I can't do anything but geek out today, I'm not gonna lie: one of my favorite TV series of all time comes to an end tonight and I'm basically spending the entire day being a huge geek about all things Battlestar Galactica. One of my favorite things to come out of this series has been the absolutely fantastic music composed by Bear McCreary as soundtrack and enhancement-- as someone who plays new music for a living, I can honestly tell you that he's one of the best film composers I've heard in a long damn time-- the man just gets it.
As a musician, I was literally stopped in my tracks by the way he used Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower in the season three finale-- I still get goosebumps every time I hear it, and it's probably the first time I've ever wanted to stand up and roar because of a frakking television show. I, like most everybody else, missed out on being at this concert, but here's the pretty damned awesome live version McCreary did of this tune:
So say we all.

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It's funny ... it's old hat now, but I remember when I watched that episode, sitting up when I heard the first few notes and blurting out, "Is that....?" As we all know now, it was.
I've *really* liked the percussion-heavy incidental music on BSG. It feels both martial and angry, which both suit the show well. I'm curious to see how it holds up over time. I suspect it will do much better than the synthcheez a lot of 1980s shows had...
Posted by Amy | March 20, 2009 2:11 PM
Posted on March 20, 2009 14:11