Sporepedia - Original Complete Score
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2018
- 🎹 Guess what? The full Soundtrack to Sporepedia is now available on Spotify. spotify.com/album/0K68XZP8TQT...
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I have a new recurring live stream where I compose live. Many listeners have told me the music reminds them of the Sporepedia sound track. if your looking for more Sporepedia to chill to check out this episode of Frequensea - • Sound Design with an A...
I bet you didn't know only a portion of the Sporepedia soundtrack actually made it into the game. Read on for a great little story!
In 2006 I got the chance to submit some music to an upcoming Maxis game called Spore. After a meeting in Emeryville, California, where I got to see a little of the game in progress, I came home and composed a sample piece to submit for the game. The response was positive. I continued working on the piece with good feedback. However, at the same time Brian Eno and Cliff Martinez were hired as true composers of the game and I slowly slipped out of the project.
After the game's release I was contacted by Maxis because they wanted to send me a copy of the game. I had no idea that my song was kept as is for the Sporepedia portion of the game.
Fast forward a few years I start seeing my song posted online with credits going to Brian Eno and Cliff Martinez. I wasn't even on the WIKI page. Not only did people really enjoy the song but over time it had become a musical reminiscent slice of their teen years. I contacted a few youtube people and let them know I was the composer. Over time I have been given credit for the song.
BUT there's more. When I started seeing my song online, I knew that only a portion of the original piece was in the game. I dug around and found the hard drive and literally plugged it in backward and fried the only backup I had of the song. The full song and PROOF that I was the composer was gone for good.
Well not for good. I won't name names but it turns out that someone from somewhere special somehow kept a copy of my song during the composition process. So, it's with extreme pleasure that this you tube video has the entire never before heard complete 13 minute track for the Sporepedia section of the game Spore.
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This song is too much... I remember when I used to make creatures to my grandmother 2009, I used to show her them, and we had many good times with spore... Sadly, in 2017 she died due to cancer... Everytime I listen to this it reminds me of those times, and I always cry of nostalgia.
This is a very warm memory. It’s truly incredible to hear how this piece of music can bring back a time period for so many people.
Wow I can’t believe the same exact thing here except my grandmom passed 2021.
You have no idea how pivotal this music was for me, this piece was so inspiring and jovial. I used to put it on loop as a teen to cure my insomnia, I'd just drift through space and stars like a happy idiot. ^u^ thank you so much for your work, this piece was amazing and for sure defined the soul of the creative space we all viewed our work in.
Palafico3 awesome!!
Hi how are you doing
@@frequensea_experience damn you for making a such good song ❤ i fucking hate that 1 person just single handledly build my childhood, i love this with every atom of my body, if cartel wants you dead, put me in your place
it's strange but honestly this music feels like home
It really does feel like it, doesn't it?
😮Yeah it does damn
It feels weirdly comforting.
There really is something so comforting and oddly fulfilling about going back to the sporepedia. It’s like coming home from a long days work.
I had no clue you were behind this. I have both an embarrassing and impressive amount of hours on the game. I would spend entire summer afternoons on my parents computer playing spore. I never beat the game because the space stage was too complex for my 9 year old brain, but I made a plethora of bright memories playing the creature stage and making monsters. Thank you for being a part of my childhood.
So nice to read all of these comments!
this song is a whole part of my childhood
same
Same
I spent most of my time in the sporepedia, admiring my creations. Your song is the one that marked me the most in the game. Thank you for this, seriously
I also spent a lot of time in sporepedia
I remembered so badly wanting to get my hands on this game as an 11 year old up to its release date. The day that Spore came out in 2008, I got the game. I stayed up all night, and every day I was playing it. I have fond memories of toying around with the creators, browsing through sporepedias, going through through the stages of being a cell, creature, tribal man, civilian, spaceman, and designing buildings, vehicles and even planets. It seemed like there were so many endless possibilities. This game will always have a special place in my heart no matter how old I get.
It’s crazy that I never met anyone else in my life who has played Spore but it has made me so happy going into this comment section and seeing people who shared the same experience with the game as I did. When I play Spore now it feels a bit outdated but honestly when I was a kid, it was everything to me. I loved it so much. Luckily I got my little brother into it now and he loves it as well. The sporepedia theme is where all the nostalgia is stored for me. ❤️ I could listen to this for hours
This song has been a profound part of my life for a long, long time now. It is nostalgic for playing Spore as a kid, yes but to me it is much more than that. This song is nostalgia for past relationships, life events, it reminds me of smelling the night air after leaving a friend's house feeling completely happy and content with life. Thank you for creating an integral part of my life that I have listened to countless times Mr. Stokes.
Wow comments like this are incredible for me as a musician. Thank you and thanks everyone for such wonderful comments.
Thank you a lot, man! I have always loved this track specifically because of how innocent and imaginative it feels. Also great to know the story behind everything, I can appreciate it even more.
Brooo!!! it's you!!!
Hey broooo!!!!
This song is pretty much the reason I disable Darkspore Audio in the Dark Injections mod, this song is too good to be replaced.
It just screams infinite creativity and it's fun to look through my creations and get all nostalgic, I can't imagine doing that without this song.
Same
Still coming back to this masterpiece every once in a while. Having these comforting, nostalgic chords and progressing leitmotifs really puts me at ease. As though it really was like I was still age 11, just sitting at the computer and picking one of the many goofy dudes on my screen to play as in my next galactic adventure. This song just cruises in time with me, leaving this butterfly feeling in my stomach and a yearning for the time I spent during every afternoon afterschool, when I would drop all my math homework to explore the stars, the planets, the creatures and the civilizations. And even now, I still play Spore to explore while I can't explore the real world.
Yooo
Thank you so, so much for your amazing contribution to the happiest part of my childhood.
I have been playing Spore for almost 10 years now, which is about 2/3 of my life as of the day I wrote this comment. Every time I open the Sporepedia and hear this song start to play, I have to keep myself from crying. Spore has been such a monumental part of my life, and a comfort for me during my lows.
Same Bro
If I knew how to mod Spore's music, I would replace the in-game version of the song with the full version that you have here.
But seriously though, this track is amazing. I love hearing the shortened version every time I open up the Sporepedia. It just adds such a sense of curiosity and wonder that would otherwise be absent from the Sporepedia.
Have you ever gone onto the Sporum or joined a Spore discord? I know some people who can help you in that venture.
@@gonderage Hi. Clue me in pls
@@robocu4 super late, but i've been long unassociated with the spore game since my comment. uhhhh, to the best of my knowledge, the spore modding community can be found on davoonline.com/phpBB3/index.php?sid=64634370e2a75e5256aafdf7e29857ae
there is also a link to their modding server on discord, they can lead you where to go.
So glad this is finally available.
Still amazes me after all these years :3
if only you knew how this masterpiece is present on people's memories. I'm a 23 year old dude and I can seriously make myself cry from nostalgia hearing this. It's that good. Brings me back to 2008.
Amazing!
I seriously thank you for this piece, it was a very pivotal part of my life to cope with many things to play Spore and honestly, I sometimes got bored and just browsed the sporepedia endlessly, seeing all the things that have been made while this song was playing, and I seriously can't thank you enough for the memories you have given me with this song.
wait...YOU MADE THE ACTUAL SONG??????????? EPIC BRO
I used to bike around downtown Portland, Oregon to this song and it gave me the most amazing feeling, not to mention all the amazing memories I have hearing the song within Spore itself. Thank you so much for your creation!!!
Best song in game :)
spore got torn to shreds by critics and the media, it was even the catalyst for the unfortunate fall of maxis, but one thing stands true, the game itself is a testament to negative feedback from media, yet positive feedback from the actual playerbase, you don't see that much anymore, with the reverse being the case for most games. in my eyes, spore was no failure. it stands the test of time, passing through with flying colours and an expansive playerbase that is growing to this day. spore is a gorgeous game with infinite possibilities, and this piece of music truly captures that feeling. gorgeous music to encompass the feeling of an ever expanding galaxy.
spore is my favorite game of my childhood
Spore may have flaws and well received criticism but it had soul. Not something most AAA games have nowadays.
Amazingly put
This song is my childhood. Thank you so much for making this masterpiece. Always loved this song and I still do, listening to this almost makes me cry of nostalgia. Spore means so much to me and without this song it wouldn't be the same. ❤
After knowing this game for 10 years, and loving it since the very first time I got to play it, I literally can't believe I get to hear the full Sporepedia, my favourite song in the entire game. After all these years... ;)
Spore, The Sims, and SimCity used to have amazing, ethereal music. Amazing work Mr. Stokes, I used to always chill to the Sporepedia music just looking at my creations and thinking of what monstrosity to make next..
Respect, man. Always loved this theme
I used to play Spore A LOT as a kid. I'm 23 now. I still very often think about this piece . Thank you so much for this.
I have heard this song for god knows how many hours of my life. It’s wonderful. 10/10 would hear it all again
NOSTALGIA
Thank you so much for composing this masterpiece! Spore was an amazing part of my childhood!
My favorite song in gaming. Thanks. This is a treat.
Hiding in the bathroom for 2 hours because there is a cockroach in your room type-beat
this song was my fucking childhood
Beautiful
The one dislike on this video is probably by EA..
And the other dislike is from the Grox
@@lahavmorris9919 The other is from the Quidee Empire.
It is very surprising for me I’m not the only person who loved Spore in my childhood. Thank you for reminding me of my best ages, from Japan :)
I never knew the backstory for this piece! yes this game is burned in my memory and thanks for making it! ♥
Now that I've been listening to it again I want to just go gush/play Spore... Spore may not be the most crazy game today or be perfect, but the ideas in it are still with me today.. hope that someday some dev out there tackles something like spore did.
Look up Thrive by revolutionary games. They still are working on the cell stage but its free to download right now and they plan to expand it to be just like spore
I don't know about you all, but this piece reminds me of those magazines about all the weird animals out in the world, seeing and reading about Tasmanian devils, harpy eagles, Samoan flying foxes...it really makes you have a colorful perspective of the world. Does anybody else get a feeling like this?
Spore had the problem of being too ambitious for its time, with a flora creator and aquatic stages/creatures originally planned to be a full part of the game. I absolutely loved the game and still do, it was such a joy for me to be able to create monsters and adventures, two things I still love to do in D&D as an adult but this game and this song scratched my imaginative itch for years. Truly grateful to you for this piece of music, will always be a part of me.
Thanks for putting this online. And for composing this.
Your harddrive if you still have it, if its not a SSD then the data on the disk itself in theory still exists and is not gone for ever
You did a great job on this one mate,
Thankyou.
This song and game we're such a pivotal moment of my life. Truly believe this is a big part of what got me to get into animation for my degree as well as conceptual art as a hobby. Brings back such great memories of all the creatures and adventures I made back in high school ❤️.
Thank you so much for this beautiful piece of music, it is by far one of my favourite pieces ever composed and invokes so many memories I can’t even count them. Will definitely check out more of your work!
At 4:40 the nostalgia begins, guys.
Nostalgia begins at 0:00
@@damianmorales6202 agree
This is one of my favourite tracks in the game, and quite frankly one of the most memorable ones. Hearing this entire song is an experience in and of itself, honestly feeling like I'm in another world. Combine that with the memories of being a young kid and playing Spore for hours on end, and you got yourself the greatest listening experience.
I still play Spore to this day, with lots of excitement, and although what was first promised of this game didn't quite reach its full potential, I'm still really happy with this game.
So, thank you, Mr. Stokes for creating this wonderful piece which brings me memories of better times, but also memories that have yet to be made in the wonderful game of Spore.
Same
if you remember this you deserve the ultimate veterans discount
Bought Spore in 2009, I didn't realise there were more Spore games beyond Creature Creature at the time and it blew my mind. I'll love it forever
This song lives ingrained in the fibres of my soul. Thank you for your contribution toward building the creature I am today.
4:40 for notstalgia
0:00
Holly crap, I clicked this and had no idea the wave of nostalgia hit me like a train, I WANT TO PLAY SPORE AGAIN😭😭
There is special place in haven for you. It's best piece of Spore's OST. I can't count how many times it helped me to chill in the middle of the night....
Spore was my childhood life, thank you for writing this music. It makes me so happy!
Thank you for posting this song to UA-cam mate! Sometimes I would stick to the Sporepedia just so I can hear the music. Like some other people have said in other comments this really does sound/feel like home, it's very relaxing.
Do you happen to have more unreleased Spore music that you made?
PhoenixKev no I only wrote this piece. There were no iterations. :)
Fascinating to read the full story behind this song! Thanks for all the good memories :D
This song was my childhood, thank you.
Man, what nostalgia... I loved playing spore so much and I still do! Making the creations, evolving, beating the game and beating it again several times... I used to do that a lot and I miss playing it a lot, Even because I spent a lot of time on sporepedia listening to this song! Seriously, you have no idea how much I love this song and how special it was to me!!! Thank you so much for doing this work :D
This is so trippy /peaceful
the nostalgia hit me with a truck, and then saved me
when i listen to this i dont just get nostalgia from spore, but from my whole life leading up to listening, evolving like one of my creations from spore.
the first time i played i named my species "The Naa" they were purple duck like creatures, originating as small tiger striped beans.
I evolved them through every stage, every challenge.
at one point in the tribal stage, i had sparked a war and was losing terribly, the invaders got to my tribe, destroyed everything, i only had a few people left, all on incredibly low HP.
I saved at that point and whenever i tried again i would just get killed, i came close to quitting spore as a whole, but i held through, eventually i was able to fend off the invaders by some stroke of luck.I drove them back to they're base and wiped them out.
After that it was civilization stage, an epic ot stuck i my city at the very start. i could not defeat it so i deleted that world, started a new one on space stage with the same species "The Naa".
I colonised every arm of the galaxy, terreformed planets and even the moon of the home planet.
We had may allies. but we had two enemies the Grox (obviously), but the Ixplix or whatever they were called were my real enemy, they would always attack when im far away, after who knows how long i invaded them back, i brought back my coalition of allies, destroyed roughly a half of their empire, then i made peace and was able to forge an alliance for a while, that withered away, i even had a small war with them when our alliance fizzled out, but nothing realy came of that.
All i have of that original planet i deleted is screenshots, if you know how to restore deleted planets then please tell me.
Thanks for reading if you did read this, may your life be happy.
What genre is this?
What a piece of art this is. Great job. How much time did you need to make this song?
I am so happy to rediscover this! As many others have said, this was a huge part of my teen years, and this beautiful piece of music brings me right back to when I got this game as a 14 year old girl. And now I am nearly twice as old and still listening to this during my creative projects, just as I had listened to it during my homework sessions as a teen. Thank you for all the fond memories- from myself and every other fan of this game. ❤️😊
I feel so joyful reading this
Spore I love you so much. My kids will play you and I will play you again I will never stop. I hope my kids make their kids play Spore.
Makes me feel calm still. I love how they made the soundtrack. Wish EA let will have full creative control of spore's development.
I love the fact that this song is a special part inside of each one of us, hang on a shelf together with all the things that filled us with joy throughout our lives. This song and experiences it brought will forever stay with me since it has now become one of the many doors here inside my mind where I can go through and feel this way again. Thank you Saul Stokes! You are amongst the many heroes in my life.
love this bit of the soundtrack, thanks for uploading it! will be sure to check out some of your other music too
Mate, you're a legend for this one. The best song in the original game.
This is such a wonderful piece of music, and it's great that you're finally getting recognition for it. May I ask what software/hardware you used to create it?
Wow, sounds like this song has had quite a history. I'm glad you're finally getting credit for it. The entire soundtrack is amazing, but this track definitely stands out as one of the most memorable. Cheers.
Thank you.
no words can be said, it's so.. nostalgic..
My comment may or may not get noticed as this is an old video, but I just wanted to personally thank you for making such an absolutely beautiful piece of music. Nothing in the universe would be able to take this track’s place on the Sporepedia. I read your description, and learning that you weren’t solely responsible for all of Spore’s music is sad, yet makes sense. The other two composers failed to capture the pure magical essence this track does. If you were the main composer, I have no doubt that the rest of Spore’s music would become 10x more beautiful than it is now.
Thank you for the kind comments. I come by and read these now and then when I need a musical lift to keep on composing!
This song is such a huge part of my childhood - thank you, thank you so much for composing this. It means more than I can say. I was wondering, is this song in particular on Spotify? I can’t seem to find it.
Hi Aitriah, no it's not on Spotify. Honestly I've never thought about putting it up there. I'm not sure If I can do that as i would technically make money off of it. Right now i have it here and Bandcamp for free to keep me out of any hot water. If you go to saulstokes.bandcamp.com it is available to download for free.
@@frequensea_experience Oh thank you!! That’ll really help me, thank you! I put as much of the Spore soundtrack as I can on my studying and relaxing playlist so I was hoping to put it on there. Maybe I can find a way. Thanks again!
Echoing everyone else in saying that this song has a huge amount of nostalgia for me - it is hard not to get emotional when I hear it! I played spore the year it came out and for a long while after. This score remains one of my favorite and most meaningful video game scores of all time to me - thank you for this :)
So Awesome to hear this
Thankyou for gracing us with this marvellous piece. Many of us grew up to this
It must feel awesome to know you created something, that ended up becoming *Nostalgic* to so many different people's childhoods, and is fondly looked upon years later...
That is one of my personal biggest goals in life. I dream to create something in my lifetime, that will feel nostalgic to someone in the future I will probably never meet.
Thank you for the memories! :)
I actually don't think I truly understand the extent of it still. I did just receive an email from a band member that said his band once tried to play it live at an intimate gig! How crazy is this? i'm secretly hoping that someday there will be some kind of Spore conference and I'll get to come and say hi in person.
This was the second game I ever played, I was only 8 years old, I still play this game even today. It’s incredible how much a game and subsequently the people who made it, can change you , this is why I’m going into the game industry so that maybe one day I can have the same effect on someone else.
I remember as a little 8 year old kid playing on my sisters laptop. I didn’t care how much time I spent, and I would tell my mom we were doing something together just to play spore lol. I would spend sooo many hours just making creatures, I had probably hundreds of creatures that were just random blobs of legs arms and other parts. I remember she got mad once because I had like 100 worlds that I just never deleted lol. I miss this game so much I wish I could play it for the first time again. I wish I could have that childish creativity back. I wish I could just make stuff without worrying if it looked good or was “optimal” or whatever.
Sounds like science
THIS SONG NEARLY BRINGS ME TO TEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU MADE THIS GAME TEN TIMES BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was NEVER in the time of spore but this song... gives me that nostalgic feeling
idk how this shit manages to fit the middle of a summer's morning and a late night at the same time but damn it just works.
my childhood in 13 minutes
You're awesome mate. Good job on this amazing work.
Thank you for uploading the definitive edition of my absolute favourite song of all time and thank you for making this, it's the best track in the entire game.
May I ask what inspired your instrumentation of this? (I also noticed you made the song sort of "Evolve" as it goes along, which is ingenius)
Maxis gave me one xerox print of a creature in addition to a few screenshots I was able to see at their offices. Thank you!
@@frequensea_experience Thank you for responding, I'm probably going to continue to post comments because truthfully, this piece of music has had a remarkable presence all throughout my life, because of that, I have a lot of things to say about it.
This is so incredibly nostalgic, thank you so much for your work, this is beautiful
Woah dude, feel like I stumbled on some trapped brain matter. Fuzzy!
Hi Saul,
Just thought I'd let you know that this song is incredible and is a huge part of my childhood. You're an incredible artist, and I hope you've found success in your endeavors beyond composition for Spore.
P.S. -- any change of a high quality MP3 download?
EDIT: Just found it on your bandcamp. You're a gem.
-Ryan
this will never be forgotten ❤
Best OST of all time nothing that exists can beat this soundtrack nothing
2:55
@@solzarcat555 0:00
Your sound is so good man ^_^ been listening to all your releases thanks to Spore!
Incredible to hear! Lately I have been doing live Twitch streams from my studio. If your interested search Frequensea_Experience on Instagram which is where i post show dates. Truly appreciate the note!
Thank you for your time and effort to get this whole version uploaded. I really appreciate getting the chance to hear the original full idea of the composer for music pieces, although they (often) do not fit as they are into movies/games/series with everything else.
I would love to know how you did some of those flowy synths, they sound so cool. I also love your story about the track, kinda strange to hear that about a track that I heard lots and lots when I was a kid. Back then it didn't even occur to me that someone composed it, it was just kind of a given.
Thank you! Your music raised me.
;)
Thank you so much for this song...
This brings such joy to my heart. Thanks for the good memories.
if spore 2 will come out someday you definitely should write some music for it.:)
Thanks for the memories.
I'm just gonna say thanks. You really enriched a lot of people's childhood with this tune. Thanks.
This is the most nostalgic song I've ever listened to.