Nobuo Uematsu/Awesome Music
- See the Final Fantasy page? Nobuo Uematsu composed around 90% of that, and it's what he's famous for.
- Okay, Final Fantasy is great, but let's not forget Lost Odyssey, which also has music by Uematsu: the music frequently makes this Troper stop playing the game for twenty minutes just to listen to music at parts or roll around on the floor in ecstasy. Particularly, Main Theme, the dramatic, over the top, and just plan awesome A Formidable Enemy Appears!, and the soothing and emotional Prologue. There's plenty of other examples, however.
- Let us not forget Howl of the Departed.
- How can Neverending Journey not be here?
- Ditto Dark Saint?
- Hello, people, Battle with the Demonic Beast.
- Space Distortion, another great boss theme.
- Your Mileage May Vary regarding Blue Dragon, but if God Himself decided to compose a song to be blasted during the Apocalypse, He would be hard-pressed to create one more Armageddon-heralding than The Seal Is Broken. That is all.
- You think that is awesome? Take that song, lengthen it as shown here [1]. Not cool enough, how's this version from the DS game [2]. Now, let's take this Up to Eleven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQC 7 VBX Crx E
- Uematsu + The lead singer of Deep Purple = ETERNITY!
- While not game related (except for one track from Final Fantasy), Nobuo's solo album Phantasmagoria is absolutely stunningly gorgeous to hear.
- OverClocked Remix's Black Wing Metamorphosis, the audible equivalent to the nerdgasm? And, generally speaking, all of their Voices of the Lifestream remix album is awesome. Do yourself a favor and download it - for free - right here
- If you start talking of OC ReMix, don't forget Fire Cross.
- Rad Racer Music A for sure. Too bad it's so obscure.
- Let's not forget The Black Mages' contributions here. Notably hit and miss (cou-THIRD ALBUM-gh), several of the best are:
- Main battle theme Those Who Fight Further.
- The boss theme Force Your Way.
- The twelve-minute long orchestra that is Dancing Mad.
- As well as the boss fight music, The Decisive Battle, from the same game.
- While on the subject of FFVI, turning the opera scene into a real opera, even if the quality is debatable, is awesome for sheer effort of doing it.
- Lest we forget turning the cute little piano theme The Skies Above turned into a veritable Rock Opera.
- Perhaps most famous for its Epic Riff is Maybe I'm a Lion.
- A surprisingly well done flamenco/metal fusion of Vamo' Alla Flamenco.
- "Advent: One-Winged Angel". Say what you will about the movie it's from, but that track is a masterpiece!
- While Chrono Trigger was mostly composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, Uematsu did contribute some music after Mitsuda overworked himself to the point of stomach ulcers. Tyrano Lair is one of those pieces.
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