Video Games That Stole Their Music

Who knew theft could be so easy? Today we talk about Video Game music and the many types of 'inspirations' composers have taken. It's easy to call something stolen, but what actually qualifies as plagarism? That's what we'll be looking at today!
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thomas game docs - • The Pop song that Nint...
the dpad on mj in sonic 3 - • A Brief History of Mic...
mother series plagarized - • All Known Musical Refe...
whole article on a ton - www.gamesradar.com/soundtrack...
the rest were made popular on tiktok/twitter so i can't remember where i first saw them sorre

[@paperpopper2586]

One of my worst fears is (eventually) making a song then finding out i unconsciously copied a melody or something from an existing song

[@BinglesP]

SAME SO MUCH especially people not believing it's a coincidence

[@klaibefhuoaiuwehjklbdfsnxnik]

Fun fact: Every day you're slightly more likely to copy something, as new things are made every day.

[@FuranA7x]

Seriously, don't worry about it. That's how music is created. No one "invented" anything. Unless you recreate the exact same song (melody, rythm, harmony, etc), you are making new music like every other human ever. People that say you are "copying" music because your song resemble another is simply ignorant on the topic.

[@Blanktester685]

@@FuranA7x someone had to have invented it at some point in history.

[@FuranA7x]

@@Blanktester685 Yes, but even if you create a "similar" song, you are creating something new.

[@brebeaa]

As an illustrator, I can relate. Artists take the best bits of things we love from other artists and turn them into ingredients for our own art. Hopefully, with enough ingredients from enough sources we can create a fresh dish, with hints of what made it, but having a taste all its own. That’s all of art in a nutshell.

[@killmii8473]

​@Don't Read My Profile Picture ok

[@SuspiciousScout]

Definitely. Nothing people create is ever truly, wholly "original". We all take inspiration from something, and that's the whole point, to then meld it into something of your own creation.

[@beanoptodon]

​@Don't Read My Profile Picture okay, I won't. Thanks for warning me to not look at your account.

[@cheesyanimationstudios6023]

Once I made a character that looks too much like Bill cipher, because he had giant eyes and literally had powers to end the universe

[@brebeaa]

@@cheesyanimationstudios6023 I once made a character that had black hair with red streaks, and a long lost love named Maria. It took my friend pointing out that I had just created a human Shadow the Hedgehog for me to realize what I had done! 😂

[@TimesChu]

Let's be real: the idea that a chord progression or basic rhythm can be "stolen" is an invention of record labels who would copyright whole instruments if they could.

[@Barakon]

Or basically, COPYRIGHT IS A BITCH

[@justsomewheel9379]

Eventually we're gonna run out of cord progressions and every new song will be copyright striked Brands have already copyrighted literal colours so the copyright industry is clearly doomed

[@yeildishere]

​@@justsomewheel9379honestly it just shows that copyright in it's current form need sto be scaled back a fuck ton to avoid this kinda shit from happening and preventing the greedy masters of entertainment from hogging everything to themselves

[@MrGamelover23]

And that's why the Marvin Gaye estate should kill themselves.

[@dannickfausse3312]

@@justsomewheel9379That’s just not true though, there’s so much more that goes into making a song than just the chord progression and besides even if you have the same progression your song can still sound completely different

[@aritherecluse2927]

Japanese city pop being the inspiration for the songs I grew up with explains why I get "nostalgia I never had" from them, being not alive when those songs came out

[@Johnnybomb1]

Yeah, as it turns out, most of these "genius" Japanese video games composers of the 80s and 90s, heavily plagiarized popular Japanese songs at the time, in addition to West Pop, Funk, Jazz, etc...

[@Blitz_Spencer]

@@Johnnybomb1heavily inspired =/= plagiarized

[@Yuti640]

I love it when people reference old YTPs

[@BinglesP]

Same!!! I quote cs188, DaThings, and even my own YTPs way too often irl

[@wezerd]

my boy

[@Beanman745]

All toasters toast toast

[@clamdeity]

ive gotten saying "die" in a CDI ganon voice down to a science

[@Sophilautia]

I feel like it's a common language that instantly connects so many of us lmao

[@jebdeb5181]

I’m just loving the reoccurring gag of alax entering the room in different weird ass ways everytime.

[@HDGamerofficial]

I do love that too but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss: WOW WAHOO GUH-HUH HOO HA HOO HUH COME ON BEEUTCH ITS SONIC SPEED

[@Hugo-yz1vb]

​@@HDGamerofficial IT'S SONIC SPEED solos

[@user-eh2vi6lk7n]

In this one it seems like just an hawaian shirt... Not a direct reference to something.

[@criticalhit07]

​@@user-eh2vi6lk7n it was instant transmission

[@lux3239]

Honestly, I think its cool that there is so much video game music that is "stolen" from real world songs. In a way, its just a neat little reminder that everything we make intentionally or not is still inspired by our surroundings. I just think thats neat.

[@brisayman]

The fact is, you can’t base a plagiarism argument on three notes, a popular cord progression nor a common drum beat. Artist don’t create out of nothing, we have influences and the creation process usually come down to mixing multiple already existing ideas and influence to create something fresher. Thanks for having a nuanced opinion 🙏

[@_clout]

i love how ever since he found that clip of dk falling off the minecart and posted it on twitter he’s had it in every video since his return

[@lrgogo1517]

What? That can't be!

[@Murnjendoof_too]

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that despite having Spamton in the thumbnail, you didn't mention that the main beat for NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A is virtually identical to the one seen in the Vile/Sigma Fortress Boss theme from Megaman X.

[@picante403]

I second this

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

[Big Shot!]

[@Discordscamgotme]

Ironically Spamton in the thumbnail catched my attention first to click this video

[@caucasoidape8838]

The Devil boss music in Cuphead is inspired by the Sigma fight in Mega Man X.

[@camera2178]

Similar segment of the song, but not enough to be a full copy.

[@MONSTAboyGaming]

Finding out the entire sonic 1 soundtrack was a whole bunch of songs I didn’t know was heartbreaking to me

[@caucasoidape8838]

He skipped the regular boss, Scrap Brain Zone, and special stage music.

[@MONSTAboyGaming]

@@caucasoidape8838oh also green hill zone, game over, zone clear, title, ending, & credits. But otherwise…

[@ironmaster6496]

I feel you buddy, i'm honestly really depressed right now because I found the same about another franchise I really love

[@Diogo85]

​@@caucasoidape8838Scrap Brain Zone sounds similar to the Blade Runner end titles by Vangelis.

[@jan_Eten]

I clicked because Sonic being a Smooth Criminal.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

_Super Mario World’s_ copying of “Green, Green” was unintentional, and Koji Kondo wasn’t aware he was doing it until after the fact.

[@uh3610]

@@harrybest2041use the * symbol

[@jan_Eten]

yeah i know

[@frkm3rt708]

Instead of green green

[@williamshakespeare8723]

Bullshit, given the fact that others were also stolen how can this be not, I think all were stolen intentionally. How are you gonna defend the other songs of mario, huh?

[@justcallmezudo]

I always like it when you talk about video game music or music in general in the channel, even if I comprehend nothing about music, the video still feels very informational while keeping the comedy top notch

[@bensoncheung2801]

222 👍 2nd 💬

[@CysmaWinheim]

Thanks to Koji Kondo "borrowing" a few notes, I now enjoy listening to Japanese jazz-fusion.

[@scottythegreat1]

That's how I got started with T-Square. The Adventures album and the New-S album are full of video game inspirations.

[@CysmaWinheim]

@@scottythegreat1 Truth is another great album of theirs.

[@RobinsMusic]

Casiopea is amazing

[@Ninjacat25]

Y'know, game music taking heavy inspiration from other tunes, can kind of feel like a cool little easter egg and perhaps even give some insight into the composer's music taste.

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Exactly

[@remix7345]

12:16 to be fair every rockabilly song in a video game sounds like this

[@tylerhurst1046]

The clip of DK falling never fails to get a laugh out of me no matter how many times I see it

[@extremmefan7305]

Apparently music is literally the main thing holding back Mother 3 from being localized; not dissimilar to how rarely Sonic 3 got rereleased (or its music referenced). And that's because one of the causes for it is the same. Japan can get away with ITS Mother 3 rereleases because the copyright laws on music are much more lenient apparently, but the game has several key compositions taken from western pop culture; INCLUDING the man, MJ himself, with M3's Natural Killer Robot sounding like the hit title Beat It (one of my personal childhood favorite). And that's without counting all the other songs it likely "stole" from (we don't know if it's an actual steal for any of them but apparently there's strong similarities). The Mother/EarthBound series in general did that quite a lot, but because the first two games were in an era where you couldn't really tell whether it was direct samplings or just inspirations, they're given more of a pass because most of them are transformative shorter snippets. Mother 3 does not have that luxury, as it does it for several kinds of songs, short or not, transformed or not, with NKR being the icing on the cake (it's a battle theme for a boss fight; it's clearly neither short nor transformative).

[@juanrodriguez9971]

I love how despite having less than 100k views (not even 90k) feels like everyone watched the same video, kind of tells how small and concentrated the community actually is for it to seemingly feel like everyone knows about this now.

[@NikolasN64]

Yea, just saw a video about this on “Moon Channel”’s account. Crazy bruh I thought it was the other suspicious things about the game

[@crittr]

A large portion of Sanctuary Guardian from Mother 2 sounds incredibly similar to the intro theme of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

[@Hal_142]

for the sonic 1 stuff. I remember hearing the composer was a pop musician and he liked adding a pop style opening to the songs. which is why they sound like that and why the sonic soundtrack is so memorable.

[@caucasoidape8838]

I prefer Sonic 1 and 2 music over what came later.

[@MayomeSanz]

@@caucasoidape8838 you clearly have never heard the Sonic 3k ost

[@Outta-hz1ej]

Dreams Come True was a popular J-pop band and they did the soundtrack for Sonic 1 and 2. Green Hill Zone was based on one of their songs called Sweet Sweet Sweet.

[@bootlegbison3758]

I've been studying music for the past 2 years so far because I love video game music. Accidentally plagiarising music is something that scares me sooo much. I once had a song idea that I let sit in my head for a while, until I wrote it down and immediately realised I was literally copying the melody to "The Clock Tower" from dead cell without even remembering that's where it came from. I really wanna make some bops but I have so many inspirations I'm a bit scared of just straight up ripping off a song.

[@Modtro64]

I love this sort of musical nonsense. Its so cool seeing songs that define so many fun memories and there are the cases where it's blantant plagarism, but the others feel more like these composers are putting bits of the music they grew up with, into these games and giving them a new sort of identity and something future generations can take inspiration from.

[@The_Metal_Mechanic]

Thank you for mentioning Yamamoto. I discovered Stratovarius indirectly because of Budokai. I fell in love with Hunting High and Low in my teen years and it always felt super familiar to me. It wasn't until I heard about Yamamoto's plagarism scandal that I went through and found out that not only was that track stolen for Budokai, but 2 more songs from the same album were also stolen for Budokai. Finding out was somehow felt rewarding and hollow at the same time.

[@MastaGambit]

it aggravates me that alax only focused on September in the video lmao

[@Deliveredmean42]

@@MastaGambit The ending tho.

[@ProjectFrenzy]

It's so cool to me that the actual main drum groove from the original Knuckles theme is hidden inside the final version of Blood On The Dancefloor, in the chorus. It's used more as an accent in the final track but for Knux, it's the entire song base. It's cool to see it utilised in different ways based on the context

[@dilflover69x97]

10:01 this part was in Henry Stickmin series somewhere too one of the endings I think

[@ChannelIsNotInUse]

And now I suddenly hear Ghost Inmate when I listen to this. I cannot believe it was influenced/plagiarized

[@MusicianNrd]

@@ChannelIsNotInUseIt was actually remixed by 3lation on Newgrounds and KZbin

[@EpsilonZolton]

i knew about green greens , sonic 3 and dooms music but just seeing the expanse of it across the entire video game library is astounding however songs like these are the reason that sillva gunner exists

[@thymecrafter]

then silvagunner steals music:

[@yuikitsuneko]

One example I really like is the Touhou Project series. A lot of the songs ZUN makes, especially the older ones, sound like they are nods to other songs. My favorite example the theme of Momiji Inubashiri(the awoo meme girl) and how it sounds just like a song called Song in Blue! There's a lot of other similar examples in the series and I really recommend you check them out!

[@BinglesP]

I always wondered why he managed to make so many different melodies. I guess that's why.

[@somefries3101]

Remilia's theme

[@yuikitsuneko]

@@somefries3101 Context?

[@somefries3101]

@@yuikitsuneko beethoven

[@marx4538]

Song in blue for a primarily red-colored character

[@Shattered_Spirit]

8:16 you can't run forever..

[@ThisisTheUltimate]

I actually have seen already a lot of Sonic songs that are inspired or have the same melody as other songs, I have created a private playlist just for that actually, lol, some of those in the video I already knew, but I found some new ones too, cool! The ones that I already had on my playlist, here just to share, are these: Peter Piper (Run DMC) - Launch Base Zone (Sonic 3) (both melody and "Go!" samples) Americana (The Offspring) - Won't Stop, Just Go!/Green Forest (Sonic Adventure 2) Ghetto Red Hot (Super Cat, especifically the Hip Hop Mix) - Red Mountain (inside part)/Red Hot Skull (Sonic Adventure) Push The Feeling On (Nightcrawlers) - Reactive Factory/Work it Out (Sonic R) Step Daughter (Casiopea) - Bridge Zone (Sonic 1 GG and SMS)/Believe in Myself (Sonic Adventure) (that already sounds like Bridge Zone) Music Sounds Better With You (Stardust) - Dreams of an Absolution (Silver's theme, Sonic 06) I also got some tracks that are just samples used in Sonic Songs instead of melodies, like used in Sonic CD or Sonic Rush ("Work that Sucker to Death" and "Feeling Hot, hot, hot", just some examples) Also, I already knew some of the Nintendo ones too, and discovered some news as well, also pretty nice

[@gribblegrape6496]

A recent example of this I personally really like is the similarities between the intros to, orb of dreamers from 2008’s Littlebigplanet. And chirp from 2011’s Minecraft. There was some talk about c418, the composer of Minecraft plagiarizing from ( I believe his name was Daniel Pemberton ) the composer of lbp. But the truth is that they both just ripped a sound loop from apple’s garage band app and called it a day. lol As someone who adores both series, and came to the conclusion that one copied the other long before I ever heard anything online about it, that’s a very funny end to that story.

[@tahutoa]

I think the loop might come from the mellotron

[@chi-wind8593]

13:21:My same reaction, I listened to that many times. I can’t believe that I did not make that connection.

[@czmmpower3005]

12:51 HOW DARE YOU! RUIN THE MARBLE ZONE THEME FOR ME! WHHYYYYYYYY!?

[@nicco7955]

There’s really no such thing as plagiarism in music. Its one of the things that people in the popular eye get horribly wrong

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

Um, no, there is. 😐 Sometimes it's just overextended.

[@the-NightStar]

Except when it was the guy who did the soundtrack for Dragon Ball Z Kai. That guy was an out-and-out thief.

[@elmarakovideo]

@@the-NightStar It was cool when the US dub had to finally use the 1989 Shunsuke Kikuchi music, but the placement was lazy & repetitive! Kai music sounds great yet it was stolen.🙄

[@ironmaster6496]

​@@ZaCloud-Animations___she-hercan we say there's a difference between for example, using almost the same 3 seconds of another song while the actual rest of song sounds different, and stuff like Challengers from DBZ budokai where it's literally just an instrumental version of a real song, right?

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

@@ironmaster6496 Absolutely. Pretty much exemplifies my point.

[@abicto]

surprised that you didn't mention pretty much the entire mother 3 ost considering people theorize that its why it wasn't ported

[@militariuspcgamer3856]

new thumb-man vid!!11!!!

[@Da_Boeh7312]

I love your coverage of such a wide variety of music genres and groups, I'd love to see this formatt of video on the channel more frequently

[@20035079]

3:00 this was so clean tho

[@glowkirby]

13:32 The name of the song is “Love Won’t Wait”, earlier in the same album.

[@dooki51]

I think my favorite example of really weird blantant style rip-offs is Mujoe’s theme in the Bomberman Jetters anime. It’s very similar to a certain comedy show about nothing.

[@rickyquinteros7100]

5:37 That is oddly so accurate

[@Sean_Bird]

One of my favorite examples of this is from Garou: Mark of the Wolves, where Rock Howard's theme, Spread the Wings, has part of Robert Miles' song Children in it, and it's pretty blatant too. It's likely why the song hasn't ever been reused for Rock in his later appearances, giving him new original themes instead.

[@RyderMK]

7:12 Now I just wanna hear the two mixed together

[@expandulardongus360]

10:08 An AD cut off the fart with reverb which made it funnier

[@GardenCelluloids]

3:35 that is objectively a great song

[@Plaston_]

Taking "inspirations" is a thing every composers tend to do and i think it quite beneficial when you need some help to get more creative.

[@Diogo85]

And some people think that's plagiarism.

[@Wooly4]

One I’m really surprised you didn’t mention is the Mario Bros. game start jingle just straight up being Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Although with a name like that…

[@Chubby_Bub]

I mean that one's just _supposed_ to be that piece, it's not even a nod or anything.

[@BinglesP]

The composer making that jingle and showing it to quality assurance like: "Keep it down, so I can win the loot!" (/ref)

[@jordy_de-zee]

1:13 "WA-HAT?" that was my reaction

[@ivanguajardomunoz940]

8:56 The part where he collapsed absolutely made me laugh xD

[@DaThingy]

I like the way that they changed Sonic 3 & Knuckles' music in most compilations while Sonic 1 has more songs that actually sound like their original song lol.

[@austinreed5805]

14:00 Oh boy! Now we’re into Sonic and Michael Jackson.

[@CyberYeast75]

Still can’t wait for Alax to make a Pizza Tower video

[@coolguy5133]

I am no music genius nor lawyer, but I am pretty sure copy cord progression is not plagiarism.

[@jmurray1110]

It should be be but ever since blurred lines music copyright suits have tightened the restrictions Ed did end up winning his case bjf it took a lot of fighting

[@CrisisMoon7]

14:53 Hard Times is un ironically one of my favorite songs

[@ARDIZsq]

Video Game OSTs having inspiration from existing songs is always a fascinating topic, and it's more than likely THE thing keeping MOTHER 3 from being released in the West. MOTHER 2 and 3 have SO many songs that take from existing songs, it's almost baffling how they got away with it all. I think it's something to do with international copyright laws, but man does it suck that MOTHER 3 will be stuck in Japan thanks to it. (Yes, there are other smaller factors as well, but it's likely that the music is the main thing keeping it in Japan)

[@xProErax]

0:14 I can now confirm that this is now the "thanks 5 watching" of Alax's new era of content

[@deklin90thegod]

4:32 Is so inspiring i am going to make a whole paragraph on it

[@jdh9419]

12:11 Wrong game. You meant to show a cartridge of Super Mario Bros. 2 USA

[@kurokoro]

Lol thats earthbound and in japan is known as mother.

[@Chubby_Bub]

please keep making videos like this I need to inject them straight into my mind like it's chicken soup. Which means it's time for me to go on a rant (well, at the end of the video, you asked for it). Here is some of what I can offer in this regards: I can tell you while K.K. Slider's songs obviously have inspiration because they're meant to represent different genres as a whole, probably like half of them are blatantly inspired by or directly quoting a famous song from that genre. Toru Minegishi and Kazumi Totaka well knew what they were doing. Some examples: - K.K. Faire and Tancha Mebushi (Okinawan folk song) - K.K. Condor and Carnavalito (Chilean folk song, these are basically the exact same) - Rockin' K.K. and "Johnny B. Goode", again - Steep Hill and "Ichigo Hakusho o Mōichido"/"The Strawberry Statement Once Again" (Japanese folk rock song by BanBan) - K.K. Moody (aka K.K. Bolero) and "Sabor a Mí" (bolero by Álvaro Carillo) - K.K. Chorinho and "Tico Tico no Fubá" (choro by Zequinha de Abreu, these are also near identical) - Hazure02 (invalid song #2) and "Sparkle" (city pop by Tatsuro Yamashita) Not to mention lots of other general references, like "Two Days Ago" and the Beatles. Aside from that I also like how Mario Maker's edit themes get a bit cheeky, SMB1 Underground resembles "Take Five" (even though it's in 6/4) and SMB1 Underwater quotes Juventino Rosa's waltz "Sobre las Olas" so well I can't help but wonder if it originally inspired Kondo, especially given the meaning…

[@grimer1746]

The Mario underground theme led to me finding one of my new favorite albums

[@danilosVEVO]

this video was such a rollercoaster of emotions for me, I've been listening to this songs for my whole life and never knew anything of this, I'm so glad I clicked on this video, excellent work my guy I'm totally suscribing

[@myrigatoni]

This is such a good video, my favorite one you’ve made so far. Would love a part 2!

[@JenukiDa]

i love how you recreate the songs with the respect game’s soundfont it’s super duper charming

[@HalfBreadOrder]

?

[@MrGamelover23]

​@@HalfBreadOrderI believe they meant to say the game's respective sound font, so like if it's a Mario song, they use the instruments from the Mario game.

[@analog_mart]

a few songs also fall under the same umbrella as "Hard Times" due to Masato Nakamura being both the composer for the first two sonic games, as well as part of a band called "Dreams Come True". the credits theme from sonic 2 is the same as a song called "Sweet Sweet Sweet" or "Sweet Dream" in english, which was updated for the credits of sonic 06 (featuring Akon, funnily enough)

[@caucasoidape8838]

It sucks that Sonic Team can't use the title, or zone complete music that the first two games had.

[@PKSuperStar256]

@@caucasoidape8838, or basically any music from Sonic 1 and 2 except the drowning theme since it was created by an in-house sound designer from Sega.

[@UltraNurture]

I learned a lot from this video and I'm a huge fan of the music content you've been making. It's very interesting to what songs some video game tracks used as inspiration.

[@Jader47]

3:10 Peppino scream meme

[@actone4822]

One similarity that I know between two games is a brief musical phrase in Sonic R's "Living in the City" which is also in Persona 3's "When Moon's Reaching Out Stars". You can find this in the former in the phrase "you have to keep the dream alive" and in the latter in the phrase "Wonder how look in your eyes". Not exact, but close enough for conedy

[@azurestone]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but this case may make sense due to how if I remember correctly Persona is made by SEGA. Which would explain that LOL! That is pretty cool act one and thanks for pointing that out!

[@LonelyNumber]

@@azurestone I don't think atlus had been aquired by sega yet at that point.

[@jevilplayer6335]

11:11 another great example is how the original lavender town on 1.75 speed matches gaster's theme

[@keithmorrison8373]

Probaly intetional toby fox interpolates song alot

[@holgerlarsson7531]

Fantastic video! Like your “videogame samples” video, it quite an unexplored topic and on fascinating to delve into. Now I have a bunch of new music to explore that remind me of thing i already like, thank you!

[@a-bombmori7393]

This is a great video, because it not only brings attention to a very real problem that many people might not be aware of, but also explains how some examples of it have been overblown. It's nice to have that kind of nuance.

[@davidvkimball]

Loving this regular content, man. Keep it coming. 🎉

[@matthulu]

Mor Ardain's theme from Xenoblade 2 takes from 3 completely different songs. The most prominent is the chorus to Thriller, but you can also hear a bit of Dancing Queen and Crab Rave in there too.

[@dwightdeisenhower53]

In Toby's defense, the scene with Oh My Love was a spoof of the opera scene from final fantasy VI

[@TheAdvertisement]

Toby Fox stealing musical motifs is proof that he's the spirit of Spamton.

[@scatcat8371]

Toby has two forms. 1) Dog 2) [[Big Shot]]

[@Diogo85]

He didn't steal.

[@TheAdvertisement]

@@Diogo85 Does Spamton steal?

[@Diogo85]

@@TheAdvertisement I haven't played Snowgrave route so I wouldn't know.

[@TheAdvertisement]

@@Diogo85 💀

[@Boostifer]

this is easily like top 5 RelaxAlax videos, your love and attention to these sorta things is INFECTIOUS. Defs would be interested in hearing you talk about connecting details like this

[@Wahooski]

One of my favorite games, Pikuniku, for its ending, uses a slower version of “Here comes the sun” my the Beatles. This is probably by favorite uses of the song ever. It makes the ending seem so wholesome, almost like the robots are leaving from the sky and opening it up to see the blue skies shine down

[@supercamborg4218]

I need to replay that game

[@Hulderkall]

YES THIS ONE Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed it

[@9Tensai9]

8:12 Nichojou mentioned!! I was thinking about that exactly. That was my introduction to that song. I love you Alax. I also loooove this kind of videos talking about music inspiration and crossrefferencing and all that. I'm so happy to have you back Alax

[@Solesteam]

12:58 Is this gonna explain why it always sounded so familia- o... okay then. I definitely never heard that before... Back to the drawing board then

[@caitlinabbott7895]

1:00 "The Only time a month was copied was when Augustus Caesar copied July"

[@Frostflame]

Gosh the edit at 0:34 is AMAZING, that slapped

[@PhilTruthborne]

In my eyes and as a creator myself i see copying people (to a reasonable extent) more as a form of admiration. There is a **huge** difference in taking someone's work and using it to make things easier for yourself compared to taking inspiration from something, remixing it or hell, ever covering it. Making something that sounds similar to something already existing but that still has had conciderable work put into it is a tribute more than anything else. In this world of media we are all inspired by eachother. Now i got to add tho that intentions matter a lot here and there are very real and blatant examples of plagiarism out there and that's not okay. If it's not an act of passion, but of laziness, then there's not much to appreciate more than someone copying your homework back in the school days. Tho to make things clear, i don't do these things myself in my works but i do support it as long as it's done in good faith and doesn't cause any real problems or harm. Modern copyright laws are a disgrace to art.

[@lilwater4718]

I'm absolutely in love with the music content. Please keep making more

[@247MrNiceguy]

Your videos are always good but I really enjoyed this one. I learned a lot and it was fun listening to all the similarities in the songs I thought I knew

[@dds4891]

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[@BinglesP]

This is my #1 fear with composing in my music side-hobby. My first album ended up having some of the worst, most melodically-unsatisfying songs I've ever heard because I was so paranoid with people accusing me of stealing other songs, and prioritizing originality over actually sounding good. I used a(n unadjusted, might I add,) clarinet as a bass in one of them, and the mix was awful. The song was mainly on string instruments, but somehow the layer that shares a name with the string category specialized to it was just _too_ cliché for me at the time of making it. Not complaining about the video itself though, it only proves my current opinion. Awesome video as always.

[@ehhorve857]

YOU should look- I mean listen to cruelty squad and the Quake musics, they both do this thing, squad more-so, where they make melodically unsatisfying song that you WANT to listen to, like, pharmakinetics, it just goes BEE-da-da-DE-DE be-DEE-BEE-de de BAAAAAAGERRRRGEEEEBEEEEE tunununun TUNUNUNUN *TUNUNUNUN* (10 seconds of silence) *BWANANANA* BWANANANA *BWAAAAAAAA* seriously, people say that making music is a gift? making tonally HARSH and dissonant skreeching that people WILLINGLY listen to is a bountiful BLESSING.

[@mikhaeldarriens3810]

As someone who spends a lot of time watching random video essays, I really took "in conclusion.. why does everything always come back to sonic" way too much to heart

[@josiahtheawkward6008]

12:00 NOOOOO

[@cakeghoul]

Another example of this is Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines' menu theme is is extremely similar to Angel by Massive Attack. This is because during production they used the song as a placeholder menu theme and it fit the vibe of the game so well, the composer for the game was inspired by that song for the actual menu theme. This inspiration also carries over to the (as of now) unreleased sequel, which has had it's menu theme released on youtube.

[@souptaels]

Local man finds out nothing is original New title: "Video Game Music Inspirations", but I guess it's more "KZbin" to say they "stole" music lol

[@BewbsOP]

2:53 is it just me or is that don't stop believin' by journey

[@ItsSiebay]

There’s a reason why Sonic music always hits.

[@ironmaster6496]

I'm starting that every videogame that has GODLY music is only because they borrowed from pop songs (wither popular or obscure), i mean Megaman and a personal favorite of mine did this too

[@Diogo85]

​@@ironmaster6496Not every but fun fact, there's a chord progression of Seek and Destroy and the Flashman theme in Sonic 06's town mission 4 theme.

[@abetternamethanthat6273]

9:54 Hi, weirdos. Here's another prank, but this one involves Ice Cube instead of Bubble. Just take the Ice Cube Recovery Center, and just carry over the edge of a cliff, maybe, with a tree, yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah. That's mandatory. And attach a spring from the tree to the Ice Cube Recovery Center, and then, melt Ice Cube. Melting kills her, right? (yeah) okay, good. Ice Cube is recreated, in the Ice Cube Recovery Center, she'll like weigh it down and the Ice Cube Recovery Center will tilt down off the cliff, and Ice Cube will fall out and she'll crash to the bottom of the cliff and Ice Cube is recreated in the Ice Cube Recovery Center, she'll like weigh it down and Ice Cube Recovery Center will tilt down off the cliff, and the cycle repeats! Yeah, isn't that cool? Pretty funny? (This program, was brought to you, by Blocky's Funny Doings International)

[@CoinClever]

blocky = spamton

[@little_sponge.]

i knew i recognized from somewhere

[@Wall_nut77]

Knew that i recognised it

[@Spongyboi897]

BFDI fans unite!

[@Nobel-1384]

BFDI!!!!!

[@trondordoesstuff]

11:20 On the subject, compare Final Fantasy's "Who Are You?" to "Gaster's Theme" and "ANOTHER HIM".

[@PoggersGoblin]

The FF7 one made me think about the similarities between it and part of the opening of "for whom the bell tolls" by Metallica, specifically around 1:50 and further until the lyrics hit.

[@PoggersGoblin]

I now realize this could be something that they took from because it came out 13 years before ff7

[@pez.emikazoo]

10:20 for your fix of Slot Machine, ladies, gents and the rest of y’all. I was jumping around until you finally mentioned Friendship’s Let’s Not Talk About It, it was inevitable and I love that group. Now we are really relaxalaxing babe.

[@Fool_Bait]

A great question is how did you find all these songs. Like this is an impressive amount of research.

[@beanbean9364]

This may be my favorite video of yours. My mind has been completely blown away by everything you showed

[@superrupee]

Earthbound isn't surprising that game is full of references to popculture, but with all these others you are a walking playlist that can link song to other songs, the song encyclopedia

[@mcgoodrexeturer]

11:31 not sure whether this was intentional or not but this track also has heavy strong inspiration from the cardigan's song "After All", i was shocked when I first heard the sonic track as a cardigans fan.

[@SupaRichieRich13]

Great job showing the samples back to back at the same tempo (8:25); really makes the connection clear to understand! Also noticed song you played at 13:32 is "Love Don't Wait" by Bobby Caldwell, not "What You Won't Do For Love."

[@clichechad6623]

Thats “Love Won’t Wait”*

[@dddangerdick]

THANK YOU! I was trying to figure out why I couldn't find the part he referenced.

[@WriteSnipe]

The opening notes of Diamond and Pearl’s Route 209 daytime sounds like the chorus of Telephone Line from ELO. I think about it every time I hear either song “Oh, telephone line, give me some time, I’m living in twilight”

[@dannyhargreaves1326]

I thought it sounded like All The Young Dudes from Mott the Hoople!

[@WriteSnipe]

@@dannyhargreaves1326 oh yeah I hear it. Nice!

[@Solesteam]

15:03 I always knew this one, that and the Green Green mario thing...

[@mariomaniac581]

I love how you edited the music in all of their soundfonts, that must've taken a long time and it shows!