Howard Drossin - Comix Zone

Comix Zone composed by Howard drossin. Published in 1995 by Sega Enterprises - Developed by Sega Technical Institute.

For the creators of Comix Zone, music was obviously very important and because of that, music is composed by Howard Drossin. Game has three chapters with two levels each, three bosses, and for that... TWENTY compositions. Let's say, that video game should have different music on every level and every boss, intro, main menu and end credits. Under that criteria most of video games do not have music for half. In that case  Comix zone needs 12,but , CZ has 20, and they are all great!

To make one more comparison. How many famous bands you know, who have two or three good songs per album? That is, approximately, 30% of success in the work they do. If it comes to any other business, that low success rate would be unacceptable. Imagine that an engineer says "it's a good car, has a radio and lights, lacks engine and few other things, but this is business, you can not have it all." Or " We finished construction of your home successfully, south and west wall are still standing." LOL! Here is a better example: imagine that Beethoven rarely made ​​good symphonies. Today, probably, would not be considered as a legend, but for a man who was lucky. How come the people in "music industry" never ask themselves: "Why between us there is no people competent enough to make music?" Well, unlike these phonies, the real composers and musicians such as Howard Drossin, make music with 100% of success. So, out of  20 tunes, 20 are fantastic.

It is amazing how many bands and musicians covered music from this game. I singled out one, created by Dr. Manhattan, which was made for a competition Dwelling of duels.(competition in covering music from video games)

Original from the game                                Cover by Dr. Manhattan

Here is one interesting thing. In 1996, bonus CD was added to the game packing, it contained the game music played by the band Roadkill (with vocals). 

Guitar: Howard Drossin; Solos on 2 & 5: Philip Stevenson

Bass Guitar: Weird Guy

Drums: Philip Stevenson

Lyrics & Vocals: Howard Drossin, Tim P.

Producers: Howard Drossin, Tim P., Philip Stevenson

Executive Producer: Roger Hector

Six songs have been made in grunge genre version (very popular in the 90s). In my opinion this is not an enhanced music from the game, just an interesting addition, because the grunge is a very limiting concept. I'll put this into a phrase: If you want to put an angel in a coffin, you have to cut the wings out.

Original from the game                                Roadkill version

I still have unfinished business with Comix Zone. I have dealt with only 5 tunes and plenty of covers are waiting to be heard. So it will be continued.

You tube clips posted by Mafiosotucanazo -  SegaClubMusic - TheVGMshow
(original Comix Zone tunes) 

FlikTheBlueLightning (Dr manhattan) - Mechatails (Roadkill)