_DEWG Gaming_ even the songs from 06 were awesome!

Agree!!! Their songs are so freaking awesome!

@@CypherSonicMost of the 06 songs were a bop

He can sing simple lyrics but his voice is so rockin he sounds great for a rock band and the music is good i dont listen to music as much but these groups is what i like the most mainly due to video games but their have got good music of their own too and i rather listen to these then the music i hear now on TV

Hrag Avakian *WARNING: I'M GOING FAN MODE HERE. NOT ONLY SHOULD YOU PLEASE CORRECT ANY INFORMATION YOU TRULY KNOW IS INCORRECT, BUT ALSO FORGIVE ME IF I SOUND RUDE. THANK YOU.* I thought so too, but no. They started in 1997 with Sons Of Angels. They changed their name because an old Norwegian band got back together. To avoid confusion they changed their name to Crush 40. Not sure where Sons Of Angels came from (I might look that up eventually), but Crush 40 according to several sources comes from Johnny Gioeli, the lead singer, not wanting to turn 40, so he was "Crushing 40", and Jun Senoue, the lead guitarist, liking Crush Soda. From what I know, Sons Of Angels never released _any_ songs under that title except in Japan. Their first and only album was called "Thrill of the Feel", and was released under SEGA Wavemaster Records I believe in 2000. Here's the long and short of it: Johnny worked with Whitesnake I believe sometime around the 90s (not exactly sure when, but this is 100% true, it's on the Crush 40 website, crush40.net). This is how Jun, the sound director for SEGA since Dark Wizard/Sonic The Hedgehog 3, got in contact with Jun. Jun Senoue and Johnny then proceeded to write music for the game "NASCAR Arcade". I believe all the songs from the "Thrill of the Feel" Album was in NASCAR Arcade, *EXCEPT* for "Open Your Heart" from Sonic Adventure. SA1 was released in _1998_, not 1999. This is called a "Bonus Track" in the album. I have never actually played any NASCAR games, let alone NASCAR arcade, but the music from that album suits racing games. Maybe that's why they were such a good fit for the Sonic series. So, Jun and Johnny preformed "Open Your Heart" for Sonic Adventure. NASCAR Arcade was released in 2000, but I believe the music was written/composed/etc around 1997/1998. I read this in 4 different places, but I don't have the links handy. I believe one of them was a Sonic fan website, but I don't think it was the Sonic Wikia/Sonic News Network, sadly. "Thrill of the Feel" contained many MANY awesome songs, such as "Into The Wind", "Revvin' Up", an *_AWESOME_* version of "Dangerous Ground", and many more! Crush 40 changed to their current name in 2003, and did so with the release of their 2003 self-titled album, "Crush 40". This contained a different version of "Open Your Heart". This time not classed as a Bonus Track. It also contained the SA2 or "original" version of "Live and Learn", not the remastered version in their 2009 album "The Best Of Crush 40 - Super Sonic Songs". It is also important to note that each time Crush 40 have released a version of "Open Your Heart", they have been slightly different from each other. The "Thrill Of The Feel" version has a longer intro by about 2-3 seconds, but the "Crush 40" version has a longer ending to make up for this. Subtle differences but you can hear the "Crush 40" version fade in a little more. The 2009 "The Best Of Crush 40 - Super Sonic Songs" version is very different. The song is in stereo a lot more. It uses the same intro as the "Crush 40" version. The "thunder, rain and lighting" parts have a sort of "radio" filter on them. The ending was completely cut and ends just like it does in the intro for SA1. There is more of an echo on some parts too. I think there might even be more drums/symbols too, but I can't be sure on that. During the intro, Johnny says "ALL RIGHT!". At the end, he says "Open Your Heart! Yeah!" instead of just "Open Your Heart!". How do I know this? I have listened to these songs A LOT XD The "Crush 40" album also contained all the songs that feature Johnny's singing from "Thrill of the Feel", as that album has some just melodies (IE Rush into the Crazy World). I didn't enjoy those, and I believe they were from NASCAR Arcade. The "Crush 40" album also included "Escape From The City", which was from Sonic Adventure 2. I'm not sure why they decided to include that. I'm guessing because it was quite popular and iconic to SA2, and Jun of course played the guitar for it, as he did in every other stage/melody/what have you that featured guitar in SA2 (IE This Way Out for Prison Lane, Wont Stop, Just Go for Green Forest, That's the way I like It for Metal Harbor, Vengeance is Mine for Radical Highway, Still Invincible Don't Care, Hey you!! It's time to speed up again!!! and so on). Of course, Crush 40 have proceeded to release "The Best Of Crush 40 - Super Sonic Songs" in 2009, as I have already mentioned, which featured: • I Am... All Of Me (New Mix For This Release) • His World (New Mix For This Release) • Un-gravitify (Previously Unreleased. New Recording For This Release) • All Hail Shadow • Never Turn Back • Revvin Up • Into The Wind • Watch Me Fly • Fire Woman (Previously Unreleased. New Recording For This Release) • Sonic Heroes • What I'm Made Of • Live Life • Knight Of The Wind (New Mix For This Release) • Live & Learn • Open Your Heart (New Mix For This Release) • Is It You (Previously Unreleased. New Recording For This Release) Some of these songs, such as Live Life and Live & Learn, do have different versions in this album. The reason being they were remixed and release as singles for the 2008 album "True Blue - The Best Of Sonic The Hedgehog". This featured a remix of Live & Learn, the same remix featured in this 2009 album. "True Blue" was in 2 parts, and one part was released 2008, the other in 2009. It featured over 40-50 songs I believe, all from artists such as Bentley Jones (he remixed Open Your Heart completely in that album) to Steve Conte (Singer of "Seven Rings In Hand" for Sonic and The Secret Rings in 2007. This album as a side note also contained a version of Crush 40 singing "Seven Rings In Hand" which I hated at first but have grown to like a bit. They created this with Bentley Jones but it still has that rock feel and not a remix feel). The version of "Live & Learn" that we are currently talking about is called the "2007" version. This is most likely due to it being recorded and such in 2007, but the album being released in 2008. Live Life on the other hand was released differently because the version on this album *_IS_* the original. The version released on the OST for Sonic and The Black Knight, Face To Faith, cuts out the 20 second intro at the start which has some small guitar but mainly violin. I find that part beautiful, so it's good they released the original and put it on their Best-Of album. Then their 2012 EP (Extended Play) "Rise Again", which contained 4 songs: • One Of Those Days • Rise Again • Song Of Hope^ • Sonic Youth As for the "^" beside "Song Of Hope": This song was released in 2011 as a charity song for the Tsunami victims in Japan. Crush 40 sold it on iTunes for 69p/whatever currency you use wherever anyone who happens to be reading this from. Of course not all the profits went to the victims. iTunes took a cut I believe. But Crush 40 didn't make a single penny from that song as a single. I believe every other song except for Song Of Hope and One Of Those Days were preformed live at certain places in Japan, but I am not 100% sure on this My reason behind thinking this is because in the 2012 live album called "Crush 40 Live!" (with the !), they preform Sonic Youth and Rise Again with no comment. Then, when they preform "One Of Those Days", Johnny says "Brand new. This is called 'One of those Days'!", so I'm not exactly sure. He also asks the audience (as he usually does) to sing along, yet he says it's brand new. Maybe the album was just released, maybe Rise Again or Sonic Youth were released as singles/preformed before that concert at some point. Crush 40 do a lot of live shows. A LOT of live shows. They just did a live show back in March this year (where they preformed Dangerous Ground for the first time ever I believe. Jun told me they preformed it there via Twitter), so maybe they did preform it at some point before the live album. I believe they preformed live before that album. That album is all from one night though, because if you listen to every song one after the other in order for the 58 minutes it goes on for, you'll hear that it flows PERFECTLY from one song to the other. After their EP, they preformed their Live album, which contained: • Sonic Youth • Free • His World • Sonic Heroes • Open Your Heart • Knight of the Wind • I Am... All Of Me • With Me • Never Turn Back • Fire Woman • Revvin Up • Watch Me Fly • Into The Wind • Rise Again • Sonic Boom^ • All Hail Shadow • Live & Learn • One Of Those Days • What I'm Made Of ^Sonic Boom was released in 2010 to celebrate a Sonic anniversary. If you don't already know, Sonic Boom was a game created in 1993, and the theme was called "Sonic Boom". Crush 40 and Cash Cash (I assume it was Cash Cash because they were the most recent band to preform music for SEGA; the theme for Sonic Colors/Colours called "Reach For The Stars") got together and remixed that song. Pretty awesome mix. That's all the Crush 40 trivia and more for you! All these albums (except for "Thrill of the Feel" I believe) you can buy on iTunes right now if you don't own them already! Have a great day!

sonic2kk Crush 40 started in August or September 1998, not 1997. In fact they weren't planning to turn it into a band, Johnny was just a guest vocalist. They changed their name in 2001, not 2003 (SA2 released in 2001 and band was already credited as Crush 40). Sonic Boom was released in 2011. And I dunno what kind of version of Face to Faith you have but mine Live Life on that album is identical to "The Best of..." version (with that violin intro you were talking about, and I'm not sure but I think the mix itself is the same too).

***** like Tony Harnell and Ted Poley

And despite being in '97 it still sounds good. :)

Well said, thats one of the same reasons I like them as well

GiuStyle HD I know that made me realize how amazing he is

Hudson Crozier Johnny's a pretty good singer, and I do love Crush 40's music, but I can't help to notice his voice struggling when he tries to hit a C# throughout the song like in "FLOATING in the atmosphere" and "RUNNING round with one shoe on".

Tyson L. Well I'm no expert on that kinda thing

I totally agree, that's phenomenal

@@tysonl.3315he’s getting old just like all of us.

Omg same dude, whenever i feel like im down and lost, i give this song a listen too and it reminds me to get back up and dust myself off then take a deep breath and press onward, cause sure sometimes you cant do anything about a bad day but theres no point in letting yourself waste away in depression, so you know you gotta keep moving on cause.. well a sunny day is around the corner.

Keep going mushroomdude keep growing and keep running for higher ground 😎 you got this!!!

Hell yes i agree with all your points, good that you’re better

Rock on, dude.

Crush40 doesn't rock, they metal

nice

same!

@@SparksterMorgan I feel sorry for you :(

Lmfao sonic fan now a days are to much but it's a good song

@@SparksterMorgan big f , crush 40 is the best thing since toast

Same thing

I was just listening to this song and I had a realization, this song would be perfect... for a knuckles game.

OPEN YOUR HEART, DUUUUUUUUDE!!!

Not being mean, but Crush 40 has a lot of songs we probably haven't heard.

@@evanporter8876 song that weren't used in sonic games

@@evanporter8876 check out the album "Thrill of the feel" by Sons of Angels (pre Crush 40). There's a 2015 EP called "2 nights 2 remember" if u didn't know and also a 2011 or 2012 EP called "Sonic youth" i think, that is where this song is from. That's pretty much everything Crush 40 did without Sonic

Cheeky Charlie Let's wait for Sega to make a Sonic game worthy of having their music first.

Magikarpador Yeah, considering Sonic Boom didn't feature any of their music and we all know why. Because it sucked hard.

Magikarpador couldn't put it better myself haha at least now there lyrics won't be restricted by a game :D

+Cheeky Charlie It's almost like Crush 40 knew the game would be bad. (The 3ds version was actually pretty decent.)

True

YES , YES , YES , FLIP CARDI B AND 6IX9INE , CRUSH 40 IS MY OXYGEN

@@HoldmyApplejuice same thing

Dude,that's like saying "we need air to live",I obvious!!XD

Reason why I like the number 40

You'll never be

2023

@@MJD2SWEET yea im not the only one

so uh

And Freddie mercury/queen

And autotune (aka, k pop)

Michael Jackson is rock. Til /s

nice

Jun is a god too

Facts

Feels like a more upbeat version of Never Turn Back.

Get out no

Nobody hates crush 40.

umm, that's just every day (or is that just me?)

TitanofOblivia They aren't for everyone I mean I like them, but I know people who don't for valid reasons

Yup... write it off an move on.

+BloodySteel64 too bad most sonic fans can't do that for some reason lmao

stupid Ten years and people still bring up 06 like it's new...

They were "One of those games".

Yes,but we don't talk about them.

How is it now?

***** é nois mano

***** Sonic muito melhor que Mario #SonicAteOFim

aleluia um BR que curte crush 40 :"v milagre

Rupninja trash aleluia mesmo kkk

Mais um pra Lista!

Same

Estef Noher Me too

juan sonic Torres Si :p

Cuz it's Crush 40, duuuuuh