Final Fantasy Music!

[Cloverfield]

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...

[Canned Gabbiar]

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.

[Alcar]

Originally posted by Canned Gabbiar
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.

My God, we like the same FF music!

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...

[Cloverfield]

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...

[salty pretzils]

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?

[Ashe]

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!!!!!!!!!

[Canned Gabbiar]

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*

[Cloverfield]

Originally posted by salty pretzils
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?

What??? FFVII-2!!! OMG, I must have that!!! j/k

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...

[Miss Odd]

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

[Cloverfield]

Originally posted by Miss Odd
Can anyone recomend any others to me? *waits for AbeBabe to read this post* lol !

Hmmm... recommendations. I would recommend anything in my list above. Do you prefer slower songs like Suteki da ne, or would you like something that sounds more up-beat? If you're going for slower songs, I'd recommend Eyes on Me, Fisherman's Horizon, Silence Before the Storm and Zanarkand. Simple and Clean and Real Emotion are good if you want something more Jpop. Good up-beat songs are Ride On, The Thing I must Protect and Seymour Battle.

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...

[The Red Muse]

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...

[Miss Odd]

Do you prefer slower songs like Suteki da ne, or would you like something that sounds more up-beat?

I really llloovvveee Suteki Da Ne, do slower songs for me

~Miss Odd Serenity

P.S Is One Winged Angel upbeat? Is that what you mean by upbeat?