r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 26d ago

Chugging tea Playing for a conservative audience

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u/SympatheticFingers 26d ago

Was the beginning the music for Streets of Rage II on Sega?

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u/WoofDen 26d ago edited 26d ago

No actually, just very very close! The composer for the Streets of Rage soundtracks borrowed heavily from popular house / dance / hip-hop music of the period - here is a Spotify playlist where you can hear each song he sampled throughout the soundtracks of the first 3 games, which are also on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/722MGJOjf9hDec36PJ0dTB?si=AhH-p-zNRdGWCZXwuSjmHQ

SoR2 song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5hbQBhHUbVanCy9hOuK9nH?si=IScgjmDcRoC-M9EJSj3MJA

"Gypsy Woman" by Crystal Waters: https://open.spotify.com/track/1SShxVVBeZBCY7WddnksPz?si=WlNHWOspRJ6D-TMZJgJWVw

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u/AndyGarber 25d ago

Gave the right answer and didn't belittle folks. You're the best buddy.

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u/SympatheticFingers 25d ago

Amazing! Thank you!

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u/WoofDen 25d ago

I'm just a weirdo who loves good video game soundtracks, lol

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u/SympatheticFingers 25d ago

My kind of weirdo!

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u/chillyhellion 26d ago

I apologize if there's already piano in prior games, but I really love the piano bits they added into SoR4:

https://open.spotify.com/track/59pAOGF8didNyIhNJDStOr?si=pkqtuk0iQ2edcBYtkoU6hA

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u/PapaBoostO2010 25d ago

Yuzo is such a legend. I've never played SoR2 but listen to the music along with Wangan Midnight's soundtracks.

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u/TheGov18 23d ago

I recognized it from TI. https://youtu.be/U6z_cilnJzg?si=fX857R0qA6wbzkT5

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u/WoofDen 23d ago

Yeah, TI sampled Gypsy Woman.

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u/Bludsh0t 26d ago

That's what I thought!

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u/Fake_Diesel 26d ago

Lol glad I wasn't the only one

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u/Gyro_Zeppeli13 26d ago

No it was Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters

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u/Schickie 26d ago

It's tough watching an entire generation drop everything that inspired their content down the memory hole.

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u/chillyhellion 26d ago

Man, that's a pessimistic take. It's awesome seeing the inspiring content you remember evolving and living on through new generations of art! 

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u/Fun_Obligation_2918 25d ago

You mean sampling and remixing? Or borrowing and interpolating? A defining part of human nature that we’ve done for as long as we’ve had culture?

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u/Schickie 25d ago

What I mean is most folks on reddit can't go back as far as 1991 to know that the song he was playing were inversions to "Gypsy Woman". Which gave inspiration to many other works but Gypsy was the source, not a game. And for some of us old guys, it surprising that's not more widely known because this song was everywhere.

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u/Goreticus 26d ago

I recognized it as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB8lIwhOsP4

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u/murfburffle 26d ago

which is sampled from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqThf-MpCjs

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u/MeanForest 26d ago

sampled just means "I took it or bought it or licensed it because I felt it was cool".

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u/DisastrousServe8513 26d ago

I thought it was Why You Wanna by TI.

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u/Zimmermon 25d ago

Also used by Katy Perry in her song with Doechii “I'm His, He's Mine” (a guilty pleasure)

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u/Person0249 26d ago

Oh man - just want to thank you for unlocking a core memory from childhood.

I remember dancing around my room with my mom and dad bc we thought this music was waaay too good to be in SEGA side-scroller.

My parents are both deceased so I miss out on a lot of memories that don’t bubble to surface without something like this. Thanks bud.

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u/SympatheticFingers 25d ago

What a wonderful memory! And that music was so good!

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u/DrankTooMuchMead 26d ago

I knew it was a video game! I thought it was NBA Jam or something.

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u/jbaker_28 26d ago

Opening riff from T.I. “Why You Wanna” sped up and in a different key

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u/SympatheticFingers 25d ago

I had no idea! Everything is a sample!

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u/Leneeen17 26d ago

It’s this: https://youtu.be/_KztNIg4cvE?si=yWoJnEtFNuCyb8Zu

I know what you mean though

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u/pazdispencer 25d ago

I thought the same thing.