(Ôpuningu) Sûpâ Butôden no TÊMA
(Opening) Super Butôden Theme

(Batoru Sutêji 8) Seru Kanzentai no TÊMA
(Battle Stage 8) Cell's Perfect-Form Theme

Now, I'm not a huge "techno" fan, but I find myself oddly enjoying this CD to its fullest extent. One thing that those of you with musical ears will notice is that each individual character's theme actually has the same kind of base rhythm to it, which is then expanded upon by an individual melody. It's something quite interesting, and allows each one to be distinct, yet flow into each other well. There's a really nice deal of character voice sampling, as well (Freeza's is especially fun). I can't really pick any specific track I like the most, because they're actually all very good. I highly suggest checking out this disc. With all the character voices, it will probably appeal to you even if you haven't played the game before.

Extra Information:
All tracks produced by "HYPER MONOLITH"

Ôpuningu
Opening

Suite:2 Fainaru Batoru ~ Endingu
Suite:2 Final Battle ~ Ending

This is definitely a CD you need to purchase. Even if you haven't played the game, the songs are just so wonderful, you'll fall in love with them immediately (and if you *have* played the game, they'll mean all that more to you).

While Zangya's and Bojack's themes leave much to be desired, the other eight tracks more than make up for it. The "Main Theme" is the song heard upon starting up the game, as Gohan flies towards Kami-sama's palace. Vegeta's theme is a funky-techno type track. Son Gohan's theme is a very long piano solo, and is quite stunning. Piccolo's theme has some nice hints to the "James Bond"theme. Cell's theme is a complete and utter rip-off of Pink Floyd's "One of These Days," but is also wonderful :P. Trunks' theme is probably the star of the disc; it starts out with a nice piano intro, and soon moves into a full, hyper theme. Both suites are performed by an orchestra. God, buy this disc.

(NOTE: this image is of a bootleg copy)

OVERTURE ~Semaru!! "Tenka-ichi Budôkai"~
Overture: Drawing near!! The "Tenka-ichi Budôkai"~

FINALE~[Kyô Senshi BEJÎTA] Power up version~
FINALE~[Evil Warrior Vegeta] Power up version~

This disc I'm not so sure on how I lean. There's a cool remix of Trunks' Super Butoden theme, and the Tenka-ichi Budôkai theme is really nice, but beyond that.. I'm not sure. If you enjoy the game, by all means, pick up the CD. If you enjoyed the first two Butôden soundtracks, you might want to look into this one, even though it seems to head in a different musical direction. Perhaps only as a curiosity may you look into it...

Son Gokû no Tabidachi
Son Gokuu's Embarkation

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Extra Information:
Music Composition/Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto

Kakusei-hen - OUPUNINGU TÊMA
Awakening Volume - Opening Theme
(SFC Edition from "Chô Gokû Den ~Kakusei Hen~" Powerful Arrange Version)

Well... the CD cover image seems to share that with Super Gokû Den 2, but a brief look at the (Japanese) track listing on the back lets us know that it's not quite the soundtrack for that game... it's that and much more.

As for the music on it... damn, it's very good. It actually appears to be a mixture of music from some of the Super Famicom and Sony PlayStation games. Track 3 has some revisions of some fun tunes later used in Final Bout, first making appearances in the 16-bit games. Some appear to be directly off of some other soundtracks (Hyper Dimension OST?). Track 19 is simply Kuko and Kageyama Hironobu conversing with each other, which leads into the final (20th) track, a karaoke version of a duet between the two.

One of the highlight tracks, of course, is the full-length vocal version of "Hikari no WILLPOWER", Future Trunks' theme from all of the 32-bit video games.

Shin Butôden no TÊMA
Shin Butoden's Theme

BEJÎTA no TÊMA
Vegeta's Theme

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"Gaiden" Main Theme

I finally got my hand on a copy of this CD, and wish I hadn't. The "OVA" (rather, video game footage spliced together to appear like an OVA, if you've actually got it on video) isn't all that good, to begin with, and the music is just as bad. It's completely different from what you hear in the TV series; it seems to all be electronically synthesized. It's just not good stuff. If you're going to buy it, make sure you sell it to some dope that doesn't know any better on eBay for more than YOU paid for it.

Eien no Yakusoku - Ôbâchua
Eternal Promise - Overture

Suite Gonin no Chôsenshi
Suite: The 5 Super-Warriors

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Prologue

Crisis (POWERFUL ARRANGE VERSION)