Tanaris - Original Wow Music

[@Dorkus89Malorkus]

Oh man.... That's the sound of so many skipped high school classes.

[@xLostProficyx]

+omino arrowflash Definitely

[@Bubz_mordhau]

+xLostProficyx diffinately

[@alex_s21]

+John England dude hahaha i was just thinking at that . Miss that feeling

[@Ep1cRainbow]

+John England fucking relatable

[@tofulotl]

holy shit, one of the most relatable comments ever. "Do I have any important subjects today? Nah, fuck it. I have to do this one important quest!!" xDD

[@JuraIbis]

This music was hypnotic. When you were grinding if you were listening to this you would enter a play-trance where 6 hours had passed and you had 300 basilisk entrails in your backpack.

[@rahbeat9785]

booom m8 gr8 comment

[@AmorrSummerstorm]

18 hours later at 3AM you're still in the desert, just endless farming.. *music plays*

[@Silly_Illidan]

I remember I was playing for so long i when i finally got up to go to sleep, the cushion had stuck to my bum got ripped off of my chair😢

[@TheEazyE]

Whenever I hear this music I imagine a big desert and a boiling sun over my head. Sand dunes, desert people, a lot of scorpions and bones. It gives you awesome feeling...

[@SLIvista]

dont forget the heat waves making everything wavy

[@Veslanjejezivot]

You mean over your head?

[@pyramidhead3109]

This game is truly an atmospheric masterpiece. I think Vanilla nailed down the atmosphere better than every other xpac but that's just imo.

[@spirit5877]

@@pyramidhead3109 i love the other xpacs music too but i think you are right. its truly mindblowing how these music composers manage to perfectly encapsulate what each zone FEELS like.

[@Nooverpower]

I imagine killing hordes

[@failatunfailure]

this was the place where i first tasted being ganked by a psychopath. the sun was burning me, there was no one around except scorpions, i was deadly thirsty, i started to see mirages and an asshole was killing me again and again with a wicked laughter. it took me nearly an hour to reach gadgetzan. that night was a nightmare.

[@TheDiadara1]

time is money friend,

[@liberator48]

Boy, do i have a deal for you.

[@Silly_Illidan]

I get no respec around hea

[@trinerosalarsen1890]

So many nights in solitude playing wow when everybody else was sleeping, except for fellow-gamers tho, listening to this... takes me back.

[@KrychuLittle]

exactly, while im here why ...why there isnt more beautiful grils playing like you in mmorpg ....

[@HacksignKT]

Amen, back when I was on Gorgonnash I'd to would spend hours questing on my old main, the feels.

[@ZacharyZorbas]

I have the same feeling. I miss it a lot.

[@RTerrence]

Why not go back again and relive it all? I am doing so now. ;)

[@ZeratesZee]

I imagine that listening to this in solitude for hours wouldn't be so great on your mind ...

[@tmwk__]

Right around the times everyone was getting their level fourty mounts.

[@Hirotoro4692]

it also played in wailing caverns!

[@love2win]

And their 31 point talent. Felt like growing up!

[@nouellette]

Love the original. It fits perfectly with the landscape and culture.

[@theendryu]

+nouellette just like entire vanilla soundtrack. too bad starting from WOTLK quality of music was on the decline.

[@adryannthedefender701]

+Andrzej “Yendrek” Wójtowicz True ever since Cataclysm appeard ive havent played the game when WoD i gived a second chance to play it wasnt much interesting , now today WoW Legion will come soon .

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Wrath was fine in my opinion, there were a couple meh ones, but overall good. Cata music wasn't bad per-say, but it was unfitting in a lot of zones.

[@nclark5720]

the cata music sucked overall because they trashed a lot of the original soundtracks. and they fucked up orgrimmar.

[@Wowmusicable]

They fucked up a lot more than that...

[@Silly_Illidan]

Tanaris and zuldazar....2 zones who's atmosphere got to me. A hypnotic trance that felt like i was actually there

[@apemant]

I've seen it, across the shimmering wastes, across the dunes; there I saw its hideous figure appear against a darkened sky.

[@spirit5877]

the siren sounding screech near the beginning 0:17 always scared me. doing ZF and hearing that like 50 times started to wear on my mind

[@marcusaurelius1792]

I remember running about on my FrostSaber mount skinning as many scorpids as I could find trying to make the entire Scorpid Scale mail armor suit. I agree with the previous commenters...this music made you feel lost, desperate for shelter, and weary thinking about the creatures over the next sand dune. Not many zones or even other games made you feel this way. Good job Blizzard team!

[@kaiyote7924]

This song truly sounded like I was a survivor in a desolate nowhere. What a feeling. Desolace, thousand needles, Tanaris, silithus... Hauntingly beautiful.

[@v1deonasty68]

I remember back in Vanilla me & my mate going to Steamwheedle Port to fish for Stonescale Eels, used to sell them on AH for 1g each so we could buy our lvl 40 mount. Good times.

[@hallajavel]

I remember you always had to be on your toes and be ready for pvp in Tanaris because there were horde everywhere and high level ones. One of the most memorial zones

[@MrAirDrop]

yes youre right.. time flies. Missing this feeling

[@dawnbreaker2912]

That sound at 0:17 still gives me chills. It's just so ominous and eerie. This track also plays in pre-Wound Silithus.

[@iamjetflight]

Ladies and gentlemen, the best goddamn soundtrack in WoW, and quite possibly best piece of game soundtrack from the 21st century.

[@Astarath]

+iamjetflight i don't know, i think terokkar forest music from TBC has the edge over this one. They're both amazing pieces of music though.

[@FearRipper74]

no, yojamba isle

[@olaokolaok]

Tanaris and the raid with the hydra... never forget!

[@Pepitobenito]

I just love deserts. Real deserts, desert worlds in books/movies, and desert levels in games. Something about the vast unknown and mystery accentuated by a palpable sense of danger...which is *perfectly* conveyed with this somewhat understated, slightly creepy piece.

[@FranciscoSV81]

If you swan bordering the southern end, you arrived to a wonderful beach called "Land's End Beach".

[@BassHeadsProduction]

goosebumps, oh man I loved pvping in tanaris. loved just whipping around tanaris. the music.. the little gadgetszan town.. it was all so awesome.

[@kaiyote7924]

I used to camp out in the turtle shell in the salt flats of Thousand needles. I know you don't get your rested exp bonus but I loved it

[@HakiVergo]

God whoever made this shit was inspired

[@Kpaxlol]

specialworks10 Matt Uelmen's magic.

[@GmanMilli]

Kpaxlol I don't think Matt Uelmen did any Vanilla songs, but he did do many Burning Crusade songs. Tracy Bush, Derek Duke, and Jason Hayes did Vanilla songs, but I'm not sure which one did the desert songs (which plays in Tanaris and a few other zones.)

[@Ep1cRainbow]

+specialworks10 really nice way of putting that. a lot of the vanilla and tbc music seems so genuine

[@deficineirondeficineiron5306]

neither day nor night desert have artist credited when I unpacked them (most vanilla tracks do) :/

[@GmanMilli]

Composer-Unknown Plays in zones-Tanaris 00:00-DayDesert03.mp3 (54 sec) 00:54-DayDesert01.mp3 (65 sec) 01:59-DayDesert02.mp3 (81 sec) All 3 NightDesert songs are missing

[@puffthemagicdaddy5761]

Ahh Tanaris, I loved your music, your landscape, your instance and the pvp. But good god almighty did I hate getting knocked off my mount every 8 seconds because of the infinite amount of hyenas and scorpions.

[@Simulacraddison]

That's what I loved about oldschool WoW: It actually felt dangerous.

[@puffthemagicdaddy5761]

seriously though. fuck those scorpions and hyenas.

[@truthseeker508]

King Fedorah haha true they should had kept that feeling...its ok they make it a big easier for new players etc, but not this much, and this music is a lot nicer/creepier than the new version...

[@RTerrence]

One person got ganked repeatedly in Tanaris.

[@WarCraftLoreMaster]

I had a roleplay event the other day where we entered Tanaris, roleplaying on one of the empty pirate ships. The creepy music playing in Tanaris really fit the scene.

[@joshlynch5676]

Walking outside of Gadget for me, rivaled walking outside of Grom'gol. It was terrifying.

[@mariabars527]

1.General: LFG ZF, i have the mallet ahhhhh good times

[@HacksignKT]

[@Aras483]

I miss old days , my childhood was full of wow and ı will never forget that good times :)

[@Catperson84]

I still think this music sound scary

[@mattbad2594]

omg just the start of this gives me goosebumps, everytime i do Molten Core and this music comes up, heard it in Wailing Caverns and Tanaris when flying over, ahhh good times!!!

[@URBANSPCMN]

See... for me this music represents the Wailing Caverns. As a Horde player back when WoW first came out it was the first place you were introduced to this music. I remember falling in absolute love when I first saw the Wailing Caverns and heard this music. All these years later I still have random daydreams where this creeps into the back of my mind and I can picture the random groups I ran WC with. Its so nuts.

[@austinha11]

I remember constantly getting dismounted by the hyenas and scorpids. Also, getting ganked by alliance that were skulls and I was like "whoaaaaa"

[@АлексейАлексеевич-м7х]

2:45 - that's why i came here. This flute is so breathtaking

[@BraTheEle]

Алексей Зарубин yes sir

[@pkload]

Lol the journey from Theramore to Gadjetzan...on foot!

[@2damaxmr2]

Ya been there and done that on like 20 of my characters. XD

[@RustyShackleford-jj5lo]

When i was yer age, we swam uphill both ways just to get ganked by a 60 undead rogue before clickin the flight path i tells ya, builds character

[@sohrabjamshed6899]

i remember having a dreadful feeling as a level 45-52 player? going down south. it felt like i was lost in the desert with all sorts of monsters around me.

[@achillessniper]

The original Tanaris music will always have a place in my heart, Ive played a lot of games but WoW was so much more, the years I played WoW were a part of my life. This music is so perfectly constructed, so haunting it does something to my imagination that no other game has. It was also used by the BBC once on a programme about the Scottish Isles!

[@soulblighter2501]

This music reminds me of an ancient civilization long forgotten. This music resonates so intense with something deep down in my DNA.

[@Buscemizz]

Walking in the arid desert of Tanaris being completely dehydrated with hallucinations due to sunstroke ... Here what this music makes me think of.. But why did they change this soundtrack in cata/mop :(....

[@DivineBanana]

Cata tanaris theme is very good, I'm glad it exists.... But it just doesn't fit the zone as perfectly as this one does. It's just so atmospheric and well, it's perfect

[@PeRG4moS]

ZF my FAVORITE dungeon in pre BC WoW.. loved the massive fight on the stairs leading to the altar. some of the best times of my life questing/getting stoned and just having a good time with friends and random people into the same thing you were.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

This also played in old Azshara and Silithus as well, I like this theme.

[@BleedingCarrot]

Also in Desolace

[@rupomk]

When you hear this music you know that you are out here all by yourself asking to be ganked. Go back to Area 52 and wait for your friends to come and party up with you, Why I was so scared of leveling back in the vanilla and BC days that I will never know... WOW will never be the same again.

[@dathip]

Will never forget for the first time I heard this, at 0:16 scared the heck out of me lol. I would fish and fish for hours here alongside farm the turtles.

[@Wowmusicable]

Same here, first time I came to Tanaris and saw Gadgetzan I was afraid to enter because it looked so hostile. I was Alliance and thought this was a Horde outpost.

[@pwnsyou82]

"Theres something behind me...."

[@jeffc7495]

What a great zone of feeling alone and isolated....almost despairing then going down the long ramp into ungoro to the jungle...quite the contrast........

[@DogsLoveTeslas]

OMG ty IMO best sound track in the game I spent many an hour late night fishing Stonescale Eels of the docks listening to this on my 1st wow toon to get the funds up up to buy my 1st mount. level 25 getting from gadget to the dock was fun aggro'ing the zone to get to the dock. TY

[@Roboglenn387]

Noggenfogger Elixir, trying to get the treasure map, doing Zul'farrak for that darn carrot, speculating on what's inside Uldum. And a friend of mine managed to glitch his way inside the Caverns of Time, did that to get in Mount Hyjal too. So cool to see those back then.

[@RonaldConder]

Came today in 2024 to hear again the desert theme that plays in my head every time the heat is hot

[@Greatbonzz]

I see this track and I imagine a dark forgotten cave or cavern that nobody has ever ventured. And you have absolutely no idea what's inside, but you feel like you're going to find out.

[@unukbigwall2279]

This, this is the song that give me the whole "I'm doomed, complety doomed and forggoten" vibe's

[@skypechess]

Unforgettable feeling. That area was so unique.

[@Gwarhardur]

This brings me back to camping outside Zul Farrak waiting spamming for a group as it was my fav instance.

[@Vyomesh839]

That "screaming" always freaked me out. Still does sometimes to this day.

[@wowpokemon1009]

also plays in wailing caverns and the music still gives me the heebie jeebies to this day

[@sniksapap]

I happily burned vacation days for this place and if you could erase it from my mind so I could experience it again I would eagerly do so again.

[@PhilipKonn]

The dragons in Tanaris were CRAZY.

[@BasedHorrigan]

This gives strong Ahn'Qiraj vibes...man I'll never forget when the gates opened in classic

[@daltont3878]

My favorite place in World of Warcraft. Loved coming, hated going.

[@SpiritedSpy]

Still my favorite track

[@M4aarc]

Oww, so many times im being lvling up here.. got nostalgia feeling right now!

[@picosarnoso]

i live in a coastal desert every time the sun scorches me in my head sounds this music

[@LordOfSweden]

Im here end of oktover 2024 boys, just reminiscing :D I hope you have a great life to all I met in my WoW journeys.

[@damokt]

Aaahhh..... yes... close your eyes and remember.. this is the sound of questing with your first 60% speed mount... and feeling sorry for some few players that have to run by foot in the endless sands of tanaris because they could not afford it yet.

[@MrVindoon]

Everytime I hear this music (say a random cave or I happen to youtube it) it takes me back.. Oh man good times!

[@MaxClancy]

Tanaris was most definitely ruined beyond recognition, and went from mysterious and unexplored to feeling like I was in "Sim City"

[@NewportLocalBra]

I loved Zul Gurub. My favorite part of this zone was going to the beach and grinding the pirates. Then I always got into a little pvp action against the alliance. Good times.

[@The_McRib]

This music still plays just less often. It's the same desert music that Desolace and Silithus use too. There's nothing to miss.

[@HueViolet]

Most of the music of WoW is instrumental, piano, harp, etc. But, I can't tell whether this is instrumental or digital. That pedal tone in A (I believe it's A) and the doppler-sounding whirring coming and going sound digital, but there seems to be actual woodwind (the higher pitch, you'll hear it going up and down, louder and quieter) weaving in and out. It's a fascinating piece. Hopefully, I can find out more about this, but if anyone knows more about this composition and its recording, I'd love to hear. There doesn't seem to be too much known about the type of recording of this music, though it means a lot to all of us wowhards. (Yes, Russell Brower wrote the Lament of the Highborne, and that's pretty much a classic theme known and loved by most of us players, but is anything really KNOWN about the music/recording?)

[@derkoekje]

gist.github.com/alexandreana/5217d064cfd8f2e91548 one of the composers for WoW actually referenced this music, maybe it's of small help.

[@ProgZombie]

Still the best piece of music to grace this series!

[@noblec]

When I got here after Shimmering Flats I was like, OOH a desert, and then after all the shizz the...mallet quest. AAAAGH still a nice zone.

[@Nloveru]

Not being able to afford a mount! Seriously good times! It felt like a real world! When I hit 40 I had to spend 3 days solo grinding SM graveyard to gain the required money for my mount. Now everything is just handed to you nearly for free. :(

[@ninjalacoon]

The music of getting shot by an undead frostmage sitting on top of the gadgetzan inn.

[@ArtificialLifef0rm]

This zone used to be quite scary due to the ganking risk. Back in the days, there wasn't many graveyards in this zone so if you died you had to run for very long. Not as long as those Searing Gorge -> MC runs but still enough to make you cautious about enemies.

[@Ksensei41]

Stumbled upon Caverns of Time in BC with my 40-something gnome warlock with no knowledge about it. No mount, had to venture down and explore the whole thing. Giant sleeping dragon? Other dragons nearby? New dungeons which I can't enter yet. I was like "man when I level I'll get here". And I did. Can't wait for WOW classic. Also consider going back even to BFA. Wow is still alive

[@elpred0]

so many fishes, good I love it

[@N1Gaming]

I remember going here for the first time, such a unique zone, loved it

[@moviemaster13]

oh the scraps along the path to Zul'Farrak, so much fighting over control of the summoning stone, which i actually miss alot now with cross realm dungeons :/

[@OmegaTrooper]

Got my first epic in Tanaris. Purple boots that dropped off a pirate while I was questing with someone. Won them on a random roll, sold 'em for 200 gold. From that moment on I was a rich bastard until the xpacks when money was devalued into oblivion.

[@idoleyesmusic]

Man.. I spent a lot of time in this zone. I remember when I was playing on a brand new server, I spent level 41-50 in this zone doing ONLY ZF.. it was easy to get a group back then cause everyone was still leveling up..

[@danicalolic394]

so many gangs at this town :)

[@loganmohring7693]

This track sounds so creepy, but its very fitting for a desert area like Tanaris.

[@rofllojick]

I cannot stop thinking of this song... It's so special really. So mystical.. but at the same time, it's such an amazing music you can never stop listening to.... god I wish more musics like this were created. I cannot simply understand why you would remove this music... so sad really..

[@dertTHEkidd]

had some good rumbles here while leveling against allies back in BC

[@milantomcik3651]

This was the music that would absorb you in the game.... Missing it in the BfA :(

[@Bjaneeee]

Best memories of this place was getting through the mobs of Zombie trolls in order to get to Zul'Furak and enter the instance. Back before the grouping system and you had to desperate /who the entire world to fine someone that might want to heal for you!

[@haxxic]

11 years of playing on and off and now it's all come to an end. My character is going back to the nether.

[@YoshimitsuTekken6]

I agree. In some way this music makes me feel...lost...and it sounds so alone...

[@vrch5]

When I was level 40, I avoided this zone. The music was just too damn creepy for me. And I wouldnt turn it off because I liked it that way :D

[@Stillalive49]

This music was not removed though, you can still hear it inside silithid hives in Silithus for example.

[@EmreYavuzalp]

This music scared me when I was doing explorer title thingy around Azshara. This used to play in Azshara too.

[@leionarose]

Makes me want to go hiking in the desert

[@arthurcecchini4322]

much better than the new

[@alexanderm2220]

when im really old in the future i will just live in a game like this

[@ZizzlaWarrior]

Gosh, listening to this music does bring back some crazy memories! :p i remember leveling in this zone so much and doing the dungeon! God dam! :P

[@nubfail]

This music sounds appropriate for Wailing Caverns, what with the wailing voices and everything.

[@NattRavn]

it does play there, too, but it is also the night theme of tanaris. (used to be at least)

[@nubfail]

Because CATACLYSM babyyy!

[@ratius1979]

So haunting, probably my fav zone of all time.

[@Stoogemeister420]

getting hunted down by level 60s in epic gear, outrunning me on their epic mounts, camping my body near a sand dune. At the time i hated it hahaha...but now i'de give anything to go back a few years and re-live it all

[@dustypaint]

Old Tanaris has always reminded me of Lut Gholein....

[@Mgaak]

Oh my, I know its about sand dunes and oases but this gives me so much of Fallout 1 vibes !

[@dyeinightmare]

i miss this place, i want to reactivate wow only because this world, ah the remembers...