john titor
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No it doesn't BSG sucks!
Music of Star Trek vs. Music of nuBSG
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No it doesn't BSG sucks!
This isn't helping the conversation. For one thing, you don't expand upon your opinion (ie, there's such a thing as constructive debate). Secondly, as was pointed out, the soundtrack and the show are two different entities. Case in point, I think the score for Generations was better than the film itself. Two different things.
nuBSG, too stringy, here's a hint Bear, there are other instruments in the orchestra, i'll take the collected music of trek any day, MUCH more variation
Well there was alot of use with percussion and wind instruments too, though one may get a stronger impression of strings with his music, since there is a preference to it. The problem for me with a lot of Star Trek music is that for the most part I can only remember how music influenced the feel of a scene in the movies (the 2009 movie being a massive example), rarely ever in the series, which is what for me, puts marks against Star Trek movies
I would have agreed for Trek up until perhaps early Voyager (Scorpion, perhaps). Then Trek music went way way down to uber repetition and almost zero variation. I referenced Sacrifice of the Angels earlier as evidence of boring, and the music through the battles sound like a Civil War brigade trying to power-walk to battle.
And does anyone really listen to the soundtrack to Insurrection?
I can't be in that club, because I openly love BSG. Why the hell would anyone want to make that a secret?
My favourites are:
Gina Escapes
Dark Unions
One Year Later
Prelude to War
Roslin and Adama
A Distant Sadness
Kobol's Last Gleaming/Bloodshed
Baltar's Dream
The Temple of Five
and of course the main title.
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john titor
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yeah but the shitness of BSG spills over into its music.
john titor
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This is a trek website, yet everyone on here proclaims that they love BSG more than trek. Its an infiltration!
You accuse BSG of being vacuous while the best arguments you can come up with to attack it are that it sucks and is shit?
Can't you at least attempt to form a cogent, or even legitimate, argument?No matter one's opinion of BSG, the music of the show is miles above Star Trek because Bear McCreary was given almost complete freedom in its development while Trek's composers had their hands tied by the producers. Bear developed themes for many of the shows characters and even concepts, and the way all of those built upon one another throughout the show is incredible. It became such an important part of the show's mythology that the writers actually started to weave the music into the story with the whole Final Five/AATW thing in the final season.
I love Trek, but there's no comparison.
john titor
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You accuse BSG of being vacuous while the best arguments you can come up with to attack it are that it sucks and is shit?
No matter one's opinion of BSG, the music of the show is miles above Star Trek because Bear McCreary was given almost complete freedom in its development while Trek's composers had their hands tied by the producers. Bear developed themes for many of the shows characters and even concepts, and the way all of those built upon one another throughout the show is incredible. It became such an important part of the show's mythology that the writers actually started to weave the music into the story with the whole Final Five/AATW thing in the final season.
I love Trek, but there's no comparison.
lol that sounded like someone playing piano with a broken hand. I don't have to back up anything I say read the sig, as a true educator I expect you to find out the horrible truth about BSG for yourself.
Sorry, but I put the same amount of faith in your signature as I put into you yourself, and I can assure you that that is not a whole lot. I have no problem with you having a negative opinion of Battlestar Galactica or its music, I have a problem with how you try to assert your opinion as fact and then are rude towards those who hold an opposing viewpoint. That's not how civilised people should act.
You know, I hated BSG's music at the beginning, it was one of the many reasons why I gave up on the show after 33. But over the years circumstances changed and I decided to give the show another shot, and while I still had a negative reaction to the music at first, by half-way through the first season I began to appreciate it. The music in the season 1 finale was so incredible that I fell in love with it and now I have all the soundtracks.
So I can understand perfectly well why you dislike Battlestar Galactica and its music, because I used to too. But the fact that I had once so misjudged the show and the music is one of the reasons why I am more open-minded now, because I don't want to miss another incredible experience like I almost did with BSG.
I already found out the horrible truth about BSG, and that truth was a flaw within me.
Actually, if you want people to come over to your side, or at least to see your side of any topic, then yes you do. Otherwise you become no better than an insane street preacher condemning everything in front of him. You don't win any converts with an inflated sense of false authority, friend.
I tend to ignore insane street preachers, personally.
(I do actually have a constructive question: Does anyone know when the S4 soundtrack comes out? I'm hesitant to try to look it up on, say, the BSG boards because I just started watching S1 in February and am currently in S3 (between "A Day in the Life" and "Dirty Hands,") and I want to avoid spoilers for the rest of the show.)
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The S4 soundtrack is already out, and the cheapest place to purchase it that I have found so far is Amazon.com. Other places will charge serious ripoff prices for it.
You should probably be careful with that because some of the song titles contain spoilers, particularly some of the tracks off the Daybreak CD. I watched through the show for the first time last year and I let my curiosity get the better of me by listening to some of the season 3 tracks before I watched that season. Lets just say that the title "Kat's Sacrifice" ruined at least one episode for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYduvEnJamM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmP7cXulNdw
and for something a bit different...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBbkoKQRlA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmP7cXulNdw
and for something a bit different...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBbkoKQRlA
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Thanks for the advice. I just finished "Revelations" yesterday and will hopefully be done with the series in the next week, but will hold off on even looking at the Amazon listing until then. (And as for the episode "Revelations"...wow. I thought S3 was the weakest, but then "Maelstrom" hit and everything since then has been terrific.)
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