Never trust a soundtrack writer
Jun. 8th, 2007 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperMummy, Bear Mcreary scares me.
Listening to BSG soundtrack, courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cidercupcakes. Which - well, overall impression is lotsa war drums and sort of middle-eastern, with occasional leaps to chinese. Bloody gorgeous. Except? Sometimes I can't figure out whether he's schizo or just fucking with us. There's bits that are clearly, clearly celtic which suddenly segue seamlessly into arabic. And then suddenly you're blindsided by such tracks as 'dinner party' which are pure regency era. And then... oh god, the bastard re-engineered the tune for things like Battlestar Operatica and Battlestart Muzaktica. You heard me. The muzak version. Which was almost certainly played when the characters were in a lift or something.
And huh. I knew that occasionally theme tunes are changed from country to country - sometimes copyright, sometimes unsuitable, sometimes the weird vagaries of producers - a fairly well-known one being 'House', where the US gets Faithless' Teardrop and we get something else. (having never watched House except by download, I don't know what our theme tune is). However, on this, there's main tune (US version) and main tune (UK version). The slow bit at the beginning's different - the bit where the drums kick in for the clip montage is mostly the same. The US, you get an extended instrumental funeral-ish military, and the UK, we get Our Lady of Soundtrack Sorrow with choral and more chimes, and more chimes and choral in the drums bit. Only the UK one is what gets used on sci-fi, since Sky no longer gets it first. Did they just decide they liked the UK version more? Can someone clarify which one got used on the miniseries?
Listening to BSG soundtrack, courtesy of
cidercupcakes. Which - well, overall impression is lotsa war drums and sort of middle-eastern, with occasional leaps to chinese. Bloody gorgeous. Except? Sometimes I can't figure out whether he's schizo or just fucking with us. There's bits that are clearly, clearly celtic which suddenly segue seamlessly into arabic. And then suddenly you're blindsided by such tracks as 'dinner party' which are pure regency era. And then... oh god, the bastard re-engineered the tune for things like Battlestar Operatica and Battlestart Muzaktica. You heard me. The muzak version. Which was almost certainly played when the characters were in a lift or something.And huh. I knew that occasionally theme tunes are changed from country to country - sometimes copyright, sometimes unsuitable, sometimes the weird vagaries of producers - a fairly well-known one being 'House', where the US gets Faithless' Teardrop and we get something else. (having never watched House except by download, I don't know what our theme tune is). However, on this, there's main tune (US version) and main tune (UK version). The slow bit at the beginning's different - the bit where the drums kick in for the clip montage is mostly the same. The US, you get an extended instrumental funeral-ish military, and the UK, we get Our Lady of Soundtrack Sorrow with choral and more chimes, and more chimes and choral in the drums bit. Only the UK one is what gets used on sci-fi, since Sky no longer gets it first. Did they just decide they liked the UK version more? Can someone clarify which one got used on the miniseries?
