Released "selections" of music

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Released "selections" of music

Post by kenisu3000 » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:21 pm

The TOEI score is simply breathtaking, and I have probably all of the DBZ music that has been released on CD (The 5-disc Daizenshu set, the two Ongakushu, the soundtracks to Movies 10 and 11, and the DragonBall Saikyo e no Michi soundtrack).
This may not be an answerable question, but I want to WHY on earth TOEI hasn't released a complete soundtrack to the entire series, not missing a single solitary piece. Now would be a great time to do it, since DragonBall has re-grown its popularity in Japan. Don't get me wrong, I love the selections on my CDs, but there's SO many more great pieces that are missing from these collections.
My absolute, complete and total favorite piece isn't even on one of these CDs! The first time I (consciously) heard it was at the beginning of the episode just after Goku launches his 10X Kaio-ken Kamehameha on Freeza, only to discover it had no effect at all. Freeza and Goku float there in the air, sizing each other up (Freeza is shocked to realize that this is no ordinary Saiyan), and all the while this amazing score sets up the mood perfectly. It's mainly pounding drums, but there are a few other instruments. Again, this was the first time I had consciously heard it, and so as a result I thought it had been composed for this scene solely (because it fits SO WELL!) but then I got the King Piccolo Saga pt. 1 DVD set, and it played when Kame Sennin tells Piccolo Daimao his master was Mutaito-sama!
Second on my list is from Movie 6, when Goku and Vegeta look up to see hundreds of Meta-Coolers standing on the ridge, but it seems to fit a whole lot better in episode 160 when the Z-senshi are silently gawking at Perfect Cell for the first time. It brings out the hopelessness of the situation, and it's a grand loss that it isn't on CD.

Before these, though, there was of course the infamous "Duh duh duh" song, but then I discovered the Ongakushu CDs.
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Post by Ash » Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:53 am

Hmm. Even Saint Seiya got their music re-released these last years in the "Perfect Files" series, and they're not simply re-releases of the old soundtracks, I think every bit of BGM of the series of Saint Seiya has been released now on CD.

So Dragon Ball should get that treatment too! I really love the BGM's....
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Post by kenisu3000 » Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:57 pm

Isn't it torture?
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