I remember always thinking how similar the opening notes to the Elec Man stage theme were to the opening notes of the theme to the "MASK" cartoon series.
It would seem that with this note progression happening in several songs, that one can't really say "OMG CAPCOM STOLEZ FROM JOURNEY!". Similar-to-identical note progressions happen in music all the time.
Somehow I believe this whole getup between stealing a sequence of notes here and there is to fit the whole rock 'n roll theme of the Mega Man franchise, as it contains many references to rock music terms. Mega Man is "Rock Man" in Japan, his girlfriend being called Roll (short for "Rolanda" maybe?). Other music terms in the game include Bass and Treble.
@ClassicTVMan81 Roll is his sister, not his girlfriend. And it's not short for anything. Their names are "Rock" and "Roll". It's just a really, really easy music pun.
@ClassicTVMan81 Roll is his sister, not his girlfriend. And it's not short for anything. Their names are "Rock" and "Roll". It's just a really, really easy music pun.
@ClassicTVMan81 Also known as Forte and Gospel in Japan (Bass and Treble) and Protoman is Blues. An argument could be made for Punk who I THINK was gameboy series only? Beat the bird. Rush could be after the band, and there are many Eddie's in music, but i dunno who he was named after.
i thought i was the only one that thought that.man my friend thought i was crazy when i said journey always reminded me of megaman. thx for making this video now they think i'm insane =)
There's another song on here no one's mentioned. Type in "music mix (power drive)" here on youtube and you'll hear a song that also follows the same beat.
The Elecman theme always reminded me of the opening notes from the M.A.S.K. theme song, but this is a much more solid connection that I never made before.
It bugged the crap out of me that I'd hear that song on the radio, and knew it had to be the Elecman BGM. When I finally sat down and compared them on the computer though...I was shocked to find just how similar they were, and that I couldn't find anything on youtube about it, so I was compelled to create this. (I'm sure it's somewhere though)
LMAO! I thought the same thing when I first heard Faithfully! I never discovered Journey until 1999, and when I did, they were like my favorite band in the world for a while, and when I heard Faithfully, I immediately thought of Elecman's music!
Yeah... i was listening to Journey just now and started thinking the same thing. Low and behold, I search "Journey Mega Man" in Google and I see that I'm not alone. Funny.
I just got megaman anniversary collection and when i went onto the level and heard the tune i immediately thought i had heard it on some Journey song. I looked up a few journey songs and finally found faithfully, it's impossible now to play through that level without thinking of Journey now.
Dammit, REM recorded that song in 1983, but they didn't release it anywhere until 1988, so stop comparing it to that, because there's no way. It's a coincidence. If any, it's definitely Faithfully that inspired Elecman's music. Either that, or Bon Jovi's She Don't Know Me.
It is most likely a coincidence. Still, if they didn't release it until later, how do we know they didn't just pay homage to the megaman song and say "Umm yeah, we wrote this in 1983" to disguise the fact? :) Seriously though, I think it's a big coincidence. I do believe the REM song sounds a lot closer to elec man's theme than the journey song though, but I can hear the similarities in the journey tune.
I remember always thinking how similar the opening notes to the Elec Man stage theme were to the opening notes of the theme to the "MASK" cartoon series.
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LeZenos 1 week ago
interesting!
mrzisawesome 1 week ago
If anything, it was probably done as tribute to Journey.
OriginalMishima 3 weeks ago
When I was a kid I heard that journey song on the radio. I thought they wrote that song for megaman and put words too it.
BlurrySkyFilms 1 month ago
Also sounds a lot like Bon Jovi's "She Don't Know Me".
jp3813 7 months ago
what a wonderful cover song
ficolossale 7 months ago
M.A.S.K cartoon series intro is also the same as Megaman 1: Elecman.
watch?v=ld2TOVWK-qI
moregamemusic 8 months ago
sonic the hedgehog 1- scrap brain zone VS blade runner end credits song; "Vangelis"
check it!
rustyoneone 8 months ago
Thumbs up if you heard the Journey song and it made you think of Elecman and not vice versa.
CineShroud 9 months ago
It would seem that with this note progression happening in several songs, that one can't really say "OMG CAPCOM STOLEZ FROM JOURNEY!". Similar-to-identical note progressions happen in music all the time.
joebove4 10 months ago
@joebove4 like rick astley's never gonna give you up and robo's theme from chrono trigger.
Marioismylife 10 months ago
@Marioismylife I noticed both of those similarities when I was a kid! Awesome.
EliroX904 8 months ago
hes called rockman for a reason
KoopasRevengeHome 11 months ago
thumbs up if vsauce took you heree
wolfslasher1 11 months ago
There's also a REM song....
michiyoyoshiku 11 months ago
@michiyoyoshiku Dude, shut the fuck up. The REM song didn't come out until 1988.
PhillyTacoNYC 10 months ago
@PhillyTacoNYC
NO YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP. You show your elders respect you little shit fuck.
michiyoyoshiku 10 months ago
@michiyoyoshiku It's the truth, jackass.
PhillyTacoNYC 4 months ago
@PhillyTacoNYC
If I speak it it's truth so go back to whatever cave you crawled out of and don't come out
michiyoyoshiku 4 months ago
Are all of you stupid! In Japan hes called Rockman, and all the themes are styled after real songs.
ritterdust 1 year ago
LOL I was just sining Faithfully earlier today and my husband thought I was singing the Megaman song! Same key and everything.
MusicDacia 1 year ago 2
20 years later Papa Roach came out with Between Angels and Insects which uses the same notes as Journey and the Megaman soundtrack....
pantherablaze 1 year ago 2
i was dr willy
MrGameboy1989 1 year ago
THANK YOU!
I knew I wasn't crazy!
Hookd0NFoniks 1 year ago 27
@Hookd0NFoniks You are very welcome :)
ether667 1 year ago 7
I always thought it sounded like that old Bon Jovi song "She Don't Know Me"
aceebb0 9 months ago
This is nothing, Look up the song Runaway (I think it was Jovi) And the stage select theme.
ZDST 1 year ago
@ZDST Interesting...
santiagoff 1 year ago
The melody definitely is the same, and they are in the same key, but the chord progression is different. That's crazy though!
MusicFreak08 1 year ago
Earthbound plays johnny be good but megaman is not sued for THIS!!!!
randomvideogamez 1 year ago
ok then faithfully is like elecman stage that is like a song by rem?
SatAM300 1 year ago 2
The first time I heard Journey's Faithfully, I immediately thought of Elecman's theme song
Kelthire 1 year ago 2
Somehow I believe this whole getup between stealing a sequence of notes here and there is to fit the whole rock 'n roll theme of the Mega Man franchise, as it contains many references to rock music terms. Mega Man is "Rock Man" in Japan, his girlfriend being called Roll (short for "Rolanda" maybe?). Other music terms in the game include Bass and Treble.
ClassicTVMan81 1 year ago
@ClassicTVMan81 Roll is his sister, not his girlfriend. And it's not short for anything. Their names are "Rock" and "Roll". It's just a really, really easy music pun.
zemthemaniac 1 year ago
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@ClassicTVMan81 Roll is his sister, not his girlfriend. And it's not short for anything. Their names are "Rock" and "Roll". It's just a really, really easy music pun.
zemthemaniac 1 year ago
@ClassicTVMan81 Also known as Forte and Gospel in Japan (Bass and Treble) and Protoman is Blues. An argument could be made for Punk who I THINK was gameboy series only? Beat the bird. Rush could be after the band, and there are many Eddie's in music, but i dunno who he was named after.
AnarchoElk 1 year ago
My brain is full of fuck.
ShotaFujimori 1 year ago
haha, very similar melody... they're even in the same key.
pongopigmayiss 1 year ago
This makes me want to play mega man....
kingkongsam9 1 year ago
Hey, I myself don't hear much of a similarity. They don't sound completely different, but not "strikingly similar".
TrecoSpossi 1 year ago
The chord progression is different. Journey: B major, G# minor, F#, E.
Megaman: B major, B/A, E major, E minor, F#. But the melody is strikingly similar.
segould 2 years ago 2
Indeed.
Ajmara 2 years ago
really?
IamtherealElecMan 2 years ago
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The journey song was made AFTER this game was made >_>
IamtherealElecMan 2 years ago
@IamtherealElecMan
Actually the song Faithfully was debuted in 1983 while the Mega Man game was released in 1987.
Ajmara 2 years ago 2
How can a song that is four years older than the game come after the game was made?
xemospiderx 2 years ago 2
@IamtherealElecMan
glad you payed attention to the video Cochise.
JoePotato28 2 years ago
strikingly similar melody even if the chords are way different. crazy...
Buurg 2 years ago
i thought i was the only one that thought that.man my friend thought i was crazy when i said journey always reminded me of megaman. thx for making this video now they think i'm insane =)
Bigassplaylist 2 years ago 23
You are very welcome! Same thing happened to me, and is the reason why I had to make this lol!
ether667 2 years ago 7
@Bigassplaylist
For a while, I thought I was the only one who heard the similarity, but I'm finding lots of videos about this.... :D
TheMegaManNetwork09 9 months ago
There's another song on here no one's mentioned. Type in "music mix (power drive)" here on youtube and you'll hear a song that also follows the same beat.
TylerDurden398 2 years ago
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Jaceyboy1 3 years ago
Someone should really do a remix just like this the whole way through, only with Elecman's theme and Journey faithfully together.
JoeyDeBird 3 years ago 2
watch?v=tRkwMfJ6DR0&fmt=18
AcidicChaosLP 3 years ago
wow, nice found.
rex4 3 years ago
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BX5BT 3 years ago
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Stop coving up your shitty 2bit graphical piece of shit.
FreakAboutSims3 3 years ago
same music but megaman is not a piece of shit.
deluxedookie 3 years ago 30
@deluxedookie ... Idiot.
TetraIllusion 1 year ago
@TetraIllusion
learned it from you.
deluxedookie 1 year ago
@deluxedookie Did you really just hate on Journey? No band since them has had half their talent. What exactly kind of music do you listen to then?
Tbone155817 8 months ago
@deluxedookie Journey, piece of shit? HOW DARE YOU!
TopHatSnipez 1 month ago
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ether667 3 years ago
actually if you listen to them the megaman one is just a digitalized version of the journey song
metalfreeky 3 years ago
my favorite music group + one of my favorite game franchises...lmao, man, they sound so. freakin. similar, omg wow!!!
tyrcd 3 years ago
the point is that Journey is just a small town girl living in a lonely world.
youneverseenthis 3 years ago 3
but they got in one little fight and their mom got scared, and said they were moving with their auntie and uncle in bel air...
nurgleboyrules 3 years ago 6
The Elecman theme always reminded me of the opening notes from the M.A.S.K. theme song, but this is a much more solid connection that I never made before.
BradTheProducer 3 years ago
It bugged the crap out of me that I'd hear that song on the radio, and knew it had to be the Elecman BGM. When I finally sat down and compared them on the computer though...I was shocked to find just how similar they were, and that I couldn't find anything on youtube about it, so I was compelled to create this. (I'm sure it's somewhere though)
ether667 3 years ago 8
LMAO! I thought the same thing when I first heard Faithfully! I never discovered Journey until 1999, and when I did, they were like my favorite band in the world for a while, and when I heard Faithfully, I immediately thought of Elecman's music!
TypicalJoe1900 3 years ago
yeah, i see this before in another video
hypermetalshadow30XX 3 years ago
Yeah... i was listening to Journey just now and started thinking the same thing. Low and behold, I search "Journey Mega Man" in Google and I see that I'm not alone. Funny.
Moonums 3 years ago
whoa! elecman music must be very popular then.
NESgamer190 3 years ago
yep, when I heard it I noticed it also, and another song it sounds like is Kiss- Turn On The Night
foshizzlejoee 3 years ago
I just got megaman anniversary collection and when i went onto the level and heard the tune i immediately thought i had heard it on some Journey song. I looked up a few journey songs and finally found faithfully, it's impossible now to play through that level without thinking of Journey now.
thoseposers 3 years ago
Look up REM's "All the Right Friends" the similarity is much closer.
palehorse864 3 years ago
Dammit, REM recorded that song in 1983, but they didn't release it anywhere until 1988, so stop comparing it to that, because there's no way. It's a coincidence. If any, it's definitely Faithfully that inspired Elecman's music. Either that, or Bon Jovi's She Don't Know Me.
TypicalJoe1900 3 years ago 3
It is most likely a coincidence. Still, if they didn't release it until later, how do we know they didn't just pay homage to the megaman song and say "Umm yeah, we wrote this in 1983" to disguise the fact? :) Seriously though, I think it's a big coincidence. I do believe the REM song sounds a lot closer to elec man's theme than the journey song though, but I can hear the similarities in the journey tune.
arsenefan 3 years ago
Ah, I found another similiarity to that song.
R.E.M's All the Right Friends uses the same tune too. Both REM's and Journey's has been done in 1983. Wow!
SesakaGenX 4 years ago
Holy cow. When I heard that song on my FM radio, I was thinking of the same thing! The exact notes! O,O
Now, I have that song stuck in my head again.
SesakaGenX 4 years ago