Cowboy Bebop: Best Soundtrack Ever?
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My favorite song holder place has long been held by "The Real Folk Blues", the standard ending theme to Cowboy Bebop. Many of the songs from it are on my perma-playlist, and I have on tons of my CDs- and have only burned 2 that don't contain it.
Some of the greatest are the opening theme- "Tank!", the Final Theme, "See You Space Cowboy(a dramatic rendition of The Real Folk Blues, with different lyrics but same melody and feel), "Blue", the final episode's ending theme, and countless more songs I've enjoyed, from tons of different styles.
And now, as I rediscovered the soundtrack to the movie to Cowboy Bebop, I am once again reminded of the elegance, and power, by the song "Gotta Knock a Little Harder"(right through the [damned]door).
My question is- could it be the best Soundtrack ever, beyond any game, movie, or special piece you've heard? And if not, what do you think is?(remember- one song can't make a good soundtrack. It may be a kickass song, but you need a LOT of good songs to make it a good soundtrack). What're your favs, and do you agree?
Some of the greatest are the opening theme- "Tank!", the Final Theme, "See You Space Cowboy(a dramatic rendition of The Real Folk Blues, with different lyrics but same melody and feel), "Blue", the final episode's ending theme, and countless more songs I've enjoyed, from tons of different styles.
And now, as I rediscovered the soundtrack to the movie to Cowboy Bebop, I am once again reminded of the elegance, and power, by the song "Gotta Knock a Little Harder"(right through the [damned]door).
My question is- could it be the best Soundtrack ever, beyond any game, movie, or special piece you've heard? And if not, what do you think is?(remember- one song can't make a good soundtrack. It may be a kickass song, but you need a LOT of good songs to make it a good soundtrack). What're your favs, and do you agree?
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But that doesn't mean that I do really enjoy the Bebop music, its all very very cool stuff.
Failing that.... 'Transformers - Till all are one' comes in a close second.
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i really nouyed the cowboy bebop s9oundtroack
ELM
Go Go Cactus Man
Blue
Green Bird
Felt Tip Pen
Spokey Dokey
Forever Broke
Meteor
Wasteland
Digging My Potato
All are from BeBop.
And Infinitum: Whats the song list for Symphony of Evangelion? I'm a huge Eva fan(favorite anime, as well as my own anime addiction contained in itself), and would love to know some of the songs, maybe see if I could buy it, or get a few of the best songs off of it.
I dunno...its all so powerful.
Symphony of Evangelion tracklisting.
All the MC tracks are all the seiyuu's (voice actors) having a little chat during the middle of the show. The only real disappointment is that 'Komm, Susser Tod' wasn't an included track during the symphony. Though I am indeed grateful it was included on the Evangelion Remix albumn 'Vox'.
[Disc 1]
[01] Symphony #9
[02] Tokyo-3
[03] Eva-01
[04] MC-1
[05] NERV
[06] Decisive Battle
[07] Eva-00
[08] A Step Forward
[09] Rei I
[10] Ritsuko
[11] Rei II
[12] MC-2
[13] Shinji
[Disc 2]
[01] Suiten Fur Violoncello
[02] Partita III fur Violin
[03] Kanon (D-dur) Quartet
[04] Kanon (D-dur) and RAP
[05] Kanon (D-dur) Pachabel
[06] Thanatos
[07] MC-3
[08] Borderline Case
[09] Mother the First Other
[10] Fly Me To The Moon
[11] MC-4
[12] Hallelujah Chorus
[13] Thank You
Any collaboration between Yoko Kanno and Steve Conte = Pwning McPwnalot of Pwnington
From memory (Before I toddle off to bed) he has appeared on the Cowboy Bebop, Cowboy Bebop Movie, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Wolf's Rain soundtracks in one guise or another.
Speaking of which, I hold Yoko Kanno's work on the Stand Alone Complex OSTs to a far higher standard than that of her work on the Cowboy Bebop TV and Movie OSTs.
But then again... the Brain Powerd (sic) OSTs are pretty damn cool...
Well put it this way. Yoko Kanno = win
To me, one of the best would be the Kenshin OAV soundtrack. Can't narrow anything down to 'favorites', though.
And Yoko Kanno is indeed win. She's cute, too, in that "I just want to take her home and feed her pie" sort of way.
But thank you Infinitum for the track listing, I'm gonna d/l Shinji and a few others, see if I like the feel. Yoko Kanno is ok to me, but to me, its all about Mai Yamane, the singer of The Real Folk Blues and See You Space Cowboy..., and both were around the same thing. If I remember correctly, she also did Blue, and Gotta Knock a Little Harder. Kanno wrote it all, but I feel tehre is a distinct difference in feel of the writer, and the artist themselves. The writer has their way for it- the artist remixes it to their own style, making it that much better.
Scott Mathew - Beauty is within us
It was used during one of the earlier episodes where the huge tank goes insane and tries to kill his parents.... you know what I'm talking about if you've seen the show.
During the latter half of the episode if memory serves me correctly. After the tank crosses the bridge.
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I don't remember when it's played, but "Good-by My Master" is a good track too.
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Kanno's redone quite a few songs... I don't know enough about the subject to list examples, but I've read quite a few papers that noted tracks from various series that were re-arrangements of well-known songs from the past (much like the Evangelion tracks that were "re-arranged" by Shirou Sagisu, but were original compositions by J.S. Bach).