Music of Zelda

I've spent the last day and a half downloading and listening to music from the LoZ games from various sources, and I've found a good number of tidbits worth sharing:

Firstly, Zelda Reorchestrated is a group who goes through the games and re-records all the music on live instruments. Some of it is pretty good, but I find that they butcher a lot of the songs, adding tempo and key changes, instrumentation changes (they use a flute instead of an ocarina, for instance) and a lot of the feel of the music is lost. Listen to their version of Tal Tal Heights from Link's Awakening, then the original, and tell me the original isn't more... questy. Questatious, if you will.

I also have the soundtrack for Ocarina of Time 3D, which includes this orchestral arrangement by Koji Kondo himself. Blows those other guys right out of the water.


I found a lot of dubstep versions that I like too, with Credulity Kills' Link to the Past being BY FAR the best, but I'll share them all. [I've been informed that some of them are at sub-sonically low volume. Sorry, nothing I can do about it except tell you to turn your speakers up.]



If you're wondering where the sudden surge of Zelda fandom came from, it's that I realized that I'm only missing a handful of the games until I own them all. I don't have "The Legend of Zelda", Link's Adventure, The Minish Cap or Oracle of Seasons. That's it, I have all the rest.