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  • Could someone send me name or more clear version of this music ? :P (This version differs from original baba yetu used in civilization)

    thanks in advance ;p

  • "baba yetu yetu amine"

    *father father father protect us"

    in a rough translate from swahilian to english. go to christopher tins site and go to his new album. he has these songs there as long as their translations. yes there are japanese hebrew songs on his site too! they are all great!

  • @IceCoolG4mes baba yetu yetu amina translates to father, ours ours , amen

  • I remember seeing this live. It was an extremely moving performance. Easily best one of the night.

  • And it got nominated for the Grammy, as best instrumental arrangement.

  • Epic song!

  • baba yetu for mondial anthem!

  • Best Video Game best Video game Music right here this shit deserves a Grammy lol

  • this jsut makes me want to paly the game lol

  • civ4 ist ein klasse spiel. strategisch und wirtschaftlich eine zivilisation durch die geschichte der menschheit zu führen ist eine super idee.

    und der song BABA YETU ist ein super song.

    daumen nach oben!

  • EPIC

  • @Mrmusicmaster88 Civilization 4 a bad game? What the fuck am reading?!

  • @Mrmusicmaster88

    I wish I had more thumbs so I could give you 20 thumbs down

  • @branman852 lol i said somewhere about me saying it was a good game somewhere :P srry :P

  • the best i've seen yet.

    beautiful.

  • best ive heard

  • really great and outstanding music

  • I would pay to be there now

  • @Feanorth

    with a blunt lit.

    would be amazing.

  • the 1st song was coronation

  • I see they left out the Manhatten Project wonder ... might have been a bit of a downer

  • it's the sword of fire waiting for us east of eden... :(

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  • This song is so beautiful, sometimes I sit in the menu for a while just to hear it. This song reminds me of starting an epic journey. :)

  • lol me too.

  • @JokinJoe

    LOL I tought I was crazy to do that... :)

  • @JokinJoe me too!! lol

  • @JokinJoe wow...this quote sure is in the spirit of sid meier ;)

  • Lol thats not how the Hollywood sign went up, but was still cool for the ending.... To save you a trip to Wiki to prove me wrong, it was originally put up as "Hollywoodland" but the last four letters fell off, and they just left it that way. xD

  • you're kidding, right? lol, how convenient that other letters didn't fall too. I'm not doubting you, I believe you.

  • Actually it they noticed it at "Hollywoodl" (the "and" was missing) and as they were sending their crew to the site to support the remaining structure, the "L" fell off, and they decided to just re-structure the rest of the sign that was left to save money. xD

  • Around 2:50; horn gliss. gave me CHILLS!

    Actually, the horn part in general was just spectacular.

  • I was here at the london VGL and this performance was absolutly amazing!!

  • Gives me chills, I just love it. Got to see this live and it almost brought me to tears.

  • i was there for this, and id actually never heard this song before they played it, and then i found it on the internet cause i thought this performance was awesome

  • The soloist was awful; he was just yelling.

  • that's how it's supposed to be, if you've seen/heard the one in-game.

  • its seems very good game!!guys u know if this the latest civilization and when it came out?

  • Yes, it's the latest main PC game. Several others have come out for DS and other systems, but Civ IV is the latest big one for PC. It came out in October of '05. Nothing official has been released yet, but it's rumored that Civ V will be released late this year or sometime next year.

  • i loved playing this piece, u can really put alot of emotion in it, soo much fun!

  • I just found out that VG Live came to my college 3 days ago and I missed it!! Argggh! The first thing that I thought was, "Alright, its okay, I can still live with myself if they didn't play Baba Yetu." Now I find out from this video that they do! That's just depressing. I either make it next year or die trying!

    Note: Baba Yetu has been, still is, and probably always will be the most played song on my iTunes.

  • Just plain awesome!

  • quote "If humanity had a song, this would be it!

  • Yeah, I agree. I think I read somewhere that this is the Lord's Prayer in another language. But this makes me think of the fragile delicacy of human beings. I mean, face it, if we weren't super-smart, then we'd be torn to shreds and extinct by 2010

  • yes that's lord's prayer in Swahili language

  • The.Most.Epic.Song.On.Earth.

    and it's religeos! ; )

  • THIS is epic :D

  • What are they singing at the beginning? It doesn't seem to be in the lyrics of Baba Yetu.

  • Just some intro they made up I guess.

  • Apparently it's called "Coronation" from the Civ4 soundtrack.

  • Thanks, terraguy1 and hobbes71002!

  • The opening plays 'coronation' and then fades into baba yetu for the menu.

  • Sounds like Adiemus.

  • simply great!

    5 stars!

  • Horrible sound, but the song is great.

  • my concert band played this

  • my symphony orchestra's playing this--sans choral accompaniment.

  • Reminds of the first time I turned this on - two eye-balls and a pair of fake teeth!

    A great theme to go with Civilization.

  • Just for reference's sake people: the song is called "Baba Yetu" and is by Christopher Tin

  • thanks :)

  • Civ IV has one of the best game themes I've heard in a long while! Glad this got into VGL!

  • YOU son of a bitch piece of crap, I sang this song with my high school camerata choir live at the wang theatre for Video games live this past friday. If you have any goddamn sense of music, you'll know that zelda sounded worse than this. have some respect, if you call yourself a video game lover, you asshole.

  • You clearly don't get my point. This isn't about which game is better, I respect your opinion because you probably know way more about video games than I do. I, being musical, appreciate that the MUSIC, with the utmost respect, is better for civ 4. I didn't mean to question your knowledge of video games.

  • I admit i was a tad bit unclear, I must say, Civalazation 4 is a execlent peice, and is one of the best themes ive ever heard, but I believe another is superior, and I love music, a lot, you want find me trash talking any music when im in a good mood, all music is great when you learn about it, and my knowledge of video games isnt important here, the point of the video is the music is good and you should listen to it.

  • Thanks.  Appreciate it. :)

  • the percussion instruments parts aren't simple but the melodies are very hummable to anyone and memorable.

  • Video Games Live birthed this song for me. It's really great. Chord progressions are very rock like at times but it definitely has the quality that makes great music: Fairly simple, yet extremely catchy and engrossing.

  • I sang this at video games live with the actual singer from the recording, with my Brookline High school camerata singer this past friday at the Wang theatre. It was the greatest feeling ever, I think I almost cried when on stage.

  • omg i love this music

  • Alpha Centauri is better

  • i love this song and history, this is the one of my favorite games

  • qu'est ce que j'ai pu entendre cette musique!!!sa me rappelle les nuits blanches dessus a passer des dizaines d'heures a joué c'était une bonne époque!magnifique

  • Pretty good, although the guy singing the opening solo of Baba Yetu could have been better.

  • true, much better.... too bad...

  • agreed

  • Thanks for sharing this!

    I have a video of me playing this song on the piano. You should check it out. Look in my profile.

  • Pure awesome at 2:42

  • Was as good in 2006 as it was in 2007. Hope it's good this year, getting doubts...

  • Can someone point me to some music like this, please. I really enjoyed this, I'd like to here more like it. Not video game music, I mean this world music stuff.

  • Thank you for sharing with us!  It was fantastic.

  • OK, what kind of music is this? Can anybody point me to similar music? (No, not talking about Video Games Live, or orchestral. I mean, this african-like world music)

  • DMZ1986, Baba Yetu (this song)is the Lord's Prayer in Swahili. I'd say your best bet for finding similar music... which would be a challenge... would be African.

  • more like afican traditional. try from around rwanda

  • that game is really fun

  • lol. well to me it easy. But I like it. especially the leaps o the flute part.

  • hey i went to that convention thing and it was bloody good!

  • Ok I have to play this song in a band ensemble as 1st flutist, 2nd stand,1st chair. And the song ain't no breeze easy method flute 1 either. The thing is like very hard

  • I think its pretty easy. but only cos I like it so much! haha

  • I'm crying

  • A great song but I´m disapointed that the two secuals had such poor introes and the "menu" was better as it where in the original Civ IV!

  • You can change the menu background in the options

  • Only complain was the male tenor solo. It could have helped if he was a little less FF. Between FF and F or so...and at some points his attack was hard on the notes like the second time he says Baba..it comes out like BA!!!!ba..though it still sounded good overall. =]

  • Baba Yetu means "Our Father", that is what the Catholics call The Lord's Prayer.

  • I saw this in New York back in April- such an excellent show. 3rd row tickets, bitches! I've never played C4 (until yesterday) so I never really got the chance to recognize how awesome it is.

  • fuck you.

  • seriously, fuck you. you'll never be able to appreciate such utter fucking beauty as this

  • that was directed at dlala911. disgusting prick

  • lawl retard i dont own the game. you're one of those...i don't think its possible to compete with you, there'd be no point. you're gonna come up with some shit-faced retarded insult about how i live in a basement with my mom or something. its predictable, your kind is funny and amusing

  • somethings weird with the reply option, so i have to say again its directed at dlala911

  • Hollywood FTW :-S

    Where's the space race?

  • Once again the male soloist can't sing baba yetu that great, just like in Phoenix.

  • Great song and surely a wonderful event.

    I wish there was such a concert somewhere in Germany... there are so many great masterpieces of music in videogames.

  • This concert was awesome here in Houston! Will definately be going back again in '08!!!

  • the language is Swahili. Baba Yetu is a version of the Lord's Prayer in that language.

  • How many people are playing this in their band? My favorite is this and Kingdom Hearts. I am the first trumpet in my band, and it's been a blast.

  • I'm playing it too, love this, lol. But Halo is cool too. (Bari Sax)

  • Im playing this too. Its an awesome song. Although Halo seems really short. and Bari sax for the win

  • I always wondered what language they were singing in. It sounds African, but since I don't know any African languages, that's just a guess.

  • Swahili.

  • We're gunna see video games live in a few months hopefully.

    :D

    I have high hopes.

  • Best classical music ever. One of the best game ever. I swear to god

  • i cant belive i have to play this hard song with my band!

  • ya we playing this too from the video games suite its one of the better ones from it next to kingdom hearts -never played the game but music is good-

  • halo theme too

  • Best Music for the Best Game in the world

  • This is one of the best games of all time... both an opinon and a fact.

    Next time you play it try reading some of the tips and playing the tutorial for a change. Then you will really know that the AI doesn't cheat.

    If you don't like the game even then, then don't brag about it. Keep your negative opinions to yourself.

  • Wow seeing it live is outstanding thanks video game live for coming to mexicali Mexico

  • The song is amazingly beautiful alone, but in this version it is even more breathtaking... I wish VGL would make it to Austria. :(

  • I know!! This medley is amazing!!

  • that man had a couple of faults especially at the beginning but ok

  • to play real time combat i go to play real time combat, if i want to play chess, i play chess

    Oranges/=apples

  • "Baba Yetu" is one of my favorite songs from a videogame, immediately next to "Still Alive".

  • Great Song!

    Great Game!

    (last post is a reply to madcows10 dunno why it shows as a normal one)

  • yea... to play freeciv its like get back to 1998 lol

  • just because you cant afford this game or dont have it doesnt mean it sucks. fuck off.

  • If you hate it, why don't just buy a different game instead of complaining to us about how idiotic it is? You can sell the Civlization 4 game you have on Ebay.

  • Already done long before your suggestion. And I had a hard time selling it too, I guess this game isn't in high demand, even used at knockoff price. And as a matter of fact I've been lately hooked on Freeciv (with the music of my choice) and am enjoying it more than I had this.

  • It isn't supossed to now, firaxis already moving on a civilization game for consoles to. Supposed to mail it this fall. Just a question but how long did it take you to get to the Monarchy tech? It took me forever.

  • HAHA! I think it'll sell horribly on the consoles.

  • I think so to I mean everybody on consoles are still playing Halo and Battlefront. They should just keep it on computers.

  • its so slow beacuse of the amount of things u need to do. Theres no way you would be able to coordinate everything u need to do without pausing the game on every turn. Or other choice.. have a turn based game.

    and ur right if u dont like intelligent games u probably wont like this one.

  • If u think that way its obviously because u cant even begin to understand how to play this game. Like i said its made to be played like an intelligent game.

  • I meant the game is meant to be played intelligently. not intelligently made (im not a programmer so i really shouldnt make an opinion about it if i dont know what the hell im talking about). yea, most of the game system was copy/paste from previous Civs and add a few improvements (can u tell me a sequel that isnt?) And i dont wanna start an argument about this over the net. My point was made.

  • The AI cheats?? lol cheating is a quality dependent on free will, so artificial intelligence cant cheat, it can only do what programmers tell it to do. If u mean the handicap difficulty lvls, thats different, but their supposed to make the game more challenging. U just sound like a little kid that lost the game to the computer. if u cant win in harder difficulty turn it down a notch ;).

  • And the music is poorly chosen??? This music won a 2006 award for best vocal music. But i guess u know better...

  • Haha.

    "you're and idiot"

    Way to get your point across in the most intelligent way possible. Misspelling a two letter word really gives you points in my book about intelligence, that's for sure.

  • How is the civ 4 music lacking in taste? The theme song won the 2006 awards for best vocals, and most of the soundtrack is composed of bach and his peers. You either hate the song because you hate the game or you haven't really been listening to the music.

  • So essentially, you don't like music not composed for the game? The tracks at the medieval era and beyond are actual compositions from the real world, whats wrong with them?

  • I think the Modern and Future era musics suck, but otherwise it's awesome.

  • I agree, and some of the songs at the beginning are shit too. When I had this game I always turned the music off.

  • Oh! You're superior to all of us! We should all bow and worship you.

  • lawl

  • Well then, dont complain about this on a music orchestration on one of the greatest soundtracks. Instead, badmouth it on amazon or on a Civ4 review. Because, most people who are looking at this video already have the game, and would think its great if they actually came to watch this. So take this where your opinion might actually be valued.

  • ok mate next time get them to put abit of techno in or how bout death metal??? maybe abit of rap??? You would feel in command killing tribes while listening to someone scream down a mic! silly bou ... sigh

  • Great song. BTW, is the cast singing in an actual language?

  • yea it's swalihi

  • 1:20 is the best.

  • Love the music in this game.

  • fucken awesome

  • Woww.. Even the shot was not pretty O.K but it stays pretty nice to hear.. Good work man!

  • greeaatt...

    we're just playing HALO, CIVILISATION4 and KINGDOM HEARTS^^

    love it

  • No way! me to! Thats awesome! mayne!

  • Yah... This group that produces Video Games Live is none other than the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (Wisconsin you idiots)

  • The soloist sounds so beautiful... his voice is so soothing awe-inspiring, and the "helele"s always make me giddy. ^_^