Did These Songs Sample Video Games? 

No, it is not Jolyne ERRORS: On screen has an error - XO TOUR LIFE is by Lil Uzi Vert, not XXXTentacion. Must have copied CAME2KILLs text and forgot to change the artist ALSO, turns out Navi in the Skrillex was someone hired to sound exactly like Navi! They are Salamimeats on the website formerly know as Twitter.

i cant believe billie eilish created plants vs zombie

Idk maybe they did I haven’t watched the video yet

As a composer myself, I want to say this is a nightmare. You can spend hours writing a song you _think_ is all your own only to realize _"Oops! All Doom Soundtrack Motifs!"_

5:46 why do u pick up the grave buster, aint any grave in there😭💀

I'm still hoping that one day, there will be a new pop song that uses the same baseline riffs as Waluigi Pinball. That'd be epic.

Trying to monetize a video like this genuinely sounds like a nightmare, huge dubs to the patreon backers

"Basically if you've never heard of it..." The realization that yes, there are people who've never heard of the original Plants vs Zombies devastates me in ways I cannot properly explain.

6:35 Neco Arc

An interesting example of sampling in music for video games can be Chirp from Minecraft and Orb of Dreamers from LittleBigPlanet. Both songs start with the same sample from an old electronic instrument. The songs go in compeletly different directions but the start is uncomfortably similiar.

That one TheFatRat song using the Yoshi sample

As a producer and a video game fan, it makes me very happy when my two biggest interests merge and we get some really good songs from it

If you want more instances of Lil Uzi Vert sampling from video games, the original version of Secure The Bag used the Clock Tower Factory theme from Super Monkey Ball 2.

Your increase in quality and production is amazing, can't wait to see more content from you on this kind of level.

12:05 got an actual laugh outta me instead of the usual blowing air out of my nose laugh

9:35 KERO KERO BONITO MENTIONED!!!!

I like the running gag of Alax entering the room in the weirdest way possible

The Metal Gear Solid V trailer theme was a sample in itself, being from Elegia by New Order.

I’d never thought I’d see CES CRU recognition 10:38

Man, I remember hearing a Portuguese pop/rap song from a radio and the melody sounded exactly like Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The melody didn't just last for a few seconds - _it was the whole song._ The verses, the chorus, everything. I can't find it anywhere anymore. The lyrics didn't make references to Sonic from what I remember, though I didn't understand them very well.

Not only does Aurora sample Coconut Mall, but so does Puffle Party's main theme- I believe Chris Hendricks even admitted to the deliberately similar opening. (Same goes with Mystic Cave Zone and the Box Dimension.) At least, they seem to be a Billie Eilish situation.

5:25 the word you're looking for when it's not a sample but they use the same melody is called interpolation

This was fun as heck to watch. Great production, great concept, great video. I love it!

Very nice to see just how many popular songs out there took some samples from video games and vice versa. It's interesting to see how two of my biggest interests are a lot more connected then I thought.

I think with some of these you've hit upon what's sortof the fundamental issue with music plagiarism, which is that to some degree, EVERY song is a remix, at least within the 12 tone system. It doesn't make them less original in any measure, because mutation is a large part of how human creativity works. A truly "new" idea is fairly rare. edit: a fun thing about this is how if you listen to a wide enough breadth of music, you can start making connections. This might be a bit of a neurodivergent thing but frequently when I am listening to a song another starts playing in my head. Maybe I should become a mashup artist, lol

Honestly I’m surprised nobody has sampled Shovel Knight’s ost or sound effects yet. It seems like it would be easy to work with

8:03 what's more is this track is used throughout many mario RPG's to give a sense of absolute "forboding foreshadowing" like something's around the corner. I swear I've heard this so many times on Bowsers Inside Story that I was like "No, not another giga bowser fight where I have to scream my lungs out, NO NO NO!!!"

We need a part 3 of this. Really liking this topic

9:43 Yo why did Schoolboy Q lock Toad up in his basement 😭

Exact sample or not, I'm always listening for these "musical allusions" - I play a lot of jazz, and this is way more commonplace and acceptable in that world, and it shows partly how the artists think, but also ideas they wish to evoke in the listener who knows the allusion. It's really interesting, and I think it's really cool that you can take certain musical motifs and trace them back through time to other songs

One of the ones that I know for a fact isn't related but sounds strikingly the same is the Deltarune leitmotif and the FFXIV Stormblood leitmotif, specifically the one that's used for the quest completion jingle

It’s also kinda crazy that George’s Bizet used Freddy’s jingle for a part of his song “Toreador March”

5:39 cabbage plant gang

Correction: Lupe Fiasco sampled New Order's Elegia which just happened to be the song used for the MGS V trailer.

Who knew so many rappers were gamers? This makes me want to hear more rap songs now and find any Easter eggs of game noises or music samples within them.

i’ve never watched this channel but like 3 minutes in i hear undertale and gaster, i like this man

2:05 Brazil mentioned

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but a personal favorite of mine is how Freddie Dredd’s “Redrum” samples the song “Soda Pop” by Shane Mesa from the MOTHER 4 OST. It’s crazy to think that there are songs out there sampling stuff from fan games that didn’t even come out.

Saw the zombie in the thumbnail and deep in the recesses of my mind watery graves started playing

a lot of these are some serious reaches

7:35 that sound is actually a stock sound modified which is why it’s no longer in the game wouldn’t be surprised if the same thing happened with that song

That new intro has been great! It’s super simple, but because of that, it kinda fits Alax’s new minimalistic style of videos

One thing I found interesting with two songs was that LittleBigPlanet's theme, "Orb of Dreamers" and Minecraft's "Chirp" have the same exact sample, besides chirp being slightly slowed down orb of dreamers, but sound so identical it's crazy.

I just discovered your video and I love it! You just blew up my brain 😁 On the reverse side of subject, one of the biggest case that I know of video games ost sampling / getting inspiration of radio songs is "Sister Marian" from The Square (1984) being reused by Koji Kondo as the mario world 1-1 song that we all know. Maybe an episode about jazz fusion and it's relationship with video games music could be interesting, I always feel myself getting "Eh I've already heard that before in a video game" when listening to Cassiopea but never found exactly where

6:07 neco arc spotted

I'm ao sorry that thumbnail really looks like Jolyne XD

Found this guy randomly and immediately started to binge watch all his videos guess what I love him To you man behind the screen: continue please if we can help with funds or anything I want to know you're doing great lad

This video is crazy entertaining!

So that’s what In The Past was made for! It was made as an opening for the sequel to “Songs That Sample Video Games”! Very creative, Alax!

One sample that I think nobody has picked up yet is Taylor Swift sampling Super Smash Bros. If you go to 2:29 of Taylor Swift 'Lover', you will hear Palutena's neutral B lock on sound faintly in the background.

13:15 Counterpoint: Goldeneye Watch theme was already a 100% banger, therefore it was not sampled, but simply used for its original purpose.

You have to remember a lot of these rappers/singers don't write/compose their own songs, so it really could just be one dude that really likes Zelda, Mario and Chrono trigger.

I like that Brandish popped up in the end...because Gadobadorrer is LITERALLY what Megalovania is inspired by. No no, not Megalomania from LAL, that's simply the song he wanted to use instead for Halloween Hack (and thus, was named after). This is pretty crystal clear when you realize the guy who dumped the songs for the SNES version of Brandish II...was FawgRadiation, Toby Fox's old username. The SNES modding community has a special file called .SPC which is what he dumped using an emulator, and using that file you can replay music exactly how it was meant to be. So yeah, there was probably a lot more to Megalovania than just "I just yelled whatever into a microphone and copied the notes."

Every time I hear 21 Guns or a 21 Guns sample, I just hear the chorus of "Darker Side of Blue" by Tal Bachman (1999). Totally should have been a hit.

8:45 yooo thats sick I love Black Party

12:45 this also sounds a HELL of a lot like Adabat (night) from Sonic Unleashed. Either it's the same type of instrument or literally the legend of mana song sped up. That was my first thought when I heard that lol

7:43 or because it's from the damn ALPHA version 10 years ago

Fun fact: The sound effect Used for Peppino’s Taunt in Pizza Tower is also used in Funky Stadium from Mario Kart Wii!

5:30 I hate this

Fun fact about these samples, some of them might be likely because these sample could be part of a sample pack that the scorers used especially some of the vocal ones...there were licensed sample packs that were used a lot back then

I just wanna say how much I love the editing in RelaxAlax videos. It's so distinct, entertaining, and appealing all while being educational. Good job Alex! 👍

7:52 I HEARD THIS AND CALLED IT

9:20 i genuinely felt like i got the rug pulled from under my feet during this part

3:10 it’s actually sampled from the song “Elegia” by New Order made in 1985

3:29 MR CHEDDA

4:55 WHY WOULD ANYONE PUT A POTATO MINE BEHIND A WALLNUT

10:25 also sounds like the main theme of trauma team for the wii.

Man, ngl this video is the best I’ve seen all year 💀

0:48 SAND UNDERMEN

The “China Love” sample is likely from a dedicated sample library as the same chimes are used in “Adabat - Night” from Sonic Unleashed

One i always cant unhear is i think the song "This could build us a home" -by The Garden sampled the beat from the crazy motorcycle chase theme in the og FF7

Elecman's theme is everywhere in music

9:53 Space Road 1979 from Omori To anyone looking for that song, you're welcome

12:26 LMAO no fucking way 🤣

I legit forgot this channel existed for a long time, it's nice to be back.

12:39 now hear me out.

Considering the pause menu of Goldeneye 007 is one of the best pause menu themes of all time, do you think you could cover some other menus and their themes? I feel like a lot of games have menus that are functionally and audibly wonderful! Kingdom Hearts, Halo, Wario World, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Pikmin (Piklopedia), the newly released Rain Code... the list could go on!

Funnily enough, there's a (relatively) recent video from Andrew Cunningham that does a big ol' deep dive on a specific thing touched on in this video, that being Gaster's Leitmotif appearing in songs across Deltarune's first and second chapters, as well as "appearing" across Deltarune's first and second chapters i just think its kinda neat that there are different ways to approach a similar concept in one's own video style

I swear the mario theme from that dungeon made me cry as a child

this is oddly beautiful editing

There is something so nostalgic about the old gravel texture

10:30 i was scared it was about to break into tokyo drift 😂😂😂

This is amazing enough i subbed

4:18 oh my god it’s kirby block ball stage 7 my favorite song ever

11:41 Alax doing multiple smooth transitions, back to back.

I guess it makes sense now, a lot of the early video game music were inspired by music either of the time, or what they grew up with, a lot of pop, rock, disco, and even heavy metal. Now, a lot of artists have grown up playing video games, and video game music was as influential to them as music on the radio, and it makes sense it's getting sampled.

the golden eye watch theme honestly is one of the best

I constantly hear songs that have game samples nice to know someone else out there catches the more obscure ones as I do myself.

7:21 My man, XO Tour Llife is by Lil Uzi Vert, not XXXTENTACION.

So glad this is a continuing series. Hopefully there's more to come!

Abracadavre isn't the name for the COD Zombies theme thought, that merely is the name of the easter egg song on Ascension that incorporates a part of the song "Damned", the actual name for the gamemode theme.

Little more well known - but BoneThugz n Harmony Sampled the end theme from Eternal Champions on Sega Genesis for "Crossroads"

He really said, "Using the Metal Gear solid 5 trailer theme", Just Say, "Using Elegia From New Order as a Sample".

Man i used to watch your videos YEARSSS ago back when you consistently made smash videos like know your moves among others. I decided to give this video a try and I loved it! I love this new video formation and the new intro is quick and to the point. Everything is spot on, I'm definitely going to be binge watching your other videos now

Metamorphosis by Interworld and Mangrove Cove: Underwater from Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

This is the fastest editing ive ever seen, i need some dramamine

Your video production style is an instance of ms paint thats been open since 1997 and honestly it just works

There's this one mashup artist called Jazzwave and one of the first songs i heard of theirs was they took the PS1 startup sound, mixed it into a really cool, hypnotic sounding song and then added the vocals from Roundabout by Yes overtop. If your wondering what Roundabout is, its the closing song of Jojo's bizzare adventure part 1, which spawned the to be continued meme with the little arrow. I forgot what the song was called, but if you look them up the song is the first song on their first album, Copywrong. Which is also getting a remaster soon I think.

2:01 "So I did a little bit of research" *Ascension Inducing Jingle*

Brazil mentioned! What a great video.