Saturday, August 28, 2004

Sounds of Solo Part 2: Anime/Game

I had a great time in Watford ^________^ Thanks, Heather. If music be the food of love, I must be bloody Casanova... Perhaps not surprisingly, anime and game soundtracks make up the bulk of my colection. I almost didn't write this post, because I didn't think I needed the piece of paper I catalogued them on and screwed it up, threw it in the bin and then realised tonight that 'Oh, I hadn't finished yet' -_-. Still, here we go: Evangelion OST 1 Evangelion OST 2 Evangelion OST3 The Evangelion one I bought on a whim, without actually having seen the series. I didn't like it for ages, until i forced myself to listen to it all the way through. It really grew on me, and there are some fantastic pieces there. Thanatos and When I Find Peace of Mind are two of my favourites. StarChild Selection Lots of songs, from Evangelion, Nadesico, His and Her Circumstances, All-Purpose Cat Girl Nuku-Nuku, Hareluya II BOY, etc Zoids (Chaotic Century) OST 1, 2 and 3 These are some of my all-time favourites, and great inspiration for scenes in Dark Conflict. Almost all of the music except the electric guitar is synthesised, but it sounds great anyway. Outlaw Star OST 1 Outlaw Star OST 2 Outlaw Star Sound and Scenario Track The third CD is mainly a radio play, but there are seven tracks of music on the small second CD (eight/nine if you include the songs on the main CD). I was annoyed that the frst two didn't contain two of the best pieces of music in the whole series, and then I found out there was a third thanks to wrist cutter ^_^. The music on that was created specially for the last four episodes, and the second and fourth tracks are simply amazing. Kou Ohtani is genius squared plus pie. Digimon Adventure 01 1 and 2 Digimon Adventure 02 1 and 2 Digimon Fourth Movie score Digimon: The Movie Soundtrack The first five listed there contain music from the Japanese Digimon series. And... the US music is far far better. BUT THEY WON'T RELEASE THE BGM!! Silly people... A few good songs here, though. Some of the music's pretty good as well- the instrumental version of 'braveheart' and one at the end of 01/1 are nice to listen to. The rest gets rather repetitive and isn't anything special. The Digimon: The Movie Soundtrack is a collection of songs from the US Movie and TV series, despite the fact that two of the songs don't appear anywhere in either o_o; Pokemon Sound Anime Collection Pokemon: Mewtwo's Counterattack Pokemon: Revelation Lugia Pokemon: Lord of the Unknown Tower Pokemon: Celebi- A Timeless Encounter These really deserve a place of their own in comparison to the US music. The Sound Anime Collection was one of the first anime sounctracks I bought, and it is still one of my favourites. Despite the series' bad rep, I can never get tired of the BGM. Although one irritating fact is that half of the 75 minutes' worth of tracks on it are made up of strange Japanese narrator bits. The first movie (Mewtwo's Counterattack) has a great soundtrack with fantastic depth, and even comes with a radio play about Mewtwo's Birth, which was pretty much included in the 4Kids-commissioned 'Mewtwo Returns'. It's great, and the song at the end is even better. The other three films are nice too, but don't contain nearly as much music. Pokemon: The First Movie Score Pokemon: Die Macht des Einzelnen Pokemon: The First Movie Soundtrack Pokemon: The Power of One Soundtrack Pokemon: Spell of the Unknown Soundtrack (shoot me now) Pokemon: TV Series OST Yes, this is the American lot. And I'll admit that I do like some of the songs on them. SOME of them. The rest can burn. The two score CDs I have of the first and second movies (the second was only released in Germany, heh) are pretty decent, but I was disappointed there weren't more instrumental tracks on the others because even though they were still cheesy, they were better than the song crapness. .hack//SIGN OST 1 .hack//SIGN OST 2 These are lovely musics ^_^ Ethereal, peaceful and oddly distant at times, it's great to listen to. And the songs by Emily Bindiger are amazing. Trigun: The First Donuts Trigun Second Donuts Service Pack The first Trigun soundtrack has most of the more prominent music in the series, and it's good stuff. I didn't think I liked the music in Trigun that much, but I couldn't stop listening to it once I had the CD ^_^; The Second Donuts Service Pack has a hilarious introduction by the Japanese Vash the Stampede speaking in English. I would write a transcript but you really have to listen to it ^_^ Very funny. Animaniacs Not an anime, but I had to put it somewhere ^_^;. Very funny songs, and useful for memorising the 50 states of America. Princess Mononoke Beautiful stuff. I noticed that Mimmi's version was slightly different to mine- perpahs there were two versions released. I'd be interested to compare the tracks and see what cropped up... But anyway, extremely good stuff. The Big O Creates a fantastic dramatic atmosphere, but the Big O main theme is the biggest rip-off of Queen's 'Flash' I have ever heard. And it gets old very quickly. Ignore that and the rests's superb. Samurai X OVA Brought to my attention by sahkiryce, hehe ^_^ She kept playing tracks of this on her site and I fell in love with them. Good good good. Fullmetal Alchemist OST 1 It's unusual for an anime series to have a full-scale orchestra behind it, but FMA does. And it's certainly no discredit, either. I gather Porno Graffiti and L'Arc~En~Ciel have performed songs for it, too. Pity they weren't on this OST... Yu-Gi-Oh OST Volume 1 (Japanese) Yu-Gi-Oh: Music to Duel By Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh soundtrack: nothing special, but the songs are nice. Music to Duel by: More cheesy stuff from 4Kids, but the instrumentals aren't too bad. Transformers: The Movie Transformers: Lighting Their Darkest Hour Perhaps more cheesy than the Pokemon songs, but in a far less irritating way. I love listening to these. 'Lighting Their Darkest hour' was a Botcon exclusive CD with all of Vince DiCola's music from the film on it. Lovely lovely lovely, but gets repetitive towards the end. And the songs aren't on the score CD. That would make it perfect. Mysterious Cities of Gold Volume 1 Mysterious Cities of Gold Volume 2 The titles are actually in French, but I'm too tired to try and remember how to spell them properly. This is an old series, but it was the very first that I absolutely loved the music from. Unfortunately the original scores were lost somewhere, so these were recreated using the help of someone they fround on the internet, heh. Missing a few of the more decent pieces from the series, but never mind. Halo Very good music... for an X-Box game. Lylat Wars I have the German edition, and I have only one piece of advice: get the Japanese one- it actually has the End Credits, as opposed to an extra 15 tracks of EXACTLY THE SAME THING. I don't listen to all of these any more. The Yu-Gi-Oh and US Pokemon CDs barely even leave my CD rack except when I'm in the mood for Billy Crawford singing the cool First movie theme, or the rather nice Japanese ending theme of YGO. It annoys me when I buy a soundtrack hoping to hear a certain piece of music on it, and it's not there. Every single soundtrack I own is guilty of this in some way (with exception to those whose series I haven't yet seen- I don't know what I'm missing, heh) except for the Transformers Movie and Halo. Well done them. I could even name the pieces of music that are missing, but I won't go that far. I'm too tired, heh. But I do miss Fred Luo's theme from Outlaw Star...

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