18 - Mass Effect 2: Samara Suite

Complete score from the Samara missions in Mass Effect 2. Tracks extracted and assembled from the game.

[@therealMrA]

Mass Effect spoiled me to the idea of how awesome our galaxy could actually be. I'd fucking listen to any Asari matriarch talk for hours about her life.

[@dragonieprayer]

this track suits Samara so well...

[@HHopebringer]

Find peace in the embrace of the Goddess.

[@Loadingue8692]

Actually, this track was composed by Jimmy Hinson, who also composed "A Rude Awakening", "The Normandy Reborn", "Grunt" and "Tali", so you know he's truly epic.

[@SkiDaBird]

It's interesting that Samara is the one who got the Middle Eastern style. I love it, but interesting design choice.

[@steventan2754]

Everytime her theme plays, I feel like I'm seeing and smelling burning incense :) So yeah, Middle Eastern-ish. And maybe a little bit of Buddhism, Zen.

[@looinrims]

Her music gave me that super, Indian(?) vibe, when I first heard t my thoughts turned to those flute players with the snakes in baskets The music captures the mysticism samara holds, in my opinion

[@RN-lo6xc]

I think it’s intended to suit the stage, rather than Samara herself. The sisterhood was meant to have a Middle-Eastern vibe to them, I suppose. I can’t really link the two, but it matches the Asari generally. I also think that Callista (the upper Afterlife track) has some slight ME influences in the background, and Afterlife’s ruler is Asari herself.

[@user-no1nj9ji1d]

Азари с возрастом становятся только лучше, как вино :)

[@anna_launchbury]

Samara has the best music. There are parts that sound straight out of the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack.

[@adamaroslinfanatic]

Anna Launchbury I knew I wasn't the only one who picked that up! So say we all!!!

[@yrusb]

Yup, Samara and Grunt have ´dem best musics x)

[@colbycoolby1592]

I don't think I'm the only one who knows they damn well based the Quarians and Geth off of BS: Galactica right?

[@dragansky9477]

Samara music...Kasumi music...for a Krogan is hard to decide. :D

[@mickeybunts]

I miss vintage Bioware ...

[@Doc_Fun]

mickeybunts yeah, kotor was pretty good. 2010 is not vintage, not yet.

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

This aint vintage boy

[@exessen1684]

Boo-hoo

[@audiosurfarchive]

@@Doc_Fun With how fast shit changes in the Vidya industry--and how cancerous it can become--this might as well be vintage

[@audiosurfarchive]

@@Doc_Fun at least, vintage Bio. Vintage 2.0, I suppose, after Baldur's Gate et al.

[@flynnyoba6175]

I THINK things! And they HAPPEN!

[@gzapray7203]

I'm glad that LE restore the music that is to be played when Samara finally corners Morinth back on her loyalty mission. That made the confrontation even more intense.

[@htavli]

Yesss! It was very epic.

[@Fami_Salami]

Wasn't there always music?

[@Robertward111]

​@@Fami_SalamiNo. The original trilogy didn't have the music.

[@QuickSilver2579]

Just when I thought I couldn't love Samara's music any more than i already do. This is astonishingly well-put together, and I love love love how you bring it full circle at the end. I'll never listen to the ordinary OST track again!

[@oleghrozman4172]

Samara's theme is probably one of the best themes in MassEffect trilogy..

[@feldwebelblitz2553]

Best suite from the ME trilogy you ever put together. I just love every part of it. Such a masterpiece. I'm so glad I found you.

[@kappaklaus2671]

Mass Effect 2 is a masterpiece

[@RoyalFlush270]

3:42 Renegade interrupt sound effect

[@cahhdmus]

Her theme have this Middle Eastern vibe, especially with the vocals

[@finstrike7]

Very nice Middle-Eastern and Persian sounds flowing throughout. Reminds of so well of Prince of Persia. ((Yes, I finally changed this foolish comment.))

[@Victoran29]

But this isn't Ubisoft?? It's Mass Effect and even the composer never did the Prince of Persia's soundtrack.

[@neroblack4343]

I too love that middle eastern feel, but this doesn't have anything to do with Ubisoft in the slightest

[@Robertward111]

+finstrike7 Bioware bro

[@stevejordan7275]

+finstrike7 Hm. I get Asian vibes off this more than Persian. Still wonderful stuff. Kudos to Jack, Sam, and the music team!

[@finstrike7]

I know. I know. I was in error.

[@lukepeverelle7707]

Interestingly, 14:11 gets reprised in ME3 when the maw hammer section on Tuchanka is about to begin.

[@TesVixen]

This is amazing. I'm addicted to this series :x

[@jpch8814]

So epic and Amazonian!

[@plmokm33]

Can't hear 10:08 without imagining a great biotic wind!

[@KopperNeoman]

If he'd waited until the sequel...

[@Lycandingo]

If you really think about it, she does act kinda Prothean. There is netural solution for her, same as Javik. "Toss it out the air-lock commander." - Javik "If you do something evil I will kill you when our time together is over" - Samatha. IMO complete empire material.

[@Phlebas]

Perfect theme for an alien vigilante warrior monk!

[@briansmith2739]

Samara has one of the best soundtracks in Mass Effect. Andromeda is no where close as good as the original trilogy.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Andromeda is fan fiction. Bad fan fiction at that.

[@carllazarraga2858]

Andromeda isn't good at all. What are you smoking? Comparing andromeda to the trilogy is like comparing a steak to cat shit.

[@cybergothika6906]

Liara's grandmother was alive when the ancient Egyptians were still around on earth. All living Asari actually.🐈‍⬛

[@Applejackmacintosh]

Around 1:20 it starts sounding like a remix of the old PS2 startup theme... still awesome :P

[@HiddenFaithy]

I ran around with Samara more then I normally would have hoping I'd get music like this. It didn't work but it was still awesome.

[@ioannisdenton]

Samara is a badass.

[@stonefish1318]

Thats the best part 5:29

[@stonefish1318]

Great too 12:13

[@SomebodyHasTakenThis]

Whenever I have this song playing in the background while doing homework, 7:20 to 7:40 gets me every time.

[@TheEternalProduction]

Too bad we learn from Javik that the Goddess Athame was actually a group of Protheans who offered help to the asari at critical moments of their history lol

[@carllazarraga2858]

Will there ever be a game as good as the first 3 mass effects? I've been waiting almost a decade and still haven't found one.

[@EllynoreMoonwood]

I think you added an extra "R" in Samara's name, but other than that, this is an amazing compilation to the soundtrack! Awesome! =D

[@mesio6674]

6:43

[@dvader518]

Theme of Billie Eilish's mom. (No seriously, she voiced Samara in the series.)

[@pgsells]

This is a nice blend, really more effective than the OST at conveying Samara's presence. But what happened at the end? It seemed cut off in mid-thought.

[@SkiDaBird]

+P Sells A lot of the smaller pieces are designed to be played on loop. If you listen closely, there will be a point where it would loop back to, without you hearing it in game. They use it as cinematic music during conversations or when Shepard is just walking around.

[@Vordhosbn]

12:38 is actually in the song "Callista" by Saki Kaskas, it fits too well into the mix though.

[@Robert399]

Either way, that bit is definitely in the soundtrack. Score Forge didn't add it.

[@SilentShadow07]

3:52

[@LosangeInverse]

I believe Jimmy Hinson actually composed this one

[@BrethrenOfUlster]

Evidently by holding up Bear McCreary for unused "Battlestar Galactica" samples stashed away in his filing cabinet.

[@Illnesssss]

8:02 to 10:07/12:36 has been stuck in my head for weeks...

[@shaq0071]

do u have illium chase

[@InvalidPointer]

I've extracted the music from the game and never ran across the segment starting around 14:10, nor heard it ingame. Shame, because it's actually pretty cool.

[@milansafrany8498]

It plays during Zaeed's loyalty mission when first meeting Vido... I know i know.... 8 years is a long time

[@InvalidPointer]

@@milansafrany8498 Listening to it again I think the very last percussive motif was used in the Morinth vs. Samara decision moment, but the lead-up threw me off.

[@Illnesssss]

Why is there no repeat button?

[@jkozlowski]

Prince of persia vibes

[@7Blacksteel7]

Everybody's found peace in the Goddess I take it?

[@JD..........]

2:44 3:50 8:03

[@mattclark4574]

cant find the music where you go find the ship's name

[@looinrims]

Matt Clark27 it’s all apart of the same OST Track 13 - Samara I think it’s 13, the total length is like 7-8 minutes, it’s towards the end that the music playing whilst fighting Wasea plays

[@AlexZebol]

Author, please fix a name of video - Samara, not Samarra.

[@TheMadaserasu]

@7Blacksteel7 No the good way is so naive......

[@MultiDedem80043423234]

Hans zimmer ?

[@Grunzelbart]

But imagine if......!!!!

[@danielzsigmond2518]

Scottish pipe rulez at 5:25

[@oleghrozman4172]

this is Armenian duduk.. i think

[@Robert399]

Those are definitely not bagpipes.

[@reznet2]

I have wondered the same thing for years... -.- why could't KZbin do something useful like that instead of putting the title from the top of the video to the bottom--they must have thought it was genius. Just goes to show how much of a brain trust the people are.

[@MultiDedem80043423234]

@dtaylorutube They are soo fucking awesome !

[@Grunzelbart]

Yeah, so?^^

[@Grunzelbart]

thats what i meant ;)

[@MultiDedem80043423234]

And i jizzed in my pants.

[@Lycandingo]

No* netueral solution for her*

[@peanut_butter_thief]

such a cool soundtrack yet i always let Samara die bc stand with Morinth even when i have to kill her in ME 3 :D

[@Cam-im8io]

This sounds egyptian

[@DreamVikings]

Pulpy mess

[@lUltimatuMl]

morinth

[@oscarface1998]

yes i like older wemon byt morinth was adoric yartchi

[@lUltimatuMl]

Vojtěch Růžek very controversial statement))

[@lUltimatuMl]

Vojtěch Růžek so, Samara is an innocent child

[@lUltimatuMl]

Vojtěch Růžek she is much older, and most importantly much sinful.)

[@oscarface1998]

true but she's still awesome every buddy sins its just what we do in life that matters to make a change and to out balance our sins life can't go on with out a sin

[@zafelrede4884]

6:41