My Yuki Kajiura playlist write-up

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A long time ago, I had collected all the Yuki Kajiura music I could get my hands on, and put it into a playlist, to rate and such.

Wow! I...actually finished my Yuki Kajiura playlist...it had 1,214 songs in it. Some of the albums were incomplete because I'd listened to them previously, and decided I didn't like enough songs to keep the whole thing. I also just now realized I should take out all the non-Kajiura theme songs and such. ^^; So if I include the songs I'd previously deleted, and exclude non-Kajiura theme songs and such, the count jumps up to 1,261. It took well over a year, and I still can't believe I'm done with it.

:sohappy: :sohappy: :sohappy: :sohappy: :ohoho: :ohoho: :ohoho: :ohoho: Ahem...anyway...

I found out that I like 37% of her music, I find 24% meh or alright to listen to once, and dislike 39%.

I'm disappointed to find I only like 1/3 of her music. I feel like a bad fan now.

Okay, now on to what I like and don't like.

I love just about anything vocal Kajiura puts out.

The soundtracks are another matter. They're a varied mottle of likes and dislikes, with no real rhyme or reason to them. If I were to listen to a new soundtrack, it could be gold, a dud, or anywhere in between. However, there are some soundtracks that stand out for me, either by being very good, or being very bad.

I am in love with the Noir OSTs, and always will be. Then again, I might be biased because I heard them first. I like the .hack//SIGN OSTs second-best, then Madlax.

My least favorite are the Kara no Kyoukai OSTs (seriously, all the good tracks could be condensed into one album), Xenosaga, and Madoka.

My favorite styles are: anything vocal, like I said, epic pieces like Salva Nos and Mezame, calm but not boring pieces like Corsican Corridor, creepy little pieces like System 0212 (from Eat-Man) and At Dawn, and ethnic-sounding pieces like Liar You Lie.

If anyone's actually bored enough, I've linked the text file I used as my playlist. It details exactly what I was thinking as I listened to each song.

Yuki Kajiura playlist

...Whew, I'm done! :blood:
 
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^ in case you havent noticed that Kara no Kyoukai album you are wishing for has already been released http://canta-per-me.net/discography/knk-collection, and you shoulfnt judge the Madoka soundtrack as a whole yet since the last volume releases in 10 days http://canta-per-me.net/discography/pmmm-ost3 which has 2 vocal tracks you are going to love.

Are you sure you have ALL of her works? since there's no way they are only 1261. Surely more than 2000 imo. :XD:

Also you seems to havent listened to the Aquarian age spheres songs http://canta-per-me.net/discography/sphere4 (Declaration of Aquarian Age, Fuyu no Seiza) as well as the Works for Soundtracks http://canta-per-me.net/discography/the ... soundtrack (disc 3 is splendid),
 
My Kajiura's folder has 1911 archives. xD
Some are albuns scans, though.
 
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george1234 said:
^ in case you havent noticed that Kara no Kyoukai album you are wishing for has already been released http://canta-per-me.net/discography/knk-collection,
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Oh? :confu: I think I did see it in the discography, but ignored it. :uh..:

george1234 said:
and you shoulfnt judge the Madoka soundtrack as a whole yet since the last volume releases in 10 days http://canta-per-me.net/discography/pmmm-ost3 which has 2 vocal tracks you are going to love.
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Does most of it sound like the first two soundtracks?

george1234 said:
Are you sure you have ALL of her works? since there's no way they are only 1261. Surely more than 2000 imo. :XD:
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I'm sure I don't. Some are too obscure to get. :uh..: But I tried my best.
 
This is a very good idea! :goodjob: I think everyone should do it...I'm definitely going to :ayashii:

EDIT

Also, I think you might enjoy some of the Kara no Kyoukai Music Collection tracks. (All of them are on Youtube.) They're much longer than the tiny unnamed tracks in the limited CDs, so they have more meat to them, so to speak. The first ten are good (albeit with a lot of FX sounds and such), but the next eight are (in my opinion) absolutely epic. Spiral, Everything Not Nothing, Into the Light, and Snow is Falling are basically my favorites. Rain Goes Up and Magician are also very good. And if you liked Bloody Rabbit from the Pandora Hearts OST, you'll probably like Paradigm too. Just my opinion, but the KnK OST (at least the version that's in the Music Collection) is the most moving one I've ever heard from Kajiura-sensei.

However, (in case you're reading this post first), KP-X tells me that the Music Collection tracks are basically a medley of the shorter M-tracks. So...you might not end up liking them after all :spotlight:

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Ooh, I see Kakurenbo is an 'absolute favorite' :waii: I adore that song to pieces!

If it's okay, I'm going to use your method (slightly modified) for rating my songs :ohoho:
 
But ninetales, the version from the Music Collection is basically a medley of the songs that were played in the movies. There is nearly no difference between the actual songs and the ones from the Collection (Good day the one I pre-ordered it :shy: ).
 
^ Oh, I didn't realize that! I was unimpressed by the M-tracks, but when I listened to the Music Collection version I fell in love with it...maybe it's the track lengths or something :XD:

Thanks for letting me know! I'll go quickly edit so I don't mislead anyone :ohoho:
 
I think some songs function better as a medley. If I cry, for example, is in my opinion, the best track from the CD, as far as we're taking into account the medley "system" into consideration. Many of the songs from the third movie flowed very well in the medley version, and since some of them aren't were standalone ones, they managed to shine in the medley. But, for example, you mentioned Spiral. It is the exact same thing as the original one (M23), with the exception that the audio quality is indeed better. But Paradigm (M24) had slight modifications that made it better than before.
 
I know, but they were just two tracks. I was talking about the fact that the KnK Collection doesn't have many differences when compared to the original songs.
 
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ninetales said:
However, (in case you're reading this post first), KP-X tells me that the Music Collection tracks are basically a medley of the shorter M-tracks. So...you might not end up liking them after all :spotlight:
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I dunno..I might try them out.

ninetales said:
Ooh, I see Kakurenbo is an 'absolute favorite' :waii: I adore that song to pieces!
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Yes, I love just about everything See-Saw puts out! I blame Chiaki. :shy:

ninetales said:
If it's okay, I'm going to use your method (slightly modified) for rating my songs :ohoho:
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OMG I'm flattered! Thanks! Sure, you can use it!
 
Okay, I finished my ratings tonight...I will summarize.

Out of the songs I rated: 19% are my all-time favorites (rated 5000), 30% are masterpieces (rated 5), 27% are outstanding (rated 4), 20% are average for Kajiura-sensei (rated 3), 1.6% are not very impressive (rated 2), and .002% are dislikeable (rated 1).

I gave a 2 to only 7 songs, and a 1 to only 1 song :XD:
 
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