I probably will...I know Iwao can handle the axe, but I don't know how well he actually arranges the stuff (or if he's the one doing it or not). A couple short official site samples should be all I need to make a decision. It shouldn't be bad, but last thing I want to do is walk smack into a messfull of grunge-tastic angsty Megaman arranges. But provided this fits into what I have in mind (it should), I have an order in mind this will fit nicely into.

The techno album on the other hand...I'm not expecting much and I have a low overall tolerance for the stuff (unless it's REALLY f---ing amazing), so I'll be trying that one out from start to finish. I like Hosoe's rock much more than his techno anyway. *cues Robot #28 from Ibara*

And who knows about the last album.

I will.  I have pretty much every other official Rockman album out there, so why not?

Thaaaank you. Man, my attention span is awful nowadays.

Man, I wish those samples were up. Release date is about two weeks away now...

They don't even have the Rockman 7 OST samples up yet and that's out next week by this time. Not sure if they throw up samples for non-arranged albums but I keep checking the site daily.

Tower has samples up:
Mega Man 7:
http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/C … ORT_CD=101
Mega Man 8:
http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/C … ORT_CD=101

Oh, you got be kidding me, they couldn't take the SE out of MM7's opening? You can hear the lightning...

And now I will be slapping the titles into babelfish for fun.

T_T Now I'm mad that the Rockman 8 album does not have the Saturn exclusive music. T_T

Seriously, I SO wanted the Cut Man Mix on a disc...

Edit:

Actually, I'm kind of hoping they withheld that part of the tracklist from the puplic and when it shows up, bam! they'll be there but I doubt it.

After the BONUS sound effects in the recorded tracks, I'm surprised yo have any hope left. I feel kind of stupid for getting my hopes up in the first place. I knew isolating sound would be too much trouble to bother.

I'm trying not to gripe over it too much - to spare the other people on this board a "anti-Capcom" rant but, yeah... while I still want the soundtracks (pre-ordered them) some of the wind has definately been taken out of my sails.

Still, I got the Rockman 1~6 box the other day (finally broke down and got one) and for the most part it is collection perfection... the things we're seeing on the Rockman 7 soundtrack started to cropped up on the Rockman X1-6 box. The world and I will survive but it does put a dent in the overall feeling of quality that is quite high otherwise.

You can't help but feel irked how a SPC/gamerip can be devoid of SE and an official disc can't.

ATTENTION: Samples might be available on November 21, the release date of Rockman 7 OST. The website appears to hint at samples, I'm guessing we might get a hint of all the albums then. Keep an ear out. Two days, folks.

http://www.team-e.co.jp/rockman/index.html

Man, this can not come quickly enough.

Also, that's what she said.

Sample is up...but doesn't seem to be working.

http://www.team-e.co.jp/rockman/sound.html

It has the title mix medley from the Rock arrange.

I can get the Rockman 7 and 8 samples working only in IE, but of course, the Rock sample still doesn't work...

FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK!

Use Internet Explorer.

A minute long sample of the MM3 intro theme. Sounds pretty good, if not a tad weak on the main melody. In my opinion, it's just too short a sample to judge the entire album's style or scope. But, this is already fairly promising.

I give this sample a B.

Was just about to post this. I'm satisfied and so might Zane; it's pure rock and synth as far as this track goes. Just hoping for some surprises in there...

About the link, Firefox never works with most samples, citing errors. Gotta use IE.

That'll do nicely. I wish they'd stayed closer to the original tempo (MM3 Title sounds best played fast) and the synth feels unnecessary, aside from the very end of the sample (and even then to an extent, considering you have two guitars in there...that better be build-up to a kickass solo). But that's some quality hair metal there, otherwise, even if I still prefer the original. I'm 75% sure I'm buying.

To make things accessible to everyone:

http://www.team-e.co.jp/products_new/kdsd-00173/11.wma

Encouraging.

Glad I preordered this baby, especially after hearing the sample track.  This will undoubtedly be my favorite VGM release of 2007.

The sample sounds solid enough, so I'm not too disappointed. I also hope that there are some surprises on the album somewhere. I'm also not as excited as I was before because...

The guitars sound sloppy and not as tight as they should be (check from 0:04 to 0:07... that sounds messy and off-time to me). This reminds me a lot of Guilty Gear XX OST, which I guess it should, considering who is arranging the Rockman album. I never got too excited over GGXX's loose guitar playing (compare the way the melodies are played to something like the Konami Battle albums), so hearing this sample gave me a little bit of a flashback to a soundtrack that I'm not too crazy about. But, then again:

I'm still gonna order it and will crank it up once it gets here. This is only one minute of the whole album. And, who knows. Maybe I'll be able to say that...

Man, posting is a lot easier when you just quote other people.

My first gut reaction was to post: Is this going to be Rockman Battle? But I held back.

Not comparing this album to other more established ones is going to do it a world of good.

But yeah...if it is able to succeed on its own, favorite VGM release of 2007 hands down.

True. It's gonna be hard, especially given my expectations for the album, the sound similarities to Guilty Gear XX and my preferences for other rock VGM albums, but I'm still going to try to give it a shot based on its own merits.

I like what I hear I just wish they had used another song for the sample... I mean Mega Man III's opening is great but I've heard it remixed with guitars so many times it isn't funny.

I kind of hear the GGXX semblance (the backing riffs are practically the same from the GGXX character select theme...doesn't quite match the delicious harmony in the original). Not exactly KK Downing and Glenn Tipton at the helm (in fact, I'm sure they're just using one guitar player and overdubs, like how they did in GGXX), but the only lead guitar part that bugs me is that one riff from :11-:16 and again after that, which doesn't do much for the main theme and feels like a random space filler. I think the sounds are layered much better than XX , which I appreciate and I haven't heard anything that suggests the mangling that a couple familiar themes got (see: Bloodstained Lineage), the slower tempo aside. Again, I have to hear more.

But then, I've always preferred X's renditions of the themes overall. Heavy Rock Tracks would be perfect if it had the drums from the sample. ;p

I think it's pretty sad they had a full set of samples for both 7 & 8 at tower records and the official site got a meager three samples. Of course, listening to the crap that goes on in some of the RM7 samples is enough to tick one off - ok, ok, I'm done complaining.

NEW SAMPLE UP: Dr. Wily 1 (Rockman 2)

http://www.team-e.co.jp/products_new/kdsd-00173/4.asx

Sounds pretty much like what I wanted it to sound.

Definitely getting this, no matter what.

Listening to these two samples over and over again takes me back to ... wow, a good decade or so ago, when I first found this site and listened to its MP2 samples again and again.

I'll be picking up this album for sure.

I personally don't like the Wily sample all that much. Feels very dry and unexciting...It doesn't quite nail the main melody, but it doesn't deviate enough to be interesting either (and melody is all this has going for it).

I'd be a lot happier if it were closer to this:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/j54512

or this:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/sh6oa7

Bingo, feel the same way.

NEW SAMPLE: Boss Mix Medley

http://www.team-e.co.jp/products_new/kdsd-00173/1.asx

And I have to say... for all you naysayers, you can feel the tease of this track though they only give you a taste of Rockman 1.

I'm liking it... a lot.

Can't wait til this comes out.

I like this better than the last two samples but I'm still left with this nagging feeling something isn't to my liking. Sorry, I'm still naysaying but I won't pass judgment on the whole disc based on these samples.

Yeah, that. The beginning sounds pretty cool, but halfway through the sample it just gets really messy.