what ANIME songs do you have on your ................

I actually listen to a fair bit on my laptop and my phone. Though i will admit, my collection is far more game based than it is anime based. However, there are a few soundtracks i feel weird not actually carrying about with me.

Cowboy Bebop OST - i don't honestly think i've found a better soundtrack to listen to that suits me. I still get a kick out of listening to most of the tracks, be it Go Go Cactus Man, Space Lion it's always good. I have a soft spot for Road to the West as well when i'm travelling or writing.

Redline OST - Ayase picked out easily one of the best tracks from the soundtrack, Yellow Line. I think it has everything, and it's fantastic in the way that, it basically tells you the entire story of the race at the start of the film. Each character has their own theme in it, and as it reaches the climax, you get the music starting to blend together. I'll admit, i have a thing for music that can tell a story. Of course, Lynchman and Johnny boy is cool too, and i have to bring up Redline day as well.

Eureka Seven OST - it's been a while since i gave the whole thing a listen, but some of the tracks really stand out. Most notably Get It By Your Hands by Hiroshi Watanabe. It really captures the style the series went for.

Macross Frontier - The second of Kannos works, and i'll leave the others out for now. i could easily bring in Wolf's Rain, Escaflowne and more recently sakamichi no apollon, but i'll bring up this one as i don't feel it gets as much notice as it perhaps should. More pop in style than other macross i believe, i've not really covered much else yet so i can't say, but it's good all things considered.

I'm not entirely sure what others i can really bring up, but other notable soundtracks that have invaded my music collection are the likes of Berserk - Susumu Hirasawa still is one of my favourite artists, this leads onto the movies as well, though he did only do the opening for them i believe. Others like, Space Brothers, Paprika and Gintama for it's comical OST all deserve a mention too.

As for openings/endings, they do litter my music collection as well, and i could pick out favourites, but i feel full OSTs are a bit more interesting.
 
I have none of the musical devices AF mentions, however I do have one anime soundtrack CD, at least I hope I do; my formerly fairly pleasing music collection has withered away over the years to almost nothing, except for (for some bizarre reason) a handful LP's that were almost meaningless to me and yet which I've actually come to quite appreciate, thanks to having no other physical music...

Anyway, the only anime CD I have is Wolfs Rain vol 2, and I'll throw vol 1 in there too as I think I got that free with the DVDs and should have that somewhere as well. It's a pretty solid Kanno offering, probably most impressive for it's diversity of styles. Definitely more than a little cheesy in places, but who doesn't love that? As for my favourite song, that's a hard one, there's a number of them I like. But I think it would be between:

Run, wolf warrior, run http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoqye_744u4

I think I like this song because the vocals reminds me of the kind of thing you'd probably be forced to listen to on some New Agey nature retreat or something. "Are you hunting for mystic mountains, where the air is like liquid laughter" yes, oh god yes I am!

Could you bite the hand? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6XdZMJ8Vsc

I don't know about you guys, but I'm totally enthralled by Steve Conte's superbly trite and non-sequitur lyricism displayed throughout this track. No, seriously though, great job Steve, and I'm being honest when I say that.

Valse de la luna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0Mm9_aCR8

I can't speak French (is she speaking French?), but I'm quite partial to this little number, it gets me feeling all torrid!

And yes, I do wish I knew how to put my youtube url into text as Ayase so impressively managed!
 
Cowboy Bebop opening and closing
Outlaw Star opening and closing
Puella Magi Madoka Magica OST
Bokurano opening
Get Backers first opening
Hamtaro opening and closing both English and Japanese versions.
 
Makka Na Chikai (Buso Renkin Theme)
1000% Sparking (Negima!? Theme)
XTC (Witchblade Theme)
Black Rock Shooter
Beautiful Fighter (Shikabane Hime Theme)
Several of the Code Geass openings

probably loads more i can't remember
 
Guh, lists are so time consuming.

Topically (from the point of view of the forum), I'd say the CD I've listened to the most over the last couple of years is the Girls Dead Monster album Keep the Beats!, individual tracks I've listened to/sung the most in that period of time would be things like Aoi Shiori by Galileo Galilei, YOUTHFUL by 99RadioService, and My Dearest by supercell.

This is a pretty different post if we're expanding to include Vocaloid stuff.
 
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