History AwesomeMusic / Homeworld

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWcm6MMiHk Kharak System]]'', the very first mission of the game, is underscored by an epic piece that at once captures the desert home of the protagonists, the incredible vastness of space before them, and the hopes and fears regarding their path ahead.

* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2AhjhYWDUM Homeworld (The Ladder)]]" by Music/{{Yes}} at the end credits.

* Also the rather climactic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHB2un4OjdE Battle for Sajuuk theme]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6uRknCjmaA version]] used in the credits.
* [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant The Keeper is aware]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btXnl7AGFg0 The Keeper understands]]. [[OhCrap The Keeper has seen the enemy]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWcm6MMiHk Kharak System]], the very first mission of the game, is underscored by an epic piece that at once captures the desert home of the protagonists, the incredible vastness of space before them, and the hopes and fears regarding their path ahead.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eNWYTQNWHU The Planetkillers' theme]]. Slow, mournful, and almost hymnishly solemn, quite fitting for a situation where a slipup [[spoiler:could get your planet fried]].

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPfY1D3O7C8 Agnus Dei]]'', a chloral of Samuel Barber's ''[[CherubicChoir Adagio for Strings]]'', potentially one of the saddest instrumental pieces ever written, plays during the launch of the Mothership (giving a spiritual "we're putting our whole race's effort into this" feeling), as well as two other highly dramatic moments, potentially bumping the first one up to TearJerker status and serving as a ThemeMusicPowerUp for the second one, at the end of the final mission, as enemy rebels courageously - suicidally, in fact - charge straight at their Emperor to clear a path for you to attack.
** There is also a somewhat minor one that slips past the radar of many every now and then. The mission where you save the Bentusi, and they share with you a recording of your ancestors' exile from Hiigara, all while being accompanied with ''Agnus Dei'', the choral version of Adagio for Strings.

* Much of the ambient music, the original game particularly - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owXHUK-C9E the Garden of Kadesh]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmduOjIip5Q Super Nova Station]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlDDsuMX_0 Garden View]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJbSmNGXWM Bridge of Sighs]] - though rather slower.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POvN4POLgHI Here]] is a combination of some of the best pieces in the game.

* A [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPfY1D3O7C8 choral version]] of Samuel Barber's ''[[CherubicChoir Adagio for Strings]]'', potentially one of the saddest instrumental pieces ever written, plays during the launch of the Mothership (giving a spiritual "we're putting our whole race's effort into this" feeling), as well as two other highly dramatic moments, potentially bumping the first one up to TearJerker status and serving as a ThemeMusicPowerUp for the second one, at the end of the final mission, as enemy rebels courageously - suicidally, in fact - charge straight at their Emperor to clear a path for you to attack.

* Much of the ambient music, the original game particularly - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owXHUK-C9E the Garden of Kadesh]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmduOjIip5Q Super Nova Station]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlDDsuMX_0 Garden View]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJbSmNGXWM Bridge of Sighs]] - though [[CaptainObvious rather slower]].

* [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant The Keeper is aware]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btXnl7AGFg0 The Keeper understands]]. [[OhCrap The Keeper has seen the enemy]].

* Cataclysm had a couple: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAPFCNxRRLw The Battle for Hiigara]] from the first scene, a simple, calm, totally epic piece for an equally epic scene, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzwAp-LirA the main Beast theme]]. Also, you know truly how screwed you are when you're fighting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3nNDMJRuQ4 the friggin' Bentusi]].

* Cataclysm had a couple: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9LWQWOWEaA The Battle for Hiigara]] from the first scene, a simple, calm, totally epic piece for an equally epic scene, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T3iI6bDeJE the main Beast theme]]. Also, you know truly how screwed you are when you're fighting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3nNDMJRuQ4 the friggin' Bentusi]].

* [[MoodWhiplash It's completely unlike anything else in the game,]] but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkoBNOPvjU the credits song]] makes a damn fine victory anthem.

* Subjective example, perhaps, [[MoodWhiplash (and completely unlike anything else in the game)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkoBNOPvjU but the credits song makes a damn fine victory anthem.]]

* The song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2AhjhYWDUM Homeworld (The Ladder)]]" by ''{{Yes}}'' at the end credits.

** There is also a somewhat minor one that slips past the radar of many every now and then. The mission where you save the Bentusi, and they share with you a recording of your ancestors' exile from Hiigara, all while being accompanied with''Agnus Dei'', the choral version of Adagio for Strings.