Battlestar Galactica - Season 3
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Free Music Notes for Battlestar Galactica - Season 3
Free Music Review: Amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
Bear McCreary outdoes himself with every new soundtrack. I listen to this CD for hours on end and never get tired of it. It's mostly instrumental music (drums, fiddles) but his interpretation of "All Along the Watchtower" is terrific too.Free Music Review: The Best BSG Sound Track yet.
Hit: 5 Stars
With each successive release, Bear McCreary manages to produce more and more complete soundtracks that not only tell the story of the series but can literally put you "In the moment."
The Season 3 disk is the best yet. There is almost NOTHING to skip here. Everything weaves together to tell the complete story of Season 3 and really places you back into the series with a vengeance. Bear has really come a long way with the soundtracks he is producing for the television series. Almost every track has a distinct feeling and ambience that calls into memory the exact moments in the series that they accompanied.
The whole experience kicks off with a bang as "A Distant Sadness" begins with the faint hints of what awaits us at the end of the series and the ushers in the desperation that filled the first two episodes of the third season and builds into "Precipice."
"Admiral and Commander" ushers in the first really familiar theme in this soundtrack, bringing back what has become Adama's theme from Seasons 1 and 2, and acts as a calm before the storm that is to come in "Storming New Caprica."
I defy ANYONE who has seen Exodus Part 2 to listen to this track without being immediately transported back the the phenomenal Episode and the single best Sci-If battle sequence every televised. This almost 8 minute long track that accompanied the battle sequence was/is simply perfect. Listening to it on this CD really does tell the story almost as well as the visuals did on the show. The soundtrack is worth it for this track alone.
Of course, season three takes a bit of a nose dive after Exodus, but the soundtrack really doesn't as it really just kind of skips things until the episodes "Hero" and "Unfinished Business." This is where things get interesting. "The Dance" is an odd track for this series as it's actually fun and upbeat.
The other highlights of this soundtrack also seem to mirror the highlights of the series as well, with notable stand out tracks being the returns of the Adama/Roslyn theme in "Adama Falls," the eerie "Battlestar Sonatica," the tragic "Kat's Sacrifice," the touching "Someone to Trust" and the mystery of Kara's fate in "Mandala in the Clouds" and "Deathbed and Maelstrom."
But the real jewels here are the final two tracks, "Heeding the Call" and "All Along the Watchtower," which usher in the final act of the series yet to come in season 4. "Heeding the Call" was a great touch in "Crossroads part 2" and builds slowly as four of the five final Cylons are revealed to the viewer and is a wonderful lead-in to the controversial inclusion of the Battlestar version of "All Along the Watchtower."
"All Along the Watchtower" is really a very beautiful bridge between our world and that of the series as it takes something very familiar to us and transforms it seamlessly into something that we can really feel would be very familiar to the characters of the series. It's not really a cover as much as it is a re-imagining of the song in much the same way that the modern series is a re-imagining of the original. And let's face it, this track is probably the reason you're looking at this product anyway. Rest assured that this disk is so much more than just "All Along the Watchtower."
I cannot recommend it enough...
Free Music Review: Unfrakin' believable!
Hit: 5 Stars
Okay, what I would really like to do is give this CD a review that non-Galactica folks could read and appreciate. Something that would tempt them to go ahead and drop a copy into their shopping carts and place their order without hesitation.
Let me start by saying that this CD is without a doubt one of the most bombastic and aggressive compilations of soundtrack music to EVER come out of a television production. The music is a force to be reckoned with and demands to be played loudly and often (end critic cliche #1).
As each track plays fans of the show will instantly be taken back to all of the episodes and scenes that these cues were taken from. You won't realize it until the sounds strike your ear drums as to how intertwined the music is with the story telling. The themes are both melodic and subtle one moment and sweeping and balls-to-the-wall the next. Bear McCreary has done a superb job of creating a soundscape that can be enjoyed without any reference to the series however and I highly recommend it to fans of the show as well as casual listeners alike.
For you non-Galactica folks, this is rock-n-roll with an international flavor. Taiko drums, bag pipes, acoustic/electric guitars, and Celtic pipes...
'Nuff said...
Free Music Review: Bear McCreary - This collection of sound tracks is Gold.
Hit: 5 Stars
First Impression - Driving to work in thick fog, Track 1 followed by 21 just Blue me away, this is as close as I will get to flying a viper. Tracks 2 -20, Total Stealth - just unbelievable.
Free Music Review: BEAR PUTS THE "OPERA" IN SPACE OPERA
Hit: 5 Stars
Bear returns with another stellar CD for a Great TV show. Too bad this show does not have a HUGE audience because almost every aspect, including the music, is light years ahead of the rest of TV.
While Season 3 show may have been a B-minus when compared to the rest of the series the music never falters and is still a straight A grade. With compositions that range between quirky "electric" pieces, huge booming drum pieces, and some haunting piano and full orchestra pieces there has never been a TV show that is linked with its music so well as BSG.
Even if one is not a big fan of the show (you should check it out = worth a view!) the music still exceeds not only TV music but most full film soundtracks.
Now if I could just get that piece Bear did at the end of the new BSG mini-movie "razor" all would be perfect - can not wait for season 4 to start in March!
So Say We All!