> get hired to write soundtrack for the most anticipated game of the era > omg deadlines > find ancient unused demo tape > remix it, send it off, job done > accidentally create one of the most beloved tunes in gaming history, giving rise to a mixtape subculture that will only be surpassed when someone pays very close attention to Long John Baldry’s pantomime elocution > copyright technicalities condemn it never to be rereleased
The record label that owns Hard Times literally uses Ice Cap's backround for the vinyl and says the vinyl color is "Sonic Blue". They are taking the piss out of owning Ice Cap.
Hard Times reincarnate as Ice Cap, Ice Cap causes the entirety of 3&K to go through legal hell until they decide to just use butchered prototype music, Butchered prototype music is hated.
I love how the original song has nothing to do with snow or ice. Yet in Sonic 3 it fits so well for that theme! Amazing what you can do with instrumentation Edit: I have no recollection of making this comment or seeing this video before today. This comment is 3 years old.
I remember telling Google to play IceCap zone while driving through a blizzard cause I was in the mood for a snowy ice type song. Hard Times came on I was like "this isn't icecap zo-" " wait it is? Wha?" Do research and find this. Legit a great song 🎵
Si hay algun tema que deseo que se conserve en Sonic Origins es este. Realmente es muy sospechoso que hace 2 años The Jetzons lanzó un vinilo con la imagen de Ice Cap y la tipografia de SEGA del Sonic 3 👀. Puedo entender que no esten Jam (Carnival Night) y Stranger in Moscow (Creditos Sonic 3), pero ya todos sabemos de Hard Times y su historia.
Get this though. Brad Buxer was the keyboardist for the Jetzons when they first recorded hard times in 82. As stated, the recording of hard times came out finally in 2009. Sonic 3 and Knuckles was released in 94. Before Sonic the Hedgehog, the Jetzons separated and Brad became the musical director for Micheal Jackson. Do you know who is said to have worked with Sega on the soundtrack for sonic 3? Micheal Jackson.
@@yankees2864 You can't blame Buxer now for one of the reasons SEGA might not be able to re-release Sonic 3 again. Fervor Records are the people who own Hard Times and The Jetzons music catalogue.
+Debug Cat, No, no it wasn't. The Jetzons recorded Hard Times in 1982, but was left unreleased until they made their compilation album "The Complete Jetzons" in 2008. Brad Buxer, the keyboardist and composer for the Jetzons, likely was in a rush to add a track for Ice Cap Zone, remembered he once wrote and recorded a song with his band that they never did anything with, and just sent that to SEGA to have it digitized into Sega MegaDrive FM synthesis music.
@@DebugCat Daniel is right, hard times was recorded in 1982 and sonic 3 came out in 1994. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that the song came first.
Prince Vegeta This mix isn't particularly good, it serves its purpose, but Hard Times should be louder, at least as loud as Ice Cap and could do with better editing in places.
God, this is a gorgeous mix, probably would be the best version of the tune if the instruments of both tracks were mixed individually so as not to clash in parts
Also that every year, you reach 100,000 views,because I saw Your other ones and I saw the 100,000 was 2 years ago, and the other, 1 year ago so...Great job
Hard times indeed. I never woulda thought that we'd be playin Sonic 3 without some of the best songs!!! Carnival Night, Ice Cap, and Launch Base were some of the best!!! But, at least we still got Hydrocity act 2.
i’m personally happy we still have Marble Garden and Sky Sanctuary (I know Hydrocity, Lava Reef, Flying Battery and Angel Island were ok because of sonic mania)
While half of internet still fight about this two musics, there's blessing people who make this mashups uniting both of them and make something beautiful.
I believe they could if they wanted to. They've been re-releasing Sonic 1 & 2 for years now even though Sega does not own the rights to those soundtracks (the composer of those games, Masato Nakamura, does).
It's quite easy to tell which tracks he worked on. Ice Cap zone and after, as well as the Act 1 Boss music. I can understand how people can get confused though, as overall, S3's soundtrack had a definite New Jack Swing style to it.
Indeed, people forget the other seven composers who also worked on the game. Several of them also worked with Jackson on the "Ghost" video he made. Doesn't help the information is still pretty muddled because you have Buxer say yes Jackson worked on the game but that he had no idea how much if anything remained, Roger Hector says Jackson was dropped over the sex allegations and Buxer said Jackson wasn't satisfied and the legal teams of each refuse to make it clear which is the truth.
What if its called Sonic Generations 2 but its not a sequel to the old one as the levels are brand new and not a remake of old ones, if its called Sonic Generation 2 I want you to buty the game for me lol. alawey vc 87
@@harubutjojo I know that because they both are good and they fit well together because they are the same and your just trying to act like a teacher but I already know that dumbass…
If any song fits the #relatable subsection, this would be it right here. I've pondered since high school why "hard times" were the "happiest days" of the singer's life. Then, a few years later, when I was a senior in college, I thought I experienced the "happiest day of my life." Ironically enough, I was also experiencing some "hard times" due to added stress-related events occurring in the same year. Eventually, I accepted the fact that I have Schizophrenia and that I will be plagued by a variety of issues that remind me that despite my past failures, I am now successful. "Hard Times" by The Jetzons captures that essence of finding *the happiest days* in life despite all the depressing things we see these days.
if anyone's wondering the lyrics like i was, i found em! here ya go! =3 If I could have all the women in the world I would take this time to leave the pressure's on and I'm not some kind of strong man so take this pain from me don't give it a second thought I can see you got better things to do so just take your things and leave HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY late at night with the darkness all around me I'm drinking all alone nothing here but my medicine to guide me since I've been on my own will I be forgotten now memories that continue to amaze me are all but over now HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY (solo) HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY HARD TIMES HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE HARD TIMES GONE BY (solo) (outro)
If I could have all the rings in the world I would take this time to run The snow is on and I'm a blue and quick hedgehog So don't take away my fun Don't give it a second thought I see you've got better stages to play Just pick one and then leave ICE CAP HAPPIEST STAGE OF THE GAME ICE CAP ACT 1 ICE CAP HAPPIEST STAGE OF THE GAME ICE CAP ACT 1 Late at night with the enemies around me I'm running all alone Nothing here but my instashield to guard me Since I've played on my own. Will it be forgotten now? Memories that continue to amaze me And the song plays on now ICE CAP HAPPIEST STAGE OF THE GAME ICE CAP ACT 1
Ice Cap is literally an instrumental version of Hard Times for the Genesis, hell this isn't even the only track in Sonic 3 to do this, there are quite a few tracks that are straight up Michael Jackson stuff. So of course they'd fit together, THEY'RE LITERALLY THE SAME SONG.
This is seriously one of the best things I've ever heard. It pieces togheter so perfectly, like both individual tracks feel empty once you've heard this combination.
Y'know, we all know about the Michael Jackson connection to Sonic 3, but there's another thread connecting him to Sonic 3 AND The Jetzons. Specifically, the keyboard player of The Jetzons, one Brad Buxer, ended up working with Michael Jackson on the Sonic 3 soundtrack. For all we know, that was probably the catalyst for Hard Times becoming the theme for Ice Cap Zone.
Now this song will remind me of having to leave my love in Spain back to America because of an error in the immigration papers. I came back to nothing: no home, job, anything. I had to sleep out on the streets for three months while I worked two jobs to not only get back to her, but to also provide for her when I get back. Now as time gets closer I find out that my kidneys are failing and possible cancer. Hard times, it is.
LYRICS Because I am lazy to look them up: If I could have all the women in the world I would take this time to leave The pressures on and I’m not some kind of strong man So take this thing from me Don’t give it a second thought I can see you’ve got better things to do So just take your things and leave Hard times (happiest days of my life) Hard times gone by Hard times (happiest days of my life) Hard times gone by Late at night with the darkness here around me I’m drinking all alone Nothing here but my medicine to guide me Since I’ve been on my own Well, you’ve forgotten now Memories that continue to amaze me Are all but over now Hard times (happiest days of my life) Hard times gone by Hard times (happiest days of my life) Hard times gone by Hard times (happiest days of my life) Hard times gone by Hard times (happiest days of my life) Hard times gone by
Once this song was made in 1982, it had to wait 11 years for an inspired version of it,it had to wait 26 years to be finaly released and wait 31 years to be eventually finaly get's emerged together with the sonic 3 version, and there you have it,the ultime version.!!
This is a fantastic mashup. I played the original Jetzons song and ice cap and then this mash up to a friend of mine who is a "huge sonic fan" and he was still saying ice cap is MJ and not Jetzons. Uncultered swine. Excellent job my friend. This is a masterpiece
It's not that it inspired it.... as the song wasn't even release officially in it's original form yet.... it's that Ice Cap IS LITERALLY HARD TIMES ADPATED FOR THE SEGA GENESIS, one of the guys who worked on the OST for Sonic 3 was among the people who made the original song. It's no different than when they made a genesis version of Smooth Criminal for Moonwalker.
@@FukiMakai en realidad hay un par de pequeñas diferencias por aquí y por ahí, hay algunos remixes de la canción hard times al estilo génesis que lo prueban xd
@@CuriousGuy_ Obvio que hay diferencias, pero la composición base es la misma y de hecho fue arreglada por el mismo compositor, que al mismo tiempo era la mano derecha de Michael Jackson por entonces, quien sí participó pero no quiso salir en los créditos
En parte brad uso el sonar de hard time para hacer el de smoth criminal pero lo hizo de tal forma que es difil encontrar la similitud por eso en cierta parte ica cap zone tambien suena como smoth criminal mencionar que michael le pidio ayuda a brad para hacer el ost del sonic 3 supongo que michael y brad decidieron usar el sonar de hard time para hacer el tema de la zona solo que a dieferencia de smoth criminal no maquillaron el sonar para que no suene tan similar en cierta parte tambien por que michael quiso que el ost sonara tan similar a sus canciones :v
Note: They didnt reuse this for origins cause they didnt get the rights to use it. so they went with bringing the peppy, happier-sounding prototype soundtracks for ice cap.
Easily one of the greatest Sonic The Hedgehog mashups of all time. Like, no joke. Then again, given that Hard Times served as the basis for Ice Cap Zone's theme... yeah, that should be expected.
Alan Malan I went ahead and added to your view count totally worth every second this is a great matchup I still wish this day Sega would step up and or maybe they already have and give these guys some respect because they basically copy the entire songs LOL but anyway it's awesome.
Ya know ive listened to this mashup…fkn hell i dunno how many times and ive only just looked up like other people mashups and they always have such a heavy dislike to like ratio but this video seems to have hit the nail on the head and a lot of people seem to like it…well done my dude…well done
Please Sega better release a music pack with original hard times Ice Cap Zone music and the actual good versions of the prototypes for the other zones.
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