Final Fantasy Music!
By seemingly popular demand in another post, here is the Final Fantasy music thread! Seems there are a few of us on here who enjoy the music of Final Fantasy. I thought I was the only one on here, looks like I was wrong.
So post all of your FF music favorites (or dislikes) here. What do you like about the music, how'd you get into it? I'll post a list of favorites later on (warning it's very long). But I'll start off by saying how I got into it. It all started with One Winged Angel. Back when I first played FFVII, I really enjoyed that song, it fitted the final battle nicely and I just really got into it. Probably a month or so after, I started downloading some midi files of songs of FFVII and was listening to them. The followed all of the midis from FFIX, as that game was just out. I think the more I listened to, the more I got hooked. Now I have a playlist of over 400 songs (over 22 hours) in mp3 format, and I have many of the CDs. Why do I like the music? Because I'm a FF fan. Not really, there's more to it. I used to be into metal and hard rock, but I guess as I got older, my tastes changed. Final Fantasy music has so much variety to it. There are slow and beautiful songs, upbeat and fast songs, or songs with a good mid-tempo. There are also many different styles covered, and all sound great in their own way. Nobuo Uematsu is simply a talented composer, who can create music that not only fits the games well, but also is listenable on it's own. Abe Babe... |
Hmm.. How did I become 'obsessed' with FF music. Well, it happened about the same way as Abe Babe. I really liked the Aeris theme (beautiful song with that excellent flute/piccolo in between sections) and the music used whenever you fight a boss(some kick-ass techno!).
I also liked that song Birth Of A God (is that the name?) and that song used when you fight the final form of Jenova (forgot the name of the song). The mix of digitally generated notes and an orchestra created a really cool song. That song used for the battle with Bizaro Sephiroth. As for later, I got swept away in FF8 music... particularly Eyes On Me and all the variations and remixes. My favourites are the voiced version (Faye Wong has a lovely singing voice) and the ballroom type version (the one used as background music when Squall is at that SeeD inaguration party/ceremony. The strings in that were truly excellent). I also liked the different types of music used for the 4 battles with Ultimecia. There was this orchestral music, which then slowly changed into different orchestral song (like what Stravinsky used for the Firebird Ballet). And then, suddenly, when you fight the Ultimecia/Griever hybrid thing, it changes to this contemporary techno music and then finally (through the clever use of background noise like the falling comet thingies in the background etc.) changes to the song used for the final, faceless version of Ultimecia (Time Compression was it? I'm not sure) which was like the Birth Of A God: a mixture of digital music (electric guitars, keyboard noises/chords) and orchestral and chamber music. |
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I also got hooked on FF music when I was playing FFVII in the part where poor Aeris *cough - spoiler* meets an untimely death. That music (Aeris' Theme) was so beautiful. My other favourites are: Compression Of Time- FFVIII Birth Of A God - FFVII Don't Be Afraid - FFVIII Melodies Of Life (English and Japanese) - FFIX Eyes On Me - FFVIII FFVII Final Number 2 - FFVII Jenova - FFVII Lifestream - FFVII You're Not Alone - FFIX Someday The Dream Will End - FFX Summoned Beast Battle - FFX Suteki Da Ne - FFX Alcar... |
Not sure where all the other people I saw with an interest in FF music have gone, maybe I scared them away! ;)
Well as promised, here is my VERY long list of favorites, even though I love all FF music! Final Fantasy VII Soundtrack One Winged Angel Aeris' Theme Cid's Theme Airship Theme J-E-N-O-V-A Holding my Thoughts in my Heart Interrupted by Fireworks Main Theme Birth of a God Those Chosen by the Planet Cosmo Canyon Judgement Day Prelude Reunion Final Fantasy VIII Soundtrack Eyes on Me Laguna's Battle Theme Only a Plank Between one Perdition Ride On Quitsis' Theme Mods De Chocobo Shuffle and Boogie Fisherman's Horizon Dance with the Balamb Fish Overture Premonition Liberi Fatali Fithos Lucec Vithos Winosec (sp?) Ending Theme The Legendary Beast Silence and Motion Final Fantasy IX Soundtrack Melodies of Life Iffa Tree Continent of Mist Vamo 'alla Flamenco Gulgur Volcano The Thing I Must Protect You're Not Alone Final Battle Battle Theme 1 Battle Theme 2 Bittersweet Romance Scurmish of the Silver Dragons Black Mage Village Rebirth of the Evil Mist Final Fantasy X Soundtrack Endless Love, Endless Road - Tidus/Yuna Tribute Album Suteki da ne Go Dream - Tidus/Yuna Tribute Album Feel - Tidus/Yuna Tribute Album Silence Before the Storm Lulu's Theme Yuna's Theme Ending Theme Omen Sending to another Dimension The Men who Play Blitz Zanarkand Other World Yuna's Determination Seymour Battle Final Fantasy XI Opening Theme Airship Longfall Sometime Somewhere Battle Theme Awakening Final Fantasy X-2 Real Emotion 1000 Words Opening Theme Kingdom Hearts Simple and Clean/Hikari One Winged Angel (KH Version) Dearly Beloved March Caprice for Piano and Orchestra End of the World Dive into the Heart ~ Destati Kairi (various versions) Other FF Songs Pray (Final Fantasy Theme) Final Fantasy - Battle it Meledy (FFIV - FFVIII) Love will Grow - FFII Kids Run Through a City - FFVI Terra - FFVI Gaia - FFI Goodbye Final Fantasy World (FFII) Kids run through a City Corner (FFVI) The Dream Within (FF:TSW) Spirit Dreams Inside (FF:TSW) I'm sure I've missed some ... but I guess I should end there before I bore everyone with this already long list! Canned Gabbiar, the songs you are looking for are Jenova Absolute (last Jenova battle) and The Extreme (Final Battle with Ultimecia). Abe Babe... |
Well, I was going through some ff7 character shrines (as usual) and I saw some of the music. The rest is history...
My favorites are: One winged angel (I went and downloaded the MP3, it rocks!) The nightmare's beginning (*giggle*) Aeris' theme (does it have a name?) Tifa's theme Don Corneo's mansion (*giggle*) The turks theme All from FF7. Now, this may be off topic, but I read an article about there being a sequel to FF7 coming out. This is very recent news. Amnyone tell me whether its true? |
Hello Abe Babe. I do like Final Fantasy music, it sounds nice when I am playing the games. You would have to be the most music fan that I have ever seen! You listed a lot of songs there. I do only have a few mp3s in my collection. Just songs like Suteki da ne (this one is my favorite), Eyes on Me, Aeris Theme, Melodies of Life and a few other ones that I have come across.
And Hello Salty Pretzils. You should not tell Abe Babe that there would be FFVII-2, because she would go crazy about it at the moment, like I would go crazy about FFX-2. Oh! I am already crazy about FFX-2, I cannot wait!!!!!!!!! |
Whoa Abe Babe... You sure have a lot of favourites.
Oh and like Salty Pretzils, I also like the Turk's theme. Oh and I forgot before, the highwind (airship) theme. That's really good orchestral music. Which reminds me, I need to practice my cello for my performance exam... *runs off and starts to play gigue* |
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Anyways, heard it, seen it. It was confirmed to be a rumor/joke (maybe even April Fools) which was made up of some existing images and fan art/fan made CG images. There's been a few threads about it over at some FF forums which I am a mod of in between time here. Although a sequel to FFVII would be great, I would actually prefer a re-make. Same story, same gameplay, but PS2 graphics and maybe a couple of additional side-quests and some more FMVs. That would be awesome ... imagine Sephiroth on PS2 graphics ... I guess I can dream. I'd prefer this over a sequel, because a sequel to FFVII would kind of lose some of the magic of the original game. Like everyone would want Aeris back, and Sephy would have to come back in some way, because they couldn't have another villian in FFVII, so then they'd have to find a way to make him as cool as he was in FFVII. Abe Babe... |
Hello!
After reading all of these posts, I decided to download some myself! Today, I downloaded: - Melodies of Life - Suteki da ne They are beautiful!!! I want to get Endless Love, Endless Road... exept I couldn't find it anywhere.... :( Can anyone recomend any others to me? *waits for AbeBabe to read this post* lol ;)! ~Miss Odd Serenity |
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You can download Endless Love, Endless Road from http://www.oddworld.au.com/temp/ENDL...DLESS_ROAD.mp3. The Thing I must Protect can be downloaded from http://www.oddworld.au.com/temp/The_...st_Protect.mp3. If there's any other songs you want, just let me know and I'll upload them for you. I had uploaded these ones for someone who had been looking for them once before, and they're still up there. I of course would recommend One Winged Angel to you, but I think I read that you had downloaded it already in another post. :) Abe Babe... |
Ah yes... FF music!
All the FF games have at least one good song!
My favourites are: -Aeris' Theme ; FFVII (*sniff* I still cry when I see the FMV where Sephy does Aeris in... I hate that guy... (No offence Abe Babe;)!!)) -One Winged Angel ;FFVII (Yes, I like it.) -Birth of a God ;FFVII(Dun dun duunn!) -The World map theme(Orchestra) ;FFVII -Interrupted by Fireworks ;FFVII(*sigh* So pretty.. Don't leave Aeris! ) - J-E-N-O-V-A ;FFVII (Heah!) -Flowers Blooming in the Church ;FFVII (*sniffs*) -Turk's Theme ;FFVII (They are soo much fun!!^__^) -The WEAPON Raid ;FFVII (Augh! It's coming towards meeee~!) -The GoldSaucer theme; FFVII (Chubby Chocobos!) -Maybe I am a Lion ; FFVIII (Griever... grrr...) -Liberi Fatal ;FFVIII (The Child of Freedom) -The Boss battle theme;FFVIII (^___^) -Eyes on Me ; FFVIII (Pretty...pretty... and shiny....) -Laguna's Battle Theme ;FFVIII (Run! Hit! Defend!) -Ragnarok Theme; FFVII (I'm soo high!) -The Extreme ;FFVIII -Under Her Control ;FFVIII -Feel My Blade; FFIX -Assault of the Silver Dragons; FFIX -Melodies of Life ;FFIX -The Lifa Tree; FFIX -The Dark Eidolon ;FFIX -Jesters of the Moon ;FFIX -Kuja's Theme ;FFIX -Gizmaluke's Grotto ;FFIX -Freya's Theme ;FFIX -Amarant's Theme ;FFIX -BranBal ;FFIX -Terra ;FFIX -Memoria ;FFIX -The Heartless Demon ;FFIX -Ukele de Chocobo ;FFIX -Vamo alla Flamenco ;FFIX -Rose of May/Loss of Me ;FFIX -Beatrix& Steiner ;FFIX -Qu's Marsh ;FFIX -Madai Sari ;FFIX -Gulug Volcano ;FFIX/FF I -Silence before the Storm ;FFX -Lulu's Theme ;FFX -Wakka's Theme ;FFX -The Thunder Plains ;FFX -Blitzball ;FFX -Otherworld ;FFX -The Summoning ;FFX -Darkness Unknown ;FFX -Unsent Laughter ;FFX -The Sending ;FFX -Song of Prayer ;FFX -Hymn of the Fayth ;FFX -Zodiac Brave story ;FFT -The Crystal theme ;FFT -Terra's theme ;FFVI -The Falcon ;FFVI -Locke's Theme ;FFVI -Setzer's Theme ;FFVI -Figaro Castle ;FFVI -The Crazy Man ;FFVI Others... -Simple and Clean ; Kingdom Hearts -End of the World ; KH -Pure Heart-Aeris's Theme ; ??? (a new song, which is sung in the melody of Aeris's Theme. I believe this was supposed to be in FFX...Very- very beautiful!!) -Go Dream- Tidus' Theme ;??? (Same thing as above...) That's about it... There are a lots of other, but I can't remember what they're called... Whoo--I'm tired... |
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~Miss Odd Serenity P.S Is One Winged Angel upbeat? Is that what you mean by upbeat? |