Your video game music inspiration observations

[Twed]

Ever notice something in a song and realise that a game track was definitely inspired by it?

There's lots of YouTube fodder for this but this is for your own observations. I've noticed at least one that other people haven't. This one weirds me out with how exactly it's copied, and how nobody in the world apart from me gives a shit:

Mario Kart Koopa Beach/London Boys

That is surely not a coincidence.

Super Mario Bros. Underground Theme/George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair

[madhair60]

Mega Man X3 - Neon Tiger stage

Guns 'N Roses - My Michelle

[popcorn]

The Offspring - Americana

Sonic Adventure 2 - Green Forest

[Urinal Cake]

ELP- Tarkus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZluU
A lot of Final Fantasy battle music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY1Vetd7OCs

[buzby]

The Japanese version of SNES shooter Super Aleste/Space Megaforce had a track on it's BGM which is basically a New Order megamix, featuring Blue Monday, Fine Time and The Perfect Kiss. It was removed, unsurprisingly, from the Western releases.

I never had a Megadrive, but I remember being round at my cousins while they were playing a Streets Of Rage game (2 I think?) and the BGM for one of the levels was basically What Time Is Love?

[olliebean]

Rob Hubbard: Zoids  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sr12hs1kzA
Synergy: Ancestors  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArCPg6wqIZM

[olliebean]

Also:
Rob Hubbard: The Master of Magic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5Hjsm5NZ4
Synergy: Shibolet  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfxcreFEowE

[boki]

This one's kinda the other way around, but Look At You by Backyard Babies nicks its chorus off of Yer Loggins' Footloose, whereas the verses sound uncannily like the Diddy Kong Racing theme.

[Twed]

The Japanese version of SNES shooter Super Aleste/Space Megaforce had a track on it's BGM which is basically a New Order megamix, featuring Blue Monday, Fine Time and The Perfect Kiss. It was removed, unsurprisingly, from the Western releases.

Oh man, this is incredible.

[The Boston Crab]

Garou, Mark of the Wolves channeling Robert Miles' Children.

https://youtu.be/GWj8Cb7yieY

From 0:51 onwards.

[marquis_de_sad]

Not my observation obviously, but Doom in/famously stole from Pantera, Metallica, and Slayer. When they were testing the game, they would listen to their favourite metal albums, and Romero has since admitted that they asked Bobby Prince to basically copy them.

There even used to be a ytmnd about all the times Doom games borrowed from metal, which someone has saved to youtube. If you can't be arsed to watch the whole video, Pantera is probably the most blatant.

[Twed]

Garou, Mark of the Wolves channeling Robert Miles' Children.

https://youtu.be/GWj8Cb7yieY

From 0:51 onwards.

Hah, pretty blatant.

FF7 - Anxious Heart and Kraftwerk - Spacelab.

Fuck me, Anxious Heart is moving.

[Twed]

Can't be bothered to listen to the isolated Kanye track, but this has been doing the rounds lately: https://twitter.com/everydaylouie/status/1187801802604834816

Kanye/Ocarina of Time

[Phil_A]

If we start on Nobuo Uematsu steals we might be here all day.

Genesis, The Knife - https://youtu.be/uBYPPjLJO5U?t=112
Mt. Kolts Theme (Final Fantasy VI) - https://youtu.be/ZzOJsg_gXuk?t=46

Genesis, Get 'Em Out By Friday - https://youtu.be/Kp-TwWnn0dk?t=447
Fight On! (FF VII Boss Theme) - https://youtu.be/BG7DYLdNBx0?t=40

PSB - West End Girls - https://youtu.be/Twv_40XfBnw?t=37
Midgar Slums (FF VII) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUy8lSSJSfE

Jerry Goldsmith, Theme From The Omen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8jWXH-L7A
Liberi Fatali (FF VIII Opening Theme) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu1hn3w0Viw

[Twed]

If we start on Nobuo Uematsu steals we might be here all day.
PSB - West End Girls - https://youtu.be/Twv_40XfBnw?t=37
Midgar Slums (FF VII) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUy8lSSJSfE

I thought I was the only person who thought this.

[peanutbutter]

Nobuo Uematsu was a pretty big Elton John fan for sure, Funeral for a Friend alone always sounds to me like a weird amalgamation of Final Fantasy songs.


In the other direction, Burial sampled MGS2 a few times iirc. Various drum beat sounds and one of the main loops in Arcangel.

[Obel]

My Bloody Valentine - Soon  https://youtu.be/ft56il9bGMk
Streets of Rage 3 - The Poets I : https://youtu.be/6p_kyY7ZUUI
Yuzo Koshiro pinched the bassline, interestingly it kicks in at roughly the same point of both tracks, around 25 seconds in.

Sonic Chaos (Master System) - Gigapolis Zone: https://youtu.be/d3usm4etoeE
Troll 2 Mirror Dance scene: https://youtu.be/_GV0_pEjs6c
I loved Sonic Chaos when I was a kid and particularly loved the music to this level, it blew my mind to watch Troll 2 as an adult and recognise this music. It's basically the same. I think it may even be a bit of demo music on a Casio keyboard or something as I've definitely heard it somewhere else as well.


I've had this the other way around before too:

Sonic 1 (Master System) Bridge Zone (1991): https://youtu.be/qYJkol00JCE
Janet Jackson - Together Again [the chorus specifically] (1997): https://youtu.be/vfK5QhZ9u7o
Janet Jackson's producers shamelessly nicking a great hook from Sonic there.

[Phil_A]

This one bugs me(no pun intended) every time I play Hollow Knight, as it's so blatant:

Thomas Newman - Any Other Day (from American Beauty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHxi-HSgNPc
Christopher Larkin - Reflection ("Bench" music from Hollow Knight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ttpyZPo7k

[peanutbutter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my8T7hB992k
Alright, we're here, just sitting in the car
I want you to show me if you can get far

[Twed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my8T7hB992k
Alright, we're here, just sitting in the car
I want you to show me if you can get far

Holy shit!

I sing that Parappa song on a daily fucking basis so this is huge news.

[marquis_de_sad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my8T7hB992k
Alright, we're here, just sitting in the car
I want you to show me if you can get far

Mind blown. Someone did this.

[Phil_A]

Fallout 3 - "Explore 7" https://youtu.be/Sm4BW3AiEAI?t=163

That bit right there, that's the theme from Get Carter isn't it?

[beanheadmcginty]

"You're a big super mutant, but you're out of shape."