The Mandalorian Blockade - The Music of STAR WARS: The Old Republic

[hanpolo21]

I got an B in my science course work recently. I redid this course work whilst listening to this. Now since its been re-submitted I got an A* :P

[intermender]

Those of you who like the epic bit after about 3:49 - try the music of Miklós Rózsa :D

[droidean]

mistake in the horns at 2:10.

there is some track where a trumpet players makes a blaring mistake.

[henhz]

WHERES THE SPACE MISSION MUSIC!!!!??!?!?

[JacobARF]

1:15 and onwards really reminds me of "The Droid Invasion" from Star Wars Episode 1.

[sadailinikada86]

From 3:49 and on, it goes beyond epic, it tastes of victory and triumph, and galaxy trembles before your might. Universe is in your grasp, and you can squeze it in your merciless fist! Galaxy will burn, stars will bleed, and cries of your enemies will echo through the void of space!!!

[JacobARF]

1:15 = epicness

[Eleglas]

Everyone's favourite Mandalore is Mandalore the Preserver. Player's of KOTOR will know why.

[THETRUTHOWHY]

smuggler

[DeadExposureDF]

Great song throughout, especially at the ending (Sounds truly legendary from 3:49 onward).

[Slytherin128]

That's not to say that they never had any poor leaders who made some dishonorable choices, Mandalore the Indomitable and Mandalore the Lesser among them.

[Slytherin128]

I should also point out that this is science fiction. No need to make it personal with the rage faces and whatnot.

[Sald8Trin]

Taung sa rang broka!

jetiise ka'rta!

Dha Werda Verda a'den tratu!

Coruscanta kandosii atu!

Duum motir ca'tra nau tracinya!

Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a!

[Ghosttriider]

best song imo, non collectors edition, but too bad its not in the collectors edition. its sooo epic!

[Matovics0417]

Truly epic song. Well done and thanks!

[existtraiesc]

I hate the Mandalorians, what they see as honor it's actually mere space bullying. D:<

[knight665]

@existtraiesc you have no sense of honor you should be ashamed.

[Slytherin128]

@existtraiesc Copaani mirshmure'cye, vod?

[existtraiesc]

@Slytherin128 Do only time when i like Mandalorians is in the New Republic era when they are neutral. do you know what mandalorians actually did and still do now in the old republic? they don't do anything constructive = they have no honor. that's just a word to catch the attention and support of people like you >:O

[Slytherin128]

@existtraiesc I'm well aware of the many "atrocities" comited by the Mandalorians, including the Cathar Massacre, which I'm sure is what you're alluding to. But what you fail to realize is that the Mando'ade have never attacked a group that didn't themselves have a reputation for warfare. The simple fact that the Mandalorians allied themselves with the Sith against the Republic until the New Republic era does not make them dishonorable. You don't have to be the "good guy" to have honor.

[Knalxz]

@Slytherin128 True everything in this paragraph is true.

[NicotheFett]

Oya!

[hazilops]

Great

[iloveSWKOTOR2]

For Mandalore! Vode an!

[DeutscheBagge]

Wow, a fantastic job by Mark Griskey of maintaining the musical feel of Star Wars as so expertly crafted by John Williams, without completely imitating John Williams. A lot of substance here rather than loud noise.

[troopersarsan]

this music played when I was the game it was EPIC!

[lordrevan571]

 par Mandalore

[ShitNugget2534]

I'm listening to this so i can still remain close to this awesome game while i do my homosexual homework.

[OneViGOR]

I was doing Maths homework while listening to this, and just as I mastered Trigonometry, I heard this: 4:10

It was a truly momentous occasion!

[BloodThornODST]

I used to be a Jedi like you, then I took a blaster bolt to the knee!

[talicadk]

"You had us outnumbered five to one. You had more ships, more troops, more supplies and the Jedi on your side. And we still made the Republic tremble before we fell!"

[MusicDemon1002]

@talicadk "Nice speech. I bet you say that every night so you can sleep. I don't wanna talk about this Canderous. The war is over. You lost."

[MatthewStarWars]

@MusicDemon1002

lol

[MusicDemon1002]

@MatthewStarWars I love that conversation between Carth and Canderous about the Mandalorian Wars and who was the real victor, and the real meaning of a warrior and a soldier

[HGKaspa]

Flesh Raider shot me in the leg while i was killing some Mandalorians.

[Davmoran1]

@HGKaspa Sooo many Flesh Raiders on Typhon.

[xKrazyPandax]

@Davmoran1 Tython* =)

[sno86]

I have this playlist on every day at work... a lot of these views are from me... lovin' it!

[ipnospkk]

FOR MANDALORE!

[gmann1968]

My fav by far, the opening is brilliant.

[argonoch]

cant wait to get my colecters edition with the ost =D

[MrMrmike5]

OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! This is f***ing awesome! Williams should be proud.

[MAJ0Rpyro]

I'm tired of the stupid arrow to the knee crap. I love skyrim but seriously people are saying it too much. I'm sorry if I offended

[argonoch]

@MAJ0Rpyro nah its cool, I used to get offended by stuff like that, but then I took an arrow to the knee

[StromNoteak]

First 20 seconds seriously give me the chills

[CraayC]

your saga begins... TODAY!!

[limwire5]

Today's the day!! :D

[XxUndeadXTacoXx]

@TheMartialartsJedi and they would lose the Emperor tricked Mandalore the Ultimate into fighting the Republic knowing that the Mandalorians couldnt but that he wanted to test Republic's strength and then afterwards Revan helped Canderous find Mandalore's mask after his redemption on Rekkiad to unite the Mandalorians again and the Imperial Agents tricked the Mandalorians into fighting for the Empire.

[oldrepublicdude]

@TheMartialartsJedi have you seen the old republic timeline? the empire helped the mandoalorians to rejoin, so they blocked off the trade roots, so the empire and madoalorians would work with each other ..... i think

[ferkles4554]

@oldrepublicdude You are correct. The Imperial operatives caused Mandalore's rise to power in the gladiatorial world, and then instated him as Mandalore, pulling on the puppet strings. He moved his forces into a blockade of the trade route and began starving the republic.

[oldrepublicdude]

@ferkles4554 thank you :)

[Randomaccount12321]

Early Game Access starts in less than twenty-four hours.

It's here, it's finally here...

[oldrepublicdude]

i think for the next lot of charaters they should put in mandalorians for the empire, that would be epic

[pompehag]

bounty hunter here i fucking come!

[AndrazKosuta]

Epic SWTOR music is epic.

[Ujemaima]

This song is the reason I'm buying the collector's edition of the game - I need that music cd!!!

[mth31216]

@Ujemaima This song, as well as all of the other songs that are being released on youtube, will not be in the collector's edition. That CD is a feature that people pay for in that pack, so most people will raise hell when they discover something that they paid for is being handed out for free. So there most likely will be different, hopefully equally awesome, music in it.

[tomayto70]

@mth31216 that's the dumbest thing i've heard this is the MAIN THEME to tor, the one you hear when you log on. Of course these songs are gonna be on the soundtrack. These and more that won't be put up here. Because it's the CE :)

[mth31216]

@tomayto70 Well then idk what on earth i've been reading. I managed to find some article on SWTOR website saying the songs being released on youtube won't be on the CD

[limwire5]

@mth31216 Thats correct.

[GeekingForJesus]

@mth31216 BioWare did say that it was the entire soundtrack, but it seems like a lot to put on one or two CDs. But it will contain all 5.5 hours of new music, and maybe the old music, too.

[Ujemaima]

@mth31216 Alright, thanks for telling me! :D

[CFaux220]

@Nintendoggy no arrow can stop a Mandalorian!

[TheKay9real]

@Nintendoggy aarrow to the knee jokes are fucking annoying.

[Tw4tz0r]

I used to be Mandalore until Revan took a saber to my knee.

[Brady2k10]

wills bit starts at 3.45, had to thank him for his touch of epicness

[Brady2k10]

and i have his repy: Hey man, thanks so much!! I had a great time writing for the game, it was my first time to write for a live orchestra and choir actually. Wonderful opportunity I'm very thankful for.

Thanks again for dropping me a line man, it means so much to see people actually care about us scribbling notes down behind all the blasters and lightsabers :-)

Take care and Merry Christmas to you too,

- Will

[cers001]

At 0:16 there's a chord used from the Jedi order track in the sith lords nice homage I love that old track

[Brady2k10]

i just emailed wilbert roget, who did the music from 3.45 telling him what a great job he did!!

[cshawnsmith71]

The first 20 seconds of this particular song reminded me of the themes to Lord of the Rings. Other than that, these have been great tracks!

[allabtMando]

If I said I shat myself would it get lost in the comments?

[vadess40]

I could listen to this song all day... Maybe they'll play when I go up to receive my doctorate. Absolutely epic!

[Havek94]

Thumbs up for Smugglers!

[RussianWasabi]

@Havek94 What KIND of smugglers? :o

[Pointburn]

@RussianWasabi The Republic ones i think

[Eleglas]

@RussianWasabi Probably means the ones that broke the Mandalorian Blockade, can't remember the one in charge's name.

[jack1uk1]

@RussianWasabi Budgie smugglers, Budgies from Yavin IV.....

[TheWomacker]

@jack1uk1 Because budgies love nuts.... And they couldn't live without them.

[Havek94]

@RussianWasabi  Gunslingers FTW

[RussianWasabi]

@Havek94 Hell yes! :D

[stupidguyx]

WOHOAHAHAHA HEYEYEYEHA

[WookieRebellion501]

The music here is very different, what's up with it?

[DasUnderscore]

Has a very "You have been disconnected from the server," feel to it lol. But it's great.

[ProffessorProffessor]

i only got to get my sith warrior to level 10 marauder but it was still awesome

[HarryBillyBobGeorge]

4:54 Battle of Christophsis, anyone?

[HK1000mk1]

in beta i got a bounty hunter to lvl 23, and its really cool, what i liked about it the most is

you not only get to take on jedi but also sith as well, i plan on make 1 male character for each 8 classes and then make 1 female character for each 8 classes on another server.

GREATEST GAME EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pointburn]

Now this is what you can call star wars music!

[FriarTuck1234]

what did vitalisPL say?



[Pointburn]

@FriarTuck1234 Something about wow our beloved time eater rip or something

[Xelgar]

EPIC!!

[RepublicOrder]

Simply amazing. The music is well done in TOR, it definately has the 70's - 80's feel that we are so a custom to in the older movies.

[timmytimster14]

This is giving me such a nostalgia trip of KOTOR.....

[XxUndeadXTacoXx]

0:20 "Korriban, ancient birthplace of the Sith..."

[TheRealDavlion]

This is my favorite piece so far, the beginning mind-blowing, very STAR WARS

[rockerBG]

(1:17)

>:(

[tedigrizli]

This track has bits of 1 of the original SW movie tracks.

[ThreeSixXero]

lolWoW. There's no way it's a match for The Old Republic part of Star Wars.

[Brady2k10]

i will only remember wow 1 and wow BC though, the others can fuck themselves blizzard can take wotlk, cata and this monk shit and shove it up their arses they deserve to fail now, wow provided for them and they became greedy n fucked over the fans after BC thats how i think of it anyway i love wow and swtor and both are kings thumbs up for World of Warcraft & Swtor

[limwire5]

@Brady2k10 wotlk was actually pretty good imho

[Brady2k10]

wow is a fantastic game, and i raise my glass to it, i dont understand why we are all hating on wow, when i know alot of us played it and loved it at one time or another, i dont hate it, but its gone in the wrong direction thanks to blizzard, like the first time i went to outland it was amazing, wow deserves respect and i cant think of a better game to take the throne than swtor, i think we should all stop hating on wow and respect it, but its had its time, we shouldnt hate it or compare

[Slytherin128]

3:48 onward = brain orgasm. :D lol

[DashunicornII]

this music takes me back to kotor, nice job

[Warriorofhyrule]

3:50 is the ending theme.

[XxUndeadXTacoXx]

WoW has been dieing since the LK came out TOR is just finishing what was already in motion

[nodlimax]

The music is really great.

In addition - WoW was on the death bed since 31.12.2010 (account cancelled) and died for good with the announcement of Mists of Pandaria

[vadersdemise93]

Haha, Star Wars beats all!

[FPSVampire]

WoW will lose its crown on Dec 20 2011

[cybertronus]

22 wow fanboys disliked the this cause they are jealous on swtor

[kwtpoliceman]

i dont like star wars movie ....but lets hope this game good

[jonus63]

@kwtpoliceman If you don't like the Star Wars movies, then it's not that good of an idea to get a game that's based off them.

[Mithrandilferalis]

You know you start to walk like a boss at 1:20, don't deny it!

[Browncoat1984]

No one game will kill WoW but a number of games I think will draw subscribers away. TOR, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online going free to play. These are heavy hitters (I know there are a TON of people waiting for STO to go free to play) and I think too with more games going f2p you'll see the market shift from one dominating title to several popular titles. Also, I hope the music is better positioned in the final build than in the beta. It felt like they just randomly took SW music and put it in.

[Iamlegend1234]

This is the smugglers main theme i think. Or his/her one atleast sounds similar.

[Silverbulletzx3]

This won't kill WoW right off I don't think. But I cancelled my wow sub a few months ago. That way when I roll out in SWTOR I will have been MMORPG starved and the experience will be that much better lol. Yes I am a dork and I approve this message

[Mithrandilferalis]

@Silverbulletzx3 Heh heh, trust me buddy, there are a lot of dorks just like you, myself included. And I'm spoiler crazy too. I didn't want to test it too much because I wanted to save it for launch, so I let someone else do it for me. :)

[Mammothtankgrind]

Played the test-beta, been chosen twice in november for a sum of 7 days straight of playtime ... and I can tell you first hand .. Ive never played this epic before .. Wow is nothing compare to this IT is MASSIVE!!! The Worlds itselfs its.... pfff....Mindblowing!! Worth your money, Specialy if your a Star Wars fan like myself =)

[Eedwards92]

I want to play this game so bad!

[PRepublica]

Amazing music! Love it. :D Heard it a few times in the Beta, sounds even better in game.

[ILostTheGamelul]

This game is going to take over my entire life. I couldn't stop playing during the beta, and the music was one of the best bits of it for me. :3

[Davmoran1]

Simply beautiful.

[GaltarDude1138]

You know, I detect some similar themes from KOTOR 2. Natural I suppose, since Mark Griskey composed the music for that game. Good to know he's still sticking to his original composition.

[Aelkamal]

Why did it have to follow the stupidity of MMo's...

[KitaraSkylark]

One word for the music starting at 3:52... EPIC!

[Aelkamal]

@KitaraSkylark It's like some of Basil Poledouris tracks in Conan !

[hammer326]

@Aelkamal do not talk about that film. He also did starship troopers, THAT is acceptable.

[Aelkamal]

@KitaraSkylark Basil was great overall...

[gympie5]

lucas got many credits about people's that make Star wars games Like star wars Commando, old Republic, battlefront , empire at war, corruption, darktimes of the empire, futher futher futher!

[albertshov]

Cool star wars Soundtrack

[liamjd1]

i don't understand how people over the age of 12 play mmos lol, they're so lame.... but this is star wars so i will give it a go, its no kotor 3 though

[barf245]

@liamjd1 played the beta it is badass

[rabbit4400]

@liamjd1 I don't understand how people over the age of 12 play facebook games... lol xD

[liamjd1]

@rabbit4400 or use facebook in general lol. nah it has it's uses

[ILostTheGamelul]

@liamjd1 If it helps, it has a really good KotOR feel to it. If you wanted, you could probably play the story by yourself and have a whole load of fun. It's really nicely done.

[liamjd1]

@ILostTheGamelul yeah i just watched someone playing the beta and it is very kotor visually, my main gripe with mmos is not playing with other people, but the grinding & pointless quests just to level up. all the quests i've seen so far look pretty unique though.

[ILostTheGamelul]

@liamjd1 Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I've found the quests fairly interesting... having everything full voiced is great, too. I can't help but get hugely attached to things in games and such, so it's really nice to be heavily immersed in it. I'm pretty excited ;D

[limwire5]

@liamjd1 your lame! :(

[theKonfusion]

Wow Will not die, but SWTOR will definitely be of the same quality (better in some elelements, less good in some) so it will eb a good competition, it will probably be the first MMO I am willign to pay per month for it :)

[tyro244]

What? You hadn't guessed by now that the TOR music is awesome? :) I had decided after seeing the "Hope" Cinematic Trailer that these guys really knew what they were doing.

Also, as someone who's first album was The Star Wars (1977) Soundtrack by John Williams I can say with some authority these guys must have studied John's work and use the foundations he built to produce much of what you are hearing. I can hear many of John's themes threaded through this musical tapestry. :-)

[MrGatonegroish]

3:50 reminded me of Ben Hur (1959).

And then, just then, I knew I had fallen in love.

[vitalisPL]

World of Warcraft (2004-2011) Our beloved time-eater, and social-killer.

Died tragically on 20 dec 2011.

Rest in Peace.

[StormAce96]

@vitalisPL amen !

[darthkevgen]

@vitalisPL Only for another social-killer, even more powerful ! You don't know the power of the Force. Your lack of faith is disturbing

[thetintowers]

@vitalisPL your sad about wow dieing?

[MrUNITEDTiLLiDIE]

@vitalisPL only to be replaced by an even bigger time-eater and social-kiler of course :p

[Nuk513]

@vitalisPL Prime Years of World of Warcraft shout outs @ 2005/06/07....Glad to have the new mmo smell again..and star wars to top it off get ready to get owned by the sith

[xXFOOLISHWAYSXx]

@vitalisPL :(......Oh hey SWTOR! :D

[Flague95]

@vitalisPL

15 dec*

[DarthVulku]

@vitalisPL Agreed however I'd rather it rest in misery in the fiery pits of hell.

[Brady2k10]

@DarthVulku nah, i love warcraft, i remember when i first managed to scrape up 1 gold n i was all happy about it, warcraft is a great game, its blizzard i hate, they fucked it up and became greedy, warcraft deserves better than those money making fucks, they even said "its all about the money now" wow is a great game, people shouldnt insult the game, i have good memories of playing it, wow is a fantastic game, that was let down by its developers greed.

[Sherwinnicus]

@DarthVulku Don't call yourself a fan of video games if you cannot admit that WoW is a good game. Even if you don't like it, it's held its own for a long time. But yeah, it won't for much longer.

[sasorisasori11]

@Sherwinnicus You dont have to admit its a good game, because he probably dosnt think that and it comes down to each individual, But theres nothing wrong in admitting that it has been successful

[GeekingForJesus]

@DarthVulku I'd just stab my lightsaber into its chest! *stab* "Ssshhhh....". But really, if any MMORPG had the power to destroy WoW, it's SWTOR. The whole "WoW won't die" thing comes from MMORPGs where people called them "WoW killers" that clearly weren't. You just can not deny SWTOR's popularity. Gamers would simply be stupid to continue playing WoW over TOR. And I think even the long-time subscribers will have a hard time converting, but they will. SWTOR's simply the better game.

[devastator06]

@GeekingForJesus im not so sure about that. im a long term WoW player, i have played it since vanilla. but i will switch to TOR, however getting them over to try it isnt the hard part. the Star Wars part will get alot of people playing. its the content which keeps the players which is the hard part.

im looking forward to playing it and will see what happens with experience.

[noob451]

@vitalisPL For me it died December 7, 2010

[xNeclordx]

@vitalisPL And The Old Republic will die on 21 dec 2011.