VGM Vocals

[Vert1]

What vgm albums have good vocals on them in your opinion?

The only vocals that comes to mind are the Katamari ones. Just about everything else makes me cringe.

edit: will individually list interesting vocal vgm songs later.

[suicider]

I was deeply impressed by the vocals on track 8-10 on PCCB-00207 and track 15 on PCCB-00225. Though they are arrange albums and I'm not sure if you count those in too.

[Cedille]

I feel vocal is something the entire VGM scene is gradually dominated by, but it's a good trend, at least compared to featuring sloppy licensed J-pop in the OP and ED. I'm fond of most of the recently well-selling and well-acclaimed albums such as later Persona, Nier, Ar tonelico or TWEWY (although the last one seemingly gets a mixed reception in Western), but I especially like Meguro (and Masaru Shiina's occasional weird vocal tracks).

[Xenofan 29A]

I think that at the bottom end is Lost Odyssey's "What You Are". I can't think of a worse combination of dull melody, insipid lyrics, and phoned-in performance than that. Final Fantasy XIII's "Kimi ga iru kara" comes pretty close, though.

As for the top end, I think that Mitsuda's songs have been pretty consistently well done, especially the ending for Chrono Cross. Truly a case in which less is more. As Cedille mentioned, Meguro's work on Persona is good, even if it doesn't always align with my personal tastes.

(As a side note, "vocal song" is redundant.)