This track definitely has harder rock backing than the rest and the vocals take the eccentricity up another notch. A secret track in the game, “Pounding Pavement” is easily accessible on this album. An interesting artefact of the loop method, the artifical vibrato sound of the vocals is even more obvious than before. The instrumentals are as central as the vocals in “Sky High” with a sassy trumpet often taking the lead. However, it certainly adds to the racing feel of the game with its punchy chord progressions and rapid percussion. “The King of Speed” will be either something you love or hate with its bellows of ‘rolling start’ (or, in Mitsuyoshi’s semi-intentional Engrish, ‘roorying staaaar’). The rest of the Daytona USA stage themes continue to focus on vocal use. The mixture of rock and funk instrumentals ensure a very peppy and varied accompaniment too. He still succeeded in producing a really rich, cutting-edge, if ridiculous track for its time. Mitsuyoshi had to use quite a few novel techniques in order to integrate vocals on to primitive Arcade sound boards, opting to loop several short but memorable vocal samples. It initially appears in a shortened ‘advertise’ version and receives a fleshed-out stage theme version mid-way through the soundtrack. The subsequent appearance of Daytona USA‘s Arcade soundtrack only reaffirms the theme’s classic status. It’s goofy, powerful, soothing, charismatic, stupid, and oh so nostalgic all at the same time. It’s quite a simple arrangement, but it captures the essence of Daytona and Mitsuyoshi’s quirky style well. Soon enough, however, Mitsuyoshi’s vocals show up and he bellows his classic ‘daaaytoona’ and ‘du du duuuu du’ lines. It begins with a soft but jazzy solo piano interpretation of the main theme. Those who have seen Mitsuyoshi perform at PLAY! A Video Game Symphony will find his performance similar here. The box set opens with a special piano arrangement of the series’ main theme “Let’s Go Away”. While the source material is all good and the album concept is great, Wavemaster made several crucial mistakes when presenting the album, particularly with their treatment of later scores in the series. The series is definitely best remembered for its eccentric vocal themes by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, however, and it is these tracks that are source to a few bonus arrangements and other commemorations. The discs feature the four major scores to the series - Daytona USA, Daytona USA 2, Daytona USA Circuit Edition, and Daytona USA 2001 - each with their own style. This time they chose to squeeze the music for the franchise on to a more humble and affordable four discs. To celebrate 15 years of Daaaytooona, Sega decided to release a music box set for the series similar to how they did with OutRun and After Burner previously. Because the four track theme variations aren't named, they can't be counted as officially named even though if they were given an official name it would probably just be the in-game initials like all of the other tracks.Daytona USA Anniversary Box -Let’s Go Away. 18 through 40 are officially named on the B-univ*DAYTONA USA album, and the four short versions of each track theme are part of the 19th track, "All of Name Entry" on the Let's Go Away The Video Game DAYTONA USA Anniversary Box, which is just a collection of all of these tracks. Please note that tracks 04.2, 07.2, 10.2, 13.2 and 18 through 40 are short jingles that play after entering your name (should you actually do well enough in a race to do so) as the initials given as the song title. There's only a few full tracks in the game, but they're already incredibly catchy in their own right and provide the perfect atmosphere for a high-paced game like Daytona USA. In fact, most people probably remember the music in this game just because of its incredibly Engrish vocals, but Mitsuyoshi's voice adds some sort of strange charm to the soundtrack that makes it even better. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi sure is an interesting fellow not only did he compose the music to the game, he also provides the lyrics to each of the songs.
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