To me? The JP/EU Sonic CD soundtrack. It's so inventive and clever with the way it uses one distinct musical motif for a zone and how this distinct musical motif has a different tempo and progression as well as different instruments for each time of a zone. The unique musical motifs to each zone gives the zone it's own "identity" through the music. And it's so masterful how Past, Present, Good Future and Bad Future influence that motif i.e Past has a 'mysterious' quality to it, Present has a neutrality to it as well as being typically Sonicky, Good Future sounds hopeful and/or beautiful whilst Bad Future sounds evil whilst having a 'sassiness' to it at the same time.
But what strengthens that greatness is each and every piece of music being innately brilliant-sounding as well. And I just love how a lot of tracks have voices in them. Metallic Madness Bad Future's evil sassiness is exemplified by Eggman's taunting laughter and a synthetic sounding voice even taunting the player;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Gl0HobRVI
What's also awesome? The main theme; "Sonic - You Can Do Anything". It's a wonderful remix of Sonic 2 GG's Green Hills Zone theme that, unlike recent entries in the Sonic series, isn't overused in the game itself to the point of being annoying. This song has variations of it in the form of the title screen music, invincibility theme and Speed Shoes theme that aren't the exact same song player over and over again.
The boss theme has got a lot of character to it as well, with Eggman's boasting about how Sonic "Doesn't stand a chance". I think it expertly puts across Eggman's whimsy bombasticness and self-assurance that he truly has Little Planet within his grasp;
Horrifically underrated genius soundtrack that is teeming with atmosphere and CHARACTER.
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