@xenovis:
You're not supposed to. That's the whole point. Eternity is the best boss battle music in a cartoony RPG ever.

@Fabrice:
What? I don't know about Marumaro's theme, but he certainly did do Eternity... just with Sakaguchi's help.

Demaar

Uematsu didn't do all the tracks. Eterniy (the boss battle-deep purple) and bad but rad (Marumaro's song) aren't from him.

Fabrice

@KeithCourage:

I'll put it this way- I definitely like it better than any Post FFVII soundtrack. I may have been a little hasty when I said its better than any FF OST :)

As some others have said, the end-boss theme was badass.

Snuffbox

@Byakko:

So you're like what, the music police? Are we just supposed to go along with your opinions? Because that's what it sounds like you want us to do. I think I'll stick with my own opinions thanks.

EggmaniMN

@KeithCourage:

Ah, LO's OST is a mixed bag. On one hand, I agree with criticisms that say there isn't a strong central theme throughout the music. There is a central theem, but it's not the focus of most of the pieces.

On another hand, I listened to some tracks from my old FF collection, and then listened to some of the Advent Children OST.

IMO, LO contains stronger overall themes whether for locations, or events for example. It's simply heavier on the orchestral scores for the most part (LO contains quite a bit of scores that sound pure synth), which means that memorable tunes are harder to pick out. Compared with AC, despite the fact that AC sounds a little more coherent, it didn't really stick out with any tune (besides naturally, One Winged Angel) to wow me or to make me actually listen.

Now about melding with the scenes...another mixed bag.

The battle and boss themes are all great, btw. I especially love the Boss theme with the cowbell; slight experimental, with a great beat and nice surprises.

For the most part, everything melds one. And then you have the END BOSS theme.

Now the END BOSS theme is GREAT. It takes a little too long to hit the real 'meat' of the song, but I love the Japanese drummers and especially the rap portion of it (which they should have used in more of the songs, and left in more in this final score).

The problem is 'End-Boss' himself is NOT great.

Not going to spoilered it, but it's a great end-boss song that's utterly wasted.

Also, as much as I love Uematsu's work, I gotta say, ease up on the guitar riffs. Case in point, the World Map music is lovely, with an acoustic guitar and flute crooning the main theme...until you hit...GUITAAAAAAAAAR!!!!! ElECTRIC GUITAAAAAAAR!!

Just...painful...and funny enough right after it kills your unprepared eardrums with the screeching, it drops back to the flute again like nothing happened =/

Byakko

@Robbotron: I can't complain about any of the music besides the boss battle. My god! That was freaking painful. The rest of it was pretty standard FF fare I thought.

Ulquiorra

I like how people judge Blue Dragon's OST off of Eternity when it isn't even entirely by Uematsu. Go Ian Gillan.

There are a LOT of tracks in Blue Dragon that are fantastic (Devi Tribe Village, the robot town village, overworld stuff, others) but Lost Odyssey does pretty much destroy it in every way.

A lot of you guys just pre-judge BD or LO off of whatever reviews you've read so once you hear the OST, it's all automatically worse than you'd ever think normally. In fact, I'd almost guarantee that most people wouldn't have minded Eternity at all had no one mentioned it before playing.

EggmaniMN

Are you kidding me? Nothing short of wonderful? The boss music made my brain poop. And the rest of the soundtrack is pretty forgettable as well.

Robbotron

Eternity, oh Eternity. You bring back memories. Horrible memories.

I absolutely cannot believe they used that godforsaken song in a Japanese RPG. It's just mind boggling. It's like how they used Aerosmith in Dead or Alive 4. It's not that the songs are terrible (I like Aerosmith, and Eternity only sorta makes me want to take a hammer to my ear drums), it's that they have absolutely no place in those games.

I vaguely remember one boss theme from Blue Dragon that was freaking awesome... why couldn't they have used that for all of the bosses is beyond me.

I also agree that Lost Odyssey's OST is fantastic. The boss music is great and I particularly love Uhra's theme. The "you just won a battle" theme is kind of strange though.

HungryWolf AKA C of TeamChink.com

@Snuffbox: I haven't heard the LO soundtrack yet but at the same time the variety and quality of FF soundtracks are awe-inspiring enough to make me wonder what universe I've traveled to in order to experience outright "better".

I hear good things from solid sources and of course typically composers become better with age. That said, I thought Blue Dragon's OST was very weak and Uematsu hasn't to my knowledge increased his prolificity or quality in the past few years or so. I'm crossing my fingers.

On a separate note, I'm interested as to the mixed reviews of Lost Odyssey. A good soundtrack doesn't quite have the same glitter if the moments it accompanies aren't similarly inspiring. That being, Uematsu certainly received the chance to work with the best and other than, again, Blue Dragon, I haven't reason to doubt Sakaguchi.

KeithCourage

Lost Odyssey's OST is far better

IMHO its better than any Final Fantasy soundtrack

Snuffbox

Eternity was so terrible it was great. It was like listening to the bad vocal tracks from the English dub of Digimon from back in the day. Very memorable.

But really, who needs the entire mediocre soundtrack just to listen to one of the greatest songs in that game: The boss theme against Destroy ~ The Seal is Broken.

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KeroseneClimax

@RPGr: I'm playing both those games right now so all day long I have Lost Odyssey and FFVI songs stuck in my head. Not a bad thing at all though. Uematsu rocks.

unicronband

I didn't like the boss music much at all, but the rest of the game has some really lovely musical moments.

ched

I dunno, after a while that song gets stuck into your head. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

darthmole12

Open mic night at the Diarrhea bar would have sounded better then that song.

DataScream

Eternity is just awful and the fact that it played so much was just worse

ERMC

My wife hated that song, but I loved it!! I do think it was overused though. Too short for some boss battles/ it looped way too often... I'd love to see more 80's hair metal in my video games!!

Optimistic Prime

@TheContender: It sounds like Dragonforce somehow combined a Keytar with an Organ, smoked some meth, and got an 80 year old man in the middle of a heart attack to sing vocals.

xenovis

yea that song was way wierd...laughed everytime i heard my girlfriend playing a boss level. (think i heard it was sung by the deep purple singer?)

flagg

@RPGr: Oh hell yeah. The Gohtze theme in particular... whoa. I just spaced out and let that loop for a long ass time when I first arrived in Gohtze.

Madeira

I loved that song, it really pumped me up to fight the bosses. I don't understand the lyrics though, if I did maybe I would realize why nobody likes it... I rather not know, I love the song. :(

TheContender

@xenovis: Doesn't get much "gayer" than that..

StopTheOncoming

I really thought the Blue Dragon OST was horrible. Listen to this song with a straight face:

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xenovis

You have to be kidding right? Blue Dragon is easily Uematsu's worst work. I mean listen to this song:

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xenovis

@RPGr:

agreed i imported the OST and absolutely move it. I didn't play enough of BD to get into the music but I might give this a try for the low price.

harlock_JDS

I didn't like Blue Dragon that much (the soundtrack) but Lost Odyssey's music I think is great, Uematsu's best since FF6 IMO.

RPGr

$9.99 isn't bad, considering they're 192kbps MP3 files. Animenation is asking $37.95 for the CD.

evslin

And just like that "Eternity" is stuck in my head again.

shipwreck

@JoBo: or shoot a bullet through my head to summon aforementioned blue dragon.

Excellent O.S.T.

Now, do I get a decent size cover art as well?, I have never tried this website and will buy it in a heartbeat if its optimal like Itunes.

Fyren

Will it be available on iTunes?

Tuxy79

I wish I had a blue dragon that I could control...

JoBo

@EggmaniMN:

Dude, I don't even care about you. I replied to KeithCourage, not you; plus, at least I'm constructive and apparently know more about music than you, not to mention how the fact that freedom of opinion and speech goes both ways, not to people named Egg.

If it sounds like 'I want people to go along with my opinions', that's your own insecurity and general lack of non-alarmist intelligence talking.

Byakko

Blue Dragon had a great soundtrack, especially "The Seal is Broken" which is my one of my personal favorites of Uematsu's works and made for one awesome final boss. I thought Eternity was a crappy song, but was pretty cool as boss music. It made the boss battles more exciting, but I wouldn't want to hear it by itself.

w1ndwaker

I'm suprised they can fill up a whole CD. Not only was there a lack of variety of music, but the music that was in the game was crap. On a 60+ hour game i'm going to need more than a wannabe jack black fight song.

Dig it~

nihillasohen