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@@Dogical e indeed

Never heard this accusation and it's absolutely infuriating. Her music, and especially this soundtrack, is so obviously and fundamentally authentic, and I guarantee her influence is currently being heard all over the musical spectrum.

I never even heard of it. Glad it's not though, definitely my favorite show and would be sad to hear if this were true! Thanks for the history about the composer too, never knew anything about her.

some of the isms even remind me of leo p/charles mingus moanin but also be sure to check out kids on the slope, which is anime all about jazz and romance. and now excuse me while i unshamefully check out your improv classes. im gonna need some...

My evil plan to turn you into an anime soundtrack critic is off to a great start

He should do eva next

My evil plan to turn you into an anime soundtrack critic is off to a great start

My evil plan to turn you into an anime soundtrack critic is off to a great start

God I hope he looks at the Jojo themes now

legend behavior

The music is so good it actually feels like it came first and they were so inspired they built an entire show around it.

@@HarrisTheHeckler That's because that's basically what happened.

It was more that they'd communicate almost entirely through what each created. Yoko Kanno and the Directors of Cowboy Bebop would show each other their creations and then go off and make stuff to connect with what each other made. Yoko Kanno made some music specifically for certain episodes the cowboy bebop team made and the team made some episodes specifically for the music Yoko Kanno made. It was really a back and forth of creative show and tell collaboration.

@@feminine_desires “The Postal Service” method seems to lead to some phenomenal collaborations

i was just listening to the Wolf rain ost ( it has been part of all my playlist since 2006) and also RahXephon ost ( the garden of everything is probably one of my favorite song from you); and i was just thinking " man i wonder what steve conte is up to these days " glad to know your still doing fine :)

I just left a comment to praise Yoko Kanno and scrolled down a bit to discover this comment by the one and only Steve Conte! Just wanted to say thank for your work -- I could listen to "Stray" for hours.

Man that's so cool and thanks for the great music sir!

Thank you for the song Stray from Wolfe’s rain

@@bryankehler thanks man - please subscribe to my channel :)

She is that’s why assholes are trying to cancel her

@@krow5099 who is and why?

@@krow5099 huh?

@@Anail_Mhin probably because of her plagiarism allegations.

And may you live another 25 or more to continue speaking the truth.

It was a constant back and forth between Shinichiro Watanabe and Yokko Kanno. Sometimes Watanabe had an idea and Kanno would riff on that, which in turn caused Watanabe to redo a whole scene to fit the music.

How would they even do that?? So the whole show was made to fit the premade soundtrack ? Or when writing the music was the composer like “what should the vibe be here, oh you want it like a hectic space scene kind of thing? Got it” or they just made a bunch of pieces that the writers were like “I want a bar fight here because that’s how interpret this piece of music here at this point”

@@extras5164 Usually a script or a storyboard can be written before anything else.

@@extras5164 It wasnt quite as direct as the OP says here. The story and characters were largely planned out but the music inspired scenes, which in turn inspired the music. "Watanabe further explained that he would take inspiration from Kanno's music after listening to it and create new scenes for the story from it. These new scenes in turn would inspire Kanno and give her new ideas for the music and she would come to Watanabe with even more music. Watanabe cited as an example, "some songs in the second half of the series, we didn't even ask her for those songs, she just made them and brought them to us." He commented that while Kanno's method was normally "unforgivable and unacceptable", it was ultimately a "big hit" with Cowboy Bebop. Watanabe described his collaboration with Kanno as "a game of catch between the two of us in developing the music and creating the TV series Cowboy Bebop""

@@joshstead6078 where’d you read that? I’d love to read it also. Thanks for clearly clearing that up, but I don’t get why her methodology was unforgivable and unacceptable? Did he not like her?

real persona 5 vibes with this cowboy bebop inspired album

@@jakimoretti7771 Yeah man, superkilling

Anyone else notice Bossa Jazz sounds like elevator music??? Just noticed.

@@maxhoughtonmusic elevator music sounds like bossa jazz

@@ericworthy1300 Just noticed guys :) it sounds like elevator music. Am I right? No one else has had this thought ever!

Would have been my reaction as well! Would be amazing to hear this live.

My son played the piano in his high school jazz band on Tank last year. They had a trumpet player that is at Berklee now. Great tune. Great performance.

I honestly can’t imagine a better reaction from a parent than to pick up on an otherwise obscure cut and scream their excitement all over a high-school auditorium, that rocks dude

try checking out the show. even if you're not one for cartoons, if you stick with it, you won't regret it

One thing that didn’t occur to me, even after all these years, is also parts that are VERY reminiscent of American Cop shows from the 70s - Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, etc. This could have been coincidence, or parallel inspirations, but knowing of Yoko Kano I doubt it’s coincidence.

Also the themes from The Jetsons, Bewitched, the Flintstones are all great jazz tunes. 1960’s TV was awesome.

I love that. That fells like a great way to break the ice in marching band.

Definitely a song that will make you good at everything about your instrument. We played it in jazz band in high school and I definitely leveled up in trumpet playing.

@Yongo Bazuk it isn't lol

@@ktoliman it’s a double edge sword of making great lifelong friends and convincing people you’re a child music prodigy. I say that’s a win win.

That. Is. Amazing.

I looooove that outtro

I cried. I clicked to specifically watch that moment.

Real folk blues with Tank, I have never skipped any episode of Bebop.

@@thomasway0320 yes, the cowboy bebop op is one of the only ones you CANNOT skip 😂

@@rosegold5720 physically impossible

Saxophone*

@@DIO_Brando1801 that’s a sax actually.

@@Dualis58 that's what I said

@@DIO_Brando1801 it's a drum actually

@@DIO_Brando1801 It’s a recorder, actually.

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Thats too amazing

YeahNO.

The Seatbelts are an American band that collaborated with Yoko Kanno for the jazz pieces.

No one falls out of their seats while playing unless they are incredibly drunk.

@@andrecouture2061 Googled the band. You sir, are incorrect. They are a Japanese band. It's the first thing said in the "About" section.

I'm gonna also recommend the Brain Powerd and Turn A Gundam soundtracks as well.

@@JRGomez81 Honestly, everything she does is just amazing

I am still grieving over terror in resonance. it's been years

Don't leave out Macross Plus

NO! She did Escaflowne?!?!? High key some of THEE best anime music 😱 I love her so much 🥺

Hello bluecoats man 👨🏻 fancy seein you here

Authority has spoken. Everyone must now pick it up!

as one prophet says: ska came before reggae

it's like klezmer to me!

Kind of a second wave ska vibe with third wave tempo. Like Hepcat.

I feel like in a lot of ways, the harmonica playing on the Bebop OST was heavily inspired by Charlie Musselwhite, probably the most well known Windy City blues player. As for players that truly take the instrument to new heights, I highly recommend listening to "But Anyway" and "Crash and Burn" by Blues Traveler. They get typecast as a 90s one-hit wonder, but their catalog is really solid and John Popper is the most revolutionary player I've ever heard, as well as being a solid vocalist and brilliant lyricist

Actually there were two groups: Seatbelts Japan and Seatbelts NYC. But most of the music was made by the Japanese group.

@@tmtmtlsml thanks for the recommendations!

The *Welcome To The NHK* Harmonica Song is a pretty good piece I think, kind of reminds me of "Dark was the night, cold was the ground" in a weird way

@@nyanknight107 God Welcome to the NHK is a top tier show

Holy shit that’s incredible! Never knew that.

Hah, I wondered if it occurred to them to ever reach out to people like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.

He was part of The Seatbelts from 1998 and 2004. The Seatbelts were led by Yoko Kanno. The group was first assembled to record the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.

oh thats so cool!!

My barber's name is bill

It's some of her non-jazz songs that are the problem. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7WpZqSmp5u0pH0.html

@@kinosprojector this isnt a problem. iterative art isnt "stealing". Or was everyone in the art deco movement just ripping eachother off?

@@SorchaSublime this is way past iterative art. As a composition major cyberbird for example is way more similar to battersea than the whole blurred lines plagiarism win. Lucky Yoko kanno isn't american. And she has the audacity to claim he doesn't listen to other contemporary artists.

@@kinosprojector no, this is way past what *you* consider to be iterative art.

@@SorchaSublime You clearly are not an expert in the subject. do you have a composition degree? even my graduate professor agrees. Even Charles would admit to it if he heard those two songs. Your dada example is = to two different 12 bar blues songs. The example i have given has the exact same melody and word rhythm on top of the same music.take the L. Be honest with yourself listen to the first song again in my link

If you love that you'd Love Tom Waits' "Midtown"

Just rewatched that episode today! "I'll pay you when I'm rich!"

One of the oldest videos on KZfaq.

Can you share the link?

@@sonickrndJust look for "Seatbelts - Souvenir from Tokyo".

m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5iimJqJurLciI0.html ?

She also did a couple of game soundtracks, Ragnarok 2 has great soundtracks, just wasted on an that game.

She's like the most respected and well known Anime composer ever, what are you talking about?

@@SiniBANG welp. Gotta check that one out now.

I always refer to Yoko as the Best Composer (outside of Anime Fans and Japan) that nobody has ever heard of.

I mean, to be fair, I would say some of the best composers/musicians in Japan are also anime composers. Look at Joe Hisaishi, he's a national treasure and made some of the best music in the Ghibli films and who himself was a student of another great anime composer, Takeo Watanabe. It hits differently over there where anime is taken much more seriously than western cartoons. That being said, I don't think Yoko Kanno is underappreciated at all. I find her highly regarded even if some people think she's just a "cartoon song writer". Those same people probably also think she's one of the best ones if not the best.

Maybe more

Hijacking this comment to petition Charles to listen to Kanno's "The Seatbelts - Time to Know ~ Be Waltz." I'm certain he would love the complex harmonies in this jazz piece!

Something something nebula something something lol

I made it 420 likes

Agreed!

Or criticized Purcell for only writing that one song over and over.

or for copying alberti

Please dislike his songs kzfaq.info/get/bejne/la2cmpqh0LmVoqs.html

I'm not on the "she plagiarised" bandwagon, but that's a really unfair comparison. While I do think that it's still along the lines of inspiration and not copying, a few of her melodies (specifically ostinatos) are pretty much identical to other songs. Want It All Back vs. Zodiac Sign or Mushroom Hunting vs Let The Good Shine come to mind. Nobody's saying she plagiarised because she copied a common musical trope like the 12 bar blues.

@@btat16 but thinking that way is really unfair against the composer: you are comparing 1 (one) piece of music to *every* piece of music written beforehand. If someone would be searching 20 hours a day, every day for a really long time, they would find a lot of earlier pieces which, when taken out of context and reorganized into a new piece, would contain every little melody, accompaniment, orchestration, texture, rhythm, harmonic cadence, etc. But 1- it wouldn't make sense to do that (it wouldn't help anyone at all) and 2- the composer wouldn't have heard of a lot of the pieces of music that were compiled. Besides, using 12-tone equal-temperament there are only so many melodies, chord progressions, etc. that you can come up with.

DU DU DU DU DUUUUUU!

We all heard that in the voice.

I always assumed that voice was Spike.

I have the physical OST and from what I can tell, the booklet does not give Waits a credit.

@@victorchapa6307 can confirm, there is no credit for him in the CD booklet

Have no interest in the topic itself. Although am rather intrigued, OP seems pretty confident.

That's not even true

There's another song that's pretty obviously ripped, I Want it All Back (from Disc 2, played during the Ein chase) was very much ripped from Imperial Drag's Zodiac Sign. Even the major 3rd change.

Cyber bird is literally hooverphonic -battersea

@@kinosprojector Sure, there are some influences in the song but Cyberbird is still a unique work of art. Charles says it himself in the video that music is always inspired by what came before. Nothing is ever created in a void. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is inspired by an italian tale from 1562. The Lord of the Rings is heavily based on old Scandinavian mythology. Whatever we do, we are literally standing on the shoulder of giants. There is also nothing new under the sun.

@@Lesandira he was only talking about jazz and the bebop soundtrack album.

yeah, velveteen kinda sets the tone for the intrigue for the start of the laughing man saga. Then that second episode, man when that song describes the man's self loathing and predicament it's so tragic and beautiful. Had it not been for that song, I wouldn't of cared that the story felt unresolved. Kanno is a genius, agreed.

Nice pfp

could you be more specific? I would like to check it out

Do a KZfaq search for "Cowboy Bebop on the run." It should be the top result. As for which Cowboy Bebop OST it's on, I'm not 100% sure, but it's used in the episode with mad pierrot. Episode 22, if memory serves me correctly.

I always heard it on the playlist... And... Never clicked to me it was literally 'on the run' until one day i was drunk af at work hating my life and using the soundtrack to get a boost... On the run sounds (seatbelts) starts playing. "I know this..."

Funnily enough, I had listened to the songs tons of times, but didn't realize it until I was reading something about Pink Floyd covers about 10 years ago. Sometimes you miss things until they're spelled out for you.

It’s honestly a masterpiece, So good

The trombonist in my high school jazz ensemble charted that one out and had us play it. I was the pianist, so I got to play the string line. XD

When the best song in the soundtrack denies you treats:

Bork

@@robburitto4193 the treat is having an absolutely incredible song to jam along to

Best soundrack in the series

I *almost* replied to this comment to explain what a 12 bar blues is and then realized, “Oh, hey, I’m about to be an asshole who only explains things to prove he knows them!” ........but just in case you WANTED to know, it’s basically just 12 measures of changes that follow a general kind of structure. Normally the fifth bar goes to a IV chord. That’s kinda it tho.

here you go: [I7 / / /][I7 / / /][I7 / / /][I7 / / /] [IV7 / / /][IV7 / / /][I7 / / /][I7 / / /] [V7 / / /][V7 / / /][I7 / / /][I7 / / /]

@@notafirehydrant9232 there's so many variants though. Jazz form twelve bar blues can be wildly different, just with the rough idea of I, IV, I, V, IV, I (V turnaround). Matrix by Chick Corea is a good example. 12 bar blues but completely changing the progression.

In case anyone is unfamiliar with chord names, here's some well known 12 bar blues songs to get the feeling for what it sounds like: Johnny B. Goode, I Feel Good, Wipeout, In the Mood and the 60's Batman theme.

In pop/rock music, I can pick a 12 bar blues out immediately. In this instance, way too advanced for my alt rock ears. Look up some videos about the form and it'll make sense. The blues and early rock and roll are based on it. It's how the music "goes" and it's based on 3 chords in a specific sequence of intervals. I'm not helping, am I? 😆😆😆

I saw your comment with a bigger font, and the last two words were cut, so I decided it's a perfect illustration of your feelings :))

Rest in power Nujabes!

Champloo reminds me of J dilla and Fat John now that I've started listening to them.

The show that inspired an entire generation of hip hop

Nujabes is the GOAT

@@sepulcher8263 Nujabes

*laughs in Rhythm Changes Seriously, music by it's very nature (at least after the world connected) builds and progresses from what other have done

Music started when humans started to imitate birds. It is in its very nature.

Contrary to any idea that music is “intellectual property” that can be “owned,” all sound actually exists independently and universally as the harmonic series that underpins all music and informs the manner of its being “written” by virtue of its consonant and dissonant overtones. So yes - music is a great collaboration with everything and everyone in the universe, not so much a competition or arena for “bragging rights” I.e. “ I came up with this idea FIRST” lol imagine some dude saying that because he’d never heard a major triad being played before and he just figured it out

Basically all movies are guided by directors nowadays who give composers “temp tracks” from another score and tell them, “make something as close to this as possible without plagiarizing it.” The bigger the funding, the more things tend to be like this. It’s all a bit disheartening how much of the time things are like this-I have multiple professional film composer friends who complain about it.

In short, for certain special people they believe that the music comes from something like a briefcase in which a golden shine comes out, as if it did not come from the sound of two stones. credits: izuna great spanish youtuber

Was that the chase scene from Ep. 2?

@@adamdevree6482 i don’t remember can someone tell me pls

@@Gameplays1able episode 2 is about how Ein ended up in Bebop. IIRC, that scene has Spike trying to lure Hakim using Ein as a bait. But then the organisation that was looking for Ein used some sort of dog whistle while wandering around the town with a van, it caused chaos by making every dog (including Ein) running towards the van. Spike then tried to chase Ein, but Hakim appeared and hit Spike with his car. Spike then chased both Hakim and Ein by running

@@mafirasyaharani7836 The music is perfect for that scene and episode. There's so much going on in the visuals and the music is the perfect foil. Love it.

💯 Space Lion was just so perfect

The writing 😣❤️

100th like Absolutely perfect scene, even just reading it and remembering the scene gives me real chills

Space lion was my most listened track on spotify the year that the soundtrack was added. Listening to it on repeat got me through my depression.

My favorite has to be memory. So simple, but actually really beautiful and sad and lovely all at the same time. It makes me sad how good it is.

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underrated comment right here

@@metrillbeats Absolutely.

Right?!

Came here to say this

That Sax solo is like the reason you listen to Tank!

One of my favorites of all time

Soundtrack by Yoko Kanno

Can't imagine his reaction when he met The Medley..

Came here to say this! Also directed by Shinichiro Watanabe like Cowboy Bebop.

Also by the same director of cowboy bebop.

Wait why are people hating on it?

@@outgoingblur the usual "they stole/copy this style" trope, It's stupid.

@@Spherehead123 I had never heard these claims till this video. I was prepared to blow off the claims and think what you said might be true but then I listened to the posts that other have made. Have you listened the playlists/sources being posted? We're not talking about petty copyright a scale sort of thing here. Complete ideas, groves, melodies, and all. All things that if you created and then heard in her product, you would surely call out. She obviously then added other stuff on it but at best a few of these should be seen as derivative works, variations, or adaptations. Really good ones though!

@@jimmyjazz78 none of those claims are towards the cowboy bebop ost though

Some of them are.

Better than the manga

@@tylermccaw8092 I prefer the audio series

There needs to be a beach episode.

Wait- what genre is he again?

@@tylermccaw8092 When's the live action coming

I second You're Lie in April!

Also the music from Kabukichou Sherlock (especially those by the group Egowrappin)

KIDS ON THE SLOPE IS SO UNDERRATED HE NEEDS TO GET ON THAT ASAP great soundtrack and if im not mistaken yoko kanno was also responsible for the music in it.

KIMI DAYO KIMI NANDAYOOOOOO

Samurai Champloo is dope I think that was Nujabees or someone in that camp

THIS! I was shooketh when I heard that Tank is basically a 12 bar blues..

Well the structure is AABA, but the A section is a 12-bar blues.

Which is why he's been running around in circles for some time, now.

He also jumped Korngold 😂

Yeah me n my friends all moisture farmers just chillin in mos eisley cantina after a long day's work Guess who walks in? Stravinsky

But the movie director wanted him to do that - Williams saved orchestras in film music - because before he came, film music was shifting more towards rock/pop tracks/bands etc. cuz orchestras are priceyyyy and takes time etc. etc. and its just way easier to have premade music and chuck it to film (altho that isnt usually the best result hmmm) - From memory, star wars wasnt mean to have new music - the director put classical music to the film but then Williams got suggested and he got a chance to write music - but i dont think he had much freedom since a musical identity had already been prescribed to the film. I cant remember exactly and this is off the top of my head - but worth doing some more looking into - twosetviolin did a comparison vid of film music vs classical and talked about how Williams stole from classical music - but if u read the comments and then do some digging online, there were a lot of circumstances surrounding it. This is the sad thing for a lot of composers nowadays, cuz directors put music temporarily to film to get a feel for how the scene will go and then ask composers to do something similar - so rip composers arent gonna have a chance to breathe new life into the scene ;(

@@auriels1451 yeah, ik, I’m pretty sure George Lucas or somebody wanted to use Gustav holst’s “the planets” but it was copyrighted at the time and they couldn’t use it in a movie. So, they hired Williams to totally jack Holst’s entire shit. I think. I might be completely wrong, but I remember hearing something like that

Yes this !

Kids on the slope is already a fantastically written show with some beautiful and charming moments but pair that up with a phenomenal jazz score and wow it makes it truly special

Her saying she doesn't like jazz is probably sarcasm, like when she told Ex that she didn't listen to music outside of work. I mean she used to play piano in Paris jazz venues anonymously in the 90s (maybe 2000s), no wonder she was aware of Voulzy's discography and would think no one would recognize her ripping off his Une Héroïne song, for instance. Anyway. I love Kanno, I just think she needs to come straight about all of this.

That show was definitely fantastic. It’s easy to watch it as what amounts to a roughly a 2 1/2 hour film, which really hits you from an emotional stand point. It took me back to my first love in High-school. The jazz music arrangements she made of some of the existing Jazz pieces from Miles Davis and John Coltrane, both of whom are fully credited, then the original pieces she composed, were truly exceptional.

@@renobutters Just pulled up this song, I see the influence. She really did straight up yoink the synthline from that one Bjork song for some GITS work... And basically recreated Sigur Ros for Terror in Resonance. The woman has impeccable taste and genius level arrangement skills, but I also would like her to be more honest about all this.

Bossa Nova feelings

That's actually a great quote

Or ends up in Zappa’s vault because there isnt much of a market for his truly complex but perfectly executed pieces

Flcl disagrees actually (please check it out if you haven’t)

@@broidk8291 Don't get me wrong, I love the Seatbelts, but the OST of Bebop was integral to the development of the anime, to the point where Watanabe changed his plans for the show to match the OST. FLCL has perfectly selected tracks but Bebop has perfectly created tracks.

@@WaywardBrigand the story behind FLCL soundtrack is also really cool actually. The pillows had zero clue what the story was about they just started making music but it still came out so perfectly. All the songs leave you with you bittersweet melancholic nostalgic feeling that fits soooo damn perfectly with the show it’s insane. Amazes me they perfectly hit what the show was going for essentially on accident.

@@broidk8291 Again, i love the FLCL OST, I will never call into question its quality. It's still in second place.

@@WaywardBrigand just your opinion since theres so many old anime with amazing soundtrack and it's also part of its history as well

That's awesome, now that you pointed it out the bongos sound amazing but someone like me uneducated in music doesn't pay much attention to it haha.

I do love those base beats early in the song right about the time where the lyrics come in. Just a super great part of the song.

@@darkmyro what, the whole piece has bongo ripping it and the best parts are at the tail end of the tune

@@tymiller176 I'm not arguing that, but I love that base beat. It's just a matter of taste.

I use to always imagine the bongo player just going nuts like animal from the muppets on that song!

With a name like that it couldn't be bad

YES and just watch the show. The art is dope and fits so we'll with the music and story.

​@@tonymorrill6561 I'm not quite sure exactly how OP The Great Pretender plagiarized the Cowboy Bebop OP? I'd make the case that they were definitely making an homage to the opening. (FIXED SOME GRAMMAR) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osplq7WamNq9fHk.html&ab_channel=Em-OstII kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6x2lJOC1K67pnk.html&ab_channel=Seatbelts-Topic Stylistically both pieces are pretty far from each other. Harmonically: Tank! is a 12 bar blues with a clear sense of tonality and where home is. Whereas for G.P the harmony is more modal without a clear sense of a diatonic chord progression. You have the rhythm section playing a 2 note vamp as the harmony on top is a lot more adventurous. In later portions of the song you diverge from that 2 note vamp into other modal textures but they never stick to one key center. Right off in the get-go they change keys left right and center. It is by no account a 12 bar blues in the key of C minor like Tank!. I'd wager to say that harmonically it's a lot denser than Tank in where it takes the song. Melodically: Tank! has a very clear cut melody that's front and center. The main melody incorporates the C and F blues scale as it's main melodic material. Rarely the melody of the piece is outshined by other melodic material (perhaps during and after the B section kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6x2lJOC1K67pnk.html where the instrumentation becomes a lot more active) Whereas G.P. on the other hand has a clear melody as well. But it's a lot more complex/chromatic than Tank! (not to say that it's a better opening there's just a lot more going on). You also have a lot more improvisatory material being played alongside the ensemble. Which takes away from the focus of the melody and more on the individual players. Arrangement: Both arrangements are for jazz ensembles. But hearing both side by side you see differences in style. The form of both pieces are widely different. In Tank! you hear a very clear AABA form. It goes Intro - A - A - B - A - Improv(AAB) - A - Ending Whereas for G.P. it's actually a fully fleshed-out song (they just cut a lot for the anime). The overall song is a lot more freeform and doesn't have a clear structure behind it. The instruments for both pieces are widely different. Tank! you have your basic bass, guitar (playing alongside the bass), brass, woodwinds, drums (regular drums and congas), organ. The instruments I feel takes a lot more from Jazz fusion rather than big band jazz. G.P. you have basic, clear cut, big band. You have double bass, piano, drums, woodwinds, brass. Simlilarities: I'd say both pieces accomplish very different things. They are entirely different pieces with entirely different atmospheres. You do have some similarities. Like the trumpet hits in the background are similar to Tank! but i'd chalk that up to it being more of an homage to songs like Tank! rather than a blatant rip off of it. I'd go so far as to say there's nothing that they took as a template for Tank! as both songs vary so widely.

@@tonymorrill6561 Yeah I see what you're trying to say but like what exactly is being used as a template from the Cowboy Bebop op? Where are the similarities you hear? It's just weird to argue that TGP used CB as a template when both songs are clearly different? Like in that regard you should say CB ripped off of like 1960/70s jazz fusion ensembles just because some aspects sound simliar.

The op for Baccano is also really good

@@tonymorrill6561 Yeah, I can totally see the plagiarism here. The Great Pretender OP blatantly has a saxophone playing in its OP, which clearly indicates that it's a soulless and meaningless ripoff of the Cowboy Bebop OP. I just listened to both OPs as a fan of neither show with no attachment to defend either, and I have to say that I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

Not really original pieces though so there might be less to talk about.

That might also be Yoko

@@Loveselfloveall "The soundtrack for the anime series is composed primarily by Yoko Kanno, who won Best Music at the Tokyo Anime Awards for her work on Kids on the Slope in 2013.[2] The anime series uses two pieces of theme music: its opening theme "Sakamichi no Melody [ja]" is written and performed by Yuki,[3] while its closing theme "Altair [ja]" is written and performed by Motohiro Hata.[4]"as per Wiki. :) I thought the same thing.

It was also another collaboration between director Watanabe and Kanno.

Watanabe x Cano so yes, is a really good anime

The Johnny Quest opening is so good! Thanks for reminding me about it...

I need to work for this guy.

@@ShinFahima as long as you don't mind Blind Guardian either I'm sure it'll work out 😂

@Yongo Bazuk If it were the case atleast it's good plagiarized music!

Absolutely spot-on breakdown of this track! Not enough people at all appreciate klezmer

Another laugh out loud moment for me from this soundtrack is Doggy Dog. 😂 The lyrics and clapping are just something else 😂

Zankyou no Terror getting a mention? I see you are a person of culture as well!

@@AuspexAO yassssss

Oh damn! I love terror in resonances osts! Thanks for that bit of info ^^

Yes!! Yoko Kanno is incredibly versatile. She also did the Escaflowne soundtrack, which again sounds completely different. Truly a talented woman.

@@sallangel oh I don't know that one, I might give it a listen

seconding this

Don't forget Lupin III ost's and theme. Their musics are godly

Ahh you’re a man of culture indeed.. best gundam ever it is

Kids on the Slope (another anime) is what got me into jazz (from the same director and composer as Cowboy Bebop too)

I agree, I think he would get a real kick out of that soundtrack

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