WWCE-31005: THE ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK ALBUM OF GIANT EGG ~ MUSIC POPPED OUT...

[DragoonEnRegalia]

Any who has the album able to confirm any credits? This page hasn't been updated in a long time.

[NightsB]

I just updated the info based on credits listed in the album's booklet.

[CHz]

Thanks for that. JASRAC has both Nanba and Ohtani credited as composers for every track, so I guess they haven't revealed who did what, or maybe they really did co-compose everything. Sega Retro has Mariko Nanba credited solely for "Odd March," but good luck figuring out if that's one of many unsubstantiated guesses or something that's actually been proven.

Incidentally, JASRAC has alternate Japanese titles for tracks 3~27:

01 CHANT THIS CHARM ～THEME OF GIANT EGG～
02 LESSON E.G.G！
03 G.I.A.N.T.E.G.G！ ～オープニングテーマ～
04 冒険の始まり
05 転がるシロフォン
06 フルーツを食え！
07 情熱と静寂の海原
08 気楽にいこうぜ
09 潮風のボサノバ
10 地響きのブルース
11 骨恐竜のダンス
12 火山のオーケストラ
13 ブラス大爆発！
14 雪山の子守唄
15 ファンファーレが聞こえる
16 こだまピンボール
17 おかしなマーチ
18 飛び出せパレード
19 ビックリ箱！
20 頂上を目指せ
21 砂漠のシタール
22 午後の砂漠
23 伝説の卵
24 カラスの親玉
25 ビリーの勇気
26 今日という日に感謝
27 チャーム

A few retailers give this tracklist too, with the addition of "レッスン・イージージ！" for track 2, which JASRAC lists only in English. Track 28, the instrumental version of the vocal, isn't registered with JASRAC, but the retailer tracklist gives "チャント・ディス・チャーム ～ジャイアントエッグのテーマ曲～ カラオケバージョン." JASRAC also has a extra track from the game registered, "Humming" ("ハミング"). That could theoretically be the real name of the hidden track, but obviously there's no way to prove that.

Are these Japanese titles in the booklet somewhere?

[NightsB]

That tracklist is not present in the booklet.

[PhantomRuby]

The Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed soundtrack (WWCE-31334~5) credits specific composers for the Billy Hatcher remixes.

Mariko Nanba is credited for "The Beginning of Adventure" and "Take Upper Fruit!", while Tomoya Ohtani is credited for "Bang! Bang! Big Hornes Explosion".

No clue if this also means they arranged those tracks.

[Aifread]

Originally Posted by Morris1110

No clue if this also means they arranged those tracks.

WWCE-31334~5 says those were arranged by Richard Jacques. Unless you mean the original composers may have arranged eachother's tracks on the original OST here?

[PhantomRuby]

Originally Posted by Aifread

WWCE-31334~5 says those were arranged by Richard Jacques. Unless you mean the original composers may have arranged eachother's tracks on the original OST here?

Yeah, I was talking about the original songs from this game. It was very surprising to see actual credits, as opposed to the general "Music Composed & Arranged by Mariko Nanba & Tomoya Ohtani", though they probably, at least for those songs, just arrange their own tracks, or rather even not even arrange them at all.

Now I'm hoping more credits will somehow surface... Maybe it's worth asking Tomoya Ohtani about it on Twitter?

[Enja Hamman]

The liner notes were translated by Sonic JP lover Windii, which give a lot more context on that arrangement question @Morris1110 is wondering about. Most tracks have both of them mentioning something about the song, while some of them (like Take Upper Fruit!) only have one person's comments.

There's also a general breakdown from OHTANI at the bottom about how their collaborative process worked, with a lot of songs being half-written by one of them before being handed off to the other to finish, and then some of OHTANI's compositions had him going back to add more live instruments, synths or samples.

https://browniehideout.wordpress.com...d-liner-notes/

[PhantomRuby]

Originally Posted by Nicolaas Hamman

The liner notes were translated by Sonic JP lover Windii, which give a lot more context on that arrangement question @Morris1110 is wondering about. Most tracks have both of them mentioning something about the song, while some of them (like Take Upper Fruit!) only have one person's comments.

There's also a general breakdown from OHTANI at the bottom about how their collaborative process worked, with a lot of songs being half-written by one of them before being handed off to the other to finish, and then some of OHTANI's compositions had him going back to add more live instruments, synths or samples.

https://browniehideout.wordpress.com...d-liner-notes/

Bang! Bang! Big Hornes Explosion, credited to Ohtani on the S&ART soundtrack, does have comments by both Ohtani and Nanba, so that probably doesn't mean much. However, the comment about the collaborative process definitely puts into context that most of the songs were indeed "Composed & Arranged by Mariko Naba & Tomoya Ohtani".