Favorite anime OST's?

[Gaxtry]

Obviously the best OST is the What's New Scooby-Doo theme

Okay bad joke aside. I enjoy Earth Maiden Arjuna ost

[VibrantFox]

Seconding the Cowboy Bebop OST

Also pretty fond of Durarara, Nichijou, Sword Art Online, Mekakucity Actors (the anime and the Kagerou Project related albums), The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star.

I'll likely refer back to this thread for refs myself

[bear1]

I adore the ‘Attack on Titan’ OSTs. They are so amazing to listen to, especially if you need shit to get done.
‘My hero academia’ is a great choice too and I also like the old Sailor Moon OSTs (first two seasons of the japanese OST, not the American one with the pop songs)

[indagold]

This hands down. And made in abyss:

[CodeMonkeyArts]

Not a specific soundtrack either but anything from Yuki Kajiura. Off the top of my head, I know she did something from .hack and the one for Noir.

And Madoka Magica, and Noir's sister series, Madlax and El Cazador, and MaiHIME and all of its spawn, which are kind of trashy anime but have incredible soundtracks~. There are probably more I've heard of that I can't remember; the lady works hard! ^^

Yuki Kajiura is just...ugh fantastic. I LOVE her music. Madoka OST is awesome.

I also love Yoko Kanno and her music of Escaflowne.

My favorite OSTs though are Kill La Kill OST, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and Attack on Titan.

[PaulDevers]

Doesn't get more badass to me than One-Punch Man, honestly.

Or I go to good ol' DBZ when I'm nostalgic.

[nostalgicroxas]

I enjoy a lot of different anime but music wise for who has utilized it best to control the mood versus the action you're seeing without it being a disappointing trope: Gungrave fits really well. Another would be Gad Guard, but it is very niche for music. Oddly I didn't super enjoy the music in Princess Tutu, even though I love the main scores they used (Black Swan). One anime that I recall being oddly silent and music is used only to create a mood for the viewer would be a more recent show: Tsuritama (if you enjoyed it, look up the soundtrack for Towa no Quon). I think it's because I'm on the older spectrum of anime watching, so to me a show like Blue Exorcist uses a lot of music tropes that were found in other, older, earlier, shounen shows - like Yu Yu Hakusho; I love Blue Exorcist, but it's music was not nearly as unique as Soul Eater (season 1 especially). A final mention would be Jing: King of Bandits, a rather shortlived anime with a lot of reusing of music, but it was very well done.

[DualDragons]

Yes, i'm glad I made this topic!
So many new anime OST's that I have yet to listen to but it's totally worth it!

[akemikae]

I have quite a few that are favorites,

-Persona 4 (I'm counting this as an ANIME OST even though technically most the music is from the game, lol)
-Banana Fish (Especially the opening and closing songs, omg, but like, literally every song at any time is so good?)
-Psycho Pass (Once again, open and ending songs SLAP)
-Owari No Seraph (....OP and END SLAP)
-Project K (Hnnnnng, why does everything sound so good though)
-Gangsta (...I'm beginning to see a trend of me liking anime OST's that revolve around gangs?)
-Lovely Complex (It's so fun and upbeat)
-This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (it's so pretty my guy)
-Prince of Stride (OP SLAPS)

....That is all I can think of at the moment.

[nixxusnibelheim]

Nice topic ! I'll try some of y'all recommendation !

-Megalo Box and Kekkai Sensen are definitely looping at my place.
-When I'm in a specific mood I have Paprika on a loop too.
-Also recently I got into Carole & Tuesday, the full soundtrack isn't out yet but just hearing in the anime I know it's going to be nice! (created by Shinichiro Watanabe, samurai champloo, cowboy bebop, the bladerunner short, you know it's good...)

[nostalgicroxas]

Dang I forgot Project K- super unique music in that gorgeous baby.
FREE! was also really creative.

[nauko]

Tsubasa chronicles ost (one of yuki kajiura's, gl finding it though haha) , violet evergarden ost, and just to toss things up this really obscure anime called ikoku meiro no croisee has a really amazing ost composed by a bomb classical music trio group called ko-ko-ya. I highly recommend that ost and any other albums you can get by them, i have always been able to work perfectly with one of their tracks playing.

[Tanzer]

I'd recommend pretty much anything by composer Kenji Kawai. He composed for the original Ghost in the Shell movie, Higurashi no naku koro ni and most recently Mob Psycho 100.

[sushy00]

OMG YES
LIKE THIS ONE:

[01-997]

...legendary...iconic...shissou ohshc still slaps

aaand i will ALWAYS love the osts to flcl....i love the pillows so much!!!

[dawgofdawgness]

Some jazz anime.

And the meguka soundtrack, which is pretty famous cause it's so good.

The soul eater ost is questionable but I do like this track.

I haven't decided on whether or not I like Carole and Tuesday but I really like this song

[ar-ninetysix]

Carole and Tuesday's all about music, how'd I forget?! The music is so damn diverse, and pretty good! Skip's song Unrequited Love and Carole and Tuesday's Army of Two have been my favorites so far~

[Lucca_Vendramel]

Weeeeeell...

[SuperRazz]

Fool! How could you forget the mermaid sisters?!

[ar-ninetysix]

I'll be real, I'm trying to block that out of my memories lol

As soon as I saw it, I knew it'd get turned into an meme for people to be like "when your mom lets you play a song with cussing in it" and just playing that clip even if they've never seen the show.. so it's like "ughhh this is gonna be cringe in a few weeks" was my reaction lol