Sonic the Hedgehog Original Sound Track

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Sonic the Hedgehog Original Sound Track
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Composed by Hideaki Kobayashi / Jun Senoue / Mariko Nanba / Seirou Okamoto / TAI-HEY / Takahito Eguchi / Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Hideaki Kobayashi / Jun Senoue / Mariko Nanba / TAI-HEY / Takahito Eguchi / Tomoya Ohtani / Yasutaka Kume
Published by Wave Master
Catalog number WM-0550~2
Release type Game Soundtrack - Official Release
Format 3 CD - 94 tracks
Release date January 10, 2007
Duration 03:17:39
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Overview

The most infamous Sonic game to date, 2006's Sonic the Hedgehog brought a major disappointment among all the fans that eagerly cluttered around to see this title bring the series back to light. Unfortunately, that ship has long sailed away, but if there is one redeeming factor that can always be brought up whenever this game is mentioned, it is the soundtrack itself. It is quite a shame to see all of that hard work gone to waste, but thankfully, the complete soundtrack is available for fans to get a hold of. One of the largest soundtrack of any Sonic soundtracks in quite a while, with 80+ themes spanned out among three discs, there are plenty of musical variations for fans to give a listen to.

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Part of what made the soundtrack very memorable was its departure from Jun Senoue's musical direction. Jun Senoue managed to establish plenty of memorable guitar tunes in Sonic Adventure. As the series progressed, much of the songs became more or less experimental with heavy emphasis on guitar riffs, most notably with Shadow the Hedgehog. As a result, much of the music afterwards began to be a hit or a miss among the fans. For Sonic '06, Tomoya Otani steps in to produce the music, with Hideaki Koboyashi, Mariko Nanba, Takahito Eguchi, and many more joining the team to create one of the more elaborate Sonic soundtracks in quite a long time.

Sonic the Hedgehog Original Soundtrack features wonderfully selected genres and elaborate instrumental arrangement, which is nothing short of amazing. Previous Sonic soundtracks often took an odd approach to the genre, such as Sonic Adventure 2. It did have its usual Rock, with the simplistic guitar riffs, but it also made full use of Rap, Jazz Fanfare, and even Heavy Metal, but its end result felt way too cheesy and too full of itself that made listening to the songs a guilty pleasure. Sonic '06's goes a bit beyond, with stage music constructed to feel a lot like a real mainstream and worldly music, with a less repetitive feel and well written instrumental solos for the stages.

"Aquatic Base ~Level 1~" uses a duel piano and techno synthesizer trance to give off a cool and soothing feeling of being underwater. The ambient tune also makes a small use of mysterious vocal chants, as well as small sections of marching drums that still manages to keep it ambient. The two variations of "Radical Train" are the definitive classic and progressive rock inspired tunes, with a lead guitar that strongly resembles a style made famous by Pink Floyd. It also carries out a funky bass reminiscing that of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Congo drums fill in the progress, pushing the sense of urgency to give chase against the train. "White Acropolis ~The Base~" sets in the story of espionage in a winter night with its hardcore techno bass and an echoing synthesizer, followed by the use of an equally hardcore guitar riff. In contrast, "Wave Ocean ~The Inlet~" is a wonderful combination of fast pace rhythm guitar chords and drums with the lead guitar playing a beautiful and tranquil solo that fits the mood of a tropical beach.

As wonderful as the soundtrack is, it isn't without its small fair share of problems. The soundtrack also includes all the event tracks that were played in the background during the entire story mode of Sonic '06. Since the game's storyline was immense, the events completely take up more than half of the entire soundtrack. The cues are mostly orchestra arrangements, created to give off the feeling of a cinematic blockbuster. The orchestra, for the most part, is adequate and won't exactly rival other games that are well known for such arrangements. Nothing I can consider bad in any way. It just wasn't too memorable or unique for me. Everything takes it very slow and calming to tell the story of sadness, hope, and love. A recurring theme in all the events is a variation to Sonic's theme "His World" and Princess Elise's theme "My Destiny". It serves only to remind us that this is suppose to relate to Sonic, and it's partially the reason why fans will easily skip over all these events.

Each disc represents each of the main hedgehogs — Sonic, Silver, and Shadow. It has its respectable colors, and the themes chosen for each disc relates much closer to the character it is included with. Each disc also carries their respectable theme songs. Sonic gets "His World", a nice hard rock performance with bits and pieces influenced by much of the orchestra found in the events. It features a combination of rap and regular vocals by Ali and Matty of Zebrahead. Shadow gets "All Hail Shadow", a cover performance by Crush 40 that was previously performed back in the game Shadow the Hedgehog. And Silver's theme "Dreams of an Absolution" features a simple chord progression on synthesizer arranged by the original Remix Factory artist Lee Brotherton, who we know today as Bentley Jones. Bonus song are also scattered about, such as the complete version of Sonic's theme that was originally heard in the E3 version and even a karaoke version of "My Destiny" for those guilty enough to sing along to.

Summary

It's more than wonderful seeing a Sonic soundtrack step away from the usual cheesiness style of music, especially some of the guitar tunes Jun Senoue is well known for, especially when the music goes an extra length to be as relaxing or as fast pace and, overall, very elaborate. The event themes completely shroud the best parts of the album, but it shouldn't keep a fan from exploring the three disc set to find more than enough memorable tracks to fall in love with. With a combination of classic rock inspired tunes, peaceful piano recitals that segue into an ambient and hardcore techno guitar riffs, and even going far as to be as mysterious ambience with chilling use of echoing guitar solos, it's regarded as one of the best Sonic soundtracks to come out in a long time. Tomoya Otani has done a great job, and we hope to see more of his musical direction for the next Sonic the Hedgehog title.



Album
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Game
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Rafael Orantes

Disc-1

01. HIS WORLD ~THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Lyrics by Ali Tabatabaee & Johnny Gioeli
Lead Vocals : Matty Lewis
Rap Vocals : Ali Tabatabaee
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Strings : Shinozaki Strings
Strings Arranged by Takahito Eguchi

02. [EVENT] THE SOLEANNA FESTIVAL
Music by Mariko Nanba

03. [EVENT] DR.EGGMAN APPEARS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

04. [EVENT] SONIC APPEARS
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume

05. WAVE OCEAN ~THE WATER'S EDGE~
Music by Mariko Nanba & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

06. WAVE OCEAN ~THE INLET~
Music by Mariko Nanba & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

07. [EVENT] MEMORY OF YOUTH
Music by Mariko Nanba

08. [BOSS] EGG-CERBERUS & EGG-GENESIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

09. SOLEANNA CASTLE TOWN
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Oboe : Hiroshi Shibayama
Accordion : Yoshiaki Sato

10. DUSTY DESERT ~QUICKSAND~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani & Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

11. [EVENT] RUNNING THROUGH THE PLAINS
Produced by Mariko Nanba
Music by Takahito Eguchi
Strings : Shinozaki Strings

12. [EVENT] TENSION... SILVER APPEARS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

13. [BOSS] VS. CHARACTER
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

14. [EVENT] EGGMAN SENDS SONIC TO THE FUTURE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

15. [EVENT] THE FUTURE WORLD?
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

16. [EVENT] CAN IT BE TRUE?
Music by tai-hey

17. [EVENT] TENSION... SILVER VS. SHADOW
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

18. [EVENT] ELISE JUMPS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

19. TROPICAL JUNGLE ~THE JUNGLE ~ THE SWAMP~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Flute : Bob Zung
Chorus : Miho Fujiwara, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

20. [EVENT] IN THE FOREST
Produced by Mariko Nanba
Music by Takahito Eguchi
Strings : Shinozaki Strings

21. [EVENT] ELISE GOES ALONE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

22. [EVENT] EGGMAN'S PLOT
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

23. KINGDOM VALLEY ~WIND ~ THE CASTLE ~ LAKESIDE ~ WATER~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
1stVI : Hiroyuki Koike
2ndVI : Rei Koike
Vla : Tomoko Fukuhara
Vc : Tomio Yajima
Cb : Shinji Tanaka

24. [EVENT] OUT OF CONTROL
Music by tai-hey

25. [EVENT] I WILL CHANGE MY DESTINY
Music by tai-hey

26. [BOSS] EGG-WYVERN
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

27. THEME OF DR.EGGMAN ~FULL VERSION~
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

28. THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ~2006 E3 VERSION~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Yasutaka Kume & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars & Bass : Yasutaka Kume

29. ACCORDION SONG
Music by Mariko Nanba
Performed by Yoshiaki Sato

Disc-2

01. "Crush 40","ALL HAIL SHADOW ~THEME OF SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG~
Performed by Crush 40
Written by Jun Senoue & Mike Szuter
Vocals : Johnny Gioeli
Guitars & Programming : Jun Senoue
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura

02. [EVENT] SHADOW'S INFILTRATION
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Jun Senoue
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

03. WHITE ACROPOLIS ~SNOWY PEAK~
Music by Mariko Nanba

04. WHITE ACROPOLIS ~THE BASE~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume

05. [EVENT] TO THE ANCIENT SOLEANNA CASTLE
Music by Mariko Nanba

06. SOLEANNA FOREST
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Flute : Bob Zung

07. [EVENT] TENSION... THE SCEPTER OF DARKNESS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

08. [EVENT] THE RESURRECTION OF MEPHILES
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

09. [EVENT] CONFIRMING THE FUTURE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

10. FLAME CORE ~VOLCANO~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Yasutaka Kume & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura

11. FLAME CORE ~THE CAVERN~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Yasutaka Kume & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura

12. [EVENT] THE BLACK SHADOW
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

13.TROPICAL JUNGLE ~THE RUINS~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Flute : Bob Zung
Chorus : Miho Fujiwara, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

14. [EVENT] MEPHILES' WHISPER
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

15. [BOSS] MEPHILES
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

16. SOLEANNA NEW CITY
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Flute : Bob Zung

17. RADICAL TRAIN ~THE ABANDONED MINE~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

18. RADICAL TRAIN ~THE CHASE~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

19. [EVENT] THE ACCIDENT 10 YEARS AGO
Music by tai-hey

20. AQUATIC BASE ~LEVEL 1~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Chorus : Kazuko Hamano

21. AQUATIC BASE ~LEVEL 2~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume

22. [EVENT] LEAVING THE SCEPTER OF DARKNESS
Music by Mariko Nanba

23. [EVENT] THE SEALING REVEALED
Music by tai-hey

24. [EVENT] DETERMINATION... OMEGA'S CONFESSION
Music by tai-hey

25. [EVENT] MEPHILES' TEMPTATION
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

26. [BOSS] MEPHILES PHASE 2
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

27. [EVENT] SHOWDOWN WITH MEPHILES
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

28. RESULT
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Performed by Chewtaro Moritake

29. TOWN MISSION 1
Music by Mariko Nanba

30. TOWN MISSION 2
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake

31. TOWN MISSION 3
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake

32. TOWN MISSION 4
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake

33. [JINGLE] INVINCIBLE
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

34. [JINGLE] MISSION CLEAR
Arranged by Hideaki Kobayashi

35. [JINGLE] TOWN MISSION CLEAR
Music by Seirou Okamoto

36. EXTRAS
Music by Mariko Nanba
Arranged by tai-hey
Piano : Masaki Matsumoto

Disc-3

01. DREAMS OF AN ABSOLUTION ~THEME OF SILVER THE HEDGEHOG~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Arranged by Tomoya Ohtani
Vocals & Lyrics by Lee Brotherton
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake

02. [EVENT] THE RUINED WORLD OF THE FUTURE
Music by Mariko Nanba

03. CRISIS CITY ~THE FLAME ~ SKYSCRAPER ~ WHIRLWIND ~ TORNADO~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume

04. [EVENT] CONFRONTATION WITH IBLIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

05. [BOSS] IBLIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

06. [EVENT] HE'S THE IBLIS TRIGGER!
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

07. DUSTY DESERT ~THE RUINS~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani & Mariko Nanba
Guitars & Electric Sitar : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda

08. [EVENT] IS IT RIGHT...?
Music by tai-hey

09. [EVENT] INVASION... ENCOUNTER WITH AMY AND ELISE
Music by tai-hey

10. [EVENT] NEVER CRY, NO MATTER WHAT
Music by Mariko Nanba

11. [EVENT] DETERMINATION... RETURN TO THE FUTURE
Music by tai-hey

12. [EVENT] THE LAST CLASH WITH IBLIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

13. [BOSS] IBLIS PHASE 3
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

14. [EVENT] YOU ARE MY COMPANION
Music by tai-hey

15. [EVENT] MEPHILES' SMILE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

16. [EVENT] ELISE'S TEARS
Music by tai-hey

17. [EVENT] THE VILLAIN WAS SET FREE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

18. [EVENT] THE RESURRECTION OF SOLARIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

19. [EVENT] THE TIME-SPACE RIFT
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

20. END OF THE WORLD
Music by Tomoya Ohtani

21. [EVENT] WISHING UPON THE CHAOS EMERALDS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

22. [BOSS] SOLARIS PHASE 1
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi

23. [BOSS] SOLARIS PHASE 2
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Hideaki Kobayashi

24. [EVENT] SOLARIS DESTROYED
Music by Tomoya Ohtani

25. [EVENT] THE FLAME OF HOPE
Music by Mariko Nanba

26. [EVENT] JUST SMILE
Music by Mariko Nanba
1stVI : Hiroyuki Koike
2ndVI : Rei Koike
Vla : Tomoko Fukuhara
Vc : Tomoi Yajima
Cb : Shinji Tanaka

27. [EVENT] PARADE: PAST MEMORIES
Produced by Mariko Nanba
Music by Takahito Eguchi
Strings : Shinozaki Strings

28. MY DESTINY ~THEME OF ELISE~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Lyrics by Candie Y
Arranged by Takahito Eguchi
Vocal : Donna De Lory
Guitars : Naganori Sakakibara
Piano : Nobuo Kurata
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Nobuo Eguchi
Strings : Kuwano Strings
Album was composed by Hideaki Kobayashi / Jun Senoue / Mariko Nanba / Seirou Okamoto / TAI-HEY / Takahito Eguchi / Tomoya Ohtani and was released on January 10, 2007. Soundtrack consists of 94 tracks tracks with duration over more than 3 hours. Album was released by Wave Master.

CD 1

1
HIS WORLD ~THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG~
04:41
2
[EVENT] THE SOLEANNA FESTIVAL
00:59
3
[EVENT] DR.EGGMAN APPEARS
01:05
4
[EVENT] SONIC APPEARS
00:54
5
WAVE OCEAN ~THE WATER'S EDGE~
03:30
6
WAVE OCEAN ~THE INLET~
03:06
7
[EVENT] MEMORY OF YOUTH
00:27
8
[BOSS] EGG-CERBERUS & EGG-GENESIS
02:48
9
SOLEANNA CASTLE TOWN
02:34
10
DUSTY DESERT ~QUICKSAND~
03:46
11
[EVENT] RUNNING THROUGH THE PLAINS
02:24
12
[EVENT] TENSION... SILVER APPEARS
00:26
13
[BOSS] VS. CHARACTER
03:40
14
[EVENT] EGGMAN SENDS SONIC TO THE FUTURE
01:32
15
[EVENT] THE FUTURE WORLD?
00:42
16
[EVENT] CAN IT BE TRUE?
01:36
17
[EVENT] TENSION... SILVER VS. SHADOW
01:08
18
[EVENT] ELISE JUMPS
00:36
19
TROPICAL JUNGLE ~THE JUNGLE ~ THE SWAMP~
04:17
20
[EVENT] IN THE FOREST
02:16
21
[EVENT] ELISE GOES ALONE
01:22
22
[EVENT] EGGMAN'S PLOT
01:48
23
KINGDOM VALLEY ~WIND ~ THE CASTLE ~ LAKESIDE ~ WATER~
06:49
24
[EVENT] OUT OF CONTROL
00:38
25
[EVENT] I WILL CHANGE MY DESTINY
01:34
26
[BOSS] EGG-WYVERN
03:37
27
THEME OF DR.EGGMAN ~FULL VERSION~
03:32
28
THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ~2006 E3 VERSION~
02:04
29
ACCORDION SONG
01:32

CD 2

1
ALL HAIL SHADOW ~THEME OF SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG~
04:01
2
[EVENT] SHADOW'S INFILTRATION
00:33
3
WHITE ACROPOLIS ~SNOWY PEAK~
03:07
4
WHITE ACROPOLIS ~THE BASE~
02:52
5
[EVENT] TO THE ANCIENT SOLEANNA CASTLE
01:03
6
SOLEANNA FOREST
02:08
7
[EVENT] TENSION... THE SCEPTER OF DARKNESS
00:34
8
[EVENT] THE RESURRECTION OF MEPHILES
01:24
9
[EVENT] CONFIRMING THE FUTURE
01:31
10
FLAME CORE ~VOLCANO~
03:10
11
FLAME CORE ~THE CAVERN~
03:15
12
[EVENT] THE BLACK SHADOW
00:27
13
TROPICAL JUNGLE ~THE RUINS~
02:43
14
[EVENT] MEPHILES' WHISPER
01:36
15
[BOSS] MEPHILES
02:49
16
SOLEANNA NEW CITY
02:22
17
RADICAL TRAIN ~THE ABANDONED MINE~
02:43
18
RADICAL TRAIN ~THE CHASE~
02:51
19
[EVENT] THE ACCIDENT 10 YEARS AGO
00:48
20
AQUATIC BASE ~LEVEL 1~
02:37
21
AQUATIC BASE ~LEVEL 2~
02:30
22
[EVENT] LEAVING THE SCEPTER OF DARKNESS
00:21
23
[EVENT] THE SEALING REVEALED
00:27
24
[EVENT] DETERMINATION... OMEGA'S CONFESSION
00:20
25
[EVENT] MEPHILES' TEMPTATION
01:11
26
[BOSS] MEPHILES PHASE 2
03:51
27
[EVENT] SHOWDOWN WITH MEPHILES
01:42
28
RESULT
01:40
29
TOWN MISSION 1
01:11
30
TOWN MISSION 2
00:54
31
TOWN MISSION 3
00:48
32
TOWN MISSION 4
00:51
33
[JINGLE] INVINCIBLE
00:23
34
[JINGLE] MISSION CLEAR
00:12
35
[JINGLE] TOWN MISSION CLEAR
00:11
36
EXTRAS
02:34

CD 3

1
DREAMS OF AN ABSOLUTION ~THEME OF SILVER THE HEDGEHOG~
05:16
2
[EVENT] THE RUINED WORLD OF THE FUTURE
00:51
3
CRISIS CITY ~THE FLAME ~ SKYSCRAPER ~ WHIRLWIND ~ TORNADO~
06:51
4
[EVENT] CONFRONTATION WITH IBLIS
00:31
5
[BOSS] IBLIS
03:12
6
[EVENT] HE'S THE IBLIS TRIGGER!
01:58
7
DUSTY DESERT ~THE RUINS~
02:53
8
[EVENT] IS IT RIGHT...?
01:11
9
[EVENT] INVASION... ENCOUNTER WITH AMY AND ELISE
00:31
10
[EVENT] NEVER CRY, NO MATTER WHAT
01:44
11
[EVENT] DETERMINATION... RETURN TO THE FUTURE
00:43
12
[EVENT] THE LAST CLASH WITH IBLIS
00:20
13
[BOSS] IBLIS PHASE 3
03:46
14
[EVENT] YOU ARE MY COMPANION
01:58
15
[EVENT] MEPHILES' SMILE
00:21
16
[EVENT] ELISE'S TEARS
00:54
17
[EVENT] THE VILLAIN WAS SET FREE
00:46
18
[EVENT] THE RESURRECTION OF SOLARIS
00:41
19
[EVENT] THE TIME-SPACE RIFT
04:14
20
END OF THE WORLD
05:21
21
[EVENT] WISHING UPON THE CHAOS EMERALDS
02:32
22
[BOSS] SOLARIS PHASE 1
03:28
23
[BOSS] SOLARIS PHASE 2
03:01
24
[EVENT] SOLARIS DESTROYED
00:40
25
[EVENT] THE FLAME OF HOPE
01:16
26
[EVENT] JUST SMILE
01:30
27
[EVENT] PARADE: PAST MEMORIES
01:52
28
MY DESTINY ~THEME OF ELISE~
06:10
29
MY DESTINY ~THEME OF ELISE~ (Karaoke Version)
06:05
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