Which game has the best music?

[Azinth]

No love for Shuusou Gyoku ITT? :ohdear:

For Touhou, MS has grown on me like crazy since I last posted.  It's probably tied with PCB (and SG) for my favorite.

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

SSG *does* have Silkroad Alice, as well as a crapton of other awesome themes, I'd easily put it in my top 3. Favourite is still PCB, though.

[theshirn]

SSG has Stage 2, Antique Terror, Slik Road Alice, The Witches' Ball ~ Magus, and Dichromatic Butterfly ~ Anicients.  Respectable, but it doesn't match up against ones like PCB or MoF.

[Azinth]

SSG has Stage 2, Antique Terror, Slik Road Alice, The Witches' Ball ~ Magus, and Dichromatic Butterfly ~ Anicients.  Respectable, but it doesn't match up against ones like PCB or MoF.

And Erich's theme and all three of Vivit's themes (how'd you manage to miss those, they're only the best themes in the game).  Stages 1 and 4 are pretty sexy too, especially with updated instruments.:*

To be honest, MoF only has about three songs that I'm really crazy about.  The rest are solid but never did much for me.

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

And Erich's theme and all three of Vivit's themes (how'd you manage to miss those, they're only the best themes in the game).  Stages 1 and 4 are pretty sexy too, especially with updated instruments.:*

To be honest, MoF only has about three songs that I'm really crazy about.  The rest are solid but never did much for me.

Illusory Science ~ Doll's Phantom > Magical Girls' Crusade > Dream Machine ~ Infinite Power > Girl's Divinity ~ Pandora's Box. Just try and prove me wrong :V

Incidentally, have a piano remix of the second one (sadly, it's a remix of the Goastly Field Club version, and not the original, but it's still better than nothing ). This is a really well-done remix of the original version, but the audio quality sadly is awful.

[theshirn]

And Erich's theme

Am I the only person who's played SSG and didn't care for Magical Girl's Crusade?  I thought S5's theme was better, honestly...

[Kinzo the Astro Curious]

I never really cared for Lullaby of a Deserted Hell, but I liked this remix.

After looking up who made this, I found this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEVKcFyRXw

How... This song... so joyous!

[theshirn]

After looking up who made this, I found this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEVKcFyRXw

How... This song... so joyous!

Dangerous Mezashi Cat does some good stuff.

[mew77]

Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare is growing on me.
Sad that my touhou skills prevent me from ever getting to that point in the game.

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare is growing on me.
Sad that my touhou skills prevent me from ever getting to that point in the game.

I mentioned it before, but it does sound like BAD Apple!! in a way. Doesn't it?

[Formless God]

Huh ... Not at all.

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

Huh ... Not at all.

Bah, you just don't have a good enough imagination.
EDIT: Typo, wtf.
EDIT: Also, Heartfelt Fancy. Doesn't Infinite Nightmare sound like Heartfelt Fancy?

EDIT: Youkai Modern Colony and Tomorrow with be Special, Yesterday was Not.

[Formless God]

It has the overall feel of Heartfelt Fancy to be exact.

The only two Touhou songs I've found to sound similar to each other are Septette and Capital City.

[Drake]

Border of Life sounds kind of like Ho-oh's theme in HGSS. If you don't agree with me you don't have a good enough imagination.

[sera]

-goes to listen to Ho-oh's theme-

On the topic of similar songs, the fast piano parts in Nemesis's Stronghold kind of resemble Treacherous Maiden ~ Judas Kiss, and Youkai Modern Colony reminds me of Captain Murasa. Double Spoiler music is neat in general, it has this dark/jazzy feel to it. (The game with my favorite soundtrack is probably MoF or MS, since they have lovely melodies in the stage themes and consistent quality.)

[Lybydose]

...it doesn't sound anything like UNO...

Yeah it does.  Certainly a lot more so than Heian Alien.

[Formless God]

^ It's either the different instruments or my lousy imagination but I can't find any similarities between the two :<

[Iryan]

While Yokai Colony and UNO have some similar melodies, they have different instrumentation and don't really stand out from the song as a whole. Compare that to Heian Alien/UNO, where the main similarity is a similar melody played with the lead instruments combined with the similar tingling bell sequences that stand out in both themes.

On the other hand, after listening to Infinite Nightmare for a while, I began to see fairy maids dressed in blue emerging from the red-carpeted ground. Despite not having that strong similarities, it sounds strangely like Alice Maestra.

On the topic of most annoying ZUN trumpets: MoF music room, Candid Friend climax, two minutes into the theme. Luckily the song never gets that far when you fight Nitori...

On the topic of favorite soundtrack, well, you see...
ZUN's soundtracks are like a box of chocolates. There is too much awesomeness to choose a favorite.

[Formless God]

Why do we keep arguing over which Touhou track is the best? It's a moot argument. They're all stupidly incredibly amazingly epicly godly full and made of win.

BV

[CK Crash]

Let's look at my favorites...

Best Title: Tengu's Notebook ~ Mysterious Note (StB)
Best Stage 1: At the End of Spring (UFO)
Best Stage 2: Song of the Night Sparrow ~ Night Bird (IN) Honorable mention to Fantastic Legend of Tohno
Best Stage 3: The Gensokyo The Gods Loved (MoF) Honorable mention to Doll Maker of Bucuresti and Romantic Children
Best Stage 4: Heartfelt Fancy (SA) Honorable mention to Voile Magic Library
Best Stage 5: Kagome-Kagome (IN)
Best Stage 6: Fires of Hokkai (UFO) Honorable mention to Ultimate Truth
Best Extra Stage: Charming Domination ~ Who Done it? (PCB)
Best Stage 1 Boss: A Tiny Tiny Clever Commander (UFO) Honorable mention to The Positive and Negative
Best Stage 2 Boss: Diao Ye Zong ~ Withered Leaf (PCB) Honorable mention to Dark Side of Fate
Best Stage 3 Boss: Plain Asia (IN) Honorable mention to Doll Judgement and Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17
Best Stage 4 Boss: The Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain (MoF)
Best Stage 5 Boss: Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer! (SA) Honorable mention to Faith is for the Transient People
Best Stage 6 Boss: Legendary Illusion ~ Infinite Being (MS) Honorable mention to Suwa Foughten Field
Best Extra Stage Boss: Necrofantasia (PCB) Honorable mention to Heian Alien and Grimoire of Alice
Best 2P Game Themes: Touhou Judgement in the Sixtieth Year ~ Fate of Sixty Years (PoFV), Higan Retour ~ Riverside View (PoFV), Visionary Game ~ Dream War (PoDD)
Best Fighting Game Themes: Onigashima in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power (IaMP), The Ground's Color is Yellow (SWR)
Best Photo Themes: Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare (DS), Sleepless Night of the Eastern Country (StB)
Best Ending: No favorites :V
Best Credits: Energy Daybreak ~ Future Dream... (SA)
Best Album Song: Welcome to Moon Tour
Best Misc. Song: An Ordeal from God

And thus, my conclusion is...
Best Soundtrack: 

[Patorikku]

I like Onthenet's chart method to this. Lessee...

Best Title: Awakening of the Earth Spirits (SA)
Best Stage 1: At the End of Spring (UFO)
Best Stage 2: Fantastic Legend of Tohno (PCB)
Best Stage 3: Romantic Children (MS)
Best Stage 4: Heartfelt Fancy (SA) Honourable mention to Interdimensional Voyage of a Ghostly Passenger Ship
Best Stage 5: Lullaby of Deserted Hell (SA)
Best Stage 6: Hellfire Mantle (SA)
Best Extra Stage: Last Remote (SA) Honourable mention to UFO Romance in the Night Sky
Best Stage 1 Boss: A Tiny Tiny Clever Commander (UFO)
Best Stage 2 Boss: Green-Eyed Jealousy (SA)
Best Stage 3 Boss: Doll Judgement (PCB)
Best Stage 4 Boss: Satori Maiden ~ 3rd Eye (SA)
Best Stage 5 Boss: Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial (EoSD)
Best Stage 6 Boss: Septette for the Dead Princess (EoSD)
Best Extra Stage Boss: A toughie, but going to Heian Alien (UFO)
Best 2P Game Themes: Touhou Judgement in the Sixtieth Year ~ Fate of Sixty Years (PoFV)
Best Fighting Game Themes: Demistify Feast (IaMP)
Best Photo Themes: Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare (DS)
Best Ending: I dunno...
Best Credits: The Eternal Steam Engine (Hisoutensoku)
Best Album Song: Greenwich in the Sky
Best Misc. Song: Wind God Girl

Best Soundtrack:  Subterranean Animism

[Formless God]

Oh, nice. I'll steal borrow that chart of yours then :V

(one song and one HM, because I just can't pick one favorite for each field)

+ Best Title:
Evening Sky (SWR)
Tengu's Notebook ~ Mysterious Note (StB)

+ Best Stage 1:
At the End of Spring (UFO)
Dream Express (MS)

+ Best Stage 2:
The Sealed Cloud Route (UFO)
The Road of the Apotropaic God ~ Dark Road (MoF)

+ Best Stage 3:
Sky Ruin (UFO)
Romantic Children (MS)

+ Best Stage 4:
Interdimensional Voyage of a Ghostly Passenger Ship (UFO)
Maple Wise (MS)

+ Best Stage 5:
On the Verge of Madness (Futari) Mystic Oriental Dream ~ Ancient Temple (PCB)
Lullaby of a Deserted Hell (SA)

+ Best Stage 6:
Voyage 1969 (IN), hands down
Fires of Hokkai (UFO)

+ Best Extra Stage:
Tomorrow Will Be Sunny, Yesterday Was Not (MoF)
Last Remote (SA)

+ Best Stage 1 Boss:
Element Daughter (Daifukkatsu) A Tiny Tiny Clever Commander (UFO)
Stirring an Autumn Moon ~ Mooned Insect (IN)

+ Best Stage 2 Boss:
Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever (UFO)
Dark Side of Fate (MoF)

+ Best Stage 3 Boss:
Candid Friend (MoF), you heard me :V Surely the opening was awful, but the rest isn't that bad.
Plain Asia (IN)

+ Best Stage 4 Boss:
Ghostly Band ~ Phantom Ensemble (PCB)
The Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain (MoF)

+ Best Stage 5 Boss:
The Tiger-Patterned Vaisravana (UFO)
Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer! (SA)

+ Best Stage 6 Boss:
Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind (UFO)
Voyage 1970 (IN) (could've been Border of Life if it weren't for loltrumpets)

+ Best Extra Stage Boss:
Hartmann's Youkai Girl (SA)
Native Faith (MoF)

+ Best 2P Game Themes:
Tabula rasa ~ The empty girl (PoDD)
Higan Retour ~ The Riverside View (PoFV)

+ Best Fighting Game Themes:
Broken Moon (IaMP) (SWR's version is raep to my ears)
Fragrant Plants / Dancing Water Spray (SWR)

+ Best Photo Themes:
Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare (DS)
Retrospective Kyoto (StB)

+ Best Ending: (and wow ... there are a lot of good tracks than I thought)
The Earth Spirits' Homecoming (SA)
THE REST (no, seriously)

+ Best Credits:
Returning Home from the Sky ~ Sky Dream (UFO)
Crimson Belvedere ~ Eastern Dream ... (EoSD)

+ Best Album Songs: (3 entries here)
Hiroshige No.37 ~ Neo Super-Express
Maidens' Sealed Fraternity
G Free (I keep thinking "Half-Life" for some unknown reasons)

+ Best Misc. Songs:
Catastrophe in Bhava-agra ~ Wonderful Heaven (SWR) (I don't know why this goes into Misc., but meh)
A Drunkard's Lemuria (SSiB)

My conclusion is ...

+ Best soundtracks:
Undefined Fantastic Object
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

+ Best tracks :
Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind (UFO)
Broken Moon (IaMP)

You can never grasp the true form of my music taste :V

[Sodium]

Moar compact. Also, order doesn't really matter

+ Best Title:
Kaeidzuka ~ Higan Retour (PoFV)

+ Best Stage 1:
Dream Express (MS)
False Strawberry (SSG)
+ Best Stage 2:
The Bridge People No Longer Cross (SA)
+ Best Stage 3:
Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea (EoSD)
+ Best Stage 4:
Interdimensional Voyage of a Ghostly Passenger Ship (UFO)
Illusionary Sputnik Night (SSG)
+ Best Stage 5:
Rural Makai City Esoteria (UFO) [IN's, MoF's, and SA's are close =V]
+ Best Stage 6:
Fires of Hokkai (UFO)
+ Best Extra Stage:
UFO Romance in the Sky (UFO)
Alice in Wonderland (MS)
Silk Road Alice (SSG)

+ Best Stage 1 Boss:
A Tiny Tiny Clever Commander (UFO)
+ Best Stage 2 Boss:
Beware Of the Umbrella Left There Forever (UFO)
+ Best Stage 3 Boss:
Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17 (EoSD)
+ Best Stage 4 Boss:
Vessel of Stars ~ Casket of Star (LLS)
+ Best Stage 5 Boss:
Sleeping Terror (LLS)
+ Best Stage 6 Boss:
Depends
+ Best Extra Stage Boss:
The Witches' Ball ~ Magus (SSG)
Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Ancients (SSG)

+ Best 2P Game Themes:
Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream (PoDD)
+ Best Fighting Game Themes:
Broken Moon (IaMP)
+ Best Photo Themes:
Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare (DS)
+ Best Ending:
Eternal Full Moon (PoDD)
+ Best Credits:
The Eternal Steam Engine (Hisoutensoku)
+ Best Album Song:
Greenwich in the Sky (Magical Astronomy)
+ Best Misc. Song:
Magical Shop of Raspberry (LLS)

+ Best Soundtrack:
Going by numbers here, UFO, and then SSG.
+ Best Track:
:V

[Alice Fact]

probably MoF and SA

but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67wmWAHNCHY&fmt=18

I have learned better than this; I have left the PC-98 games to rot, shame on my house

I have no favorite

lgb is np: Oriental Dark Flight - ZUN - Touhou Kaiedzuka ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View

:x

[theshirn]

I made that topic a while ago, people.  But fine.

Title: Gensokyo ~ Lotus Land Story
S1: Illusionary Night ~ Ghostly Eyes
S1B: ATTCC
S2: Song of the Night Sparrow ~ Night Bird
S2B: Deaf to All But the Song
S3: Romantic Children
S3B: Doll Judgment ~ The Girl Who Played With People's Shapes
S4: MAPLE WISE GTFO
S4B: Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle (HM to EVERYTHING ELSE, why are the S4B themes so good)
S5: Lullaby of Demonic Hell
S5B: Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial, don't even have to think about it
S6: Fires of Hokkai
S6B: The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field
Ending: The Earth Spirits' Homecoming
Staff Roll: Arcadian Dream, HM to Flower of Soul and The Eternal Steam Engine
Extra Stage: Centennial Festival for Magical Girls, HMs to Alice in Wonderland, Last Remote, Silk Road Alice
Extra Boss: The Witches' Ball ~ Magus, HMs to Hartmann's Youkai Girl and Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

[?q]

Nya, why not.

Title:  Sealed Gods (MoF) HM Mystic Dream ~ Snow or Cherry Petal (PCB)
St. 1:  At the End of Spring (UFO)
Boss 1:  A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander (UFO) HM Erasure ~ Always (LOL)
St. 2:  Night Bird ~ Song of the Night Sparrow (IN) with HMs in UFO, SA, and LLS, in that order
Boss 2:  Deaf to All But the Song (IN)
St. 3:  The Doll Maker of Bucuresti (PCB) HM The Gensokyo the Gods Loved (MoF)
Boss 3:  Doll Judgment: The Girl Who Played With Peoples' Shapes (PCB)
St. 4:  Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall (MoF)
Boss 4:  Maiden's Cappricio ~ Dream Battle (IN) HM Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room (EoSD)
St. 5:  Mystic Oriental Dream ~ Ancient Temple (PCB)
Boss 5:  Invisible Full Moon (IN) HM Doll Story ~ Doll of Misery (MS)
St. 6:  Fires of Hokkai (UFO) HM Dream Land (LLS) and Voyager 1969 (IN)
Boss 6:  Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind (UFO) HM Septette for the Dead Queen (EoSD)
St. X:  Last Remote (SA) with HMs in UFO, MS, and MoF
Boss X:  Hartmann's Youkai Girl (SA)
Staff Roll:  Sakura, Sakura (PCB) HM Returning Home from the Sky ~ Sky Dream (UFO)

Phantasmagoria:  Touhou Judgment in the 60th Year ~ Fate of Sixty Years (PoFV) HM almost all of the PoDD tracks, Higan Retour ~ Riverside View, Wind God Girl, Oriental Dark Flight
Fighting Games:  Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial (IaMP), Flowering Night (SWR), Onigashima in the Fairyland (IaMP)
Pictures:  Modern Youkai Colony (DS) HM Retrospective Kyoto, Sleepless Night in the Eastern Country, Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare
Stuff People Haven't Heard Of:  Future Universe of Wheelchair, all of CoSD except for the first two tracks

[Esoterica]

Shamelessly stealing u?'s template~

Title:  Mystic Dream ~ Snow or Cherry Petal (PCB)
St. 1:  Uh...pass? :x
Boss 1:  Because Princess Inada is Scolding Me (MoF).  HM to Apparitions Stalk the Night (EoSD)
St. 2:  The Road of the Apotropaic God ~Dark Road (MoF)
Boss 2:  Dark Side of Fate (MoF)
St. 3:  The Doll Maker of Bucuresti (PCB). HM to Chinese Tea (EoSD)
Boss 3:  Perdition Crisis (LLS).  HM to Plain Asia (IN)
St. 4:  Himorogi, Burn In Violet (SoEW)
Boss 4:  Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room (EoSD).  HM to Judas Kiss (MS) and 3rd Eye (SA)
St. 5:  The Primal Scene of Japan the Girl Watched (MoF)
Boss 5:  Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial (EoSD).  HM to Doll Story ~ Doll of Misery (MS), Complete Darkness (SoEW), and Faith is for the Transient People (MoF).
St. 6:  Ultimate Truth (PCB)
Boss 6:  Septette for the Dead Princess (EoSD)
Extra Stage:  The Centennial Festival for Magical Girls (EoSD)
Extra Boss:  Necro Fantasy (PCB).  HM to Grimoire of Alice (MS)

Phantasmagoria: Lord Usa's Elemental Flag (PoFV). HM to Forsaken Doll (PoFV) and Colorful Path (PoFV).
Fighting Games: Unknown X ~ Unfound Adventure (UNL)

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

Title: Newshound
St. 1: Dream Express (MS)
Boss 1: A Tiny Tiny Clever Commander
St. 2: The Fantastic Legend of Tohno
Boss 2: Deaf to All but the Song / Beware the Umbrella Left There for Ten Thousand Years
St. 3: The Doll Maker of Bucuresti
Boss 3: The Flower Studded Sake Dish on Mount Ooe
St. 4: Heartfelt Fancy
Boss 4: Satori Maiden ~ 3rd Eye
St. 5: Lullaby of Deserted Hell
Boss 5: Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon*
St. 6: Ultimate Truth
Boss 6: Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess
Extra Stage: Charming Domination
Extra Boss: Heian Alien
Phantasmagoria: Reincarnation (HM to "Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll")
Fighting games: The Scenery of Living Dolls**

* Fell in love withi it after an encounter with GF3a.
** Gives me Pokemon Mystery Dungeon flashbacks.

[Chainsaw Guitar]

Title: A Shadow in the Blue Sky (UFO)
Stage 1: Paradise ~ Deep Mountain (PCB)
Boss 1: Because Princess Inada Is Scolding Me (MoF)
Stage 2: Dimension of Reverie (MS)
Boss 2: Beloved Tomboyish Girl (EoSD)
Stage 3: Romantic Children (MS)
Boss 3: Plain Asia (IN)
Stage 4: Voile, the Magic Library (EoSD)
Boss 4: Forbidden Magic/Judas Kiss (MS)
Stage 5: The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood (EoSD)
Boss 5: Faith is for the Transient People (MoF)
Stage 6: Ultimate Truth (PCB)
Boss 6: Legendary Illusion ~ Infinite Being (MS)
Extra Stage: Alice in Wonderland (MS)
Extra Boss: Native Faith (MoF)
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Fightan Gaems:
Remix: Maiden's Capriccio (IaMP)
Original: Drunk as I Like (SWR)

Quick question; am I the only one who prefers stage themes to boss themes? took me forever to fill out this list because I had a hard time thinking up of a few favorite boss themes. Oh well, at least this template made it easier to decide; MS. Though, that would have most likely been my answer anyways. :V

[Garlyle]

Time for a list here too.

Title: Tengu's Notebook ~ Mysterious Notebook (StB)
Stage 1: The Dark Blowhole (SA)
Boss 1: A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander (UFO)
Stage 2: The Road of the Atropaic God ~ Dark Road (MoF)
Boss 2: Green-Eyed Jealousy (SA)
Stage 3: The Doll Maker of Bucuresti (PCB)
Boss 3: The Traditional Old Man and the Stylish Girl (UFO)
Stage 4: Interdimensional Voyage of a Ghostly Passenger Ship (UFO)
Boss 4: Satori Maiden ~ 3rd Eye (SA)
Stage 5: The Last Judgement (MS)
Boss 5: Faith is for the Transient People (MoF)
Stage 6: Ultimate Truth (PCB) or Fires of Hokkai (UFO)
Boss 6: Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind (UFO)
Stage X: Alice in Wonderland (MS)
Boss X: Necrofantasia (PCB)
Fighting: Onigashima in the Fairyland (IaMP)
Photo: Nemesis' Stronghold (DS)
Phantasmagoria: Touhou Judgement in the Sixtieth Year ~ Fate of Sixty Years (PoFV)

Overall, I do tend to prefer the newer era soundtracks due to instrument quality.