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Bear McCreary — Battlestar Galactica
Album: Battlestar Galactica soundtrack
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Released: 2003
Length: 0:42
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(Instrumental)
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Nice! So say we all!
At 42 seconds, this might be the shortest track in the RP library.
Never expected this here. Or anywhere. 
 darrenwwwa wrote:

Great, but too short! it just ends after the drums start to get exciting. I was hoping for and entire piece instead of just an intro clip.
Is that all there is?


Existential question.
 ajstone wrote:

Nice interlude.  Makes me want to go fire up Netflix instead of working.


Any excuse....
That was short.
    EdEastridge wrote:


Leave it to Ron D. Moore to tell the series that gave him his start to "hold his beer".
 
Agreed, the FTL jump in, free fall, launch, and FTL jump out was jaw dropping and had everything to do with the Galactica 'breaking it's back' and being unfit for more than a handful of jumps afterwards. The old girl gave her all.

BS 75 may have missed the sun
One of the best tv shows I've ever experienced.  First rate everything. 
Nice! Such a good series. 
 pirhan wrote:

It may have been due to airing half seasons. It was a great show, but my patience wore very thin having to wait months to see the rest of the season. (Any why I haven't bought the box sets since they're also sold in half seasons.)

The New Caprica rescue is one of the top space battle scenes to date.
 

Leave it to Ron D. Moore to tell the series that gave him his start to "hold his beer".
 lizardking wrote:


Shortest track on RP?  I can't think of one shorter....guess it's all for the segue master to add to.....Eallin (Life) by Mari Boine.  
 
Gotta say that is a pretty frickin' phenomenal segue. Personally I love it.
 otaznick wrote:
Too short for PSD. {#Mrgreen}
 

Shortest track on RP?  I can't think of one shorter....guess it's all for the segue master to add to.....Eallin (Life) by Mari Boine.  
I'm old enough to remember the original series when Starbuck was Face, eggs benedict?
Thank you for playing this one - just perfect for monday morning at work :)
Always catches me off-guard hearing this here.  For some reason this one reminds me of the Twin Peaks theme...I guess just the general atmosphere of it.  Oddly, I've heard that piece played on RP as well.
Too short for PSD. {#Mrgreen}
More from Bear McCreary, PLEASE!  {#Wave} Maybe some of the longer pieces from Season 3 or 4 soundtracks.
Love how they used the Gayatri Mantra in the beginning, and then molded the overarching show theme around it.  
I always liked this song, I do wish there were an extended cut though, it's just a bit to short, betraying it's intro-credits purpose.
Where's the 11's? ;)

Still an utterly fantastic theme.
I... uh... well, Bill, you've surprised me once again. In a good way, though! {#Wink}
I thought the music was every bit as great as the series. Thanks for playing that!! Too cool. 
Nice interlude.  Makes me want to go fire up Netflix instead of working.
 j1sey wrote:
they only cancel the best programs on TV.
 
It may have been due to airing half seasons. It was a great show, but my patience wore very thin having to wait months to see the rest of the season. (Any why I haven't bought the box sets since they're also sold in half seasons.)

The New Caprica rescue is one of the top space battle scenes to date.
Dang, I forgot how exciting it was to hear that.
they only cancel the best programs on TV.
 smackiepipe wrote:
Damn, I miss that show.
 
Watching the whole series again on Netflix with my wife, who's never seen it.  Totally worth the $7.99/mo for such a frakkin' good show {#Propeller}
So say we all!
Instant 10

(Its in the frakking ship)
wha..?
Frackin' Great!
WOA... that came out of nowhere. Jolt of memory and on to the next song—perfect example of how sound is tied to recall.
 acolt wrote:
Whoa. Bill put on a TV theme song. That was unexpected.
 

Not unheard of... I've heard the Kids in the Hall theme several times...

(and I dont think these count, but the theme from House and the old Chris Elliot show Get a Life... and more I'm probably not thinking of right now...)

We need to work on getting The Ballad of Serenity added though...
 Lenora wrote:
One of the best TV theme songs ever!
 
One of the best TV shows ever too!
AWESOME!  Didn't expect to hear this at all and thought I had played it by accident from my iTunes library.  Hope you are able to play other selections from the BSG soundtrack.  Bear McCreary is a musical genius!
Oh my I love it.! Sigh...
One of the best TV theme songs ever!
Oh, wow! I miss this series.
 sajitjacob wrote:
Frack! that was weird. It's actually that short huh? Good way to end the Teng->Beethoven suicide section. Suicide is painless would have  been truly amusing.
 
Was never meant to be anything more than a title and preview bed. The main theme from "The Plan", titled "Apocalypse" fleshes (so to speak) the theme out slightly more but not significantly. Basically, Bear and the BSG Orchestra combine fragments of the original main title sequences with thematic portions from his reimagining of "All Along the Watchtower", interesting, but still not a real deep treatment of the theme.

All in all, it's similar to the Doctor Who theme in that there's just not that much original material to work with and you'd be caught composing if wanting to extend the piece much. 
Oh FRAK Yes... Thank you... that made my day.
Whoa!

I.....

Whoa!

 
Frack! that was weird. It's actually that short huh? Good way to end the Teng->Beethoven suicide section. Suicide is painless would have  been truly amusing.
Damn that was short & abrupt!  I liked it, but don't watch that show so it wasn't familiar — to me it sounded just like Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance.
 smackiepipe wrote:
Damn, I miss that show.
 
Just watched the first few episodes on DVD recently.  Nothing live revisiting an old TV show that you really loved and didn't stay around long enough to stink.
 smackiepipe wrote:
Damn, I miss that show.
 
Me too! {#Sad}
 DaveInVA wrote:
Battlestar Galaxative!
 
Open the pod-bay doors, Hal!
Every time Abhi watches this show, I do an interpretive vocalise (read: awful squawking rendition) on this tune.  Comedy ensues.
Whoa. Bill put on a TV theme song. That was unexpected.
One of the most exhilarating pieces of music... for being under 45 sec....
Battlestar Galaxative!
 smackiepipe wrote:
Damn, I miss that show.
 


I enjoyed this. The occasional eclectic TV/film offering mixes things up nicely.


Damn, I miss that show.
 grocerygetter wrote:
I just wanted to say!  Frak - That was a great!  Thank you Radio Paradise.
 

{#Tongue}
hmmmm ... using a hindu sloka for the "weird alien language" effect
...charming = /
oh wells! still a great show


Not just the theme but he did the complete soundtracks for BSG and the Sarah Conner Chronicles.
www.bearmccreary.com.

Anyone heard them?

Look at the ratings.  Look at all those sci-fi geeks!
Great, but too short! it just ends after the drums start to get exciting. I was hoping for and entire piece instead of just an intro clip.
Is that all there is?
I just wanted to say!  Frak - That was a great!  Thank you Radio Paradise.
{#Whipit}
Good Lord!  I heard it and came to ask if anyone else though "this song sounds like Battlestar Galactica".  And then..... Wow.
ummm... what?

whats next? the theme from seinfeld? 
I feel sad.
 
Frakkin' awesome!
Short but sweet. For an intro piece, it's nicely orchestrated.

Yes!

I was hoping for a cool extended version, but the normal version does just fine, too.
 endoboy wrote:
This just reminds me that the second half of season 4 still isn't here! Oh, the agony of waiting is driving me frakking crazy. {#Yell}
 
It's here now! It's funny that I'm hearing this, because I just got into it and have been negotiating with my husband over our Netflix queue. {#Smile}
Ha!
Awesome!  Wish it were longer.
This just reminds me that the second half of season 4 still isn't here! Oh, the agony of waiting is driving me frakking crazy. {#Yell}
 flipchurn wrote:
When does the series come back?!?
 

January 16, 2009

Here's a link to the season 4.5 trailer:
https://video.scifi.com/player/?id=850122

Instantly recognizable!  {#Jump}

8.


Holy Cobal Starbuck!  Praise Gods, this is good!
Cruithne3753 wrote:

Which one of them is Boomer?

/me like Boomer... {#Shifty} ...but I wouldn't want to snuggle up to N° 6 by accident (she scares me).


gandalfbmg wrote:
Amen! I'd have uploaded it long ago, but can't find it on CD, other than the instrumental arangement from the end of the movie. I've thought of getting some other Joss works uploaded too... he's got a such a strong musical sense...
Original Firefly Soundtrack (click here)
winter wrote:
Well, they need the time to redeem themselves after that awful season finale.
Have they yet? Razor and then the half-season finale of season 4 blew me away!
Frakking sweet! Just caught up through the end of season 3/razor and so this has been burned into my head lately!
Love the chords in this thing. a 10
I did not know this existed! Wow.
Paxus wrote:
i wish there was a longer, more defined version of this song. i love the haunting melody, and it would be great to passivly lisen to...
I think there's a new bit. The season 4 previews had something different and it seemed unfamiliar.
slartibart_O wrote:
So sad, I had one of these and utterly destroyed it. What I wouldn't give...
winter wrote:
Well, they need the time to redeem themselves after that awful season finale.
So say we all.
sstepak wrote:
April
And that can't come quickly enough!!
i wish there was a longer, more defined version of this song. i love the haunting melody, and it would be great to passivly lisen to...
flipchurn wrote:
When does the series come back?!?
April
When does the series come back?!?
glad it was short -- I thought someone turned on the tv. I love BSG, but my first reaction was "this does not belong on RP, it sounds like a comercial on the scifi channer"
Wow, this song is coo......oh, wait. It's over.
Amazingly wonderful. No doubt my reaction is very much influenced by my love for the TV series, but it's still a real reaction. I just wish it was a full-length piece. It's far too short.
Uh hey that sounds just like... ...oh OK. Hey where did it go?
Bear Rocks!!! Now back to playing my MMOPG Eve Onine
megmoves wrote:
Yay! Unfortunately it got me whining about them not releasing any eps. until 2008. Frag that!
Well, they need the time to redeem themselves after that awful season finale.
Yay! Unfortunately it got me whining about them not releasing any eps. until 2008. Frag that!
OMG, I loved it. What a cool little pick up during the work day!!! Now lets go frag some toasters. (damn, I'm such a nerd)
This makes me start quivering -- good things are soon to follow!!
UltraNurd wrote:
Agreed - I wonder if there's an album version, like some of the full orchestral versions of Star Trek themes that never got shown on TV or in a movie.
That's good stuff, innit? I have the collection up to VOYAGER. Masterfully done. On a par with Howard Shore's LOTR music.
Not to sound like a total nerd, but-- This is way cool!
that totally psyched me out for a moment there... awesome. only wish it were longer!
Cruithne3753 wrote:
It'd be shiny to see The Ballad of Serenity from Firefly here, too... (click here)
I'd upload the version I have, except it's at a 112 and not at 256 (the minimum "rate" for RP uploads). Thanks for the BG theme. It's really a nice, wide-ranging piece... we just got the first disc of the original BG last night in the mail, and it's neat to hear which musical cues/themes carried over from the original to the 2003 reincarnation.
Love the series, but, taken out of context, this isn't really special.
I did an aural double take.. Galactica? Yes indeed. Unfortunately its so frackin short.
AWESOME!!!!!!
{{{CHILLS}}}
Fiji5555 wrote:
Me too........some people have complained about how this season is progressing but I like it myself. More depth to the characters instead of just being a "shoot em up" scifi show.
Good sci-fi has always been about having relevant political allegory underlying the lazercatspewpewpew action. The 3rd season of BSG has that in spades.
gandalfbmg wrote:
well, we have a thread for this kind of discussion, but quite frankly, the old galactica blows, on a par with how the Batman TV show blows, sacrificing good 'genre' storytelling to the alter of mass-cornyism. The new one is a masterpiece of modern naturalistic Sci Fi however.
In the mid-'90s, the original Batman TV show was on in reruns. All the biff-pow action was hilariously bad, which is what made it enjoyable; I could still watch the animated series if I wanted "serious" Batman. As much as I hate to admit it, loving it as I do, I'm sure the new incarnation of BSG will look dated in 30 years. We'll all be "ugh, this drama is just nauseatingly thick... FIND EARTH ALREADY!!!" on some 3-D RadioParadise of the Future. Wearing our shiny aluminum jumpsuits, of course.
haaaa -- i'm sitting here, coding away, not really paying attention to the music, and suddenly, inexplicable thoughts of BSG start running through my mind. good to know my subconscious was listening!
UltraNurd wrote:
I want a new episode nowwwww...
Me too........some people have complained about how this season is progressing but I like it myself. More depth to the characters instead of just being a "shoot em up" scifi show.
hey, McCreary was my last name! never changed it back after my divorce.
rhw: thanks for the upload. i couldnt believe my ears when that theme came on. too bad its not longer.
Frackin' A!
I want a new episode nowwwww...
I'm the one who uploaded it...wow, I didn't expect it to get approved and played so quickly. Nice to see some other fellow Galactica geeks around here. I think the tag info got mangled in the upload, though. The full title of this track is "Battlestar Galactica - Main Title" and the album title is "Battlestar Galactica: Season 2."
palad1 wrote:
Dig one hour into the playlist, you'll see a piece from William Shatner's spoken words albums :)
If you're refering to Common People (played about 20 minutes before this), it's not a spoken word album, but rather a very musical colaboration with the likes of Ben Folds, Joe Jackson, etc. called Has Been
eastcoast wrote:
Dude or dudette, Ease up...its a TV show. Also, there was a bit of biting sarcasm there. I personally don't care for SCIFI, but I guess you would also have to grow up in that era to understand that at the time this was state of the art. It's kind of like comparing two artist doing versions of the same song...why compare.
Just doing my duty as the physicsgeniuos of SciFi/Fantasy around here ;) "90% of everything produced in the 1970's is crap" (though it's likely more like 40%).
UltraNurd wrote:
Agreed - I wonder if there's an album version, like some of the full orchestral versions of Star Trek themes that never got shown on TV or in a movie.
and
Bill's a geek :)
Dig one hour into the playlist, you'll see a piece from William Shatner's spoken words albums :)
Dude or dudette, Ease up...its a TV show. Also, there was a bit of biting sarcasm there. I personally don't care for SCIFI, but I guess you would also have to grow up in that era to understand that at the time this was state of the art. It's kind of like comparing two artist doing versions of the same song...why compare. gandalfbmg wrote:
well, we have a thread for this kind of discussion, but quite frankly, the old galactica blows, on a par with how the Batman TV show blows, sacrificing good 'genre' storytelling to the alter of mass-cornyism. The new one is a masterpiece of modern naturalistic Sci Fi however.
Cruithne3753 wrote:
It'd be shiny to see The Ballad of Serenity from Firefly here, too... (click here)
Amen! I'd have uploaded it long ago, but can't find it on CD, other than the instrumental arangement from the end of the movie. I've thought of getting some other Joss works uploaded too... he's got a such a strong musical sense...
It'd be shiny to see The Ballad of Serenity from Firefly here, too... (click here)