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Sonic the Hedgehog Vocal Traxx: Several Wills

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I like this soundtrack, but when I got it I thought there were going to be instrumental versions of the songs on this too, but was disappointed that it didn't have any.

Overall, it has some good songs.

This is a cool CD. I love the games and I especially love the music from the game.

Well If you are a Sonic fan (why would you be looking this up If you weren't?) You will like this cd. I find That I really like "His World" and "All hail Shadow" by crush 40, I guess that because I am a die hard Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 music fan. The Zebrahead version Is pretty fun though! It has a nice fast beat. The cd is a little short but the tracks you get for it are great!

This CD offers 7 songs that are in my taste. the best song there is in this CD in my opinon is All Hail Shadow. Crush 40 did it very well from Shadow the Hedgehog game. of couse someone else did it on the game but its good for me to have two different parts to the song. Here are my rates to the songs.
#1 His world: 9-10 would get a 10 but the song goes over and over and doesnt really have any other part to it...
#2 My dream of absolution: 10-10 Awesome! techno is in here
#3. All hail Shadow: 10-10: like i said great song!
#4: Argh! why must a girly song be in here... Sonic...why?!
#5.: Same as 1 only FASTER! totally Sonic's style! 10-10!
#6.: same as 2 only better! more techno-y!! 10-10
#7: same as 1 and 5 only has a totally DIFFERENT locals. better then 1 i say but not as better as 5 10-10

Well, for such a good game (in my opinion), Sonic 2006 needs some good music. And this CD definately gives us some wonderful new additions to the already-fantastic Sonic soundtrack collection. Here are my thoughts on each song:
Track 1- His World: Interesting song. Very good for a character like Sonic, but I still think that nothing can beat It Doesn't Matter... Nevertheless, good song. 9/10
Track 2- Dreams of an Absolution: I'm not gonna lie, Silver is my favorite character, and I thought that he needed a nice song that fits his senses of justice and determination. I think that this song fits my description. It's a beautiful song, but it could have been even more perfect if they hadn't Auto-Tuned the singer's voice. Not Sonic Team, too... 9/10
Track 3- All Hail Shadow: Originally, I heard this song in Shadow the Hedgehog's vocal album, Lost and Found, and it was by Magna-Fi, not Crush 40. But I have to say, this remix is impressive. Heck, I think it's even better than Magna-Fi's version! 10/10
Track 4- My Destiny: It's a mushy love song. ENOUGH SAID. 4/10
Track 5- His World (Zebrahead Remix): Fantastic. It's even better than Track 1's version! Zebrahead does well once again with music for this game. It's the perfect pump-up pre-game song. 10/10
Track 6- Dreams of an Absolution (LB vs. JS Remix): ... Wow. Just... wow. The remix is just like the original, but even better. The producers pulled in Jun Senoue, the guitarist from Crush 40, to back up the vocals, and it comes out utterly immaculate. Pure win. 10/10
Track 7- His World (Crush 40 Version): In my opinion, not as good as the other two versions of His World, but still a very good song. Crush 40 never ceases to amaze. 8/10
Bottom line, this CD is amazing. Buy it, and you won't regret it!

My kids have loved this CD. It is fun for them to hear music that is from the video games. They really like this CD.

I've beaten the game twice,and I've loved the music.Check out this review:
His World(all):9/10:The version on the CD was better than the game's.
The guitars and singers are better on this version.
All Hail Shadow:10/10:Crush 40 does a great job with the guitars and
voices.
Dreams of Absolution:7/10:Too robotic for some people's tastes,as the case
could be.Otherwise,some might like.I do,somewhat.
My Destiny:2/10:Sheesh.Sonic just HAD to have a girly,lovey-dovey song
somewhere on here.It's a spirit lifter,though.

This is a great CD,and,I must say,the game got WAY more criticism than it
deserved.I know my other review on the Shadow CD didn't make ANY sense
(sorry about that,Amazon users;it was my first review),but I know what I'm
talking about now.This is a great CD,and any rock fan will love it.

Sensible as it may seem due to the nature of the material, splitting the music from the 3D Sonic games into a double or triple album for the score and an EP for the vocal soundtrack makes for a major thorn in the Western importer's side. While director Jun Senoue was able to scrounge up the best summary he could for American release for Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, a failure to sell kept him from doing the same to Shadow the Hedgehog. And his efforts in Shadow the Hedgehog kept him off the most recent and confusingly second self-titled Sonic game. (Third if you count the 8-bit series.)

Or it would have, in theory, if Jun considered his work a typical 9 to 5 job. But just because he was too swamped to pen new material doesn't keep his guitarwork and his ever-morphing project Crush 40 off the game, offering up a Bond theme cover of Magna-Fi's "All Hail Shadow"; a side-by-side comparison with the original will prove how much fun it truly is to listen to Jun's infectious licks and lead vocalist Johnny Gioeli's trademark orgy of overdubs.

But as one might imagine, that only covered Shadow's theme. The task of the main theme/Sonic's theme (one in the same on this title) was thrown to Zebrahead mouthpieces Matty Lewis & Ali Tabatabae, collaborating with Gioeli to pen "His World", an synth/orchestral exercise in simply trying to satisfy too many criteria at once. It's too sluggish, despite Ali's rapping, to be a true Sonic theme, and it lacks the punch to roll over the end credits effectively.

So, the three collaborators decided to have some fun and turn this disc into a half-soundtrack/half-remix CD. Matty and Ali took His World back to Zebrahead, cranked up the tempo and turned it into a true rap-rocker, rewriting the tune to fit the band's usual caliber. Johnny stripped the work down to his own contributions and finished writing the song on his own terms, returning something entirely different from Crush 40's usual fare--you can barely tell it's the same band that sung AHS earlier on the record--Gioeli's first contribution that not only goes beyond lyrics, but composing the entire song. The fans of the two bands can bicker circles around the question of which one's better, but it's apples and oranges and all that's really apparent is both songs blow the album's opening track out of the water. Shame Sonic Team didn't use Crush's version as a main theme and Zebrahead's as Sonic's, but the game never mustered up quite as much interest as its soundtrack anyway.

This takes us to the two remaining songs, which cripple the disc. The beauty of EP's is it keeps the tunes from running together, but the material has to be consistent in quality in order to work. The Remix Factory's Lee Brotherton tries his hand at Silver's theme with "Dreams of an Absolution", but like the character, it succeeds in being little more than white noise. Once again, Jun Senoue steps in for backup, and brightens the arrangement some, but there's only so much you can do with such a droning melody. I guess the four chiefs of this disc understand that to a certain extent because they don't even touch "My Destiny", the six-minute ballad. It's simply unbearable for a whole new set of reasons. Not because of the smoggy mixing, like Shadow's SA2 level music, and not because of the cheesy lyrics, which plagued Sonic Heroes. No, it's because it's a damned six-minute ballad. Anyone could have told Sonic Team this was a bad idea, but--ever-so-unfortunately--nobody did. And here it is. (If only your CD player could total up the time a song FEELS like.)

All in all, the effort that went into His World is so impeccable, it's almost a shame that the only other highlight here is a rehash. Slap a $25 price tag on that and it's just flat-out unimpressive in the worst kind of way. The sad truth is that if Sonic Team continues down the line of producing multiple 3D games at once, there just won't be enough Jun & Johnny to go around.

the cd is weak and boring

but that Zebrahead version of His World rocks! why they used the slow one i'll never know but i know i only bought it for the Z track i needed the hard copy of that song for my collection, a mp3 just couldn't do it i need hard copies!