Anime Music Recommendations?Follow

I received an MP3 player for Christmas and--having never really listened to much music before--I'm having a little difficulty filling it. Currently I have 75 songs, the majority of which are already from anime/games/movies. I was hoping for some suggestions that I may have overlooked.

A small provision, I prefer to listen to more iconic/recognizable/memorable songs. I would rather download the top1-3 songs from a series rather than the OST. I want to try and keep a "pure" collection where every song is something I really like and nothing seems mediocre to me.

To eliminate the possibility of a lot of redundant suggestions I'll just throw the whole list up here; it will likely be fairly sad, so feel free to snicker. To be clear, I'm not asking you to do anything ridiculous such as reading through the list and trying to match it. It's there just so you can think "Cowboy Bebop Theme? ctr+f 'tank'"

Song			Artist			Source 
Alice			Pogo			Alice in Wonderland 
Take It Off			Ke$ha			Animal 
Kaze No Iro March		Oranges & Lemons		Azumanga Daioh 
Guns & Roses		Paradise Lunch		Baccano! 
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)	Garbage			BeautifulGarbage  
Hit in the USA		Beat Crusaders		Beck 
Uninstall			Chiaki Ishikawa		Bokurano 
Ningyo Hime		Tanaka Rie			Chobits 
Raison d'etre		Tanaka Rie			Chobits 
Radical Dreamers		SE			Chrono Cross 
Scars of Time		Yasunori Mitsuda		Chrono Cross 
Club Can't Handle Me 		Flo Rida			Club Can't Handle Me - Single 
Tank!			Yoko Kanno			Cowboy Bebop 
Harder,Better,Faster,Stronger	Daft Punk			Discovery 
Menya zovut Shnur		Leningrad			Dlya millionov 
Down			Jay Sean  FEAT. Lil Wanye	Down 
Be your girl			Chieko Kawabe		Elfen Lied 
Days			Flow			Eureka 7 
Shounen Heart		Home Made Kazoku		Eureka 7 
Sakura			Nirgilis			Eureka 7 
Blinded by Light		SE			FFXIII 
Blues Drive Monster		The Pillows			FLCL 
Carnival			The Pillows			FLCL 
Last Dinosaur		The Pillows			FLCL 
Little Busters		The Pillows			FLCL 
Kesenai Tsumi		Full Metal Alchemist		Fullmetal Alchemist 
Super Shooter		Gantz			Gantz 
Dia			Jumbo			Gran panoramico 
The Light Before We Land		The Delgados		Gunslinger Girl 
Free Bird			Haibane Renmei		Haibane Renmei 
Hekireki			Last Alliance		Hajime no Ippo 
Highschool of the Dead		THE Akeboshi Rockets		Highschool of the Dead 
I Like It (feat. Pitbull)		Enrique Iglesias		I Like It (feat. Pitbull) - Single 
Let It Rock (Ft. Lil' Wayne)	Kevin Rudolf			In The City 
Poker Face			Lady Gaga			iTunes 
A Morning in Norkia		Dolce Triade		Last Exile 
Under The Sea		The Little Mermaid		The Little Mermaid 
Get the Party Started		Pink			M!ssundaztood 
Expialidocious		Pogo			Mary Poppins 
Run			Susumu Hirasawa		Millennium Actress 
The Sore Feet Song		Ally Kerr			Mushishi 
Sally's Song			Catherine O'Hara/Danny Elfman	The Nightmare Before Christmas 
What's this			Catherine O'Hara/Danny Elfman	The Nightmare Before Christmas 
Crawl			Veltpunch			Nobari no Ou 
Allegro Cantabile Sound		SUEMITSU & THE SUEMITH	Nodame Cantabile 
Kirei na Kanjou		Yuki Kajiura			Noir 
Russian Dance - Trepak		Tchaikovsky		The Nutcracker 
Waltz of the Flowers		Tchaikovsky		The Nutcracker 
Shizuku Ippai no Kioku		Hirasawa Susumu		Paprika 
Mediational Field		Susumu Hirasawa		Paprika 
Yume no Shima Shinen Kouen	Susumu Hirasawa		Paranoia Agent 
Satellites			September			Remixland Vol.7 2005 Bootleg 
Kinjirareta Asobi		Ali Project			Rozen Maiden 
Duvet			Boa			Serial Experiments: Lain 
You're Not Here		Akira Yamaoka		Silent Hill 
Silent Hill			Akira Yamaoka and Rika Muranaka	Silent Hill 
Paper Planes		MIA			Slumdog Millionaire 
Paper Moon			Tommy Heavenly6		Soul Eater 
Mitsu no Yoake		Arai Akino			Spice & Wolf 
Tabi no Tochuu		Kiyoura Natsumi		Spice & Wolf 
Perfect World		Rocky Chack		Spice & Wolf 
Ringo Biyori			Rocky Chack		Spice & Wolf 
Here It Goes Again		Ok Go			TOP 40 SINGLES USA 
Trigun Theme					Trigun 
Upular			Pogo			Up! 
Brighter Side		SaGa			Viewtiful Joe 
Shut Up And Explode		Boom Boom Satellites		Xam'd 
Gerudo Valley		Nintendo			Zelda 
Kakariko Village		Nintendo			Zelda 
I Gotta Feeling		The Black Eyed Peas				 
Song 2			Blur				 
19-2000 [Soulchild Remix]	Gorillaz				 

Edited, Jan 21st 2011 8:17pm by Allegory

hm.
It isn't anime music or linked to anime music, but I see you have some music from some video games. Almost every song from Anamanaguchi reminds me of old NES games from my childhood (as it should, as they are an 8-bit band).

For anime music. There is the opening from Samurai 7 and the ending is just as good imo.
And then there is Battlecry from Samurai Champloo.
These have been the latest anime I've watched/been watching :o

Oh and there is this. It is from the Final Fantasy Unlimited anime. I don't know what it is about the song, but I like it.

My suggestions.... I only included artist name because I feel that's the most useful bit of information. If I had to name anime with good openings/endings, it'd be Gintama, Bakemonogatari, and Record of Lodoss War. Probably my favorite soundtrack comes from Fairy Tail, but not sure if you'd really want any kind of bgm.

Brilliant Green
BUCK-TICK
Chiaki Ishikawa
Chiwa Saitou
Diggy-Mo
Does
High and Mighty Color
Kalafina
Maaya Sakamoto - she also did the opening to Record of Lodoss War
Miho ***************
[link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAx2LaUGfA]Miyuki Sawashiro
Redballoon
Stereo Pony
Suga Shikao
Supercell
T.M. Revolution
Tommy Heavenly6
Suilen

Run Wolf Warrior, Run from Wolf's Rain
Strangers from Wolf's Rain
Steve Conte

Sorry for the long list, I've got nothing to do right now and ended up going a little overboard...

Edited, Jan 22nd 2011 12:58am by xypin

Stereopony has a lot of great songs, look to DTB seasons 1 and 2. Major I like some of the music there. Wonderland, Faraway, Ame Nochi Niji Iro. Nodame Cantible I'd mostly look at the openings Manazashi Daydream and Allegro Cantible Sound. Ookiku Furikibatte has good music for pretty much everything.

If you like nice instrumentals and a sort of classical/pop blend of music try some of Yuki Kajiura's OSTs. Kara no Kyoukai has several gems, as does Tsubasa Chronicles, Pandora Hearts, Mai Hime and Madlax. I tend to download most of my anime OPs and EDs here if you happen to want a decent site. You need to sign up to download but it is free.

Edit:

Mezame by Kajiura
Aikoi-Fiction Junction YUUKA (Kajiura was the lead composer for all the fiction junction projects as well as See-Saw, and several others.)
Oblivious-Kalafina (Most Kalafina stuff I have heard is fairly good.)
Madlax OP: Nowhere
Unrelated suggestion Hekireki by Last AllianceScratch that it's on your list already.
Red Fraction by Mell
Rideback -Japanese Version- by Mell (original is in really really bad engrish)

Edited, Jan 23rd 2011 3:06am by Manosuke

I keep forgetting to add that song to my Youtube playlist. Thanks for the reminder.

As for my recommendations(I may have misnamed some, tbh...using the Youtube description from my anime playlist and it may have been years since I've added them), and I'm just throwing out to you the songs I really liked in hopes you'll find something you like:

*Most, but not all, of these are from anime.
Beautiful Fighter - The OP from Shikabane Hime
Undine by Yui Makino - The OP From ARIA
Himitsu Dolls - The first ending from Strawberry Panic
Disillusion - First OP for Fate: Stay/Night
Unmei no Yoru - from Fate: Stay/Night
Work Guy! - End theme from Kamen no Maid Guy.
Hizamazuite Ashi wo Oname by Ali Project - Ending theme from Princess Resurrection
Forces - from Berserk
Still Doll - ending theme from Vampire Knight
Howling - Opening for Darker Than Black
Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai - Opening theme from God Only Knows, though I'd almost recommend getting the shorter version actually used for the show.
Aestivalis March - from Martian Successor Nadesico
Minna Daisuki by Buono - Second opening for Shugo Chara
Black Diamond - from Shugo Chara
Chizu Sanpo by kukui - 4th season opening for Maria sama ga Miteru
Aoki Flamme by Yoko Takahashi - opening from Pumpkin Scissors
Tooi Nioi by Yo-King - one of Gintama's many openings
Flying Humanoid by Shoko Nakagawa - OP from Occult Academy
Dango Daikazoku - from Clannad
Hide and Seek by Namie Amuro - I first ran across it on The Craft of War: Blind
Kick It Up by Paul Gordon - Digimon the Movie soundtrack

I have the nagging feeling I'm forgetting some of my favorites, but it's a start.

Edit: Remembered another one.
Nikopol - TTGL

Edited, Jan 24th 2011 1:51am by Poldaran

I thought there were some good OP/ED songs this season so the full versions aren't out yet, but here are the ones I plan on adding to my list:

Lore wa Zombie rate me down Ka? -Opening
Kore wa Zombie rate me down Ka? -Ending
Level E -Opening
Fractale -Ending
Gosick -Opening and Ending
Madoka Magica -Ending

Edited, Jan 24th 2011 7:55pm by xypin

I appreciate all the suggestion. I am sorry for the slow response, but I've been playing a beta for a new MMORPG and so it is taking me quite some time to listen to all the songs.

Other than the Digirap, absolutely nothing.

He said trainwreck of a movie, but solid soundtrack.

I misread it too.

What, no mention of 19 sai? unreal people.


19さい　　　Suga Shikao XXXHolic



Here's a link to the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJj7L__o2z0&feature=related

oops, sorry i missed that. Carry on then lol. Thought i had something to add to this thread.