+Warbird Phoenix - if that was a question 2001 A Space Odyssey, when you consider the technology available at the time. If you make a statement - I must add the phrase "one of"
Life has a melody, Gaius. A rhythm of notes that become your existence once played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.
So much time has passed since I first heard this theme, and I remember it so clearly. The music in the finale of the first season of this show was something so different, so beautifully constructed, that it evoked an emotional response beyond anything else that I had read, heard, or seen in so long. Leaving a mark so profound that even today just hearing those chords and violin arpeggios brings a knot to my stomach, goosebumps to my arms, and a few drops of water to my eyes.
it was the opening of 12nd episode of 1st season. i remember it so well. kara and baltar were getting it on while number 6 was watching them, lee and adama were sparring at the gym, boomer was on her bunk putting a gun in her mouth, agathon was running from the cylon boomer at the streets of caprica and this music were playing at the background giving everything a surreal and majestic feeling. it was exactly at that moment i fully realized that i'm watching something so unique and powerful. and with every season it just got better and better. what a grand show it is... with six feet under, it had a considerable impact on my view of life. these two pieces of art, made me much more aware, tolerant and intrigued towards the reality i'm living in. and i will always be grateful for that.
I love your comment. I feel exactly the same way about BSG. Most people dont like S4 but I think it's one of the best of them all. I think Bear originally wanted 5 seasons so he compressed two seasons into one when syfy said that season 4 was the last, taking this into consideration, what the whole team managed to accomplish In just one season is amazing. Some day, maybe 20 years from now I will show my children BSG and they will appreciate life that little bit more because of it. So say we all.
+hameed The Boxing episode is one of the best. You finally get to find out what happened on New Caprica and it does it through boxing. One of the best episodes for Character Development without much lengthy dialogue or set up. That's good tv no good art.*Black Market though, was another silly idea that is just picked on- it feels out of place. Heck most of the character piece episodes did. It's hard to keep the suspense with one character in a show full of arcs and canon. They introduced things and then never referenced them again. The pro cylon movement, the workers strike/guild, the black Market, The sons of Aries, Even worse the fleet was essentially a plot device for whatever they needed that week. Media, journalists they appeared out of no where.I feel the episode "Sacrifice" is worse. The hostage situation? Billy dying? Kara shooting Lee? That was horrible.But these low points out way most of good tv high points. I still like them for what they attempt to do.
Just finished watching BSG for the first time, this song still strikes true after the first season finale in Kobol when Gaius discovers the Opera House for the first time till the last few scenes on the New Earth. Such a beautiful ending to a grand show
I was searching for Handel's Passacaglia and came across this. This is terrific music, and I'm shocked that the composer of this music is not more well known in his field. Stunning music, really.
This is THE song to listen to when you feel like isn't going your way. It's certainly mine. Even though you're simply tricking your mind, you really do feel like you're playing a major role in humanity - like Baltar - and it just makes you feel like everything will work out in the end. Very few songs can have such a somber sad feel to them and yet be so uplifting.
" Even though you're simply tricking your mind, you really do feel like you're playing a major role in humanity - like Baltar - and it just makes you feel like everything will work out in the end" Powerful words :)
His musical scoring may be understated. But it always supports and enhances what's happening onscreen. His Passacaglia is a painfully beautiful composition, profoundly moving with a tender heart. Great music.
+Meals On Wheels I agree, especially season 4. The final five storyline was disappointing. I really only like the stuff with the cylons, like aboard the baseships. Brother Cavil was the best part of 3&4 in my opinion.
***** I also really liked all of the Basestar stuff with Baltar, i meant to say season 3.5 onwards and I also really liked brother Cavil because he was one of the only Cylon models to be given a backstory and a character.
The recurring "face of the shape of things to come" theme is my absolute favorite theme in all of the BSG soundtrack; it fitted the Opera House scenes PERFECTLY, as it did the ending scene where Admiral Adama sits by Laura's grave looking at the horizon, remarking how the beauty of the sun coming up behind those hills is "almost heavenly". Never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
I didn't know about Bear McCreary until I decided to find this beautiful piece in TH-cam. This musician seems to be pretty talented... Without his music, even with the great acting, plot/storylines the show would be only half as good as what it is.
This series inspires more emotion in me than any other tv program ever has in my life. I've always been an avid lover of both sci-fi, action, and character drama. It combines all these beautifully and the music of BSG is a big factor. It touches my heart just to hear it.
A masterpiece, never tire of it. It's impact in the show was tremendous, since up to that point you have a lot of the regular taiko drum type stuff, then this, a true indicator that something spectacular was going to happen (results of finding Kobol and all the craziness at end of season 1).
i'm somewhat embarassed to admit that this brings me to tears. who would have ever imagined that a song from a tv show would do that?! bear mccreary simply is gifted.
You can feel the sadness and regret as the underlying flow of this piece. You know in your heart that you no longer have the time to say the things you wanted to say, the things you should have said so long ago. Now there is no time as your heart races because you feel the end coming and you don't want to lose what little you have. Even though it is but a shadow in front of you, just that small contact was the sunlight in your life even if that sunlight brought you grief it also made you feel alive at the same time. And now that part of you that was living is slowly ebbing away, and what you fear is not what tomorrow brings but how you can live with a gouge through the middle of your soul that was filled by her. You have to say goodbye but you cant let go, she was the other half, night to the day, the pain to the happiness you lived just to see her again no matter what lay ahead. Now like the sun slowly setting she slowly fades away and you are left alone, in the dark with but a fleeting glimpse of what could have been. Apollo
Every instument has a place and every place has an instrument. The result is a full wall of sound that exists within perfectly imperfect Time and Harmony. And then something beautiful occurs. Without music and art, life perhaps would be a mistake.
Like the guy who posted this, when I heard this on BSG, I was spellbound. I've downloaded it and have probably listened to it hundreds of times if not more. And here's the thing, it doesn't get old at all. I still get a shiver down my spine at many places. Truly beautiful...
If/when people say that classical music is dead...this is a piece of music I can easily point to. This is an adagio passacaglia. Played slowly and with respect. Absolutely beautiful. And I generally dislike 3/4 waltzs or 2 steps. The phrygian form perhaps makes the sound epic. Je ne se quo. The spirit of Leonard Bernstein lives on in this dude.
I think is the best show ever made. It was so well made, and also so deep. And I'm not particularly religious, but I have to say to admit I loved the somewhat religious aspects. And the ending was absolutely fantastic.
I still watch it all the way through I had to buy the complete set on Netflix I just love the who story and the music is inspirational just wonderful I have to listen to one or three tunes every night before sleeping it’s out of this world
I believe Battlestar will stand the test of time and will become seen as an even smarter creation than it is already. In twenty years I think it will have one of the best reputations a TV show has ever had. I still can't get over how incredible the finale was! It's one of the only cases I can think of where the creators of a show or film have taken the money and the airtime they have and done something truly important and challenging with it. Groundbreaking stuff.
BSG is my all-time favorite series. It'll be tough to beat. I hated to see it end. This song evokes so many emotions. It's one of my favorites. When it played during the final opera house scene, I got a lump in my throat. Bear is an amazing musician..
I know this may sound...silly or what ever...But when I hear this music, I feel that deep down inside me I know everything in my life will be ok. Its hard to explain, but I still and will always say that music is the key to ones soul.
Definitely some of the very best music written for television and maybe for visual media in general. There's something transcendent about this piece that puts it in a level above just good music for a show.
I just got the complete series for my Bday. Frakkin awesome to watch the whole thing over, without commercials and one right after the other. Im just starting season 4. Show is even better the second time around. Bear's music adds such emotion to the scenes, especially when there is no dialogue (Baltar in the Cylon Base ship).
passacaglia is an interlude and this is what an interlude is. If you look at when the show plays this song it is perfectly to the point of when an interlude is to happen for their characters and their existence. Well done Bear.
All this has happened before and will happen again. This expression is linked to our human subconscious. How many times we lived this cycle. Can you remember?
no is the answer I feel it too...its the light at the end of the tunnel....its the first bit of true hope you experience in the series...its the notion that through all the chaos, the spark is still there and there will, eventually, be joy again(BSG takes you through a lot lol more than many realise I fear, get your esoteric studies out) :D
***** I see you respectmusic, and its composers. Try listening to Shadow of the Colossus soundtracks. I guarantee you, you will enjoy them. If you knew the premise of the game (story and its setting), it would be even better.
Only if Bear is known for copying elements of other peoples works. Listen to Holst's "The Planets" and you'll hear where Williams got a lot of his material.
In many ways, yeah. I agree. Very few multimedia productions hit me as hard as this show did. I only wish i had watched the show live as opposed to a few(or 5+) years later in marathons and streaming services. Oh well. So it goes.
Edward James Almos kinda made this show his magnum opus of sorts. This was his crowning achievement in cinema. I could write a book about this tv show. Seriously...
This song is a masterpiece!!! It was placed perfectly in the Battlestar Galactica series. It really makes you think.... think about how big and mysterious life is, and how very small we are in comparison. It gives me chills everytime I hear it.
I can't help shedding a tear every time I hear this. What I think Mr McCreary is trying to express through his music, is the keystone of the show; "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again." Even still, he does the show and the piece good justice by adding the tiny speckle of hope that there can be change. I guess one have to have seen their share of the evil man do to understand and appreciate this piece for what it truly is: true!
Agreed. That season 2 mid season peak(for The Expanse) is epic af though. The series could have ended there and I would not need any more. Everything after that was a bonus.
Petr Zvěřina I agree... after watching the full thing straight through, I was mind blown by the end. Somehow, I'm not sure...but it did change me a little. - SO SAY WE ALL!!
Absolutely a must!! Best to watch it full seasons all the way through. Watching it piece meal is good, but full seasons all the way through one get's the "deeper" meaning and all the twists along the way
As Kara's "dad" said in the show, the best songs make you happy and sad at the same time. This is one of them. The part that begins at 4:26 is just chillingly beautiful.
I fall asleep to this song. Last summer when I watched the entire series in the span of a month maybe, this song was on loop on my computer as background music, and I will NEVER, EVER tire of it. It was used during season 1's best montage, and alot during the series finale...and I shed tears the last time it was used towards the end (when a certain character weeps, remembering their roots). Gawd, thank you Bear McCreary!!!
A benchmark of a great show... rewatchability. I watched it when it aired, and rewatched the dvds. I've "infected" 5 other people (including my father) by viewing the whole darned thing with them. Every time, while the newbie is saying how cool it is and "is Adama a cylon? Cally.. gotta be a cylon!" I sit back and watch, knowing the path already, and I am still stunned by the sheer beauty of it all. And afterwards, when the newly minted fan thanks me, I thank them in return. -so say we all-
This song haunts me in a way that I cannot explain-everytime I listne to it, I feel the pain and joy of the characters. I am so sorry to see this, the BEST frakking show ever to leave. So Say We All!
This is Divine... a true moment of inspiration. There's a magical quality to this piece which delivers me promptly into the heavens whenever I hear it. Both uplifting and emotional... Majestic...
For those who don't know, this show is very analogous of the Biblia. You've got the half breed child (Christ), Baltar (the sinner on the cross who was forgiven), the fleet (the Jews searching for the promised land), 12 colonies plus a 13th lost tribe, angles (6 and Baltar lookalikes), etc. Point is, just about everything in BSG is in the Biblia (note that the bible is missing 3 "formerly" cannon books that were stripped out in the 16th century, and may be missing certain referances).
ty hamilton He's not wrong. The show is heavily inspired by religious mythology. Hell, the original show's working title for quite some time was "Adama's Ark".
ty hamilton Or maybe he is reading into it exactly as it is represented. An analogy of what was and what will be. If you do not understand, you simply have not been alive long enough to understand.
I always took the show as being a big biblical parable, take the message that is repeated "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again" which is written in the bible.
All the memories of BSG from this song... and now, when I hear it, all I think it, "We've been here before. "We go..." "Into the Operahouse." BSG, I will miss you. Thank you.
I never watched this show until I caught one of season 4 online. It was "Guess What's Coming to Dinner." I was hooked. Saw the last few episodes and then caught the last ones when they aired on Sci Fi. I bought the whole series and am watching it from the beginning and have been kicking myself for not watching it. My father passed away and I regret not having watched this show with him as he would have loved it.
I wish I could watch BSG for the first time all over again
me too
So say we all, sister.
I miss this show very much. I still cant re-watch the final episode.
Yes!
By your command.
15 years later, give or take, this still gives me goosebumps.
Unsurpassed serie. Only the Expanse came close.
So say we all
The miniseries being 20 years old makes me feel old lol
Oh god, this song + Edward James Olmos burying Roslinat the top of that hill where they would've built that cabin = some serious tears man.
The greatest space opera of all time.
+Warbird Phoenix So say we all
+Warbird Phoenix I listen to this so often. It helps me dream and remember the best drama series ever made.
+Warbird Phoenix Babylon 5 wants to have a word with you my friend...
+Warbird Phoenix - if that was a question 2001 A Space Odyssey, when you consider the technology available at the time. If you make a statement - I must add the phrase "one of"
It's really good but I'm more fond of Farscape and firefly
Life has a melody, Gaius. A rhythm of notes that become your existence once played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.
Fuck. Why can't I get enough of this song? It just takes me to a sad, sad, nostalgic place. Repeat.
lol bryan
So much time has passed since I first heard this theme, and I remember it so clearly. The music in the finale of the first season of this show was something so different, so beautifully constructed, that it evoked an emotional response beyond anything else that I had read, heard, or seen in so long. Leaving a mark so profound that even today just hearing those chords and violin arpeggios brings a knot to my stomach, goosebumps to my arms, and a few drops of water to my eyes.
Well written
When they played this at the end, I just couldn't anymore... This show is such a masterpiece and beauty. I love everything about it!
the song at the end was actually 'An Easterly View' very similar and just as amazing
Bear McCreary, you shall be immortalized in my personal hall of fame next to Hans Zimmer and Martin O'Donnell. Your work is simply magical :)
it was the opening of 12nd episode of 1st season. i remember it so well. kara and baltar were getting it on while number 6 was watching them, lee and adama were sparring at the gym, boomer was on her bunk putting a gun in her mouth, agathon was running from the cylon boomer at the streets of caprica and this music were playing at the background giving everything a surreal and majestic feeling.
it was exactly at that moment i fully realized that i'm watching something so unique and powerful. and with every season it just got better and better. what a grand show it is... with six feet under, it had a considerable impact on my view of life. these two pieces of art, made me much more aware, tolerant and intrigued towards the reality i'm living in. and i will always be grateful for that.
ablazedark Except season 4 was lacking.
ablazedark well put stranger
Joseph Stassup I thought some patches on 2 were the worst. The boxing episode and black market..gross.
I love your comment. I feel exactly the same way about BSG. Most people dont like S4 but I think it's one of the best of them all. I think Bear originally wanted 5 seasons so he compressed two seasons into one when syfy said that season 4 was the last, taking this into consideration, what the whole team managed to accomplish In just one season is amazing. Some day, maybe 20 years from now I will show my children BSG and they will appreciate life that little bit more because of it. So say we all.
+hameed The Boxing episode is one of the best. You finally get to find out what happened on New Caprica and it does it through boxing. One of the best episodes for Character Development without much lengthy dialogue or set up. That's good tv no good art.*Black Market though, was another silly idea that is just picked on- it feels out of place. Heck most of the character piece episodes did. It's hard to keep the suspense with one character in a show full of arcs and canon. They introduced things and then never referenced them again. The pro cylon movement, the workers strike/guild, the black Market, The sons of Aries, Even worse the fleet was essentially a plot device for whatever they needed that week. Media, journalists they appeared out of no where.I feel the episode "Sacrifice" is worse. The hostage situation? Billy dying? Kara shooting Lee? That was horrible.But these low points out way most of good tv high points. I still like them for what they attempt to do.
Just finished watching BSG for the first time, this song still strikes true after the first season finale in Kobol when Gaius discovers the Opera House for the first time till the last few scenes on the New Earth. Such a beautiful ending to a grand show
I was searching for Handel's Passacaglia and came across this. This is terrific music, and I'm shocked that the composer of this music is not more well known in his field. Stunning music, really.
This is THE song to listen to when you feel like isn't going your way. It's certainly mine.
Even though you're simply tricking your mind, you really do feel like you're playing a major role in humanity - like Baltar - and it just makes you feel like everything will work out in the end. Very few songs can have such a somber sad feel to them and yet be so uplifting.
" Even though you're simply tricking your mind, you really do feel like you're playing a major role in humanity - like Baltar - and it just makes you feel like everything will work out in the end"
Powerful words :)
Aaron Brudenell So say we all.
Aaron Brudenell So say we all.
So say we all
+Aaron Brudenell So Say we all.
His musical scoring may be understated. But it always supports and enhances what's happening onscreen. His Passacaglia is a painfully beautiful composition, profoundly moving with a tender heart. Great music.
BSG the best series in whole world history.
Yesterday i saw last episode, it was perfect ending. All this has happened before...
And all of this will happen again
I thought the ending was shit and far from perfect and that season 3 & 4 were not as good as 1 & 2, but each to their own, glad you enjoyed it.
+Meals On Wheels I agree, especially season 4. The final five storyline was disappointing. I really only like the stuff with the cylons, like aboard the baseships. Brother Cavil was the best part of 3&4 in my opinion.
***** I also really liked all of the Basestar stuff with Baltar, i meant to say season 3.5 onwards and I also really liked brother Cavil because he was one of the only Cylon models to be given a backstory and a character.
Totally true
The recurring "face of the shape of things to come" theme is my absolute favorite theme in all of the BSG soundtrack; it fitted the Opera House scenes PERFECTLY, as it did the ending scene where Admiral Adama sits by Laura's grave looking at the horizon, remarking how the beauty of the sun coming up behind those hills is "almost heavenly". Never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
I didn't know about Bear McCreary until I decided to find this beautiful piece in TH-cam. This musician seems to be pretty talented... Without his music, even with the great acting, plot/storylines the show would be only half as good as what it is.
+flying frenchman Have you heard his work on The Walking Dead?
the outlander soundtrack is also fantastic
This series inspires more emotion in me than any other tv program ever has in my life. I've always been an avid lover of both sci-fi, action, and character drama. It combines all these beautifully and the music of BSG is a big factor. It touches my heart just to hear it.
2024 here... it's still not been beaten in my opinion.
Great actors, great story, great show....and of course great music!. Love it.
A masterpiece, never tire of it. It's impact in the show was tremendous, since up to that point you have a lot of the regular taiko drum type stuff, then this, a true indicator that something spectacular was going to happen (results of finding Kobol and all the craziness at end of season 1).
Who's cutting onions in here. stop cutting onions! 'sniff' 'sniff'
I love this. I love BSG. It's my favorite show and will be of all time. Nothing else comes close for me.
SO SAY WE ALL !!
SO SAY WE ALL !!
This song will never stop hitting different. Bless you, Bear. Best OST for a television series of all time. Bar none.
The ending rekindled my faith!!!!!!! Wonderful!!! So Say We All.....
i'm somewhat embarassed to admit that this brings me to tears. who would have ever imagined that a song from a tv show would do that?!
bear mccreary simply is gifted.
You can feel the sadness and regret as the underlying flow of this piece. You know in your heart that you no longer have the time to say the things you wanted to say, the things you should have said so long ago. Now there is no time as your heart races because you feel the end coming and you don't want to lose what little you have. Even though it is but a shadow in front of you, just that small contact was the sunlight in your life even if that sunlight brought you grief it also made you feel alive at the same time. And now that part of you that was living is slowly ebbing away, and what you fear is not what tomorrow brings but how you can live with a gouge through the middle of your soul that was filled by her. You have to say goodbye but you cant let go, she was the other half, night to the day, the pain to the happiness you lived just to see her again no matter what lay ahead. Now like the sun slowly setting she slowly fades away and you are left alone, in the dark with but a fleeting glimpse of what could have been.
Apollo
Classic music is the apex of human civilization.
Every instument has a place and every place has an instrument.
The result is a full wall of sound that exists within perfectly imperfect Time and Harmony. And then something beautiful occurs.
Without music and art, life perhaps would be a mistake.
Like the guy who posted this, when I heard this on BSG, I was spellbound.
I've downloaded it and have probably listened to it hundreds of times if not more. And here's the thing, it doesn't get old at all. I still get a shiver down my spine at many places.
Truly beautiful...
i can float in this song and could stay here forever... listening since 2010
Bear McCreary is a freaking genius
Unfortunately, BSG died :(
If/when people say that classical music is dead...this is a piece of music I can easily point to.
This is an adagio passacaglia. Played slowly and with respect. Absolutely beautiful. And I generally dislike 3/4 waltzs or 2 steps.
The phrygian form perhaps makes the sound epic. Je ne se quo.
The spirit of Leonard Bernstein lives on in this dude.
When I hear this it feels like saying goodbye.
I think is the best show ever made. It was so well made, and also so deep. And I'm not particularly religious, but I have to say to admit I loved the somewhat religious aspects. And the ending was absolutely fantastic.
All of this has been commented before and will be commented again...
The ending was crap just saying. Like the writers went oh ran out of ideas bad
@@astroboy3002 you were created incomplete, my child.
@@astroboy3002 You didn't understand it. You probably think Baltar was the villain. Nope. He was actually the hero of the show the whole time.
I still watch it all the way through I had to buy the complete set on Netflix I just love the who story and the music is inspirational just wonderful I have to listen to one or three tunes every night before sleeping it’s out of this world
doing another run-through of this show man i forgot how utterly fantastic it is
I know right. I'm at season 3 and am still sooo in love!
I believe Battlestar will stand the test of time and will become seen as an even smarter creation than it is already. In twenty years I think it will have one of the best reputations a TV show has ever had. I still can't get over how incredible the finale was! It's one of the only cases I can think of where the creators of a show or film have taken the money and the airtime they have and done something truly important and challenging with it. Groundbreaking stuff.
Absolutely!
BSG is my all-time favorite series. It'll be tough to beat. I hated to see it end. This song evokes so many emotions. It's one of my favorites. When it played during the final opera house scene, I got a lump in my throat. Bear is an amazing musician..
2021. Still the best show ever made.
I know this may sound...silly or what ever...But when I hear this music, I feel that deep down inside me I know everything in my life will be ok. Its hard to explain, but I still and will always say that music is the key to ones soul.
Immer wieder Meisterhaft „UND SIE HATTEN EINEN PLAN“🎼🎻🎸🥁🎧🎬
Absolutely magical
Gaius: “Yes. You know, I know about farming“
Six: “Hey. I know. I know you do”
This scene makes me tear up, its so authentic
Definitely some of the very best music written for television and maybe for visual media in general. There's something transcendent about this piece that puts it in a level above just good music for a show.
I just got the complete series for my Bday. Frakkin awesome to watch the whole thing over, without commercials and one right after the other. Im just starting season 4. Show is even better the second time around. Bear's music adds such emotion to the scenes, especially when there is no dialogue (Baltar in the Cylon Base ship).
Greatest show of all time, I have watched the entire show 5 times through now. It is unparalleled!
SO SAY WE ALL
+frozensun79 SO SAY WE ALL
+frozensun79 SO SAY WE ALL!!!!!!!!
frozensun79 So Say We All
SO SAY WE ALL MOTHERFUCKERS!!
I remember the days when baltar was president. The days when this show was still on netflix
OLD but FOREVER GOLD
No scene in the entire series is better than the Galactica falling onto new caprica, that was absolutely amazing in every sense.
i just love this piece of music. the language of tears. cathardic.
Great piece of music for reflection. Very suggestive of grace and symmetry.
This.
This.
Right here.
Is what is known as a
PERFECT UPLOAD
passacaglia is an interlude and this is what an interlude is. If you look at when the show plays this song it is perfectly to the point of when an interlude is to happen for their characters and their existence. Well done Bear.
All this has happened before and will happen again. This expression is linked to our human subconscious. How many times we lived this cycle. Can you remember?
uh, about every three years
Am I the only one who feels uplifted rather than sad when I hear this song?
no is the answer I feel it too...its the light at the end of the tunnel....its the first bit of true hope you experience in the series...its the notion that through all the chaos, the spark is still there and there will, eventually, be joy again(BSG takes you through a lot lol more than many realise I fear, get your esoteric studies out) :D
the reverse effect...i can't explain what it really is though but i did heard it somewhere
yeah you're a unique snowflake
Nahh I just listent to it just after awaking, and I feel it's gonna be a good day :D
It makes me feel like momentous things are about to happen. :)
This music is so beautiful. I cannot begin to describe how these melodies fall into place, it is indeed the music of the heavens. :)
Favorite soundtrack of all time, Bear McCreary did a brilliant job. Kudos to you.
Is it safe to say that Bear McCreary maybe the John Williams of T.V soundtracks?
***** I see you respectmusic, and its composers. Try listening to Shadow of the Colossus soundtracks. I guarantee you, you will enjoy them. If you knew the premise of the game (story and its setting), it would be even better.
Only if Bear is known for copying elements of other peoples works. Listen to Holst's "The Planets" and you'll hear where Williams got a lot of his material.
TheBashar327 You will find the songs that he does that is at the request of directors.
Have you heard his music for Agents of Shield? Not so good IMO
TheBashar327
All musicians do this. Musicians, like other occupations in the modern world, stand on the shoulders of giants.
Into the void we go, boys. RIP Nick and Griffin, the true Space Cowboys.
One of the best tv and movie pieces of music ever!
I've never had a song get me emotional. This is brilliant.
Perfection.
~Samuel T. Anders~
Bear McCreary is the greatest composer of this generation.
John William and hanz
zimmer are amazing
Command & Conquer actually took inspiration from this track way back in 2010's "Command & Conquer 4" and I never even noticed until now!
This reminds me just how awesome and deep a show this was and is. Absolutely spectacular.
This was the best series ever made.
In many ways, yeah. I agree.
Very few multimedia productions hit me as hard as this show did. I only wish i had watched the show live as opposed to a few(or 5+) years later in marathons and streaming services.
Oh well. So it goes.
Edward James Almos kinda made this show his magnum opus of sorts. This was his crowning achievement in cinema.
I could write a book about this tv show. Seriously...
master piece !
Rarely have I ever heard something this beautiful.
This is PURE Classical music with a slight modern twist. Way to go, Bear McCreary.
I've watched this show 3 times over.
only??? pfff... its the 7th for me :P
Same!
This song is a masterpiece!!! It was placed perfectly in the Battlestar Galactica series. It really makes you think.... think about how big and mysterious life is, and how very small we are in comparison. It gives me chills everytime I hear it.
this show is way too under appreciated. It's my favorite show ever.
I can't help shedding a tear every time I hear this.
What I think Mr McCreary is trying to express through his music, is the keystone of the show; "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again." Even still, he does the show and the piece good justice by adding the tiny speckle of hope that there can be change.
I guess one have to have seen their share of the evil man do to understand and appreciate this piece for what it truly is: true!
Even if I love the Expanse, great show, as great as BSG, The Expanse misses a soundtrack like this
Agreed. That season 2 mid season peak(for The Expanse) is epic af though. The series could have ended there and I would not need any more. Everything after that was a bonus.
My brother said to me I should watch this show. Should I ? :D
Arthur Bodner You must! trust me mate, It´s change everything...:D
Petr Zvěřina Ok, thank you, I will give it a try :)
Petr Zvěřina I agree... after watching the full thing straight through, I was mind blown by the end. Somehow, I'm not sure...but it did change me a little. - SO SAY WE ALL!!
Arthur Bodner You must. You must.
Absolutely a must!! Best to watch it full seasons all the way through. Watching it piece meal is good, but full seasons all the way through one get's the "deeper" meaning and all the twists along the way
In the rare chance that someone from the series is readnig this-THANK YOU! From all of us who are fans in St Louis-KUDOS!!
Gods I love this so immensely. Such a great alternative to all the standard classics. Keep hammering out these Monumental works Bear!!!!!
As Kara's "dad" said in the show, the best songs make you happy and sad at the same time. This is one of them. The part that begins at 4:26 is just chillingly beautiful.
Masterpiece
I fall asleep to this song. Last summer when I watched the entire series in the span of a month maybe, this song was on loop on my computer as background music, and I will NEVER, EVER tire of it. It was used during season 1's best montage, and alot during the series finale...and I shed tears the last time it was used towards the end (when a certain character weeps, remembering their roots). Gawd, thank you Bear McCreary!!!
Such a fitting end to a story. loved and enjoyed every moment of it.
Gaius BALTAR... This guy made me laugh sooo much!
SEE YOU SPACE CARBOYS
Redline SSB NICK...
Yes!
A benchmark of a great show... rewatchability. I watched it when it aired, and rewatched the dvds. I've "infected" 5 other people (including my father) by viewing the whole darned thing with them. Every time, while the newbie is saying how cool it is and "is Adama a cylon? Cally.. gotta be a cylon!" I sit back and watch, knowing the path already, and I am still stunned by the sheer beauty of it all. And afterwards, when the newly minted fan thanks me, I thank them in return.
-so say we all-
This song gives me chills. It's amazing! It makes me miss BSG even more.
A poignant reminder of things that I have yet to occur and have already happened...
Godspeed, soft boys
This song haunts me in a way that I cannot explain-everytime I listne to it, I feel the pain and joy of the characters. I am so sorry to see this, the BEST frakking show ever to leave. So Say We All!
It reminds me of you.
*cries hysterically*
Open your mind, Nick. Receive the truth. Dont resist it.
It is Nice to see Great Classical Pieces can still be created today. Granted its a 17th century "musical form"
This is Divine... a true moment of inspiration. There's a magical quality to this piece which delivers me promptly into the heavens whenever I hear it. Both uplifting and emotional... Majestic...
See You Space Car Boys...
For those who don't know, this show is very analogous of the Biblia. You've got the half breed child (Christ), Baltar (the sinner on the cross who was forgiven), the fleet (the Jews searching for the promised land), 12 colonies plus a 13th lost tribe, angles (6 and Baltar lookalikes), etc. Point is, just about everything in BSG is in the Biblia (note that the bible is missing 3 "formerly" cannon books that were stripped out in the 16th century, and may be missing certain referances).
SSJG Vasto Lorde Seriously Dude ._. try de caf
ty hamilton He's not wrong. The show is heavily inspired by religious mythology. Hell, the original show's working title for quite some time was "Adama's Ark".
14Schofield oh I Agree! just think he is reading a lot into it. ALOT
ty hamilton Or maybe he is reading into it exactly as it is represented. An analogy of what was and what will be. If you do not understand, you simply have not been alive long enough to understand.
I always took the show as being a big biblical parable, take the message that is repeated "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again" which is written in the bible.
All the memories of BSG from this song... and now, when I hear it, all I think it, "We've been here before.
"We go..."
"Into the Operahouse."
BSG, I will miss you. Thank you.
That was one thing that totally made the series so great, the music.
*does this song to homework* gets all As
Magnífica sinfônica,.
The last scene when Baltar cries telling Caprica he knows about farming, with this song playing really moved me . I always liked Baltar.
I never watched this show until I caught one of season 4 online. It was "Guess What's Coming to Dinner." I was hooked. Saw the last few episodes and then caught the last ones when they aired on Sci Fi. I bought the whole series and am watching it from the beginning and have been kicking myself for not watching it. My father passed away and I regret not having watched this show with him as he would have loved it.
so say we all!!!