Are there other famous bands in Thief?

intruder on 9/1/2008 at 11:00

As a fan of "Subway to Sally" I was very happy to hear their music in TMA, inside the pub in "Ambush!" and in the credits ("Accingile Vos").

I asked myself if there are other bands in TDP, TMA or even TDS contributing a song for the game which I don't know by now...

Has anyone some information on it?

Beleg Cúthalion on 9/1/2008 at 13:02

Maurice Ravel wrote the Widow Moira theme, afaik.

No, sorry, just kidding...

The Magpie on 9/1/2008 at 14:44

Quote Posted by intruder

T. M. Blackheart in "Shipping", TMA.

(Oh, that was a cheap one. Shame on me.)

But hey, Eric Brosius is famous to me, at least. (And so I keep telling all my friends whenever we discuss Harmonix and Guitar Hero and Rock Band.) I imagine that with the exception of Accingile Vos, all music for the English-language Thief titles was composed by him.

There is a distinct possibility that the tracks in the German version of TMA differing from the ones in the English version was not done by Eric B. But I don't know by whom, then.

What do you think?

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Larris

intruder on 9/1/2008 at 14:55

I don't think that they produced new music for each localised version of TMA.
That would be to much effort for nothing...after all, there are rarely vocals and
if there are some, then they are in latin (e.g. Accingile Vos) or in some sort of fantasy keeper language.

Beleg Cúthalion on 9/1/2008 at 20:00

I cannot recall any music with lyrics except for the Latin StS choirs and the English ones in the Cradle. That "Keeper fantasy" (?) whisper only appears in the Keeper introduction movie and on the official homepage. The "German" (i.e. replaced) soundfiles in TMA are:

WINGEDM.wav
waxytune.wav
swells1.wav
s0401 - s0407end.wav

Plus, some cutscenes have been edited.

All sounds use themes from Accingite vos, a song that was by the way published with the game even before it appeared on CD, afaik. I have planned to write to the guy who apparently managed the localisations and ask him why our version is so independent.

PS: The guy who wrote the Seaside Mannor themes could also be Claude Debussy. :erg:

Digital Nightfall on 9/1/2008 at 20:27

This one is easy.

<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(band)>Tribe - Eric and Terri Brosius, Greg LoPiccolo</a> and a few others. (Check your Thief manual credits if you don't recognize those names.) Not really famous, but their work on Thief should be, and their work on Guitar Hero definitely is.

But it's maybe not the answer you were looking for. ;)

intruder on 9/1/2008 at 20:42

Quote:

All sounds use themes from Accingite vos, a song that was by the way published with the game even before it appeared on CD, afaik.

You're right about it:

(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzblut) Subway to Sally - Herzblut
This CD was released in april 2001, after TMA.

But why they replaced so much soundfiles is a riddle to me too. I mean, the whole "german" version is in english anyway, apart from the subtitles.

jtr7 on 9/1/2008 at 20:56

Sorry for the tangent, but did anybody ever download (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4832) Thomas M. Blackheart's music, before his links died, and can we get the names of the tracks at least?

And the semi-official fan-site for Tribe is (http://www.tribeonline.info/) here. Semi-official because it's not endorsed by the record companies, but the band's okay with it, especially David Penzo.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVawf1l5zc0) German credits with Subway to Sally, (the link may be removed if it's in violation of copyright).

The Magpie on 15/1/2008 at 17:11

Quote Posted by jtr7

Sorry. But we should try and get in touch with him, for the sake of completism. Going by his location seven years ago, we could try and contact people in the music scene of Coventry, R.I.

Re: Tribe - One of these days, I'm so going to get Joyride (I Saw The Film) played at one of my fave clubs around here. I heard it first courtesy of DN, all those years ago. It has stuck with me since.

Thanks for the youtube link, too.

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Larris