Michael Jackson composed the music for Sonic 3?

[Joe Redifer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4

Watch this. Hilarious! Be careful of the narrator's accent... it threw me for a loop on some phrases that I simply could not decipher.

[David J.]

There are some good songs in there anyway. Michael was pretty good in the early '80s, and when he was in the Jackson 5.

My mom loved him when he was in the Jackson 5 and if she knew this, she'd be suprised. Haha.

[MegaDrive20XX]

That is utterly creepy...but very weird..

[Drixxel]

Seems to be some genuine parallels between MJ's tunes and Sonic 3.. if only we could get him for a Sega-16 interview!

[Zebbe]

Did they change all the music for the PC version? And what about Sonic Mega Collection (or whatever its name is), is the music changed there too? Could give some answers...

[MegaDrive20XX]

PC Vers. is entirely changed. As for Sonic Mega Collection, it remains the same as the Genesis vers.

Which reminds me, the PC Vers. has a few rough spots when it comes to the MIDI's. Since I felt they don't really fit the stages as well as the original. Yet, there's about 3 tracks on there that are pretty decent.

[Genesis Knight]

I heard about this a long time ago, but it's good to see it with audio clips. Too bad the narrator puts me to sleep...

[FishySaysSpoon]

Does Sonic Jam contain the orig music?

[j_factor]

Original as in Genesis vs. PC, yes.

[loxthefox]

I think I posted something like this a couple months ago.

[Drixxel]

I recall you posting some sort of article. This video is a pretty cool video, though.. makes the similarities between Sonic 3's score and MJ's tunage that much more apparant.

[Elusive]

The music's similar, but as the narrator says, all we're hearing is a set of common chords. It could be coincidence - but then, MJ was veeeeerry pally-pally with SEGA at the time. Sonic 2sday, mascot, etc. etc.

[Drixxel]

...not to mention the fact that he was brought aboard to compose the Sonic 3 soundtrack.

[Obviously]

I remember hearing about this several times as well.

It's not that surprising, it's not like this would be the only time Michael Jackson has worked with Sega and I'm not just talking about Moodwalker either since he did the voice work for "Space Michael" in both Space Channel 5 games.

I'm thinking it's more of an homage than anything.

[Elusive]

...not to mention the fact that he was brought aboard to compose the Sonic 3 soundtrack.

Give me concrete evidence he was an active member of the Sonic 3 team. He doesn't appear in the credits, does he?

[Joe Redifer]

They explained in the video that they dropped him because he was fondling little boys, and thus his name was removed from the project.

[ary incorparated]

i think thats a bitsy of a crap story,like stranger came out in 1996 and sonic 3 was before that,and some songs are almost to old to take a feature in the game,it think the similairity is fun and stuf.But BTW to be honest,hearing the sonic 3 music aggain really hurts my ear,bleeps and crap shit,the carnival act zone song Sucks etc,nothing special.

[Elusive]

They explained in the video that they dropped him because he was fondling little boys, and thus his name was removed from the project.

Whilst there was a charge of paedophilia levied against MJ at that time, there's still no link between him and the design team.

I honestly think this is 'reverse speech' in effect - because we're told it's there, we're hearing them as the same song. There are similarities, but listen to these:

Sonic 1 SMS Bridge Zone (http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sega/gamegear/bridge_s1gg.mid)

and then this, a little way in:

Janet Jackson - Together Again (http://www.midi4u.com/artists/j/janet_jackson/Together_Again.mid)

OMG SIMILAR CHORUS AND CHORDS JANET JACKSON HELPED WITH THE MUSIC

[Joe Redifer]

Elusive neither of those links result in a working MIDI file. I get a 404 or a "free download quota exceeded". It might be some April Fools BS. By the way I am sick of April Fools.

[ary incorparated]

me to,its so f...cking childish dont ya think.

[Flash1087]

I dunno...funny as this is to believe, Sonic 3 would've been done when Michael Jackson still had some credibility as a musician and performer.

With as big as he was, if Sega did somehow get him to compose even a few songs on the soundtrack, wouldn't we have heard about it long before this?

[Joe Redifer]

OK I got Elusive's MIDI files to work. The Janet Jackson MIDI sounds familiar in one part. Yuzo Koshiro is responsible for the Game Gear/Sega Master System Sonic 1.

[Zebbe]

OMG SIMILAR CHORUS AND CHORDS JANET JACKSON HELPED WITH THE MUSIC

More like Yuzo Koshiro helped Janet with the music, since "Together Again" is a few years younger than the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog. And btw, have you watched the video? There are several more examples to see there. It's not totally far-fetched you know.

[Elusive]

More like Yuzo Koshiro helped Janet with the music, since "Together Again" is a few years younger than the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog. And btw, have you watched the video? There are several more examples to see there. It's not totally far-fetched you know.

Yes, I've watched it. QJimbo, the narrator, admits that the sounds we are hearing are very commonly used in music - as I've shown with the Janet Jackson reference.

My point is, simply sounding the same as an MJ song in a few parts (parts that are commonly-used chord progressions etc) does not mean Jackson directly worked on the music. They just took a riff in the first example, maybe. The notes don't really line up that good. That's not exactly unheard of. The other two examples didn't even make any sense to me. Wow, if you turn the music up so fast that Michael sounds like a chipmunk, eventually the chords change at about the same time. That was so clearly a Sega marketing plan that didn't happen! "Buy our soundtrack, it sounds like Michael on crack!"

Playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with Michael Jackson does not indicate in any way that he wrote the music. The Beatles hung out with the Beach Boys for a bit and wrote Back to the USSR as a Beach Boys-esque song. Their connection does not and should not indicate that they somehow wrote the song. There's a world of difference between writing and inspiring.

[ary incorparated]

guys,dont buy it its so fake as what,just a very far searched thing behind it.Just some ubergeek that had to find it out BTW the songs dont match in date,like something in moscow came out in 19,fucking 96 and sonic 3 came out in 93.eh eh forget this still its a funny comparisment.