Phew! Thanks, Wols Kanno, you said basically what I had to say in here
This is the most heated discussion I have ever participated in. I'll just add one thing. VN, you're saying Mitsuda inspires you... An argument for who is more inspiring is arguing wether Mozart or Beethoven is the better composer, or something closer to our era - is Claude Debussy superior to Maurice Ravel.
I'll say that listening to Uematsu's and Hamauzu's (Mitsuda's sometimes, too) inspired me to want to become a composer. Heck, now if I compose something, even though I desperately try for it to be otherwise, it still sounds a lot like Uematsu!I amd tired of the major-minor scale system. And yet all these guys use it in a fresh new way - because they're untainted by Bach's evil invention that is diatonic function. Really, how a track feels is all about harmony and the harmonic sense of these guys (Hamauzu's especially) move me. Hamauzu has a terrific sense of harmony (combining elements of impressionism and expressionism), but it's Nobuo's balance between ingenius melodies and beautiful harmonies that makes him the best composer out of the three. His music is the one that moves me the most, and yet I try to be objective in saying why he is the best... I one day hope to become a composer like him...
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