Battlestar Galactica: Season One
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Free Music Review: If you're a fan of the show, you probably already own this.
Hit: 4 Stars
To start, I got this soundtrack simply because of "Shape of Things to Come" and "Pascagalia". Those two tracks alone are worth the price. What Bear McCreary does that is refreshing is he takes the standard TV music score and turns it from a simple music cue to feel sad or anxious or happy into an experience in itself--something to be enjoyed independently of the action on the screen. Particularly with the pieces from "Kobol's Last Gleaming", he creates orchestral pieces that more than stand on their own as simply enjoyable works. McCreary's music adds a richness to the show that hard to qualify; it's just...there being awesome. Not too bombastic, techno, or new agey, it's always just right.Free Music Review: BG Music Reflects the Essence of Being Human
Hit: 5 Stars
The new BG is ultimately about what it means to be human in a world threatened by non-humans who appear human and who are your best friends or your worse enemies or, or, or ... BG's ultimately about the essence of life, not of machines or explosions or tactics or politics. And Bear's wonderful, varietal, colorful, subtle, sophisticated and always surprising work on Season One reflects this essence.
"Wander My Friends" -- baleful, soulful piece. Time for tears.
"Battlestar Muzaktica" -- cheeky, smooth, unexpected. Time for laughter!
"The Dinner Party" -- classy, clean, sparse. Time for a little sherry.
"Battlestar Operatica" -- sneaky as a Cylon, hidden messages. Time for a chuckle.
"Passacaglia" -- Time for awe. Everyone else has mentioned this track and for good reason. It's the piece that, when heard on TV, I, and everyone else I hope, knew that we were in the presence of something quite different -- real epic television and a synching of creative vision that will continue to impress us every week.
Bear creates from the entire range of human experience. We could not have hoped for, or received, a better continuation of the unique sounds created for the pilot mini-series.
As exec producer David Eick says in the liner notes, the series was to change the face of science fiction. Bear's interpretative, evocative creations have changed the face of teevee scoring, and are a large part of why BG is the best fracking series on television today.
Long live the Bear.
Free Music Review: Genre-rich Sci-fi score.
Hit: 5 Stars
Bear McCreary took over as the main composer for Battlestar Galactica after Richard Gibbs left to continue working on movie scores. With McCreary writing all of the main music for the first season, I found the music even more rich then that of the miniseries that preceded it. Not only is the soundtrack rich with low-synth percussion action tracks, but it also employs such genres as opera, muzak, and string orchestral to convey the feeling of a scene. The use of drums in this soundtrack trumps their use in the miniseries with even catchier drum rolls.
Most notably, the string orchestral pieces Passacaglia and the Shape of Things to Come are definitely the best pieces on this non-generic soundtrack. Even with an orchestra at his disposal, McCreary did not write any bombastic score and instead wrote beautiful soothing melodies that ironically contrast the scenes in which they are placed, making those sequences all the more memorable and enticing. Battlestar Galactica is successfully breaking free from the shackles of the modern sci-fi genre, and the music which strays so far from the orthodox helps it do so.
Free Music Review: BSG Season 1 Soundtrack - Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
This soundtrack is very different from that of the original BSG series. The original series soundtrack seemed to have been inspired by the sweeping symphonic score of "Star Wars: Episode IV," which was still fresh in recent memory when the orignal BSG series was created. The old sountrack seemed to portray the quest for Earth as a grand adventure, but this new soundtrack gives perhaps a more realistic sense of a decimated population's desperate struggle for survival. I won't review every single track on this CD, but I'll just give a brief description of my favorites.
Track 1: Prologue - the opening sequence of every episode.
Track 4: The Olympic Carrier - From the episode "33". That episode was clearly based on the events of September 11, 2001. The music conveys tension and imminent danger as the grim decision is made to shoot down a civilian ship that seems to have been compromised by the Cylons and threatens the rest of the fleet, and also as Apollo and Starbuck find themselves in the agonizing position of having to execute the order to deliberately destroy a civilian ship, but only to save many more.
Track 7: The Thousandth Landing & Track 9: Starbuck Takes On All Eight - Both great tracks.
Track 22: Battle On The Asteroid - For me, this track alone justified the purchase of the CD. Pulse-pounding beats accompany the Colonial Vipers' assault on the Cylon asteroid base as well as Apollo's mad dash through the Cylon conveyor tunnel.
Track 23: Wander My Friends - Sung in Gaelic, but the CD booklet contains an English translation.
Track 25: Kobol's Last Gleaming - Another wonderful vocal piece.
Track 26: Destiny - The perfect accompaniment to Starbuck's desperate and lonely fight with Number Six.
Track 30: Main Title (UK version) - A real treat for American viewers. Reminiscent (to me, at least) of the opening title of the movie adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel, "Patriot Games."
Free Music Review: Top notch music... better than the TV show!
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent, top notch, Wander My Friends in Gaelic just superb, the tv show is good BUT the music is actually better.