24 Tracks, but very Little Sonic Representation
When Jun Senoue’s The Works music compilation comes out in about a month’s time, you will hear more tracks from the Managing Baseball Team Game franchise than you will from the Sonic games.
Out of the 24 tracks planned, only 3 will be Sonic related. The first is the Dreams of an Absolution Remix, featuring both Senoue and Lee Brotherton, known as Bentley Jones. That had been previously released on the vocal OST to the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog. The second, Westopolis, had been a part of Shadow the Hedgehog.
UPDATE: We have very astute readers, who have kindly pointed out below a third Sonic connection, in After the Adventure, from the much sought after Radio DC soundtrack. That piece mixes elements from Sonic Adventure and NiGHTS into Dreams. Thanks, everyone!
But fear not, because shortly after this releases comes Senoue’s The Best of Crush 40 compilation, and while we don’t have a tracklist for that yet, it should lean heavier on the Sonic fanservice than The Works.
In the meantime, take a look at the track list below, sent into us by Fox Gungrave of french site Eversonic via our News Tips system. If you like what you see, rumor has it that Senoue himself may take a couple of personal orders for The Works via Paypal. Fox Gungrave speculates these could be signed by the musician himself, but that’s not yet confirmed–we’ll let you know as we get further information.
01. The Star Spangled Banner
(EA Sports NASCAR ARCADE)
02. The American Dream feat. Eric Martin of MR.BIG
(Daytona USA Champion Circuit Edition / New Recording)
03. Sons Of Angels feat. Eric Martin of MR.BIG
(Daytona USA Champion Circuit Edition / New Recording)
04. Lift You Up!
(OutRun 2 SP / Short Edit ver.)
05. Batter Up! Feat. Eric Martin of MR.BIG
(Managing Baseball Team Game, 2005)
06. Mr. Baseball feat. Eric Martin of MR.BIG
(Managing Baseball Team Game, 2005)
07. Baseball Anthem feat. Terry Ilous or XYZ
(Managing Baseball Team Game, 2009)
08. Road To Win feat. Ted Poley of DANGER DANGER
(Managing Baseball Team Game, 2009)
09. Moon Shot!
(Managing Baseball Team Game, 2009)
10. Afternoon Tea
(Managing Baseball Team Game, 2005)
11. Dusk Of The Stadium
(Managing Baseball Team Game, 2005)
12. After The Adventure
(Radio DC, No dialogs)
13. Dreams Of An Absolution (LB vs JS Remix)
(Sonic the Hedgehog Vocal Trax – Several Wills)
14. Westopolis
(Shadow The Hedgehog)
15. Cheerleaders A-Go-Go
(Space Channel 5 Part 2 Remix)
16. Where I Want To Be feat. Skye Sweetnam
(New Recording, Original music taken from JxJ EP)
17. Takoyaki Rock feat. Ted Poley of DANGER DANGER
(New Recording)
18. Ignition ‘98 …in the groove
(Sega Rally 2)
19. Soul On Desert
(Sega Rally 2)
20. Sega Rally Championship -J.S.Kickstart Remix ‘99-
(Sega Racing Best)
21. Burnout Running
(Burnout Running)
22. British Rain
(Managing J-League Football Club Game)
23. Chase The Wind
(Managing J-League Football Club Game)
24. My Own Destiny
(Managing J-League Football Club Game)
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Notice this one—
12. After The Adventure
(Radio DC, No dialogs)
—This is a rare SA1 Station Square remix.
I find it rather odd he went and chose a song from the Shadow the Hedgehog soundtrack, especially one that I didn’t too inspiring. If he wanted a song from that game, GUN Fortress would have been the perfect choice. Oh well, at least there are quite a lot of songs here to listen to. I own all the Sonic OST CD’s anyway, so I think it was better off this way keeping it low on Sonic music.
Westopolis never truly caught my whole attention despite me always getting to listen to it every time I start a new game in Shadow, and the fact that I have the song on my PSP. But I did love the Shadow OST, because it’s probably the one thing that captured the tone of the game perfectly. So I guess Westopolis was a good choice.
The 2nd Sonic song isn`t a good choice … Live & Learn or Open Up Your Heart should be on there
“The Works”? Feh. This isn’t even CLOSE to all the music he did.
Still a good chunk though.
Agreen…and Believe in your Self from Sonic CD presentation
hehe
I definitely don’t understand why he included Westopolis. There are so many better themes he could choose from that game. The fact that he chose Shadow the Hedgehog of all games is also unusual.
What I find more funny about this, though, is Track #1. A Japanese man playing the U.S. National Anthem… wow…
Oh, as others have stated, I do like the Shadow soundtrack, but I don’t necessarily consider it the “best” in the series. (Frankly, I far prefer the Sonic ’06 soundtrack. DESPITE how bad the game itself is, the soundtrack is AWESOME.)
“—This is a rare SA1 Station Square remix.”
It also includes some Dreams Dreams and It Doesn’t Matter as well.
I wish they’d include “Ready” by with JXJ. That’s an even rarer Emerald Coast remix.
I’m pretty sure the reason Jun chose something from the Shadow The Hedgehog Soundtrack was because it was composed and performed entirely by him (except for some of the vocal tracks, I think).
westopolis….random much?
im sure the album will be great
Why should he bother including songs like Live and Learn which have been on a billion CDs already, including True Blue, and will -probably- be on Best of Crush 40.
Jun has done other stuff, let that take center stage for a while.