Milan / Sunrise (2022, Reissue)
I've been buying a lot more soundtracks lately. You can absolutely put the blame of that on all of the incredible Godzilla and Toho releases coming out, but it's also reminded me that there are others that I need. A big one on that list is the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. I first heard of Cowboy Bebop from my buddy Keith. He let me borrow his DVD box set that also included the soundtrack on CD. I loved the show and loved the music. I picked up the DVDs myself, but the box set was tough to come by at that point.
Fast forward to a couple years ago and the soundtrack was finally released on vinyl. It took me a while to commit to buy and at that point it was out of press so it took a bit longer to track one down. It's great and has the songs from that CD I ripped from Keith many, many moons ago. It also has a few others. Here's the thing, in researching, I find the Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack Universe to be one of the most confusing things out there. There's several CDs, different volumes, CDs with songs on other CDs, EPs with exclusive songs, CD box sets that have exclusive songs, but not songs from the regular soundtrack (well, it has some of those, but not all of those). It's a confusing mess and I will not even pretend to understand it.
I'm sure there are people smarter than me that will be able to say exactly where the five bonus tracks came from. I was able to track them down as being part of a "Best Of" CD compilation, but it seems at least three of the songs were exclusive to that Best Of, which maybe makes it not actually a best of? And we haven't even started talking about the Netflix soundtracks yet.
Anyway, the songs on here are great and I love throwing them on and just kind of zoning out to let my imagination be somewhere else. Not to mention that the theme song of the show "Tank!" could be the best TV show theme song in the history of the earth. If it isn't, it's right up there.
The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop (Original Series Soundtrack):
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ntVLX9pb5DsNbXz2_WN82eEq58oZmpaiU
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