With all the greatness of the site however, I noticed one major flaw. You can find any music you want if you know what you are looking for, but if you don’t then its really hard for you to find good music. For example: If you are looking for "Frozen Hillside" a beautiful piece of music in Kirby Air Ride, you can go to Galbadia Hotel and find it under the game name. However, what if you wanted more music like Frozen Hillside? It would be very difficult to find such music unless you already knew about them too. Many people like myself do not have enough time to go through Galbadia Hotel song by song to find the gems of video game music.
Please recommend to me some beautiful music. When I say beautiful, I mean the music that puts a smile on your face, the music you’ll listen to over and over again. It can be epic (promised plan, Xenosaga III), haunting (Luigi’s medley, SSBB), beautiful (Gusty Garden Galaxy), or anything. There should be a list to share these beautiful music. These should include music from any game, not just popular medleys we’ve heard many times (Tetris theme anyone?)
Please recommend me some beautiful music. I’ll later put them all in a huge list for anyone who enjoys VG music.
As for creating a list of "music you’ll listen to over and over again," Cogito and I (in two separate threads) are working on that very goal already.
For full soundtracks, check out this (Thread 54768).
And for individual songs, check out this (Thread 54778).
As for specific questions like "What other songs are beautiful like Frozen Hillside?" you can always start a thread with that very question. In this forum there are a ton of threads about specific types of songs, such as recommend me evil music, or heartwarming music, or epic battle songs. You just need to start a thread called "Recommend me some music like Frozen Hillside from Kirby Air Ride." Recommending music to one another is what these forums are all about. The forums are based on sharing such knowledge that would be otherwise too time-consuming or impossible to know. Consequently, I don’t think the flaw you mentioned exists here. Just look around.
As one example, your request for recommendations of generally "beautiful music" is covered here (Thread 47761) and in a couple other threads. Check the list under "Anime and Video Game Music." There are tons of topics along these lines. And if you don’t see anything branching off from a song you particularly like, such as "Frozen Hillside," you can always start a thread with songs like it as the focus.
I think you’ll find what you’re looking for.
Cheers.
http://www.aimini.net/search/?kwd=au2l9MVuhWsFVyUcfqGo&cat=2
EDIT: Found the track names. They are "Hymn of the Righteous" and "Dawn Brigade".
.hack//: Aura (from the .hack games)
Final Fantasy VII: One-Winged Angel, Aeris Theme, Tifa’s Theme, Main Theme
Final Fantasy X- Eternity of the Lightwaves, Road to Zanarkand
Chrono Trigger- Memories of the Green, Wind Scene, Chrono Trigger’s Main Theme, Star Stealing Girl (<-Chrono Cross)
Non related to VG:
Yui Makino- Undine, Euphoria, Spirale
Round Table. feat Nino- Rainbow, Natsu Machi
Kokia- Ai no Melody
Aria the Origination OST- Eien no Umi, Loomis Etlune
Rie Tanaka- Fields of Hope
http://www.mikseri.net/artists/celestialaeonproject.48147.php
It is just so…sooo cool 🙂
I’m also having trouble because I don’t have a clue of what I’m really looking for. But here’s a suggestion. If you hear something that sounds really good, but not sure and don’t want to waste time then go to youtube or something and try listening to a couple soundtracks before downloading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RopFxcBQ8Hc
sonic 1 – star light zone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqmN6mw4R8
lemmings snes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-h2GxZxfm4
legend of zelda – great fairy fountain theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQnZoR_7B3Y
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