When I was a little girl, my mom used to play this game for hours and hours. I fell in love with the music on it's own, but it also held a very special place in my heart becasue I heard this soundtrack in my home almost daily for several formative years. I was so phsyched to find the entire album on RUclips. Now for the past 6 years or so I have listened to the soundtrack anytime I need background music or am studying/working. It's just my favorite thing and I literally can't get sick of it
what a great story, that music must really hold a special meaning for you having heard it when you were little. I played this as a young lad, and I loved the music as I still do.... oh no now im getting sentimental over it. such great times.
It'll be an interesting day if I ever get to relate with a mother a generation above me who also played SimCity. I haven't met one yet but apparently SimCity and the Sims were popular with stay-at-home parents, which I think is pretty cool.
@@TheJellyfish800 and why would your first assumption be that he's completely lying about something like that? LOL, he's trying to prove something to someone, in the comments section, of a Sim City 4 soundtracks video? LOL 🤡
from a 2022 perspective it absolutely blows my mind this is the soundtrack for a city builder game why cant we have this in the current times? where did the soul go?
It's gone underground, as it often does. If you want something contemporary that's also retro and awe-inspiring like this soundtrack is, then I highly recommend checking out Pangeapedia Plus by Daniel White. Or just anything under the genre label "utopian scholastic". It sounds like if Windows 95 was singing to you in your dreams. Go hunting and you'll find brilliant stuff like that being made right now!
I held an internship this summer. The commute required me to ride a lightrail and walk a few blocks downtown. Every morning I'd put on this soundtrack. It's incredible how well the songs fit with the hustle and bustle of a large city in the morning. Having played this when I was young and now listening to it in this very transition part of my life is awesome!
Ironically, the song "Morning Commute" didn't fit in very well. Songs like: Metropolis, ElectriCITY, Urban Underground, Gritty City, and Transit Angst all fit incredibly.
***** Its fantastic, although you need a really good computer to build large cities. One of the best things about it, is that the creators encourage modding, and it has a steam workshop.
There was a time when I was master of the universe. As I was staying ageless and motionless before my computer, flying untouched over human frenzy, cities rose and crumbled under my thumb, tiny people ran hurriedly to their death on the roads I had built and time flew at my command. Then it all stopped and I had to become one of those running specks. They call it life.
Nicolas Combrexelle It called me forth and I prepared my route. To where I did not know. It was as though some all powerful force was calling me forth and I had no control over, or will even, to fight it. Some call it a god but I wonder if this truly is a simulation. Not by analogy, not by hazy-eyed ponderings in philosophy, but literally. Is my destiny my own, or is it under the control of strings of code wrapped around my hands and feet as if I were some flesh and blood marionette? Could my entire world end at any moment at the command of that etherial puppeteer, shut down like my own computer by my own hand? Or perhaps that hand is my own, and my destiny is my own as well. In any case, my route awaits and time does not. It's time to go.
1:14:40 reminds me of getting shit done, avenues connecting to highways was so satisfying almost therapeutic. But 2:06:50 reminds me of plotting too much high density residential then health workers going on strike, placing a large medical centre to alleviate the problem only to see the expenditure exceed my income. Then BOOM,, the military are offering $300 for a missile range and it gets placed in 'that part of town' alongside the casino and landfill... Played the same region from 2006-2017 until my PC fucked up... What an epic game, thanks for posting !
What is so baffling and beautiful to me is that this music was composed and recorded 20 years ago... And it's aged like fine wine. Many of these tracks were ahead of their time in the best possible way. This was a project of passion and everything about this game oozes with admiration and purpose. What an amazing time to be a kid, what wonderful memories. Thanks Maxis.
Especially the "ambient" tracks starting from 2:36:00 onwards. While ambient music has been a thing since at least the 1970s (a la Tangerine Dream) it was only recently brought into the conscious of the larger community in the past decade. This is thanks to various platforms (like YT) that have exposed electronic music to many people that normally wouldn't have given it a second thought. For those that liked the last section of music, look for albums by "HKE", "2814", or "Radio Massacre International".
whenever people say somethings ahead of its time is so stupid, people in the mid 2000s weren't cavemen, this sound is also clearly late 90s early 2000s influenced, we need to learn that things arent ahead of their time, its just that the time had good artforms and media
There's a news channel here in Argentina called "TN" who frequently uses this soundtrack as background music for some news. I guess the sound designer loves this soundtrack too much just like us!!
1:58:08 is my favorite. So calm, so relaxing. Looking to traffic jams in your city. Creating new intersections. Creating new suburban areas. Scolding your 'advisors' or Bob Newbee for not shutting up. Ah, the good old times.
I remember ripping through the backend of my software just to pull these track files and burn them onto cd. However, i forgot how hard songs like Floating Population hit me. The only person i could reminisce about this with is my dad and i wish he was still around to talk to. He’d remember every song and the days we spent together. I miss him so much
SimCity 4 is one of my earliest gaming memories. I think my sister bought it at some point. I didn't understand a thing about city management back then, but I loved watching her play. Seeing the buildings growing and watching the cars bustling about. There was something special, magical about it. Eventually, I started playing it myself. I basically just created tiny villages and then cheated cash, so I could plop an Empire State Building in the middle. As time went on, I started to understand the systems behind it. I went from building tiny towns to managing entire cities and eventually to building huge motropolises. All the while, these songs accompanied me. There's nothing that brings me back to my childhood like this soundtrack. After all these years, it's still my go-to address when I'm writing papers, or when I need to concentrate and think about something. I love reading all of your comments and seeing all the nostalgia and all the little stories that you share. Jerry Martin created a piece of art, and I'm profoundly grateful for it.
This has got to my favourite RUclips comment section ever! So many people with so many different stories, all brought together by beautiful memories of this game... And I can't believe there was a time when they used to make soundtracks like this. I didn't really appreciate the music much back in the day but now... man... The way those tracks create a landscape of moods, taking you to places where you've never been, make you beautifully sad and happy all at once. It makes part of me resonate that I didn't even know about.
Something about this music just brings out people's emotional side. I absolutely agree, it's a joy to come here and read everyone's stories. Love dwelving in nostalgia with all of you
Early-2000s Maxis games' soundtrack were on a league of their own: top-tier music which no other studios even came close to replicating. 20 years on, I'm still listening to their OSTs regularly, and you'd be hard-pressed to find anything similar. The soundtracks to SimCity 4 and the original Sims+expansions were absolute *masterpieces* .
I was like 12 years old of something like that I started playing SimCity. Now after a college, I am a fully certified Officer of Watch. Having no internet most of time, i installed SimCity 3000 and 4k deluxe on my laptop. These games are so enjoyable and time killing. They are perfect for night after watch when you cant fall asleep going across Pacific Ocean.
I'm playing cities skyline rite now, and the ost is kinda awful... i used to remember simcity ones as really good, so i've searched for this... and man, them memories. Best ost ever.
Okay. So this game came out and I didn’t have any money to purchase it. I bought it off eBay when I earned enough money and remember when o first installed it. I was extremely terrible at the game but it is absolutely one of my favorites simply because the OST is so damn good. Memories.
As a kid I didn’t have many friends and didn’t go out that much but I loved this game and would spend hours playing letting my imagination go wild, as an adult I became an architect and this game played a great part in that.
This was my first real PC game. I played it at the age of 12. 4 years later, I still remember every song.... Fuckin nostalgia kickin in. And I also drive around in the major's car throwing out the town's money !!! YEAH!
But then they closed Maxis and now we have SIMCITY 2013 and Sims 4 and thy aren't as good as Simcity 4 (Symicity 2000) and Sims 3. Sry for my bad English, but i'm German.
I got this game in 3rd grade without the rushour expansion, and I always wondered how to get the avenues, ground level highways, and more. Long Story short, I still loved and played the shit out of that game. I then got the rush hour expansion in 4th or 5th grade, and had an even better time while traveling the world. I miss the old days when things were simple. The song at 12:25 was the one I liked the most, because I realized that everyone has an equally complex life. Miners, office workers, the child seeing the worls with his family, the highschool student getting ready for a test, cities are busy places. Although playing SC4 isn't the same since we have cities skylines (which is very expensive), it's still a part of my childhood. Driving from Berlin, to Wrocław, and flying to New Jersey, driving past the great lakes, to the Rocky Mountains, and ending up in Florida was one adventure of my life.
Such a beautiful soundtrack. Everything about this game was just so right, it nailed everything. But even nailing THE SOUNDTRACK just shows how Sim City 4 really was the complete package.
playing that game until the sun was rising at the horizon, at the begining of a nice summer, what a beautifull childhood memories ! Damn i miss those days : /
@@andreaberni620 started to Play again whit the steam sale, it was too cheap to pass ! All the memories and the things I understand now I didn't understood when I was young... Funny how last Time I played it on a huge Tower computer of the early 2000's it crashed each 15 min and the lag was terrible and now, on a thin laptot, it run perfectly smoothly !
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 no more crashes? Was it fixed before re-release on Steam? I had heard it hadn't, actually. Also mine crashed frequently, sigh. Best city builder ever anyway, Skylines is another epoch of gaming, I won't compare the two.
0:23:05 Metropolis is one of my favourite soundtracks. It feels so divine. I listen to it from time to time when I read cyberpunk mangas or when I code.
My brother passed away in 2015. My mom and I have been listening to an unlabeled scratched to hell burned CD of music from his CD case for the past four years. I never thought I'd find out who the artist was/were, but for these past few years it always reminded me of the music he would listen to and show me as I was growing up. Just yesterday we used Shazam finally and found out it was this soundtrack. He was a huge fan of the SimCity games. We would always share games and music with each other, and in a way, even though he is physically gone, he still is. Now I really wanna check this game out. Thanks, T ♡
I loved Sim music back then. I could see myself attending an orchestra show somewhere downtown to hear this, in some alternate reality where talent like this was acknowledged appropriately.
Totally going to now. It's way better than the Cities: Skylines Soundtrack, and don't get me wrong, Cities: Skylines really scratch an itch I've had for a while.
Best study music you can find. Perfectly tailored to putting you into a more concentrated and calm state of mind. Every other kind of music distracts me from what I'm trying to get done, but this OST makes me feel laser focused.
'till this day, i still used The Morning Commute as my alarm on my phone, its such a melody to listen that gradually pacing up & complicating, persuading you to get up of bed easy and calming as the melody at the starts then waking you up when things start complicated and noisy in the middle, and finally calming you again at the near end...
I didn't remember how intensely sophisticated the orchestral writing was for this game. Kudos for Maxis for actually getting a talented composer and a real orchestra to create this. This music is really well-done and the orchestral pieces could stand alone as concert works. Not to mention that the mixed electronic music and ensemble stuff is phenomenal as well... such a diversity of types of music (and while I know they brought in other musicians and composers) it's hard to imagine that so much was organized and composed by just one person.
Yeah this was the track! I can't remember why it stood out actually? Always had an impression its used in the game trailer or something but I know it was not.
2:11:40 is my favorite -- Even when I play SC4 I sometimes force the game to play this track because I don't want to wait an hour for the game music to loop back to the track.
Honnestly I'm 42 started video games in 1987... I cant tell which exactly but This one, Morrowind theme and A link to the past 'hyrule theme" are the 3 battling for best ever to me
1 million views! Glad to be part of that many times over.... this soundtrack gives me good vibes and helps me code. How I miss playing Simcity 4 everyday as a kid.
It's cool seeing how many people have commented on this yearly since the video was posted. I found this game at Goodwill for 50 cents when i was about 9 or 10 and played it obsessively for years when I stayed with my grandparents; since there was little else to do. Recently I heard a song that reminded me of this soundtrack and I've been listening to it for almost 2 weeks now while stuck working overtime. I work at a desk all day so this has kept me from going insane. I even hunted down my copy of the game and am going to install it on my old PC when I'm done working OT. Edit: Ended up downloading it from Steam. My old laptop crapped out but I was so happy to see i could buy it for cheap and have it forever!
I’ve carried a cd of this game in my backpack for over 15 years now. I play it off and on. But carrying it ensures I can play it whenever the mood strikes
I still play this game all the time. I've had it forever, but the modding community is super strong; even today it is stronger than ever. Great soundtrack: catchy, exciting songs, perfectly fitting for its game.
I stopped for a minute, I didn't want to believe that people still mod SC4. So I headed to ST Exchange, holy crap, you were right. The mods just keep coming. And the best part? I realized mid-commenting that you posted your comment 5 years ago. The community is just amazing...
I once read that it plays when your city is destroyed from a natural disaster or whatever. Is that true? I haven't played the game. If it does, then how fitting. It's such a post-apocalyptic-sounding track.
There was a time when SimCity 4 was life for me, and during that time, I knew this entire soundtrack front and back. Best songs for me are "Rush Hour," "By The Bay" (DAT CLARINET) and Terrain.
+1994CPK I had a really hard time with the Cities Skylines soundtrack. It felt super short. Like I'd heard the whole thing after half an hour of playing. Maybe that's changed since After Dark, I haven't really played that yet. Honestly, I started listening to the SC4 soundtrack again because I needed more variation while I was playing Skylines.
@@KippurCatArts Big thumbs up for the StarCraft 2 editor. I have some very strange specific nostalgic memories of the music I would play while working on the Galaxy Map Editor.
Taking me back to my childhood, in such a good way! The composers are heros, its incomprehensible to me how a game has this kind of good music. I play it when hanging with my friends, cooking diner, chilling in the garden. Masterpiece!
I always regretted to spend so much time on gaming when I was young, except SC3 & 4. Those were precious moments. 7:10 The Morning Commute still gives me goosebumps whenever the mood started to rise...
It's amazing how good Urban Underground is. It's the last track of the official album as well, so what a great way to go out. It's a perfectly executed fusion of jazz and trip hop and the kind of chillout music from the 90s I love listening to, and really quite epic in its production. Anna Karney had come so far. She made some tracks for Streets of SimCity and SimCity 3000, and they were good enough, but perhaps a bit crude sounding. Urban Underground though - holy hell, what an evolution! The layering of instruments - some of them played live - is just incredible. I don't know of any music she made after SimCity 4, so for now I'll be saying that Anna went out with a bang.
Wow i cant believe i find myself here years later looking for that one distinct song 31- Terrain. Still an atmospheric banger. Thanks for uploading this, truly
Ahh so many incredible memories. This game inspired me to become an engineer. I remember playing it for hours, building and designing. The comments here are so true, I never thought much about the music until now. Every time I listen to “No Gridlock” memories just flood my mind. What an amazing track. That’s the thing, this was the other piece to an amazing game…the sounds. They compliment the visuals. Thank you Maxis for the unreal memories. They don’t make ‘em like they used to. I may be old now (37) but the memories will live on forever.
Just bought this game because I was stressing about my new job. It took me back to the good ol’ days and calmed me down. We didn’t know we were making memories, just living in the moment.
Dual Monitors on my home PC when I was in my teens. Screen one: Assignments, essays and google. Screen two: Sim City 4, building an epic empire. Times were great.
Been using this ost to work since the pandemic started and I went home office. Changed my life. Besides the fact that I grew up playing SC games, mainly SC4. I'm a cities skylines player nowadays and I also play it listening to this amazing OST. I just love it so much.
When I first played Simcity 4 in 2003,... for hours endlessly, I could escape reality and after a while my visions of my home town, seemed to meld into the game. More like when I was out driving around my town and everything resembled the animations of the simcity towns. I could almost forget which one was which.
37:52 just realised this now, this song is using the same sample as "Shamburger" in Age of Empires 2. Some of these samples are also used in Timesplitters 2 soundtrack
Unlock cheat Builds multiple roads Zone residential Zone commercial Zone industry Speed it up Plop a huge stadium Plop a huge ass building 1k left Loans 1 million dollars Plop landmarks Goes into debt again Give up? Destroys city with disasters
OH MY GOSH! SUCH A NOSTAGLIA!, i remember playing this in 2014 mannn..... i can't believe it, it feels like just time passed by all this, thank you for everything and memories which i had, with this game and other editions of this game!
Yes this is super nostalgia. I played this game with friends after school around 2009-2012. I remember playing this game as early as 2004 when I was 6, not knowing how to do anything. Then I started using the "Weaknesspays" cheat to earn all my money. Never grew a place above 400000 people though.
One of the things that I would love to have in cities skylines are the rich districts with big houses with trees and poor districts with giant affordable housing buildings. AND ELEVATED METRO!
Not sure if you are looking but Elevated Metro was released on the steam workshop (Metro Overhaul Mod). Plus RICO mod you can chose what districts have what buildings and you can have rich areas or poor areas.
You can actually imply low education policies (I think it is called _schools out_ ) on certain districts of your cities so those buildings don't level up and imply high education policies on the "rich" districts so only they level up. But why would you be interested in keeping peole back from earning a good life all together?
This is one of those soundtracks that is TOO good. Like you end up pausing and listening when your favorite tracks come on because it's too distracting.
I'm scottish, and listening to metropolis (It has bagpipes in the song) while sitting at Largs marina on our boat watching the sun rise over the water watching the seagulls fly and the occasional fishing boat make its way out into the ocean is just bliss! Also love the rest of the soundtrack, perfect when you just want to chill or reminisce about old times...
Gamecool10 Thanks, my original inspiration was that every time I wanted to here a piece from Simcity 4 again I'd have to find the title and then scroll through youtube until I found it. Now we can all enjoy nostalgia a little bit easier, thans.
I played this game when I was little. Like super little. I barely remember the game itself, but the second each song started I instantly remembered playing the game and listening to the music like I've been listening to these tracks everyday. Kinda cool
*MAYOR* *ROCKS* *ACCORDING* *TO* *CITY* *BLOCKS*
69 likes, nice.
_yeah!_
_I DO? HELL YEAH_
*Hospitals might catch the no-funding flu!*
@@robinpasternak6560 *YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS*
46:54 "How hard do you want the saxophone to go?"
Jerry Martin: "Yes."
**saxophoning intensifies**
When I was a little girl, my mom used to play this game for hours and hours. I fell in love with the music on it's own, but it also held a very special place in my heart becasue I heard this soundtrack in my home almost daily for several formative years. I was so phsyched to find the entire album on RUclips. Now for the past 6 years or so I have listened to the soundtrack anytime I need background music or am studying/working. It's just my favorite thing and I literally can't get sick of it
And my dad used to play Sim City 4 when I was a small kid, and I can't remember that much but the music is something I can't forget too!
what a great story, that music must really hold a special meaning for you having heard it when you were little. I played this as a young lad, and I loved the music as I still do.... oh no now im getting sentimental over it. such great times.
OMG this is such a beautiful comment! Thank you!
It'll be an interesting day if I ever get to relate with a mother a generation above me who also played SimCity. I haven't met one yet but apparently SimCity and the Sims were popular with stay-at-home parents, which I think is pretty cool.
And you never played the actual game, have you
Went from designing cities in SimCity as a kid to designing them in real life as an adult. Love this game!
Sure ya did buddy
@@TheJellyfish800 it's not that hard to get urban planning degrees.
@@TheJellyfish800 and why would your first assumption be that he's completely lying about something like that? LOL, he's trying to prove something to someone, in the comments section, of a Sim City 4 soundtracks video? LOL 🤡
@@TheJellyfish800 🤡
Im just gonna assume that you became supreme city mayor IRL too :)
from a 2022 perspective it absolutely blows my mind this is the soundtrack for a city builder game
why cant we have this in the current times? where did the soul go?
I always play Cities:skylines listening to the SimCity4+ Rursh Hour music in the background to this day! I wish I could answer your question though.
@@1JasonBradly Good to know I am not the only one 😎
@@vladanstojanovic4757 :)
greed brother. that is where it gone.
It's gone underground, as it often does. If you want something contemporary that's also retro and awe-inspiring like this soundtrack is, then I highly recommend checking out Pangeapedia Plus by Daniel White. Or just anything under the genre label "utopian scholastic". It sounds like if Windows 95 was singing to you in your dreams.
Go hunting and you'll find brilliant stuff like that being made right now!
I held an internship this summer. The commute required me to ride a lightrail and walk a few blocks downtown. Every morning I'd put on this soundtrack. It's incredible how well the songs fit with the hustle and bustle of a large city in the morning.
Having played this when I was young and now listening to it in this very transition part of my life is awesome!
So you're saying we're Sims? Somehow this seems comforting.
I love everything about this comment!
Dude, check out Factorio and get back to me...
You're a crack dealer! ;)
Ironically, the song "Morning Commute" didn't fit in very well. Songs like: Metropolis, ElectriCITY, Urban Underground, Gritty City, and Transit Angst all fit incredibly.
Best simcity game ever made in my opinion
***** If we take the buggyness and optimization out of the picture, then Cities Skylines is the best in my opinion
***** Its fantastic, although you need a really good computer to build large cities. One of the best things about it, is that the creators encourage modding, and it has a steam workshop.
+Anti Nazi
It's the best for it's era..
yazar8 Yep
***** Yeah even though the graphics aren't realistic, it still looks good.
There was a time when I was master of the universe. As I was staying ageless and motionless before my computer, flying untouched over human frenzy, cities rose and crumbled under my thumb, tiny people ran hurriedly to their death on the roads I had built and time flew at my command.
Then it all stopped and I had to become one of those running specks. They call it life.
nice!
Nicolas Combrexelle You get an A+ in English.
Nicolas Combrexelle That's... That's beautiful... You made me cry.
Nicolas Combrexelle It called me forth and I prepared my route. To where I did not know. It was as though some all powerful force was calling me forth and I had no control over, or will even, to fight it. Some call it a god but I wonder if this truly is a simulation. Not by analogy, not by hazy-eyed ponderings in philosophy, but literally. Is my destiny my own, or is it under the control of strings of code wrapped around my hands and feet as if I were some flesh and blood marionette? Could my entire world end at any moment at the command of that etherial puppeteer, shut down like my own computer by my own hand? Or perhaps that hand is my own, and my destiny is my own as well. In any case, my route awaits and time does not. It's time to go.
Nicolas Combrexelle Its time to start playing Dwarf Fortress...
Why is this guy not scoring big blockbuster films? Why is he not considered a legend? He's one of the best composers there is. This is a masterpiece.
Jerry Martin really does deserve more recognition and jobs, as well as the other people who worked on this soundtrack.
March 2024 and still enjoying this great Simcity music while grinding at work 😎 Thanks for the upload my friend 😎
1:14:40 reminds me of getting shit done, avenues connecting to highways was so satisfying almost therapeutic. But 2:06:50 reminds me of plotting too much high density residential then health workers going on strike, placing a large medical centre to alleviate the problem only to see the expenditure exceed my income. Then BOOM,, the military are offering $300 for a missile range and it gets placed in 'that part of town' alongside the casino and landfill... Played the same region from 2006-2017 until my PC fucked up... What an epic game, thanks for posting !
I'm a Chinese, played this 10 years ago, so happy to see so many comments of you sharing the same feelings I have. One of my favorite albums.
How can you be here as Chinese? Don't you guys have your own enclosed internet?
@@jolez_4869 its not that simple. And even if they were, VPN.
@@jolez_4869 VPN.
@@jolez_4869 maybe he is not from PRC, but from ROC (taiwan).
Taiwan no.1
What is so baffling and beautiful to me is that this music was composed and recorded 20 years ago... And it's aged like fine wine. Many of these tracks were ahead of their time in the best possible way. This was a project of passion and everything about this game oozes with admiration and purpose. What an amazing time to be a kid, what wonderful memories. Thanks Maxis.
Especially the "ambient" tracks starting from 2:36:00 onwards. While ambient music has been a thing since at least the 1970s (a la Tangerine Dream) it was only recently brought into the conscious of the larger community in the past decade. This is thanks to various platforms (like YT) that have exposed electronic music to many people that normally wouldn't have given it a second thought.
For those that liked the last section of music, look for albums by "HKE", "2814", or "Radio Massacre International".
whenever people say somethings ahead of its time is so stupid, people in the mid 2000s weren't cavemen, this sound is also clearly late 90s early 2000s influenced, we need to learn that things arent ahead of their time, its just that the time had good artforms and media
Played this game in college, now I listen to this soundtrack while coding at work. I can't tell if this is a sad or a beautiful thing.
I love this as coding music too :P
same here
I listen to this as working music too.
I played the hell out of this game as a kid, and now in college I listen to this while coding sometimes! Small world.
Me too!!! Weird that this is the top comment I look at while listening at work, lol
1-Bumper to Bumper 0:00:00
2-The Morning Commute 0:7:10.7
3-Wheels of Progress 0:11:53.8
4-Deserted 0:17:54.1
5-Metropolis 0:23:05.2
6-ElectriCITY 0:28:10.0
7-Floating Population 0:33:22.3
8-Chain Reaction 0:38:35.4
9-Rush Hour 0:44:53.8
10-By The Bay 0:50:14.6
11-The New Hood 0:56:20.6
12-No Gridlock 1:01:37.4
13-Re-Development 1:09:00.0
14-Bohemian Street Jam 1:14:31.0
15-Urban Underground 1:20:12.5
16-Street Sweeper 1:25:18.6
17-Crosswalk Talk 1:30:17.3
18-Tarmack 1:35:21.1
19-NightOwl 1:40:53.5
20-EpiCenter 1:46:12.3
21-Gritty City 1:52:34.6
22-Zone System 1:58:08.1
23-Transit Angst 2:01:42.6
24-Landfill 2:06:23.9
25-Oasis 2:11:40.2
Region music -
26-Area 52 2:17:45.3
27-Big Deep 2:25:22.3
28-Arctica 2:28:15.9
29-Above The Clouds 2:36:28.3
30-Shape Shifter 2:40:22.1
31-Terrain 2:47:57.3
32-Without Form 2:53:29.4
33-Taking Shape 2:59:59.6
34-Primordial Dream 3:04:19.9
35-Parallel View 3:09:40.9
God bless the guy who put the timestamps on hours-long videos.
You’re the best thanks!
@@cazal868 This needs to be pinned!
IMHO, one of the best video games soundtracks ever made.
I didn't expect this much nostalgia.
Time to dust off my copy...
was 10$ on black friday
It is still the best in the series. 2013 never lived up to is predecessor...
no drive mode, no tanks :p
Simcity also DOES NOT fit this soundtrack.
Maxis after 2010 became more Metro themed than before.
Works on Simcity Colourblind mode though.
Nahben Haben Rush Hour, will fix that.
There's a news channel here in Argentina called "TN" who frequently uses this soundtrack as background music for some news. I guess the sound designer loves this soundtrack too much just like us!!
I know your comment is old but...Saludos desde acá, and yes, they use it a lot, like when talking about money.
Porque hablaban en ingles los tipos?
Sabés q me parecía conocida la musiquita de fondo jajaja
Lástima que la usen para dar una calidad informativa tan chota jajaja. Saludos!
TN y Clarín MIENTEN! No muestran la REALIDAD ARGENTINA
1:58:08 is my favorite. So calm, so relaxing. Looking to traffic jams in your city. Creating new intersections. Creating new suburban areas. Scolding your 'advisors' or Bob Newbee for not shutting up. Ah, the good old times.
+KoploperMau i see in this song something futurustic and unpredictable and i love it.
+KoploperMau yeah that and number 13 are the best
+KoploperMau similar to "electric counterpoint" by steve reich
l its kinda same, but feel is different
+KoploperMau That moment when your name is Koploper but you've got a Mat'64 on your profile pic, disturbing!
I remember ripping through the backend of my software just to pull these track files and burn them onto cd. However, i forgot how hard songs like Floating Population hit me. The only person i could reminisce about this with is my dad and i wish he was still around to talk to. He’d remember every song and the days we spent together. I miss him so much
I'm sorry for your loss 😞 Glad he was there to make some precious memories though. Stay strong 💙
May his soul rest in peace. It's a bitter sweetness to have such good memories with someone who's now gone...
Listening again in 2020.
Yep!
Ya
2021
Still here :3
Pois volte a ouvir novamente 😂
Be honest this is like on of my favorite soundtracks out side of Starcraft and Terrinigma.
R.I.P Maxis
SimCity 4 is one of my earliest gaming memories. I think my sister bought it at some point. I didn't understand a thing about city management back then, but I loved watching her play. Seeing the buildings growing and watching the cars bustling about. There was something special, magical about it. Eventually, I started playing it myself. I basically just created tiny villages and then cheated cash, so I could plop an Empire State Building in the middle. As time went on, I started to understand the systems behind it. I went from building tiny towns to managing entire cities and eventually to building huge motropolises.
All the while, these songs accompanied me. There's nothing that brings me back to my childhood like this soundtrack. After all these years, it's still my go-to address when I'm writing papers, or when I need to concentrate and think about something. I love reading all of your comments and seeing all the nostalgia and all the little stories that you share. Jerry Martin created a piece of art, and I'm profoundly grateful for it.
This has got to my favourite RUclips comment section ever!
So many people with so many different stories, all brought together by beautiful memories of this game...
And I can't believe there was a time when they used to make soundtracks like this. I didn't really appreciate the music much back in the day but now... man...
The way those tracks create a landscape of moods, taking you to places where you've never been, make you beautifully sad and happy all at once. It makes part of me resonate that I didn't even know about.
Something about this music just brings out people's emotional side. I absolutely agree, it's a joy to come here and read everyone's stories. Love dwelving in nostalgia with all of you
its cool but stop being gay about it
A rare, non-toxic comments section of a RUclips video of music from a 17 year-old sim game. The things that unite humanity…
@@callizoom3894 There’s nothing gay about this.
the nostalgia is real
I still play this game, sooo many steam hours.
I now realize that this is a very busy soundtrack. It reflects the city theme quite well.
this is so beautiful. all of it. and it brings me back to the endless days of playing this great game. my childhood, ah.
Same
Early-2000s Maxis games' soundtrack were on a league of their own: top-tier music which no other studios even came close to replicating. 20 years on, I'm still listening to their OSTs regularly, and you'd be hard-pressed to find anything similar.
The soundtracks to SimCity 4 and the original Sims+expansions were absolute *masterpieces* .
I was like 12 years old of something like that I started playing SimCity. Now after a college, I am a fully certified Officer of Watch. Having no internet most of time, i installed SimCity 3000 and 4k deluxe on my laptop. These games are so enjoyable and time killing. They are perfect for night after watch when you cant fall asleep going across Pacific Ocean.
This is perhaps the best soundtrack in the world there ever was.
I'm playing cities skyline rite now, and the ost is kinda awful... i used to remember simcity ones as really good, so i've searched for this... and man, them memories.
Best ost ever.
There are some mods on steam for C:S that put Simcity music in the game as radio stations!
Okay. So this game came out and I didn’t have any money to purchase it. I bought it off eBay when I earned enough money and remember when o first installed it. I was extremely terrible at the game but it is absolutely one of my favorites simply because the OST is so damn good. Memories.
SimCity 4 and Silent Hill 2
True.
After all these years, SimCity 4 still has a big community and is the best city builder ever made.
As a kid I didn’t have many friends and didn’t go out that much but I loved this game and would spend hours playing letting my imagination go wild, as an adult I became an architect and this game played a great part in that.
Wow that’s awesome! I’ve always wanted to be an architect too 😊
Me too I didn't spend too much outside because of my parents. But feel really lucky to have played games like these
This was my first real PC game. I played it at the age of 12. 4 years later, I still remember every song....
Fuckin nostalgia kickin in.
And I also drive around in the major's car throwing out the town's money !!! YEAH!
+sfctwZockt so true
But then they closed Maxis and now we have SIMCITY 2013 and Sims 4 and thy aren't as good as Simcity 4 (Symicity 2000) and Sims 3. Sry for my bad English, but i'm German.
Oliver Lasch i am austrian
Coolio
I got this game in 3rd grade without the rushour expansion, and I always wondered how to get the avenues, ground level highways, and more. Long Story short, I still loved and played the shit out of that game.
I then got the rush hour expansion in 4th or 5th grade, and had an even better time while traveling the world.
I miss the old days when things were simple. The song at 12:25 was the one I liked the most, because I realized that everyone has an equally complex life. Miners, office workers, the child seeing the worls with his family, the highschool student getting ready for a test, cities are busy places.
Although playing SC4 isn't the same since we have cities skylines (which is very expensive), it's still a part of my childhood. Driving from Berlin, to Wrocław, and flying to New Jersey, driving past the great lakes, to the Rocky Mountains, and ending up in Florida was one adventure of my life.
Such a beautiful soundtrack. Everything about this game was just so right, it nailed everything. But even nailing THE SOUNDTRACK just shows how Sim City 4 really was the complete package.
Playing Cities: Skylines with this masterpiece playing in the background, city building has never been better. :)
this
YES
28:10 such an amazing track. Honestly brilliant. Simcity 4 was such a fantastic game
High five, fellow ElectriCITY enjoyer!
playing that game until the sun was rising at the horizon, at the begining of a nice summer, what a beautifull childhood memories !
Damn i miss those days : /
SC4 got a big chunk of my childhood too!
@@andreaberni620 started to Play again whit the steam sale, it was too cheap to pass ! All the memories and the things I understand now I didn't understood when I was young...
Funny how last Time I played it on a huge Tower computer of the early 2000's it crashed each 15 min and the lag was terrible and now, on a thin laptot, it run perfectly smoothly !
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 no more crashes? Was it fixed before re-release on Steam? I had heard it hadn't, actually. Also mine crashed frequently, sigh. Best city builder ever anyway, Skylines is another epoch of
gaming, I won't compare the two.
@@andreaberni620 so far it didn't crashed,
@@andreaberni620 annnnd it finally crashed yesterday.
0:23:05 Metropolis is one of my favourite soundtracks. It feels so divine. I listen to it from time to time when I read cyberpunk mangas or when I code.
My brother passed away in 2015. My mom and I have been listening to an unlabeled scratched to hell burned CD of music from his CD case for the past four years. I never thought I'd find out who the artist was/were, but for these past few years it always reminded me of the music he would listen to and show me as I was growing up. Just yesterday we used Shazam finally and found out it was this soundtrack.
He was a huge fan of the SimCity games. We would always share games and music with each other, and in a way, even though he is physically gone, he still is. Now I really wanna check this game out.
Thanks, T ♡
@@emerald10005 Ok
@@stagpunk6781 I'm so sorry for your loss 😞 I hope you enjoy this game in honor of your brother. The music is incredible.
I loved Sim music back then. I could see myself attending an orchestra show somewhere downtown to hear this, in some alternate reality where talent like this was acknowledged appropriately.
Thumbs up listening to while playing Cities Skylines!
Totally going to now. It's way better than the Cities: Skylines Soundtrack, and don't get me wrong, Cities: Skylines really scratch an itch I've had for a while.
yep...great city building music
Sooo many hours spent listening to this, and yet never too much
This music releases endorphins in my brain that makes me want to build cities.
haven't got the game yet, but I definitely will
Best study music you can find. Perfectly tailored to putting you into a more concentrated and calm state of mind. Every other kind of music distracts me from what I'm trying to get done, but this OST makes me feel laser focused.
same here! i just cannot explain why
Absolutely a masterpiece. EpiCentre song is out of this world
'till this day, i still used The Morning Commute as my alarm on my phone, its such a melody to listen that gradually pacing up & complicating, persuading you to get up of bed easy and calming as the melody at the starts then waking you up when things start complicated and noisy in the middle, and finally calming you again at the near end...
Setupthemabomb Because of you mentioning this, I am going to play a SC4 song on my morning alarm now!
Setupthemabomb Its such a great song. What does it mean what does it mean I am thinking on the middle.
I didn't remember how intensely sophisticated the orchestral writing was for this game. Kudos for Maxis for actually getting a talented composer and a real orchestra to create this. This music is really well-done and the orchestral pieces could stand alone as concert works. Not to mention that the mixed electronic music and ensemble stuff is phenomenal as well... such a diversity of types of music (and while I know they brought in other musicians and composers) it's hard to imagine that so much was organized and composed by just one person.
1:46:12 - now that’s what I came for! Best track in the game
Yeah this was the track! I can't remember why it stood out actually? Always had an impression its used in the game trailer or something but I know it was not.
Beautiful song, always gave me feels even back in the day.
epic one
so ethereal
2:11:40 is my favorite -- Even when I play SC4 I sometimes force the game to play this track because I don't want to wait an hour for the game music to loop back to the track.
Ryan Worral totally agree
What genre of music is this?
@@isaiahrodriguez4146 Ｓｉｍ Ｃｉｔｙ
@@isaiahrodriguez4146 fusion
This and the EpiCenter is really good
This is the music that forms everlasting memories.
0:50:14 "By the bay" Just amazing
Came here for this one, this track was always so fitting when just starting out, in a big empty landscape making your humble beginnings
Honnestly I'm 42 started video games in 1987... I cant tell which exactly but
This one,
Morrowind theme
and
A link to the past 'hyrule theme"
are the 3 battling for best ever to me
Thanks for taking the time to put this together! :)
It's been so long, I need to put up some original work.
+friendstype25 Thanks for putting this up. Love listening while doing homework!
1 million views! Glad to be part of that many times over.... this soundtrack gives me good vibes and helps me code. How I miss playing Simcity 4 everyday as a kid.
yup we all have the same memories. To have nostalgic music to code is the best way for me to be productive
It's cool seeing how many people have commented on this yearly since the video was posted.
I found this game at Goodwill for 50 cents when i was about 9 or 10 and played it obsessively for years when I stayed with my grandparents; since there was little else to do. Recently I heard a song that reminded me of this soundtrack and I've been listening to it for almost 2 weeks now while stuck working overtime. I work at a desk all day so this has kept me from going insane. I even hunted down my copy of the game and am going to install it on my old PC when I'm done working OT.
Edit: Ended up downloading it from Steam. My old laptop crapped out but I was so happy to see i could buy it for cheap and have it forever!
I’ve carried a cd of this game in my backpack for over 15 years now. I play it off and on. But carrying it ensures I can play it whenever the mood strikes
1:20:16 always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Was always one of my favorites
I still play this game all the time. I've had it forever, but the modding community is super strong; even today it is stronger than ever. Great soundtrack: catchy, exciting songs, perfectly fitting for its game.
I stopped for a minute, I didn't want to believe that people still mod SC4. So I headed to ST Exchange, holy crap, you were right. The mods just keep coming. And the best part? I realized mid-commenting that you posted your comment 5 years ago. The community is just amazing...
this soundtrack is so good it still brings me a bit teary
0:33:22 Floating Population is my favourite soundtrack from the list. It just so beautiful and melodic
Yes! :)
Mine too 💜💜💜
Certainly one of the memorable ones
The outro is a religious experience.
Mine too - I could even play it on my fiddle doubled with the track, it’s SO MUCH FUN to play along with!!!❤
ever notice how unsettling primordial dream is to the rest of the soundtrack.
It's unsettling
I once read that it plays when your city is destroyed from a natural disaster or whatever. Is that true? I haven't played the game.
If it does, then how fitting. It's such a post-apocalyptic-sounding track.
There was a time when SimCity 4 was life for me, and during that time, I knew this entire soundtrack front and back. Best songs for me are "Rush Hour," "By The Bay" (DAT CLARINET) and Terrain.
?_?that is an oboe?_?
Cities Skylines is really good listening to some good ol sim city music
+1994CPK I had a really hard time with the Cities Skylines soundtrack. It felt super short. Like I'd heard the whole thing after half an hour of playing. Maybe that's changed since After Dark, I haven't really played that yet.
Honestly, I started listening to the SC4 soundtrack again because I needed more variation while I was playing Skylines.
intereality true, it was short. They did only release half a game though.
Compared to what?
+intereality
There's a mod now with the whole soundtrack!
Got to love the modding community of Cities Skylines :)
Thank you so much, love to listen to it while I study and it brings back so many memories!
Me,too. This is my playlist for studying😊
I definitely recommend listening to this while doing homework, especially if your are having to do research, writing, design work (CAD, Solidworks)
..or StarCraft 2 editor?
Hey this profile photo was taken in the game war thunder and i play this game he's cool too
too bad you can't clearly see what is on the wing.
@@KippurCatArts Big thumbs up for the StarCraft 2 editor.
I have some very strange specific nostalgic memories of the music I would play while working on the Galaxy Map Editor.
Yep. I listen to it while doing engineering design work in CAD
Since CS2 doesn't have a large variety of music, I find myself coming back to this often now. Timeless soundtrack
right now
I anit paying for radio stations lol, simcity soundtrack + cities skylines is the ultimate city building experience@@QUIGON85
Taking me back to my childhood, in such a good way! The composers are heros, its incomprehensible to me how a game has this kind of good music. I play it when hanging with my friends, cooking diner, chilling in the garden. Masterpiece!
The nostalgia is great here.
I always regretted to spend so much time on gaming when I was young, except SC3 & 4. Those were precious moments. 7:10 The Morning Commute still gives me goosebumps whenever the mood started to rise...
I regretted them too, but now I got a family and am basically upper middle class, I regret working and would have just set a lifestyle of gaming lol.
Can't wait to listen to this while playing Cities Skylines 2!
It's amazing how good Urban Underground is. It's the last track of the official album as well, so what a great way to go out. It's a perfectly executed fusion of jazz and trip hop and the kind of chillout music from the 90s I love listening to, and really quite epic in its production.
Anna Karney had come so far. She made some tracks for Streets of SimCity and SimCity 3000, and they were good enough, but perhaps a bit crude sounding. Urban Underground though - holy hell, what an evolution! The layering of instruments - some of them played live - is just incredible. I don't know of any music she made after SimCity 4, so for now I'll be saying that Anna went out with a bang.
Wow i cant believe i find myself here years later looking for that one distinct song 31- Terrain. Still an atmospheric banger. Thanks for uploading this, truly
45:55-47:05 This sax and beat steal my heart
This reminds me of the police & ambulances going to emergencies.... I always had fires breaking out! :(
Best soundtrack of all games. I use this music for work because it encourages you to work and be productive. Amazing soundtrack.
Ahh so many incredible memories. This game inspired me to become an engineer. I remember playing it for hours, building and designing. The comments here are so true, I never thought much about the music until now. Every time I listen to “No Gridlock” memories just flood my mind. What an amazing track. That’s the thing, this was the other piece to an amazing game…the sounds. They compliment the visuals. Thank you Maxis for the unreal memories. They don’t make ‘em like they used to. I may be old now (37) but the memories will live on forever.
Just bought this game because I was stressing about my new job. It took me back to the good ol’ days and calmed me down.
We didn’t know we were making memories, just living in the moment.
I've always liked Terrain, it starts out so ominous and later on it just feels great
I love this game's music, it is so relaxing! Especially "Shape Shifter".
aaah coming back to these wonderful music perls, god damn it feels good when you haven't listened to it for a long!
The superb quality of this soundtrack is something I'm aiming for as a young musician. It fits the game so well, it serves it purpose so perfectly.
Dual Monitors on my home PC when I was in my teens.
Screen one: Assignments, essays and google.
Screen two: Sim City 4, building an epic empire.
Times were great.
Damn I wish I had dual monitors as a teenager. How did you get those? I can't imagine many teens have two monitors.
This music was so majestic I still daydream about it after 12 years
this soundtrack is astonishing
Ultimate study music.
Been using this ost to work since the pandemic started and I went home office. Changed my life. Besides the fact that I grew up playing SC games, mainly SC4. I'm a cities skylines player nowadays and I also play it listening to this amazing OST. I just love it so much.
By The Bay 0:50:14
My favourite!
ikr? It has some kind of sadness in it, I don't know... among all of those, this is the one that gives me nostalgia the most.
Bumper to Bumper
@@dj7oya It also reminds me of SimCity 2000 music a little bit.
remind me a litle bit of AoE II too
@@dj7oya exactly
When I first played Simcity 4 in 2003,... for hours endlessly, I could escape reality and after a while my visions of my home town, seemed to meld into the game. More like when I was out driving around my town and everything resembled the animations of the simcity towns. I could almost forget which one was which.
I spent so many hours getting lost to this soundtrack while playing this game. I find this music to be extremely relaxing while working.
37:52 just realised this now, this song is using the same sample as "Shamburger" in Age of Empires 2. Some of these samples are also used in Timesplitters 2 soundtrack
I was looking for THIS comment! It´s the same sample!!
WOAH! That's amazing lol
Easily the best thing about the game. It gives me some major nostalgia.
This is so nostalgic
Unlock cheat
Builds multiple roads
Zone residential
Zone commercial
Zone industry
Speed it up
Plop a huge stadium
Plop a huge ass building
1k left
Loans
1 million dollars
Plop landmarks
Goes into debt again
Give up?
Destroys city with disasters
lol yep w/o mods that's how i used to play, 400k loans 4 days
Time to spam copy/paste Weaknesspays
:( .. lol
Detroit in a nutshell
@@5cover ahhahahhah
OH MY GOSH! SUCH A NOSTAGLIA!, i remember playing this in 2014 mannn..... i can't believe it, it feels like just time passed by all this, thank you for everything and memories which i had, with this game and other editions of this game!
Yes this is super nostalgia. I played this game with friends after school around 2009-2012. I remember playing this game as early as 2004 when I was 6, not knowing how to do anything. Then I started using the "Weaknesspays" cheat to earn all my money. Never grew a place above 400000 people though.
One of the things that I would love to have in cities skylines are the rich districts with big houses with trees and poor districts with giant affordable housing buildings.
AND ELEVATED METRO!
Isn't there a mod or an asset for that?
+собакачувак yes but the elevated metro would be separated from the undergound line.
Not sure if you are looking but Elevated Metro was released on the steam workshop (Metro Overhaul Mod). Plus RICO mod you can chose what districts have what buildings and you can have rich areas or poor areas.
rico mod is for ploppers, totally inadequate for those who actually just want to play the game like it should be
You can actually imply low education policies (I think it is called _schools out_ ) on certain districts of your cities so those buildings don't level up and imply high education policies on the "rich" districts so only they level up.
But why would you be interested in keeping peole back from earning a good life all together?
This game has truly the most beautiful soundtrack ever made. Sims 1 is a close second.
This is one of those soundtracks that is TOO good. Like you end up pausing and listening when your favorite tracks come on because it's too distracting.
I'm scottish, and listening to metropolis (It has bagpipes in the song) while sitting at Largs marina on our boat watching the sun rise over the water watching the seagulls fly and the occasional fishing boat make its way out into the ocean is just bliss! Also love the rest of the soundtrack, perfect when you just want to chill or reminisce about old times...
Thanks for putting this together! BTW, one of the best games ever!
Totally agree!
Gamecool10
Thanks, my original inspiration was that every time I wanted to here a piece from Simcity 4 again I'd have to find the title and then scroll through youtube until I found it. Now we can all enjoy nostalgia a little bit easier, thans.
Cities Skylines and this soundtruck. Magnificent combination.
Though I never get the feeling like I had in SC4. The soundtrack isn't everything, CS have a different vibe to the SC4 imo
CS sucks
I too love soundtrucks.
I played this game when I was little. Like super little. I barely remember the game itself, but the second each song started I instantly remembered playing the game and listening to the music like I've been listening to these tracks everyday. Kinda cool
Jesus what a badass soundtrack!
Best SIMCITY ever created! So many memories both inside the game and in real life. NOSTALGIA!