T-SQUARE - TRAVELERS

THE SQUARE ALBUM ADVENTURES（1984）

[@papaleon01]

This music was released on April 1, 1984 by “THE SQUARE”. - Street Fighter II GAME（1991）-

[@ohpfstory]

so Guile's stage ripped this off?

[@kariminyt]

@@ohpfstory ofc. there is decomentry about such things happend to the mario sound track as well. also ken sound track is from the song Mighty Wings from the ending of top gun 1

[@Nemes1S_]

I just listened to this song for the first time and the first thing that came to mind was where have I heard this before? Then I realized it's guiles' theme! 100% Lifted.

[@ej22_gc86]

Jazz (and by extension fusion) actually pretty much encourages this kind of thing. They call it quoting

[@bideobamers]

It's a transformative work and falls under fair use, dumbass.

[@pukki34]

T-SQUARE goes with anything

[@MrDextroll]

so it's here where guile's theme came from! Amazing song!!

[@speedsterh]

Pukki34 Yeah, even with a beige ceiling

[@CipherRhodeShow]

While T-square goes with anything, they made sure that Guile’s theme goes with EVERYTHING.

[@ライタートミー]

フュージョンというジャンルは私が一番好きな音楽ですが、現在の日本ではやらないのが不思議です。

[@ArtisChronicles]

That does seem strange. I think more of it needs to be done.

[@AlexOjideagu2]

1:25 Holy shit it goes full Guile here

[@quinnrobertson7393]

Guile goes full T-Square

[@nswrth]

@@quinnrobertson7393 lol

[@overlordh1254]

Guile's theme was supposedly inspired by this band.

[@war6962]

Hell yeah dude

[@maxieze1]

Also Megaman X from Snes

[@peco967]

天に召された和泉宏隆氏の名曲です。THE SQUAREで全国ツアーの最中で、心身共に疲れていた時の想いを書いてみた、みたいな事を何らかの書籍で書かれていた事を思い出しました。

[@shinquickman]

1:27-2:17 is like pure 90s Video Game Music inspirtation 1:27- Guile's theme from Street Fighte II 1:42 Big Blue from F-Zero (the loud riffs) 1:42 Mini-Boss from Sonic & Knuckles (the main melody)

[@FoxBoy1992]

The Sonic and Knuckles Mini Boss is ripped from the SNK game POW in arcades or something like that, but I do think that song was inspired by this originally.

[@mosiarmstrong]

Def heard Big Blue. That's my favorite F-Zero track so it's burned in my psyche.

[@戸高信也]

この曲は、小学生の時の運動会で、ラジオ体操のような位置づけで『ストレッチ体操』というのがあって、そのバックで流れていました。３０数年を経て、初めて曲名を知りました。しかも、T-SQUAREの楽曲だったんですね😃

[@samuelhenrique1462]

GO HOME AND BE A FAMILY MAN!

[@codylontoc8065]

Sound advice

[@ArvelleWhitaker]

ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG?!?

[@ArtisChronicles]

​@@codylontoc8065 Maybe if it was still the 50s

[@codylontoc8065]

@ArtisChronicles Well, it isn't for everyone.

[@riskvideos]

One who positively can do all things that make you laugh and cry.

[@jonboy82]

The beauty of referencing and getting inspiration from others. Yoko Shimomura was definitely inspired to write Guile's them from listening to this! niceee

[@Kiosade]

“Can I copy your homework?” “Sure just don’t make it too obvious.”

[@mariogarv]

Listen to top gun "mighty wings" and you"ll see from where she took inspiration for Ken's stage music >;)

[@meganinten0078]

And people critized Kenji Yamamoto 🙄 Yoko Shimomura is overrated

[@athena9029]

​@@meganinten0078difference is, Yamamoto stole entire pieces and only rearranged them at best while Shimomura, Kondo and others inspired by T-square only did that, got inspired but their pieces sound completely different.

[@MrDextroll]

this is the windows xp wallpaper after listening to this song it sees beyond its window

[@elliotagain7731]

Probably my favourite T-SQUARE song and its so tough to chose they are amazing 🤟

[@Poyostar]

Just like with Sister Marian, I feel like I've unearthed some forbidden knowledge upon listening to this. I'm not even that big on Street Fighter (or traditional fighting games in general), but it was awesome to see what the theme that goes with everything was spawned from...

[@borinightmare]

Sonic boom!! T-Square is such an underrated band and they inspired Guile's theme song in Street Fighter 2.

[@cbr3220]

The band’s leader, Masahiro Andoh also created the theme song for Gran Turismo in 1996

[@jamealjordon1376]

Wait til you listen to Sister Marian... which is the inspiration for the overworld theme for Super Mario Bros. (1985)

[@Corvoreviews]

@@cbr3220 not to mention the music truth was the main theme for f1 in japan, man t-square REALLY goes with everything

[@PabbyPabbles]

Bunch of Japanese game composers use whatever they happen to listen to as inspiration in the nineties A whole generation spanning the entire world gets their brain rewired

[@kani-licious]

explains why you can tell if the music sounds japanese or not, it just stuck

[@vadosuniverse6angel465]

SONIC BOOM!

[@aidiknocles]

Malek fuu!

[@GemTappX]

Yes, this oddly sounds like street fighter music.

[@les907]

Your. Comment. Wins! Perfect! #iykyk

[@tokushitalucky9264]

この曲を聴いてスクウェアを知りました。 リリコンのサウンドに衝撃を受けて、インストに傾倒した自分です。 本当にありがとうございます

[@逸廣嶋]

私もこれでスクエアとリリコンを知りました。 個人的にはall about youのが好きですが、この 曲も印象深いです。

[@AlexTheRed1985]

I listened to this and became a Family man.

[@bmm9647]

SQUAREで一番好きな曲…

[@TimeLord675]

This song goes with just about anything. Now go home and be a family man!

[@La_Win69]

I see what you did there…

[@les907]

I had a good response to this. But instead, I'm going to go and try a harder difficulty level.

[@DNchap1417]

The anthem of Sonic Boom Airlines!

[@starplatinumrecords]

Wow, this is actually better than guile's theme. Street fighter EX vibes...

[@AsteriskBlue]

Wow! Guile's theme is Def based on this

[@小野光-r7c]

今も聴いてるよ　もう40年くらい┅　生まれ変わってもずっと聴いていたいな

[@gmv3354]

It's EXCEPTIONALLY hard to find this music by trying keywords related to Guile and Street Fighter. Thank god I found a forum which has linked guile's theme to this by having searched "Yoko Shimomura plagiarizing". Not that I think it was plagiarized, but I really wanted to find this song again, and that was the only way I managed to do it. A friend showed me this years ago.

[@bluespaceman7937]

It is similar as an inspiration, but there are key differences.

[@MartinFaulks]

I think I will go home and be a traveling man.

[@はらいそ健生GC工作員]

作曲者でもある和泉さんのエレピが効いています。 イントロやヴァースは淡々と、サビの後半は熱く弾いていて曲調をコントロールしています。

[@gtonuki7003]

Tスクエアーとカシオペアと日本の2台巨匠、日本の大御所ですね

[@sabishiihito]

All of a sudden the SFEX+@ soundtrack makes so much more sense. I thought fusion jazz didn't really fit with Street Fighter until I heard this. Also, there's the Rockman X1 Arranged album by Alph Lyla...

[@soundgarden1123]

Thing is though, the old school SF2 composer and the composers for SFEX+a are a completely different set of people. I wonder though if they know each other or have worked on some others project together.

[@erickpas]

Somehow this music seems to.... go with everything

[@ああ-c4p1s]

単調なメロディーの繰り返しでここまで良い曲を作れるのは凄い

[@宮本マリオ]

マリオとかスト2にも影響を与えたらしい。

[@ugihun]

@@宮本マリオ kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWSydpl9fMqKeM0 これですかね？？

[@wyvernx666]

I'm here for the copyright discourse.

[@ricebird8028]

My love for city pop and japanese jazz finally meet my love for video games

[@foreverseethe]

This sounds like the Japanese "City Pop" Genre. It's an awesome track.

[@Misa_Susaki]

Thats what japanese fusion jazz evolved into.

[@noahwoodland1592]

Can you name some top tracks? Wanna check this out

[@GrumbleDogg]

@@noahwoodland1592 one of the most popular ones (and also pops up in everyone's recommended) is Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGLZqJ-Kj5p4fbM

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

@@noahwoodland1592 If you like this you will like everything that T-Square/The Square and Casiopea have done. This is the best Japanese Fusion playlist that I've come across: kzbin.info/aero/PLwV7zBd8g0PFMbPd6i4uc0RAjZqEahMrP

[@elbonais683]

​​@@noahwoodland1592 Sinset Road, Cupid, Bay City, Flyday Chinatown, september blue, last train at 25 o'clock. Dunno if you still wanna check it out, but if so I hope you find a song that you like :)

[@herbertortiz9159]

This is simply amazing!!!

[@candlelight33]

Japenese/french fusion I love it

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

Are you telling me that there's French fusion? I need to know more about that.

[@TheRealPapaChico]

This is straight Japanese. T square all day and night.

[@HypnoSwag]

After hearing guiles theme for all these years the song really weirds me out

[@NonRandomUser]

This is wonderful.

[@mistergekiga2455]

Kinda wanna play Streetfighter Ex now.... Or just spam Flash Kick all day to this song.

[@安部浩一郎]

懐かしい😂　大学生時代にSQUARE全盛期にてよう聴いとりました

[@松岡明雄]

リリコンは音がきれいですね。現在のスクェアで復活しないかな

[@Ethiokarate1]

It just absolutely sends me

[@BamSilver]

You can hear a little of Roll's theme from Marvel Vs Capcom and Tatsunoko vs Capcom in there a little.

[@adriandelarosa2537]

In fact so much of SF2 Guile´s Theme

[@dominiccasts]

I find 1:09 reminds me a lot of Magma Man from Mega Man 9.

[@山岡士郎-d4l]

​@user-hv9zq8jf3xその通りです。和泉さんの最高の名曲です。 ここのコメント欄はまったく訳のわからん😠😠

[@逸廣嶋]

伊東さんのリリコンより安藤さんの ギターのほうがインパクトを感じた。 スクエアが世に出るきっかけになった 曲だと思う。

[@GreenPhoenix91]

This one's for you Charlie. - Guile.

[@SmokingSpoon]

Imagination is limited to what we've perceived only, it is a chimera ; )

[@milesaway1980]

Absolutely dig this! Wish the other songs by them had the same level of energy. Seems like the rest are just kinda generic jazz. Side note: Loved Guile's theme since I was a kid, fun to hear where it came from.

[@conorlohman4648]

Lmao I highly disagree. Check out Truth or Mist of Time for a similar epic style, Night Dreamer, Rodan, Mistral, all incredible songs, and there are many great albums I have yet to listen to

[@milesaway1980]

@@conorlohman4648 Thank you for the suggestions! I must've just been firing all misses when I was looking up different songs of theirs. Made this piece seem like an odd-man-out compared to the other stuff I listened to. But after your suggestions, I agree, there's a lot more that's like this.

[@conorlohman4648]

@@milesaway1980 Yeah I saw your comment and I was like what t-square is the exact opposite of generic jazz music lol, their albums offer amazing listening experiences, check out Stars and the Moon, R E S O R T, or Truth if you're into that

[@TheRealPapaChico]

Lmao they have so many good songs check out wonder circuit, papilion, faces, flying colors, megalith, yu jah, etc theres a million.

[@jamealjordon1376]

T-Square's Sister Marian is not generic jazz...

[@The_Davo_Domain]

Just heard this on the radio and thought, this has to be the inspiration for Guile's theme. So surprise considering Sister Marian inspired a track from Super Mario Bros

[@AJGaS]

Rondo Of Blood / Dracula X "bloodlines" theme anyone? lolol this is really good on its own though

[@Seanatonin]

SONIC BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!

[@Noelhall88]

Was not expecting the song to be BETTER than the guile theme... 😮

[@13AndreFalcao666]

Makes me wanna dance

[@DaeronPixelArt]

What do you get when you mix Rudol von stroheim and T-Square? Just a family man

[@samschmit7181]

All jokes aside, nice picture.

[@cashiusclay_]

Guile brought me here.....str8 FUNK!!!

[@AdlerPostHC]

Everything I always believed... It isn’t real...

[@0Synergy]

@KurdischerHengst7 The Guile theme is clearly fucking plagiarism.

[@sanjurosama]

​@@0SynergyNo, it isn't.

[@wolftickets1969]

In addition to Guile's theme, this also appears to have inspired several tunes in the Ys series.

[@dfl0res]

anyone else think from 3:08 to 3:26 it kinda starts sounding like Mariya Takeuchi's Yume No Tsuzuki??

[@asahiiwai7217]

昔、オークワ行ったら、必ずかかってたイメージが強い笑。

[@_JC_Denton_]

The whole song sounds like a video game soundtrack

[@les907]

Is somebody going to tell them or just let them figure it out eventually?

[@ninjaian06]

this feels the 3do version of gulies theme

[@emcash8874]

how was graphic design like this done without computers back in ye old day. Or if computers were used what kind? remembering PC's from the eighties I can't fathom something like this being made.

[@adorenu1338]

They have photoshop back then in late 80s you know..

[@infurness]

matte paintings

[@alonsojett]

Go home and be a jazz fusion man

[@OmegaRedEX]

Seems like that kind of theme you’d give to a character based off of Jean Pierre Polnareff and Rudol von Stroheim.

[@Taha632RMF]

kinda weird seeing you here

[@OmegaRedEX]

@@Taha632RMF lol You’re from the HFTF server? I’m a fan of a lot of old popular music/video games. At times, you’ll see me in comment sections quite a bit.

[@alaadinjoseph8189]

0:00 to 0:21 most people hear guile's theme but i hear castelvania rondo of blood instead.

[@TheFadedBanana]

this is super good for some reason

[@SHUTDOWNOfficial]

It's because this was actually well composed and performed. It's good music, no mystery about that

[@TheFadedBanana]

@@SHUTDOWNOfficial i have 0 recollection of writing this comment, haha. It's just a well-made song

[@AmberShort]

This is a wonderful piece but certainly not plagurized. More inspiration if anything.

[@andystegall7407]

The theme when you decide to go home and become a family man

[@mattwolf7698]

Street Fighter 2 heavily sampled this. Copyright seems a lot looser in Japan, if both of these companies had been American, there certainly would have been a lawsuit.

[@MrXabungle]

It was looser back then but if it was made today, there would've been some legal issues.

[@realQuestion]

not really. you can't copyright a chord progression. pretty loose inspiration by the existing standard applied to music.

[@nebularain3338]

I worked in music copyright and there would be no case here as the songs have more than enough differences to be their own things. It's obvious that influence was taken, but that's true of every single piece of music ever written.

[@HypnoSwag]

So how did the composer for Dragon Ball get shit-canned for plagarism, but the SFII composers came off scott free?

[@kalender4176]

*Capcom:* (laughs in Japanese)

[@kamikaze4172]

But, I thought he only listened to country

[@SilverHunterN]

1:25 I never thought in my life guile's theme pinched a portion of someone's else's song. I knew about "Mighty wings cheap trick" and how the beginning of Ken Master's theme is exactly the same, but c'mon, Capcom or anyone else really shouldn't be pinching portions of other people's music constantly. Let me guess, part of Chun li's theme is exactly the same as someone else's?

[@FarCritical]

Go home and be a Travelling man!

[@traviszachery9672]

Guile T square Sonic Boom original remix

[@greenstorm5568]

Go home and ask yourself how Capcom got away with this

[@IuriSigma]

Surprisingly that's mostly how music evolves throughout time. Authors make versions of versions of songs they like/are inspired by, coming up with newer versions of their own. It's kinda like the nature of how art is made, unfortunately this is a very difficult concept for most people to get since a lot of them holds a view that goes in the opposite direction (like thinking that art is "originally created from the will of the artist", something that in my experience is at best imprecise).

[@JohnSmith-co1zv]

@KurdischerHengst7 How is this plagiarism? the song is extremely distinguishable from Guile's theme aside from a few notes

[@JohnSmith-co1zv]

@KurdischerHengst7 It's definitely inspired but clearly distinguishable, asshole. People say the same thing with Ken's theme and Mighty Wings, the opening is similar and that must make the entire theme which doesn't even sound alike plagiarism.

[@JohnSmith-co1zv]

@KurdischerHengst7 nice edited response, asshole lmao

[@eadricng3267]

Maybe, just maybe, it's because the Guile theme sounds very distinguishable from this.

[@ronyesamuraifantasma6072]

O música boa!

[@viniciusrocksupremo1849]

Acho que daqui que veio a inspiração de fazer a trilha sonora do Guile de street fighter 2.

[@ronyesamuraifantasma6072]

@@viniciusrocksupremo1849 Hm... Bem interessante👍

[@La_Win69]

🗿👍 syn

[@ronyesamuraifantasma6072]

@@La_Win69 👍

[@1Mic1Life]

guile!!!!--

[@dentistguba]

At least they added some sick flourishes to the bass line for guile.

[@felixthecatfish5692]

This shit sounds so much like divine bloodlines especially if you listen to the chord progression

[@VessanvsTheWorld-re7ve]

William F Guile

[@kirabate]

Sounds like a Simphony of the night's theme to me

[@JohnSmith-co1zv]

Which one

[@kuni1081]

Escuché esta pista y me dieron ganas de jugar maquinitas, bien raro : v

[@actually_ashley.]

...Better than the Guile version.

[@HypnoSwag]

Nah...

[@extras5164]

Which one came first?

[@tommykiryu777]

@@extras5164 the one you're listening to right now. It dates from 1984.

[@extras5164]

@@tommykiryu777 damn Yoko shimomura must have definitely been inspired by this!!

[@La_Win69]

One is the best song from the “Adventures” album And the other is the USA national anthem

[@almirguimaraes3334]

Guile's theme song was based on this 1:25

[@edkabessa]

The intro is the same bro

[@Nabo00o]

I DID NOT KNOW

[@natural8677]

Nabo00o my life is a lie

[@ermonski]

*GO HOME AND BE A FAMILY MAN*

[@supcomFAN]

very unique sound

[@bjja264]

Go home and be a jazz man

[@rodzandz]

Ooh-Ahh, Ooh-Ahh!

[@街猫-x8p]

好き。

[@roxlyn1665]

I know everyone is making the Guile joke already, but damn dude, its pretty evident LOL

[@roxlyn1665]

@JJ I wonder if Yoko Shimomura actually took inspiration from this or its pure coincidence. I wouldn't be surprised if either were the case

[@nebularain3338]

You can definitely hear the influence, but even the really familiar bits are actually different. The majority of the song actually sounds nothing like Guile's theme bar a few sections. People can't seem to tell the difference between "similar" and "identical".

[@Kumquat_Lord]

his theme quite literally steals bars from 1:26. the rest might not be the same but you can tell that this was the primary influence

[@meganinten0078]

Este temazo le da mil patadas al tema de Guile

[@tjmonstar3554]

somersault!!!!!!!

[@JasonSmith-qq4ek]

2:17

[@simonemarconcini8648]

Listen to Bloodlines from Castlevania and then come back here ;-)

[@pepelalo87]

1:42 kof 98 heidern , takuma and saishu theme

[@markdelarosa2445]

Still looking for Charlie

[@KenMasters.]

Avenging Charlie you mean?

[@HeartofBattlechannel]

@@KenMasters. Guile never believed he was dead

[@HeartofBattlechannel]

I mean,he did,but not really

[@Grimdarklul]

Everyone should give a listen to “Deniz- Why can’t you love me” that song came out in 1990 and sounds like Guile’s theme as well.

[@theactiveactivist515]

I heard no Guile in that. I heard Ryu though.

[@hearthatbird]

Sonic BOOM

[@sixAdam22]

Sonic boom !

[@pepelalo87]

Rudol von stroheim

[@valjean3663]

Deep Jojo reference here ^

[@solefoodbrand1699]

FIGHT!