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IaMP. No really, that's probably the best answer you'll find.

>>6407064

It all depends on your own taste. They all have good soundtracks.

Subterranean Animism has the best overall.

PCB has the best soundtrack in terms of integration with the game; it fits the mood of the game incredibly well.

All the others (EoSD, IN, MoF) are good too. None are really "bad".

UFO didn't exist.

>>6407079

Fuck you. Captain Murasa, Emotional Skyscraper. Sealed Cloud Route and Sky Ruin were absolutely awesome.

I like most of the PCB and IN soundtracks.

Let's avoid another "My tastes>your tastes" shitfest, guys.

Instead, say why exactly you like a particular track.

>>6407101
They have to fit the danmaku patterns. Like changing as the battle goes on.

When a hard pattern starts the chorus comes in, etc.

Of course the timing can't be exact but it always is close enough. I also like songs with organ.

Mountain of Faith.
Candid Friend and Native Faith elevate it to God Tier.

I think Awakening of the Earth Spirits is the best Touhou title screen... tied with Evening Sky.

>>6407093
I agree. UFO soundtrack isn't that bad. Not my personal favorite but yeah, just because of Emotional Skyscraper it cant be a bad soundtrack. Seriously, this theme is one of the most "emotional" in all the serie.

Also, Interdimensional Voyage of a Ghostly Passenger Ship and UFO romance in the night sky are fucking catchy.

I like 7 and 11 alot. The only songs that stick out to me in IN are Lunatic princess and Keine's stage and theme, and in Mountain of faith it's only Sanae's stage and theme along with stage 4. IAMP is fantastic too.

>>6407070
This.

Personally, I love MoF. The Gensokyo the Gods loved plus every last boss theme being fucking epic. Candid Friend, Suwa Foughten Field, Native Faith, especially.

EoSD, although I am pretty sure it's the nostalgia goggles speaking through me. For some reason I am physically incapable of playing stages 3 and 4 without humming in sync with the tunes.Likewise Bridge People No Longer Cross.

Of course, all the boss tunes are on a level of their own so I didn't consider them.

>captcha: aftermen 058
Fucking stolen for a band name or something.

>>6407138
This. Also, Hina's stage theme.

As for SA, THAT FUCKING CAT's stage theme came out of nowhere. It fits perfectly with the stage but just seems to sort of not fit with the rest of the tracks.

>>6407101
EoSD > IN

IN.
Best first stage theme in the franchise.

SA. I loved green eyed jealousy

Mystic Square

I really like IN too, though.

I absolutely love IN soundtrack, from gentle gust of wind at the beginning of "Illusionary Night~Ghostly Eyes", till the final accords of "Eternal Dream~Mystic Maple". It creates a perfect atmosphere of lunatic summer night, which can compete only with the autumnal atmosphere of MoF.

I absolutely love IN soundtrack, from gentle gust of wind at the beginning of "Illusionary Night~Ghostly Eyes", till the final accords of "Eternal Dream~Mystic Maple". It creates a perfect atmosphere of lunatic summer night, which can only compete with the autumnal atmosphere of MoF.

IN has a godly soundtrack. sorry Mountain of Faith

I'd say MoF no contest. Not a single song in the bunch I dislike at all. A coupe were a bit weaker, but overall still strong entries. It's one of the reasons I've played it more than the other games.

UFO
It's very upbeat and video game-ish.

All of them, give or take.

Keepers are Centennial Festival for Magical Girls, U.N. Owen was her?, Satori Eye ~ Third Eye, Hartmann's Youkai Girl, Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind, Heian Alien and the Phantom Ensemble ones (TH07 and 09 mixes.)

PCB and IN, they have the largest number of songs I like
I like various songs from others, but none have as many good ones as those two

IN

I think Mountain of Faith has the most consistently strong soundtrack. The mood, I think, is a little more mysterious and a little more fantastic than other soundtracks in the series, and although there aren't any standout songs on the level of Cinderella Cage, Border of Life, or Fate of Sixty Years, all the songs blend together into one great whole.

Best:
EoSD
SA
UFO

Great:
HRtP
PCB
MoF

Good:
PoDD
LLS
MS
Fairy Wars

Meh:
SoEW
IN
Aya spinoffs

Crap:
PoFV

>>6408719
If there was no "meh" and "crap" tiers, and IN was in great, and PoFL was in best, and Aya remixes in good, then that would be my list.

All of them are brilliant, I'm going to have to go with IN though as far as the most memorable songs.
Every single track starting with stage 4 boss onward is just back-to-back mindblowing.

GFC > MA >> CoSD >> DiPP

>>6408771
I dislike the themes of Wriggle, Keine, Kaguya, and Mokou, but yet I love the rest enough that it's probably #2 for me.

I wish ZUN still made music CDs.

MoF because Fall of Fall is the best song in the Touhou series.

>>6408729
I wasn't sure where to place the Aya music because DS is good but StB is right in the middle of the shift from the style used in IN and PoFV to MoF.

IN is just exhausting to listen to. 21 songs, and most of them have blasting horns. It still has it's moments, like Illusionary Night ~ Ghostly Eyes, Stirring an Autumn Moon ~ Mooned Insect, Retribution for the Eternal Night ~ Imperishable Night, Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon, and Voyage 1969/1970. Most of the other tracks have obnoxious-as-fuck horns or are just seemingly endless piano wankery sessions.

PoFV doesn't have the piano solos as bad, but the horns are at their worst in the series, and many other "alternative" versions are flat-out lazy. Aside from Adventure of the Lovestruck Tomboy, Oriental Dark Fight, and Flowering Night, it doesn't have anything spectacular to offer.

>>6408801
What a coincidence, I happen to like all of those themes the most. not remixed versions

>>6408801
>dislikes Wriggle's theme
>dislikes Keine's theme
>dislikes Kaguya's theme
>dislikes Mokou's theme

If this weren't an anonymous imageboard, I'd almost say you were trolling me.

But I also like pretty much all of IN's soundtrack, so I guess it's a moot point.

>>6408860
>horns

They're called zunpets.

Aka the Roland SD-88's "Romantic Trumpet" with excessive vibrato.

>>6408868

Not liking Mokou's theme should be a crime.

MoF, PCB and IN all had incredible music

EoSD, SA and UFO had awesome boss themes but the stage themes were not that catchy (with a few exceptions like Young Descendent of Tepes or Orin's stage theme)

Apart from a few songs (aka demystify feast) I hate most of the music in the fighting games

>>6408860
I don't know what you see in Oriental Dark Flight. It's not especially catchy, it doesn't seem to go anywhere, it's just murky piano. Likewise with Flowering Night.

I know ZUN loves his trumpet spam, but every once in a while it works. IN may be exhausting, but it's exhausting for good reasons.

遠野幻想物語, Chen's stage theme, is the best track in all of Touhou. Non-Touhou fans agree.*

*Props to whoever posts that video where they had a bunch of non-Touhou fans rate the various soundtracks, I don't have the link on me.

>>6408905
Legend of Tohno? I used to think so, but then came Lullaby of Hell.

>>6408889
You don't like Flowering Night? What about Night of Nights?

>>6408912

Thank Simon&Garfunkel for that one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XFv21Dt2Y#t=6m20s

PCB all the way. I could listen to Phantom Ensemble on loop forever.

>>6408889
>I don't know what you see in Oriental Dark Flight.
I really liked 1:09 to 1:34. Not gonna lie.

>>6408927
Well, moreso thank the ballad of "Scarborough Fair", which goes back at least 350 years.

Pretty impressive to see such ZUN getting ideas from such far-flung sources.

Personally...
TH1: Bad
TH2: Bad
TH3: Okay
TH4: Godsend
TH5: Average
TH6: Okay
TH7: Crap for the first four stages, godly afterwards
TH7.5: Day themes are all terrible, Night is alright, non-time specific themes (like Remi's) are good
TH8: Great (except for anything in Stage 6)
TH9: Setting aside the rehashed music (which is solid), quite poor
TH9.5: Good
TH10: Good up until you reach Stage 5
TH10.5: Great story mode music, crap character remixes
TH11: My favorite
TH12: Good
TH12.3: A massive eh
TH12.5: Poor
TH12.8: Acceptable

I guess I should also point out that I love SH01, but none of the other Seihou game soundtracks.

>>6408950
>TH7: Crap for the first four stages, godly afterwards
ITT no fucking taste at all.

>>6408937
As for Flowering Night, I just like how the drums are handled. An odd compliment, I know, but it's one of the very few times where the percussion sections actually add something rather than just exist. It's the only version of the song I like, and I never liked any remix I have heard. I have similar feelings for remixes of Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room.

>>6408950

>TH7: Crap for the first four stages, godly afterwards

Are you trying to say The Doll Maker of Bucuresti, Doll Judgment and Phantom Ensemble aren't fucking awesome?

>>6408920
Night of Nights brings some extra energy to the theme, makes it sound more dynamic. It's a nifty tune, but it doesn't really have the emotional energy or buildup I normally associate with Touhou songs.

ITT: > your tastes < my tastes

>>6408950
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtKrQbVHpII

Even Stage 1 can be nice.

>>6408954
>>6408962

Yes, I don't like those earlier songs in the soundtrack, or rather don't see why they're special in any way. Eh...Stage 1 theme is acceptable.

Is it really that weird?

>>6408979

Yes, since all three of those were both in the Top 25 most popular songs in that '08 2ch poll.

>>6407144
Addendum: I really like the soundtrack from Fairy Wars, it just fits the game so perfectly. And Magus Night is just godlike in bringing over that feeling of 'you REALLY picked the wrong fight, did you`'

>>6408979
>don't see why they're special in any way
>Phantom Ensemble
You're trolling, right?

Imperishable Night is my favorite. Probably EoSD is my second.

There was one good track in Fairy Wars. And it was, of course, Fairy Wars. Everything else was mediocre, carried only by the fact that it's such a godly system.

>>6409000

Eh. I can see them being popular, but it doesn't really change how I view them.

Besides, I'm fairly certain a lot of the music in those polls are heavily influenced by the characters they represent, which is why both Stage 3 tunes raise my suspicions. Phantom Ensemble probably does deserve to be up there, though, and it's a nice song, but not something I like.

It's kinda like how I appreciate Mozart and his playful music, but do not enjoy listening to them.

>>6409057

The whole point of that poll was it was done of non-Touhou fans, for the exact purpose of removing the bias of characters. There were a lot of very popular (among the fandom) songs that were very low on the list, and a few complete dark horses hit the top (Chen's stage theme).

I love MoF's music the best.

>>6409067
Chen's stage has a catchy vidya backbeat. Its under-rated.

>>6409067
>(Chen's stage theme)
Really? I always thought it was one of the more popular themes.

>>6409067
But, since they're not fans of Touhou, they obviously have no taste to begin with, so their opinions are invalid.

>>6409081

True, but it was never expected to get top (people expected something more "epic", like Native Faith, Reach for the Moon, etc). Or Remilia's theme, which is the most popular among Japanese fans, but only got like 25th or something in the poll of non-fans.

>>6409074
But it sounds too much like Muse arpeggios.

>>6409067

That's definitely interesting. And I can certainly see why people like those melodies. I play Touhou music whenever I'm driving, so friends do ask me about this or that song.

But, yeah, it's alright if I there are a few popular melodies that I don't care much for. I'm sure no one here really gives much of a rat's ass as to what I think.

>>6409044
I really, really like the stage 2, stage 3, and ex stage songs. They're so much fun.

MoF is my favorite.EoSD is second.
But honestly, it's like comparing them of score from 90/100 to 100/100.
There is no bad-music touhou I think.

>>6409088
Bah. Faith is for the Transient People is better than Native Faith anyway.

>>6408927
>This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

fuck you sony
another link?

>>6409125
Sound quality in the first 2 is really, really bad.

>>6409186

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8569663

>>6409217

Sylphid Dream for the best ending track, discuss.

IaMP.

SA if you only want to consider the danmaku games.

>>6409243
The rain stick is very relaxing; however, I would have to go with Mystic Dream for its mysticness.

>>6409273
IaMP only had Septette, Bloom Nobly, Evening Star, and Onigashima in Fairyland. Maybe Patchouli's themes, but I don't like those. The rest were sub-par, for the most part.

>>6409322
It also had those non-ZUN themes in between battles and stuff.

>>6409243
maybe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetMIxycwSk

>>6409342
Ah, but I don't consider those in the same category. True, they were nice, especially Broken Moon and Scarlet Night.

>>6409322

It also had Memory of Foregathering Dream, Maiden's Capriccio, Lunar Clock, Doll Judgment and Night Falls.

>>6409379
>Night Falls
>Evening Star

Hmm.

Maiden's Capriccio was so bad in IaMP. Flowering Night will always be Sakuya's best theme. Doll Judgement is just Alice.

>>6409395

>Maiden's Capriccio was so bad in IaMP.

I have to just plain disagree.

>>6409399
I agree to disagree.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody's originals were the best imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpimM9FF_cI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_wxBoHg0E&feature=related

Really hope the next fighting game they make has the same type of music

>>6409590
I've listened to those two songs so many times and still am not tired of them. Nobody ever arranges Iku's theme though ;_;

>>6409602
O-Life's disco arrange of it is pretty... fresh.

>>6409611
lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUy0JPjV4vA

That's still the only notable one I know of though.

1. IN
2. PCB
3. Rest

>>6409611
There's a disappointing lack of disco remixes other than that one.

>>6409633
Huh. It seems that in all my Touhou music I only have about 3 arrangements of her theme. I guess you're right.

Anyone who says anything other than PCB is the best is fundamentally incorrect.

I'm usually not so much of a hardass concerning opinions, but this is different.

>>6409649
Sorry, I'm not a fan of hearing loss.

>>6409649
nah take st4 theme from pcb and it's nowhere near IN. that one song is godlike though

I'd have to say PCB for the best all-rounder when it comes to the number of "good" tracks. The others had a few good songs here and there, but nowhere close to the count in PCB.
That being said, my favourite would have to be Shanghai Kouchakan remix in 12.3.

Unsurprisingly, SA is my favorite. I'm probably somewhat biased since I find it the most fun out of the main series STGs, but I can't think of a single track in the game that I skip over when listening to the soundtracks. Every other game has at least one or two tracks I skip over. Bonus points for Hartmann's Youkai Girl being simply amazing. As for the other main series Windows games:
2. UFO - Quirky and fresh.
3. IN - Great since I like ZUNpet. I can see why others would dislike it, though.
4. MoF - Solid, but I just don't like it quite as much as IN.
5. PCB - There's a few tracks here I just can't get into.
6. EoSD - There are some real gems, but sound quality takes EoSD straight to the bottom. My second favorite game, but being ZUN's first experience outside PC-98 sound makes for rather unpleasant listening outside the game. It's a shame really, since Locked Girl and Septette have so much potential.