack
    name: Kyle Gabler's website
  Review:
  - link: http://www.originalsoundversion.com/?p=3435
    name: OSV's Review
