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Post by Tanner / Ogilvie on Mar 25, 2012 19:25:13 GMT
Masato Nakamura, Howard Drossin, Jun Senoue, Crush 40, and even Cash Cash are all awesome to me.
Only soundtrack I never really cared for was Sonic 06's, and even parts of that grow on me with time.
I have always enjoyed the tradition of using the main theme as the boss theme, or using a cover of it as a boss theme. It disappointed me when Sega did not do any of these for Generations.
Granted an exception is Sonic Heroes and lord knows I love "What I'm Made Of."
I always liked how the final boss consists of a dark and menacing theme followed by an upbeat and more hopeful theme. The exceptions being Sonic Adventure(which the order was in reverse) and Generations(which just had variations of the same song depending on whether you were fighting the final boss 2D or 3D).
I've liked practically all the vocal themes, which was actually one of my biggest letdowns for Generations - I was waiting until the day it came out to hear whatever they made, but alas, there was nothing. I was a very sad nerd.
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Post by Beeth on Mar 26, 2012 14:26:46 GMT
This is a brilliant yet chronically ignored piece of music, with probably one of the most awesome driving basslines I've heard in any Sonic music. Needs a remix. Hell, I'd do it if I had the software and the spare time. EDIT: Speaking of great basslines, Death Egg Zone's is, as one commenter put it, "the backbone of the song". And how.
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Post by sidewinder on Mar 29, 2012 14:15:26 GMT
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Post by Nam on Mar 29, 2012 22:04:30 GMT
Having now actually played Sonic CD with both the Japanese and the US versions of the tracks, I can actually acknowledge, perhaps blasphemously, that I actually prefer the US version. The Japanese version has a few better tracks, but overall, I think the US versions music suits the game better.
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Post by ShayMay on Mar 29, 2012 22:11:14 GMT
To be honest, all joking aside, the US version has some excellent tracks and I'm pretty much easy with whatever one's playing.
Sonic 3D Saturn vs. Mega Drive though. That's where the argument's at. Saturn's is a million times better.
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Post by Juliett. Bravo. Alfa. on Mar 29, 2012 22:47:41 GMT
Bull[censored]. Mega Drive pisses all over the Saturn version.
I never got the whole Saturn>Mega Drive for soundtrack. To me the Saturn soundtrack at times is white noise. I dont notice it. Mega Drive soundtrack just fits to me.
The only impressive thing about Sonic 3D Sat Soundtrack that it was made in a day.
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Post by ShayMay on Mar 29, 2012 23:29:56 GMT
It was?! All the more impressive then. And nah, the Mega Drive version is just bland to me. Some really non-descript songs that don't stick out at all. The only reason I know most of them is through playing Sonic Adventure so many times. The Saturn soundtrack, on the other hand, really fits the levels, and has a bunch of stick-out tunes in my mind as well.
Rusty Ruin is undeniably beautiful. <3
Edit: To clarify, yes I'm being facetious, no it doesn't matter which one you prefer, and I know the exact reason why the Saturn version is so much more memorable to me: nostalgia.
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Post by sidewinder on Mar 30, 2012 8:04:28 GMT
Having now actually played Sonic CD with both the Japanese and the US versions of the tracks, I can actually acknowledge, perhaps blasphemously, that I actually prefer the US version. The Japanese version has a few better tracks, but overall, I think the US versions music suits the game better. I always preferred the USA soundtrack in CD hell personally its the only thing I think sega of America got right. The music suited it miles better Imo, I felt it was catchier. I could get accustomed to the Japanese soundtrack, to me it flees awkward. PLus Im a big fan of sonic book over toot toot sonic warrior.
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Post by Robert Frazer on Apr 10, 2012 21:42:04 GMT
While bright and vigorous "You Can Do Anything" will always run rings around the watery and limp "Sonic Boom", I do agree that the US version's level music is very strong.
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Post by Nam on Apr 11, 2012 20:15:57 GMT
Now that I must disagree with. Sonic Boom is anything but limp. The problem is it just doesn't build in the same way and doesn't quite work against the intro animation as You Can Do Anything. Not that YCDA is perfect, it's not the lyrics are awful. Not in a "Oh it's supposed to be cheesey" sense, but in an actual "That doesn't even mean anything" sense. It's also not helped by the fact that, of the female voices, the deeper one has some really bad delivery. It's not too bad in YCDA, though it's noticable, but her Engrish comes in clear in the ending song Cosmic Eternity ("exswordinary things can happen, if yuu believe in yourseff"*) The wavering hold on the "Cosmic Eternitee-EE-ee-EE" about two thirds of the way don't help endear me to it either. Don't get me wrong, instrumentally it's a good tune, but the lyrics and singers are not.
I would agree that, instrumentally at least, YCDA is miles ahead of Sonic Boom in terms of both lining up with the intro, and being an exciting, escalating piece of music that builds excitement. That's not to say Sonic Boom doesn't, but YCDA just does it better.
However, Sonic Boom is much better as a closer. Sure, Cosmic Eternity is Ok, and again better matches the images on the screen instrumentally, but again, the lyrics are nonsense (No seriously, the first line is "Teleportation yeah! Shooby da do ya!", though I do personally love the phrase Cosmic Eternity, it would've made a great final boss name - albeit for another series perhaps) and while the vocal harmony works well, the extended sections of the two singers singing at each other doesn't.
Sonic Boom meanwhile, while now an accoustic, or at least a much more stripped down version when compared to the intro, it serves as a better credits music, acting as a musical denouement to the end of the game. It better suits a game completion reflection of events, and gives the player a chance to breathe, slowly building up t a climax right near the end. It's not as immediately epic, but the epicness at the beginning would come from the player. Though, in spite of this, I actually prefer the opening version of Sonic Boom, at least as a song to listen to.
In an ideal world, the game would open with You Can DO Anything, albeit with better, less cheesier lyrics, and end with Sonic Boom
*Disclaimer: This is not racist. I understand the singer is Japanese, and has some trouble pronouncing certain English words. I am not complaining about this as if it's a bad thing of her, merely that it's very noticeable within the song, and in my opinion, detracts from the song itself as it takes the listener out of the song when they hear it.
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Post by Matt on Apr 11, 2012 20:35:41 GMT
Teleportation yeah! Shooby da do ya! best lyric from a sonic song... though weirdest remains... 'it was so cute I had to shave it' I mean... I mean what what <_<
but in defense of Comsic Eternity, it just seem's to fit the feel of 90's Sonic better then the 'Sonic Boom ending', I mean I like the Sonic Boom ending, and the US soundtrack, I but mean Sonic boom ending just seem's a bit to flat for the ending to the surreal Sonic game that is CD, to muted.
Plus you already mentioned Cosmic Eternity fit better, in terms of editing, but also in-terms of mood also think about it.... Sonic just hit eggman with a rock, saved a planet, and his face is in the sky, star and falling like rain and seed combined and the planet disappears in a twirl flash... not to mention eggman's face mountain blew up
that we celebrate with a slow version of sonic boom. give me Teleportation yeah! Shooby da do ya! anyday..
I never thought I'd be the type of sonic fan that would debate the sonic cd soundtrack... some sane rational part of me just died
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Post by Moo on Jun 16, 2012 19:19:18 GMT
Only recently found out the chick who songs on Sonic R is white. Quite surprised.
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