Total Annihilation - Soundtrack
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- Music by Jeremy Soule.
Tracks:
00:00 Brutal Battle
03:24 Fire and Ice
04:40 Attack!!!
07:17 Warpath
09:19 The March Unto Death
12:01 Ambush In The Passage
14:28 Forest Green
16:48 Death and Decay
17:53 Stealth
19:04 Licking Wounds
21:41 Futile Attempt
23:57 On Throughout The Night
26:28 Desolation
28:03 Charred Dreams
29:34 Where Am I?
31:23 Blood Of The Machines
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From Jeremy Soule’s Wikipedia page
“Soule convinced Taylor that, given the large number of other real-time strategy games coming out at the same time as Total Annihilation with techno scores, that to separate themselves they needed to do a large orchestral score. He went so far as to bet a year's worth of reduced pay that it would pay off; Gilbert felt that it did after the first sentence of the first review of the game he read was about the music.[7][5] Given the software limitations at the time, to make the sound work correctly required a full live orchestra, the first that Soule had ever worked with; the orchestral tracks in Evermore had been performed by Soule and his brother by themselves, two instruments at a time.[7] The soundtrack earned Soule his first award, that of "Best Music" of 1997 from GameSpot in their year-end awards.”
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@@Fhornsrule99 the dude was only 22 when the game came out wtf
Well deserved! I fell in love with the game and the soundtrack, and still consider both of them amazing to this day. It was so unlike anything else out at the time, and having dynamic music ensured that you had great ambience when building your base as well as soaring battle music as your peewees died by the dozen, your bombers flying overhead on their way t9 the target, Bertha shells streaking across the screen!
Supreme Commander was really good, too, but didn't quite capture the same feel in gameplay or music. I doubt anything ever really will.
To this day one of the greatest gaming soundtracks ever made.
but nothing beats Zelda :)
This beats Zelda.
Nothing beats Rainbow Six Ravenshield, but hell, this comes pretty close... So does Oblivions' OST.
The Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries soundtrack is pretty amazing. Oblivion, Iji, Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger-- there are lots of amazing soundtracks out there.
This, the diablo 1 tristram theme, and fantasy general will always have my heart
The original game CDs are audio-CD compatible - you can play the soundtrack in your stereo like a normal audio CD. I used to listen to this while commuting to work every day.
I wonder if this is why some people drive like they're on the warpath lmao
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Same
@@weylinstoeppelmann9858 I see what you did there
thats epic! i either forgotten about this or had no idea... and I owned the original Commander Pack :D
I would pay $$ to hear this live.
Oh, in an instant.
The people that played this game were of a special time. I myself was 12 when this game came out. It was the time before mobile phones, before fast internet, before DLC's and shitty games. The times when all you had was single player skirmishes because you didn't have internet or your mom was using the phone all night. The time where you bought gaming magazines for the demo-cd, spending all night looking at the screenshots and dreaming of games that were yet to come.
I haven't listened to this music in 15 years yet it brings back so many memories, even ones that aren't related to TA/gaming.
Like someone else said; this music makes modern day gaming scores eat their heart out. And to think this game was probably made with a tiny budget compared to today's juggernauts.
+GGkhan Very well said. Im right there with you.
+GGkhan well said, my friend!
+GGkhan I as well was part of this generation of gamers. I remember waiting for months for my mom to drive me to best buy so that I could buy TA, warcraft 1/2, and starcraft when they came out. And the demo-cd, you hit the nail on the head. I used to pick up the shareware discs from the circle K nearby as well. How times have changed.
+Matt Jacobsen They made a Warcraft 1/2? Did that come before 1? I missed that one. :P
I totally agree with you, it was a different time back then when it came to PC games. and this was one of my most loveable game. still remember my favorite map and when I accidentally smashed one of the cd's, but I was lucky enough to have a second one in spare.
this is definitely one of the best games ever made and this sound track is just godly!
I think this game is one of the first videogames ever that truly focused heavily on the epicness of a high quality orchestral soundtrack.
This game made history
It was the first time in gaming history a true orchestra was used.
@@jonber9411 Really? Was it?
@@StompDeni42 Yes. You can read about it if you Google the soundtrack. Its says so in some article i found. ☺️
It was the request of Klepki
@@jonber9411 Wow, it's really cool! Thanks for sharing! :)
One of the most loved games by me!!
I played this game since 1998 and the music has never left me. Now 23 years later I am humming "March unto Death" to my little girl to get her to fall asleep. Truly life changing; thank you....
Omg childhood memories... This and age of empires... Amazing
Wow 👍
Let's just call it "March unto temporary Death" shall we? 😁
I am convinced that "The March Unto Death" was composed to the magnificent mental image of a fleet of 30 Brawlers flying in formation to deliver a biblical ass-kicking.
Yeah with fighters and bombers litterly everywhere. This soundtrack packed together with explosions and that alarm sound thingie in the background ^^.
Makes me think of Prussian or Austrian grenadiers pressing the attack in the face of withering artillery.
I hated Brawlers if they weren’t mine lol
@@tonyhamre61 😂 who didn't?
You always knew when 4:40 started to play, shit was about to get real. :D
Isn't the "you are under attack" alarm suppose to play before brutal battle starts to play, right? Isn't it a part of the score?
He was like 21 or 22 when he did this, goddamn.
11 people accepted the transfer of their consciousness to machines
NOD all the time
SeanusAurelius make that 12. I accept the transfer. I'm gonna fuck some people up as an immortal robot. I should probably pay closer attention to making sure that my oil gets changed though
Sure, just don't end up as an AK or "immortal" is a poor description.
SeanusAurelius yea... I was thinking more along the lines of Korgoth or Thud. But would it matter if I was amongst humans?
As we know, if those humans refused to be like you and took up arms...yes. Very much yes :)
Oh, well, ill install TA after dinner...
What we all love:
"What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side, the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other."
Not gonna lie, I read this in John Patrick Lowrie's voice.
although in TA: expansion it more or less hints that arm won the war, but if they won the expansion storyline is anyones guess, especially in cores last ditch attempt to build an Armageddon style bot to practically make the entire galaxy burn
The end should have said "total annihilation of each other" rather than "complete elimination"
Harrible knowing that there's a person in every Peewee fodder exosuit.
yfw 20 years ago you were too young to truly appreciate this music
this got me into classical music.
It's so rare for any soundtrack to be as ahead of its time as the game it was commissioned for is. This is planetary alignment.
I like how the soundtrack gets progressively more and more sad. Blood of the machines is out of this world!
technically every unit in the game had a human inside
@@paulmaartin Only the ARM units had. CORE units simply had human minds copied into them.
@@unclefiend2138 I feel like Core had better units in all. But at the least this game let you steal tech by reanimating factories and builders.
@@oddersisadog wat... my whole childhood dedicated to turtling and then big Bertha-ing or nuking everyone and I never stole the opponents tech once. Mind blown
@@jackerylel sad beep... Well now you can.
Remember d gunning everything as a last resort?
I played this game as an 8 year old off my dad’s windows 98 pc and thought “cool robots wars”. I will forever have fond memories of this game and I didn’t even know who Jeremy Soul is at the time, March unto Death is ingrained forever as an epic track that played as I defended my base from hordes of tanks, robots and war machines.
Playing TA on windows 10 64 bit - downloaded TA from steam - my life has meaning again
+Special Android I'm tempted...so verrrry tempted. Been a while since my Commander roamed the galaxy inflicting HOT PLASMA DEATH.
+Special Android Can you access the soundtrack from the system files?
yes, easily
+Special Android OMG yes i never actually thought to check for this game until now.... thank you. my life now has meaning again as well
Special Android dude get the escalation mod.
This music is transcendent beyond just a video game. Its nothing short of remarkable. Its beautiful its surreal its harmony and a little discord.. its... beyond a doubt the best sounding classically styled music I've ever heard. My mind sings to this sound
I’ve never played the game tbh. I played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation though. Just love the soundtrack though.
If you want similar classical stuff check out The Firebird and Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, and the fast movements of Prokofiev Violin Concerto and Shostakovich Violin Concerto
Man this brings back memories. This and Red Alert 2...
Dark Reign was another one.
Хотя когда месилово, на это уже не обращаешь внимания😏
The most underrated RTS of all time I guess.
Jeremy Soule's early works sound like late Romantic classical music, a combination of powerful chord progressions and spicy orchestrations, and especially remind me of Gustuv Mahler and Richard Strauss. Hard to believe that one can write such epic pieces of music when he was only 21 years old..
It actually reminds me more of early postmodern works more.
There is a lot of intentionally discordant notes, and it at least sounds like weird time signiture shifts.
In any event this deserves mention alongside great composers.
It has Opera, Strauss, Wagner, but also more modernist parts mixed in like Prokofiev and Stravinsky (like the Firebird, also the stuff with parallels fifths is very reminiscent of either L’Histoire du Soldat or Pulcinella, can’t remember which).
Also John Williams, there’s a little fanfare phrase there that is lifted straight out of one of the Imperial leitmotifs from The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack but I don’t begrudge them it at all because it’s so good and just naturally fits in with the rest of the piece.
A score easily worthy of John Williams status. As mesmerising, and inspiring as ever.
why? this wasn't aped from wagner or gustav holst, I say this holds its own far better
find any game w a soundtrack of this quality. I dare you. Major motion pictures can't get here.
Up there with the Earthsiege soundtrack. ua-cam.com/video/mIlR2gfbuCk/v-deo.html
@@opsimathics Ron Gilbert's brief to JS was to replicate the feel of Wagner's Die Walküre.
@@opsimathics No, it was aped from Stravinskiy to borrow your language.
Motifs get recycled in classical music, get used to it.
The soundtrack of this game is a work of art. Imagine an orchestra playing these battle songs! 😍
Here I am listening to March Unto Death with my headphones on at full blast, my arms laden with goosebumps and an overwhelming feeling of megalomania.
Ah yes... music to build empires by...
Bon voyage your ear drums.
Start a new skirmish.
Game starts with this music: 16:48
"Welp... **rub hands** ...time to build the basic structures!"
Aside from what I consider the greatest RTS title of all time...the original score was an absolute triumph. Jeremy Soule brought Chris Taylor's brilliant game to life through this unforgettable composition, and friends, that is what makes memories.
Some of the greatest music of the gaming world - no surprise its Jeremy Soule's
StarCraft.
Total Annihilation.
Command & Conquer.
The three games that forever defined the military RTS genre.
Tracks:
00:00 Brutal Battle
03:24 Fire and Ice
04:40 Attack!!!
07:17 Warpath
09:19 The March Unto Death
12:01 Ambush In The Passage
14:28 Forest Green
16:48 Death and Decay
17:53 Stealth
19:04 Licking Wounds
21:41 Futile Attempt
23:57 On Throughout The Night
26:28 Desolation
28:03 Charred Dreams
29:34 Where Am I?
31:23 Blood Of The Machines
Thank you!
It was my very first game I ever played. My dad thought it was Star Wars so he bought it for me. I was curious what it is. I never played anything before. Then I installed it aaaand my mind was blown away! Musical masterpiece! Combined with awesome gameplay = one of the best games ever made.
ah that hum when you launch up the game
So many memories, this game is pretty much gaming perfection. I'd go as far to say it's maybe the second best game of all time, second only to Baulders Gate lol. Imo
+Gary Wilson LOL I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIS COMMENT! To me though, TA takes number 1 and Bauldurs Gate comes second, damn I had much fun playing both!
What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and The Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over 4,000 years of total war. This is a fight to the death! For each side, the only acceptable outcome is the complete annihilation of the other... --- that might not be word perfect, but it's pretty damned close. I LOVED this game.
Thomas Longrigg Can't help but read this using the voice of the narrator.
+Thomas Longrigg spot on I think Thomas! I remember my father saying "that's a pretty uneconomical war if it has been going on for 4,000 years"
+Thomas Longrigg It's complete ELIMINATION of the other, not annihilation.
+Thomas Longrigg Still the best RTS ever, I'd say. Supreme Commander was supposed to reboot the whole thing, but it left me cold; too much dicking about with building upgrades, not enough WAR WITH A GREAT SOUNDTRACK. ;)
***** Agreed.
Despite this game coming out in the 90's, its got the perfect soundtrack for 2020, and
2020: Episode 1
Jeremy Soule has been kicking ass for deacades! I've only known him for the past 4-5 years or so, and realized that he was with me all along, ever since my childhood :D. Thanks Jerry
For anyone who may be interested: Total Annihilation is now on Steam, for $5. It also includes both expansions to the game.
Also: Forest Green is totally my favorite. By far. I think.
Mine too! This brings back memories. We used to play this on dialup and as kids loved that you could save the game so you didn't have to finish within the 2 hour window before you had to log into to dial up again
I remember myself as a kid, my pc went broken, I wasn't be able to play TA anymore. So one day I was so desparate that I did put TA disc in my boombox. It worked! Happiest day of my childhood
Sometimes I wonder if I only love this soundtrack so much because it's a huge part of my childhood? Maybe that's partially true... but there's just so much in every track to listen to. They're all so magnificent, and even mysterious at times. The range of emotions portrayed in this OST is broad, but those feelings are also oddly special and impactful. Definitely an OST I'll carry with me for life. I wonder how many of the other TA kids, teens, and boomers are out there recreating the wonder, mystery, and depth that Total Annihilation offered to them in the days of yester?
EDIT: I'm sorry, I had to edit this because it was so awkwardly worded. That's eight years ago! So many adjectives... Much better now.
Anyways, love seeing projects like 'Zero-K', 'TA Escalation', 'Beyond All Reason' and such keep popping up and continue to be developed. It fills my heart with joy.
Nostalgia works in mysterious ways. The last track, Blood of the Machines, invokes such a complex reaction in me. I played this game when I was 11, 12 years old. When I listen back to this music the feelings dwarf those of any music I've ever listened to. I couldn't even describe it.
Supreme commander is a good sequel and homeworld
Story of my life.
now there is a proper youtube comment
bless you
Story of my life.
I haven't played the game in 20 or so years but I still play the soundtrack. Absolute epic.
Still play this on Steam every so often, plays just as it did back then
"March unto Death" brings tears to my eyes. Every time :`(
Guys! Total Annihilation is now availible on steam!!
+vegetation1 don't forget Spring RTS, free fan made spiritual successor to TA
+S0u11ess Looks like shit so far
+Holret but it's free, and has mods!.
+Holret its not shit, play it
Do I have to?
Surprised no one has mentioned it's the same composer for Skyrim. Great Stuff.
Peace at last for us who chose to fight for the end.
The greatest soundtrack for a video game ever created. This music could have been made by John Williams and used in a Star Wars film any day.
Back in the day when internet required a ring tone...
I played this game with my brother over a LAN line when were teenagers. Probably the most absorbing and thrilling computer game experience of my life. Our epic battles lasted long into the night, sometimes until the sun came up. I'm now revisiting the soundtrack after 15 years, during which time I've listened to a lot of classical music. This soundtrack is absolutely stunning. I'm staggered by how good it is. Thank you, Jeremy Soule.
Best music of any RTS I've ever played to this day.
best game soundtrack... EVER.
I remeber my father always playing this and then once i got into 5th grade (i was born in 96) I started playing this religiously and it was so fun and from that day on I have yet to play a better RTS.
Hey I was also born in 96!
That moment you send troops into battle and the music kicks in just gives you chills.
I listen to this when I'm playing Forged Alliance sometimes.
Can we take sec to note that they got James Earl effing Jones to narrate the story?! This game is GOATed
It's not James Earl Jones it's John Patrick Lowrie same guy that voice Sniper in TF2
I just learned what else the man composed. All of the elder scrolls, Harry potter games, and most of all other games in my youth. What a legend
´Ambush in the Passage´ - No piece of music has ever captured the ferocity of battle in a game as good as that one.
Being a music composer myself, I have always ranked this CD as being the most inspirational in what I do. Maybe someday I can meet Jeremy Soule. Who knows.
Sometimes when I'm trouble sleeping I play this OST to remember my childhood then I sleep like a baby :')
Glad I’m not the only one.
The guy manning the cymbals is having quite a field day here.
What a soundtrack - so many memories.
I just LOVE Forest Green track!!
Forest Green is so perfect! Well the whole soundtrack is but something about FG elevates it to masterpiece!
Best RTS game ever. Forever. I still play it 23 years after its release.
Same here
As do I...
It's definitely one of the best. Played it for a long time, and still would if I still had it.
For those who are confused with the music files, this sound track starts at file 2 to 17.This is because files 0 and 1 are the same as 9 and 10.
Oh man so many fond memories of this game. I remember when I first bought it though, I couldn't get past the second level because the damn game gave me some error and crashed to desktop and this was before the age of quick internet patchs/fixes and the like.... so I was stuck just replaying level 1 and 2 for like a month (still enjoyed it lol) . Finally got it working months later and after beating the single player campaign me and my buddys played the hell out of this at LAN party sleep overs. Sadly though after a while they refused to play it with me, because i developed some ultra cheese strategys with the custom unit packs we downloaded - like the big bertha on wheels - where 4-5 of them within range of their base was game over lol oh and those stealth bombers etc.... underwater bases... the super powered GG nukes.... ahhh so many good memories. Another way we would play was co op - us against 3-4 hard AI's that would spam (cheat?) endless waves of units at our base and we would try and hold them off for as long as possible.... The soundtrack was so good that i recorded it onto cassette tape (yes we didnt have mp3 back then folks lol) and listened to it with a buddy on a 4 hour school coach trip, where he heard the s for the first time and was blown away .. Very different era of video games, to me the 'golden era' gameplay was priority and every game just felt like a true labour of love from small passionate teams, not some manufactured soulless cash grab like so many are unfortunately today.
man, this is pure 90s epic movie score. Jeremy Soule is one of my favourite composers
Oh man.
Right in the nostalgia.
Ambush in The Passage is my favourite. So, so dramatic. I listen to this in replacement of the Grey Goo soundtrack. A great game with equally good soundtrack but this just elevates the game to another level.
I can hear a few John Williams type flourishes and ornaments in it 13:24 with the brass arpeggio. Cor lovely.
I can't help smirk at the name of it though....Ambush in the The Passage.
Back to 1997, at that time you did not need to pay a huge sum of real money to get the advanced weapons. u did not need to wait endless time to advance in the game unless u are willing again to pay a huge sum. all u needed is practice, smart tactics, extract metals and produce energy, and go go go build hundreds of tanks and airplanes and warships and never forget the Big Bertha to kick the enemy's face
And pray that Big Bertha hits it's target!
@@Shepherd.1147 hahaha oo the golden era of gaming so glad I was a teen then and not now!
At 90s and early 2000s many games had expansion packs, but many of those expansion packs had new gameplay features, just not new items.
This is old but gold! I spent more than 3 hours searching for this! I am happy I found this game, I was a kid when this came out and everyone was hyped about it! I feel so nostalgic rn!
2023 and i still play this fantastic game with this GREAT soundtrack!
I listen to this OST when I play any RTS.
I'm listening right now playing Total War Three Kingdoms!
Verdi would be very impressed with this. Simply outstanding.
Licking Wounds & On Throughout The Night. 👏
I guess i am the only one which holds most dearly "brutal battle" when you heard this and you know enemy troops are not far behind....and indeed brutal battle it was...
the music engine this game uses to switch between sound tracks, based on in game triggers, created a connection to this soundtrack unparalleled by any other rts. At least in my case.
Jay Burns I know right? When I was young I was totally shocked that the music kept changing based on the situation, i thought it was magical :)
One of the best soundtracks ever made for a game.
Sound of a Vulcan: DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN!
Whenever I have to do intense works, I return to here.
Jeremy Soule, Matt Ulemen and Frank Klepacki are my favourite video game composers.
This original score is a rare find. It's just as good as the game itself, which is one of the greatest ever made.
I still love this soundtrack and wish more games would have similar soundtracks. The March Unto death still gives me the chills.
this game represents my childhood more than pokemon! Warpath; incredible used to get stuck in my head all the time :D
VeZaaR It conjures up a Christmassy feel for me, that is, if it were a Christmas of armored sleds and metal reindeer laying siege on each other on a snowy mountainscape
8:19 That moment when you've waited long enough and finally select all aircraft to perform an end game air raid on the Arm base.
In 2021…this is still absolute perfection!
Brilliant game and such a wonderful soundtrack. Wish they would make a remaster of it.
It was the first RTS with advanced vectoring for units. I remember it was so amazing to see units actually turning, instead of just using straight lines to maneuver.
Also I believe it was one of the pioneers in unit selections, grouping them, forming squads...etc.
I always wonder why this game was not as popular as the C&C series.
I think this soundtrack (and the KOTOR soundtrack) proves that Jeremy Soule is the ideal followup for the Star Wars soundtracks since John Williams is done after Episode 9. Jeremy's work on this took an already AMAZING game to the next level.
this was the first 'serious' PC game i came across, in my first PC, when i was a kid. this game was before anything I am using today in a daily basis like Google, UA-cam, smart phone etc. I did not even know how to play this game properly in those days, I just walked around randomly with that leader robot before I knew that I actually need to build things. I had lost the game after replacing the pc and had forgotten the name of this game. until recently, I found one of the disc from my old stuff can I recall it's name and started to Google it. it is so surreal to be able to listen to these music again after over 20 years. it is nostalgic. it has been so many years but still the music is familiar to me.
My first RTS game was C&C Red Alert which was awesome. I remember around the same time browsing game stores and seeing Total Annihilation but couldn't afford it as I was about 11 at the time. Eventually I somehow got it and was absolutely blown away at how good it was and played it much more than Red Alert, never played Kingdoms though.
I'm surprised how good the audio quality for the soundtrack is despite this game being released in a time where most soundtracks were compressed to hell.
Started playing TA recently and these songs are incredible.
They don't make game soundtracks this good anymore.
5:06 hit me in the feels so damn hard, in all the best ways, back in the day. Still does somewhat, but man hearing that brass BLAST for the first time was amazingly epic for a background theme in a PC game.
"Forest Green" is my favourite.
Same mate same
It had such an uplifting sound
The beginning is so good!
It still amazes me that this was composed merely for a computer game, it's almost ridiculously good. Literally a thousand times better than an other game's soundtrack. Forest green was always my favourite.
There are otber games with oleratic soundtracks, Halo being the prime example, but yes, this is probably the most imlressive of them all.
Which is suprising because TA itself was a relatively small game by a relatively small studio, but both in technological achivement and presentation it outdid its contmporaries by at least 5 years.
This is one year older than Starcraft and Tiberian Sun.
2022 and still playing this Game.. since I was 10 back in the 00'
16 years later, and I'm still listening to your music. Thank you, Jeremy.
*25
Jeremy Soule is such a great composer. I know him from TES and KOTR. Never played Total Annihilation but this soundtrack is fantastic.
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I played this game so much when I was younger! Supreme Commander came close to following on from it, but still not quite as good! I probably haven't played this for 13 years or so, but the music I can hum note-for-note! Loved the Big Berthas
This game is still one of the best. So good. Nothing has come close to it. Even the attempts such as planetary annihilation pale in comparison. This will forever be the juggernaut of strategy games
This music is more than awesome. It makes me have goosebumps always when I listen to it, and not only because I'm so much fond of the game and remember the times when I used to play it every week on my Intel 486, but because it's geniously composed.
this guy Jeremy Soule was 21 y.o. when composed all those tracks by himself.. tell me about talent
the march unto death is by far my favorite song in this collection.