Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" sounds like a precursor to Sonic music, particularly the Flying Battery Zone.Interestingly, Michael Jackson, involved in composing Sonic 3's music, recorded a version of "Behind the Mask" with new lyrics, which was often covered (his version wasn't officially released until a remix on 2010's Michael). Another YMO similarity can be found with the chord progression of the intro to the theme for the Sonic & Knuckles version of Hidden Palace Zone, which is the same as YMO's "Behind the Mask".It also resembles the bassline for the instrumental version of "Wild Ambitions" by highly influential Japanese Synth-Pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra.
The bass line in the beginning portion of the song, which gets re-used throughout, is very similar to the bass line from the song "Soaring Mosaic" by John Kaizan Neptune. The Launch Base Zone music uses the "GO!" yell from Run≭.M.C.'s "Peter Piper," as well as a bass hook similar to Nu Shooz's "I Can't Wait". The Act 2 boss theme resembles the first half of Stage 7's music from Raiden II. The No Way! screen is like a 16-bit instrumental version of "Honk Around the Clock" from Sesame Street. The IceCap Zone theme is like a 16-bit instrumental version of "Hard Times" by The Jetzons, a band for which composer Brad Buxer was the keyboardist. This was taken a step further with Sonic Mania's miniboss track, aptly titled "Danger on the Dance Floor". The latter is also believed to be an inversion, though, as the original Dangerous demo lacked the distinctive four-beat drum hit heard in the final 1997 version. 
The percussion track for Knuckles's theme and the miniboss theme in the Sonic 3 half sound like they came straight from Michael Jackson's "In the Closet" or "Blood on the Dance Floor". In Carnival Night Zone, the beat from Michael Jackson's "Jam" is used, along with the trumpet riff and stock glass-breaking sound, and the main melody is based on Julius Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators", which was also interpolated in Mystic Cave Zone from Sonic 2. "Alarm Call" by Björk also bears some similarities to the Marble Garden Zone's theme. but, strangely enough, it was eventually confirmed to have nothing to do with Michael Jackson or his team, as Sega composer Miyoko Takaoka confirmed in 2014 that she composed the piece. The Marble Garden theme and " Thriller" are quite similar.
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