VGM borrowing from pop music

[cawnil]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wbX3lqbcfE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbZpNYx3Vms

Also isn't the SMB main theme song heavily borrowed from a (well known?) jazz song.

[Radiowar]

it might just be me but i've always thought the drums in the swamp theme from dkc2 were too similar to

to be coincidence

also the mill theme in dkc3 is based off of

but i guess that one is obvious

[Deep Thought]

I wouldn't put it past Nintendo for doing that intentionally.

[SoulinEther]

That song is pretty interesting. Maybe he's right. There are no coincidences... just sometimes the pattern happens to be more obvious.

[kupernikus]

I wouldn't put it past Nintendo for doing that intentionally.

*Cough*Earthbound! *cough*

[cawnil]

let's see some more parallels

[zircon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-o15Xmaz2A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO14WFh1k-I&feature=related

[Jedi QuestMaster]

The obvious:

[cawnil]

That is tripping me out big time man.

[WillRock]

The obvious:

That melody is actually a really ripped off one, i've heard it in so many different songs, journey used it as well, and there are alot of VERY similar variations to it everywhere in popular music (tina turner - simply the best had a very similar melody in the chorus)

[Ech]

Bah!

Eventually every song will sound like another

[cawnil]

I hope that means they all eventually sounds like this:

[Jedi QuestMaster]

Intro of both of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RukUetw0hAM

I don't know, maybe.

[Cerrax]

This happens way more often than I think some people realize. Most of the time, it is either purposefully based on the song, or it is accidentally based on the song because it was in the back of the composer's mind while they were writing. When Hans Zimmer was doing the score for The Dark Knight, he had been listening to a lot Beethoven (specifically "Moonlight Sonata") and he admits that the main theme of the Dark Knight borrows very heavily from that.

[Jedi QuestMaster]

Of course. Quite some time ago I posted a MIDI I made that accidentally resembles the Tomb Raider theme too much.

Here's another Ninja Gaiden one:

[Jedi QuestMaster]

Last one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbEfadBoE70#t=0m8s

Okay, probably not 'borrowing' but that Funk 49 reminded me of Spinball.

[Shadix]

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=11615 I have a huge 20 page topic of these over at Sonic Retro.

Here's a couple.

Xavier - Work that Sucker to Death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXSucRO3Iyw

Sonic CD JAP/EUR Boss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms6bXVC5mdc

Enigma: Sadeness Pt. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tK-u7fCK8M

Rusty Ruins (Stylistic Similarities) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_qheNzIm4 (this was actually more or less confirmed with Richard Jacques in an interview)

SOR2 Theme:

Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour (the verses)

Can you Feel the Sunshine.

Janet Jackson - Lets Wait Awhile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKhDiNME4E

Green Hill Zone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFHvxuuOymo

...and also a little fun one for those who had that aweful Pokemon pop album.

Misty's Song from the Pokemon 2BA Master album = You Are Not Alone

The songs are practically identical.

[Brandon Strader]

Just found this and it pissed me off

[Nutritious]

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

Aerobiz Supersonic - North America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGSqMhTGx3k

[WillRock]

= Stratovarious -

Also... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f54VElMUqGo = janet jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-c6PnIUcc&feature=player_detailpage#t=102s

[Crowbar Man]

Hmmm

Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System version) - October 25, 1991

Janet Jackson's Together Again - December 2, 1997

so like Brandon's post, its the opposite of the thread title, pop borrowing from VGM

though in this case unlike Brandon's post, im sure its just coincidence

[PROTO·DOME]

Misty's Song from the Pokemon 2BA Master album = You Are Not Alone

The songs are practically identical.

OH WOW. I'm familiar with Misty's song, I wondered why it sounded half decent (besides terrible vocals).

[Binweasel]

This probably doesn't even count at all...

Chrono Trigger:

Pink Floyd:

There's just these three notes... 0:19 in PF's, 0:09 in CT's. And maybe the general mood of both intros. They've been amusing me for years now. Apart from that, not much similarities.

[Brandon Strader]

This probably doesn't even count at all...

Chrono Trigger:

Pink Floyd:

There's just these three notes... 0:19 in PF's, 0:09 in CT's. And maybe the general mood of both intros. They've been amusing me for years now. Apart from that, not much similarities.

With the titles it seems too good to be a coincidence. Love it

[The Pezman]

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/soundtracks-you-didnt-know-were-stolen/a-2009051312473912094/p-1

And this one has always niggled at me, even though it's between 2 videogames and they're not all that similar. Maybe it's a different inversion of the same chord or something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L40Uiq8Qy4&t=2m14s