Hitoshi Sakimoto ~discuss~

Opening up a big can 'O worms, eh? This thread should be retitled "Hitoshi Sakimoto: Fight!"

I love most of Hitoshi Sakimoto's music. I love the FFT, VS, and BOFV soundtracks. The music is good, the compositions are interesting, and unlike what Jazz said, they are all memorable. Either that, or I just have an extremely good musical memory.

The simple fact of the matter is that with Sakimoto, you either like him, or you don't, and I have nothing against those that don't. (Hell, I used to be one!) Except for GoldfishX, though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Anybody who thinks Sakimoto's songs don't have melodies clearly isn't listening hard enough. (Ok, a lot of them don't, but a great deal of them do.) I'm saying this not as a rabid fan, but as someone who actually has them all memorized. Even extremely dissonant songs such as Tieger and Neesa have a clearly defined melody.

I can name a bunch of songs just off of the top of my head that have extremely strong melodies

Tieger and Neesa
Joshua 2
Ultima: The Nice Body
Random Waltz
Ovelia's Theme (! X 2)
Dullahan
Remembrance
Remembering
Truth

There are more, of course. Listen harder next time.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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I find it a bit frustrating when composers are all complexity with no melody (Hamauzu)

Now I think that's a little unfair. SaGa Frontier II and Unlimited Saga (And CMD) are all full of wonderful melodies. (IMO, the SFII soundtrack is one of the most consistently good soundtracks out there; every song has something to offer.)

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I was quoting orion.

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And I think Piccolo fits Kishin's descriptions of Sakimoto's biggest fans perfectly. Heh...

Uh oh, now it's on. I'm sorry, but you just can't handle the 'Truth', heh heh.

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Originally Posted by NYRSkate

Yeah, the same something. What percentage of the game's tracks have the main melody in it? 70%? The other 30% is victory themes, of course.

So? Each new rendition of the main melody (or the Feldschlact melody, in some cases) is interesting and well-composed.

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Originally Posted by GoldfishX

I don't think I have to...The Truth Hurts and it's still bleeding from the beating it took in last year's BSE. All four notes will never be the same again.

Your inability to discern the song's actual melody is proof of your shallow listening ability. Can't you discern more than one or two layers of instruments?

Here's a hint: At the beginning of the song, there is a small seven-note melody that plays. At 1:40, this melody is reprised, only longer, and much happier and more gentle-sounding. At the infamous "four-note" part which begins at around 2:09, that same instrument continunes playing a beautifully exultant melody. True, the instrument is in the background, rather than the foreground, but the melody that it plays is extremely strong just the same. After that, the melody from 1:40 plays again, and the song ends.

Listen hard for it.

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Soukyu Gurentai is awesome. I especially like the track "Otaku Sky"

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?