I believe that Fithos Lusec is the title of theopening theme to FF8, which I agre is spectacular. Also a big fan of To Zanarkand and Aerith's Theme.

My musical tastes tend more towards guitar-driven stuff. I have this one album that I always use as my alternate soundtrack when playing World of Warcraft. Their in-game music is already pretty good, but I like mine better, so I turn down the in-game music volume, and let iTunes run in the background playing Dream Theater's "Systematic Chaos," which has very cool power metal themes like possession, demons, ghosts, vampires, and secret societies. It's the only album they made like that, just works of supernatural fiction with dark themes. Turns out it's nearly a perfect match for a good WoW instance run, or for those grind periods where you're just trying to level up. Dream Theater also has an instrumental song on the last God of War game, called "Raw Dog."

As for existing game soundtracks, all the FF games have stellar music. Brilliantly composed, same as all the Zelda games. Original music is certainly the better choice, but sometimes just selecting really good existing tracks can have an impact too. I wasn't really a fan of the game Brutal Legend. They had a great idea that was pretty poorly executed, but it did have some extremely well-placed hard rock and metal tunes.

Oh, and don't forget the Diablo soundtracks. All of them were perfect, especially the Tristram theme. I was glad that made an appearance in Diablo 3.

The opening theme to FF8 is Liberi Fatali

The opening theme to FF8 is Liberi Fatali

Yea, that's it.

Not to be that guy, but a correction: Uematsu didn't have any involvement with the music for FFX-2. "1000 Words" was written by Kazushige Nojima, Noriko Matsueda, and Takahito Eguchi (thanks, Final Fantasy Wiki.)

"Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec" is the name (and sole lyric) of another track from FFVIII. The title is an anagram of the phrase "succession of witches" combined with the word "love."

You should check out Lost Odyssey, it's my favourite RPG of all time and it's developed by Mistwalker who are the team who worked on the original Final Fantasies up to ff10 I believe, the soundtrack is also done by Uematsu and it's absolutely AMAZING!!

Not to be that guy, but a correction: Uematsu didn't have any involvement with the music for FFX-2. "1000 Words" was written by Kazushige Nojima, Noriko Matsueda, and Takahito Eguchi (thanks, Final Fantasy Wiki.)

 

"Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec" is the name (and sole lyric) of another track from FFVIII. The title is an anagram of the phrase "succession of witches" combined with the word "love."

Ah, I didn't know he wasn't a part of X-2, good to know.

Also, I looked at Lost Odessy when it came out, the battle system is kind of bleh in my book.