Macross/Awesome Music

It could be argued that this is the entire point of Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its sequels, featuring Idol Singers and/or The Power of Rock as a major force in the universe:

• Departure, especially at the end of episode "Big Escape".
• From the movie Do You Remember Love we have Ai, Oboete Imasu Ka?, sung by Lynn Minmay in the final battle (in the original series, she ironically sang Ai wa Nagareru, an anti-war song).
  • This was also sung by Ranka Lee while under Grace O'Connor's control in the final battle of Macross Frontier, here used to keep control of the Vajra with the antagonists.
• Just about anything from the band Fire Bomber, but especially Totsugeki Love Heart which at several times serves as Basara's Theme Music Power-Up. (Now with extra May'n goodness!)
  • Hey, don't forget Holy Lonely Light! It essentially becomes Fire Bomber's Theme Music Power-Up: when this starts playing, the Protodevlin are about to get owned HARD.
• Macross Frontier takes this trope to its logical conclusion, where awesome music is not just used as the backdrop for awesome things happening, but the awesomeness is actually choreographed to fit the music, reaching whole new levels of awesome. This reaches it's extreme in the finale, where almost every major song is featured in a sequence which redefines awesomeness itself.
  • Made even more awesome at Budokan.
  • If you don't do the hand motion every time Ranka does the 'Kirah~!' sound in "Seikan Hikou", you're just missing out.
    • In fact, the song affects the other protagonists of the other mecha shows in the Mega Crossover Mecha Game Super Robot Wars Z 2: Hakai-Hen during Scenario 34-B: Memorial Debut
  • Transformation. Played in the final episode when the Big Bad reveals her true form, to epic effect.
  • The entire Universal Bunny albums is, I'm just going to come out and say it, one of this troper's most favorite albums of all time.
  • Diamond Crevasse is awesome enough to deserve its own mention. Despite all of the awesome music of Macross Frontier, each by themselves good enough to qualify as a crowning music of awesome, this song is most widely considered to be the best song of the entire series, if not the best song of ALL ANIME THAT YEAR (Some perhaps even one of the best songs of all anime ever). It's basically this generation's Do You Remember Love?. There's so much feeling in it that you don't even need to know the words to understand what it's about. It's that good. But then, Yoko Kanno (also May'n).
• We need some Plus and Zero love here. It cannot be denied that Information High and Dog Fight in Plus kicks major ass, especially during the scenes that they play in. In Zero, we have Arkan, which is pretty much the theme for the mini-series.
  • Three epic and surreal pieces from Plus: A Sai Ên from when the Macross is lifting off, Santi-U which switches into an awesome sequence at 3:59 in good Yoko Kanno fashion and the third is Voices, the hauntingly beautiful theme song of the series.
  • Some Zero goodness:
    • VF-0, Sky Shine and Airborne Troops, all played over extremely spectacular aerial dogfights.
    • Counterclockwise, heard when Focker transforms into Battroid mode for the first time.
    • The oddly-named Macross Track, giving us yet another eargasm with both high-intensity action and eerily calm parts.
    • THE apocalyptic music for the franchise: The Song of Destruction. Earlier on is Totem Spell, shorter but by no means worse in the ominous chanting department.
    • Finally, the absolutely beautiful theme song of the series: Arkan.
• Ditto with Macross II: Despite the OVA series being So Okay It's Average, Yakusoku is probably this troper's favorite ED.
  • Just Yakusoku? Mika Kaneko's "A hush like 200 million years" is just as awesome.