I'm a bit hooked on "Earth as a Character Gallery".  It's got that heavy rock underlayer and it has the sense of being slightly out of control.  Perfect for Shiori's duel.

And then there are the choir bells right in the middle.

I'm also a fan of "Angelic Creation, Namely Light" as well as Juri's duel song from Adolescence.  Then again, I am a Juri fan.  So there you go.

OST 7 does have a special place where my heart goes, now that you mention it. I generally prefer Revival Record of Rose Egg to Rose is Rain. Same for the two movie duels. Though my first love from 7 is actually Oceanic Moon Dies In Indigo.

And now I'm sitting around retagging/fixing all the tags for my Utena music collection. ;

Giovanna wrote:

Oh god, Oceanic Moon is one of my favorites. Was the first one I looped for hours at a time like an idiot.

I also really like We Who Have Cast Ourselves Aside Become Fallen Angels, but yeah, throw a song like that at someone with an interest in apocryphia and angels. I'm also hooked on Absolute Delusion, but it reminds me of Akio, so go figure.

Haha. I dig the dancing smiley~

We Who Have Cast Ourselves Aside... is a fun one. I knew a girl who was really into angelic lore. Whenever anything depicted angels she () would always go on about all the particular details that were WRONG. ;;;;



....I have to say, this disk is particularly guilty of Giving Our Songs Obscenely Long Names.

Garnet wrote:

For me, "I Am an Imaginary Living Body" and "Internal Clock, Municpal Orrery" tie for favorite - the first because Mikage's duel is one of my favorite moments in the series, and the second for the eerieness of the lyrics, especially the first verse. Juri's choruses also have a special place in my heart, simply because her duels always manage to bring the awesome.

And OST 7 is probably my favorite of all the OSTs - I think I must listen to it about twice as often as any of the others. It definitely deserves more props.

Who dosent love the internal clock? Whenever i hear it, i get like mad images of anthy and what may be going on inside that crazy head of hers

Simple?  I'm racking my brain here trying to figure out my favorite!

Utopian Past Tense Incarnation is a good one, I like the "10, 2, 1, 0.. take off!" bit, just because it's so goofy.  Inside the Body of the Paleozoic Era and Supira Mirabirisu Theater are good ones too.

I've also got a soft spot for the two movie choruses... Resurrection! Never Ending History of the Middle Ages and Constellations αψζ Galaxy.  That whole movie is an audiovisual feast for me.

I like the duel version, but the Maki Kamiya version of Virtual Star Embryology is one of my favorite theme songs too.

OST 4 is one of my favorites, and I desperately hope Geneon gets at least #7 over here (and #3, that was a glaring omission).

And wow... typing the chorus titles really does take a while.

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Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:

Simple?  I'm racking my brain here trying to figure out my favorite!

Utopian Past Tense Incarnation is a good one, I like the "10, 2, 1, 0.. take off!" bit, just because it's so goofy.  Inside the Body of the Paleozoic Era and Supira Mirabirisu Theater are good ones too.

I've also got a soft spot for the two movie choruses... Resurrection! Never Ending History of the Middle Ages and Constellations αψζ Galaxy.  That whole movie is an audiovisual feast for me.

I like the duel version, but the Maki Kamiya version of Virtual Star Embryology is one of my favorite theme songs too.

OST 4 is one of my favorites, and I desperately hope Geneon gets at least #7 over here (and #3, that was a glaring omission).

And wow... typing the chorus titles really does take a while.

I love all the songs that are like 10 2 1 0 take off! you know vanish fade away and tsuwabuki's duel ( did i spell his name right)

I'll always hold a special place in my heart for Mikage's duel music. It hits me harder than the others and is one of the few duels I might actually listen to in the company of my friends (no offense Seazer, your music tends to earn me strange looks sometimes ;;;). Plus, it totallygets your adrenaline pumping. If Utena was an RPG, then Mikage's would be the traditional "boss" music. /geek

I also really like Juri's second chorus. It feels "grungier" than the others, and it also always reminds me of the awesomeness that is her duel. I even bop to the repetitive looped drumming at the very end.

Counting only the tracks that appeared on screen, "I Am An Imaginary Living Body," "Allegory, Allegorier, Allegoriest" and "The Angel Androgynous" are my top 3.

If you count all the OSTs, though... for one, I find the Universal Gravitation versions of earlier songs so much better than the originals, so add a good part of OST4 to that list. "Adolescence Apocalypse" especially, while not strictly speaking a chorus, is one of the greatest things I've ever heard. It gets insanely funny looks from people, too.
And I'll add to the love for OST7. It's made of win and awesome.

Then again, I'm a sad, sad fangirl who worships the ground Seazer walks on.

Tamago wrote:

Anyhow, I have several Utena tracks stored in my MP3 player and offhand I would have to say that Astrolagous Chikyuu Sugoroku is by far my favourite duelling track despite the fact that it was never actually used in the series.

I hereby vow to go through the translated tracks on OST 7 and post a thread wherein we all assign characters to them!

It can be the Utena OVA that never happened.

Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:

I like the duel version, but the Maki Kamiya version of Virtual Star Embryology is one of my favorite theme songs too.

Though it's very hard for me to make my top favourite songs list, I'd have to agree with the statement above.
My other favourites include the duel songs from the Student Council arc (especially Juri's and Saionji's), I also love "Yomigaere! Mukyuu no Reikishi Chuusei yo" and "Tainai Tokei Toshi Oruroi". OST 7 is very interesting, if my winamp would show me the English titles instead of the Japanese ones (which are hard to memorieze), I could list my favourites from that too. But it doesn't matter so much, since Seazer's music is very very good.

Giovanna wrote:

Tamago wrote:

Anyhow, I have several Utena tracks stored in my MP3 player and offhand I would have to say that Astrolagous Chikyuu Sugoroku is by far my favourite duelling track despite the fact that it was never actually used in the series.

I hereby vow to go through the translated tracks on OST 7 and post a thread wherein we all assign characters to them!

It can be the Utena OVA that never happened.

Astrolagous Chikyuu Sugoroku has that duelling with the Big Bad feel to it, well thats how I feel about it at least.

It would be interesting to see which unused 'duelling songs' are matched up with whom.

Sephigirl wrote:

FYI

For track titles to the OST's - in Romanji and English - refer y'all to DQ's SKU site where she picked up Anj's SKU OST page -
http://www.deathquaker.org/utena/ost_index.html

Anj put a lot of work in trying to get the best translation, so I'm glad, when she was going to lose her host - it was saved.

You have totally made my day.