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Dreadful Ditties

@dreadfulditties.bsky.social
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🎶 Licensed #VGM covers and unlicensed commentary about #NES, #SNES, #Genesis, #Arcade games & more. 🧪 Genre mashups, faithful rearrangements. 💀 Faking it one ditty at a time. 📡 #gamemusic #retrogaming #coverartist #gaming🔗 linktr.ee/dreadfulditties

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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
WIP for a #vgm cover of the Player Select Theme from #mariobros 2, for the #nes. What do we think? Let it ride? Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit?
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Player Select from Super Mario Bros 2
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Beautifully well done!
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Skips A Beat Music @skipsabeatmusic.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
New Video Alert! I created a music video of "Rainbow Road" featuring many versions of myself and my cats. 😻 #MarioKartWorld #VideoGameMusic #MusicSky #Saxophone #Piano #RoliSeaboard youtu.be/BfJbrbqjLls
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Rainbow Road - Mario Kart World • Saxophone & Piano
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Beautifully done. Adds a layer of haunting trepidation that befits this part of the game.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We're live! Our latest release, WALL CHICKEN, is now available on all major streaming platforms! Featuring #vgm from #mariobros, #shadowrun, #contra, #mariokart, and a few other vintage gems! Head on over to linktr.ee/dreadfulditt... to find us and let us know what you think!
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
First track from the upcoming album: Wario Colosseum from Mario Kart Double Dash!! Stay tuned for more, once the album hits streaming! Thanks for watching, and special thanks to @skipsabeatmusic.bsky.social for her rockin' sax and this video! #vgm #mariokart #gamecube #gaming #wario #mariobros
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Wario Colosseum (Mario Kart: Double Dash!!) VGM Cover feat. Skips A Beat Music.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
New release, WALL CHICKEN, coming soon! With #vgm covers of #NES, #SegaGenesis, #Gamecube, #Arcade, and #Amiga games. Distributed by #distrokid and direct to your ear holes next week. Featuring a collaboration with @skipsabeatmusic.bsky.social. 🎶
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WALL CHICKEN by Dreadful Ditties
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Co-producer is growing impatient with the release schedule but also demands belly rubs. Can’t have it both ways, cat! #caturday #vgm #calico #gamemusic
Spoiled rotten calico cat.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A friend recommended a ska cover of a #VGM song from #SaGa3 and I can't tell if that is brilliance or blasphemy. 🤔
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Buuuuug Juuuuice!
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is peak #vgm and I will not hear otherwise. The Tandy 1000 was such an experience. :D #dos #spaceinvaders
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TANDY 1000 DOS Game Music: Super Space Invaders (1991) by Jolyon Myers
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Some people have no joy in their lives. We try to bring some and they lash out. That’s on them. Keep on rockin’.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Do you remember that day? The day it rained?
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This is a great perspective. I will celebrate it by adding myself to your total followers. :D
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It invokes the joy and disappointment of the Sega Channel in ways that don’t make sense in today’s streaming world.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Runners without class, that's who! 😀 Mostly, I'm just musing about SR4 and how they phased out the Decker at the time. But the OG oversized keyboard style decks are the real deal.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Back in my day, Shadowrunners used cyberdecks and we LIKED IT. #shadowrun #ttrpg #gaming
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Beautifully well done!
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Agree completely.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
That pizza dude is up to something.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Bug! was a beautiful mess and is perfect for it. Fight me.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This hallway and what chases the protagonist out of it in Hellraiser (1987).
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Okay, but, like, hear me out. Kinda want to push this further, musically, but it makes me yearn for an event that plays with this idea. 🎶 #deadbydaylight #retro #VGM #covermusic #gamemusic (Sega 'ditties' splash provided by @feralknights.bsky.social )
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Next on rotation: ToeJam Jammin’ from the beautiful mess that is the #Genesis classic ToeJam & Earl. If this doesn’t make you mentally hear screeching Super Hi-Tops, random belches, and that elevator ding, I’ve failed you. #vgm #gamemusic #toejamandearl
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ToeJam Jammin' (ToeJam & Earl)
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Skips A Beat Music @skipsabeatmusic.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Here is my soprano saxophone cover of 'Gusty Garden Galaxy' originally from the game "Super Mario Galaxy." Listening to this song has always put me in a good mood. Hope you enjoy! 🎷• 🎹 #saxophone #sopranosaxophone #gustygardengalaxy #videogamemusic #nintendo #musicsky #space youtu.be/Er2u0Z_6Xpc
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Gusty Garden Galaxy - Soprano Sax
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This is amazing. I both need, and have no need for, context.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Candyman. Hellraiser? No problem. But Candyman was traumatic.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Shadowgate. It continues to be one of the best games that never holds your hand and practically begs you to push random buttons just to see what happens. So many hours hand-drawing maps and taking notes of cause and effect. Timeless.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Brave of you to say something so bold.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The 1990s were truly a (f)lawless era.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
All of the Bubsy buzz really makes us want to go back and finish a cover of one of the Genesis ditties from Bubsy 2. 😹 #bubsy #vgm
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Four more tracks already in the hopper for the next release. Really hoping to exhume some really oft-neglected tracks, though, so as to not fall into the trap of covering the tracks that everyone already knows. 🤔
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Shuffling over to track 8 of our Bitslapped release, we have Pirate Lagoon from Diddy Kong Racing, released on the #N64 in 1997. Originally composed by the legendary @davidwise.bsky.social, lovingly covered using fresh instrumentation. #vgm #gamemusic #gameaudio #gaming
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Pirate Lagoon (Diddy Kong Racing)
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We recently did a cover of this theme. It's a timeless classic!
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Beautifully done!
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
First track from Bitslapped: The main theme from Space Harrier, which was released by #Sega to the #Arcade in 1985. Had a lot of fun with this one and tried to preserve the nostalgic vibe by combining synth with orchestral voices. Feedback welcome! #retrogaming #vgm #gamemusic #gameaudio #gaming
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Space Harrier, Main Theme
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We're live! Happy dance! This one has entries from classic Arcade, #Genesis, #SNES, #NES, #N64, and PC titles. Dreadful as always. Samples and streaming sites behind the link. Thanks for listening! #vgm #gamemusic #retrogaming #games #videogamemusic
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Bitslapped by Dreadful Ditties
Stream and Save Bitslapped - Distributed by DistroKid
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Was just pondering trying to do a cover of something from SpellCaster. Also, I distinctly remember the shock and awe of discovering that starting the system without a cartridge loaded an integrated game. Madness.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This and Grandia 2 were the best showing for Dreamcast.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Coming soon... really happy with this one. Slated for release on 8/18. #vgm #gamemusic #gaming distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The music from Virtual On and Burning Rangers will forever live rent free in our heads.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Definitely agree!
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
And no Civ theme since has ever come close to its majesty.
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Finally getting around to playing through Diablo 4 and got this perfect weapon. #diablo4 #gaming #games
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time? Cover of the Starman Theme from Yoshi ( #NES, 1991-92 ). #vgm #gamemusic #gameaudio #gaming #
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STARMAN Theme (Yoshi)
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Oi, chummer!
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Dreadful Ditties @dreadfulditties.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Totally thought that was toilet paper at first.
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