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I particularly enjoyed the Wolf's Rain OST, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, FLCL, and Beck. The must from all of these series have stuck with me and I still listen to them on a regularly basis. There of course are more OST's out there for anime, but none had as much impact as the ones I mentioned. Opinions on your favorite anime music?

The Cowboy Bebop OST is fucking win. I listen to the soundtrack everyday.

Also, FLCL (if that counts) too.
Peace.

I have to agree, Cowboy Bebop is my favorite OST, I doubt any other can match up to it. (Except maybe Trigun's OST)

Bruce Faulconer's Dragon Ball Z soundtrack, of course. That is awesome, and the music for Cell's death is amazingly dramatic. It's all pure instrumental, and it just kicks the whole show up a notch.
War.

The first keroro Gunso OST!

The Big O



....and also Trigun, FLCL, FMA, and Steamboy (movie).

Biggest Duh ever, how could I forget about Big O.

BIG O! BIG O BIG O BIG O!

Yeah, I'm sticking to my DBZ OSTs.
War.

Has that new big o opening been released as a single yet? Or is there some way of getting it in a mp3 format.

Oh one more, if there isn't a Ghost in the Shell track I've haven't downloaded, that won't last too long.

That's the best for me personally. There isn't a day that goes by where I don't listen to it.

EDIT: From Bebop and Ghost, I'm a HUGE Yoko Kanno fan. My goal in life is to get her to score some of my films when I make it into the industry... oh, and to be able to make said films too. But yeah, Yoko Kanno kawaii~
Peace.

Have you downloaded the whole solid state society ost nine?

No!

Can you help me with that? Please? So far I have Player (I got that a long time ago), Replica (my favorite song ever at the moment), Zero Signal, Remedium, Tempest and Date of Rebirth.

Aren't there something like 18 tracks on the ost? If you could list them out to me, that would be kawaii amazing~
Peace.

Here ya go:

01. "Player" Vocals: Origa with Heartsdales
02. "Replica" Vocals: Ilaria Graziano
03. "Zero Signal" Vocals: Gabriela Robin
04. "Solid State Society"
05. "Tempest"
06. "Born Stubborn"
07. "She Is" Vocals: Gabriela Robin
08. "From The Roof Top - Somewhere in the Silence (Sniper’s Theme)" Vocals: Ilaria Graziano
09. "Undivided"
10. "Blues in the Net"
11. "Human Step (Aramaki’s Theme)"
12. "Date of Rebirth" Vocals: Origa
13. "Take a Little Hand" Vocals: Gabriela Robin
14. "Remedium"

If you can't find them i'll try to email them to you if i can.

Undivided, yeah I have that one too. Funny thing is, some of these were used in 2nd GIG though. Like Remedium and Tempest.

Oh, and thank you. You are my favorite person at the moment. :o

lolhavingfavorites
Peace.

Cowboy Bebop is the undisputed king of anime soundtracks. It has some annoying songs, and some of it's plain instrumental songs go on for far, FAR longer than they're actually good for, but for the most part it's Twue Wub.

I've got the Big O OSTs, and they're great, probably their biggest flaw is that they have fifty different versions of the same song. The lack of vocals can be at times grating as well. I think vocals are generally overused in music, but when I listen to so many songs in a row without them, I tend to lose focus and they drift out of my perception.

FLCL... I loved the soundtrack when it was in the show, but listening to the OST I can't actually seem to get into it. I dunno. It's weird.

I leave for a week and I come back to this?!

Nine, you cur!

*dramatic slap across Nine's face*

Anyway, I am a total slave to Yoko Kanno's music, as well. Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell... Some of the most top notch music I've ever heard period.

Lately, I've been spamming the Solid State Society OST. Yay for Origa goodness!

HONEY! WAIT, ITS NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE! YOU KNOW YOUR MY ONLY IDEOLOGICAL ONE!

*rubs face in shame, runs melodramatically after her*

I've been listening to the Solid State Society themes a lot recently. Goddamn, Ilaria Graziano can sing. I heard a little bit of Kanno's stuff regarding Escaflowne, but I've been meaning to listen to more of it.

Really Amy, this is just business reagrding me getting tracks from GITS. Nothing more. Come back to me. ;___;
Peace.

Baby, I need you as much as you need me! D;

*wishes she could let you borrow her SSS CD*

Well Galatea said she could just e-mail them to me or something like that. Or AIM. I have a list of the ones I want to.

Goddamn, Take A Little Hand is sooooo good.

lolweneedtolistentothistogetheroveraromanticdinnersetting
Peace.

I'm still going through my complete and total Bruce Faulconer addiction.
War.

The Big-O

The Trigun soundtrack is very good as well.

On another note, the Ranma 1/2 opening song is addictive like heroin combined with crack combined with nicotine combined with Pixie Stix combined with Everquest.

YAPPAPPA- YAPPAPPA- II SHAN TEN
hashagu koi wa ike no koi
YAPPAPA- YAPPAPPA- II SHAN TEN
mune no tai wa dakareTAI

wake mo wakarazu ni
Ranma Ranma de hi ga kureru
kimi to atte kara
Ranma Ranma de
NADAKANDA to
suttamonda no seikimatsu

naze motto shizuka ni
"suki da yo" to ienai no?
hariau to watashi mo
jajauma ni nacchau!

BERU mo narasazu ni
soyokaze no you ni
mune no WANRU-MU
sumitsuita kimi na no
meiwaku yo dakedo
...kon'ya dake ii wa
(...ashita made ii wa)

YAPPAPPA- YAPPAPPA- RYAN SHAN TEN
odoru KISU wa umi no kisu
YAPPAPPA- YAPPAPPA- RYAN SHAN TEN
koi no aji wa kakushi aji

mitsumerareru tabi
Ranma Ranma de, me ga mawaru
koi ni nari-sou de
Ranma Ranma de   TANMA TANMA de
sonna mon ne to o-tomodachi

hakuryoku de kudokare
hoshi no machi nige deshita
yume miteta DE-TO ga
MARASON ni nacchau!

kayui MERUHEN mo
otome ni wa biyaku
kimi no yasashisa ni
tsutsumarete mitai no
joudan yo dakedo
...HA-TO wa sukechau
(...itsuka wa sukechau)

YAPPAPPA- YAPPAPPA- II SHAN TEN
hashagu koi wa ike no koi
YAPPAPPA- YAPPAPPA- II SHAN TEN
mune no tai wa dakareTAI

mitsumerareru tabi
Ranma Ranma de, me ga mawaru
koi ni narisou de
Ranma Ranma de, o-tomodachi

wake mo wakarazu ni
Ranma Ranma de hi ga kureru
kimi to atte kara
Ranma Ranma de
NANDAKANDA to
suttamonda no seikimatsu

Holy crap. Long song is long? Or maybe that's just me.
War.

It could be long. Depends on how fast the vocalist is singing.

Off the top of my head, I'd probably say the Hellsing television series soundtrack, maybe tied with FLCL. Of course, anything by Yoko Kanno is golden, and I liked the Eureka seveN OSTs, too.

I like the GTS SaC sound track. Ghost in the shell rocks, I kind of wonder why they choose a Russian pop star to sing the theme, or why it's in Russian at all?

If I recall correctly, Yoko Kanno, the composer of the soundtrack for all the Stand Alone Complex projects, didn't want a typical J-Pop sound for the opener, so she contacted Origa, who wrote the lyrics to, and performed, "Inner Universe," along with several other tracks.

This one's a little on the obscure side but for me, the 2004 remake of Area 88 has the best soundtrack of any animé I've ever watched, with Big O a very close second.

Depending on my mood...

Pop Tunes - Eureka Seven
Jazz/Action - Cowboy Bebop/Big O
Orchestral/Mystery - Robotech (The Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross/Genesis Climber Mospeada)

Y'all have to listen to RahXephon. Not really a fan of the anime, myself, but the soundtrack has it.

Also, Code Geass is really catchy and exciting.


I've heard of Area 88! In the original anime there was an English voiceactor with the same name as mine. Never heard any songs from it though. Could you link me to your favs?

Nah man, Big O's weak. I'm glad it introduced me to Raindrop Sonata, and I like the Paradigm City theme loads, and, okay, Sure Promise is epic... but the rest of the sountrack is forgettable to me.

There's not much on the net, but I've got both volumes of the OST. PM me with your email address and I'll send over some of my favourites.
Oh, and if you've not yet seen it, I started an Area 88 discussion thread.

If you click the little envelope beneath my name, your e-mail service should pop up with my address already in the "To:" field.

I guess I'll edit this later and put in some YouTube links to some of my favs.

OST is Original Sound Track, right? Sadly, i don't have any. I should look for some...... or just look at what you guys have...

I don't see why you can't have a favorite anime soundtrack if you don't own any. I guess it could help, though.

well, i was in little tokyo yesterday, and i swear to gawd that they were playing the orchestral music from inuyasha. That got me excited. that and the extremely hot japanese guy i almost ran into..... *sigh*

As of now, Code Geass, and Gurren Lagann hold top positions. Great music from both series.

omfg necromancy. But it's still on the front page.

Macross frontier has a pretty awesome soundtrack. And I usually hate J-pop.

Seconded. Very epic and sophisticated.

I also find Death Note's soundtrack nice when I'm feeling melancholic.

Anyone seen and heard RahXephon? That's another one you should hear.

I haven't seen RahXephon in a long time...

Myself, I'm caught between GITS and Cowboy Bebop.

But I'm also listening to a lot of Yoko Kanno right now.

Her work for Macross Plus is also worth a listen.

I concur. I may have thrown some of it on my playlist.com playlist. Half of that playlist is Yoko Kanno.