Game Music Origins - Dragonball Z Budokai 3 and Sim City 4

My previous comparison between Donkey Kong Country's Stickerbrush Symphony and Amy Grant's I Will Remember You was a passing resemblance and coincidence at best. This video has two comparisons of two selected game BGMs with what I am sure are their origins.

Comparisons:

Level Up BGM
Dragonball Z Budokai 3 (2004)
Kenji Yamamoto (山本健司)

Everybody Dance
CHIC
Chic (1977)
Atlantic Records

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Oasis
Sim City 4 (2003)
Jerry Martin

The Boys of Summer
DON HENLEY
Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
Geffen - Universal

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• game
• music
• comparisons
• dragonball
• budokai
• sim
• city

[JudgeSpear2]

Oops. I used the wrong Kanji here. The composer for DBZ Budokai 3, who also worked on music for the anime itself, is spelled 山本健司. The composer here (山本健誌) works for Nintendo, composing for the Metroid games and Donkey Kong Country Returns. There are two differnt Kenji Yamamotos.

[ExodoPics]

Yamamoto: average composer but brilliant DJ!

[GigaEXE]

The DBZ Budokai series (by Dimps) had a lot of Dance and Jazzy tunes in it, which is why I loved the soundtracks so much. It's sad to know that the games' composer has been found to be a plagiarist.

[MrDKIRBYJ]

Not surprising. Kenji Yamamoto has had a long history of ripping off other artists. He was fired from working on Dragonball Kai for ripping off a track off of Avatar.

Still, good ear!

[lvcsslacker]

good ear.

[heroteen16]

oh jeez thats why dbz b3 had such a familiar song...

[Kefka44]

Kenji Yamamoto is a plagiarist 

[PsychoCalamander]

The Sim City BGM sound a litte bit like Michael Jacksons Human Nature.