Alternate Songs For Star Trek Intros
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I suspect the latter is sadly true.
IIRC, I'm pretty sure the complaint wasn't that the Enterprise theme had words, per se, but that most of those words were written for "Patch Adams". It wouldn't have sucked nearly so bad had it been a remotely original piece, rather than a slap-dash retread of a not particularly memorable song for another project.
I listened to both of them @ youtube with my eyes closed imagining a ST opening and they didn't work for me. One is too romantic and the other is too heavy, neither would make everyone happy.
Perhaps an original theme, (something familiar to fans but doesn't cram Old Trek down Joe Public's throat) or nothing at all; just throw up the title with as little fanfare as possible then get into the movie.
Composing this I realized what a hugh responsibility whoever is creating the opening credits scene for this film is bearing. It isn't a trivial thing as some might think.
If I had to choose for Enterprise? Maybe "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" by The Moody Blues.
Others undoubtedly find "I Hate (Everything About You)" by Ugly Kid Joe better...
Others undoubtedly find "I Hate (Everything About You)" by Ugly Kid Joe better...
The only problem with this song is that it's WAY too long--but I think an instrumental along these lines would've been great for Deep Space Nine to fit the darker mood of the show.
Just ignore the video and enjoy "Immaculate Crucifixion" by Juno Reactor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wDWq5WP9Y
Were a DS9 movie ever made, something like this would be quite successful as part of a long intro sequence, preferably one involving a war.
(As it is, I kinda "claim" this one as the intro for my own fanfic 'verse, Star Trek: Sigils and Unions.)
Just ignore the video and enjoy "Immaculate Crucifixion" by Juno Reactor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wDWq5WP9Y
Were a DS9 movie ever made, something like this would be quite successful as part of a long intro sequence, preferably one involving a war.
(As it is, I kinda "claim" this one as the intro for my own fanfic 'verse, Star Trek: Sigils and Unions.)
They're not a huge band, but I always felt that "The Future Rides Us All" from Super 400 would have been perfect.
http://www.super400.com
It's on their first album.
http://www.super400.com
It's on their first album.
Here's the much-superior final mix of "Immaculate Crucifixion." It would be a VERY nice break from the traditional "Trek-type" music to have something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3BAm_NPoYg
Still WAY too long unless a movie intro was then extended into a dialogue-free opening scene, but I think something like this could work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3BAm_NPoYg
Still WAY too long unless a movie intro was then extended into a dialogue-free opening scene, but I think something like this could work.
Well, if you're going to take from the The Moody Blues song list for Enterprise, Graeme Edge's Higher and Higher may be a better choice. Imagine him reading at least some of these lyrics over the opening montage:
Blasting, billowing, bursting forth
With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes
Man with his flaming pyre
Has conquered the wayward breezes
Climbing to tranquility
Far above the cloud
Conceiving the heavens
Clear of misty shroud
Higher and higher
Now we've learned to play with fire
Go higher and higher and higher
Vast vision must improve our sight
Perhaps at last we'll see and end
To our homes endless blight
And the beginning of the free
Climb to tranquility
Finding its real worth
Conceiving the heavens
Florishing on earth
Higher and higher
Now we've learned to play with fire
Go higher and higher and higher
Hell, since there's a sort of 1960s, "Godspeed, John Glenn," to the first Star Trek teaser, it could've worked with that, too.
"Space, the final frontier --." Or, "Blasting, billowing, bursting forth -- "?
The latter works for me. Yessir!
I don't understand what this means. Is there a typo, or some figure of speech I'm not familiar with?
I have a feeling, call this a guess, but seeing as they got not just a composer, but a very skilled one to do the music for the film, but there WON'T be any "modern" songs in this.
If they wanted to work that way for the intro, we'd have some guy pulled off of the street, instead of Michael Giacchino.
It will be a break from the Trek music we've had in the past 10-12 years, because it won't be that lame Berman-mandated auditory static.
If they wanted to work that way for the intro, we'd have some guy pulled off of the street, instead of Michael Giacchino.
It will be a break from the Trek music we've had in the past 10-12 years, because it won't be that lame Berman-mandated auditory static.
