Cowboy Bebop - OST, No Disc, Blue and Vitaminless

Sometimes I think, oh yes, I’d move to
Where all the shooting stars are gone
With all of our wishes
How could they bear, oh no, to carry
Around the stupid human hopes
So I’m gonna help, I will!

Give me a key to lock
The door to the secret paradise
There are so many queuing up
And I won’t let them in
Look at them
They are cheeky
They are never worthy to be saved

Sometimes I feel, oh yes, I could do
Almost everything I wanted
And it makes me cry

Lay your heart, lay your soul
upon my magic carpet
now we are flying
to Venus just to kill some time for tea, OK?
Remember, surrender
There’s nothing you can do ‘cause
Love’s such a joke
Like a little Jack-in-the-box, you know
A little Jack-in-the box

The lyrics above are from a song called Flying Teapot and this blog was named after this song.

The anime Cowboy Bebop is set in year 2071. Life on Earth has been demolished due to the fact the fucking Moon blew up! xD Because of that huge amounts of rocks are falling down on Earth (among other disasters that occurred because of this) making life on Earth almost impossible. Thus humans emigrated primeraly to Mars but also to other planets to and space stations. Most people now live on Mars in huge craters that are shilded by huge domes around it and the enviroment in these huge dome like buildings are shaped to look like life on Earth. That's the setting of the story, at least one bit. The story follows a group of bounty hunters who are on a ship called Bebop. The crew consists of 4 humans and one dog. Each character fills the weakness of another character so in whole they make an perfect team (non of them are able to get food it seems haha). I won't spoil much of the plot but just so you know the anime is episodic but the main plot follows here and there giving you just small bits untill the last few episodes where everything starts to unfold. Along with the series there's also an movie, two mangas, two video games (they weren't released outside Japan me thinks) and some questionable live action adaptations.

This happens to be my favorite anime of all times (seriously it is, there's no other except maybe Angel's Egg but that one is more for the soul) so I managed to collect most of the soundtracks and bootleg soundtracks that got out one way or another. I'll be posting 4 here and in the future I'll post some other ones (like the 5 cd limited boxed edition but that will have a post of its own because it deserves it!).

The anime has numerous refereces to jazz and most episodes are named after Jazz songs and similar. Naturally the soundtrack is like that as well. All soundtracks are made by a band called The Seatbelts led by the all popular Yoko Kanno who writes the music (she also did music for several other animes like Wolf's Rain). The music is quite diverse to say at least. For example the opening song is an wild and hectic jazz while the ending is an mid paced rocky ballad. While the main areas of music in the soundtrack is jazz and rock they aren't afraid to venture into other genres which gives this soundtrack an high replay value.

For now I uploaded 4 sountracks which are:

Cowboy Bebop Original Soundtrack

Tracklist:

01. Tank (3:31)
02. Rush (3:35)
03. Spokey Dokey (4:06)
04. Bad Dog No Biscuits (4:12)
05. Cat Blues (2:37)
06. Cosmos (1:37)
07. Space Lion (7:13)
08. Waltz For Zizi (3:32)
09. TPiano Black (2:49)
10. Pot City (2:15)
11. Too Good Too Bad (2:36)
12. Car24 (2:51)
13. The Egg And I (2:44)
14. Felt Tip Pen (2:41)
15. Rain (3:24)
16. Digging My Potato (2:22)
17. Memory (1:30)

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No Disc

Tracklist:

01. American Money (1:08)
02. Fantasie Sign (5:20)
03. Don't Bother None (3:41)
04. Vitamin A (0:11)
05. Live In Baghdad (3:23)
06. Cats On Mars (2:47)
07. Want It All Back (4:02)
08. Bindy (2:19)
09. You Make Me Cool (3:11)
10. Vitamin B (0:11)
11. Green Bird (1:55)
12. Elm (5:05)
13. Vitamin C (0:07)
14. Gateway (2:58)
15. The Singing Sea (4:40)
16. The Egg And You (3:45)
17. Forever Broke (3:34)
18. Power Of Kung Food Remix (Tank Remix) (5:30)

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Blue

01. Blue (5:05)
02. Words That We Couldn't Say (3:30)
03. Autumn In Ganymede (3:55)
04. Mushroom Hunting (3:19)
05. Go Go Cactus Man (2:38)
06. Chicken Bone (4:57)
07. The Real Man (4:01)
08. N. Y. Rush (5:05)
09. Adieu (5:40)
10. Call Me Call Me (4:43)
11. Ave Maria (5:50)
12. Stella By Moor (1:09)
13. Flying Teapot (3:33)
14. Wo Qui Non Coin (3:44)
15. Road To The West (2:56)
16. Farewell Blues (5:32)
17. The Real Folk Blues (5:56)

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Vitaminless

Tracklist:

01. The Real Folk Blues (6:17)
02. Odd Ones (3:11)
03. Doggy Dog (3:17)
04. Cats On Mars (2:44)
05. Spy (2:04)
06. Fantasie Sign (5:01)
07. Piano Bar I (3:20)
08. Black Coffee (3:15)

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Just so you know apparently there's a new live action series in the make. Info here.