Soleron that list is.... it's just awful. But I guess you probably expected that reaction.

I think my favorite song from Zelda.... absolute favorite.... hm.

I'll come back to this. Gotta do some soul searching.

Yes. I expected that reaction. However there are only about 150 video game tracks I think are worth listening to, and Zelda has 10 of them that I listed, so it's not bad. I've edited my post to say that it's my opinion, I never meant for you to read it as fact.

I also don't like any normal (with words) music. Not a single track. So my music taste is completely different to anyone who likes music, which appears to be everyone else.

No, hey, I completely understand: as I've said before, I read everything like that as opinion unless it's stated explicitly as fact (as in, if you were to say "Zelda only has ten good songs in the whole series, FACT"). And everybody's got their own tastes.

I wonder.....

Listen to this whole thing and tell me what you think (yes it is a crappy MIDI I am aware but it captures the spirit of the composition):

I was.... captivated by those dots...

@Khuutra

A collection of noise with occasional silences at odd moments. There's no melody, and no emotion or mental image conveyed by the music for me. And I don't think real orchestration would fix that (I mean, it's not the MIDI).

Okay, I was just curious.

If it's not too personal a question - I remember you mentioning once that you have a mild case of autism. Do you think there might be any correlation between that and the way in which you interpret music?

Then try it with real orchestration:

We are getting kind of off-topic with Bach, I was going to try to bring that back around to Zelda at some point

Possibly. I've never met anyone else with my condition in order to ask them.

Wow, ok off-topic


Anyway, I think Zelda music is very respectable. Ocarina is my favorite game soundtrack next to Chrono Trigger. But the music in Zelda games is very different than the music in something like a mainstream Final Fantasy game in that it's more atmospheric. Instead of big large orchestral pieces you get maybe a one instrument melody. That's not to say Zelda music isn't sufficiently epic.

My favorite tracks would be anything from Ocarina, the Great Deku Tree especially gets over-looked a lot but that's a great piece. I think Wind Waker and Twilight Princess both had equally good music, though they weren't as consistent as Ocarina or Majora's Mask.