Press Release:
The Final Fantasy X soundtrack is Nobuo Uematsu's second greatest work ever, under only the FFVII: Advent Children soundtrack. The FFX soundtrack four-disc collection has several utterly awesome pieces, but (having 91 tracks) there are also many boring background filler songs. However, the soundtrack is still a great four out of five.

With so many songs, a VERY wide variety of genres are covered. Uematsu uses many styles and attitudes throughout the game, even if the tracks are boring. The soundtrack is great if you enjoy not having the same style song after song.

Though it has its boring phases, the soundtrack makes a comeback with several awesome pieces. (Listen to the available clips of all these great pieces) First, "Zanarkand", (track 2, disc 1) a beautiful, emotional piano song performed by Seiji Honda. This is followed shortly after by "Otherworld," a hard rock song that even made me, a hard-rock detester, love it. The next classic is "The Sending," (track 2, disc 2) a very spiritual-sounding, somewhat hypnotic piece. Then comes "Seymour's Ambition," a song that... well, listen to it yourself (track 6, disc 3).

It's rather hard to desribe. Then we come upon a calm, traditional Japanese-sounding arrangement of the beautiful, overflowing-with-emotion "Suteki Da Ne," (track 21, disc 3) performed by Rikki (full name: Ritsuki Nakano). This arrangement is inferior to the orchestral one, however.

Disc four has three great classics on it. "Seymour Omnis," (track 15, disc 4) is a pumped-up electric-sounding final battle piece. After that comes the "Ending Theme," a beautiful orchestral score piece that is (just like many FFX tracks) wonderfully emotional. After that comes my favorite song on the entire soundtrack: "Suteki Da Ne," the orchestral version (track 21, disc 4). I cannot describe how emotional this song is, so I won't try. All I can say is that the clip Amazon has doesn't show its power very well at all, since it's the chorus that's the best.

This soundtrack has many other good tracks, and many other bad tracks. But the good, the great, and the totally awesome end up defeating the bad. I definitely recommend this soundtrack.