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Alternate Soundtrack: Battletoads vs. The Blood Brothers

Posted by Derrick Sanskrit

Here's another one born out of discussion in the comments. Hooray for audience participation!

Battletoads is the notoriously challenging beat 'em up platformer developed by Rare before their more questionable forays into the worlds of pre-rendered apes, Mii substitutes and anthropomorphic candy sacks. Though conceived as an over-the-top competitor to Konami's popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, the extreme attitude and legendary difficulty of the games made them a pop culture phenomenon of their own right in the early 1990's. I was happy to leave this one alone for a while, but the Angry Video Game Nerd reminded me of my biggest problem with this game, that the catchiest music on the whole cart is on the pause screen! This situation must be rectified.

This sounds like a job for the Blood Brothers, post-thrash-hardcore quintet of skinny screaming poets who, much like Battletoads, hide incredible complexity behind a brash and loud exterior. Their final album, "Young Machetes," was released fifteen years after the game, so the 'Toads would probably be of appropriately angsty years to appreciate lyrics like "the taxi's are jaguars throwing fits, subways are subterranean bullets," and "don't look away from the clouds leaking rust, the kingdom of heaven reeks of burning witches and dust." Yeah, go ahead and make fun of how cliché it sounds, but that's pretty f'ing extreme right there, and imagery that perfectly describes the horrifying sci-fi nightmare the Battletoads inhabit. Just be sure to pause the music along with the game to rock out to that sweet pause music.



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Demaar said:

Woo! Blood Brothers! I found out they broke up on my 25th, what a birthday present!

September 10, 2008 6:48 AM

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