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Modern age music
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Felix Luce
Warlord
Not the recordings, tho
They'd pay royalties to the recording artist(s) in this case, no matter the year of composer's death.
Not the recordings, tho
But if a recording artist is too expensive you can get someone else to record it if the composers copyright has expired. There are plenty of orchestras who do a lot of bread and butter work recording stuff for films etc.
TheWilltoAct
I am observe
the people are the heroes now ftw 
Also you'd need to have the permission of a living composer or of their estate in the case of one who died in the last 70 years to use their work. Beethoven etc have no say in the matter.
Count Okula
Chieftain
While you're at it, try some Danny Elfman. Nothing makes you want to win a war/space race like those playfully bouncy trademark tunes.
blitzkrieg1980
Octobrist
Stravinski be da man
haha, as a non-native English speaker, I never paid attention to the "People are the Heroes" lines. I mean that after hearing latin and gregorian chants earlier in the game, my ears just supposed that these modern chants were some more lines that I could not understand. Now I'm listening to it and I'm like "what the hell, this IS English". It's catchy too.
There's something weird for me. I find the modern music gorgeous when I listen to it on its own (in iTunes when I'm doing something else), but when I'm playing and the modern music comes in, it makes me way too nervous for some reason. I play without music (I only kept the leaders' music for when I zoom on the towns or go into diplomacy).
There's something weird for me. I find the modern music gorgeous when I listen to it on its own (in iTunes when I'm doing something else), but when I'm playing and the modern music comes in, it makes me way too nervous for some reason. I play without music (I only kept the leaders' music for when I zoom on the towns or go into diplomacy).
champ82
Immortal Ruler
Well, nuclear war and police states are pretty ominous.
No, you're right, the music is too ominous, and just, kind of, bad. Supposedly Sid is getting (or has gotten) Brian Eno for Spore – that should be pretty diesel.
I liked Civ III's modern music. It had elevator jazz and rocked out cheesy guitar rifts. That's what I want to hear when I'm spreading my corporations, gearing up to travel the stars, opening up super markets, and dropping bombs on the savages. Could I download that anywhere?
No, you're right, the music is too ominous, and just, kind of, bad. Supposedly Sid is getting (or has gotten) Brian Eno for Spore – that should be pretty diesel.
I liked Civ III's modern music. It had elevator jazz and rocked out cheesy guitar rifts. That's what I want to hear when I'm spreading my corporations, gearing up to travel the stars, opening up super markets, and dropping bombs on the savages. Could I download that anywhere?
champ82
Immortal Ruler
How do you do this? I am interested.
Brian Eno would be an awesome choice indeed. And I also liked the jazzy feel of Civ III for in-game atmosphere.
As for only keeping the music for diplomacy and towns... Well here goes. In the game's options you can pick a folder for music. So if you have a huge mp3 folder you can tell Civ to play music from that folder instead. But that doesn't affect the diplomacy/town music. So even if you pick an all-Blue-Oyster-Cult folder, this music is still going to stop for diplomacy/town (zoom-in on town). So, in order to have no music but keep the diplo/town music, you need to assign an empty folder... Or so you'd think. If you pick an empty folder, the game doesn't recognize it and reverts to default music. So you have to pick a folder with a music file in it, I just put a 10 seconds mp3 of complete silence in a folder and picked that.
TheWilltoAct
I am observe
Agree 100%, by and large civ 4 has atrocious music imo. Some of the early stuff is pretty hot but most of the rest of it is grating and horrible.
I bet that would be totally sick having Brian onboard, cool info
champ82
Immortal Ruler
Thanks SimonL
SenhorDaGuerra
Prince
just use custom music folder in the options menu... theres nothing like going to war with Prodigy on full blast!
I totally agree, there is a melody from the clssical era or so i really wanna know the name on.. there are drums and some kind of asian instrument and no singing in it, am i right?
does this only work with civ IV or does it also work with bts?
Felix Luce
Warlord
Brahms and especially Adams are certainly not bread-and-butter work. People work for their whole lives to play stuff that Adams or other great composers wrote. Those sorts of orchestras exist but they do usually original scores for cinema.
(and plus, I have the exact recording of Shaker Loops used in the game. In most cases it'd be WAAAAY more expensive to use an orchestra to record a non-original work.)
