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For me, it would be Kefka's. I never can say I really like his theme though, but I picked him because apparently my sub-concience likes it. Let me explain. I'm sitting in my class room surrounded by fellow seniors. Then out of no where, I start humming Kefka's theme. I think I did it during a test. People would look at me and I would say, "What, is there something wrong?" One time, one of my friends who has also played ff6 said to me to stop humming Kefka's theme. I replied, "What are you talking about it?" After seeing that I was serious, he laughed and said, "You have been humming Kefka's theme for the past week." No words could explain what I was thinking. I just started laughing.

Thats why I voted for Kefka's theme. I know, I'm crazy .

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I will be the mustard of your doom!

Oh, come on noobinator . Just put down what is your favorite music and forget about the poll. What kind of world would it be anyway if everyone was perfect. It wouldn't be as fun if everyone was perfect. I know that I'm not perfect at all .

Moderator Edit

I merged this topic with an older music topic and deleted the useless poll. Meanwhile, posts that don't have anything to say about the topic should go in PM, not in a thread. noobinator, figaro, edge murasame, take note please. -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 10th December 2003 04:10

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I will be the mustard of your doom!

I would have put in "other" as well but it doesn't matter for my vote, gotta go with Locke's theme, best theme in any FF game

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War is for the participants a test of character; it makes bad men worse and good men better. - Joshua Chamberlain

U sir R a n00b >:-( - Cactuar

The battle themes are so classic, but I vote for Terra's theme. You know, I didn't realize that the WoB field music was Terra's theme until just 3 months ago, and I've been playing this game since it came out. Well anyway the game's soundtrack is great. However FFVI wouldn't be what it is without Terra's theme.

This post has been edited by i90east on 10th December 2003 04:04

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FFXI (Siren server)
Tauu the Windurstian Tarutaru!
White Mage & Paladin

The best character themes: Terra, Locke, Shadow, Cyan, Setzer, Strago, Umaro, Gogo, Kefka, Daryl

The best area themes: the overworld theme (a Terra remix), Slam Shuffle (Zozo), Spinach Rag, Searching for Friends

The best event themes: Save Them (e.g. Narshe battle), The Unforgiven (e.g. airship crash), Catastrophe (floating continent disintegration), the power of the statues (the version of the War of the Magi theme which ends not in a melody over chords but parallel chords)

The best battle themes: boss, AtmaWeapon, and all of Dancing Mad (i.e. final battle) (especially the third and fourth tracks)

That's all I can think of now.

Edit: [adding the information from a later post] responding to Vei's comment about the "Crazy Old Man's" theme: Add that theme to my list of the best event themes.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 11th December 2003 04:14

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Whooo. Tough choice. Right off the top of my head, Slam Shuffle. That is definitely my favorite. There are a lot of pieces that are jostling for second place, though; among them are Cyan's, Shadow's, Terra's, and Kefka's themes, Wild West, and just about all of the battle themes.

This post has been edited by Syndarr on 10th December 2003 06:49

There are just too many great songs in this game to play favorites with. Uematsu may not be my favorite composer, but, pound for pound, the FF VI OST is his best work, IMO, simply because of the ratio of awesome songs compared to the total number of tracks.

I guess my most memorable (as in the ones I can remember really liking...I'm probably forgetting more than a few ) tunes would be Terra's, Mog's, Crazy Old Man's (c'mon, no one mentioned this one yet? ...whut~whoot), Cyan's (there needs to be a Cyan/Frog medley made, that would freaking rule), Relm's, Kefka's, Atma Weapon, Phantom Forest, the Veldt, the Opera Scene (!!!), Magitek Research Facility, Kefka's Tower (very nice technofunk, with MRF), both WoR themes, Ultros on Stage, Esper Assault/Panic, and of course the Final Battle. Whoops, almost forgot the Epilogue! Other themes I either can't remember, or were good but not great. Still, all around excellent music.

This post has been edited by Vei on 10th December 2003 07:20

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"N'GHAAA!
This is heavier than I thought! It'll take me 5 more minutes to drop it!" ~ Ultros

Gau's theme is one of my top favorite themes, along with Terra's Theme, Celes' Theme, and Cyan's Theme. They all capture their character's essence perfectly I think.

Kefka's theme also ranks high up there, it's got that perfect clownish "I'll have the last laugh" attitude. And with reshaping the world permanently, he kinda did

I also find myself listening to the opera theme a lot, because it's such a well-done theme. That, and the final marathon battle music (Dancing Mad) was the most impressive piece of music in the game, IMO.

Well, since the poll got edited out, I guess I can have more than one favorite now.

Kefka's 'Dancing Mad'
Figaro Castle
Battle
Atma Battle
Boss Battle (music is so much cooler if you're fighting)
M-Tek 'Devil's Lab'
Prelude (me likes arpeggios)
Both 'Airship' themes

Well, I know there are more really awesome ones, but that's all I want to put right now. Because I'm la - a - z - (head smacks down on keyboard)
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Wha---? Oh, as I was saying, um... What was I talking about?

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

is it cheating if i say the ending theme? anyway... even thought they cut it, the version of the ending on the Project Majestic Mix rox...

i also like the Grand Finale version of kefka's theme. seriously good stuff.

sdm

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?gnisufnoc siht sI

well for me i can't really decide between the atma weapon music, and the final battle kefka music, i just cant they are both really good

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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

On the topic of music, I've been wondering...

How many themes have the "Terra" motive (the first 5 notes of the melody of Terra's theme) in them? I can count Terra's theme, "Save Them!", the WoB overworld theme, and "Catastrophe" (end of the Floating Continent)--are there any more?

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Hmm, good question. Might be a good one to post over in the FF6 Trivia thread.

I haven't posted in here yet?! Appalling, really, since IMO FFVI has the greatest soundtrack ever.

Dancing Mad - Poltiergeist, and Dancing Mad: Kefka are two of my favs. I also really liked Gau's theme and Rachel's, they were both so sad I also liked...OK, I've already put more than just my top favorite, I'll just leave it at that.

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SPEKKIO: "GRRR...That was most embarrassing!"

I thought that the final battle has the best music. FFVI has some of the best music on the SNES. But in my opinion Castevania IV just shades it.

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Chrono Triggers rock super-group:

Ozzie - lead singer from Black Sabbath
Flea - Bassist from Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Slash - Guitarist from Guns 'n' Roses

He drinks and smokes his cares away
His heart is in the lonely way
Living in the ruins
Of a castle built on sand...

Tell The King - The Libertines

I'm starting to like the "Decisive BAttle" (boss song) and searching friends now
Can anyone give me a link where I can down ff music sheets? I got some of FF3 ones, but i want ff8 music sheets ;[

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I will be there...

I'm a big fan of the Veldt music and also Gau's theme, for the little that you get to hear it.

Just out of curiousity: when in the game can you hear Gau's theme other than when he is introduced? During the scene with him and his "father" maybe?

OK, after listening to every FFVI midi about a zillion times, I have found out that i love Relm's Theme. Don't ask me why. It just sounds really cool, and fits her very well.

Here's a music related thought. Has anyone else ever noticed that FF game music (FFVI in particular) uses instruments not generally realted to each other? for example, the Boss Battle music has drums, strings, keyboard, organ, and some other background instruments that are hard to pick out. On some midis, there seems to be vocals, also weird conglomeration of instruments, but the boss battle is one of my favorites, too.

EDIT: I noticed that I started each paragraph with "OK,"
EDIT2: added URLs

This post has been edited by Figaro on 12th January 2004 14:41

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

FFVI music is awesome. My favorites are:

Dancing Mad
Cyan's Theme
Gau's Theme
Celes' Theme

But playing them on the piano is even better! Spinach Rag and Tina's Theme are good ones to play.

What I do, pianomaster, is that my school has this really nice keyboard with a floppy disk drive, and so I get to play FF midis on there. I take a midi (for example, the chocobo theme from FFVI) and tailor out a part that I can play. Then, I save the midi to a floppy disk, put it in the keyboard, set the sound to Harpsichord (it's the chocobo theme, after all), press play, and I can play the harpsichord part in the chocobo song! Neat, huh?

I do this with a lot of FF songs, exclusively VI so far. I'm gonna start doing them from VII soon.

Oh BTW, I'm no good at piano (I took lessons for like 2 years some 7 years ago), but the chocobo song was really easy to learn All the better for me, I guess...

This post has been edited by Figaro on 12th January 2004 21:19

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

My favourite piece has got to be the final battle up the tower. Also including the final battle with Kefka. It's Baroque madness baby!

But if I've said it once, I've said it a 1000 times, Castlevania IV has the best videogame music ever!

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Chrono Triggers rock super-group:

Ozzie - lead singer from Black Sabbath
Flea - Bassist from Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Slash - Guitarist from Guns 'n' Roses

He drinks and smokes his cares away
His heart is in the lonely way
Living in the ruins
Of a castle built on sand...

Tell The King - The Libertines

Figaro and ffpianomaster,

It seems that you guys have the same interest in FF music that I do--I love to play them on the piano, and I can play all the character themes except Locke, Gau, and Relm (because I haven't learned them yet). Unlike what you might expect, I don't use the "official" piano scores (they are way too simplified and don't have the same spirit); I make my own transcriptions and try to replicate the original texture.

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My favorite piece of music is the Cyan Theme, very very cool flute piece.

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<Nealio> Seymour sounds like evil Winnie the Pooh

Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 14th January 2004 23:09)

Figaro and ffpianomaster,

It seems that you guys have the same interest in FF music that I do--I love to play them on the piano, and I can play all the character themes except Locke, Gau, and Relm (because I haven't learned them yet).  Unlike what you might expect, I don't use the "official" piano scores (they are way too simplified and don't have the same spirit); I make my own transcriptions and try to replicate the original texture.

Yeah, I don't care to much for the Doremi versions. Those are the ones that are supposed to sound almost like the actual song. But there are another type offcial arrangements called the "Piano Collections". Now those are awesome. They may not be like the original song, but they are much harder then the Doremi arrangements.
I don't really play any of the Doremi because they are too simple and don't sound that good.

Moderator Edit

It's cool that you guys play the music, but the topic is which music is your favorite. Keep it to that in this thread, please. -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 15th January 2004 23:21

Boy, there's so many to choose... I can't actually say that I dislike any of the tracks, but my absolute favorites are Kefka's theme (not the final one, the one you hear everytime you see him in the WoB), the WoB field song, the rag that you hear in some cafes, the song you hear in the cafe in Albrook, and Jidoor's music in the WoR. Those are my favorites, but I find myself suspending gameplay to listen to just about every song in the game.

FFVI has got so many great songs, but a few of my favourites are:

* Serpent Trench/Ancient Castle song

* World of Balance map song

* World of Balance airship song

* Shadow's theme song

And now, the ones I dislike:

* Terra's theme song
Everyone loves this, but I don't. Yes, it's beautiful, but I get tired of it.

* World of Ruin map song
Hate this one! The flute harms my ears!

* The theme (the song on the "choose your file" screen)
AAARGH! This is the main theme to the FF-games (I think), and it's terrible! It's not even a good riff. It's just a beginner piano student's warm up scale excercise! Up and down, up and down...

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People say I'm a slow learner, but I type fast!

Dancing Mad, The Decisive Battle, Terra's Theme, Celes' Theme, The Fierce Battle and Techno De Chocobo(my favorite chocobo music from an FF) in no particular order.

Quote (Shirrow)

*Terra's theme song
Everyone loves this, but I don't. Yes, it's beautiful, but I get tired of it.

Um, the WoB map song is Terra's theme which is one of your favorite songs.

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FFXI (Siren server)
Tauu the Windurstian Tarutaru!
White Mage & Paladin

I've always loved the Crystal Prelude, and FFVI's version of it is the best in my opinion. I loved the music for this game. I'm an electronic musician so I listen to the synthesis and modulation choices (like pitch bends, slides, glissandos, and how they were implemented) and I must say they really took the SNES music chip to its limits here. My favourite peice of all time has got to be the final Character Medley though. It was so well done, and the segues between themes were well meshed giving even more connection between certain characters. (The lead into Locke's theme from Celes' theme comes to mind.) I'm also a fan of orchestral arangements for games, and movies like this. I enjoyed Dancing Mad too. What a great end boss theme! I used to load my saved game from there and just let it play with the battle set to wait. I would also just let the end music play too. (after you beat that 'thing' so many times it becomes routine.)

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I am Aetrus Aedius Andur'anil of Constagando, on the continent of Paeira in the world of Aedur'anea. I am the Guardian of this world's realm and as the last warior of a great line I must guard against an evil that rose 2500 years ago and drove my world to ruin. He will return, and so I watch and wait.

I would have to say that my favorite FFVI songs would have to be the following:

Characters: Kefka, Shadow, Locke, Setzer
Overworld Areas: The Veldt, Zozo
Events: Dancing Mad (the entire song, especially the last segment)

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Je ne t'aime plus,
Mon amour...

Je ne t'aime plus,
Tous les jours...