Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack [Soundtrack, Import, Limited Edition]

Final Fantasy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 20, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Soundtrack, Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Sbme Import
• ASIN: B0000506ZD
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,410 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Brahne's Appearance

2. World Flags

3. Escape From Alexandria

4. Prima Vista Crash

5. Petrification of Blank

6. Black Mage Vs. Black Mage

7. Breaking Through South Gate

8. Arrival In Lindblum Kingdom

9. Zidane and Dagger

10. Kuja Leaves Burmecia

11. Summoned Beast Destroys Cleyra

12. Lindblum In Flames

13. Lindblum Annihilation

14. The Disappearing Mist

15. Dagger's Recollection (Village of The Summoners Destroyed)

16. Summoning Bahamut

17. Annihilation of Brahne's Fleet

18. Birth of The New Queen

19. Bahamut Raid

20. Eiko Descends

See all 42 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Japanese soundtrack for the popular video game. 110 tracks on 4 discs. Includes sheet music for the track 'Melodies Of Life' & a 12 page booklet with screen shots from the game. Packaged in a standard double jewelcase in a slipcase.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Soundtrack for an Excellent Game, June 20, 2003

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"artscrafter" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Uematsu's music (known for all previous Final Fantasy games) has always been a favorite of mine. Final Fantasy IX takes a step back from the more modern-styled 7 and 8, and the music reminisces of earlier games. The victory fanfare (disc 1 track 19) returns to the original tune, and the battle theme (1.18) starts with the familiar rhythmic bass line. Also included are two new renditions of the Chocobo theme (2.8 and 2.9) and the "prelude" (4.23) which is played, ironically, at the end of the game.

Also worth mentioning is Gulug Mountain (3.25), which is a clever remix of one of the tunes from FF1, done largely in synth tones (possibly to hint at the more primitive origins of game music.) This is the track which, when I heard it in the game, immediately made me decide that I had to have this soundtrack.

The soundtrack covers many different styles, with four or five strong themes as the central focus. (Don't be put off though, not every track is based on one of a handful of themes.) Moods range from apprehensive to excited, from mysterious to just plain whimsical (for example, the "Black Mage Village" track, 3.6, which is punctuated occasionally by hooting sounds, or "Turning Frog," 3.23, which sounds like you might hear it at a ballpark.)

The song for the final boss, typically one where the composer goes all out, certainly lives up to many of its predecessors. This often plays right after the music for a scene in which the final boss explains its motives (which this particular boss seemed sorely lacking; the FF9 boss reminds me of the Mana Dragon in "Secret of Mana" in that both show up after you've beaten the villain you've been going for throughout most of the game, and neither really has a sensible reason to be there other than having another boss) and you get to pick your characters. Uematsu decided to lead this song into the boss tune, which has a cool effect in the game but means that in the soundtrack, it takes a while to get to the part that's actually the boss battle music within its track.

Those of you who like to examine music closely will notice some particularly clever intricacies in this soundtrack. My favorite example is "The Hilda Garde," Disc 4 Track 1. One almost has to be wearing headphones to catch that the instrument that does the arpeggios in the background starts out in the center but quickly pans further and further out to the left and right in a manner that is vaguely suggestive of the motion of a propeller starting up. (Keep in mind that this is the airship theme.)

There are some tracks in the set that don't go particularly well by themselves, but that's what you get in a more or less complete soundtrack. (It even has the music that plays when your party goes to sleep; the track is 9 seconds long.) I say "more or less" complete because a few tracks are not in this collection. For the music from the cutscenes, or Eiko's theme with the "Melodies of Life" song layered in, for example, you will need to buy the "PLUS" CD. On the other hand, Disc 4 of this item includes two tracks (24 and 25) that use the Melodies tune as backgrounds for what were apparently Coca-Cola commercials, though thankfully (or not, depending on what you're looking for) any speech in the ads has been removed.

If I have one complaint about the soundtrack, it's that the cutoffs could have been done better. In other game soundtracks, the tunes that repeat themselves go on for a relatively fixed number of times before fading out. In this soundtrack, it seems they were trying to make most tracks approximately the same length; as a result, some music loops three or four times while other tracks cut off shortly after it goes back to the repeat point. However, it's not entirely fair to blame the composer for writing for a medium that's inherently difficult to translate into a soundtrack. Technical issues aside, the music is characteristic of some of Uematsu's best (a category which, in my opinion, now includes several pieces in this soundtrack.)

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best FF sound track ever (exept 5 and 6), March 6, 2001

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"milamber12345" (Kennebunk, Maine United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack (Audio CD)

this is definetly worth the money i suggest to any Final Fantasy that u buy this as soon as possible. Here's a list of the songs because it doesn't say in english on the soundtrack.The soundtrack has 4 discs of pure Final fantasy pleasure. here are the songs DISC ONE 1. The Place I'll Return to Someday 17. Awakened Forest 2. Memories Erased in the Storm 18. Battle 1 3. Battle Strategy Conference 19. Fanfare 4. The Skies of Alexandria 20. Memories of that Day 5. Vivi's Theme 21. Battle 2 6. Feel my Blade 22. Game Over 7. Vamo' alla flamenco 23. RUN! 8. Decisive Action - Search for the Princess - 24. Goodnight 9. Jesters of the Moon 25. Crossing those Hills 10. Steiner's Theme 26. Ice Caverns 11. Prima Vista Band 27. Frontier Village Dali 12. Stolen Eyes 28. Far Away in the Twilight 13. Tonight 29. Reckless Steiner 14. Your Warmth 30. Limited Time 15. Mistaken Love 31. Zidane's Theme 16. Queen of the Abyss 32. Black Waltz DISC TWO 1. Cid's Theme 14. A Face Unforgotten 2. One Danger Put Behind Us... 15. Kuja's Theme 3. Lidbulm 16. The Sword of Doubt 4. Song of Memories 17. Sleepless City Treno 5. Hunter's Chance 18. Theme of the Tantalus 6. Qu's Marsh 19. Immoral Melody 7. Quina's Theme 20. Garnet's Theme 8. Aloha de Chocobo 21. Gargan Roo 9. Ukule le Chocobe 22. Cleyra's Trunk 10. Freija's Theme 23. Cleyra Settlement 11. At the South Gate Border 24. Eternal Harvest 12. Fairy Battle 25. Grieve for the Skies 13. Burmecian Kingdom 26. Extraction DISC THREE 1. Ambush Attack 14. We are Thieves! 2. Loss of Me 15. Slew of Love Letters 3. Fossil Roo 16. Quad Mist 4. Mountain Pass - Conde Petie 17. Mogri's Theme 5. Black Mage Village 18. Protecting my Devotion 6. Unfathomed Reminiscence 19. The Chosen Summoner 7. Ceremony for the Gods 20. Keeper of Time 8. Eiko's Theme 21. Oeilvert 9. Ruins of Madain Sari 22. A Transient Past 10. Walls of the Sacred Beasts 23. The Sneaky Frog and the Scoundrel 11. Lifa Tree 24. Esto Gaza 12. Salamander's Theme 25. Gurugu Volcano 13. Footsteps of Desire 26. The Heart of Melting Magic DISC FOUR 1. The Airshipt, Hildagaldy 14. Crystal World 2. Secret Library Daguerreo 15. Dark Messenger 3. Ipsen's Heritage 16. Final Battle 4. The Four Medallions 17. Bittersweet Romance 5. Successive Battles 18. Hidden Lips 6. Terra 19. I Want to be Your Bird 7. Bran Bal, The Village Without Souls 20. Two Hearts not Captured 8. Pandemonium, The Castle Frozen in Time 21. Towards that Gate 9. You're not Alone! 22. Melodies of Life - Final Fantasy 10. Passing Sorrow 23. Prelude 11. The Evil Mist's Rebirth 24. CCJC TVCM 15" (Coca-Cola Commercial) 12. Assault of the White Dragons 25. CCJC TVCM 30" (Coca-Cola Commercial) 13. Place of Memory 26. Melodies of Life (The Layers of Harmony)

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unlike anything else..., February 6, 2001

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"grunka" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack PLUS (Audio CD)

The Final Fantasy IX OST is perhaps the best video game soundtrack ever. From the first track to the last.It includes everything from the opening theme song to Melodies of Life. From the first track to the last, this soundtrack is unlike anything else.Composed by Nobuo Uematsu; famous for composing Final Fantasy I to IX's soundtrack. Nobuo's work is always great, and this game falls under the same patern.If you enjoy Final Fantasy IX or the music, be sure to pick up this masterpeice.