Music of Star Trek vs. Music of nuBSG

[DevilEyes]

Gaeta's Lament from season 4 soundtrack is amazing. Alessandro Juliani has a great voice. I am also enjoying the creepiness of Cult of Baltar - very strange music, and to make it better, the lyrics are in Old English (Anglo Saxon). I love the habit of having songs with lyrics in all sorts of ancient languages.

 

[RandyS]

Star Trek, and NOT just because I like that better than New Galactica. Galactica's music (What little there is of it), just doesn't grab me the way the various Star Trek themes did.

Hell, even "Faith of the Heart" is better.

*ducks*

 

[Chrisisall]

If I had to listen to 28 hours of Trek music, I'd probably get bored after an hour or two because it all sounds like the same uninspired, sedate background noise (that's what most of episodic Trek's music during the DS9/VOY/ENT era sounded like). Listening to 28 hours of BSG music is great!

LOL, drumbeats or droning, what a choice.

The best of Trek just beats the best of Battlestar. Sure, BSG can be very rousing, but not, like, very diverse. Kirk fighting Finnigan's music, for example, is unique. BSG just didn't have enough different composers to compete; it's an unfair comparison IMO.

 

[Rackon]

Hmmm...I'm most familiar with the music fromTOS and the films. TOS usic - while instantly identifiable - is farily cheesy. It could almost be from an old radio show. not very instersting.

the movies are another story, and we've had some great themes and scores for the films.

I think the test of any soundtrack for me is how well the cues work with the images on the screen, not how well they stand alone. NuBSG does that very well, with far more sophistication and effectiveness than TOS. But BSG had a bigger budget and better technology for scoring that weren't available to TOS. With bigger budgets and the top film composers in Hollywood doing the composing, I'd have to say the Trek movies outshine all the rest.

I haven't paid as much attention to TNG music, never could get into Voyager, and I so loathed the incredibly lame and awful opening theme song to Enterprise that I never noticed that music. I still turn the sound down every time I watch Enterprise.

 

[Cyke101]

If I had to listen to 28 hours of Trek music, I'd probably get bored after an hour or two because it all sounds like the same uninspired, sedate background noise (that's what most of episodic Trek's music during the DS9/VOY/ENT era sounded like). Listening to 28 hours of BSG music is great!

LOL, drumbeats or droning, what a choice.

The best of Trek just beats the best of Battlestar. Sure, BSG can be very rousing, but not, like, very diverse. Kirk fighting Finnigan's music, for example, is unique. BSG just didn't have enough different composers to compete; it's an unfair comparison IMO.

I almost feel like Trek's diversity gets diluted when you go into later Trek. Just as you wouldn't hear Finnigan's music in BSG, I don't think you'd hear it in TNG/VOY/DS9, either.

Then again, I'm listening to Giacchino's Enterprising Young Men from STXI, and the opening to that piece is unlike anything in Trek despite the distinctly 60s vibe. Of course, then it turns grandiose like the TOS films, but it was nice hearing something unique attachd to Trek once more.

 

[laminar]

I like all the ST music!!