Game music that resembles other music

[Gunstar Hero]

Sounds like
Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiuMkGCOC4

Wow sorry to be off topic but does anyone else notice that Green Day must have totally ripped off the beginning of this song?

See what I mean?

[Lady Jaye]

The theme to Moon Patrol sounds like the riff in the song Since When by 54-40 (I've known that for years but forgot which song it was, and in my mind it was by the Tragically Hip...).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBOKWCpwGfM

[BricatSegaFan]

I can't quite remember which Maverick's stage it was, but in Mega Man X3, there's part of a song that's almost exactly like Guns N' Roses' "My Michelle". I remember reading up on it and it was actually supposed to be intended, the composer was a major Gn'R fan. Awesome!

Neon tiger

[CelticJobber]

Parts of the Dolphin Park music from Wave Race 64 sounds a hell of alot like the Mary Tyler Moore Show's theme:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiW3pyMdp3w

[hellraiser]

I'm surprised no ones mentioned this

Contra hard corps character select music resembles" I like big butts" by sir mix a lot.

Check if you don't believe me! Lol

[RulerStabInTheEye27]

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[rbudrick]

HOLY CRAP that's amazing!

Holy crap indeed! That's insane! What year that come out?

I remember hearing there were quite a few parts of Earthbound, or maybe it was Mother 3 that didn't allow it to be ported over here due to Beatles references and some other stuff, but I'm too lazy to find the link.

Level 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 of Kid Icarus for the NES has a clip of some (I think) US Revolutionary War tune I've never been able to quite put my finger on. Fast forward to 2:07 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSr_kJqcar4

Can anyone tell me what that is? I've noticed it since I was 8 years old.

-Rob

[101011]

Just For Laughs theme - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_aXOZso8Lk

Pac-man intermission - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-MlcbJ__E

[norkusa]

I always thought Smile.dk's 'Butterfly' from Dance Dance Revolution sounded a lot like the chorus from Die Antwoord's 'Enter The Ninja:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2fMmIl4wE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cegdR0GiJl4&ob=av3e


Found out later that Die Antwoord admitted to ripping it off. Go figure.

[j_factor]

Everyone knows by now that Michael Jackson's "Stranger in Moscow" is awfully similar in certain ways to Sonic 3's end credits music. Recently I noticed Daft Punk's "Superheroes" also has some similarity. Not the whole song, just a certain part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC89P1x7uwU&t=02m24s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55rtX4wCJPM&t=00m44s

[TascoDLX]

Level 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 of Kid Icarus for the NES has a clip of some (I think) US Revolutionary War tune I've never been able to quite put my finger on. Fast forward to 2:07 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSr_kJqcar4

Can anyone tell me what that is? I've noticed it since I was 8 years old.

It's called "The Girl I Left Behind Me". Twas an Irish folk song adopted by the US, but more like War of 1812 (not that I know much about History).

[rbudrick]

It's called "The Girl I Left Behind Me". Twas an Irish folk song adopted by the US, but more like War of 1812 (not that I know much about History).

Thanks, Tasco! 26 year-old mystery solved!

-Rob

[Kitsune Sniper]

Bio Metal (SNES) music really sounds like some 90's movie... Space Jam perhaps?

The reason it sounds like a 90's movie is because the soundtrack was adapted from 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready!", a.k.a. that album with the two songs everyone in the 90's used in sport arenas.

[jb143]

I remember someone on here was making an RPG once and needed music and I was one of the ones suggesting finding some classical music that fits the theme. So many people were saying that it was a bad idea because to be taken seriously, games should have completely original music. Seems that's never been true.

[Aswald]

The opening theme in Vanguard sounds like opening titles music from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."

[y9784]

Donkey Kong Country 2 title theme REALLY resembles the theme from the film Hook

DKC2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73bkS4c5ZM

Hook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5H0sCdvZ14

Metal Man stage music from Mega Man 2 resembles a sped up version of the song We are One in the Spirit.

Metal Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si8HiBgcg_U&t=0m12s

We are One in the Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_wHi0PNHg

[BricatSegaFan]

Wow this thread is old!!!

Well I happened across this video on YouTube and indeed it seems that thunderforce 4 intro sounds very similar to Dokken : lightning strikes again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjHq...e_gdata_player

[rbudrick]

Wow this thread is old!!!

Well I happened across this video on YouTube and indeed it seems that thunderforce 4 intro sounds very similar to Dokken : lightning strikes again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjHq...e_gdata_player

Pretty sure that one's a coincidence. I have a buddy of mine, Jay, that used to listen to too much Dokken and pretty much every hair band that sucked, ever. If you're a Dokken fan, I apologize. See, the thing is, there were a lot of bands that had that almost exact same riff in every song. That riff style is quintessetially 80s. My friends used to rag on Jay all the time because every time he "wrote" a new guitar riff, it sounded exactly like that Dokken and TF4 riff. We'd laugh our assess off because it was it literally sounded like the same riff every time. This was in the mid 90s. Now granted, we were all metalheads, but even us metalheads knew that waaaay too much 80s music was absolute shit, but Jay loved all of it. The worse, the better. There is a large group of us that used to hang with Jay and every time we heard a cliched-sounding 80s riff, we'd call it Jay Music, or a Jay riff.

The earliest example I know of of a riff like that is in a Black Sabbath song off of 1975's Sabotage (My favorite album ever by them). Scan to 3:23:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoVCO6vOTD4
A slower version of that riff, for sure, but the same pattern.

-Rob

[JakeM]

I thought Jennifer Lopez did the Kingdom Hearts theme for years.

[ColecoFan1981]

Which riffs from this part of ELP's Karn Evil 9 ("Second Impression") were lifted for the Metroid ending theme? I can understand the "St. Thomas" lick that Dr. Mario's "Chill" had later used, though.

~Ben