Neon Genesis Evangelion OST 1 - Decisive Battle

[TheBlaziken437]

"Sir, what's our next move?!"

"The enemy line is advancing!"

"Ready the planes! Move out!"

That is what I think of this song.

[rblackzzz]

does anyone know the name of really dramatic version of this song that plays in the series?

[bluhammer]

@rblackzzz The Beast?

[hauntedmaster]

@rblackzzz "The Beast II". I believe you can find it at the top of the related videos.

[captainpike332]

You could make a staring contest sound epic with this song!!! Ah makes me wanna break out the NGE Complete Collection now!!!

[captainjobo]

kaji bond

[Clintgibon]

007

John Barry.....................

[guiltyhalo2]

love it

[Woodland312]

Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai

[supr3jia]

This song plays when my internet slows down and i have to go fix it. >:L (game face on)

[captainpike332]

@supr3jia game face no More like the Gendo Ikari stare!

[BonezDrum]

I automatically picture Unit 01 doing the spider walk when I hear this.

[fsfsvsf]

it sounds when my sister is watching porn

[Archimonde259]

Homuhomu's overpowered arsenal brought me here :3

[MJVelascoSalvador]

This song is what basically pulled me into the Super Robot Universe..... (Hearing it fro super robot wars alpa made me addicted to the game, even if I didn't understand japanese at all)

[coslip]

its no a copy ! wtf you people don't know someting about music?

total composition

[TVlolz]

OFFICER COME QUICK THERE'S A MAN RAPING THE REPLAY BUTTON

[fucktardickis]

SHINJI STOP YOU'RE BITCHING AND GET IN THE GODDAM GIANT ALIEN CLONE ROBOT GOD!

[love119100]

copy song.

[Plawzable]

@love119100 shit son we already discussed this

[verymoldy]

If you ever hear this song, you know that SHIT IS GETTING REAL.

[jugglingotaku]

I love the trumpet part at 1:05

[ScienceGaveMeAHadron]

This is the music they played in the planning room when Seal Team 6 went to take down Bin Laden.

Just sounds like the music that comes on when people start making some Magnificent Bastard gambit operation to pull victory out of certain defeat.

[Warioman03]

@ScienceGaveMeAHadron YEEEESSSSS!!! Thank you. That's exactly what I get when I listen to this.

[DarkyDiZZ]

This theme is so broken! its like ridiculously broken and overpowered! it needs to be nerfed ASAP!

[xXTheHeroicGamerXx]

When it goes to 1:06, I imagine myself gliding in the air in Battlefield 3 shooting down the enemies before I hit the ground than a epic firefight starts 8*)

[nicotoravo]

ほこたてｗｗｗ

[982ellis]

this song plays when im playing sniper ghost warior LOL

[982ellis]

this song is just saying:"one shoot,one kill"

[love119100]

this song is copy song from 007.

FUXX YOU

[xXTheHeroicGamerXx]

jeez it does sound like the James Bond theme back in the 1960's (which I loved the series back when I was little kid <3) :DDDD but this one is different but I still like it 8DD

[cadalliac29]

What the fuck?

these bitches trying to steal seto kaibas theme /watch?v=dHo4Rj_gy7E

[Chronitockk]

@cadalliac29

Er... this came first. By SEVERAL years. Like almost 10.

[Logology101]

@cadalliac29

Evangelion came first and the whole Yugio thing is pretty gay.

[OChubbyO]

@cadalliac29 this show was out way before yu gi oh >.>

[LanaGame]

Amazing brass D:

[cd31247]

EPIC.

[vanishy0urself]

I just compared the James Bond one and this one REEEEEEEEEAAAALLLY closely side-to-side and I *finally* figured out what makes this one better to me: Shiro Sagisu changed the rhythm. During the start, the "beat" part that sounds almost the same -- listen very carefully to notes 4 and 5. Note 6 too, but especially 4 and 5.

This little change makes this beat sounds more epic and dramatic than John Barry's original. Overlaying the melody from "THE BEAST II" on top of everything helped too.

[Orobus7t7]

@vanishy0urself The Vanilla Ice excuse, eh?

[vanishy0urself]

@Orobus7t7 Ice ice baby sucked compared to its original source under pressure. :) Decisive battle, though, has managed to seriously improve on its original source, so, musically, all it deserves from me is praise... It even changes the beat, making it sound more heroic. Try tapping beat from one song while listening to the other. it WILL be offbeat at note 4, guaranteed. There's an amazing new melody, too.

And I still hold it that "copy and change" is the natural evolution of folk music.

[hotelmario510]

I propose the alternate title for this piece should be "Shit Be Goin' Down, Son".

[VizardTuki]

BLUE PATTERN CONFIRMED!

PREPARE TO LAUNCH EVA UNITS 00 ,01

[carlnimator007]

Otakus en todo el mundo :DDDD

[MrHeki2]

Goosebumps

[DanielL5583]

Wait...this sounds like that track in You Only Live Twice, when Bond get chased by the Yakuza in a black sedan, with Bond and Aki in a Datsun trying to get away.

If that was a reference, then kinda cool!

[EVAUnit4A]

@DanielL5583

Yep- "007 Steals the Lektor". Many have noticed that connection since the series came out, and again in Eva 1.0 when he updated it. This was probably Sagisu-san's nod to it, which came out around the time he began his career in Japan.

[DragonFangBlade]

Wes......

[Siegkorn]

"all functions operational. ready to take off"

"go get them, Shinji"

[ra5kit]

*Pan of NERV headquarters control room*

*This track plays*

Shit is about to go down, son

[hotelmario510]

@ra5kit *BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM-BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM-BOOM*

*DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO*

*DIDDLY IDDLY IDDLY OOO*

*closeup on Misato's face*

Captain Misato Katsuragi be up in this bitch!

[primal2020]

i have to say, no matter how horrifying and creepy this show is, the music is probably my second favorite part.

[EVAUnit4A]

@primal2020

So what's your favorite part then? ;)

[EVAUnit4A]

@primal2020

You're right, I'm gonna laugh at you.

[RedBigButton]

From now on, I'll play this everytime I turn on my computer, and shout commands to everyone around me, while I get a friend to repeat the broadcast message over and over.

[hotelmario510]

@RedBigButton Remember to use as much jargon as you can! Encourage people around you to respond with:

"But the pulses are flowing backwards!"

"The internal flux-waves are off the charts!"

"There's no response from the system! Attempting backup pathway!"

etc.

[RedBigButton]

@hotelmario510 ALL PERSONELL TO BATTLE STATIONS ONE!! :D

[hotelmario510]

@RedBigButton Go to Command Prompt and type in 'color a', then 'cd C:\Windows', then 'cls', then 'tree'. Then, when people walk in, shout something like, "Intruder is accessing the main security banks! It's cracking the passcode! 12th digit...16th digit...it's in! MY GOD! It's broken into the main banks! It's reading all the files, WE CAN'T STOP IT! IT'S GOT ALL OUR CODES! It's scanning the main directories! Accessing codes for...OH MY GOD! It's going after the main operating system!"

[RedBigButton]

The first seconds just loop over and over for a while until the song starts in the anime, am I right?

[Zizerx11]

My parents and brothers think I'm stupid for thinking this show is cool, maybe they should watch before making conclusions

[MasterJericho85]

this music reminds me of a James Bond theme from the 60's, love it!

[citizenhal]

@MasterJericho85 It IS a James Bond theme, which is pretty awesome!

[marclizze]

DESDE TOKIO 3 CON AMOR JAJAJAJAJAAJAJAJA

[hotelmario510]

Kaji vs. Bond

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

[ericthuis]

@hotelmario510 Bond.

[hotelmario510]

@ericthuis I was thinking more an epic battle, but your plan works too.

[ericthuis]

@hotelmario510 Haha... but y'know.. Bond was way before this.

[hotelmario510]

@ericthuis Yeah, but Kaji is a friggin' Triple Agent. I mean, come on!

[nekomaxo]

@hotelmario510 deja ehablar weas

[hotelmario510]

@nekomaxo Lo siento, no hablo bien el español. :(

[nekomaxo]

@nekomaxo you are idiot

[hotelmario510]

@nekomaxo Okay...why?

[nekomaxo]

@nekomaxo why you are nerd of 007

[hotelmario510]

@nekomaxo What, a guy can't like Evangelion and James Bond? Gee, that's a little restrictive.

[crustymethaddict]

@hotelmario510 wtf, guys can't like? evangelion and james bond??

[hotelmario510]

@crustymethaddict That's what I was thinking!

[gorboy]

@hotelmario510 Dumbasses like Nekomaxo tend to drown in their own pretension once in a while.

[hotelmario510]

@gorboy True that.

[jasonbigelow]

I want this on vinyl,so i can begin every DJ set the right way.

[Gabrielvogel]

Please dont feed the trolls.

[nekomaxo]

I have had enough! james bond Kiss my balls...alive evangelion!! forever!!!

[Einhander49]

@nekomaxo Pinche chavalo pendejo.

[nekomaxo]

metanse su james bond en la raja!!!!!

[NoobSnoopy]

eva unit 1 LAUNCH!

[vanishy0urself]

Goofed a little here, sorry. 0:16 is the start of the new melody but is still pretty similar. Starting from 0:27, however, is an all-original line that even if you're incredibly nitpicky lasts AT LEAST to 0:52. And most of the music is repeating either the 0:16-0:27 bit which is similar but STILL DIFFERENT, or the 0:27-0:52 bit, which is entirely original and makes the song WORK.

Also there are many little touches "here and there" that aren't in John Barry's song and they make this one better.

[ar2014]

WHAT??? this is a copy of from russia with love!!

[Sicnoz]

ok shinji and asuka, spread the "epicness"

[MrMitatorian]

It's not exactly the same. It just keeps one of the 'overlying themes' and centers around it. It's clear like daylight he expected some people to recognize the Barry part. Apparently, Shirou Sagisu has acknowledged Barry's work as an influence. I can't guarantee the reliability of this information though.

[TheMorbidOtaku]

I've heard a lot of people on here talking about some tune from 007 so I listened to that and I have to say that these two tunes do not sound that similar. The only similarity is that they both have loud trumpets.

[vanishy0urself]

@TheMorbidOtaku it actually does sound pretty similar by having the same rhythms and some of the structure, but Shiro Sagisu added a completely new main melody that transforms the music into something much more epic. Why do people not see this...

[daisukeniwa1000]

Do you really think someone would rip-off a composer like John Barry? It's most likely a homage. Gainax always does things like these with its series.

[SuperSaiyanAl]

A few notes here and there is homage; the entire track lifted wholesale is fucking plagiarism. Kenji Yamamoto got fired as composer for Dragon Ball Kai for just this offense. Why hasn't this asshole gotten the same treatment?

[vanishy0urself]

@SuperSaiyanAl Because his version is better than the original? Besides, it's not EXACTLY the same.

[SuperSaiyanAl]

What kind of logic is that? Copyright law doesn't care if you improve upon the source material; that doesn't change the fact that you lifted somebody else's work and claimed it as your own. Besides which, quality is a subjective thing.

It might not be exactly the same, but that's splitting hairs. Listen to them side-by-side; they're almost identical throughout.

[vanishy0urself]

@SuperSaiyanAl I HAVE listened to them side-to-side. It starts out identical but at 0:16 it goes off the rails into a completely different melody. If that counts as "lifting somebody else's work and claiming it as its own" yeah SURE. Try that with "L's Theme" from Death Note and the much earlier "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield, which was the inspiration.

Kenji Yamamoto plagiarized things without any changing and somehow made it sound worse, LOL! He sucks.

[SuperSaiyanAl]

And yet the beat from Takes the Lektor is still used all throughout. All he did was overlay the up-tempo Sins from Genesis onto John Barry's music.

No, you're right, that's totally not plagiarism. After all, it's not plagiarism when it's Evangelion.

[MetaLeir93]

@SuperSaiyanAl Are you retarded or are you just trolling?

Everything sounds like something that has been done before. So now you're telling me that NO ONE can EVER use that beat again because it has been used in some soundtrack you heard

Fuck that, it is awesome and it is original even if it's a synth, and you are forgettint the whole thing, this piece of music comes with a masterpiece of the animation that is Evangelion. So shut the fuck up please

[SuperSaiyanAl]

"LOL EVERYBODY'S DONE EVERYTHING ORIGINALITY WHAT'S THAT LOLOLOLOLOL" yes you fucking cunt, the fact that John Barry wrote that music means that people can't just up and steal it for their own purposes. Artists are supposed to be creative; if you're not creative enough to write your own material, then you're a blight upon your art form.

Also, I shit on Evangelion out of habit, so saying "IT'S EVANGELION SO IT'S AUTOMATICALLY GOOD" isn't gonna work on me, fella.

[vanishy0urself]

@MetaLeir93 I'm on the EVA side of the issue, but SuperSaiyanAI actually has a damn fine point. It's more than just the beat, it's the general structure and orchestration as well. Listen to "007 Takes The Lektor" and tell me it isn't very similar. And before you ask, the James Bond version was 30+ years earlier.

Now the question is: whether "Decisive Battle" with it's new melody part is different enough to not qualify as plagiarism? I think it is, and SuperSaiyanAI thinks it isn't. Simple.

[vanishy0urself]

@SuperSaiyanAl care to give me a link to Sins from Genesis? I typed that in Youtube and found absolutely nothing relevant.

[SuperSaiyanAl]

Ah, my bad; it's "Sin from Genesis." The plural threw you off. Try searching that instead.

It pops up in this song, and it's actually a really good piece. The thing is, I don't think Shiro Sagisu is a bad composer. Despite not liking Evangelion, I really like his soundtrack for it. He's clearly talented, which is why he shouldn't have to stoop to stealing another composer's work.

That's what bothers me. That, and the fact that he's never been called out for it.

[vanishy0urself]

@SuperSaiyanAl "Decisive Battle" is a song from the ORIGINAL Evangelion series and "Sin from Genesis" is from the much newer "Rebuild of Evangelion". The second one, actually.

So the new melodic part I was talking about was first created here and only then "extracted" into "Sin from Genesis". If it was otherwise, I'd be the FIRST to say "hey, he just took someone else's music and then put his own piece on top" which doesn't take any work. Not in this case. He actually did work on this.

[SuperSaiyanAl]

That's just the arrangement used in Rebuild, which is almost identical to the one used in the series. Sin from Genesis originally played when Shinji curbstomped and ate Zeruel. The scene in question's up on Youtube multiple times over if you want to see for yourself. I know there's an up-tempo version, but I don't remember what it's called.

So they're both pieces that appear in the movie, and they're both pieces which originate from the series. Or James Bond, y'know, but let's not split hairs.

[vanishy0urself]

@SuperSaiyanAl watched the scene on YouTube and you know what, you're right! So, even though it's his part added in so it's not strictly speaking *plagiarism* ("transformative use" and all that), it's still incredibly lazy. Shiro Sagisu, that was really uncalled for.

[SuperSaiyanAl]

I still think he should get the book thrown at him for using another composer's work for his own, but hey. I'm glad we see eye-to-eye now. :)

[vanishy0urself]

@SuperSaiyanAl well, strictly speaking, that's how folk songs used to evolve before copyright law even existed. Someone would sing something, then someone else would take it, maybe add a chorus, maybe rewrite part of the melody or something. However, film scores are not folk songs.

And no, I don't think this one counts as illegal -- aside from the "new" part, he changed various stuff in areas that are there but that we barely hear. A LOT of tiny stuff. Clever bastard!

[SuperSaiyanAl]

Maybe it's not illegal. But it's tacky as hell.

[vanishy0urself]

@SuperSaiyanAl it is... but it could be the direction also...

The first Doom game is full with "almost ripoffs" of various metal songs. Turns out Bobby Prince himself (composer) was not in the wrong. He was literally handed a CD of various metal hits that were popular t the time and told "Do like this". Since Bobby Prince was also a lawyer, he knew how much he could sample without getting into trouble.

So maybe the decision was partly on Anno's part too? We will never know, sadly.

[nalman1]

Copy.

[BONEZ280890]

da igual si es de 007 o evangelion, esta version es mejor y les guste o no , evangelion es mas famoso que 007, que solo los abuelos fosiles conocen xD

[CometaVermelho89]

@BONEZ280890 Now this is some guy that can say a lot of shit...

[nekomaxo]

@BONEZ280890 jajaja te apoyo!!

[reck101101]

Props to the people that thought about John Barry!

[Contrel]

007 would wet his pants in front of sachiel or any othe angel, Shinji too, but he`ll be fighting to death!

[thebattleforX9]

the second I heard this music in the show I was like Awesomeness in 3,2,1.....

[oneshott14]

If one artist being inspired by another is considered plagiarism, then every musician in the world could be considered a wannabe.

[Einhander49]

@oneshott14 It just so happens that the majority of them come from Japan.

*cough*Yoko Kanno*cough*

[RayquazanEmmisary]

@oneshott14 If that is true, then who is the original musician?

[rasengan46]

Thanks to the drama, now i can understand why british people and suits came to mind while i was watching evangelion.

[theShadowviking]

Interesting rearrangement of the John Barry tune. I prefer the original, but this is pretty cool too.

[MTWENTY]

EVA LAUNCH!!!

[Franlinlemosjr]

I love this song!!

[Paesguud]

When I am 90 years old, this will be all I remember of Evangelion:

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM

[zerax7]

i just love to hear this ost in the series cuz i realize there's a great battle scene

[grafito347]

007 kicks eva´s ass with an aston martin DB5... and he maybe get laid with asuka, rei etc etc etc

[metalraider187]

@grafito347 then get arrested for statutory rape. and no eva would probably step on 007 or bite his head off or something.

[adamgoldmansk8sss]

@metalraider187 In Japan he wouldn't get arrested for statutory rape ;)

[metalraider187]

@adamgoldmansk8sss funny thought but he is not japanese.

[grafito347]

@metalraider187 007 will found his way out, he is not a silly crying baby like some eva pilot

[metalraider187]

@grafito347 aston martin DB5? its like fighting a giant in a bumper car..... unless u have a nuclear missile in there your good agent 007 will end up as roadkill on top of a well compressed aston martin.

[Chris08TT]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

[gudam3]

the bond,shinji bond XD

[edgarbh01]

@gudam3 LOL!!!

[boriseng]

"Do you expect me to pilot that thing?"

"No Shinji I expect you to CRY!!!"

[perogie34]

@boriseng I love you. XD

[grafito347]

@boriseng your coment must be on the top

[N3wbc4k3]

Gotta say I like this revised copy over John Barry's score. Although it was written in the 1960's and is a good piece, I think this just sounds cleaner and overall better. The Harmon mutes sounds badass.

[Gabrielvogel]

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! They copied John Barry's Score from james Bond soundtrack "from russia with love"!!!!

[RocmanRaz]

@Gabrielvogel I noticed that years ago.

[nekomaxo]

@Gabrielvogel are you idiot?

[Gabrielvogel]

@nekomaxo No im not. Actually I just think the song is a kind of a rip off of the john barry score for From RUssia with love. Its even on the related videos! (From Russia with love score, 007 takes the lector).

And I respect the composer of this version and all of his work, but yes, I think this song is kind of copied.

[nekomaxo]

@Gabrielvogel to me that I care....evangelion is better!!!!

[kl24ntr]

@Gabrielvogel pendejo :)

[Gabrielvogel]

@kl24ntr Its incredible how people get cocky behind keyboards...

compare the two songs before trolling.

[kl24ntr]

@Gabrielvogel haha XD 

[BSCorvette69]

Direct rip of John Barry's 007 steals the Lector from the 60s in the movie From Russia with Love

[nekomaxo]

@BSCorvette69 jajaj tonto

[Asukaze08]

ヤシマ作戦発動！陽電子砲狙撃準備！　第一次接続！

[BRAMCRACK3R]

this reminds me of music from the psp game god eater, then again god eater seems to be very eva inspired

[RogueRotting360]

This is a take on the 007 Theme written by John Barry, from the James Bond films.

[nekomaxo]

@RogueRotting360 bakka John Barry copy to evangelion

[maujo2009]

So many battles come back to life in my mind!

[shaunohara]

Oh man I love From Russia with Love

[terrance217]

Wish they would do a computer graphics version of the show.

Not badly done like the Dragonball movie travesty.

[terrance217]

Prefered this subtitles than dubbed.

Damn it, when each company rewrites the dialogue.

I make my friends laugh at work when I hum this during crunch time.

Blows my mind thinking I first saw this almost 15 years ago now.

[GeoZeo15]

i wonder how if they have this in episode 18 version.do they?

[s0nicxo]

This song is from TERMINATOR!

[frogjedi4]

@s0nicxo No. It's not.

[Wilson27PT]

@s0nicxo you Failed...

[ExNausea]

@s0nicxo LMFAO gotta love trolls.

[JulianEscrew153]

AT field at MAX!!!!

Deploy Eva unit 01!!!!!

[26psyside]

EPIC SONG!

[HEADSHOTDEALER]

Rewatching this on VHS and this anime is so good.