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Bear McCreary To Release Battlestar Galactica Live Album, "So Say We All" (All Four Season Soundtracks Also Coming To Streaming Services)

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Exclusive: BSG's Bear McCreary Live-Album Announcement and Interview

Bear McCreary, composer for Battlestar Galactica, spoke exclusively to io9 about his new BSG live album, plus the soundtracks for all four seasons of the sci-fi series will be available on your favorite streaming music services for the first time.
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Here's what you need to know about Bear McCreary, the legendary-in-his-own-time composer for Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, and so much more: there's a part of him that's bummed he's not playing a concert right now. Thankfully there's a fix for that; as io9 can exclusively reveal, he has a new BSG live album, plus the soundtracks for all four seasons of Ronald D. Moore and David Eick's series have been digitally remastered and will be available on your favorite streaming music services for the first time.
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So Say We All: Battlestar Galactica Live will be available on June 4 at McCreary's Sparks & Shadows site alongside the four original Battlestar Galactica soundtracks, all five of which have been digitally remastered. They'll also finally be available via streaming services as well. If you want to go the extra mile, a limited number of So Say We All albums signed by McCreary will be available on June 8 over at La-La Land Records.

Here's the tracklist:

  1. A Distant Sadness
  2. Prelude To War
  3. Baltar's Dream
  4. Roslin and Adama
  5. Apocalypse
  6. Fight Night
  7. Something Dark Is Coming
  8. Wander My Friends
  9. Lords Of Kobol
  10. Storming New Caprica
  11. Heeding The Call
  12. All Along The Watchtower
  13. Colonial Anthem / Black Market
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There's also a interview with McCreary at the link above.



No "Reuniting the Fleet" is a bit of a bummer.
 
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No Reuniting the Fleet? :-( Oh well. Still cool.

Oh wait. No The Shape of Things to Come either? Damn.
 
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I was listening to much of the soundtrack last week got it all. Love reuniting the fleet, the shape of things to come and Passacaglia especially.
 
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The "All Along the Watchtower" moment in the show is my favorite TV moment of all time. So much so I listen to that version more, nowadays.
 
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It's seriously up there. People can debate about the quality of that last season and ending all they want, but there's no arguing that the score was always top notch.
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The documentary on scoring the series finale is really good and highlights the main musicians. It's 30 minutes, but well worth it.

 
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Nice. Love his work BSG was amazing. The only thing more from Bear is Black sails. Needs those other seasons Soundtracks please.
 
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Greatest tv soundtrack of all time. Can't wait to hear this.

Think I'm in for a rewatch soon too
 
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I'm currently about halfway through a BSG rewatch, truly a brilliant series, and the soundtrack adds so much to it.
Shame there is no live version of Gaeta's Lament. Would have been nice to see Alessandro Juliani sing it live
 
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Man fucking finally. The fact it took this long for the soundtracks to be released to streaming is bloody ridiculous.
 

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Finally!

I am currently rewatching the show and I am so happy they're gonna be on streaming services.
will the live album also go up on streaming though?

and man I agree, he should be out there performing this again
 
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The "All Along the Watchtower" moment in the show is my favorite TV moment of all time. So much so I listen to that version more, nowadays.
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Same. My jaw was on the floor, like, are they really doing what I think they're doing?, and then they did.

I was in the middle of a rewatch of BSG last year, but then moving and work stuff and the pandemic kind of threw off my groove. I gotta get back to that.

Btw, if y'all haven't seen Black Sails, Bear McCreary did the score for that one too, and it's great. The first episode's a little wobbly, but it gets really good really quick after that.
 
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Probably the best soundtrack to any TV show in my opinion, years later I still listen to them quite regularly. I still have my CD's of the soundtracks somewhere but I wont say no to digitally remastered versions I can access easily.
 
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Oh wow! I'm really looking forward to this. I had no idea that this was in the works. Back in the day, I brought S2-S4 OST albums on CD so I am excited for this.
 
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Darth Pinche

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This is great that this is getting a proper release! I may have to add this to my collection

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I met Bear years ago at the opening of the BSG exhibit at the EMP museum. Terrible photo of me, but hey its Bear!
 
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Jamming to BSG music is always a dangerous proposition. Next thing I know, I'll be halfway through season 2 on another series binge.

Also, that live show looks insane. Katee Sackhoff playing the piano with Bear? When was this?!
 
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My first television editing job in NYC was at a division of NBC in 2012. On the internal music library, we could use any music from cancelled Universal owned shows. That meant I had the entire BSG library to use. As I started out on various military and crime themed shows, I made sure to get one or two BSG tracks in everything I did
 
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The "All Along the Watchtower" moment in the show is my favorite TV moment of all time. So much so I listen to that version more, nowadays.
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It's probably second for me.

This is my first:


The music elevates this scene so much.

Personally, I don't think any TV series OST comes even close to the masterpiece that is BSG.
 
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Yes! The lighter is actually silver , what you see it the brass showing from wear. It's like 80 years old. I also have the big top gun flagon.
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Lol I have the tankard as well, keep meaning to come up with a callsign for myself and paint my name under Kat's, I should probably stop drinking from it now they cost £400-500 and not the bargain price of £60 I paid for it :D Seriously jealous of the other bits though.
 
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BSG and LOST were top tier soundtracks and they both were airing around the same time, it was a great time to be a music nerd.
 
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