YMMV / Crush 40

• Awesome Music: They have a lot. Some standout examples are Open Your Heart, Live and Learn, What I'm Made Of, and His World.
  • Sonic Youth, which was a callback to multiple Sonic the Hedgehog songs.
• Covered Up: Their cover of "Fire Woman" is generally assumed to be about Blaze the Cat. However, they are very quick to point out it's a cover and say that Blaze had nothing to do with the cover. Jun simply wanted a cover song on their 2009 album, and Johnny chose "Fire Woman"
• Misattributed Song: They get this pretty bad. If its a vocal song in a Sonic game, they WILL get credited for it by someone. The most prevalent songs to be hit by this are songs associated with Sonic himself, like both versions of It Doesn't Matter and Escape From the City; it doesn’t help that they were bonus tracks on a Crush 40 album and share a guitarist. Some of the more confusing examples are Lazy Days ~ Livin In Paradise and My Sweet Passion, the latter of which is sung by a girl. It gets really ridiculous when the rap songs from Knuckles' levels get attributed to them
• Narm Charm: Being that most of their lyrics are made to be applicable to video games, this is kinda inevitable. Arguably hits its hardest in the song Sonic Heroes. If it wasn't for the rockin' music (and Johnny Gioeli's incredible singing), they'd be straight-up Narm.
• Signature Song:
  • Live and Learn, easily their most recognized and respected song from the series to the general audience.
  • Open Your Heart, their first song. Pretty much anything that includes Live and Learn will have this song as well.
  • I Am (All of Me) for the more contemporary audience thanks to Shadow the Hedgehog.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Live Life" from Sonic and the Black Knight, especially since it's the last game as of yet to feature a new Crush 40 song before Team Sonic Racing.
  • "Watch Me Fly..." from NASCAR Arcade, in the more heartwarming sense. And man, can Johnny really pack a punch with his vocal delivery on this one.
    Well I've been wondering about who I am
    And just how far I drive to see the end
    Where I started from, where I believe I've won
    And as the sweat rolls down my face
    I put my heart into this place of mine
    Go back in time to see what I'm living in
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Johnny Gioeli's confident and sincere vocals can make the cheesiest lyrics sound incredible. His cover of Sonic Boom is probably the best example of this.

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