Awesome Music / Nobuo Uematsu

• See the Final Fantasy page? Nobuo Uematsu composed around 90% of that (and all of it from the main series entries before Final Fantasy X), and it's what he's famous for.
• Lost Odyssey has an awesome soundtrack all round:
  • Main Theme.
  • The dramatic, over the top, and just plain awesome A Formidable Enemy Appears!.
  • The soothing and emotional Prologue.
  • "Howl of the Departed" is a boss theme that might even give "One Winged Angel" a run for its money. It starts out scary with "Psycho" Strings before the metal guitars and Ominous Latin Chanting come in.
  • Neverending Journey.
  • Dark Saint.
  • Battle with the Demonic Beast.
  • Space Distortion, another great boss theme.
• Blue Dragon, if God Himself decided to compose a song to be blasted during the Apocalypse, He would be hard-pressed to create one more Armageddon-heralding than The Seal Is Broken.
  • Take that song, lengthen it as shown here [1]. Not cool enough, how's this version from the DS game. Now, let's take this up to eleven.
  • Uematsu + The lead singer of Deep Purple = ETERNITY!
• While not game related (except for one track from Final Fantasy), Nobuo's solo album Phantasmagoria is absolutely stunningly gorgeous to hear. And speaking of OC Remix, there's Fire Cross.
• Rad Racer Music A for sure. Too bad it's so obscure (unless you're a fan of Homestar Runner and know it as the melody to "CHALLENGE AND FIGHTING AND FIGHTING THAT CHALLENGE TONIGHT...").
• The Black Mages' contributions are notably hit and miss, but several of the best are:
  • Main battle theme "Those Who Fight Further".
  • The boss theme "Force Your Way".
  • The twelve-minute long orchestra that is "Dancing Mad".
    • As well as the boss fight music, "The Decisive Battle", from the same game.
  • While on the subject of FFVI, turning the opera scene into a real opera, even if the quality is debatable, is awesome for sheer effort of doing it.
  • Turning the cute little piano theme The Skies Above into a veritable Rock Opera.
  • Perhaps most famous for its Epic Riff is Maybe I'm a Lion.
  • A surprisingly well done flamenco/metal fusion of Vamo' Alla Flamenco.
  • "Advent: One-Winged Angel". Say what you will about the movie it's from, but that track is a masterpiece!
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• While Chrono Trigger was mostly composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, Uematsu did contribute some music after Mitsuda overworked himself to the point of stomach ulcers. Tyrano Lair is one of those pieces.
• The main theme of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The Latin may be a bit of a mess grammatically, but there's no denying the sheer awesome factor in the music. "Audi famam illius..."
• Einherjar from GuitarFreaks and DrumMania XG.
• Plutia's theme in Hyperdimension Neptunia V with his band, Earthbound Papas.
• Even if you didn't like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children itself, the music is amazing on its own. Some notable tracks:
  • For the Reunion.
  • The Chase of Highway.
  • Tenrai (Divinity I) and Tenrai (Divinity II). (Ominous Latin Chanting FTW!)
  • One-Winged Angel. The original theme from the game is memorable in of itself, but The Movie cranks it up with some downright badass electric guitar work.
  • Cloud Smiles. The way the music builds up to a crescendo as Cloud spots Aerith and then the gentleness as she turns and then the final phrase as he realises 'Daijoubu...hitori ja nai'...beautiful.
  • Safe and Sound, the new ending for Advent Children Complete, kicks ass way better than Calling, the original ending. It's got Gerard Freaking Way...nice tune and riffs to it too.
  • The End Credits track is lovely as well, an orchestral medley of FFVII's main theme, Aerith's theme and the Final Fantasy theme.
• Fairy Fencer F gives us "Full Contact". You're forgiven for thinking it's a long-lost Power Rangers song, since you will be rocking out whenever any character transforms into their Super Mode regardless.

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