What language is the opening menu warlords music singing in?

[curswine]

I don't really think Firaxis expected people to question and analyze the musical accompaniment, so could quite easily set a song in an Arab dialect to a Nordic setting and make it work. Just as many films use music from all sorts of different backgrounds even though the film may be set in a different location to where the film may be set.

 

[TheDervish]

Picture this: What keeps a young soldier going for days on end, let's him keep hope and gives him motivation to make it back *alive*?

No - not his mom-away-from-home (the sarge) but his sweetheart...
Sooo.... methinks this might actually be a good choice for an opening theme / main menu music.

I think that's a perfect explanation.

I don't really think Firaxis expected people to question and analyze the musical accompaniment,

Christopher Tin told me in an e-mail that he didn't expect fans to decipher Baba Yetu, so it's plausible.

 

[comradeTJH]

*LOL* ZB2

this is bullfeathers. wasting my time here. the music is almost identical to the music played to the Ragnar Leaderhead. so nerr

It's DEFINATELY not a nordic song since I'm half Norwegian, born in Norway and therefore would have recognized it... if you don't believe it, listen to the MP3's here: http://www.shira.net/lyrics/al-nadda.htm

 

[ZB2]

well then, its swedish. ner!

 

[alinurdengizich]

well then, its swedish. ner!

don't you know that people from scandinavia usually speak all of scandinavian languages(swedish,danish etc)
native speakers say that it's not nordic but you keep on saying it's nordic

 

[ZB2]

it just seems too silly to have arabic songs played to a viking background.

 

[curswine]

It's like banging your head against a brick wall.

Edit: Just listened to it for the first time (I'm awaiting the arrival of Civ4 so I can play Warlords, which I got early) and it is quite obviously from the Middle-eastern region, it sounds slightly like the call of an Imam. If I didn't now know it was Arabic I'd have a guess at Hindi, but no way would I go anywhere near Scandinavia

 

[Mortac]

Nopes it's nothing Scandinavian for sure, and if that's Swedish, then I must've forgot my mother tongue.

 

[Koelle]

lmao, love song

 

[asabahi]

ok, ill let that slide cos you guys aren't saying that its a language from the other side of the planet that 3 people know and is restricted to one 3x3meter island between Singapore and Borneo.

but it does hit me to think that if its a viking backdrop, viking related music would help set the theme, not sunni islam, not kurdish or shi'ite islam, not a curruption of an anceint form of turkish that is now only used as poison in a language dart fired from ankara with the idea that it can reach orbit and set a new age for turkish space flight thanks to their obsolete language.

The quote above strengthens my belief that children should not be allowed on the internet.

 

[ZB2]

what if its just a firaxis guy in a recording studio making noises?

 

[BigBadBear]

what if its just a firaxis guy in a recording studio making noises?

Well, if it keeps a lot of us guessing when Firaxis 'just makes noises'... guess what they can do when they *really* put their minds to it...

besides... al this time we put in here debating what kind of music it is and if it is fitting or not... i'm gonna play the game instead... Heck, I'm feeling frisky... I'm gonna advance from chieftan to warlord

 

[Holycannoli]

I don't really think Firaxis expected people to question and analyze the musical accompaniment

Civ players analyze everything about the game. Every single thing, down to the smallest mathematical minutia, in excrutiatingly mind-numbing detail. Of course they're gonna analyze the music

what if its just a firaxis guy in a recording studio making noises?

Lol like the people mumbling for The Sims.

I really prefer the vanilla Baba Yetu, but it doesn't fit the Warlord's menu screen. Any way to change that too?

 

[drkodos]

What the hell are they using a love song as the Warlords intro for?

For the same reason A popular cruise line uses Iggy Pop's Lust for Life (about heroin addiction) to advertise their cruises.


It works because it taps into the ignorance and disconnect from the larger world that most of us wallow in.

 

[ZB2]

my 3 min loading times makes the music anoying and repetitive so i customize it to play Europa - Santana for vanilla, and Machinegun (Live at New York) - Jimi Hendrix for warlords. it gets me into a war monger mood much better than its predicesor sound.

 

[FeelGood]

It sounds Arabic. Therefore, I believe it`s Arabic.

The quote above strengthens my belief that children should not be allowed on the internet

Hmm... really, how could he said words like that.

 

[JMaltman]

The relevant portion of the translation of the song seems to be:

"And if they refuse to give you to me, I will tear down the high mountains."

 

[blitzkrieg1980]

Why did they use the Lord's Prayer in Swahili for Civ IV?

Love can be the cause of wars -- like Helen of Troy Or those battles in the epic Leila and Majnun.

The Trojan War ("spawned from Paris's love for Helen of Sparta") were not actually due to Paris taking Helen from her husband. The truth was that it was an excuse for the ruler of Greece to go to war alongside his brother (the husband) to take over the "unbeatable" city of Troy with "impenetrable walls". But that's all history "blah blah blah" anyway.

 

[bloozoo2]

I prefered the main menu song for the original Civ4. It was more atmospheric and got me more into the 'evolve a civilization'-mood than the Warlord's main menu tune. So, if you're like me, there's a simple fix:

Copy this:
Civilization 4\Assets\Sounds\Soundtrack\OpeningMenu.mp3
To:
Civilization 4\Warlords\Assets\Sounds\Soundtrack\
Overwrite the current "OpeningMenu.mp3" in that folder.

Of course most people probably know about this already, but for those that don't, it's simple to make your own soundtrack by replacing files there.

Thank you Thank you ! I really dislike the new music!

 

[nour3001]

Well guys,for sure it's not scandenavian,it's arabic in a lebanese accent cos I'm arab and surely it's in arabic.