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[Solid]

teh old?

http://www.sumthing.com/catalogue_ItemDetails.aspx?p1=198

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Track # Title
1 Halo Theme Mjoiner Mix
2 Blow Me Away-Performed By Breaking Benjamin-Courtesy Of Hollywood Records Inc.
3 Peril
4 Ghosts Of Reach
5 Follow (1st Movement of the Odyssey)-Performed By Incubus-Courtesy Of Epic Records/Immortal Records
6 Heretic, Hero
7 Flawed Legacy
8 Impend
9 Never Surrender
10 Ancient Machine
11 2nd Movement of the Odyssey-Performed By Incubus-Courtesy Of Epic Records/Immortal Records
12 In Amber Clad
13 The Last Spartan
14 Orbit of Glass
15 3rd Movement of the Odyssey-Performed By Incubus-Courtesy Of Epic Records/Immortal Records
16 Heavy Price Paid
17 Earth City
18 High Charity
19 4th Movement of the Odyssey-Performed By Incubus-Courtesy Of Epic Records/Immortal Records
20 Remembrance
21 Connected-Peformed By Hoobastank-Courtesy Of The Island Def Jam Music Group

 

[Ghost]

Theres some big ass potential spoilers in those song titles, might want to [ spoiler ] tag it.

Edit: nice one.


So the incubus track is 4 movements? who do they think they are Mozart?

 

[LukeSmith]

Christ gay supreme.

 

[aerofx]

Can we sample these tracks yet?

 

[Trasher]

dude, your personal descriptor is supposed to go under your name, not in the body of your post.

Stop talking about yourself all the time.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Is Halo 2 trying to be a movie or something?

 

[bishoptl]

"Never Surrender"? :lol Good to see Corey Hart is still finding work.

 

[Wario64]

Ugh, what's with these bands? Sellouts

And kinda offtopic, but I heard some dude listening to the Halo soundtrack in his car when I was on the road a couple weeks ago. Thought it was pretty awkward

 

[Mermandala]

i wear my solar reflective visor at night.

 

[Ghost]

And kinda offtopic, but I heard some dude listening to the Halo soundtrack in his car when I was on the road a couple weeks ago. Thought it was pretty awkward

Were you laying on the road? How did you hear what he had on?

 

[GhaleonEB]

Ugh, what's with these bands? Sellouts

And kinda offtopic, but I heard some dude listening to the Halo soundtrack in his car when I was on the road a couple weeks ago. Thought it was pretty awkward

That could have been me. I listen to it every Friday to and from work. It may have been akward for you, but I was loving it.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

I thought that all of the band music was instrumental only...or am I mistaken?

 

[Gribbix]

I thought that all of the band music was instrumental only...or am I mistaken?

I think the music that's used in the game is instrumental only. As for the soundtrack, I know the Breaking Benjamin song does have vocals. It's pretty awful.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Hmmm...well, as long as the game-music is instrumental, all is fine.

 

[GhaleonEB]

I thought that all of the band music was instrumental only...or am I mistaken?

This is the story, as posted by Marty O'Donnell on HBO (link at end)

Wow everybody, thanks for caring about the music in Halo2. Here’s the official word from this old horse’s mouth.

Halo1 was a big hit. Many people liked it a lot. Nile Rogers, a truly legendary music producer (my generation by the way) absolutely loved it and had his company release the soundtrack. Over the past three years, Nile and myriad marketing type folks from Microsoft, kept telling me about all these popular bands and artists who love playing Halo. Wouldn’t it be cool if they contributed music to Halo2? My instinct was to say no, go away and stop bothering me. Then they started talking about having a soundtrack that would be ready for release at the same time as Halo2’s release. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to finish all the audio for the game, and mix a decent soundtrack at the same time, so Nile and I came up with a plan to have two soundtracks. Volume One, which would feature whatever music I had finished in time to have it included (which by the way is a majority of the album) and “inspired by” music from the bands that really love playing Halo and wanted to contribute something. Volume Two, to be released at a later date, will include all the remaining music of mine and perhaps some more “inspired by” stuff if that turns out to be cool.

The most important thing is that there is NO music in the game that I didn’t want in the game. I knew that I had to focus on making music for the game and not for a soundtrack. That’s where Nile came in. He really is quite a talented guy and knows a lot of people. I’ve worked with many great guitar players, but when Nile called me and said that I could work with his buddy Steve Vai (my generation again), I just about lost it. Once I did the session with Steve, which I’ll tell you about sometime, I decided to trust Nile to fill out the Halo2 Soundtrack Volume One any way he saw fit. I know that I’ll like at least most of what’s on there. Two of the bands that worked with Nile and contributed to the album also sent me instrumental mixes of their stuff. The music was based on my themes and I was pretty blown away by them. The deal was that I could use those pieces in the game at my discretion, and that’s what I did. I like how I used them, maybe you will too, we’ll see. Trust me, they’re an amazingly small percentage of the overall musical landscape of Halo2, but I think they work great.

The temptation to succumb to the siren call of Hollywood and the marketing hype machine is hard to resist. Bungie tried hard to stay Bungie throughout the production of Halo2. Our goal is to make the coolest game for the best fans. It turns out that some of our fans are already part of the big hype machine and ended up being pretty cool too. I hope we don’t let you folks down, and I don’t think we “sold out”. Of course you should know that buying the Halo2 Soundtrack Volume One will help me in my quest for paying for my two daughter’s college tuitions.

Oh and I hope you like Sergeant Johnson’s hip hop rap duet with Justin Timberlake.

(kidding!)

http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive16.pl?read=487188