Kingdom Hearts or The Weather Channel? Music Quiz

Can you identify whether each song is Kingdom Hearts music or a storm alert theme on The Weather Channel? There should be no reason for these two categories to have any overlap, yet here we are. I encourage you to share this with non-KH fans to see how well they do - people I've shown it to have had about a 60% success rate.
0:00 - Song 1
0:30 - Song 2
0:52 - Song 3
1:14 - Song 4
1:38 - Song 5
1:58 - Song 6
2:19 - Song 7
2:39 - Song 8
3:04 - Song 9
3:28 - Song 10
3:46 - Song 11
4:05 - Song 12
4:24 - Song 13
4:43 - Song 14
5:05 - Song 15
5:24 - Song 16
5:43 - Song 17
6:03 - Song 18
6:25 - Song 19
6:48 - Song 20
7:09 - Song 21

[@Aid1043]

It's looking like #11, #15, and #20 have been the toughest of the bunch. If you want to hear more music that is uncannily similar to KH songs, check out this comparison: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHbNen6Eir6Gd5I

[@jijonbreaker]

I could immediately tell #20 was the Vanitas dive to the heart fight theme. People just not playing BBS apparently. As for #11, it's so tricky because of that piano. That same piano sample is specifically used in KH, and like. Specifically KH.

[@Leopardeye]

Yep i messed up 11 😂 Finally got 1 wrong

[@zephyrias]

After a while i could tell what was Kh or not by rhe musical style and audio compression. 11 was weather channel cuz it has a electronic haziness.

[@jacobf2833]

For me it was 2, 15, and 17. Those mobile game ones are so unfair. Who tf knows music from UX and Coded. If you had more variety from all the titles (most were from KH2), and none from the games that aren’t in the collections (even though I've beaten them all), I would’ve known if I didn't recognized it

[@Caterfree10]

11, 15, and 17 are what got me. I should really listen to the KH3D OST more often.

[@GeekMasterGames]

Honestly the biggest takeaway here is that The Weather Channel has some major bops

[@ericcorlis3725]

My biggest takeaway is that I played the gummi missions in KH2 way too many times cause I got those in a second.

[@SarahAbramova]

​@@ericcorlis3725 same. And I love them!

[@koftopxolf8238]

Right?

[@CherryBun0325]

As somebody who LOVES Kingdom Hearts and used to leave TWC on when I slept, I agree 🥹🫶🏻

[@Ipgan]

Also, someone should definitely make a game about weather using the weather channel soundtrack

[@Jowgenz]

*Turns on Weather Channel* *Hears Dearly Beloved* I..what.

[@flamester6014]

I would be fucking TERRIFIED if there was a weather event that had Dearly Beloved playing. I’d think we’re about to die lmao

[@jj6148]

@@flamester6014THE END

[@devildante9]

@@flamester6014 The weather channel in my country played FFX songs all the time for some reason, including Suteki da ne piano version.

[@flamester6014]

@@devildante9 this is super funny actually lmao

[@cranckhead24]

@@devildante9 which country?

[@dashtodash]

Whoever connected these dots between Kingdom Hearts and The Weather Channel deserves a Nobel Prize or something.

[@relaxed5400]

The weather channel is extremely important to the lore

[@dashtodash]

@@relaxed5400 Another Kingdom Hearts game is comin' out? Ugh, I guess I better check the weather LOREcast

[@salemfae]

​@@dashtodash LORECAST that should be a series name or something fr

[@dashtodash]

@@salemfae dont steal it

[@imcasualjimm]

@@salemfaeJonnyRaZeR: BAD GAME IDEA- Jk but imagine its just a game where theres a ton of lore dating before the first game, and it just never gets a prequel. Like how BBS is a prequel to KH1, but we never get the lore for BBS, and instead it comes from a gamedev interview like 6 months later

[@benjaminwoodham6682]

At first I was like "I got this, I love Kingdom Hearts" then the first two songs played. I don't got this.

[@justmoosethings]

I don’t got this either.

[@luigi16852]

In your defense, who recognizes any of the music from Union X?

[@hidinginyourcloset]

I thought I could, cause I love the OST, but I still don't got this somehow.

[@Mazon-]

This made me realize I have played far too much Kingdom Hearts lmao got 4 wrong, 11, 16,17 and 20. Can't believe I thought hazardous highway was weather channel. 💀

[@Starpotion]

This is too hard 😭

[@CarterGonzalez]

Chip: CAREFUL SORA! WE GOT AN ALERT OF AN F4 TORNADO IN YOUR VICINITY! Dale: YEAH, WATCH OUT FOR FLYING COWS!

[@Maya-ls3ky]

Wonder what Keyblade you get from Oklahoma

[@solitonmedic]

Oh those poor cows

[@CarterGonzalez]

@@Maya-ls3ky it’s called the ‘Wonders of Nature’. The teeth of the blade consists of sidewinding tornado, the blade is shaped like bolt of lightning, the hand guard is the base of the tornado and the keychain are one of Dorothy’s sensors. The weapon is good for Elemental attacks.

[@OliverTCrowe]

​@@Maya-ls3ky Probably not as cool as the one from Kansas.

[@AwesomeAsadaf]

Ngl, reading the first part of your comment, I thought you were talking about Chip from Sonic Unleashed cause one of the songs strongly reminded me of Sonic soundtracks

[@EthanSchmethan]

"So what kind of music do you listen to?" Me: ☀️🌤🌦🌧🌩🌪🌪

[@ytmndan]

STORM ALERT

[@LevelZeroSage1]

Chris Kennedy and Yoko Shimomura need to drop an album.

[@itsstudytimemydudes4345]

please we need this

[@reddodeado301]

Yoko is a freelancer, it's a nonzero chance!

[@bort_hill]

They gonna drop the new drake diss

[@ThePsychicClarinetist]

For real! Sounds like they both be cookin' in the studio, so I'd love to see what they can do together. 🎶

[@rothea]

So what I'm getting from this is that weather alerts sound like gummiship soundtracks

[@codyholley]

Yes

[@themidnighthumor]

I’ve played every weather channel game. This will be a cinch.

[@tokyotina]

My gosh did this make me laugh 😂 I was like huh. Lol.

[@michealwilliams472]

I feel like The Weather Channel lore got too confusing post-Chris Kennedy

[@theawesomeMikeMike09]

People be saying this but never played Weather Channel Re:174/3=58 for the Ouya

[@popcornbunches]

The fact that ive never played a kingdom hearts game but was still able to sus out the difference between the two solely based on the fact that i live in an area riddled with various storms in my life is frankly alarming

[@tree3214]

I mean most of the people on this video are kingdom hearts fans who know the music inside and out. This is just the opposite side of that coin in a way

[@TheGirlOfAllTime]

I've never played a kingdom hearts game in my life but living in the american midwest made this easy.

[@ChristopherWaddelow]

Midwesterners 😂

[@angelvu]

W phos pfp

[@cryterion7770]

Weather channel fan haha ​@@tree3214

[@muhammadiqbaldwirizky35]

I guess the takeaway is that Chris Kennedy should be brought on to the Kingdom Hearts OST team

[@starwinter6845]

He has to be a fan!!

[@whateverwhatever4476]

@@starwinter6845I think he is actually

[@lewis9s]

Imagine hearing a storm was coming your way while Kingdom Hearts music played in the background

[@xylamaraliagiba5922]

"Something's coming, but I'm not sure if I need my Keyblade or my umbrella."

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

To be fair, there's a huge storm on Destiny Islands in KH 1

[@MrSmashySmash]

There's a track literally called Shrouding Dark Cloud I don't think there's anything more apt than that

[@pacnat_9069]

Omg I was helping my lil bro beat KH1 the other day and we were on Ansem’s final phase while it was pouring, hailing, and lightning was really close.. we were so worried the power would go out in the middle of the fight 😭😭 Guardando del Buio goes hard asf during a storm though

[@fightingpromiss]

Wait you mean as the storm intensifies the Kingdom Hearts tunes will turn louder and heavier starting from regular field songs to normal battles, heavier battles or intense events and then it starts to become boss battles until your basically battling a giant half naked guy in total darkness as this guy keeps yelling darkness at us?

[@subparSamaritan]

One of the Kingdom Hearts tracks being called "Cloudchasers" is really, really funny.

[@s-viper1462]

WHY ARE PEOPLE COMPOSING BANGERS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL?!?

[@ytmndan]

Because they want you to leave the channel on while you're doing other things.

[@tatarsauce6314]

Don’t question peak

[@s-viper1462]

@@tatarsauce6314 good point

[@Varooooooom]

BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOUR ASS WOULDN’T KNOW THERE’S A STORM COMING YOUR WAY OR THAT YOU’RE GOING TO EXPERIENCE SLIGHTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH A HIGH OF 73° AND A LOW OF 54°

[@radicant7283]

Bc weather is srs bsns

[@_Compound_]

using that specific very unique section of unbreakable chains is such an evil trick for this lmfao

[@Rot8erConeX]

it sounded like Metroid music!

[@zephyrias]

It got me tho! 😂 i havent played cleared bbs on psp. Something told me kh… it was lemme double guess 😂

[@Aid1043]

Heh heh. I was _this_ close to including some of the Kingdom Hearts V CAST soundtrack, but that would've been a bit too evil (and it didn't feel weather-y enough)

[@Kate_Hanami]

how did you not immediately remember Vanitas? smh

[@ammywolf1777]

I listened to unbreakable chains wayyy too many times to not recognize it with this little section from the beginning of the track xD Though, I agree, it's tricky xD

[@WhenDidYouTubeAddThisFeature]

What was Mother Nature cooking in 2006 for Chris Kennedy to drop this banger?? I lost my winning streak thanks to that man!!

[@robocat2205]

Hurricane Katrina 😂 Late 2005 but definitely around the time. (I am from Louisiana so I'm allowed to joke about this lol. It's a fist fight to ever try and find records)

[@jokersvetvald7965]

@@robocat2205 I thought the same thing as I'm from near Baton Rouge myself lol. No dope music for the Great Flood if I recall though. Hurricane Katrina just hit different lmao.

[@xilverknight155]

​@@jokersvetvald7965 ain't from Louisiana, but southern Mississippi. without power for 3 months, and we also had to evacuate. Couldn't imagine being in Louisiana. Katrina was rough.

[@procrastinator99]

So what you're saying is, The Weather Channel has some DEEP Yoko Shimomura influences. Which is pretty badass.

[@sarelanie7176]

Or Yoko Shimomura has some deep Weather Channel influences, which is a little less badass

[@procrastinator99]

@@sarelanie7176 The earliest date for the Weather Channel songs is '06, KH 1 was released in '02.

[@dead_vibes]

Music just branches off of its all good

[@vixxcelacea2778]

Or maybe Yoko Shimomura has influence from weather channels. They should do a collab.

[@EWOODJ]

​@@procrastinator99Are you kidding? TWC had bops since the 90's.

[@xurtis]

the biggest giveaway is how compressed to hell the weather channel themes are

[@Jorlem25]

Yeah, I was using that to clue me in on the answers, though it tripped me up on some of the later ones.

[@xurtis]

i've heard every KH OST a dozen or so times so I didn't really need the help

[@keybladewar22]

This video was just made so we could we could all hear the most KH2-sounding music the weather channel has ever played back in 2006 lol

[@vb0077]

I have heard there's a place where the train station plays Twilight Town. I would feel so happy

[@keybladewar22]

@@vb0077 I agree to that as well. It would be so relaxing. A lazy summer afternoon.

[@IDoubleJ]

"This might be a good spot for -" Gets sent flying into the air by an actual tornado

[@CherryBun0325]

"The storm can't get us here!" 😭🤣

[@rosslytle5700]

Make sure to press [X] at the right time to survive your QuickTime event!

[@blackosprey2219]

WAK-

[@JustaPancake]

suffer hurricane ian's wrath

[@sammyhammy32]

That was insane- who goes that hard on weather alert sounds

[@Maya-ls3ky]

The weather Channel

[@ytsuxmuhd4998]

The weather channel

[@s-viper1462]

The weather Channel

[@PortyOG]

Chris Kennedy

[@procrastinator99]

lmao I love you all.

[@Kirbysuperstar44]

Putting Darkness of the Unknown and Storm Alert 2006 next to each other was so sneaky lol.

[@manwhat7590]

That was the only one that was really mean. I was like "Cmon this is clearly a remix of the previous one, it's got the same leitmotif"

[@BrandynToone]

​@manwhat7590 lmao that was my exact logic! I was like "this has to just be a different arrangement for a 2nd phase of a boss battle"

[@creathechiboi]

i wouldve lost if i hadnt heard Storm Alert 2006 already

[@FerretMacabre]

The fact that 8 & 9 are so close they could be reprised is amazing

[@Goldenblade14]

I love how what started as one song sounding like yoko shimomura has now evolved into a whole genre.

[@Crocogator]

we now have weathercore and weatherwave. It's perfect.

[@chaoskei2699]

The most concrete evidence I have for being traumatized by Kingdom Hearts is hearing any kind of gummi ship music and immediately feeling so much rage.

[@rangedweevil6150]

My lack of knowledge of the DDD ost finally came back to bite me, tarnishing my otherwise perfect score because I didn't recognize #15

[@DustyTerrarion]

#17 got me cause I never played KH:Coded

[@auroraborealis8602]

Same for me! The worst part is that I was like, I recognize this so I'm going with KH, but then I figured it could be a fairly common dramatic chord progression so I switched my answer

[@nickel7o740]

Same 15 ruined my otherwise perfect run.

[@chronix7946]

union x, coded and the #15 all got me

[@SarahAbramova]

Yeah, it's been a while for me, so I missed those too.

[@A-Spoto]

this is the one quiz ive been studying for my whole life

[@eventua8474]

the venn diagram overlap of meteorology nerd and KH fan is a line but dang nabbit we'll hold down the fort...!!!

[@pizza-pi]

@@eventua8474 yes we will o7

[@esosique5]

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

[@ClefairyRox]

YESSSSS! KH + WEATHER NERDS UNITE!!!!

[@nulllight_1396]

Me too I used to watch the weather channel for the strangest weather on earth and I’d always enjoy listening to the music. Needless to say I passed with flying colors

[@FlamingZelda3]

I got 5 songs in and I’m already gonna have stop due to a racing heartbeat, sweaty palms, and my integrity as a gamer at stake.

[@joshua2400]

Lol they both had good songs ngl

[@joshua2400]

Jesus loves you my friend : )

[@ninjabunny9526]

I feel proud in myself that after the first two notes I instantly recognized the coded track as from coded. I think I should put that on my resume

[@YaBoiBigNutz]

Coded is so underrated imo. Such a good handheld game and a really interesting levelling system. The whole glitch/bug hunting sections I could've done without though but I really do wish more people played it. Now that you've reminded me of its existence I might try it on the Steam Deck

[@ammywolf1777]

I haven't played coded enough to recognize this one xD but I recognized unbreakable chains right away instead!

[@pejabob3180]

Same. I love Recoded and its music

[@syrelian]

I was almost thrown off, since I've never heard the Coded version of the track, but I love ReCoded and was anticipating the next verse the whole time so I knew it was KH

[@FueryMistGaming]

finally something that has hit my niche as someone passionate about both kingdom hearts and the weather channel

[@goliathraydjc1617]

this is a brand new sentence

[@BrodinYT]

ME TOO OMFG

[@Aero4smith7]

Me: "oh that's definitely kh music" Video: "the weather channel" Me: "Oh that's for sure weather music" Video: KH music

[@No_Named_Nobody]

I never would have expected to get fooled by Weather channel music

[@princeyakiko1733]

As an east coaster, one of these Weather Channel songs I am VASTLY familiar with because they always play it for hurricane updates. Missed 2 and they both happened to be composers for KH that were not Yoko Shimomura LOL this was a fantastic video

[@zephyrias]

Same 😂 im familiar with her style.

[@saru2530]

15 out of 21-- When I heard song 20, I was like "well, I would HOPE this isn't on the Weather Channel, I think I'd have a heart attack??!"

[@SarahAbramova]

I was thinking "Vanitas"

[@joshua2400]

I had gotten 20/21 genuinely some really good bops from the weather side! I was shocked 😂

[@joshua2400]

Jesus loves you my friends, have a great one!

[@cressedangel123]

@@joshua2400God bless you too, in many plentifuls!

[@Hexagonaldonut]

Yeah, when I heard 20, I was like "this is WAY too dark and ominous for Weather Channel, this is definitely KH". They want to get your attention, not make you think the world's about to end!

[@chrisblue8068]

When the heartless are basically misunderstood weather reporters.

[@OliverTCrowe]

That...was a surprisingly difficult quiz. After song 9, I legit was having trouble distinguishing except for obvious KH songs I knew by heart.

[@Riku17000]

If I had a nickel for every time I mistook a weather channel song for a Kingdom Hearts song, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

[@Scrofar]

I had six nickels, so this is actually alarming for me

[@vixxcelacea2778]

@@Scrofar 5-7 nickels. I could have a full quarter or more with my fails, LOL

[@yuujin8194]

I'd only have one nickel, but if I had a nickel for every time I went "I don't remember this instrument being key in a KH piece, it's probably weather channel" only for it to be a KH piece I forgot. I'd have four nickels.

[@caseyogden7105]

the fact i struggled this hard to get about 75% of tracks right tells me one thing: kingdom hearts has some weather channel-ey ass music

[@CanisMythson]

I came into this with limited knowledge of both, and got about 70% right. It was more music theory then anything else; with a few exceptions, the Kingdom Hearts songs were constructed with many different instruments forming different melodies in unison, sometimes creating dissonance with each other in the more combat oriented themes. The Weather Channel, meanwhile, had more basic pieces with bombastic repeating melodies meant to catch your attention. There was only a few that didn't follow that simple formula.

[@Kitsunekone]

That's how I saw it, yeah. The Weather Channel used generic bombatic pieces and Kingdom Hearts was meant to involve more instrumentation and weave a melody together. Some I already knew, but the ones I didn't, I tried to apply that same logical process to them.

[@Hexagonaldonut]

In my case it was mostly a vibe check (minus the two appearances of that one from 2006 that I caught immediately), particularly catching some because they either sounded *too* dark and ominous or too peppy to make sense for Weather Channel, but there was also one where I listened to it and was quickly "this sounds too much like an actual orchestra, there's no way it's Weather Channel" and was spot-on.

[@taylorsackett2556]

Oh 100%, at a certain point I realized that I was less trying to recognize the songs and more looking for notable leitmotifs and key changes that Kingdom Hearts songs all tend to have

[@50percentpotato29]

I got a 19/21 ,_, didn't play bbs or recoded 😅

[@callie-flower3177]

it also helps that if you're really familiar with yoko shimomura's style of composing, it becomes a LOT easier to point out her tracks from the rest (i played... a lot of final fantasy 15 which she composed for, and they had at least a handful of kh-reminiscent tracks)

[@frankubastalet4527]

In Argentina there's a weather channel that actually uses an edited version of Cloudchasers lol

[@Aid1043]

Oh, really? That's wild, do you happen to know what it's called?

[@cyberEXEgaming]

Following ​@@Aid1043

En que canal?

[@Triforceman1]

No way 😂

[@kimlip1022]

the way I could tell each and every track cuz I had the Kingdom Hearts OST in spotify on loop

[@GodsPreacherForTheKingdom]

nice lol

[@archdiangelo7930]

_Opens Weather Channel_ _Hears Darkness of the Unknown_ Well, I guess it's gonna be cloudy with a chance of *_BUILDINGS_* today. Also as a Kingdom Hearts fan for many years, *_this shit is giving me an existential crisis right now._*

[@MisterViolet]

**Turns on Weather Channel on Radio** Radio: **When you walk away**

[@Namingway248]

As someone who played every kh and the mario & luigi games, I'm pretty familiar with shimomura's common instrument choices and what kinds of progressions she favors, so if I didn't recognize it and it didn't sound like her I presumed it was weatherscan. Because of this, its the kh tracks that weren't hers and went out of her norms that tripped me up.

[@AkumaDayo]

yeah same for me, I'm very familiar with her work lol

[@GhostLordRetro]

Song 21 doesn't even sound like something from either Kingdom Hearts OR The Weather Channel. It sounds like something you'd hear in Bendy And The Ink Machine. The fact that it IS Weather Channel music is crazy.

[@AkumaDayo]

probably some tornado warning piece, it's got twister vibes

[@CycleMantis]

Song 7 being called "Cloudchasers" really isn't fair LMAO

[@breakerboy365]

Chris Kennedy calm down, it's only a 50% chance of rain!

[@joshuadelorme-novakowski2114]

Man, this was really fun to do. Thanks for compiling this. I got three wrong myself, the Rinzler theme, the dream drop distance drop theme, and the Union cross theme. It was challenging but very satisfying. I found that not trying to remember every song in the series, rather remembering what instruments they usually use helped a lot. So when you hear a song using an instrument they never really use, it was probably a weather channel song. The most obvious were the coded one, cause it clearly was a DS midi or something similar sounding, and the weather channel song with bad quality, since KH has clear music everywhere.

[@theinsanegamer1024]

Same. 3 wrong, 15, 20, and... can't remember entirely.

[@eduardosolistinoco9698]

I learned about The Weather Channel Bangers on an AbsolBlog's videos, the Kingdom Hearts vibes are unreal

[@zachriku]

TIL The Weather Channel has some mindblowing bangers

[@morgoth12]

I don’t know how you came up with this concept, but you forever have my respect, my good chum.

[@theemeraldproductions8886]

“The storm can’t get us her-“ *Goofy screams as he’s blasted away by an EF5 tornado.*

[@matttx]

what a great idea i loved this

[@matttx]

i got nine wrong 😭 all near the end it the beginning was easy

[@ChrisLeigh]

#20 is so iconic to me, that was the first music medal I got in KHuX, I played it over and over again. It's also one of my favorite Melody of Memories levels to play.

[@invisableumbrella]

The only song I missed was #9. Considering I don’t play kingdom hearts AND I’m pretty sure I never even touched the weather channel, I’m incredibly pleased. What a fun quiz idea

[@tyronejohnsoniii539]

I'm not the most knowledgably on Kingdom Hearts but this was WAAAAAAAY harder then it should have been

[@vincent207]

The tracks from the handhelds were what really got me.

[@rndrs9376]

Possible Spoiler but one thing that helped me was that Yoko Shimomura usually added more notes in a medley if that make sense, and the weather channel themes usually are a bit more ambient.... Idk how else to describe it

[@JoshKanap]

That clip for song 11 was almost indistinguishable for me… Chris a true KH fan

[@TophDaGreat]

As an avid weather fan and a diehard kh fan this is one quiz I can proudly say I aced.

[@Chungussy]

Song 6 got me, it sounded so Kingdom Heartsy even though I hadn't heard it before, I guessed KH

[@YoursTrulySonikku]

I love you pfp lmaooo

[@ShadowXLugia]

I missed #2 #9 and #11 The first union x song really tripped me up. Then the 9 and 11 just straight surprised me, I didnt know the weather channel could go that hard!?

[@prolevelcallout4597]

Imagine Heartless coming out of the clouds and fuckin Storm Alert is playing

[@xtradany5398]

Thanks for this. People have been sleeping on the Weather Channel. When I was little, my mom put it on to help me sleep.

[@sodathejunker]

The only reason I aced this quiz is because I know the entire soundtrack of every single KH game. If I wasn’t disgustingly obsessed I would have easily failed. And now I need the Weather Channel’s playlist on my itunes

[@nonspecificnonsense6780]

was having a bad day and literally bursted out laughing when I saw this video in my recommended. thank you

[@tisvana18]

Song 19 is what always plays when there’s a hurricane coming and it is the biggest bop of all of these. Used to be prepping the condo I worked at on the Seawall while dancing to it.

[@Xadov]

After the first two tracks I was feeling like this was going to be easy, but then I gradually realized KH and TWC must have been roommates in college

[@jarsenberg]

Song 9 literally sounds like it could appear in a section that follows Darkness of the Unknown

[@m0002856]

Damn. I was going pretty strong until you dropped a Sonic Adventure 2 track for track 16. I know the quiz said KH or Weather Channel, but I legit was like, "There's no shot this isn't a Sonic the Hedgehog song" LOL Seriously, how did I never know Yoko could compose the greatest Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack of all time? Somebody get this lady to just do every game soundtrack man.

[@TheNinjaMouse]

That's funny, this track always makes me think of F-Zero...or at least, the F-Zero stages in Smash Bros.

[@McDermottHorse]

I did so improbably bad on this quiz it’s making me rethink everything that led me to this moment

[@MegaLoflof]

Four wrongs! Now I really need to check out that weather channel ost

[@nightcaller92]

Very clever using the gummi ship music for this! I'm familiar enough with Kingdom Hearts music that I could tell most of the Weather Channel songs right away because of elements that sounded distinctly unlike Kingdom Hearts, often the type of drumbeat and rhythms they used. The only one I missed was 15, though I had a close call with 2

[@SpiffyJelly]

i guessed Kingdom Hearts on 20 purely because if that started playing on the weather channel i'd be 100% certain the forecast would be that we're all about to die. you did a GREAT job at picking kh songs that are less likely to be known and don't have any immediately recognizable leitmotifs tho!! i got most of them right but not all, 17 got me because i started trying to listen for how the instruments sounded and that one was quite a bit different lol

[@reeseelia2357]

It was unironically easier to guess based off of the audio quality rather than the actual music on some of these. Incredible

[@lud_ledmil7739]

imagine the weather channel forecasts a storm and song 20 starts playing 👁👄👁

[@Phoebeknz]

This might be the best thing I’ve ever seen! WHY ARE THEY SO SIMILAR?! This is true music nerd humor😭

[@paulbunyangonewild7596]

The number one key difference is percussion and instrument choice. Kingdom hearts very rarely uses guitars and is almost never to hard or groovy, like if you could reasonably listen to it at a party, then it's not kingdom hearts. They love their horns and violins, not to big on guitar riffs and drum beats.

[@blackosprey2219]

Unless it's song 16 lmao

[@Miharbii9]

ah yes, hearing "A Fight To The Death" on The Weather Channel..

[@LastHazzerd]

I've been trying to find who composed Storm Alert 2006 for a while, thank you very much

[@Baralai]

I’m literally screaming!! Ok not really because it’s still early but I am dying inside laughing so hard at this!! Why is this so incredibly entertaining?! I feel like I got most of them correct, but definitely surprised with a couple. And really surprised with how hard the weather channel comes with their compositions

[@leonmercury3732]

Chris Kennedy was really cooking.

[@boesesGlurak]

Not knowing the weather channel or Kingdom Hearts and still getting most of these right made me feel so unbelievably cool

[@starrodpiplup]

19 out of 21. I've never played a KH game (I want to someday). I know just enough about Shimomura's style to recognize it. It also helps having known the 2006 Storm Alert theme ahead of time.

[@vincentadamsvga]

Adding what I think prior to each answer. Opening - Og and Unchained χ's Dearly Beloved. One of my favorites. Then again every Dearly Beloved is the best. Song 1 - Weather Channel Song 2 - A Nameless Planet, field theme for the Cy-Bug Sector in Union χ. I looked into so much about the χ saga for the first time recently, so it's still generally fresh on my mind and my obsession over KH, especially its OST has led me to becoming quite familiar with most of it. Song 3 - Floating in Bliss, for the Atlantica and Port Royal gummi ship routes in KHII. The least intense of the route music, pretty nice and fitting for the aquatic settings of the worlds they lead to. Song 4 - Weather Channel Song 5 - A Fight to the Death for the first Armored Xemnas fight in KHII and later the first part of the Saïx fight in KHIII. Surely this one would be easy, it's the start of such an amazing final boss. Song 6 - Weather Channel Song 7 - Cloudchasers, for the Olympus Coliseum and Pride Lands gummi ship routes in KHII. Strange that these are the only separate routes to share a theme unlike all the others who share themes with each other who are side by side on the world map. Song 8 - Darkness of the Unknown, specifically the first segment for the gummi ship-esque wyvern phase in KHII. Even more specifically, this is the PS2 version. I love this track a lot. Song 9 - Weather Channel, more specifically my introduction to it and its oddly high quality and KH-esque selection of tunes. It's the Storm Alert for 2006. Song 10 - Asteroid Attack, for the Land of Dragons and Beast's Castle gummi ship routes in KHII. Song 11 - Weather Channel , Storm Alert again. Song 12 - Weather Channel Song 13 - Deep Drop, battle theme for The World That Never Was in DDD. A fitting choice for the 13th song in this video. Song 14 - Weather Channel Song 15 - Rinzler Recompiled, for his boss encounter at the end of Sora's version of The Grid in DDD. Song 16 - Hazardous Highway, for the Agrabah and Halloween Town gummi ship routes. It seems that someone likes the KHII gummi ship route music. I do to, definitely my favorite of the three games' selection. Song 17 - On the Debug!! from coded. Also specifically the og mobile version that was used as a special theme during battle when using debug attacks., which I would not have expected as the version used, but pretty neat to see. It's also coded acknowledgement in general and that's awesome enough on its own. I don't care how filler it is, coded is awesome as a GAME, because this is a GAME series that has more elements to it than just the story. It doesn't matter how filler the story is if the GAME part of the GAME is awesome. Song 18 - Weather Channel Song 19 - Weather Channel Song 20 - Unbreakable Chains, for the final encounter with Vanitus in Ventus' story. It might generally just be a slower tempo version of Enter the Darkness, but I do quite enjoy the other adjustments in the track, especially the Sora part. Another fitting number for a song as well. 13 of darkness, 7 of light, a total of 20 pieces to forge the χ-blade. Song 21 - Weather Channel Ending - Failing a mission in χ. My Kingdom Hearts-ing is too much for these quiz videos to be difficult most of the time, a problem shared with other quizzes like this for other media I like. It's unfortunate, but a negative I must deal with as a person who delves far too deep into the media I enjoy.

[@Aid1043]

When I was making the quiz, I thought to myself, what Kingdom Hearts music sounds the most like it could be the opening to a weather segment on prime time TV? It turns out KH2 Gummi Ship music was the answer - I guess space and storms can have similar vibes, and the KH1 and KH3 themes were too "sparkly" to feel like severe weather alert music. Most of the time, I used the PS2 versions to blend in with the lower-quality Weather Channel instrument samples, which is also why I went for the original coded version of "On the Debug!!" (that, and I have a soft spot for original coded's OST) I was going to include a Weather Channel song called "Eye of the Storm", which would have been a fun parallel with the KH3 boss track of the same name, but sadly KZbin's copyright system kept picking it up

[@vincentadamsvga]

@@Aid1043 The real question now would be see what it would be like if the composers who've made music used on the Weather Channel were given the opportunity to compose music for Kingdom Hearts.

[@Megaman.ExE7]

By far the one of the most creative videos ever. You have a great ear

[@red_light_3937]

As someone who barely knows this weather channel exists & hasn’t played a full game of Kingdom Hearts, I was doing pretty good until 9 & 10. Now I’m gonna put on the weather channel when I want dramatic background music!

[@C4DNerd]

Perfect score! 😃 Gotta say, I'm a little surprised at the amount of comments that apparently didn't recognize song #15. I always thought the Rinzler boss fight song was really good and captured the tone of that fight super well. But #6 almost got me, the piano notes matched KH vibes so much that I was tempted to say KH.

[@InkyCakes]

Love how you picked so many gummi ship themes cause they'd be less recognizable lol

[@GlitchBunn]

I've hardly ever played a Kingdom Hearts game, but I played the heck out of the Mario and Luigi series as a kid, I can recognize a Shimomura track from a mile away.

[@heyimclcktwn9243]

Thank you for this, I’m glad more people are getting put on to how good The Weather Channel’s music is. And how many fucking Yoko Shimomura-isms exist all throughout its history. If anyone wants more weather channel music Trammel Stark has by far my favorite songs ever made for the channel.

[@LunarcomplexMain]

when tf is the weather channel gonna make an ost? I need it

[@quokka1831]

This is how you distinguish the true fans from the newbies

[@1mKeepingUp]

I've been a fan for almost 20 years and I find myself wanting to crawl under my house's foundation because I missed 5 of them 😂

[@SimpletonSMan]

Yeah I'm a real weather channel fan unlike these posers

[@BareBandSubscription]

I’ve been a Weather Channel fan for decades. These new kids can’t fw this

[@charlesmcclung8104]

Finally, my obsession with watching the weather channel and the KH series pays off.

[@HeartlessKairi42]

okay this was actually kinda fun, my husband and I were basically playing the game as I was casting to the living room TV, thank you for that 🥰

[@someaccount2299]

Got a perfect score on this one! As a KH fan, I knew plenty of these off the top of my head, but I also had to guess for some based on my intuition. Knowledge of the composition styles, audio and instrument quality, and just generally going with my gut helped me here.

[@romajimamulo]

My main guessing pattern was going off the volume of the percussion. Weather channel songs tend to have it louder.

[@yukilovesya]

this was one of the greatest and most gratifying moments of my autistic life. to have both my metereology and kh special interests intersect in this kind of way... thank you so much 😭

[@zavtparticles6828]

Song 19 used to torment me whenever we had severe weather in the area