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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.
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.
The game over music plays when a zombie enters the player's house (except Last Stand (mini-game and puzzle versions) and Seeing Stars (iOS and Android versions)) 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), I, Zombie (non-endless levels; "You lost all your zombies!"), and Seeing Stars (iOS and Android versions; standard "GAME OVER" dialog box), however, only the game over music plays without "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS!" cutscene with its associated biting sound and scream, and it is possible to skip the music by restarting or exiting the level to lose progress on that level's attempt while it plays.
The losing music also plays when selecting Adventure Mode, however an evil laugh is played along with it. When starting the next streak on I, Zombie Endless with less than 50 sun (not able to buy an Imp), however, a sound for loading a streak will play along with the game over music, with the latter is last to be played before everything becomes silent unless if the player restarts or exits the level to lose progress as mentioned before which skip the streak loading sound and game over music. It also plays when the zombie side wins on Versus Mode.
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.
"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-gamesAir 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.
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."
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," Kongfu World is a remix of the seed selection music, and the Start-up and "Hey, there Neighbor" have a remix of the main menu and the Crazy Dave 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.
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 Tourjams (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 Dayworld 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
Losing (with streak loading sound; I, Zombie Endless when the next streak starts but the player has less than 50 sun (not able to buy an Imp for the streak) - You made it to a streak of (number of streaks that the player completed))
