Which four songs are on the Sonic the Hedgehog Songs Mount Rushmore?

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Which of these First Ladies would have your vote to become President of the United States? (assuming they were all alive and well today) - Results (53 votes)
Eleanor Roosevelt
22.64% (12 votes)
12
Jackie Kennedy
1.89% (1 vote)
1
Hillary Clinton
7.55% (4 votes)
4
Abigail Adams
7.55% (4 votes)
4
Michelle Obama
32.08% (17 votes)
17
Betty Ford
7.55% (4 votes)
4
Martha Washington
1.89% (1 vote)
1
Dolley Madison
0% (0 votes)
0
Nancy Reagan
3.77% (2 votes)
2
None of the above
15.09% (8 votes)
8
This poll is now closed.
Discussion Topic: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80708068 (if you want to complain about this topic series do it here and not in the current topic)

Rules: If you list more than 4 things I'm gonna just tally the first 4 you say. If you list the same character multiple times it won't count. Be nice. Don't shove your personal definition of "Mount Rushmore" down others' throats. Have fun. If you're going to majorly change a vote please quote your old vote to make it easier for me.

Sonic songs-specific rules: If it was in a Sonic game it counts, however, I'd like us to avoid jingles this time . I don't really consider jingles "songs" for this exercise. One day we can do a Rushmore of just iconic video game jingles.

Music must be from a Sonic GAME , we are not covering any other Sonic media, so no theme songs from any of the cartoons or score from the movie.

I'm probably going to end up rolling together remixes and originals, so if you actually want to vote for the shitty remix of Chemical Plant Zone from Forces I will probably just count that as a vote for the original Chemical Plant Zone instead.

Reference links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Sonic_the_Hedgehog
https://antifandom.com/sonic/wiki/List_of_songs
videogames.si.com/guides/sonic-the-hedgehog-best-music
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80455437
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XLpwODOlX6TZcOXP5xjJl
https://www.reddit.com/r/SonicTheHedgehog/comments/stcdz3/what_sonic_song_genuinely_makes_you_happy_to_be/

PREVIOUS RESULTS:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uCR-viOTP-yKhRZnTyvaoXj7teKRA12gz7m-1rfmhoY/ (Sheet 1)
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Cereal Mascots: Tony the Tiger, Trix Rabbit, Lucky, Cap'n Crunch
First Ladies: Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Abigail Adams

YESTERDAY: A low turnout on international women's day for the women of the oval office. This one did require a bit more political knowledge to vote in than normal so I get it.

We ended up having a heated battle for 3rd AND 4th which has not happened in a while. Multiple times we had a 3-way tie between Clinton, Adams and Obama, but it was broken in the last 2 votes so we didn't need to go to tiebreaker. Sorry Michelle!

Most WTF answer: someone voted by "hotness." I admire the balls it takes to admit that you're doing that on international women's day. I respect it. One day we can do a Rushmore of hottest Presidents. Have you seen young Joe Biden? Damn.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a48f7d97.png

ChatGPT's Rushmore:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3e592177.jpg

AI Rushmore by Microsoft CoPilot:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bb4a86cf.png

uhhh I think "Hillary Clinton" is blocking this one. I instead just had it make a Mount Rushmore of First Ladies without specifying which ones:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c53ea990.jpg

behind every great man is a slightly fem version of himself. I guess if we tripped through the multiverse into the Rule 63 universe this is what Mount Rushmore might look like.

I'm not gonna keep pushing this one because I already got 3 flags trying to come up with a prompt that doesn't offend Bing and I don't want to get suspended for Hillary Clinton of all people.

UPCOMING RUSHMORES (nominations welcome):
3/10: Super Mario 64 levels (Mario Day)
3/11: Best Picture Winners (day after Academy Awards)
3/12: Video Game Urban Legends
3/13: Rappers
3/14: Disney Songs
3/15: Cryptids
3/16: Movie Villains
3/17: Green Characters (St. Patrick's Day Special)
3/18: Greek Mythological Figures
3/19: Video Game Considered "Art"
3/20: Stand Up Comedians
3/21: American Landmarks
3/22: Board Games
3/23: Stephen King Stories
3/24: Nicktoons
3/25: Metal Albums
3/26: Mario Games
3/27: Gen 3 Pokemon
Nominations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uCR-viOTP-yKhRZnTyvaoXj7teKRA12gz7m-1rfmhoY/ (Sheet 2)

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests?search=Pokemon%20of%20the%20Year
(|| ' ' ||) When have you ever seen three big, very smooth arcs
. /|_|\ of hair sticking out of a person's forehead? I haven't!
Green Hill
Ice Cap
Live and Learn
Pumpkin Hill
_foolmo_
he says listen to my story this maybe are last chance
Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Super Sonic Racing
Live and Learn

Remove Super Sonic Racing with Fastest Thing Alive if it's allowed

Nominate Power Rangers (Morphing/Zeo/Turbo/...)
How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious!
oh yes, I should specify that music from non-game Sonic media does NOT count. I'll edit it in
(|| ' ' ||) When have you ever seen three big, very smooth arcs
. /|_|\ of hair sticking out of a person's forehead? I haven't!
Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Super Sonic Racing
Live and Learn

Yeah, I'm just going to steal RyoCaliente's answer, that seems like a solid set.
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Pop culture references go here.
Green Hill
Sonic Boom
Live and Learn
Open Your Heart
Bear Bro
The Empire of Silence
Green Hill Zone
Escape from the City
Live and Learn
Reach for the Stars
It's Reyn Time.
Green Hill Zone
Escape From the City
Unknown from M.E.
The Drowning countdown
Ill consider the drowning countdown more of a song than a jingle, thats eligible

imagine traveling to see a monument to music that plays when a cartoon hedgehog drowns
(|| ' ' ||) When have you ever seen three big, very smooth arcs
. /|_|\ of hair sticking out of a person's forehead? I haven't!
malyg posted...
Green Hill Zone
Escape From the City
Unknown from M.E.
The Drowning countdown


I would like to change my vote to this.
Bear Bro
The Empire of Silence
Dive Into Gravity
Jungle Joyride - Night
Nonaggression Zone/Gizoid
Superstars Final Boss
List the ominous stern whisper from the delphic cave within:
They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin
Escape from the City
A Ghosts Pumpkin Soup
Live and Learn
Green Hill Zone

hm reach for the stars but pumpkin hill is too memey to me to even though it really shouldnt be there
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replace A Ghosts Pumpkin Soup with Super Sonic Racing

i spoke too soon and did a re-scan of the topic
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Green Hill
Ice Cap
Live and Learn
Super Sonic Racing

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Green Hill Zone
Escape from the City
Live and Learn
Reach for the Stars
MZero , to the extreme
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Green Hill
Escape From the City
Sonic Boom
Angel Island Zone (SSBB version)
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Of all the Rushmores we have done, this is the most insanely difficult for me to narrow down to just four.

I finally managed to settle on four after wracking my brain all morning:

Escape from the City
Fastest Thing Alive (SatAM)
Sonic Boom (Sonic CD)
E.G.G.M.A.N.

Since Fastest Thing Alive is ineligible, I am left with no choice but to frown deeply at the rule change and go back to the drawing board!
The azuarc of the contest universe is long, but it bends toward Guruship.
Green Hill Zone
Escape From the City
Planet Wisp Act 1
Undefeatable

There'd be a Sonic R song on here but they're interchangeable at this point. It seems nutty to not include Frontiers at this point, considering how quickly that track exploded.
[Rock and Stone] <o/
Nominate video game sound effects (such as the ring noise when collecting, or getting hit.)
[Rock and Stone] <o/
if drowning counts then def that
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Green Hill Zone
Escape From the City
I Am... All of Me
Sonic Heroes
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Let's see...

Green Hill Zone
Back in Time
Escape from the City
Undefeatable

The series' most iconic song, plus three vocal songs of very different style and time periods; I strongly associate vocal songs with the Sonic franchise. Back in Time is because it won last year's VGMC. Should it belong here, in an attraction for the general public? Who truly knows...

Despite being a fan favorite, I don't think Ice Cap is "Rushmore worthy" because Sega literally doesn't have the rights for it so it can't even be included in remasters of the game lol
Green Hill Zone
Super Sonic Racing
Live and Learn ...main theme of "SONIC ADVENTURE 2"
HIS WORLD ~THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG~

I opted for His World because of its overwhelming prominence at the time of the game's release. Other candidates might include:
Chemical Plant Zone
Sonic Boom
Sonic ~ You Can Do Anything
Open Your Heart
Undefeatable
Hi. I wanna play you something.
hylianknight3 posted...
Escape from the City
Fastest Thing Alive (SatAM)
Sonic Boom (Sonic CD)
E.G.G.M.A.N.

All right, I'll replace the ineligible Fastest Thing Alive with:

Unknown From M.E.

There are too many honorable mentions to honorably mention, but I'll give a special shout-out to Lazy Days (Livin' in Paradise). It's a testament to the high quality of Sonic music that Big and Froggy get such an absolute banger.
The azuarc of the contest universe is long, but it bends toward Guruship.
Green Hill
Live and Learn
Sonic Boom
Chemical Plant
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Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Live and Learn
A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup

Tricky one but I think this is appropriate without looking at other votes. Open to changing a couple of these
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Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Escape from the City
Live & Learn

HMs: half the rest of SA2's soundtrack, Unknown from M.E. (specifically the SA1 version), Open Your Heart, IceCap Zone, Sonic Boom, His World, Sonic Heroes, Reach for the Stars

SA2 could probably fill a rushmore all by itself.
Born to lose, live to win!
Title Theme
Green Hill Zone
Drowning
Escape from The City
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  • Green Hill Zone. You know me, overvaluing historical significance.
  • Live And Learn. Wanted at least one vocal main track, and LAL won the coin flip.
  • Flying Battery Zone Act 1. Wanted a non-Sonic 1 regular stage theme.
  • A New Day (Sonic Rush). Wanted something, anything, from one of the handheld games. Being a special stage theme helps tick off another representation box.
HMs: While writing up this post, the following songs were listed at one point: This Machine, Panic Puppet Act 1, Final Fortress, His World, Doomsday Zone, Stardust Speedway Act 1.
Congratulations to azuarc, Guru champion!
Green Hill Zone
Live and Learn
Super Sonic Racing
A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup
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Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Live and Learn
A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup

The first three are easy, while the last spot could have gone to at least a dozen songs. So I picked a Knuckles song, obviously.
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Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Live and Learn
A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup
I find it kinda bussin, I find it kinda cap
That the dreams in which I'm dying are the ones that kinda slap
Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Scrap Brain Zone
Ice Cap Zone
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Green Hill
Chemical Plant
Live and Learn
E.G.G.M.A.N.
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Green Hill Zone
Live and Learn
Reach for the Stars
Super Sonic Racing
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Green Hill Zone
Live and Learn
Escape from the City
Seaside Hill
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Green Hill Zone
Live and Learn
Escape From the City
Open Your Heart
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
Green Hill
Super Sonic Racing
Escape From the City
Live and Learn
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Green Hill Zone
Escape from the City
Live and Learn
Chemical Plant Zone
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Green Hill Zone
Live and Learn
Escape From the City
Undefeatable

The first three should be pretty straightforward, but I want to go to bat for the last one because I think it's important. Sonic was a joke for the better part of two decades. You know when people actually realized the franchise actually might have found its groove again outside 'just make yet another 2d sonic that's similar to the Genesis ones'? When they reached Giganto or watched a vid of someone playing against it and saw a Super Sonic fight that was more than just 'bonk dude in the head three times to win'. A huge part of making that work was using a type of music the series has never really tried before. It's also an independently popular song that's gotten significant amounts of play in memes and other such things. It's a very recent entry but it feels right, IMO.
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Green Hill
Escape from the City
Live and Learn
EGGMAN
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Green Hill Zone
Drowning
Live and Learn

green hill zone and drowning theme are honestly the only one two that should def be here, former for its classic theme and the latter for traumatizing multiple generations. live and learn is just the best Crush40 song. 4th is hard because it can be a meme song, a classic sonic song, or something else that you don't even realize is a sonic song. i'll just go with the last one here and pick:

Diamond Dust Zone (Act 1) - Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn/PC)

def a weirder one however this one is actually played outside of Sonic or video games - it's straight up a Christmas theme that gets played publicly without people knowing it.
"Maybe it's a tentacle, molesting the planet itself. - Aschen Brodel.
I'm kinda shocked at how many people don't have Chemical Plant Zone, which I consider THE Sonic track more than Green Hill Zone even. It just kinda exemplifies that edgy coolness that separated Sonic and the Genesis from Nintendo.
How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious!
Green Hill Zone
Super Sonic Racing
Escape From the City
Live And Learn
A hero cannot be defeated simply by making him die.
Green Hill Zone
Sonic Boom
Escape from the City
Live and Learn
Play Outer Wilds
Green Hill Zone Act 1
Ice Cap Zone Act 1
Live and Learn
Sonic Boom

I'm assuming "Drowning" counts as a jingle.
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Yesmar
Yesmar_ posted...
Green Hill Zone Act 1
Ice Cap Zone Act 1
Live and Learn
Sonic Boom

I'm assuming "Drowning" counts as a jingle.

Change Sonic Boom to Drowning
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Yesmar
RyoCaliente posted...
Green Hill Zone
Chemical Plant Zone
Super Sonic Racing
Live and Learn

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Green Hill
Chemical Plant
Drowning
Live and Learn
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