History AwesomeMusic / CowboyBebop

* [[https://youtu.be/OaKH9bywzgQ Go Go Cactus Man]], a EnnioMorriconePastiche that could only be more SpaghettiWestern if it caused Parmesan to come out of your speakers.

* [[https://youtu.be/OaKH9bywzgQ Go Go Cactus Man]], a song that could only be more SpaghettiWestern if it caused Parmesan to come out of your speakers.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Kf545Kg4s Tank!]]", Best. Theme Song. EVER. Especially when played [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_25mVjKwcc LIVE!]] It's catchy as all hell, it's got amazing percussion, the brass is going nuts throughout the entire thing, and it ends in such a satisfying way. It's considered one of the best opening songs for a reason, after all.
* Also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lNGz-2TaQ "See You, Space Cowboy".]] This version was going to be the regular ending credits, but it wasn't ready in time for the first episode broadcast, so they switched the songs, instead saving this song for the final shootout between Spike and the Red Dragon in the final episode of the series.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAzPR0ACVw Bad dog, no biscuits]]" is so awesome it will make you weep. Angriest. Trombone solo. ''Ever.'' More so, that is a '''[[BizarreInstrument soprano bone]]'''.
* One of the most AWESOME endings in the history of anime segues seamlessly into the beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSmiasnAuk "Blue"]]. Roughly 90% of anime fans want that song played at their funerals. The ending of the final episode is one of the few end credit sequences to an anime series that Creator/AdultSwim doesn't speed up to get in more advertising time (including most other ''Cowboy Bebop'' episodes after the initial run). "Blue" is just that PERFECT an ending to the series.
* As if that's not enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s Space Lion]]", is truly and simply beautiful. Quite possibly the best OST ever.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S_0ojO3bGc "No Reply"]] is an astoundingly beautiful, passionate song. It doesn't even bother most people that the song is about the dying moments going through the singer's mind as he's committing ''suicide''. It's THAT. DAMN. GOOD.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zRwRatEa8c "What Planet is This".]] Not only is the music amazing on its own, but the fact it is used during a protracted dogfight/chase with main character Spike, using what are essentially futuristic fighter jets. Surprisingly, it fits the scene perfectly.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4TDBXebWc "Elm"]] shows that even in the middle of a chase scene, the right song can turn it from being about catching the bad guy to an internal, emotional struggle. Just try replacing this song with anything else, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLVauybm4ag#t=998s Jet's chase scene]] will be nowhere near as powerful.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbBhvv6GI8 "Call Me, Call Me"]] is a truly beautiful TearJerker when taken in context when it's used in the series.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnMOavVElk Is It Real?]]". It has such a fatal and tragic message, and yet it's also quite moving.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M3R2WvFQk Yo Pumpkin Head]]: Dancing in your chair = impossible to resist.
* The ever-so chill [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYYzKo6S9g Ask-DNA]]. A catchy beat, funky instrumentation, and some ''kick-ass'' vocals only help enforce how strong of a song it is. "What's up, Sweet Cakes?"

* The melancholy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmFAJPArhqM Road to the West]] could be described as a saxophone weeping lyrically for 3 minutes. As one of the comments states, "If I ever break up with my girlfriend and I find myself driving on the highway at night alone, while it's raining, still remembering her and the times we had, this is the song that would be playing in my head." This is actually the emotional context in which it was used in the series.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiUjOFYDiBE Pushing the Sky]], the final battle theme against [[BigBad Vincent Volaju]] in TheMovie.
* The Music/IronMaiden-inspired [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7R2Vl_hcCA Live in Baghdad]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE_ofAg8POY N.Y. Rush]] is a fast piece that's good background music for a fight or a chase, like the scenes it was used in, or even just a night on the town.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTMw7rEsDk Too Good Too Bad]], too good. The animation it's paired with catapults both of them way past the line of mere "awesome."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWooB4tpQ9I Memory]], the very first song we hear in the series, a [[TearJerker heartstring-pulling]] music box song that strikes all of the right pangs in one's heart.
* The ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzpXciijjA The Real Folk Blues]]. A [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] piece about reminiscing of lost love, essentially summing up the greatest loss of Spike's life and indeed for many of the characters. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lNGz-2TaQ A remixed version plays in the last episode,]] and it's telling that it's also said episode's name, considering [[spoiler: the tragic end that it accompanies]]. It also got elevated to another level in 2020, when Funimation and Sunrise put out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwE0wwMmKE a massive collaboration cover of the song]] to raise money for COVID-19 relief.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUJVacmswM8 On the Run]] is a cover of the Music/PinkFloyd song of the same name off of ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon''. It's easily as terrifying as the original, especially considering [[ColdBloodedTorture what it's]] [[PsychopathicManchild used for]] in the series.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlzaKrG4ljw Autumn in Ganymede]] has an amazing bass line.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaKH9bywzgQ Go Go Cactus Man]], a song that could only be more SpaghettiWestern if it caused Parmesan to come out of your speakers.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6N1_GJAyFw The Egg and I]], light, happy, carefree and still amazingly complex. Also doubles as funny when you remember that it was also used for the scene of [[ShaggyDogStory Jet and Spike trying to get a betamax player]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lJ-v-Ex58w Cats on Mars]] is a silly track used as one of Ed's leitmotifs. It sounds a bit like {{Music/Stereolab}}. You might have already heard it because it's become ubiquitously-used stock music on anime-related Website/YouTube.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJaf1k_EdNg Don't bother None]] is a great, laidback blues song with some stellar vocals, guitar and harmonica. Simply a delight to listen to.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43q9QiwW3I Cosmic Dare (Pretty With A Pistol)]] introduces Faye in TheMovie and perfectly fits her personality.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43q9QiwW3I Cosmic Dare (Pretty With A Pistol)]], the song that introduces Faye in TheMovie and perfectly fits her personality.

"I think it's time we blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. OK, 3, 2, 1, let's jam!"

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Kf545Kg4s Tank!]]", Best. Theme Song. EVER. Especially when played [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_25mVjKwcc LIVE!]]

* The ever-so chill [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYYzKo6S9g Ask-DNA]].

* The ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzpXciijjA The Real Folk Blues]]. A [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] piece about reminiscing of lost love, essentially summing up the greatest loss of Spike's life and indeed for many of the characters. A remixed version plays in the last episode, and it's telling that it's also said episode's name, considering [[spoiler: the tragic end that it accompanies]]. It also got elevated to another level in 2020, when Funimation and Sunrise put out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwE0wwMmKE a massive collaboration cover of the song]] to raise money for COVID-19 relief.

* As if that's not enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s Space Lion]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_p-nhZXLg Rain]]" and the ED "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftxDrStny8 Real Folk Blues]]" are truly and simply beautiful. Quite possibly the best OST ever.

* As if that's not enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s Space Lion]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_p-nhZXLg Rain]]" and the ED "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftxDrStny8 Real Folk Blues]]" are truly and simply beautiful. Quite possibly the best OST ever. "The Real Folk Blues" got elevated to another level in 2020, when Funimation and Sunrise put out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwE0wwMmKE a massive collaboration cover of the song]] to raise money for COVID-19 relief.

* The ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzpXciijjA The Real Folk Blues]]. A [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] piece about reminiscing of lost love, essentially summing up the greatest loss of Spike's life and indeed for many of the characters. A remixed version plays in the last episode, and it's telling that it's also said episode's name, considering [[spoiler: the tragic end that it accompanies]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWooB4tpQ9I Memory]], the very first song we hear in the series, a [[TearJerker heartstring-pulling]] music box song that strikes all of the right pangs in one's heart. One Youtube user on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWooB4tpQ9I this upload]] of the song was even propelled to share the deep contemplation that this song has induced upon him.
-->"This is it. This was the song that set everything in motion for me up until this very point. This song was when it all hit like a ton of brick. This song set in motion thoughts, like cog wheels, that this is our only life. When we die. It's done our memories, our emotions, love, good times, possessions gone. Never to be seen, heard, felt, experienced. We will never see the sun rise, sun set against he curvature of the earth ever again. We no longer exist. and that's how the cycle continues, your parents die, you die, your children die, your children's children die. and with them everything you felt, goes away. Life is cruel, Enjoy what you have, make the most out of everything, live life. Goodnight."

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAzPR0ACVw Bad dog, no biscuits]]" is so awesome it will make you weep. Angriest. Trombone solo. ''Ever.'' Moreso, that is a '''[[BizarreInstrument SOPRANO BONE]]'''

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAzPR0ACVw Bad dog, no biscuits]]" is so awesome it will make you weep. Angriest. Trombone solo. ''Ever.''

* Also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lNGz-2TaQ "See You, Space Cowboy".]] This version was going to be the regular ending credits, but it wasn't ready in time for the first episode broadcast, so they switched the songs, instead saving it for the final shootout between Spike and the Red Dragon in the final episode of the series.

* Also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lNGz-2TaQ "See You, Space Cowboy".]] This version was going to be the regular ending credits, but it wasn't ready in time for the first episode broadcast, so they switched the songs.

Awesome music in ''Anime/CowboyBebop''.

* As if that's not enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s Space Lion]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_p-nhZXLg Rain]]" and the ED "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftxDrStny8 Real Folk Blues]]" are truly and simply beautiful. Quite possibly the best OST ever.
** ''The Real Folk Blues'' got elevated to another level in 2020, when Funimation and Sunrise put out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwE0wwMmKE a massive collaboration cover of the song]] to raise money for COVID-19 relief.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTMw7rEsDk Too Good Too Bad]], too good.

* The ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftxDrStny8 The Real Folk Blues]]. A [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] piece about reminiscing of lost love, essentially summing up the greatest loss of Spike's life and indeed for many of the characters. A remixed version plays in the last episode, and it's telling that it's also said episode's name, considering [[spoiler: the tragic end that it accompanies]].

* How come no one has mentioned [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJaf1k_EdNg Don't bother None]] yet? It's a great, laidback blues song with some stellar vocals, guitar and harmonica. Simply a delight to listen to.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lJ-v-Ex58w Cats on Mars]] is a silly track used as one of Ed's leitmotifs. It sounds a bit like {{Music/Stereolab}}. You might have already heard it because it's become ubiquitously-used stock music on anime-related YouTube.

* The ever-so chill [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_PCUbQU4g Ask-DNA]].

"I think it's time to blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. OK, 3, 2, 1, let's jam!"

"I think it's time to blow this scene. Get everyone and the stuff together. OK, 3, 2, 1, let's jam!"