C&C Soundtracks Survey

[Plok 320]

The C&C Community Manager, EA_CIRE, has posted a new survey on the Official Command & Conquer Site. This time it's about soundtracks of the Tiberium universe. You can choose up to three of your favourite tracks from each of the following games: Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun, Renegade, Tiberium Wars and Tiberian Twilight. Their aim is to discover which style of music do the fans like the most.

 

 

You can cast your votes by clicking here.

[Gben 20]

No Mercy

Industrial

C&C Thang

 

Pharotek

Heroism

Valves

 

Got a present for ya

Move it

Command & Conquer

 

nil (only because I don't have a copy and don't knoww them.)

 

The Prophet's Acension

Bad to Worse

The Pacific Hub

[Plok 320]

I'm only mad because the TW list didn't have the Alien Arrival track.

[Tore 33]

The survey is missing a lot of must have tracks like March to doom (C&C1), Link Up (TS), Nod Crush (TS), Killing Machine (TS), Destructible Times (Nod credits theme) (C&C1) and it needs the ingame titles for Full stop (Warfare) and Target (Mechanical Man). :/

 

Might be more missing but I can't think of them at the top of my head.

[Plok 320]

Yeah, they missed the entire Covert Ops, Firestorm and Kane's Wrath soundtracks.

Have a look at the music category in EVA Database and compare how many tracks were skipped. http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Music

[EA_CIRE 3]

As mentioned in the official forum, sorry guys I only picked the official soundtracks that are available today. BUT...please go ahead and name your favorite non listed songs as well here in the forums. I will take them into account as well

[NODSOLDIERGIRL 2]

Thanks EA_CIRE

[Plok 320]

Well, here goes...

 

Covert Operations: Die! (hidden track, enabled in 1.06c)

Firestorm: Elusive, Killing Machine, Slave To The System

Kane's Wrath: Mechanical Mind (Long Credits Version)

[cnc_sage 0]

I'm only mad because the TW list didn't have the Alien Arrival track.

Other than Crimson City it was the only track worth listening to.

I'm also dissapointed by the lack of Nod Crush. It's still my favourite song ever.

[ApornasPlanet 9]

Yeah I missed March to doom among the options. But as people have said there were a lot of songs missing. And I didn't really see the point in choosing songs from TW since I don't remember them and I will never ever play TT.

[Nyerguds 100]

Using the soundtrack lists only makes C&C1 and TS vastly incomplete... the C&C1 one didn't have my absolute favourite, March to Doom.

 

Allright, let's get on.

 

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn:

I'll just go ahead and say I'm a total sucker for ambient. 'Rain' is such a beautiful track.

 

March to Doom

We Will Stop Them (aka Deception)

Rain in the night

 

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun:

Still a sucker for ambient, but on the TS soundtrack that's pretty much the only choice anyway. Still, it's odd how all my favourites for TS are those Jarrid Mendelsson's had a hand in. I guess Frank wrote the less ambient stuff in TS.

 

Pharotek

Heroism

Dusk Hour

 

Command & Conquer: Renegade:

Mostly C&C1 remixes... never really found it a very inspired soundtrack, but eh, it's nice. My real favourite, the "In the Line of Fire" remix, which is on the soundtrack, is oddly missing from the list, so I chose "Command & Conquer" on the official survey instead.

 

In the Line of Fire

Industrial Ambient

Ammo Clip (listed as "ammo cup". Typical auto-identify fail on scanned text, lol)

 

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars:

C&C3 has some nice music. Not really like the previous ones, but going a bit towards UT200X Kevin Riepl style, which I really like. The fact it doesn't have a track list means none of the music is memorable as being specific tracks though. Fail on EA's part imo. Going over it all again, I mostly just recognized the main menu, score and victory themes. Kinda sad... but at least TW's main menu song is pretty much as epic as the RA1 one.

For this, I listened to the entire soundtrack, and simply chose the themes I remembered from the game, because that meant they stuck out compared to the rest. Sadly, none of the ambient tracks in this were really memorable. Nice, but they fade in the background instead of sticking out and giving that awesome ambient vibe Rain In The Night has. Besides the main menu one, ironically enough.

 

Black Dawn (main menu song)

Havoc

Radiation alert

 

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Twilight:

Honestly? Never played it much, never bothered even downloading the soundtrack. I just listened through the Amazon clips and selected stuff that sounded like it could fit the game. All of the Jason Graves stuff has a bit of a movie soundtrack feel imo, with one central repeating theme. I'm not sure if that's a good thing for a C&C game. Really liked the stuff I heard once I got down to Tim Wynn though. He seems to go for the Generals-GLA sound a bit, and like the C&C3 one it has a bit of UT200X feel. Overall, quite nice. James Hannigan, whom I remember doing RA3 stuff, doesn't seem to get enough tracks by himself to show a specific style.

 

Things Fall Apart

The Harder They Fall

To The Death

 

 

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As for the expansions...

 

Command & Conquer : The Covert Operations:

well, at least some of the Covert Ops music is on the C&C1 soundtrack, and thus, in the survey. I already chose Recon on it. Still... "Voice Rhythm" wasn't on it, and since I think it's absolutely the most beautiful track in all of C&C, ever, it deserves a special mention here. On a related note, all of these tracks were added as CD audio on the actual game CD, making this one of the only C&C expansions ever with a full CD quality soundtrack release. Unfortunately the C&C95 edition of the CD doesn't have the Redbook audio.

 

Voice Rhythm

Recon (which I chose on the official survey)

Depth Charge

 

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun: Firestorm:

A beautiful mix of the TS gloomy ambient feel with scary cyborgs. I absolutely love these tracks, and it's a shame they never got their own soundtrack. Thank goodness for sneaky ways of getting the stereo MP3s off Frank's site; they sound so much better than the mono ones ingame. It was VERY hard to choose just 3 from this. I considered going for ambient, but it'd be a crime against Fabulosity to omit Slave To The System from this.

 

Elusive

Link Up

Slave To The system

 

 

I never played Wrath of Khan Kane's Wrath, so I'm not going to add a section for that. It seems I only got 5 tracks of it on my disk, of which 2 are "long versions" of 2 of the others, meaning I kinda only have 3 tracks anyway. With only 3 tracks it's impossible to give a "best 3". The collection I got is obviously horribly incomplete.

[Plok 320]

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars:

The fact it doesn't have a track list means none of the music is memorable as being specific tracks though. Fail on EA's part imo.

Khm... Khm^2....

 

I never played Wrath of Khan Kane's Wrath, so I'm not going to add a section for that. It seems I only got 5 tracks of it on my disk, of which 2 are "long versions" of 2 of the others, meaning I kinda only have 3 tracks anyway. With only 3 tracks it's impossible to give a "best 3". The collection I got is obviously horribly incomplete.

I think that you actually have ALL Kane's Wrath tracks. All others are copied from Tiberium Wars.

[Nyerguds 100]

Khm... Khm^2....

No dude. I was talking about the GAME not having a track list, which means the names you see in these lists have no meaning to the players.

 

In all games before Generals, you could hear a nice tune while playing, and look in the menu track list to see what it was called, or even start your favourite tune whenever you wanted. The other games don't have that at all. You hear music, but since it's nameless, there's nothing to really identify or single out certain tracks.

[Golan 6]

There really isn't much point to picking individual tracks in TW as the music is dynamically selected and blended - it's meant to sound all the same. Still, from a pure game standpoint, TW had the best music of the Tib games - much more game'ish than the classic tracks and very little ominous chanting compared to TT.

Edited November 2, 2011 by Golan

[BlackSpy 0]

not even Hell march!?

 

bad survey D:

[Plok 320]

not even Hell march!?

 

bad survey D:

In case you haven't noticed, this is for the Tiberium universe only. Hell March doesn't belong here.

[PurpleGaga27 39]

I might just have to do the survey all over again due to the missing tracks in the list.

[General Kane Nash 0]

Does anyone remember the name of the song at 0:28?:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdK6diY1s3Y

 

It was used in one of the TW trailers.

[Nyerguds 100]

There really isn't much point to picking individual tracks in TW as the music is dynamically selected and blended - it's meant to sound all the same. Still, from a pure game standpoint, TW had the best music of the Tib games - much more game'ish than the classic tracks and very little ominous chanting compared to TT.

I'll have to disagree with that. I like music when it's noticeable for being good. The TW music was definitely good, but most of the tracks are hardly noticeable. It worked as background music, but the music in classic C&Cs have always had just that little more than that.

 

In fact, even Dune II has really noticeable distinct music tracks, even in its ambient ones, despite its music being dynamic and nameless too. So it's not even caused by the lack of playlist. I can still hum my Dune II favourites.

[Golan 6]

I'll have to disagree with that. I like music when it's noticeable for being good. The TW music was definitely good, but most of the tracks are hardly noticeable. It worked as background music, but the music in classic C&Cs have always had just that little more than that.

Don't get me wrong, my playlist has the classic Klepacki songs, not the TW tracks. But for the game itself, TW's score was more effective to convey a feeling for the situation, not just provide background music. The difference is that the pre-TW tracks are meant to stand for themselves, like you'd listen to an OST of a movie, whereas the TW tracks are meant to be dynamically blended to support the current action, like the actual implementation in the movie. In contrast, at times TD, Dune etc. happily blasted my ears off with top notch power scores while I was just constructing my base or sending a lone trooper to a recon tour while lulling me with perfectly relaxing ambient music when the whole screen was in flames.

Now, the problem is that while pre-TW scores where a lot more noticeable, this makes them bad for the simple blending system used in most games. The TW tracks however are made for this more game'ish system.

Edited November 3, 2011 by Golan

[Doctor Destiny 41]

I took the survey, but I prefer the Red Alert soundtracks to Tiberium.