Yeah... That's the reason I think you should first play the game and later listen to the soundtrack - lets you appreciate the tracks more.

I guess the pieces from Xenogears that I didn't like were from all the dilly-dally moments at the beginning... It's too bad the story took almost the whole first disc to develop into what it's supposed to and then was very rushed in the second disc... I hope they might some day remake the game and make it all proper...