@@YodragonWasTaken Thank you for making these. It must take a lot of time and you have no idea how useful your vids have been for my tabletop RPG gaming sessions.
@@YodragonWasTaken Agreed, it's incredible work and fascinating to see how all the themes are repurposed. I'd never have spotted Arthas, My Son if you hadn't pointed it out. Also, sorry to be that guy (sorry!), but one other theme I think you missed is a heavily rearranged version of the Shadow Domination theme (Neal Acree & David Arkenstone) at 0:58, just after the brief glimpse of the Sylvanas theme. It runs until 1:52 in the same tempo as the Legends of Azeroth theme.
If I may chime in here as well, 0:18 - 0:36 has the Jailer theme (Domination) playing in the violins, the opening of "Arthas, My Son" playing in the choir and "Legends of Azeroth" beginning sparsely in the low strings, all at the same time. 0:58 - 1:12 has the Jailer theme on top and Legends of Azeroth on the bottom. 1:13 - 1:33 is Glenn's "Unbroken Will" melody in top with "Legends of Azeroth" on the bottom. 1:33 - 1:47 is the Arbiter theme that echoes again in "Revelation" at 10:38.
@@NealAcree Wow, never noticed the Domination theme on the strings there at the start, always paid attention to the O Thanagor and completely missed that part, thought only the synth sound at 0:22 was signifying the Jailer. Love that. Also, gotta say, the transition into the Legends of Azeroth part here is probably the best so far out of all logins, it feels really satisfying, so, good job on that Neal.
In my humble opinion, this one has one of the best endings (with Revelation from Acree), because it doesn't finish in a bombastic way or in some awkward way. It ends with a piece that I find very inspiring and beautiful which is a very good note to end on. The ending of BFA's log in music was not memorable at all for instance. I too always found the 'Choice Oblivion' pick very strange, it is not particularly interesting and there was so much good night fae music to pick, including the Ysera one. Retrospectively, it is also amusing to see how small of a space the Maw music had in this log-in music. Not a big deal, I find music from the Maw a bit too dark/depressive. All in all, I find Through the Roof of the World to be a good piece with good music. I appreciate that it portrays the covenants and respects the theme of the expansion, as shown by the original/unusual beginning. (Remember the Wrath log-in music? Despite being my favorite log-in music, a lot of the music was from TBC except some lich king and vrykul tracks. There was even the most epic version of Enchanted Forest from Classic? I absolutely *love* it but it never really made 'thematic sense'). A lot of work was put for the music of this expansion with way many hours of music than usual and I think it's very good. I keep getting surprised by the quality of new composers in WoW so I'm excited for the future. However, I still have to admit that, since BFA, I really miss Brower's talent. His work made a huge difference and I'll always regret his departure even though it's for the best for him.
I do really like the Legends of Azeroth section of this one. It gets that Warcraft login hype going for me in a way that neither Legion or BFA did. Makes me want to play. I feel like the kyrian section carries it very well, but from there it falls apart for me. I don't connect to the pieces within the context, the transitions throw me around. Masilya111 is right that it ends beautifully.
I wasn't a fan of them just copy pasting in-game tracks into this after the "Legends of Azeroth" part, because for every other Login theme we have gotten before this, the tracks would be played by orchestra just for the Login theme, not just inserting tracks straight from the game files (Bfa login did have like 3-4 tracks just copy pasted, but most of them were still re-performed for it). My guess would be that Covid prevented them from doing that. If it was by design, then i'm not a fan at all. Also not a fan of some of these weird random transitions happening so quickly in this, like at 2:11, 2:58, 8:22 and 9:55. Login Screen music in general to me hasn't been that interesting after Legion. My guess would be because of Russell, because he was the one in charge of them before and they were always fully re-performed with orchestra, and had fluid transitions from track to track, mainly because, well, they were performed by an orchestra so they could plan on adding transitions. It just doesn't work when copy pasting tracks like here, to me at least. Like, the transition here from the "Ghosts" track to the "Legends of Azeroth" works great, because of what i just said and i think the intro here is really good. Some track choices here as well felt a little weird to me, like the Choice and Ritual Feral track, they are just boring :/ Overall, it's alright, definitely towards the bottom of my list for Login themes, but i don't hate it. Very much looking forward to Dragonflight music though, like, a lot, can't wait to hear something that's more "colorful", Shadowlands really left a bad taste in my mouth.
I think you forgot to mention Sylvanas' theme (or one related to her) between Legends of Azeroth and Oribos. From roughly 0:55.
Ah shoot you’re right. I always forget at least one of them when I make one of these videos >.>
Thanks for letting me know tho!
@@YodragonWasTaken Thank you for making these. It must take a lot of time and you have no idea how useful your vids have been for my tabletop RPG gaming sessions.
@@YodragonWasTaken Agreed, it's incredible work and fascinating to see how all the themes are repurposed. I'd never have spotted Arthas, My Son if you hadn't pointed it out.
Also, sorry to be that guy (sorry!), but one other theme I think you missed is a heavily rearranged version of the Shadow Domination theme (Neal Acree & David Arkenstone) at 0:58, just after the brief glimpse of the Sylvanas theme. It runs until 1:52 in the same tempo as the Legends of Azeroth theme.
If I may chime in here as well, 0:18 - 0:36 has the Jailer theme (Domination) playing in the violins, the opening of "Arthas, My Son" playing in the choir and "Legends of Azeroth" beginning sparsely in the low strings, all at the same time. 0:58 - 1:12 has the Jailer theme on top and Legends of Azeroth on the bottom. 1:13 - 1:33 is Glenn's "Unbroken Will" melody in top with "Legends of Azeroth" on the bottom. 1:33 - 1:47 is the Arbiter theme that echoes again in "Revelation" at 10:38.
@@NealAcree Wow, never noticed the Domination theme on the strings there at the start, always paid attention to the O Thanagor and completely missed that part, thought only the synth sound at 0:22 was signifying the Jailer. Love that. Also, gotta say, the transition into the Legends of Azeroth part here is probably the best so far out of all logins, it feels really satisfying, so, good job on that Neal.
I’m going to miss this login screen
One of my favourite things that you do, labelling all the individual tracks
In my humble opinion, this one has one of the best endings (with Revelation from Acree), because it doesn't finish in a bombastic way or in some awkward way. It ends with a piece that I find very inspiring and beautiful which is a very good note to end on. The ending of BFA's log in music was not memorable at all for instance.
I too always found the 'Choice Oblivion' pick very strange, it is not particularly interesting and there was so much good night fae music to pick, including the Ysera one. Retrospectively, it is also amusing to see how small of a space the Maw music had in this log-in music. Not a big deal, I find music from the Maw a bit too dark/depressive.
All in all, I find Through the Roof of the World to be a good piece with good music. I appreciate that it portrays the covenants and respects the theme of the expansion, as shown by the original/unusual beginning. (Remember the Wrath log-in music? Despite being my favorite log-in music, a lot of the music was from TBC except some lich king and vrykul tracks. There was even the most epic version of Enchanted Forest from Classic? I absolutely *love* it but it never really made 'thematic sense').
A lot of work was put for the music of this expansion with way many hours of music than usual and I think it's very good. I keep getting surprised by the quality of new composers in WoW so I'm excited for the future. However, I still have to admit that, since BFA, I really miss Brower's talent. His work made a huge difference and I'll always regret his departure even though it's for the best for him.
my man, so good but so underrated video. great job.
If WoD and Shadowlands taught me anything, it's that the worst expansions have the best music.
I do really like the Legends of Azeroth section of this one. It gets that Warcraft login hype going for me in a way that neither Legion or BFA did. Makes me want to play.
I feel like the kyrian section carries it very well, but from there it falls apart for me. I don't connect to the pieces within the context, the transitions throw me around.
Masilya111 is right that it ends beautifully.
I wasn't a fan of them just copy pasting in-game tracks into this after the "Legends of Azeroth" part, because for every other Login theme we have gotten before this, the tracks would be played by orchestra just for the Login theme, not just inserting tracks straight from the game files (Bfa login did have like 3-4 tracks just copy pasted, but most of them were still re-performed for it).
My guess would be that Covid prevented them from doing that. If it was by design, then i'm not a fan at all. Also not a fan of some of these weird random transitions happening so quickly in this, like at 2:11, 2:58, 8:22 and 9:55.
Login Screen music in general to me hasn't been that interesting after Legion. My guess would be because of Russell, because he was the one in charge of them before and they were always fully re-performed with orchestra, and had fluid transitions from track to track, mainly because, well, they were performed by an orchestra so they could plan on adding transitions. It just doesn't work when copy pasting tracks like here, to me at least. Like, the transition here from the "Ghosts" track to the "Legends of Azeroth" works great, because of what i just said and i think the intro here is really good.
Some track choices here as well felt a little weird to me, like the Choice and Ritual Feral track, they are just boring :/ Overall, it's alright, definitely towards the bottom of my list for Login themes, but i don't hate it. Very much looking forward to Dragonflight music though, like, a lot, can't wait to hear something that's more "colorful", Shadowlands really left a bad taste in my mouth.