My favorite anime when it comes to theme songs/soundtrack would definitely be Naruto. It's countless openings, well only about 4 in English and at least 10 in Japanese, are actually really good songs that can be listened to ever day. In most cases the full version is also pretty cool, sometimes even better then the what they use with the show. The ending songs which are rarely as good as the openings in most animes, and all seem to be rather melancholy in this case, actually contains one or two pretty good tunes.
My personal favorite out of all the openings would have to be the newest one with Naruto Shippuden, "Heroes Come Back." I think the beat and the interchanging voices is really awesome when paired up with anime and by itself. The full version with all 3 minutes also outweighs the shorter clip any day. Another good one that is almost a classic by now and a favorite of almost every naruto fan would be "Haruka Kanata" by the Asian Kung-fu Generation. Unfortunately for me and all fans AKfG's CD is no longer distributed in the U.S., at least not by the Virgin Mega Store in Times Square. Sigh the trials of a fan.
Luckily these songs alone can be downloaded as MP3's from various sites. One of the best
being http://www.narutofan.com/, which has all openings for all the seasons and the first 3 movies, as well as the endings and the background music by Toshiro Masuda that's used in almost every episode. One warning though, these songs don't actually have lyrics, it's all instrumental. So, when somethings called Orochimaru's theme it's actually just an organ/drums and a lot of other scary music used in the scene when he's being creepy in the forest of death. With this sight you do have create an account and join, but it's free and from personal experience they don't really care whether or not you participate in anything. So, this is probably your best bet for getting quick and easy naruto themes. Oh, and in the newest Shippuden ending, they're all in school uniforms, which is a little off topic but still cool.
My personal favorite out of all the openings would have to be the newest one with Naruto Shippuden, "Heroes Come Back." I think the beat and the interchanging voices is really awesome when paired up with anime and by itself. The full version with all 3 minutes also outweighs the shorter clip any day. Another good one that is almost a classic by now and a favorite of almost every naruto fan would be "Haruka Kanata" by the Asian Kung-fu Generation. Unfortunately for me and all fans AKfG's CD is no longer distributed in the U.S., at least not by the Virgin Mega Store in Times Square. Sigh the trials of a fan.
Luckily these songs alone can be downloaded as MP3's from various sites. One of the best
being http://www.narutofan.com/, which has all openings for all the seasons and the first 3 movies, as well as the endings and the background music by Toshiro Masuda that's used in almost every episode. One warning though, these songs don't actually have lyrics, it's all instrumental. So, when somethings called Orochimaru's theme it's actually just an organ/drums and a lot of other scary music used in the scene when he's being creepy in the forest of death. With this sight you do have create an account and join, but it's free and from personal experience they don't really care whether or not you participate in anything. So, this is probably your best bet for getting quick and easy naruto themes. Oh, and in the newest Shippuden ending, they're all in school uniforms, which is a little off topic but still cool.
(The above photo is from http://www.gameguru.in/images/naruto-clash-of-ninjas-wii.jpg)
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