After much fan demand, Sega has begun releasing several of their Sonic series soundtracks on to Apple’s iTunes service. Most of these albums, though recently released, aren’t too easy to track down and import for those looking to legally own the music, never mind worrying about bootlegs.
The albums now available are the 20th Anniversary editions of Sonic CD, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, as well as “The Best of Crush 40: Super Sonic Songs”, “The Works” (Jun Senoue‘s standalone album featuring several original songs and some Sonic music), and Sonic Colors ViViD SOUND × HYBRiD COLORS, the last one lovingly divided into three volumes for all three discs (Disc 2 and Disc 3 can be found at those links.) Sega further states that the soundtrack to Sonic The Hedgehog 4‘s episodes will also be touching down on iTunes in the future.
It should be noted that the 20th Anniversary album for the two Adventure titles aren’t as all encompassing as their original releases, which may turn some fans off. However, this is the best chance short of importing to show support for the musicians that worked hard to keep series’ reputation for good music alive and well.
17 Comments
Except in Canada.
BECAUSE NO ONE LOVES CANADA.
It’s easy to see why there’s a lot of fan demand. Sonic music is pretty much the best video game music…ever. Whoever composes these musics are total geniuses! Nearly every Sonic game has incredible and fun-to-listen-to music, so it’s appropriate to see them come to iTunes.
Wow. Really? I find the music to the Sonic Adventure games (the stuff with lyrics that is) totally embarrassing. I was glad you could change the music for each stage in Sonic Generations- having to endure City Escape’s cheesy music again was just too much!
I ain’t gonna let it get to me, I’m just gonna creep.
Wait what? I live City Escape’s music, along with most vocal tracks :/
you do realise that saying you dont like city escapes soundtrack means sonic retro is gonna bomb youre house
You’d be surprised how many people don’t like the lyrical version of the song. I kinda like the prototype one with the lead guitar more.
Surprisingly, Retro isn’t completely full of frothing at the mouth savages.
WEll Well,Wel, as long as my final moments aren’t ruined by the sound of the city escape track, I’ll be happy.:)
I tunes Australia y u no have sonic music?!
It’s a disappointment the Adventure titles didn’t get some love, I’d like to have songs like Kick The Rock and A Ghost’s Pumpkin Soup, oh well at lest there’s a chance to get the Sonic 1 & 2 Anniversary OST!
This is old news but the Sonic 4 soundtracks is new news and just a little more news, all of the Sonic Riders soundtracks are on their to.
Good to know! Any love these soundtracks get is always a good thing.
I prefer listening them in Youtube.
Yeah, most of these have been on for a while, but the news of Sonic 4 soundtracks is good. Let’s get Blue Blur up there soon as well, Sega!
I knew about this quite a while back. Sonic 4, on the other hand…
I personally have been collecting Sonic music in any form I could for as long as I’ve had Internet. Its among the best. Now let’s get a SONIC 3 & KNUX SOUNDTRACK ON ITUNES, SEGA!
Dat pic in the post… did anyone else see sonic pole dancing?