Battlestar Galactica: Season One
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Free Music Review: Frackin' Awesome
Hit: 5 Stars
Bear McCreary is an unsung genius. His use of percussion as a melodic instrument is rarely seen, especially in the mainstream. In ten years he'll be considered one of the greats alongside Danny Elfman and Phillip Glass.
Oh yeah, the CD rocks too. So does the show. Yeah...
Free Music Review: not good
Hit: 1 Stars
the titles were much too short. Some less than a minute. I'd begin to enjoy it and it was over.Free Music Review: Great soundtrack to a great series.
Hit: 5 Stars
The new "Battlestar Galactica" just seems to go from strength to strength; it has garnered both critical success and high ratings, and it's music is of no less quality than its storytelling and its visual effects. To begin with, the music is memorable. Some of the music, such as "A Good Lighter", and "Wander My Friends", is hauntingly beautiful, and you will find yourself humming it over and over again. It sticks in your head. Some of it, such as "Passacaglia" and "The Shape of Things to Come" is sublime. This is music of great quality by ANY standard, and it is incredibly good for a television series.
The second thing about this music is that it comes as such as a refreshing change after a long, dry spell of lifeless, bland TV sci fi music, to which we have been treated since "Star Trek: the Next Generation". A few years after ST:TNG debuted, I realized one day how colorless the music was. The original "Star Trek" had a memorable score. There was music perfectly tailored to every mood: serious, lighthearted, humorous, suspenseful, bold, etc. Anyone familiar with the original series of "Star Trek" will recognize the music from it almost instantly. This is because the music was catchy, and it perfectly suited the mood of each episode and scene in which it was used. But try to remember a single piece of music from "The Next Generation" (apart from the opening title, which was, after all, just the recycled main title theme from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture") and you may find yourself hard pressed to do so. I myself cannot. TNG ran for seven years, and yet I cannot remember a single piece of music from its entire run. I learned many years later that it had been made a deliberate policy NOT to use music that was in any way striking. Apparently, this was thought to be a distraction from the story and dialogue. What followed was years of bland, dull "aural wallpaper", as one critic put it (another term used was "mumble music"). Other shows, such as "Babylon 5" and "Farscape" may not have made it a deliberate policy to make the score as lifeless as possible, but they also somehow failed to achieve much, musically speaking, whatever their other qualities.
With the "Battlestar Galactica: Season One" soundtrack, viewers are FINALLY treated to music of real quality. It truly surpasses anything in scif fi television, or indeed ANY television that has come before. It is, just as the original series "Star Trek" music was, dramatic and memorable, and perfectly tailored to each scene; but it is far more grand, and far more eclectic in its style. This it what happens when you get a really talented composer, and give him broad leeway to exploit his talent.
The "Battlestar Galactica: Season One" soundtrack is simply superb. I cannot remember any other series with music this good. Other series may have had catchy, memorable theme songs, some more so than this show. But no other show has ever featured such a high quality score for the scenes which play after the opening credits have finished rolling. this is GREAT stuff! My hat is off to Bear McCreary.
Free Music Review: Love the Music . . .
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD was very well put together, staying true to all the music heard on Battlestar Galactica from the mini series through the beginning os season 2. The songs have good variation, and you can see some influence from Riverdance and Hans Zimmer's work.Free Music Review: awesome awesome CD
Hit: 5 Stars
I buy a lot of soundtracks, and this one ranks up there as one of my favorites. I have listened to it literally tens of times already.
I can't wait for the Season Two soundtrack to come out and I'll be watching to see what else Bear McCreary ends up doing.