Track Listing

1. Are You Alive?/Battlestar Galactica Main Title
2. Goodbye, Baby
3. Starbuck Buck Buck
4. To Kiss or Not to Kiss
5. Six Sex
6. Deep Sixed
7. Day Comes
8. Counterattack
9. Cyclons Fire
10. Call to Arms
11. Apollo to the Rescue
12. Launch Vipers
13. Seal the Bulkheads
14. Lottery Ticket
15. Eighty-Five Dead
16. Inbound
17. Apollo Is Gone/Starbuck Returns
18. Storm and the Dead
19. Thousands Left Behind
20. Silica Pathways
21. Reunited
22. Sense of Six
23. Starbuck's Recon
24. Battle
25. Good Night
26. By Your Command

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19910 in Music
• Released on: 2004-03-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Presenting the Original Soundtrack to the Sci Fi Channel Original Mini-Series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA starring Edward James Olmos (MIAMI VICE, STAND AND DELIVER) and Mary McDonnell (DANCES WITH WOLVES, GRAND CANYON). Renowned composer Richard Gibbs (BARBERSHOP 2, STEP INTO LIQUID, I SPY) evocative score combines ethnic percussion, vocals, synth and orchestra to capture all the humanity and pulse-pounding excitement of this critically-acclaimed relaunching of the legendary BATTLESTAR GALACTICA saga! A must for all generations of GALACTICA fans!

Customer Reviews

Diehard original series fans won't want to read this.
The new Battlestar Galactica series on SciFi Network has radically "re-imagined" the original, upbeat 1978 cult series as seen through more jaded, post-9/11 eyes...and it works. The series is dark and melancholy - a moving story that plays upon the emotions of loss, defeat, and hope, and even moreso through its music.

The new score by Oingo Boingo's Richard Gibbs reflects this tone through a minimalistic score meant to pull at the heartstrings rather than make you salute the Colonial Fleet. With its Middle-Eastern chord progressions and vocals, distant ambient sounds and sparse percussive sequences, the individual pieces set moods and play to emotions, and do so masterfully.

Old-school BSG fans who (as I did at the tender age of 17) want to regale to the shiny happy 1978 version may find this new series difficult to connect with, since it combines bits and pieces of the original story with some very radical and interesting departures. I suspect this will impact listeners' interest in the soundtrack as well. That disco-era space opera feeling is nowhere to be found in the series, nor in the new soundtrack.

If you long for triumphant, feel-good trumpet lines, go buy an Aaron Copland CD. In producer Ron Moore's universe, however, the human race is nearly extinct. That calls for a minimalistic, tense, and melancholy score. For listeners who are looking for moving, emotive and ambient washes that reinforce this 2005-era remake: this is a great CD.

- weave

Great and well suited to the excellent new show
Please don't listen to the people who can't get beyond the original series. Yes, I too loved that series--when I was 12. This new series is more thoughtful, with better writing, direction, and infinitely better production values. The new soundtrack is correspondingly updated, as well. It's great: non intrustive and atmospheric at times, and extremely tense and driving at others. It's great soundtrack for a great reimagining of the series.

pretty good, for a TV score
Television scores are a notoriously tricky genre. Often, even if they're great scores, they tend to be heavily reliant on synthesized sounds, and the scores can sound rather cheesy when put onto a CD by their lonesome. This is true not merely for sci-fi television, but for television in general.

Richard Gibbs' score for the "Battlestar Galactica" miniseries isn't necessarily one of the best scores in the history of the world, but it is definitely a good one. It's a minimalist composition, in some ways, and if you want a couple of similar scores offered up, here goes: the remake of "Solaris" for one, and "The Ice Storm" for another. The music isn't very similar to those scores, but some of the instrumentation is.

As for comparing this score to Stu Phillips' music for the original... why would you do that? This is, like the miniseries itself, something new. It's good, too: bold and daring, even.

In other words, it ain't the same old thing you always hear on this type of show. I, for one, am glad of it.