Monday 30 January 2012

Earworm: Sherlock vs Final Fantasy IV

The BBC's Sherlock is great. But it's been bugging me since I first watched it. Now I know why.

Sherlock main theme:



Final Fantasy IV Main Theme:


I can't be the first person to have noticed this. I hope this helps solve other folks' earworm problems. Update 9 January 2014: I replaced the original embed of the FF4 theme with a new one as YouTube had since pulled the original.

10 comments:

  1. I noticed this last night. I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

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  2. I noticed that when I saw it without knowing that it was Sherlock... and I'm glad I wasn't the only one neither xD

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  3. To me it just made that show that much better. Just for giggles I'm going to assume it was an homage.

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    1. When I said "bugged", it was only because it took me a while to figure out the source. Song ran through my head an awfully long time before I remembered Final Fantasy.

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  4. Finally got around to watching A Study In Pink yesterday, and my nostalgia was delightfully tickled by this. You aren't the only one!

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  5. Thanks! I spent a while trying to find the Final Fantasy VI piece that I thought was the source. Figures I'd get the wrong game.

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  6. YES thank you so much. This was driving me nuts as soon as the intro theme started when my GF was watching it!! I was going through every FF-VI track I could find on youtube, but then started to think it might be FF-IV. I think it's too similar to be coincidence.

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  7. Hahaha yaaaasss!!! Just realised this on my way home today!

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  8. I hadn't played this game in 15 years, and the first moment I heard the Sherlock theme, I thought, "That's in FF II/IV." Final Fantasy is permanently inscribed somewhere in my brain.

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  9. Yes! I have been saying this since I first started watching the show. The dude who wrote the music had to have been inspired by that song.

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