Favorite SciFi Theme Music

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#1

Armaondo mentioned how important SciFi music was in his life on another thread, and that got me thinking about just how much good SciFi music there is.

off the top of my head, besides the fantastic Galactica music and SW themes, here are some of my other faves.

The precussive Planet of the Apes music.
2001
Close Encounters
Blade Runner
The funky wa-wa and electric guitar of Space:1999
Tron
That Star Trek theramin
Dr. Who
The original Godzilla
The Twilight Zone
Akira
Heavy Metal
City of Lost Children

And my guilty pleasure, the Meco (hooked-on) disco versions of Close Encounters, SW and Empire Strikes Back, clap tracks and all.

So how about you guys?

#2

how can you fail to mention epic genius Bear McCreary?!?!?!

#3

Ummm… I said:

because I thought it was a given. Sheesh!

#4

I gotta admit I really liked the music of Starship Troopers the original one.

And after having seen Starship Troopers 3 last night. Its got an awesome musical number. As in like from a Broadway. I’m not even kidding. (check out the music video in the special features for an extended version of it)

#5

what, you mean you expect me to actually read the post I’m responding to?!?!?! fascist!

#6

Hands down, no competition:

Original Battlestar Galactica theme. Woot.

#7

I concur, I love hearing it when it pops up in the new show every now and then

#8

Gotta go with the original opening credits of Star Wars IV: A New Hope. Just hearing the music makes the image of the opening credits rolling over the screen come into my brain. And, of course, the star destroyer comes over the top of your head and you realize how HUGE the ship is!

#9

for me, it was the full length orchestral score for the original Stargate movie… it had that whole egyptian feel to it… cool… i could almost feel the sand…

#10

I HATE SAND!!! :eek:

#11

I second that hatred. I just never, ever, gets out of all the places it gets into. :eek:

#12

Buck Rogers Theme

Battlestar (Reimagined)

Terminator

#13

John Williams’ “Imperial March,” hands down.

#14

Star Wars music (hm I bet you didn’t know that about me! ;))
Back to the Future
Superman

I also grew up listening to the Star Tracks compilations conducted by Erich Kunzel, which I loved.

#15

I would also toss in the theme to Firefly. I really like the country/celtic fusion of the music.

#16

I hate to be the music nerd, but, technically, the music to 2001: A Space Odyssey is not sci-fi theme music. It is made up entirely of pre-existing music from the classical and contemporary (at the time) repertoire that made up Stanley Kubrick’s temp score. Alex North, the great film composer, wrote a very worthy score to the film, even if hearing it now, 40 years after the fact, it seems a little odd and out of place, which Kubrick did not like. He failed to inform North of this, however, and left him to find out his work had not been used at the film’s premiere. That Stanley Kubrick could be a classy guy sometimes!

Anyway, I’ve gotta go with Bear’s BSG music, given or not. It’s some of the best work I’ve heard in film or TV in a really, really long time. That said, I have to confess that I do not own a single soundtrack album for BSG. The music just works too well with the images for me to appreciate it without them. Weird, huh?

#17

A, you should really grab a copy of season 1, 2, or 3…I listen to them all the time and really enjoy them ! And yes, the music is very much aligned with the story aspects of the show, so much so that you will be very easily reliving scenes as you listen…highly recommended !

As far as an all-time favorite, I’m with spatterson65…Main Theme, Star Wars. It’s in my DNA by now !!

#18

//youtu.be/KIsv1YOFNys

#19

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah… The music in 2001 is not theme music…
But it’s still one of my favorite soundtracks.
Just as Carmina Burana and Turandot were used in the fantastic score to another of my favorite movies, John Boorman’s Excalibur.

//youtu.be/pylGJO6I30M

And all this reminds me…
How could I have forgotten A Clockwork Orange?
(That Ludwig Von sure composed some great movie music.) :stuck_out_tongue:

#20

Yea thats the tune. Its so catchy but fun cheesy at the same time.