What's Your Favorite Part Of The Soundtrack?

Just thought this might be fun to chat about.

FFXI has had so many bangers over the years, and has such a huge soundtrack, that I'm curious which songs live rent free in yalls head after all these years.

I've always been pretty partial to the Shadow Lords battle theme, that boss music is pretty epic.

But I have to admit the Sortie music is surprisingly quite the bop, when I first entered and that almost jazzy music kicked in it grabbed my attention.

Does sortie straight up have it's own dedicated track? Or does that song get used elsewhere?

Mhuara's guitar

The price
Ragnarok

Ronfafer

Took me a long time to find it and one I wish I could see live but the song at the end of cop
I thought it was answers but I think it's memora de la stona now

aydeewa subterrane was always my fav song

Rabao is chill

Gustamberg theme will be with me forever

This is honestly a criminally underrated part of the soundtrack, and I think part of why is cuz very little of the game actually has you spend periods of time in Aydeewa.

I wanna say basically the only endgame content there is just doing ZNMs, and thats about it right?

Meanwhile like every other mission has you going into Arrapago Reef. Feels like I spent way too much time running through that zone. Even today Peach Power sends you there if you need it!

Jeuno theme is the only one I didn't get bored of after so long.

I had to afk and came back in ru hmet and was surprised there's a lot more to that song I only hear the opening

Jeuno Christmas theme. Always reminded me of the winter vacation as a young lad with unlimited gameplay time

Probably a bunch of basic *** picks here, but Ragnarok and Wail of the Void, A New Horizon - Tavnazian Archipelago and The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah, Heavens Tower. Devils' Delight, which sounds like it's from a different game entirely but it's still catchy as hell.

The summer fireworks

That was going on the day I started playing so its got cemented into my brain.
Beyond that though the area tracks in CoP are just really nice all around

Lufaise Meadows
Tavnazian Safehold
Sea
hard to name a top among those 3 as ive listened to all 3 in the background for hours and didnt ever get tired of them, I'd say even promies/palace nail what they're going for very well in setting the tone of their respective areas.

Pretty sure currently sortie is the only place its used in, Provenence Watcher was the same til it got used 1 single other time with RoV. Dyna-d/omen/ambu are all dedicated tracks too i believe

ACP final boss is pretty damn good, too. don't think that one has ever been reused.

XI has such a stellar soundtrack with majority of the themes being so beautifully crafted to suit the places (and battles) they're utilized. Difficult to pick just 1, so I here's my (pretty normie) picks for each expansion. There are some superb fight and boss themes too of course (Ragnarok is probably my favorite boss theme), but the zone themes tend to edge ahead for me.

Base game: Gustaberg
Zilart: Zi'tah
CoP: Al'Taieu
ToAU: Bustle of the Capital
WotG: The Cosmic Wheel (Sarutabaruta [S])
SoA: The Sacred City of Adoulin
RoV: Wail of the Void
VR: Goddesspeed (Sortie)