In the latest issue of Black & White magazine (french publication about Michael Jackson), composer Brad Buxer confirmed that M.J. and him actually worked on Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack.

Quote:
B&W: Can you clarify the rumor that Michael had in 1993 composed the music for Sonic 3 video game, for which you havel been credited?

Buxer: I've never played the game so I do not know what tracks on which Michael and I have worked the developers have kept, but we did compose music for the game. Michael called me at the time for help on this project, and that's what I did.
And if he is not credited for composing the music, it's because he was not happy with the result sound coming out of the console. At the time, game consoles did not allow an optimal sound reproduction, and Michael found it frustrating. He did not want to be associated with a product that devalued his music...

B&W: One of the surprising things in this soundtrack is that you can hear the chords from Stranger in Moscow, which is supposed to have been composed later...

Buxer: Yes, Michael and I had composed those chords for the game, and it has been used as base for Stranger in Moscow. [...]

What do you think?

MJ should have composed music for psx1.

I think it's possible. I want to know which music of Sonic 3 he did. I wouldn't be surprised if it was 'Ice Cap Zone'.

After I heard that rumor I listened to the sonic 3 soundtrack a bit more, and I have to say, some of them sound a lot like Stevie Wonder songs. I could totally go for the Michael Jackson influence as well.

It was interesting to read an actual quote from one of the people officially credited for composing the music for the game, though! It sounds like even he doesn't know which tunes he did. I doubt anyone is going to sit Brad Buxer down and have him listen to the Sonic 3 soundtrack to see if he remembers which ones he worked on.

What do you think?

"Update: Ken Horowitz from Sega-16.com—whose exhaustive research on claims that Jackson contributed to Sonic 3 can be (and should be) read here (http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=392&title=Sega%20Legends:%20Michael%20Jackson%20&%20Sonic%203)—disputes that Buxer's statements about Michael Jackson's musical efforts in the Genesis game do not yet constitute proof of anything. Horowitz also contends that Buxer's claim contradicts statements of some Sega employees.

In other words, our long national nightmare of not knowing whether or not Michael Jackson worked on Sonic 3 without a shadow of a doubt is not yet behind us."

Jaja looks like Sega doesn�t want to tell the truth.

It was interesting to read an actual quote from one of the people officially credited for composing the music for the game, though! It sounds like even he doesn't know which tunes he did. I doubt anyone is going to sit Brad Buxer down and have him listen to the Sonic 3 soundtrack to see if he remembers which ones he worked on.

Ya I'm actually interested in exactly which tracks MJ composed or helped to compose in 1 way or another.
Maybe somebody should interrogate Brad Buxer for this information like u said... download the .vgz tracks from Project 2612 and let him listen to them 1 by 1.
Or maybe SEGA can just tell us the truth since MJ is dead already and there's no pointing hiding facts like this forever.

No wonder why Sonic 3 (also Sonic & Knuckles) are my most cherished video game soundtrack.

So Michael really did, huh? That's epic win! I need to go back and play Sonic 3 now.

I call horseshit on this. I always have. It's just something the MJ fans have been rioting about for years.

I call horseshit on this. I always have. It's just something the MJ fans have been rioting about for years.

Not too hard to believe imo. He was supposed to do music for it, his scandal came in so he got kicked off and then music on his CD that came out soon after the game has music with similar, and sometimes identical, melodies and chord progressions.

Knowing the history of him and Sonic 3 I think horseshit is assuming it's all coincidence.

Especially when they later released a version of the game that removed all of the songs that are suspiciously like the MJ tracks.

This also explains why sonic reminds me of michael jackson

goddamn necro poster

TWO YEAR OLD THREAD

Where did that outburst come from?