The Inner Light Theme = Space Music??

[Ro_Laren]

Last night I couldn't sleep so I was flipping the channels on the TV. Anyways, I turned to a local entertainment show called Deco Drive (it's like a local Entertainment Tonight, E! News type show) and started to watch. They were talking about Will Smith and Scientology and playing music in the background. I was humming along to the music without even thinking about.

When the clip was over the female host said: "What is with that music?" The male host said "It sounds like space music" while the female host crossed her eyes and swayed back and forth. Anyways once they started talking about it I realized that the music was the song from the "Inner Light" and I started cracking up!!

Anyways, has anyone ever thought that song would sound weird to those that don't know Trek? I never thought it sounded like space music!

 

[Kegek]

It doesn't sound like space music to me. It sounds vaguely like a folk melody.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

Agreed, doesn't sound like 'space music' at all. Space music would be either Tangerine Dream, the German sci-fi scores of Karl-Ernst Sasse and Peter Thomas, or Sun Ra, depending on how literally you take the term 'space music'. The male host must have known it was from an episode of Star Trek!

 

[McCoy]

Yeah, definitely doesn't sound like Space Music unless you know it's from Trek. It has a highly Celtic flavour.

 

[Anubis]

Actually, it has always born a resemblance to "skye boat song" in my mind. "Skye boat song" is a traditional celtic song. Here's a youtube clip of someone performing it on a tin flute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1FZnfhpWIM

 

[Ro_Laren]

Anubis said:
Actually, it has always born a resemblance to "skye boat song" in my mind. "Skye boat song" is a traditional celtic song. Here's a youtube clip of someone performing it on a tin flute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1FZnfhpWIM

I can see the similarities.

BTW, I can't see the male host as a Trekkie. Maybe they had a Trekkie on Staff that wanted to insert the song into the clip- they were probably trying to make fun of him!

 

[22 Stars]

The way shows are produced, the background music is chosen from stock stuff that they have clearances for. Not sure how this tune got in there, but it was probably just named 'space' or 'future song' or something, on their server and the editor inserted it and the producer signed off on it.

 

[Ezri]

INNER LIGHT

You can check this one too.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^That is beautiful...

 

[TeutonicNights]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=80_HKdvNhgA

always brings a tear to my eye. It's like attending the funeral of Star Trek.

 

[sbk1234]

I haven't seen that for a while. DAMN! That was good! Whoever made that summed up Star Trek beautifully. It speaks volumes that over 40 years later, we're still discussing it, and finding new things to talk about.


Oh, and to bring it back to the subject, the music IS nice.

 

[McCoy]

^ I have a copy of that video on my iPod. It's fantastic.

 

[David cgc]

Ro_Laren said:
BTW, I can't see the male host as a Trekkie. Maybe they had a Trekkie on Staff that wanted to insert the song into the clip- they were probably trying to make fun of him!

Holy crap, Deco Drive is still on?

I think they must have a Trek fan working somewhere on staff at channel seven. I remember back when "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" first started, they did a parody where one of the questions was who played the villain in "Star Trek II," and they did a phone-a-friend to William Shatner.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

TeutonicNights said:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=80_HKdvNhgA

always brings a tear to my eye. It's like attending the funeral of Star Trek.

Can you believe I actually hadn't seen that. Beautiful!

 

[Ro_Laren]

TeutonicNights said:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=80_HKdvNhgA

always brings a tear to my eye. It's like attending the funeral of Star Trek.

Wow, great video!!!

 

[K-Star]

It doesn't sound spacy to me. In fact it sounds almost medieval or folk, so much so that occasionally I'll play it on my recorder at SCA events or practices. Of course one of my friends kinda got tired of me playing it, partially because the version I have sheet music for doesn't exactly match the real song.

 

[Cyke101]

If it sounds spacey, I should hope that would mean a wide-eyed, wondrous, fantastic, yet very much humble approach to space.

 

[CaptainStoner]

K-Star said:
In fact it sounds almost medieval or folk, so much so that occasionally I'll play it on my recorder at SCA events or practices.

Very cool!
Yes it is most definetly, not even vaguely, a melody in the celtic folk style, I think it would be properly called an "Air".

 

[15wss]

TeutonicNights said:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=80_HKdvNhgA

always brings a tear to my eye. It's like attending the funeral of Star Trek.

Oh, I agree: what a great video - and it so does feel like a funeral. It made such a warm fuzzy feeling inside of me! It reminded me of why I enjoyed Star Trek and the spinoffs.