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Vee-Tee
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True. You also sometimes get these absolutely massive collector's boxes with every single song/bit of interstitial music... like with this big Sailor Moon Memorial Box that they have on sailormusic.net.
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Lord Starfish
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I think the most annoying case I've seen of this was not on an anime soundtrack, but the soundtracks to The Lord of the Rings. Now in that case, a truly complete soundtrack was released, aptly named The Complete Recordings... but it was a limited edition release way back when the movies were still new, and is pretty much impossible to get a hold of (physically, at least. I just checked after writing the massive rant below and found that it is apparently available on iTunes... Return of the King at least) nowadays. Back when I decided I wanted the soundtracks for these movies, I had no idea this set existed, so I just bought the single-disc soundtrack releases I found at the local store...
Return of the King's soundtrack left out several of my favorite pieces, most notably the theme that plays when Theoden's army rides into battle at Pelennor Fields (I mean it contains the music that plays when they enter the scene, but it cuts away to something entirely different just as the truly good part would start in the movie) and the music that plays when the ring is destroyed. Like, seriously? The moment the entire trilogy has been building up to and you couldn't give buyers of the standard-edition OST the music for it? What's even more ridiculous is that "The End of All Things", the track where you'd assume this piece would be found... contains like three minutes straight of music that isn't in the movie at all. Why. And then there's the fact that basically none of the music presented on the soundtrack matches up with how it is in the movie, like how the track "The White Tree" has this really big dramatic buildup near the end... where the final beat hits a much higher key on the CD than it actually does in the movie (which also renders the movie version sounding underwhelming by comparison but that's neither here nor there)... I mean I guess it's still better than most cases in that the complete soundtrack was released, but it still bothers me that the version I actually got, and basically the only version I can buy on CD these days, doesn't even have half the music. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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I do remember one particular case that was dicsussed, I think on Usenet, years ago - there was one piece of BGM from Chobits (that I myself was also rather fond of) that wasn't on any of the CDs for the show. The same track was, bizarrely, available on the CDs for X - but with two different monologues over it.
CD Audio is uncompressed, so a direct bitrate comparison is meaningless. iTunes have also never used MP3 to my knowledge; they currently use AAC (originally with DRM but now without, although last time I tried using the Japanese iTunes store their files still had DRM and were also still at the lower pre-"iTunes Plus" bitrate). |
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writerpatrick
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The Return of the King animated movie soundtrack was a mess. There was a Disney record but it left out all the songs. |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13549 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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Since this is a music-related rights issue, one recent approach I saw is a small step to addressing this. Tokyo Otaku Mode's YT channel has a 6/7 video called "Message from Megumi Ogata (Long ver.) - Animeg. 25th*". She explained that she wanted to crowdfund a project that would allow for a simultaneously release of her music to fans inside/outside of Japan and to bring attention to how the entertainment industry is doing in/out of Japan. She also did a Reddit AMA the day after ago and also brought this project up. She noted that she's working with a translator and that could mean a delay in replies or that things get lost in translation.
About that crowdfund: Using a Kickstarter-style site called "Tokyo Mirai Mode, the ""Animeg. 25th" Megumi Ogata 25th Seiyuu Debut Anniversary Project" project would feature music from several of her shows/movies she's been in. While the project ended on 7/10, she raised $32,297.00 on a $25,000 budget. *In the Reddit thread, she mentioned her 25th anni. as a voice actor is on 10/10. |
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1817 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Or Kimagure Orange Road: Singing Heart². |
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omiya
 Posts: 1825 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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Answerman wrote:
Indeed. Some Yuki Kajiura fans go through the complete series of an anime identifying pieces of music that don't appear in official soundtracks. Some music ends up on later releases (e.g. .hack//EXTRA CD containing tracks not on the .hack//SIGN OST 1 and 2), some are still unreleased. It appears that the composers and/or record companies do notice an awareness from fans of unreleased soundtrack music and sometimes release additional soundtrack collections later. So making it known to the composers and record companies (maybe via twitter, or face-to-face as the companies themselves appear to be brick walls as far as accepting customer feedback). Also, some soundtracks are released as double CD's initially (e.g. Norn9 anime OST although one needs to buy CD singles to get the full length versions of the OP and ED). |
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GuruBuckaroo
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This may be the answer to one of the biggest soundtrack mysteries I've encountered. My favorite OP/ED song from Eureka 7, Sakura by Nirgilis, isn't available in any legal form I can find. I've looked at soundtrack releases, for Nirgilis singles/releases, and I'm stuck with a converted Youtube download because I can't find a legal way to buy the damned song. Take my damned money, people! |
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Toxic_Cancer_DG
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I've heard some of the second soundtrack but didn't notice any from what I heard. I know that couple of those artists are with Sony the best at taking down the YouTube songs I want to hear so I'd assume they want the big bucks, whatever the case ill probably get the OSTs as the show had a ton of good tracks regardless of if the OPs/EDs are included
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omiya
Posts: 1825 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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See https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000E1NXV8 - used copies are available. Japanese used CD's are often indistinguishable from new copies except having been opened. You can use a proxy buyer like fromjapan to buy used copies from amazon.co.jp resellers. There are still titles that aren't available secondhand from amazon.co.jp resellers but it's a good start to finding out-of-print titles. |
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Beefy
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There's some BGM songs from Cowboy Bebop and Naruto that I've been looking for that never got released on the OSTs. They still taunt me to this day.
You can also find the song on the Eureka Seven Complete Best album, which collected all the theme songs on one disc. JP UPC: 4-580163-590168 US UPC: 6-69198-20817-1 |
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Unicorn_Blade
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Oh Wolf's Rain- it has this great tune that is done a few times throughout the show in different arrangements, NONE on either of the albums. Someone put it up on youtube by cutting the piece from the series and removing the noise/other sounds that played, which saved me from having to rewatch certain bits of the show over and over just to listen to it. |
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