Pure jazz swagger pouring out of a PS2 best-of compilation. COWBOY BEBOP Tank! THE! BEST! collects the heaviest hitters from the Bebop catalog. "Tank!" in its TV stretch version still goes impossibly hard, that brass intro burned into the brain of everyone who watched anime in the early 2000s.
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"PIANO BLACK" brings the moody downshift, all dark keys and atmosphere. "Gotta knock a little harder" carries raw emotional weight, and "BLUE" is the kind of track that makes you stare out a window at 3AM. "MUSHROOM HUNTING" keeps things weird in between.
The sequencing just works. Up, down, sideways, back to cool. If you've never listened to the Bebop soundtrack front to back, this compilation is your starting point.