"My name is Saul Tigh. I'm an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means ... that's the man I want to be. And if I die today? That's the man I'll be." *que mic drop and All Along the Watchtower*
Think about toasters using music as a trigger to activate these Cylons....does that mean that Cylons respond to music? Not unique to humans, then, is it.
Just like that.... 2023 and I still think this song sums up that feeling of belonging to "that" moment when this song made its first appearance and the wow factor. . . Do you hear/feel it too?
@@jordanrocksdj It nearly ended on the 'Revelations' episode, which would've been one of the greatest cliffhangers ever. You might've gotten a Firefly situation where the show is still being talked about in great length in 2020, but having a real ending is probably better than ending with *that*
This song is far and away the best made for TV/Movie song I had heard so far. I understand its a cover, and usualy covers suck but gd damn this song is so good.
It's good. Really good. The fact that I think the only song that surpasses it, Passacaglia, comes from the same series and composer says so much about the soundtrack to BSG. GOAT from start to finish.
The Lords of Kobol bless you, I never expected to find this version... should have looked better back in 2013 when you posted this and I actually just had watched the show.
Bear McCreary said in his writer’s blog that the instrumental is almost entirely original, but of course similar enough to be compatible with the tune to All Along the Watchtower. With that in mind, you can kind of see how this piece works: it doesn’t play its hand too early, so you can’t just immediately guess what song it is, but it’s also made to perfectly slot in with the melody when the lyrics come in, so you still get that feeling of everything suddenly making sense. At a stretch, you could even say the music has a perfectly Watchtower-shaped hole in it for most of the episode, so you can almost feel something familiar just beyond your perception, until ‘the scene’ happens and they let everything click into place.
@@notsomuchlurking9408 Agreed, this is my favorite version of the song and when I was trying to find it I was also disappointed the OST one was different.
There must be some kind of way outta here Said the joker to the thief There's too much confusion I can't get no relief Business men, they drink my wine Plowman dig my earth None were level on the mind Nobody up at his word Hey, hey No reason to get excited The thief he kindly spoke There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us stop talkin' falsely now The hour's getting late, hey All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While all the women came and went Barefoot servants, too Outside in the cold distance A wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching And the wind began to howl
"There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke" This verse is about hidden Cylons and as we know Cylons took life as a joke, as they could come alive through resurection ship.
That there are many versions of "Watchtower" is what was so smokin' dramatic about Bear's. The story was headed to this massive pivot point, and then his version snuck up slowly, and when it dawned on you that it was Watchtower, well, I jumped. Could not believe more drama could have been impacted in that scene.
This version rocks so hard. Such a fantastic arrangement and cover. Both the Cylons Intro and the Broadcast Version. These amaze me whenever I hear them. I prefer Jimi Hendrix's version to Bob Dylan's, even though both are good. But I'd pick Bear McCreary's version over both. (Sorry, Jimi and Bob.)
I liked the use of the conventio back weapons instead of the lasers, but I wish we saw Galactica use some misles and nukes more, feel like they could've come in handy.
@@bcmm1880 only 50 warheads of which most probably were like pcm or emp from the 1st cylon war i believe the cylons would have adapted their ships so they wouldn't work.also i believe ragnar anchorige was deadalos so the warheads were about the same age as the old girl herself
Not exactly the same as the episode but by far closest available that I've found. The phrase at the end loops once when the galaxy is zoomed out and back in, as exists in the album version oddly enough. Fortunately I can use this to make the right one :) Thanks!!
Give Credit to the music artist in the description sp?? Bear McCreary? sp? because his rendition of this song was excellent, exciting, spine tingling and perfect for the fight sequences.