The moment "Outset Island" starts playing, you're ten years old and the sun is warm and nothing bad has happened yet. Wind Waker's Gamecube soundtrack from Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and Koji Kondo is one of the most emotionally precise scores Nintendo ever put out.
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"The Great Sea" is pure open-water freedom compressed into a loop, and "Dragon Roost Island" has that percussive energy that makes you want to climb something immediately. Then "Grandma" just quietly devastates you. These are the official looped versions, so every track breathes the way it does in-game.
If you played this as a kid and haven't revisited the music since, prepare to feel everything at once.