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(Emotional) Vocal songs (with no lyrics)
I tend to really like pretty vocal songs. I'm not talking songs with lyrics (you know, like theme songs to Japanese RPGs), I'm talking about just songs with a woman singing notes.
Boy, that sounds like a really bad description. Not sure exactly what the term for that style would be. Choral songs? :-/ Anyway, I've found that these songs frequently contain a lot of emotion and are a joy to listen to. Here are some examples which should be familiar to those frequenting SotW or BSC: Dreamfall - The Longest Journey Original Soundtrack - The Hospital Room:Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Chaos Legion - Blood Remains (Main Title): Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows - Unknown 14: Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shadow Hearts 2 - The Fate: Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: From BSC '05: Heroes of Might & Magic IV - Dirt (the second half) And at the risk of getting suggestions of "regular" vocal songs, this could be expanded to songs like The Bird Chirps, I Sing from Tales of Legendia, Exceeding Love from Suikoden III, and Baba Yetu from Civilization IV, to name a few. Though they have words, they are are not typical Japanese vocal songs...hopefully people will understand what I mean. Forgive my inability to better describe what I'm talking about. Jam it back in, in the dark.
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Latest music rips (updated January 10, 2012): SimCity DS - Jazz/ambient/electronic music including interesting reworkings of songs from the fantastic SimCity 3000 soundtrack Cold Winter Original Game Music Score - Really cool; dark, full, emotional strings mixed with drums, piano, choir. Kind of like Furious Angels? Play-Asia - Japanese CDs, game soundtracks, game imports, & more |
Hoo boy, Drakken, you just named one of my favorite subgenres of music. I love to collect stuff like what you mentioned.
There's probably plenty more where these came from, but I didn't go through my whole collection. Kameo and Lineage have a lot of other rewarding tunes in the same vein; I just put up my favorites. Here are a few suggestions: Without lyrics: Kameo: Elements of Power - Peace in the Kingdom Kameo: Elements of Power - Crystal Cavern Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Light and Shadow Lineage II - Intro Lineage II - Outro Lineage II - Unicorn's Rest Lineage II - Forest Calling Lineage II - Lady of the Lake (short but good) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (game rip) - Basilisk Defeated Dungeon Siege (game rip) - Star Chamber With incomprehensible/foriegn lyrics Odin Sphere - Preview Track Kameo: Elements of Power - Enchanted Kingdom Ragnarok Online 2 - Intro Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (game rip) - Godric Gryffindor's Sword ICO - You Were There Incidentally, I believe that what you're looking for are songs with "wordless vocals" or a "wordless choir," which are two terms I've seen applied to this sort of music. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
Last edited by orion_mk3; Feb 23, 2007 at 01:31 AM.
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there's three song in the ninety-nine nights game soundtrack I really like:
Theme From NINETY-NINE NIGHTS (N3) From a distant forest The arrival I love the feeling of From a distant forest, very mystic or something. The arrival as about the same atmosphere and the part at 1:20 to 2:10 is amazing! I really love the Lullaby in Pan's labyrinth soundtrack very beautiful (like the movie) the main them of Tomb Raider legend is very good too, very powerful I like to listen to it in the main menu. or and there's the first minute or the credits song that is very beautiful too. Lost Carol from silent hill 3 is amazing too, I wish I could find the full version somewhere (the one that play during the game) after the storm from Lineage 2 is beautiful, you start from a very beautiful song, to a powerful one and you return to the calm and gently voice from the start ^^ . I was pretty amaze bye the music from this game. Forest Calling from Lineage 2 is beautiful too, I so love the end (even if the end is not vocal) The trailer song of the movie The passion of the Christ always amaze me, I remember I wanted to watch that movie just because I really liked that song XD Frame of mind Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: oh I so love that The Diva Dance from the fifth element, you know that almost techno opera song? and that note at 3:43 is amazing, give me the chill every time XD how could I forget about the song I'm currently looping XD Craig Amrstrong - Escape, probably one of the most popular song of Craig Armstrong. I'm not sure if it's actually a language (I think so) but still I think it fit well here ^^ which is a remix of some songs of Beyond good and evil is pretty good, I especially like the vocal at 3:20 with the beat and all, very moving ^^ I think that's all I could find in all my mp3 XD I'm sure I could find others XD I check later ^^ edit: gah orion beat me to the lineage 2 song XD oh and orion the song from ICO is in english... I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?
Last edited by Inhert; Feb 23, 2007 at 01:58 AM.
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One that comes to mind is "Reminiscence" off the Genso Suikoden Arranged Album (Hiroyuki Nanba).
This style of music piques my interest as well, so expect further additions from me. I was speaking idiomatically. |
Thought of a few more.
Planescape: Torment - Annah's Theme Planescape: Torment - Deionnara's Theme Champions of Norrath (game rip) - Water's Edge I'll probably be posting these all week
Since you mention Beyond Good and Evil, though, the Finale of that game is great for wordless vocals too. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
Last edited by orion_mk3; Feb 24, 2007 at 12:49 AM.
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Sakuraba did plenty of pieces containing different styles of wordless solo vocals (child/synth/operatic) since Theme of Rena (SO2), most of them melancholic/new age-y. Anyone wants me to put together a list?
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You may like this one.
Napple Tale - Rabbit Bed It's from Napple Tale, a Dreamcast game that Yoko Kanno composed the music for, and sung by the voice actor of Hitome from Escaflowne. Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by Mango; Feb 24, 2007 at 06:11 PM.
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Prelude - Final Fantasy Pray
Creid - Xenogears Creid Muse - Advent Rising Prayer - Castlevania -Symphony of the Night Angel Breath - Phantom Brave Ormus, Zarathustra* - Xenosaga Katamaritaino (Katamari Damacy) - The OneUps -Volume 1 Outskirts of Time - Chrono Trigger Brink of Time Halo Theme- Halo Paradise - Trigun Second Donuts Greenbird - Cowboy Bebop OST 2 Elm - Cowboy Bebop OST 2 The Promised Land - FF7 Advent Children Main Theme - Band of Brothers A Princess - Pan's Labyrinth Chevaliers de sangreal - The Da Vinci Code* The Preacher at Arrakeen - Children of Dune Elysium - Gladiator Hymn, Revelations, Escape - Plunkette & Macleane Pretty much all of the Immediate Music stuff (Themes for Orchestra and Choir) *these have the voice as an instrument and not the melody A few of these are more action oriented but emotional nonetheless. If anyone wants some of these let me know and I will upload them. There were just too many to each one individually. There's nowhere I can't reach.
Last edited by ashaman; Feb 24, 2007 at 07:30 PM.
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How ya doing, buddy?
Last edited by Shanks; Sep 2, 2008 at 11:40 AM.
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Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I'll be sure to post again once I've listened to some of them (or if I think of any not yet mentioned).
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?
Check out my original music at my Soundcloud page!
Latest music rips (updated January 10, 2012): SimCity DS - Jazz/ambient/electronic music including interesting reworkings of songs from the fantastic SimCity 3000 soundtrack Cold Winter Original Game Music Score - Really cool; dark, full, emotional strings mixed with drums, piano, choir. Kind of like Furious Angels? Play-Asia - Japanese CDs, game soundtracks, game imports, & more |
Personal favorites: Le Ali del Principio, Shurrey Hills (TotA), Search a seal ~Tethe Alla~ (ToS) Fhey Area (redbook): Track 63, Track 68 Star Ocean 2: Pure a Stream, Theme of Rena, We Form in Crystals Valkyrie Profile: Epic Poem to Sacred Death, To the Unhallowed Ground, When a Person Changes, Negative Roots, Through a Thin Haze, Fragments of the Heart, Becoming Accustomed to Happiness Tales of Destiny 2: Tales of Destiny 2, Whispers of Silence, Elraine, The Abolished Mine, Light and Darkness, The Place of a Confusion, Talk of Rocks, The Narrow World - Mist Star Ocean 3: The Desolate Smell of Earth, So Alone Be Sorrow, Interval of Freezed Time, Fallen Leaves, Despair Road, The Virtual Image Tales of Symphonia: Search a seal ~Sylvarant~, Search a seal ~Tethe Alla~ Tales of Rebirth: Babilograd, Tower of Nereg, Zilva Tales of the Abyss: Shurrey Hills, Sign of the Quite Dark Baten Kaitos 2: Le Ali del Principio, Ruinous commander, Shinmunafosun, The Shadow of the Moon on the Water Tales of the Tempest: Frozen Soil, Setting Off Anew I was speaking idiomatically.
Last edited by datschge; Feb 27, 2007 at 11:44 AM.
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Deus EX 2 Invisible War - Title Theme
Splinter Cell Double Agent - Iceland Extraction And I see Orion has already mentioned the Lineage 2 tracks. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
The game "Forest" by Liarsoft has a couple of emotional vocal songs with no lyrics.
I'm in the process of making a complete game rip of the game but right now I'm having a few problems with the tracktitles. I like the non-vocal tracks 'a lot' more, but I just thought I'd let everyone know. Here's a sample of what I'm talking about: Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: FELIPE NO |
OK this is really starting to annoy/confuse me.
Not the track itself, which I like and look forward to seeing in the gamerip, but that melody and 'voice' was used in the game Zanzarah, and then again in Might and Magic IV. I thought that was strange, and now it's used in that track too, from the Forest game! Are they all by the same company? I'm not complaining, because I like the track, but I find it odd it's used so much! Perhaps you can shed some light on this Teioh How ya doing, buddy? |
Well, there are tons of free VSTi. A lot of composers make use of the same instruments and if they don't have the money to hire a vocalist...they end up using a voice sample that's free of charge.
I'm willing to bet that a vast majority of synth soundtracks is made by the same synth instruments, and I guess when it comes to voices it's easier to notice a similarity, than with guitar or keyboard. Forest is a game from 2004 by the way, music by NoBrand Sounds (a Factory Noise&AG division) Jam it back in, in the dark. |
I see
Looking forward to the rip. What kind of music is it? There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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I love all the gibberishy vocal songs done by Gabriella Robin which many believe to be Yoko Kanno's alter ego.
You can find a lot of Robin's best work on the Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop OST's. Most amazing jew boots
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I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I'll think of some more later, but the one that keeps popping into mind right now is Sorrowful Fate from Magna Carta.
I was speaking idiomatically. It is not my custom to go where I am not invited. |
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The main theme from the original Tomb Raider certainly deserves a mention here.
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"Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary" ( http://www.sendspace.com/file/l0l58p ) is a vocal album, 'tis great stuff. :3 Although... it's not VGM... -posted before noticing what forum she's in- >_>;; It really does rock, though. D:
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Last edited by Talec; Mar 25, 2007 at 08:01 PM.
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Persona 3 Disc 2 Track 19. The Battle for Everyone's Souls. And this track is gonna be arranged for Burn My Dread -Reincarnation- Album, and I wonder if Meguro will keep the vocal part.. I hope so. ^_^
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