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This page records the music used in the Plants vs. Zombies series. Many composers have composed music for the series, ranging from the entire soundtrack to just a single song. The list below is ordered by a composer’s first appearance for making music for the game, and goes chronologically.

Composers[]

Laura Shigihara composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies for Nintendo DS (collaborated with Morihiro Iwamoto on the soundtrack[1]), Ancient Egypt's waves (Guy Whitmore did the Final Wave’s extra percussion[2]) and victory theme & the scrapped Pirate Seas theme in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Stan LePard composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies Adventures. Peter McConnell composed a majority of the music for Plants vs. Zombies 2 & Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, and the entire soundtrack for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare&Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. Feiyu Music (绯雨音乐) composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars[3]. Becky Allen composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies Heroes. Several composers have helped compose just one or a few songs in the series: In Plants vs. Zombies 2, Chris Ballew composed Zombie Time[4], Korby Sears composed the Pianist Zombie’s Theme[4], C. Andrew Rohrmann composed the Zen Garden themes[4] & the Plants vs. Zombies 3 composer composed the Z-Corp Takeover and The Zombosseum II thymed event themes. In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, LeShiya Audio (乐石涯音频) composed Renaissance Age, Heian Age and the upcoming Zombie Scene music[5] & Suihua (虽华) composed Parkour Party[6]. In Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, Ricardo Almeida composed Great White North (except its minigame theme) & Seeds Of Time, using Peter’s audio files to remix his songs.[7]

Two of the composers of the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 (the first one composed Kongfu World, Sky City and Steam Age & the second one composed Fairytale Forest) and the composers of the entire soundtrack of Plants vs. Zombies Online, Plants vs. Zombies 3 & Plants vs. Zombies: Match (3 & Match share the same composer) are currently unknown.

Composer Games What They Composed
Laura Shigihara Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies (Nintendo DS), Plants vs. Zombies 2 The entire soundtrack for PvZ and its DS port. For PvZ2, she composed Ancient Egypt’s wave themes & the unreleased Pirate Seas song.
? Plants vs. Zombies (PS3 Version) Choose A Game song, which plays when hovering over PvZ on the choose your game screen.
Vincent McCreith[4] Plants vs. Zombies (J2ME Version) The game’s one song, which is taken from Bejewled Twist’s J2ME version.
Stan LePard Plants vs. Zombies Adventures The game’s entire soundtrack.
Peter McConnell Plants vs. Zombies 2, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville For PvZ2, GW1 & GW2, Peter made a majority of the game’s soundtrack. For BFN, he composed the entire soundtrack.
Guy Whitmore[8] Plants vs. Zombies 2 The added percussion in Ancient Egypt's final wave
Christopher Ballew[4] Plants vs. Zombies 2 Zombie Time, the game’s credits song.
Korby Sears[4] Plants vs. Zombies 2 Pianist Zombie’s Theme.
C. Andrew Rohrmann[4] Plants vs. Zombies 2 All the Zen Garden themes.
? Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) Kung Fu World, Sky City, Steam Ages, Plant Unlocked & PvP Mode (Battle) themes.
LeShiya Audio (乐石涯音频)[9] Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) Renaissance Age, Heian Age & Zombie Scene.
? Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) Fairytale Forest.
Suihua (虽华)[10] Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) Parkour Party.
? Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) Guitar Artifact theme.
Rob Blake Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare The game’s Ode To Joy themes. Additionally recorded Peashooter’s voice.

Plants vs. Zombies[]

Area music[]

Day[]

The Day music is called "Grasswalk."

PvZ-Grasswalk Page 1

Grasswalk's sheet music

Night[]

The Night music is called "Moongrains." This track is the only one with a different time signature (2/4, while the others are played on 4/4) and overall sounds in the huge waves.

This music also plays in Zombiquarium.

Pool[]

Partitura1

Watery Graves' sheet music page 1

The Pool music is called "Watery Graves."

Partitura2

Watery Graves' sheet music part 2

Fog[]

The Fog music is called "Rigor Mormist."

Roof[]

The Roof music is called "Graze The Roof."

Other music[]

Mini-games[]

Most of the Mini-games (Wall-nut Bowling, Wall-nut Bowling 2, etc.), 1-5, 2-5, 3-5, and 5-5 feature the track "Loonboon."

Dr. Zomboss Battles[]

Level 5-10 and the Mini-game Dr. Zomboss's Revenge feature the track "Brainiac Maniac."

Levels X-10[]

Levels 1-10, 2-10, 3-10, the Mini-games Column Like You See 'Em and Air Raid, and Brain Busters feature the track "Ultimate Battle."

Puzzle[]

Level 4-5, Vasebreaker and I, Zombie levels feature the track "Cerebrawl."

Credits[]

The credits sequence features the track "Zombies on Your Lawn."

Game Over[]

The game over music plays when a zombie enters the player's house. It is associated with two biting sounds, a "NOOOOOOOO!" scream and "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS!" text, and then followed by the "GAME OVER" (or "You survived for (number of flags that the player completed) before dying a GRUESOME ZOMBIE DEATH!!" in Survival Mode) dialog box. In Zombiquarium ("All your pet zombies have perished!"), Last Stand (mini-game and puzzle versions; "You survived for (number of flags that the player completed)!"), Vasebreaker Endless ("You made it to a streak of (number of streaks that the player completed)" with the same losing message also appears in I, Zombie Endless), and I, Zombie (non-endless levels; "You lost all your zombies!"), this only plays without a biting sound, scream and "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS!", and it is possible to skip the music by restarting or exiting the level while the music plays.

Plants vs. Zombies Adventures[]

Battle music[]

These soundtracks are played during map stages and were composed by Stan LePard, who is known for being the composer of the Windows Setup Music along with various game soundtracks.

Battle 1[]

The music Samples from "Rigor Mormist" From the original game.

Battle 2[]

The music samples from "Cerebrawl" from the original game.

Battle 3[]

The music samples from "Moongrains" from the original game.

Battle 4[]

The music samples from "Choose Your Seeds" From the original game

Battle 5[]

This music samples from "Loonboon" from the original game.

Incursion music[]

These tracks were played in the game, most likely during a brainball round. They sample from "Grasswalk" from the original game.

Incursion 1[]

A variation of the Incursion tracks.

Incursion 2[]

A variation of the Incursion tracks.

Incursion 3[]

A variation of the Incursion tracks.

Trivia[]

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies[]

  • "Rigor Mormist" is a portmanteau of "Rigor mortis" which means "a recognizable sign of death where the muscles stiffen," and "Mist" which means "fog" which indicates the Fog Level.
  • "Ultimate Battle" was originally intended to be used for Melolune, one of Laura Shigihara's games. The game designer, George Fan, overheard the song and requested it for use in Plants vs. Zombies, given that Shigihara is still allowed the use the song for her own game.
  • "Graze The Roof" is a portmanteau word of "graze" which means "to put" which probably indicates the fact that Bungee Zombies put down Ambush Zombies in Roof levels, or "to eat," which indicates the fact that zombies eat the plants, and the phrase "raise the roof," which means "to produce noise.“
    • "Graze" also means to touch or scrape lightly in passing. This may refer to the zombies traversing the roof, and their rather slow movements.
  • "Grasswalk" is a portmanteau of "grass," which indicates the lawn with which there is grass, and "cakewalk," which means "something that is extremely easy to do," which indicates that the Day levels are the easiest levels in Adventure Mode.
  • "Loonboon" is a portmanteau word of "loony" which means "a person who behaves in a strange way," which probably indicates the zombies, and "boon" which means "happy and cheerful," which fits the melody of the music.
  • "Cerebrawl" is a portmanteau word of "cerebral," which means "relating to brain," which indicates that the purpose of the zombies is to eat brains, and "brawl," which means "rough, noisy fight."
  • Levels 1-10, 2-10, 3-10 and the Mini-games Air Raid and Column Like You See 'Em are the only levels to have a music piece called "Ultimate Battle," because Level 4-10 has no music played and 5-10 plays Brainiac Maniac.
  • There is also an unreleased track called "ZomBotany". It was supposed to be played during the final battle with Dr. Zomboss in 5-10 and Dr. Zomboss's Revenge.[11]
  • There is an infrequent glitch that usually occurs on Pool levels, where the music will randomly change from Watery Graves to Grasswalk.
    • This also occurs with the Zen Garden on the DS version. It is unknown whether this occurs elsewhere.
  • "Loonboon" was originally supposed to be twice as fast as it is currently.
  • The only music played in Plants vs. Zombies that is not in a minor key is Zen Garden (C major). All others are in minor keys.
  • The music in seems to intensify during a huge wave of zombies.
    • These are called "Horde Themes."
    • This feature is missing from the Android and iOS versions.
    • This music plays through the whole level in the DS version.
  • There is no Fog level that uses the "Loonboon" and "Ultimate Battle" tracks.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies Adventures[]

  • The soundtrack composer, Stan LePard, is also known for his contribution on various media soundtracks, most notably for composing the Windows XP Setup music "Velkommen."

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies 2[]

  • The music is longer because, unlike in the first game, the music is not designed to loop.
  • Some of the music are remixes of music from the first game. For example, the Player's House and Modern Day have a remix of "Grasswalk," and Kongfu World is a remix of the seed selection music.
    • Laura Shigihara composed the piano sheet for the mainlines of Ancient Egypt theme. However, only the Outro, Ultimate Battle, Demonstration Minigame and Losing themes for the Ancient Egypt theme were made by Peter McConnell.
    • In addition, there are also remixes of "Ultimate Battle" and "Brainiac Maniac" in all worlds except Neon Mixtape Tour (which don't use them), and all Chinese exclusive worlds (due to Chinese exclusive world's music were not composed by Peter McConnell).
    • Modern Day also has a "Graze the Roof" and a "There's a Zombie on Your Lawn" remix.
  • Since the 6.3.1 update in Plants vs. Zombies 2, all levels play their world's theme. Ultimate Battle and Demonstration Mini-game soundtracks have been removed.
  • Since the 1.8.0 update in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 on iOS and 2.0.0 update on Android (consider that all world except Neon Mixtape Tour on Android version using incomplete first wave music from Ancient Egypt from 1.5.0 to 1.9.0), Kongfu World's boss battle levels (Ultimate Challenge and Daily Challenge) uses the level theme instead of the Boss Battle theme.
  • From 1.5.0 to 2.0.0 in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android, all world's music, Ultimate Battle music and Brainiac Maniac were deleted. Due to the music deletion, all world's music were replaced by low quality incomplete Ancient Egypt first wave (while choose your seed part replaced by beginning notes of Player's House music) except Neon Mixtape Tour jams (however, they still in low quality and certain sections are cutted).
    • The iOS version since 1.5.0 also downgrade all music's quality, removed all Ultimate Battle, Demonstration Mini-game and boss battle (except Kung Fu World) music and cutted most selection of music section (Ancient Egypt using same track that Android version uses, Pirate Seas and Wild West only keeps beginning notes from first wave music, and all other worlds deleted one mid-wave music).
    • Although Android version since 2.0.0 begins restore music, it only restored post-1.5.0 version music using on iOS.
    • To date, without counting Chinese exclusive worlds, only Jurassic Marsh and Modern Day music are in high quality and completed in both iOS and Android version.
  • All music from post-Modern Day world in Chinese Version recycled "Choose Your Seeds" music, beginning notes from Final Wave music and Winning Music used on Modern Day.

Piano Sheet Music[]

Found on Laura Shigihara's wordpress, there is a zip file of transcriptions transcribed by Tobias Deussen from Germany of the pieces Shigihara posted on to YouTube, containing the following 8 pieces: Brainiac Maniac (Dr. Zomboss), Cerebrawl, Choose Your Seeds, Grasswalk, Graze the Roof, Loonboon, Moongrains, and Watery Graves. The link for these files can be found here

Audio[]

Plants vs. Zombies[]

Sound Description
Crazy Dave/Main Menu
Start Adventure Mode
"Menus" (such as Choose your Seeds, Almanac menu, mini-games, puzzle menus, etc....)
Grasswalk
Moongrains
Watery Graves
Rigor Mormist
Graze the Roof
Loonboon
Cerebrawl
Ultimate Battle
Zen Garden / Level complete screen
Brainiac Maniac
Zombies On Your Lawn
Uraniwa ni Zombies ga (Japenese version of the song above, released separately)
Winning/Reward
Losing (THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS!)
Losing (Zombiquarium, Last Stand (mini-game and puzzle version), Vasebreaker
Endless
, I, Zombie levels, I, Zombie Endless during a streak, and Seeing Stars (iOS and Android versions))
Losing (I, Zombie Endless when the next streak starts but the player has less than 50 sun (not able to buy any more zombies for the streak) - You made it to a
streak of (number of streaks that the player completed))
ZomBotany (unreleased track).

Plants vs. Zombies Adventures[]

Plants vs. Zombies Adventures’ Music are available on SoundCloud from its original composer, Stan LePard.

Plants vs. Zombies 2[]

General[]

Sound Description
Main Menu
World Map
Reward Screen
Star_Gate_Unlocked_-_Plants_vs._Zombies_2_OST Star Gate Unlocked (Removed)
Hey There Neighbor
Greetings, This is Dr. Zomboss Speaking start
Greetings, This is Dr. Zomboss Speaking loop
Ultimate Battle (Victory) (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (Victory) (removed)
Zombie Time

Piñata Party[]

Sound Description
Party Piñatas Intro
Party Piñatas Loop
Party Piñatas Outro
Birthdayz Piñatas Intro
Birthdayz Piñatas Loop
Birthdayz Piñatas Outro
Lawn of Doom Piñatas Intro
Lawn of Doom Piñatas Loop
Lawn of Doom Piñatas Outro
Feastivus Piñatas Intro
Feastivus Piñatas Loop
Feastivus Piñatas Outro
Señor Piñata Intro
Señor Piñata Loop
Señor Piñata Outro
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes Event Intro
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes Event Loop

Player's House[]

Sound Description
Grasswalk
Reward
Losing

Ancient Egypt[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seeds
First wave
Middle wave A
Middle wave B
Last flag
Ultimate Battle Intro (removed)
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game Intro (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Winning
Reward
Losing
Zombot Sphinx-inator intro (also used as the Zombot Sharktronic Sub intro)

Pirate Seas[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seeds
First wave
Middle wave A start
Middle wave A
Middle wave B start
Middle wave B
Last flag start
Last flag
Ultimate Battle Intro (removed)
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game Intro (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Winning
Reward
Losing
Zombot Plank Walker intro
Unused Theme

Wild West[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seeds
First wave
Middle wave A start
Middle wave A
Middle wave B start
Middle wave B
Last flag start
Last flag
Ultimate Battle Intro (removed)
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game Intro (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Winning
Reward
Losing
Zombot War Wagon intro

Frostbite Caves[]

Sound Description
Intro/Last flag start
Choose your Seed
First wave
First flag start
First flag
Second flag start
Second flag
Last flag
Victory
Winning
Losing
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC battle intro

Lost City[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seed
First wave
First flag start
First flag
Second flag start
Second flag
Last flag intro
Last flag
Victory
Winning
Losing
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Zombot Aerostatic Gondola battle intro
Zombot Aerostatic Gondola battle phase 1

Far Future[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seed
First wave
First flag start
First flag
Second flag start
Second flag
Last flag start
Last flag
Victory
Winning
Losing
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Zombot Tomorrow-tron battle intro
Beta Music (unused)

Dark Ages[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seeds
First wave
Middle wave A start
Middle wave A
Middle wave B start
Middle wave B
Last flag start
Last flag
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Winning
Reward
Losing
Zombot Dark Dragon intro

Neon Mixtape Tour[]

Sound Description
"Choose your seeds" intro
"Choose your seeds"
Punk Jam
Pop Jam first piece
Pop Jam second piece
Pop Jam third piece
Pop Jam fourth piece
Rap Jam
Metal Jam start
Metal Jam first piece
Metal Jam second piece
Metal Jam third piece
Metal Jam fourth piece
Metal Jam fifth piece
Metal Jam sixth piece
8-bit Jam
Power Ballad Jam intro
Power Ballad Jam
Victory
Reward
Losing

Jurassic Marsh[]

Sound Description
Choose your seeds
Wave 1 Start
Wave 1
Wave 2A Start
Wave 2A
Wave 2B
Final Wave Start
Final Wave
Reward
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Winning
Losing
Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur battle Intro

Big Wave Beach[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seeds
First wave
Middle wave A start
Middle wave A
Middle wave B start
Middle wave B
Last flag start
Last flag
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (unused)
Winning
Reward

Losing

(See intro for Zombot Sphinx-inator) Zombot Sharktronic Sub intro

Modern Day[]

Sound Description
Intro
Choose your Seeds
First wave
Middle wave A
Middle wave B start
Middle wave B
Last flag start
Last flag
Ultimate Battle (removed)
Demonstration Mini-game (removed)
Winning
Reward
Losing

Kongfu World[]

Sound Description
Normal level music
Boss Battle music (removed)

Sky City[]

Sound Description
Normal level music

Steam Age[]

Sound Description
Music

Renaissance Age[]

Sound Description
Music

Heian Age[]

Sound Description
Music

Fairytale Forest[]

Sound Description
Music

Dr. Zomboss Fights[]

Sound Description
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3 start
Phase 3
Winning

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare[]

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Garden Ops[]

Sound Description
Loon Skirmish (Low)
Loon Skirmish (Medium)
Loon Skirmish (High)
Loon Skirmish (Alpha)
Bad Juice (Low)
Bad Juice (Medium)
Bad Juice (High)
Boogie Your Brains Right Over Here (Super Disco Wave music)
Baron von Bats' Super Boss Wave Music

Gnome Bomb[]

Sound Description
Plant winning music
Zombie winning music

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2[]

Sound Description
Loading jingles
Character selection theme

Escape from Zomburbia[]

Sound Description
Intro
Main loops
Level complete

Garden Ops[]

Sound Description
Low normal Wave music (Version 1)
Medium normal Wave music (Version 1)
High normal Wave music (Version 1)
Low normal Wave music (Version 3)
Medium normal Wave music (Version 3)
High normal Wave music (Version 3)

Gnome Bomb[]

Sound Description
Plant winning music
Zombie winning music

Graveyard Ops[]

Sound Description
Super Bean Super Boss Wave intro
Super Bean Super Boss Wave music
Super Bean defeated

Infinity Time[]

Sound Description
Starting Match music
Music that plays before Wave 1 starts
Normal Wave music (Version 1)
Normal Wave music (Version 2)
Normal Wave music (Version 3)
Boss Wave music (Version 1)
Boss Wave music (Version 2)
Boss Wave music (Version 3)

Boss Hunt[]

Sound Description
"Fight" Phase theme
"Fight" Phase theme (Percussion)
"Curse" Phase theme
"Curse" Phase theme (Percussion)
"Critical" Phase theme
"Critical" Phase theme (Percussion)
Sound effects that play alongside the music
Sound effects that play alongside the music (Percussion)

Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars[]

Primitive Tribe[]

Sound Description
Level music
Winning music
Losing music

The Great Wall[]

Sound Description
Level music
Winning music
Losing music

Journey to the West[]

Sound Description
Level music
Winning music
Losing music

Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville[]

Sound Description
Loading jingles

Giddy Park[]

Sound Description
The introductory theme to Giddy Park
The background track in normal Giddy Park
The background track in the Lawn of Doom Giddy Park
The background track in Food Fight Giddy Park

Other[]

Sound Description
Come On Down To Neighborville

Plants vs. Zombies Heroes[]

Sound Description
Deck Builder
Main Menu
After Battle
Grasswalk (shortened in 1.2.11)
Battle
Super Block
Multiplayer
Comic
Match Found
Game Won
Collecting Cards
Zombie Tricks
Plants Play
Lost
New Turn
New Mission/Comic Book Title


Keys[]

  • Grasswalk is in A minor.
  • Moongrains is in A minor.
  • Watery Graves is in G minor.
  • Rigor Mormist is also in A minor.
  • Graze The Roof is in A minor.
  • Braniac Maniac is in C minor.
  • Loonboon is in G♯/A♭minor.
  • Cerebrawl is also in A minor.
  • Main Menu Music is in G minor.
  • Zen Garden is in C major.
  • ZomBotany is in C minor.
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