It's only been away for a few weeks, but I've already been missing having new episodes of Battlestar Galactica every week. Recently, though, I found something to help fill the gap a bit: the soundtrack album to the show's first season.
There are some truly exhilarating pieces of music on this album, including tension-ratcheting rhythms (The Olympic Carrier, Starbuck Takes On All Eight), uplifting anthems (Wander My Friends), and the very lyrical strings that underscored the very memorable montage in the teaser of Kobol's Last Gleaming (Passacaglia). If you've watched the show, you'll remember every piece when it starts playing, and enjoy the show in your mind's eye all over again.
And yes, the album starts off with the "Cylon theme" that accompanies the "saga sell" at the start of every episode. And it offers both the US version and UK version of the main title, so no matter your preference between them, you'll be happy.
Though if you think the UK version is better, you're wrong.
1 comment:
I might actually have to pick this up. The music has been a consistent subtle high point of the series.
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