fuck sonic 3 & knuckles had some great fuckin music like I could just fuckin jam to Hydrocity Act 1 all fuckin day god just listen to this glorious funky beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1rV9kFs6I
( I don't like Sandopolis Zone can you tell lol. I fuckjin' hate the Instant Death Failure State speed-puzzling sections, and I hate the darkness mechanic, and I hate the fucking unkillable ghosts and just... god
fuck that entire pair of stages oh my god.
They shoulda taken notes from Sonic 2's Dust Hill Zone and just... not.
Desert Palace, which is just a Sandopolis themed race but with a better song, is pretty nice. Pretty poppy again.
Then there's Endless Mine, which... goddang we gone way past funk into goddamn Samba territory or something, i like it. And then the results go full funk again.
There's like, a series of musical directions here and it's kinda fascinating to actually sit and analyse it.
Sonic 3's final boss music is infinitely superior tho ngl. Big Arms is a fuckin great boss track.
...oh yeah the 2p vs mode maps have a rather mixed bag of tracks too. like the first two are high energy af, Chrome Gadget tho is veering back into The Funky Zone, with a really nice poppy sorta sound. a funky , poppy sound... a funkopop s-wait no.