Japanese only game soundtrack. Full title, Lost and Found The Shadow Hedgehog Vocal Trax. Avex. 2006.
CD Reviews
Jun Senoue is a divine musical god!!!
PD | Potugal | 02/26/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"When i thought Jun couldn't suprise me any longer,this album is released!It's the best Sonic series vocal album yet!Track 1 is the best dark rock song i've ever heard,it just shows how Crush 40 is simply the best band ever.Track 2 is made by Powerman 5000,famous by their song "When Worlds Collide",but even though this song has excellent vocals and instrumentals,the lyrics are repetitive.Track 3 is made by the ones who made "This Machine" for Sonic Heroes,and it rocks!Track 4 is a disapointing remix of the E.G.G.M.A.N song from SA2,and the only bad song here.
Track 5 is a very deep song that owns you everytime you hear it.
The best thing about Track 6 are the lyrics,they're very good.
Track 7 is another amazing song by Crush 40,but to me,their best song is still "What I'm Made Of".Here's the Tracklist:
1-"I Am... All of Me" by Crush 40 [5 Stars and beyond]
2-"Almost Dead" by Powerman 5000 [4 Stars]
3-"Waking Up" by Julien-K [5 Stars]
4-"E.G.G.M.A.N Doc. Robeatnix" by Remix Factory [3 Stars]
5-"The Chosen One" by A2 [5 Stars]
6-"All Hail Shadow" by Magna-Fi [5 Stars]
7-"Never Turn Back" by Crush 40 [5 Stars and beyond]
Can't wait for the Next album!
"
ALL HAIL SHADOW!
Project Shadow | Space Colony Ark | 03/28/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Track number six explains it all-All Hail Shadow!I have Track one stuck in my head as write this(All of Me)Crush 40 does it again!Shadow is just as bad a** as ever if you are alive at all you need to buy this now it will consume you!"
BEST... SONIC... SOUNDTRACK...EVER!!!!!
J Wine | Virginia | 11/26/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is by far the best Sonic music I have heard in a very long time. The songs are catchy, the guitars are amazing, and the vocals are great. The songs are individually rated as follows...
1. I Am... All Of Me- 5 out of 5- wow...WOW. Crush 40 has done it again. I own almost all of the Sonic soundtracks, and I've found all the best vocals are cranked out by these guys. This song is definitely ring tone material. Great guitars, awesome singing, I guarantee you'll find yourself singing this to yourself wherever you go. And for those that have played the game, yeah, this is the awesome version played during the fight with Devil Doom.
2. Almost Dead-4 out of 5- This song received more unnecessary criticism than it deserved. Sure, it's a little more hard core than most Sonic songs, but it is still pretty awesome. Every review I've read hated this song for the line "Heaven can't save us, Hell is joke." Ummm, well, personally, I don't find that offensive. If you can play the game, which has damn, hell, etc, then this one little line in this one little song shouldn't bother you. It's not like they're knocking on any one's religion or anything. Anyway, good song, might be a little too close to death metal for some, but I like it.
3. Waking Up-4 out of 5- Awesome techno song by Julien-K, the same artist also did the awesome Team Dark song in Sonic Heroes called "This Machine." Well, if you thought that was good, trust me, this is better. I would have liked a little more guitars or rock beat in it, but overall the song is great.
4. E.G.G.M.A.N. Doc. Robeatnix Mix-4 out of 5- Okay, to TRULY appreciate this song, you have to have the Vocal Soundtrack to Sonic Adventure 2. The original song was in there, and this song is the remix of it. Now, if you don't have the SA2 Vocal Soundtrack...lol, this song is pretty bad. However, if you DO have the Vocals Soundtrack, I think you'll agree that they did the best job of remixing it that they could.
5. The Chosen One-5 out of 5- This song is amazing. It's not the hard rock/techno type of song like the rest of the CD, but it still has just enough guitars and stuff to be awesome.
6. All Hail Shadow... 5 out of 5- Okay, I'll admit, I thought the lyrics "Obliterating everything that's not your friend" was pretty lame too, but when you get to the rest of the song, you completely forget about that. Vocals and guitars are great. I love the echoing "BOW YOUR HEADS LOW, ALL HAIL SHADOW!" You'll be putting this one (in addition to everything else on the CD) in your favorites list.
7. Never Turn Back -5 out of 5- YES!!!!! THIS IS THE AWESOME VERSION THEY PLAY DURING THE FINAL CREDITS, RIGHT DOWN TO THE PIANO VERSION OF "I AM... ALL OF ME" AND EVERYTHING!!!! I was so psyched when I found that out. This is the perfect way to end the CD and the game, the piano is almost like a good-bye, and then Crush 40 makes their final debut to the game with one of their best songs to date!
All in all, I highly recommend this CD to just about everyone. Parents, if you're worried about any bad content for your kids, there is no cussing or anything like in the game. Some people may have a problem with a couple of the lyrics (I see and feel the evil, my hand will crush them all), but there's nothing really bad or graphic in it at all. So get this CD asap, and I promise you, you won't be disappointed."
Great
J Wine | 05/21/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is the greatist C.D. ever! This is my review of the C.D. songs from favorite to least favorite
I Am . . . All of Me
All Hail Shadow
Never Turn Back
E.G.G.M.A.N. Remix
Waking Up
Chosen One
Almost Dead
My mom says she doesn't like I Am . . . All of Me which it is exactly like Green Day which she likes. I don't know about her but I LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLove this C.D. It's the best"
[3.5] For those who knew Crush 40 had more in them than hair
Darren A. Conroy | Boston, MA, USA | 04/26/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"A good deal of the personality of these Sonic vocal soundtrack EP's comes from the seemingly cryptic subtitles assigned. If "Cuts Unleashed" was resident maestro Jun Senoue's commentary on the importance of getting the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack out in unedited form, then maybe "Lost and Found" takes it one step further and actually refers to what was going on inside his band, Crush 40, in the process of recording it.
This is all just speculation, of course. And it's not a Crush 40 album, either, but they do claim the bookends and the highlights. Highlights because now that the mood of the game has changed, Crush 40 manages to shake off the majority of their cock-rocky tendencies while hanging onto their distinctive sound. "I Am (All of Me)" showcases a harsher, more intensive sound, but it doesn't feel like a front. And truth be told, one has to wonder if it wasn't even intentional. Even co-writer and mouthpiece Johnny Gioeli admits that when sitting down to write for this game and their eventual sophomore effort, their "sound had changed", dripping with the implications of the involuntary nature of this metamorphosis. Even when "Never Look Back" sounds like it could have been written by an early-00's Bon Jovi, Jun and John succeed in keeping themselves current equipped with nothing but their own convictions (check out the chilling piano reprise of the disc's opener) and not getting out-nü-metaled by the other acts on this disc without ever sounding as clichéd as a serious nü-metal outfit seems entitled to be these days.
Not that the bands that contribute should be ignored. Magna-Fi toss in the guilty pleasure by-the-numbers melodic hard-rocker "All Hail Shadow", while A2 slide in the dismal but hooky-as-all-hell "Chosen One". Former sci-fi rockers Powerman 5000 supply the disc with "Almost Dead", which finds the group closer to frontman Spider One's big brother Rob Zombie than anything the band has released themselves. But this album is aching for more melody and less grit, and something out of the vein of their own "Free" would have made this a much more solid album, possibly overshadowing the Remix Factory's disappointing eight-bar interlude looped over and over for three and a half minutes. Julien-K show up with "Waking Up", which sounds more in line with their "Death to Analog" demos than Heroes' throw "This Machine", which sounded more like a retooled Orgy idea (even imagining the opening riff conjures up flashes of the "Blue Monday" video).
Combine Julien's synth trip, A2's dreary beacon of light, Powerman's industrial headbanger, and Magna-Fi's emoesque rocker and you've got a cocktail of all different kinds of grim. Almost as if each act had a different vision of the darkness that would end up as the theme of this game. (Which wound up feeling just as inconsistant.) Crush 40 bring the most to the table, though, mainly because as dark as this is, it's still a Sonic (style) game. And there's nothing slow and lumbering about it. They keep the tempo in stride with that and Johnny never sounds like he's giving anything short of 110%.
Those who found Escape from the City, Follow Me and Believe in Myself among the highlights of the Sonic series probably should skip this outing. And with a price tag that ugly, it shouldn't be hard. But for those who always knew Crush 40 had something more interesting lying within them than hair metal and bubblegum, this is likely the Sonic soundtrack you've been waiting for."
Track Listings (7) - Disc #1