Music (especially the main menu)

[RGBVideo]

love the opening song, makes it feel epic.

Only because you don't understand the lyrics. It's funny how all words become cool and mysterious once you don't recognise them.

unfortunately I find the music from after the middle ages rather crappy just industrial bonks and clonks is what I remember. no rock and roll when I build the jukebox, no metal, not even crappy popmusic. just... noise

In the other cIV music thread, we praised it. You can change the in-game music.

[Footie Mad]

I still think the Civ I intro is the best atmospheric tune, absolutely classic.

[RGBVideo]

I still think the Civ I intro is the best atmospheric tune, absolutely classic.

Mmh, I didn't like the intro so much. The loading screen music was pure gold, though.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Raion
Our Father, forgive me my trespasses!

They should have had the AI sing this line in Civ 3 just before they crossed your border with their Settler.

[BleckLord]

You can hear one of the performers breathing in Bach's Bouree (I think its from Suite #2 in B Minor, but clasic music isn't my strong suit)

[FixerMX]

Stanford Talisman

The opening theme and credit music is sung by Talisman, an a cappella group from Stanford. They have some songs available for download and CDs for sale at http://www.stanfordtalisman.com.

[Arnelos]

There's A LOT of Civ1 music in this game, actually.

I've noticed that Peter (Russia), Caesar (Rome), Alexander (Greece), Hepshepsut (Egypt), Mao (China), Frederick (Germany), and Gandhi (India) all get adaptations of the original Civ1 music for their civ. Bismarck (Germany) gets the Civ1 "you lost the game" music. I haven't played with Ghengis Khan yet, but I'll bet he gets an adapted version of his Civ1 theme as well.

There are a few other Civ1 themes that seem to pop up here and there, too.

Pretty cool stuff.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by LzPrst
music and old civ1 intro. read by spock

unfortunately I find the music from after the middle ages rather crappy just industrial bonks and clonks is what I remember. no rock and roll when I build the jukebox, no metal, not even crappy popmusic. just... noise

What can you say? Not everyone appreciates modern classical. I can't say I've met very many people who do.

I do, however. It's a musical style that I actually enjoy, but then I only developed a taste for it from being a musician and playing it. The modern style relies heavily on taking a well developed ear for supposedly "proper" harmonies and turning the whole concept of music needing those "proper" harmonies and "proper" rhythyms on its head. As a musician, I love the stuff because of that dynamic and because of the inherent complexity and difficulty in performing it. But then I've always been big on music that plays around with chord structures.

Definitely an acquired taste, though.