Which game has the best music?

[Formless God]

I...cannot grasp the true form of Gigyas's attack your taste in music.  Not even close.

It's simple. First-time impression is very important in Touhou. For example, At The End of Spring and Cosmic Mind are the first songs that made me go wow (I started with UFO, mind you), so they instantly became the best S1 and S6 themes, respectively :V

I guess I'm the only person who likes Retrospective Kyoto though...

o/
Retrospective Kyoto is easily one of the best songs ZUN has ever composed.

Fate of Sixty Years, Higan Retour, Wind God Girl, Oriental Dark Flight, and... well, not a whole lot else :V

Lord Usa's Elemental Flag :V

[Barrakketh]

What tends to happen though is that if I don't enjoy the original song I will end up enjoying one of it's remixes.

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

The beginning reminds me of Top Gun, though :/

Fate of Sixty Years, Higan Retour, Wind God Girl, Oriental Dark Flight, and... well, not a whole lot else :V

I really like White Flag of Usa Shrine.  It's a fun, playful song that always made me want to run into Tewi every time I was in story mode.

[?q]

I really like White Flag of Usa Shrine.  It's a fun, playful song that always made me want to run into Tewi every time I was in story mode.

Spoiler:

I was going to say that but wasn't sure if I was going into "too unpopular" territory.

I guess we can throw Colorful Path in.  It's not a spectacular song, but it helps me relax and enjoy getting walled in.

Thankfully remixes have been very kind to Flowering Night <.<

[mew77]

Not every thing in the first two stages of MoF was bad.

I quite like apropatic god-dark road.

then again I feel I am less picky with my music

heck give me anything other than rap and I'll probably like it

That remix of Lullaby is great.
it gives the feeling of the epic entrance of a dictator. Slowly walking down the main road surveying all she sees, and utsuho said it was good. Then on the 7th day she rested.

[null1024]

Favorite here is from Mystic Square, PoDD, and UFO.

StB had some nice tracks, but after hearing them OVER AND OVER AND OVER...
And I'm liking Double Spoiler's tunes too, but I'm already starting to feel the same way with them as StB.

[gah, that last sentence feels jumbled to me...]

[Reddyne]

Fate of Sixty Years, Higan Retour, Wind God Girl, Oriental Dark Flight, and... well, not a whole lot else :V

Well, it's not that I really dislike PoFV's music, it's just that I think it's a weak entry in the series with Wind God Girl being the only song in it I truly like. I guess it's just generally bland and repetitive in comparison to the other games. Wish I could put it in better words because I think I need to present proper justification, but it's not like I have much going for me in the way of muzak terminology knowledge.

[?q]

For what it's worth, you're not really supposed to be listening to PoFV music - it's supposed to be background filler; it doesn't sync to anything like.  You wouldn't hear Colorful Path in one of the "real" games, for instance.

Also, Flowering Night and all of the remixes earn the overall soundtrack lots of negative points.

[RainfallYoshi]

PoDD, PoDD, PoDD.

Seriously, it's the only game that I love every single track of. There's not a single track from PoDD that I dislike.

My #1 track from PoDD would definitely be Visionary Game ~ Dream War. Yeah, I said it. Bet you didn't expect that one.

[KrackoCloud]

A tough question.
For me, IN and SA contain the best overall music, but in terms of individual songs, PCB is the best.

[?q]

My #1 track from PoDD would definitely be Visionary Game ~ Dream War. Yeah, I said it. Bet you didn't expect that one.

I wouldn't put it above Kana's theme and I'm not sure where it fits with Reincarnation, but Dream War is definitely in my top three.

[Barrakketh]

Also, Flowering Night and all of the remixes earn the overall soundtrack lots of negative points.

But that gave us SWR's Flowering Night, which is

[Formless God]

Maybe I should include Double Spoiler, now that the game's already released
Modern Youkai Colony and Infinite Nightmare are so much eargasmmmmmmmmm hnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggg <3

Oh, about that IN Stage 1, I think I know the reason now.
I curbstomped Wriggle on my first try. Normal, Hard, Lunatic. That means I only got to listen to the theme once, and Spell Practice eliminated my needs to do the stage again :V

[?q]

But that gave us SWR's Flowering Night, which is

Very true.  SWR's version was an instant favorite.

IN Stage 1

^^Needs to listen to more Ghostly Field Club^^

[orinrin]

I'm probably going to get shot down for this but...

Necrofantasia gives me a serious migraine.  The reason why anyone likes this song is beyond me.

[TheMasterSpark]

Maybe I should include Double Spoiler, now that the game's already released
Modern Youkai Colony and Infinite Nightmare are so much eargasmmmmmmmmm hnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggg <3

Agreed, Infinite Nightmare in particular is fearsomely good. Like, move-over-childhood-favourites good.

[?q]

I'm probably going to get shot down for this but...

Necrofantasia gives me a serious migraine.  The reason why anyone likes this song is beyond me.

but at least it's not necro-fantasy amirite

Have you heard the Magical Astronomy arrange? 
If nothing else it's not deliberately louder than everything else your computer plays.

[Bananamatic]

why is necrofantasia so fucking loud and by loud I mean tasty

I don't want to adjust the volume every single fucking time I get to Yukari

/rant

[Lybydose]

So where's all the "MODERN YOUKAI COLONY SOUNDS LIKE U.N. OWEN" ranting that we got with Heian Alien?

[?q]

So where's all the "MODERN YOUKAI COLONY SOUNDS LIKE U.N. OWEN" ranting that we got with Heian Alien?

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

[haruko]

UFO, hands down.

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

PCB. Of course.

[Formless God]

UFO, hands down.

PCB. Of course.

:V

First-time impression

Now I know it exists.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Ingame since I don't remember the ending ones well

Chinese Tea, Locked Girl, Lunar Clock, Septette, Centennial Festival

Fantastic Legend, Doll Maker of Bucuresti ,Doll Judgment, Phantom Ensemble, Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird~ Till When?, Ultimate Truth, Border of Life, Necrofantasy

Deaf to all but the Song, Plain Asia, Maiden's Capriccio, Love-Colored Master Spark, Lunatic Eyes, Voyage 1969, Gensokyo Millennium, Flight of the Bamboo Cutter~ Lunatic Princess, Voage 1970, Immortal Smoke, Eastern Youkai Beauty

Oriental Dark Flight, Gensokyo, Past and Present, Wind God girl, Higan Retour, Judgement of 60 years

Dark Side of Fate, Gensokyo the Gods Love, Candid Friend, Youkai Mountain, Primal Scene of Japan, Faith is for the Transient People, Suwa Foughten Field, Tomorrow will be Special, Yesterday was Not, Native Faith

Everything starting from Stage 3, also the stage 1 theme.

Tiny, Tiny Clever Commander, Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever, Traditional Old Man and the Stylish Girl, Captain Murasa, Tiger-Patterned Vaisravana/Bishamonten UFO Romance, Heian Alien


SA wins in terms of number of songs I like. For best songs, I can't really choose between UFO's boss themes, MoF's boss themes, PCB's boss themes, or EoSD'd boss themes. The music is all so good.

[DgBarca]

Well, I don't know, EoSD is the game where I like ALL the tracks but in the other there is ones that I don't particulary like, but some that I LOOOOOOOOOVE, like PCB :
Doll Maker of Bucuresti and Doll Judgment are by faaaaaaaaaaar overrated  I don't like them much (I don't like Alice either, don't know why), but I LOOOOOOOVE Ancient Temple and Border of life.
But yeah, I would say EoSD because it doesn't even have a track that I don't like, even the menu, even the Stage 1 theme, The Maid and the Pocket Watch Of Blood being one of my fav with Septette, Centennial Festival and U.N Owen (it seems that this song was too overrated that it became underrated)
IN is pretty high rank for me too.

For PC-98, I would say LLS, but this is too subjective...I just totally love this game.

[Chronojet ⚙ Dragon]

PC-98

LLS

[Esoterica]

I'm changing my vote to EoSD, as I just remembered a good portion of everything that isn't stage 2 is among my list of favorite Touhou songs.

[Chainsaw Guitar]

I'm probably going to get shot down for this but...

Necrofantasia gives me a serious migraine.  The reason why anyone likes this song is beyond me.

I feel the exact same way about Border of Life. God, MIDI trumpets at their worst.

[?q]

I feel the exact same way about Border of Life. God, MIDI trumpets at their worst.

Without disagreeing with you, I raise you Lunatic Princess.

[An Odd Sea Slug]

MoF, PCB and SWR/UNL are my favorites by far, but SA and IN aren't too far behind. But one of my favorite -if not most favorite- individual song is... Electric Universe of Wheelchair, which doesn't appear in the actual games. :V

[Kinzo the Astro Curious]

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

The beginning reminds me of Top Gun, though :/

The whole thing does for me, but its still absolutely fucking epic. Great find. Strange thing is the uploader was right, did feel a bit welling up in the middle and I dunno why lol. But hold it in like a man lol.