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[@VelvetAura]

It's finally here!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it even though nothing about it really blew you away. This is in my top 5 Sonic songs but I do admit that it's mostly bias and nostalgia. Never gonna stop me from loving it though 😂 Live and Learn blew my mind when I was a kid but I wasn't expecting it to blow yours lol. This is also the theme song of SA2 like how Open Your Heart was the theme song of Sonic Adventure, but you only get to hear the instrumental version of Live and Learn for the title screen, and you don't hear it again until you beat both Hero and Dark stories then play the Final story that unlocks after you beat those two. This is the final boss theme, and it's got to be one of my favorite setpieces in any Sonic game. Sonic and Shadow are teaming up for the first time, using the Chaos Emeralds to go Super together to take down this massive space lizard who is dragging a space colony down through the Earth's atmosphere in an attempt to collide with it and this track comes on. You struggle with the boss for a little while because you are 6 years old and then all the sudden you realize this boss has a time limit because after like 4 minutes the characters are telling you they're getting closer to earth, and then everything gets all red and the light starts refracting off the characters and the space colony because you're entering the atmosphere. You still have a minute to clear the boss and this music is kicking your adrenaline into high gear. There are some really amazing childhood memories associated with this song for me and millions of other people who were born a few years before the turn of the millennium. It's definitely one of my most beloved childhood memories ever because I had never experienced hype like that before, and I came away from it as a lifelong Sonic fan. I'm so glad that Sonic Frontiers had great Super Sonic bosses with hype music because now the newer generations of kids get to experience a similar feeling, and I think that's awesome.

[@JessesAuditorium]

Yea haha, I can definitely see the nostalgia going strong in this one. In the most non-negative, making an observation kinda way, you can tell this was geared for kids. RC cars.. marbles, going outside, no bills. This type of song can definitely bring you back to those good times. Kinda wish I mentioned that in the vid, but I was tired 🧍

[@VelvetAura]

@@JessesAuditorium All good my dude, you definitely nailed it on the head there. This song takes me back to a simpler time in my life

[@relaxedhoodie7309]

AW YEAH! THIS IS HAPPENING!

[@chaosspider5765]

@@relaxedhoodie7309 IT DOESNT MATTER NOW WHAT HAPPENS, I WILL NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT!

[@ann-marieellis8523]

@@JessesAuditorium I totally agree, you nailed it! There's a lot of nostalgia tied up ion this song for me too - I was born in 1991, the same year the first Sonic game came out, so I grew up with the series. The song, and games, are a complete cheese-fest, but you know what? Life is complicated and difficult, and sometimes you just need to forget all of that and be a kid again for a little while.

[@MTGHedgefund]

Now imagine you're about to do battle in space trying to stop a space station falling to earth, and this song cues up. So hype

[@JessesAuditorium]

Now we're talkin'

[@jonatanp.1976]

>Imagine >You’re a giant lizard, who’s supposedly the “ultimate lifeform” >Live and learn starts to play >”Oh shi-“

[@thenonexistinghero]

@@jonatanp.1976 That's the Biolizard song though. At least, before that. Shadow's epic final solo boss battle. Also an amazing song. I think Jessie would actually think it'd be more interesting than Live and Learn in terms of Sonic songs.

[@g.masterlordoftheg-force4770]

@@jonatanp.1976 The prototype of the Ultimate Lifeform, thank you very much. How the hell did they go from giant lizard to a small hedgehog?

[@DJ3592]

​... Thank god logic doesn't exist here

[@McgurganatorZX]

"It's So Cheesy In A good way" The ultimate description of Sonic in the late 90s early 2000s, and we love it

[@Wes_Master]

Want to know something mind boggling? Johnny Gioeli, the singer of Crush 40, originally didn’t think this song was good when he first wrote it even though Jun Senoue, the guitarist and composer, said it was great. Johnny only realised how much fans loved it at the first ever live show Crush 40 did and heard the crowd’s reaction when the song began.

[@VelvetAura]

Johnny probably felt similarly in that it was formulaic, but Jun more than likely recognized the mass appeal the song would have

[@jellycore1316]

Ohh, that's really cool, thanks for the info! ^^

[@Dairunt1]

He also was dumbfounded at the millions of views the songs had on KZbin. It was just a project for him for the longest time and underestimated the impact it had as he's nowhere close to the gaming sphere.

[@DrakenKorin]

I was 100% singing along and I got called out mid-video.

[@humphrey33657]

Hahahahaha same!

[@AsukyLovesMaiSan]

Fr

[@MacLeod93]

Same here, man. Lol

[@Cobaltios]

What makes Live and Learn as special as it is, is that you hear short snippets of the instrumentals throughout the entire game. Then, during the FINAL boss, they play the entirety of the song with lyrics. In other words, the song by itself is great, but it's how they present it that makes it so good.

[@ju2tunknown]

Also, the transmissions between the cast and Super Sonic + Shadow, and just everything that's happening during the final battle against the Finalhazard just makes it even better

[@DivusMagus]

It felt so epic as a kid.

[@davidpescitelli8004]

I feel like Live and Learn has pretty much become the official anthem of the series and fandom. Anytime theres some official music event with Sonic it usually ends with Live and Learn.

[@PhilipAJones]

Exactly. Which is why we NEED it for Sonic Movie 3!

[@ronaldedge3317]

@@PhilipAJones word it better be in the movie it is in the whole world will come together.

[@stephaniejohnson5361]

tbh i think live and learn has as much impact to the series as open your heart and especially his world

[@miawmoon8959]

it is!!! people who aren't in the fandom thinks that its green hill or something, and while that is very iconic for sonic, live and learn is the certain favorite for the ones who like the blue blur :D

[@Milo_751]

@@stephaniejohnson5361 It has way more than his world and probably also open your heart

[@RedheadButNotReally]

"This is one of _those_ songs, everyone just singing along." Listen bub, if I wanted to be called out like that I would've said something. 🤣

[@IBAGGaming]

This song absolutely shaped my music tastes throughout my life after hearing it as a kid, same with Open Your Heart. It will always hold a special place for that.

[@phntmthf5505]

Open Your Heart is so good

[@alejandrotti10]

"This is so lame in the coolest way" is a scarily fitting way to describe Sonic. Thinking about it, before Frontiers, he had almost-to-none character development in the games. That always went to his friends.

[@TehParismio]

And even then.

[@KitsyX]

His friends had character development? lol Maybe Shadow? To be fair though, I never played the games for the story and even less for character development... Although I suppose the comics got pretty bonkers with the story...

[@alejandrotti10]

@@KitsyX Of course not all the characters have that, or if they have one that doesn't tend to be as notorious as Shadow's, but here are some I can recall. -Shadow, of course. -Tails, the youngest of the group, stepped up against Eggman, shortly after seeing his hero seemingly die. -Knuckles having the good ol' "last of the echidnas, guardian of Angel Island, protector of the Master Emerald and naive knucklehead" lore. -The entire Gamma arc. -Even thinking outside of Adventure, Silver had literally the most development in 06 (mainly due to his debut) and Blaze had to learn to be helped sometimes in Rush. People like Amy, Cream or Rouge tend to help with other people's arcs rather than their own, while people like Big or the entire Team Chaotix tend to be more on the comic relief side.

[@sketchsskotch1073]

Sonic has a flat character arc, he's meant to be the person with the answers and is instead meant to influence other people's character arcs.

[@Handepsilon]

That's honestly still the case even in Frontiers. That's kinda good and bad depending on how you look at it. The thing about Sonic is that he's usually the orbit of said development rather than the one who experienced it directly

[@Vinylmelody1517]

"So cheesy but fun" is a line sums up the sonic series so much.

[@cracklasco]

Bro came out of nowhere breaking my heart saying “it’s so lame…” then redeems himself by saying “-in the coolest way”

[@brainfreeze91]

"Lame in the coolest way" is a perfect summation of this song, maybe even summing up modern Sonic games as a whole

[@jasonblack2477]

Bro no not all modern sonic games are bad lol

[@cristianovogt5586]

@@jasonblack2477 Sonic Frontiers would like to have a chat with you.

[@jasonblack2477]

@@cristianovogt5586 Amd why? Frontiers isn't bad at all lol

[@Moody.Smiruai]

@@jasonblack2477 frontiers is good. Step in the right direction for sonic...finally!

[@jasonblack2477]

@@Moody.Smiruai yeah it has many issues but its fun. I got every achievement

[@VividAmbitions]

I get that "Lame in the coolest way". That's definitely how the song is with no context, but when you hear it in game you feel so powerful 😂

[@restlessdreams5327]

When the Sonic series is really good, one of its best aspects is its cheesy-ness and how earnest it is. Sonic is a series with a lot of different tones and a lot of different genres of music to convey those tones but this is one of the most fondly looked upon. It is also something the series has lost in the past decade and only gotten back recently in the latest game.

[@MajoraZ]

Other comments have given similar sentiments but just to put it into my own words and to give some additional info I haven't seen yet further down, I think a key aspect of Live and Learn's status how the game builds up to it: It's used as a leitmotif throughout other parts of the games, but only in bits and pieces or in subtle ways, and then in the climax, in the final secret boss where you're fighting in space as Super Sonic and Shadow cometing down to earth, you finally hear the full thing in the most over the top insane, unapologetic fashion possible: For all it's flaws, the Sonic series knows how to use their climaxes to EMPOWER the player, to make YOU feel like the insane, dumb, over the top anime hero, rather then as a moment of desperation with a threatening music and tone: You're the one absolutely crushing the enemy in a moment of triumph, not the big bad being a threat to you. "Lame in the coolest way" is exactly right: SA2 is dumb and self indulgent and it's not ashamed of it, and that really extends to every aspect of the expierence, not just Live and Learn, but many of it's other tracks (more on that below) and the plot/writing (again, over the top anime fight while rocketing down from space while THIS track plays), even the user interface (which alongside it's visual design is very Y2K late 90s/early 00's retrofuturist): The game uses COMIC SANS as it's main font! And it totally works! You have RADICAL and EXTREME score multipliers popping up as you play, etc. Even the gameplay is sort of jank and unpolished, but gives a sense of unmatched over the top flow state and spectacle that shines in spite of it's awkwardness. I honestly think every inch of Sonic Adventure 2's soundtrack is incredible, and a key part of that is how all of the stage themes are different genres for different characters: The game has 3 playstyles, with Sonic and Shadow being high speed platforming, Tails and Eggman being in shoot em up style segments, and Knuckles and Rouge having more open ended sandbox exploration stages. In terms of music, Sonic has your high energy buttrock, Shadow's stages are more of an industrial grungier twist on the same thing, with Tails and Eggman similarly both being electronic but Tail's with more synth and upbreat aspects, and Eggman with more industrial, mechanical elements. Knuckles has the cheesiest dumbest smooth hip hop; while Rouge has very classic spy/heist film jazz/bossa nova tracks. I think that gives a lost of the soundtrack a strong variety, and almost makes the soundtrack feel like it has it's own sense of identity: It's feels like it's own character and a PART of the characters and envoirments as a result: All good soundtracks do this, to an extent, but it's really moreso the case with SA2 then most games or films or anime i've consumed. I'm not sure how feasible it'd be for you, but when (and I say when, not if I'm sure you'll eventually get requests to do the whole OST, I'll probably chip in there down the line too!) you cover more tracks, it may be worth actually looking at some gameplay of that stage or boss fight at the same time. I hope you enjoy the other tracks like you did this one once you get to them!

[@Dave_Chrome]

Hey you're that guy who made those awesome long informative comments on MrRoflwaffles Halo series playthrough streams! Glad to see a fellow passionate Halo, and apparently Sonic, fan :D

[@MajoraZ]

@@Dave_Chrome Man you should see the giant comments I leave about Mesoamerican history and archeology if you think the Halo and Sonic stuff is long! Check out Ancient America's video on Teotihuacan for example.

[@Dave_Chrome]

@@MajoraZ wow, that is a large one. It's neat that you took photos of the museum pieces and shared them for others to see. And, if you're not already there or heading in that direction, I think you could be a killer journalist! You clearly know how to do your research and support a thesis

[@Stormfall7]

You finally got to hear this, YES! It's such a good feeling to see someone hear a song like this and enjoy it all these years later. Yeah, Open Your Heart and Live and Learn really are like brothers. They both play at the same spot in their respective games, and serve the same purpose. I've always preferred this one just a bit over Open Your Heart, but both are just hype af! The setting for this song in SA2, and the overall feel of the battle I think maybe always made me love it a bit more.

[@TallicaMan1986]

Sonic Adventure 2 is very much like a movie. This song is so much cooler in context of the whole game. It also has instrumental motifs of earlier tracks in the game.

[@rezahydra]

You’ve opened your heart, and you’ve learned what this series’s music is like. Now you need to experience the true power of comments and we will show you What I’m Made Of

[@dantemitsoyu977]

That part

[@OMR3333]

Ian Flynn writing moment

[@rontheauraknight9606]

Now he needs to listen to escape from the city

[@sonicboy5]

Once he listens to it all, he should listen to sonic youth by crush 40

[@tyminator8176]

I was gonna comment this too

[@KenBiggs]

One great thing about the sonic series is they give you a instrumental as the Start screen, and then the last boss you hear it kick in, then the lyrics just get you super hyped.

[@nekorion]

Other songs like live and learn and open your heart? Probably the first level of sonic adventure 2, escape from the city. Also every character in the adventure series got their own themes, all equally cheesy but in much more diverse range of genres

[@llAlexGaTesll]

escape from the city is gold too

[@ronaldedge3317]

@@llAlexGaTesll FACTS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@KEEPTALKIN8215]

Unknown to M.E.

[@lovingfool2060]

There was a recent symthony where they performed this again, it's like they haven't aged a day in 30 years man. Johnny really carries the performance with his vocals, and he's done so much with the fans including doing fan songs like "crushing in your 30s"

[@Brobuscus101]

This might be blasphemous, but I honestly prefer the Symphony version over the original Though that can apply to most of the Symphony

[@infiniteoctopaw]

I got to see this performed by the Sonic Symphony in February of this year. They went over all the things in historical order. Clasic era- 3d era- meta era- all 4 frontiers boss songs. They saved this as the finale encore. Hearing this preformed live, backed up by a symphony in a crowd of very happy sonic fans, all screaming the lyrics. It was a religious experience.

[@jonatanp.1976]

Yeaaaahh babyyyy, that’s what I’ve been waiting for!

[@relaxedhoodie7309]

I think this song is one of the most important songs of my childhood and genuinely just a important one for my love of this franchise. The opening line “Can you feel life. Moving through your mind? Can you feel time. Slipping down your spine?” Gives me chills of it’s imaginary. Sonic Adventure 2 is my favorite game of all time purely shaped and molded my music taste within the early 2000’s growing up. Crush 40 will always be loved and the work they do for these games are incredible. Really underappreciated by the gaming community and it makes me sad that we get looked at as the laughing stock for so long. I’m happy this series has made a comeback. Feels fantastic to be a fan again.

[@Dimumouto]

The reason it sounds and feels so cheesy is because *it is*! But that doesn't mean it's bad. The Sonic series is primarily aimed at children and younger teens, and as Liam Triforce put it, when they started adding vocal tracks, instead of putting a heavy, dark, brooding theme to accompany the final boss, Sonic Team decided to go the entire opposite direction; make songs that EMPOWER you. I mean, SA2 is rated E10+. So little 11 year old Timmy finally gets to the final boss (as other commenters said, a giant space lizard on a collision course towards Earth to destroy it), the song amps them up and makes the kids feel like they can overcome the "overwhelming" odds. And for such a low age rated game, SA2 can get PRETTY dark; the gunning down of a child, the execution of a mad scientist out for revenge, the threat of the planet being destroyed, all pretty heavy stuff for a kid. Other examples of fights against god like entities that would typically get an epic but dark sounding theme song and instead get an empowering one; Dark Gaia and Solaris (phase 2 specifically) come to mind instantly, and recently, The End from Sonic Frontiers (though that has an ENTIRELY different feel).

[@9000man]

Can you feel life moving through your mind Looks like it came back for more - yeah Can you feel time slipping down your spine You try and try to ignore, yeah But you can hardly swallow Your fears and pain When you can't help but follow It puts you right back where you came Live and learn Hangin' on to the edge of tomorrow Live and learn From the works of yesterday Live and learn If you beg or if you borrow Live and learn You may never find your way Can you feel life tangle you up inside (yeah!) And now your face down on the floor, oh But you can't save your sorrow You've paid in trade When you can't help but follow It puts you right back where you came Live and learn Hangin' on to the edge of tomorrow Live and learn From the works of yesterday Live and learn If you beg or if you borrow Live and learn You may never find your way There's a face searching far, so far and wide There's a place where you dreamed you'd never find Hold on to what if... Hold on to what if... Live and learn Hangin' on to the edge of tomorrow Live and learn From the works of yesterday Live and learn If you beg or if you borrow Live and learn You may never find your way Live and learn Hangin' on to the edge of tomorrow Live and learn From the works of yesterday Live and learn If you beg or if you borrow Live and learn You may never find your way Live and learn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Live and learn Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[@supervegeta881]

This song might as well be the theme of my childhood. Can't believe you're just recently hearing it after all this time. Seeing your first time reaction really takes me back, that's one of the reasons why I love your videos!

[@f1championyoutube2.09]

FINALLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY ❤❤❤ After your reaction of Open Your Heart, this was inevitable

[@J2ojuiced95]

I’ve been looking forward to Jesse getting to Crush 40’s most iconic song. This song is just pure hype as is befitting for a final boss theme. The game does a really great job leading up to this song, as several variations of the main riff play during the games menu screens. Plus the actual song name is referenced in the lyrics of SA2’s other most iconic song City Escape. Live and Learn definitely is designed to be a crowd pleaser, as anytime Crush 40 have performed it live, it always gets the audiences hype through the roof.

[@temporalwolf7054]

One of the best things about Crush 40's work for the Sonic Adventure games is how of the time it is. Like... there really is nothing more evocative of teenage years than Open Your Heart and Live and Learn. As for where the song plays, you are half right in that it is the main theme of the game, but it's also - like Open Your Heart - the final boss theme. The final bosses of the Adventure games are less bosses in the normal since, and more a victory lap. Sonic goes Super Saiyan, you're invincible and throwing down with a massive cosmic level kaiju and it's just pure anime nonsense and its glorious.

[@NetMoverSitan]

The Final Boss theme of Sonic Adventure 2 and also the music used in Sonic's reveal trailer in Super Smash Bros Brawl.

[@VelvetAura]

Big moment for Sonic fans everywhere. Still remember where I was when that reveal trailer dropped lol

[@sharzinlalebazri5673]

If you want another song in the style of Open Your Heart and Live and Learn, I'd recommend "What I'm Made Of" from Sonic Heroes. It might sound stupid but that song set my standard for guitar solos at a very young.

[@draconis17]

ah, yes, the early 2000s. I missed you.

[@lighting7508]

I love how hard he commits to the vocals 😂😂😂 transforms it from cheesy to legendary

[@Canalbiruta]

No wonder this was basically sonic's theme through out the whole 2000s, is basically a description of the whole franchise. Cheesy and campy cool stuff all mixed together, and the music is basically every cheesy rock ever, the structure, the way the riff is introduced and used, the karaoke singing style, even the solo! God i love this band lmao

[@drakechandler9014]

I’m glad a lot of people send you the DeoxysPrime links. Even though the view count is smaller, his uploads of Sonic music are much higher quality and clearer sounding than older uploads.

[@richmenace_9485]

I think what made hearing this song so satisfying in the game is the fact that you hear this lick played in the menu screen every time you boot it up, but you never hear the full track until you fight the final boss. Made it so much cooler

[@SamuraiFoochs]

JESSE! MY DUDE! "Lame in the coolest way" is so perfect as a descriptor. Spot on. I seriously think the Nathan Sharp a.k.a. NateWantsToBattle cover of this track miiiiiight be even better. Nate's a KZbinr who's done game and anime covers and also game and anime-inspired original songs for years, but he's so good people have started bringing him on. He's the singer of the OFFICIAL final credits song of the latest Sonic game and did the official dub version for the second opening of Dragonball Super. Speaking of the latest Sonic game, yes, I'd kill to have you react to the boss themes from that game (Undefeatable, Break Through It All, and Find Your Flame). It's like, the next evolution of the "coolest lameness you've ever heard" genre.

[@SSJ22Terris]

A lot what makes this song kill is the context it's used in. You hear a few motif's from this song in the opening cinematic, and you hear an instrumental version for the Main Menu theme. You hear some of the motif's elsewhere too, so you gain a familiarity with the tune throughout your playthrough. Then finally, when you enter the Last Story, the climax quickly forms and you guy right into the last stage, at the end you get a boss fight, and at the last second the problem gets worse. Then the moment to finally end it and resolve all the conflicts arrives, and we hear an excerpt of this play and Sonic goes super to take on the final boss in a last ditch effort to stop the space colony from crashing into the planet and destroying everything. And then for that Boss Fight, the full song you heard here on Loop plays. Like you said, the song hits way harder with Lyrics, so it's this amazing feeling to finally fully realize the song, after all the build up, at the absolute climax of action, hype and the story.

[@T_Man]

Now imagine you are fighting a giant monster in space as a giant space colony hurdles towards earth and you most defeat the monster as it spews lasers and energy at you while you must beat it to death before the colony destroys the earth on impact. And this song is blaring the whole time.

[@therighttrousers343]

To quote Johnny Giueli: Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@VelvetAura]

lookslikeyouCAMEBACKFOR MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

[@joshz2491]

The one thing about sonic that always shines through the series despite inconsistent quality of games, beyond the Genesis era, is the music.

[@Mew4U]

I feel like the story really makes you get into the song more. Love it

[@TrueSuperSaiyan5287]

Now ya gotta do “Undefeatable” from Sonic Frontiers. The music in that game brings the franchise to a whole other level

[@waypastcoolkid]

YES!!! Undefeatable is so spine tinglingly good ︎💙

[@nazzify6417]

Also "Break Through it All" and "Find your Flame"

[@DuckerFromTheLandOfTucker]

I don’t really like undefeatable tbh I think it’s too screechy for my tastes

[@Zebstrom]

“This is so lame in the coolest way. It’s so cheesy, but it’s sick. It’s awesome, but this has so many formulas of just, like, tropes and stereotypes.” Yeah, Sonic is like that… oh and this song too!

[@Bluerivalofjumpman]

This song was my childhood that and city escape... man i feel old.

[@GeebzGBZ]

I love how sonic embraces the cheese and just aces the execution, unashamedly a blue hedgehog fighting a bald guy named after a part of a healthy breakfast

[@ItsBeastiee]

BROO W VID, I WAS READY FOR THIS ONE

[@phntmthf5505]

YES! One of my favorite songs from the Sonic games!

[@shingi01]

yessss it is here, i have waited for this

[@Antis14CZ]

With cheese, you have to go big or go home. Crush 40 chooses to go big.

[@Antis14CZ]

So that's two down, what's next? What I'm Made Of?

[@rotciv557]

Now I wish he also reacted to the recent 30th anniversary remix. That one was a redone performance by the original band WITH AN ENTIRE ORCHESTRA ALSO PLAYING! Gives it a fairly different feel while keeping the original spirit and hype of the song intact.

[@yaleel1xae168]

We have been blessed 🙌🏼

[@MajorChipHazard19]

Oh here we fuckin GO

[@TheGamingAngel18]

YES ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS! You should also react to Undefeatable from Sonic Frontiers.

[@kiddfaz]

Live and Learn is arguably the most iconic song in the entire franchise. Such a timeless song that graced generations of gamers

[@eoghaner2k10]

I've been waiting for this video for so long, talk about an amazing christmas gift. Happy Holidays Jesse!

[@Megaflare99]

Dude this song fuckin rocks even today. Best sonic song by far. His world and city escape are great too

[@TheHyny]

Hey man, just wanted to drop in and thank you for the content you've been making. It's always a blast. Don't be afraid to say if something is not up your alley or just objectively sucks. That's what I'm here for, partially. It's always awesome when you share in our hype, and I'd wager that's what most people come here to experience, but on the other hand hearing criticism from someone who really knows what they're talking about is just as interesting. To me at least. And I know I'm not alone on that. My enjoyment of the piece is not gonna lessen because of it. It's gonna get stronger because I can learn to love it despite it's flaws. Edit: How dare you call me out for singing along. 🤣

[@jonathanbeaudoin495]

you got the first one , you lived and learned now you have to escape form the city , to go end up in His world .

[@godjes5379]

Thank you for whoever requested this. I just started listening again to the song and I'm glad others are also still listening to it

[@LJboochaa]

You can’t help but roll with the cheesiness with this one..

[@godofsquirrels494]

Funnily enough the first time I heard this song was in a collab quest in Monster Hunter. Chasing a Nargacuga in the Flooded Forest on a palamute just feels right with this song.

[@KeeperOfUntoldDreams]

I hear "Open Your Heart" and I feel 5 years old again. I hear "Live and Learn" and I feel 10 years old again. Video games dominated my childhood, and Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 were two of the games that I played the most. It's funny, for as much as I love the games, I constantly remind myself that my intro to them was a complete accident. When I was 5, my favorite Dreamcast game, Rayman 2, got ruined (thanks Dad) and when Mom and Dad couldn't find a replacement copy at there store, they got me Sonic Adventure 1 instead. Since I was missing my favorite game, I wasn't too thrilled to play it initially, but, it didn't take too long for it to catch my intention. Eventually I did get my replacement copy of Rayman 2 (and it is for sure my favorite childhood game), but, by that point, Sonic was there to stay. Words can't explain how hyped I was when I first saw the ad for Sonic Adventure 2 on tv when I was 6 years old, my head was just brimming with mental pictures of what the game would look like. I finally got it on my 7th birthday and, to this day (I'm 28 now) it's probably the most excited I've been for a birthday present. SA2 was definitely one of the games that floored me as a kid, and though it took a few years of attempting the final stage (enduring my grandfather's presisten goading everytime I booted up the game), I finally beat it, and goddamn was it worth it.

[@transfan24]

So this was the big theme for Sonic Adventure 2, which came out in 2001 (it was for Sonic's 10th anniversary), and the game that introduced Shadow. It's definitely one that's great to sing along to, definitely has that anthem feel, and combining that with how insanely well loved SA2 is, this is pretty high on a lot of people's lists. Crush 40's guitarist is the same person who wrote a lot of the previous games music (Big Arm is one you enjoyed), but yeah, their singer is a huge part of the draw. It's hard not to see how much fun he's having!

[@PhilipAJones]

Interesting observation. There's an old video of Live and Learn's vocals placed over Go Go Power Rangers' instrumental and it fit.

[@MajoraZ]

Got a link to that or can you say what channel?

[@Sekainoowaride]

"LIVE and LEARN!"

[@Dorito_Djinn]

I think the best way to say it is that this song has a lot of heart and that makes it stand out.

[@FSAPOJake]

This song turned me into a Johnny Gioeli fan, and I ended up becoming obsessed with the music projects he was associated with. Most famously, Hardline. I'll admit, the song in a vacuum isn't anything mind blowing or amazing, but it's solid. Great guitar work and pretty amazing vocals by Johnny as usual. Put it in the context of the game though and it's amazing.

[@PhilipAJones]

You're not wrong. Tons of people choose this song as their karaoke track at Anime Expo.

[@1337Ragnal1337]

You caught me in the act of singing along. I can't help it. Its so cheesy and lame but i love it.

[@catherine1756]

"Remember arcades?" made me feel ancient. But you're so right. This is music you'd hear at an arcade. It's dated as hell but it's fun and you can tell Crush 40 is having fun, so it bleeds through imo

[@RednekGamurz]

While this isn't my favorite of the big 3 Crush40 Sonic themes (Open Your Heart, Live & Learn, What I'm Made Of), it's definitely the crowd-pleaser. It's fun to watch live performances the band does from time to time, cause every time the crowd hears the opening begin, they go nuts. When SEGA did their 30th Anniversary Sonic concert back in 2021, this was the song they ended the show on (which is a great version on it's own, adding a more orchestral touch, which makes it sound a bit less generic).

[@LarryButz]

Sonic fans have collectively agreed that all lyrical Sonic songs are under the Butt Rock genre; the most powerful song genre for kids, teens and folk of all sharpness degrees of edge. Crush 40 has perfected this power as a weapon of mass destruction and created a whole generation for loving VGM. Sonic Frontiers has evolved that with their lyrical OSTs being sheer butt raising edge and hype.

[@AdderMoray]

The most underappreciated, and in my opinion best, song from SA2 is "Supporting Me" from the stage before the one in which this song played. But the best beloved song has to be Escape from the City

[@TC7-Thecomplex7]

Hearing this song alone when I was a young sonic fan unironically made me want a guitar so badly, maybe some day.

[@AREAlhero]

Seeing Crush 40 live a few years back and getting to belt out all the words of this song with a ballroom full of fellow nerds was honestly the perfect swan song to my young childhood self. You're absolutely right, this song is dumb and lame as hell but god does hearing it bring the same exact feelings I had back then. Glad to hear you get exactly that and still find some enjoyment in it! You can really tell with Crush 40 in particular that Johnny Gioeli and Jun Senoue both love cheesy, tropy rock and they are brothers-in-arms in that sense and that's honestly great! You asked if there are any similar songs with this vibe past these two and I'd say yes there are! From Crush 40 in the next main Sonic game there's "What I'm Made Of" which is my personal fav song of theirs, and as far as fan-beloved upbeat rock banger, from this very same game there's Tony Harnell and Ted Poley's "Escape From the City"!

[@KEEPTALKIN8215]

You should watch this performance live. Watching the audience sing along is something else.

[@datpuertorican2495]

Christmas came early woo

[@SILVERONIN]

I remember playing this back in 2002 on GameCube, reaching the final boss, this played and my anti gaming father said this song is catchy! That's how you know this song slaps 🔥🔥

[@AxeloftheKey]

This song is the epitome of what people call "buttrock." When you're a pre-teen, this song is everything. I'll never forget just chilling in the BGM section of the menu and replaying music from this game, with this one of course being replayed consistently. Then I made my first mix CD as a child, and you bet your ass this was on it. Is this song good? Objectively it doesn't do anything special or unique. Subjectively, however, it's a song that makes everyone party. I feel like if I could hear this song live in a crowd, we'd all lose our minds. Good stuff.

[@deathgyunos294]

I don't know about the same feeling, but crush 40 also did a couple of songs for Sonic Heroes. The song "what I'm Made Of" strikes me as the younger half sibling to "open your heart" and "live and learn".

[@kevincmejia]

The important thing that we need to take in consideration is that this is the song that plays in the final battle, i know is cheesy but when you have the fi al boss with this riffs and lyrics you cannot help but jamm to it and feel motivated to finish the fight

[@DanFDTR]

One of the coolest things about this song is how it's used in the game. There's an instrumental version on the main menu and other instrumental versions that play in certain scenes in the game. But then you get to the final boss of the game you get this version of the song as the boss music. I remember the first time I got tot the final boss I started headbanging right away when the boss intro started and this was the music but as soon as the game gave me control and the fight started was when the vocals kicked in I got so hyped to kill this boss, it didn't even matter that I died a few times and had to restart. Every time I was just as hyped to finally hear the full song and it be the boss music was so cool to me at the time. It was like when you get to the end of an anime and they use the opening song during one of the final battles.

[@hollowowlyt]

You know... I was playing GG Strive at my friend's house when it came out and I kept saying that the music sounded like Sonic, and they all gave me shit. Maybe they took it the wrong way or something. Either way hearing you say that was very gratifying.

[@corruptedteka]

Well, yeah you called me out, I was singing the whole way through ! It really pumps you up !

[@dirtbones3694]

“i can see you all singing” ive never felt so called out before

[@embler946]

you're going to love "undefeatable" from sonic frontiers

[@bomb4r719]

Man, it absolutely is a song you sing along to. Hell, even when I don't sing along, I find myself mouthing the lyrics automatically. It's really hard not to

[@numb4102]

You need to listen to the new titan music from sonic frontiers(Feature Kellin quinn lmaoo)

[@heavensdooooor4251]

The First songs of Crush 40 mostly are anthem songs, but more to 2007 that changes a bit i think. Knight of the Wind is one, their version of With me of Sonic and The Black Knight is Another. Live Life, Seven Rings in Hand And for sure Ungravitify. Ungravitify is a slow rock sound with one of the best guitar solos of Crush 40.

[@CrimsonSteelMoonTheWolf64]

Like a lot of people have been saying in the comments "lame but in the coolest way" is spot on. Some people refer to these songs as "butt rock". It's a guilty pleasure for some while for me I don't mind the goofy cheesey nature of it and absolutely love it. It was my utmost favorite song from childhood video game wise. It gets you so pumped. Especially when it plays when you fight the final/secret story boss.

[@terrenal2092]

Live and Learn by Crush 40 is always a good time. would love to see your reaction to Knight of the wind by Crush 40 for the game Sonic and The Black Knight, or some the character themes like Fly in the freedom for Rouge the bat or Unknown from M.E. for knuckles.

[@roguebanshee]

Before listening: "But what if it sucks?" 5 seconds into the song: "It doesn't suck."

[@DivusMagus]

"I can see you all singing right now." You didn't have to call me out like that.

[@abrogaming5976]

Awesome. Crush 40 music is so good, and all sonic themes are pretty nice. Been listening to the sonic frontiers ost a ton. Next please try Undefeatable from Sonic frontiers or His World from sonic 06

[@Toastand_egg]

The first song i ever learned all the lyrics to as a kid

[@wahresschaff]

Alright everyone, now push for the biolizard theme

[@xX_Thaddeus_Xx]

People have mentioned Live and Learn as a motif in other SA2 tracks--if you ever do 'Supporting me (For Biolizard)' keep an ear out, is all I'll say.