Hey losers.

I'm sharing a rip of a newly purchased copy of the Zeta Gundam Special OST.
Album: Mobile Suit Z Gundam Special (Discs 1 & 2)
Artist: Shigeaki Saegusa
Year: 1999
Quality: Ripped at lossless WAV format and converted to 320kbps in iTunes.
Catalog #: KICA-2043~4

Links:
Disc 1 (http://www.filefactory.com/file/agh1g37/n/MSZGS1_zip)
--track 19 (http://www.mediafire.com/?4dimnl50arj)
Disc 2 (http://www.filefactory.com/file/agh118e/n/MSZGS2_zip)
Booklet (http://www.mediafire.com/?zyiiqmzym4q)

Just as I did with my V Gundam upload, I'll stress that this rip is different from AthrunZero's version in his Gundam music topic (hope you're reading this Athrun =); replace your crappy version with this one). I found that the quality for that special OST just wasn't good enough, considering how much I came to like the music for Z Gundam. Now you all get to benefit from my vast generosity. Pay HOMAGE to the Great Bastard you FOOLS!!!!!!!

Some other things to mention have to do with the tracklist and the booklet. Whoever originally translated the OST really screwed up. We were given single titles for each track: The Pursuer, Half-Moon Love, etc. However it turns out that there were individual track titles within each track. Gundam music fans know that composers of the series have had a history of cramming a bunch of songs into one track instead of splitting it up. Well in Z Gundam, they each had names. I've used every resource on the Internets (all 3 of them) to track down the translations. Through a combo of Google translator, gundam trivia, and just plain common sense, I've come up with the best translation any of you can hope for:

DISC 1
01. Zeta - Transcending Times (TV Size)
02. Black Gundam;
a) Subtitle 1
b) Gryps Infiltration
c) Gundam MK-2
d) Chase
03. A Boy in Green Noa;
a) New World
b) Kamille Bidan
c) Separation
04. Setting Off;
a) Resonance
b) Call of Space
c) Gundam Starting
d) Return of Amuro
05. A.E.U.G.;
a) Those Between the EUGO
b) Argama
c) Base
d) Voyage of Fate
06. In a Capsule;
a) Bask's Plot
b) Mystery Capsules
c) Death
d) Funeral Song
07. The Pursuer;
a) Alexandria Battlewagon
b) Facilitating Complement Argama
c) Guerilla
08. Mobile Suit Combat;
a) Out
b) Bandit Onslaught
c) War
d) End of Battle
09. TENSION;
a) Impatience
b) Tense 1
c) Kamille and Jerid
d) Tense 2
e) Shadow Enemy
f) Eyecatch
10. Bridge Collection 1;
a)~j)
11. Suffering;
a) Colony in Ruins
b) White Hearts
c) Lila and Jerid
12. TITANS;
a) Space Battleship
b) Depart
c) Challenge
13. Fleet Race
14. Reunion;
a) Peace
b) Bright Noa
15. Into the Earth;
a) Fleet Together
b) To the Gravity Well
c) Drop
16. Amuro Again;
a) Amuro Ray
b) Recollections of Lalah
c) Beltorchika Irma
17. Cinderella Four
18. Out of the Burning;
a) Four's Determination
b) Escape
19. Silver Dress
20. Trailer

DISC 2
01. From an Aqueous Star with Love (TV Size)
02. Heartbeat of Z;
a) Z-Gundam
b) Z, Combat
03. Lunar City;
a) Sailing
b) Kamille's Holiday
c) Longing
04. Strike Back;
a) The Death of Brigadier General Blex
b) Char Suffering
05. Half-Moon Love;
a) Prelude
b) Subtitle 2
c) Brown City Phone
d) Sign
e) Phatic
f) Kamille and Sarah
06. Space Game;
a) Looming
b) Alert
c) Raid
07. The Messenger from Axis;
a) Pressure
b) Mobile Suit Mystery
c) Ghost of Zeon
08. Shinta and Qum;
a) Time and Children
b) Comfort of the Moment
c) Great Rat Race
09. Bridge Collection 2;
a)~f)
10. Storm Over Kilimanjaro;
a) Yazan Team Ready to Sortie
b) March of Karaba
c) Breaking Anti-aircraft Fire
11. Infiltration;
a) Titan's Base
b) Wave
c) Four Suffering
12. Forever Four;
a) Char's Advice
b) Four Murasame
c) In Snow
13. Man from Jupiter;
a) Dogos Gear
b) Paptimus Scirocco
c) Ambition
14. By the Lake;
a) Space Colony
b) Morgarten Landscape
c) The Carriage is Shaking
d) Rosamia of Love
15. Strengthening of Human Destiny
16. Sarah's Death;
a) Scirocco and Sarah
b) Sorrow
17. The Final Decisive Battle;
a) Kryps 2's Great Appearance
b) Maneuver
c) Contact
18. Scattered Life;
a) Stunned
b) Two Female Warriors
c) Between Life and Death
19. Running Through Space;
a) Haman Broadcast
b) Clash!
c) Zeta Activates
20. End - From an Aqueous Star with Love (Instrumental)
21. Believe in the Starry Sky (TV Size)

If there are any Japanese to English translators out there, I'd appreciate a better interpretation. More on that later.

I scanned the booklet and covers. However, the booklet consists mostly of Japanese text. I see no point in scanning pictures of text I can't read, so I've only included pages with pictures. It's just chibi drawings of some of the female cast members. If any of those Japanese translators I mentioned earlier are able to read what the booklet says, then I'll scan and upload the whole thing. Otherwise, forget it.

No reuploads unless there is something wrong with the links now (i.e. if I cannot download them myself). Others can post mirrors if they like, and I will edit this post to include them.

Thank you, sir! Looking forward to giving this one a spin tomorrow, finally... It's funny how I call myself a fan of Gundam music and yet have never heard these scores...!

Disc 2 is now up.


Thank you, sir! Looking forward to giving this one a spin tomorrow, finally... It's funny how I call myself a fan of Gundam music and yet have never heard these scores...!
Word up. But I thought you had heard the scores for Z Gundam, and that's why it didn't make it into your list of top Gundam OSTs. Either I jumped the gun on that assumption, or you originally checked out the three volume release for Z Gundam.

The Z Gundam soundtrack was originally released in a three-disc set, which included all the same music as in the special OST, only organized differently. This special OST organizes the songs in a more relevant manner and has better track names (if you can translate them).

Here's some advice for anyone interested in checking out the Z Gundam soundtrack. Either download the 3 volume set or the 2 disc special set (offered here), NOT BOTH. Another good idea is to make sure you have a music editing program, like mp3trim. If you do end up liking any of the songs in this OST, I can guarantee that it will be placed before, after, or in between some crappy part. mp3trim is a great way to cut the crap and keep the good stuff. That's what I did with the After War soundtracks, and it made that one of my favourite Gundam OSTs.

Booklet scans will be up later tonight.

Scans are up. Upload is complete.

thanks for this, but the mediafire links are dead :(

thanks for this, but the mediafire links are dead :(
You snooze, you lose. Sorry kid, but that's the game.

I'll be doing reuploads of stuff I've previously shared sometime next year. Either wait 'till then, or get it from another thread in this forum.

Does the Special OST have all the BGM from the show?

Does the Special OST have all the BGM from the show?

no not really... i think it just has the most memorable songs of the show.

no not really... i think it just has the most memorable songs of the show.
Wrong. It has every song that the original 3 volume BGM set had, which is to say, every song from the show. The only one that's missing is a strings-only version of "The Pursuer; c) Guerilla". That song has never been released on any album. Shame.

Wrong. It has every song that the original 3 volume BGM set had, which is to say, every song from the show. The only one that's missing is a strings-only version of "The Pursuer; c) Guerilla". That song has never been released on any album. Shame.

oh! i stand corrected!! thanks for saying man!!

thank you for the info. im a bg fan of the music.