Crush 40 (And Recent Sonic the Hedgehog Musical Acts)
 

While the Sonic games varied from bad to wtf, the franchise remained to have a cool musical history. A prominent band for many years and even now is Crush 40, whose sound as far as I can tell is the spiritual successor to the Power Ranger's Ron Wasserman's (that 'Power Pop', martial arts, hype-rock thing lol). Here's some cuts to tab while you websurf.

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There are other acts that create tracks for the Sonic series, and they all basically rotate on themes and in-game soundtracks. They even cover each others tracks for some nice remixes. Head to YouTube and have a marathon sometime. I can imagine many of us missing all this content on the count of Sonic's poor post-16bit years, but I fucking love it all.