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Thirty Days of Doctor Who: Day Seven
Aug. 9th, 2010 11:48 pmDay 07 – Your Favourite Piece of Music
... is there anyone who answers this question with something other than 'the theme tune'? Let's just take it as read that it's some of the greatest TV music ever, and move along to something less predictable. There's a lot of great musical moments in Doctor Who that don't involve anything that goes 'oooo-EEEE-oooooo', so here's five that spring to mind:
1) The use of Space Adventure during Tomb of the Cybermen. (It's the music that plays when the aforementioned Cybermen are breaking out of the aforementioned tombs.) All the more weirdly perfect because it wasn't composed for the occasion, but picked out of the BBC archive by the director.
2) Gwendolyn singing That's the Way to the Zoo from Ghost Light. All the better when you know it's a spookily apposite period song, not a pastiche.
3) Colin Baker's bravura rendition of I Am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer, from the first and so far only Doctor Who musical.
4) The Master's rendition of I Can't Decide. I don't think there's anything to be said about that mad, brilliant moment.
5) ... and an honourable mention to Murray Gold for the montage at the end of The Pandorica Opens, which was absolutely spot-on scoring. (I've grumbled about Murray in previous seasons, but it turns out the person they needed to get rid of was whoever kept playing his scores SO BLOODY LOUD. There's nothing wrong with the music now that it's not drowning out everything else.)
( The rest of the days. )
... is there anyone who answers this question with something other than 'the theme tune'? Let's just take it as read that it's some of the greatest TV music ever, and move along to something less predictable. There's a lot of great musical moments in Doctor Who that don't involve anything that goes 'oooo-EEEE-oooooo', so here's five that spring to mind:
1) The use of Space Adventure during Tomb of the Cybermen. (It's the music that plays when the aforementioned Cybermen are breaking out of the aforementioned tombs.) All the more weirdly perfect because it wasn't composed for the occasion, but picked out of the BBC archive by the director.
2) Gwendolyn singing That's the Way to the Zoo from Ghost Light. All the better when you know it's a spookily apposite period song, not a pastiche.
3) Colin Baker's bravura rendition of I Am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer, from the first and so far only Doctor Who musical.
4) The Master's rendition of I Can't Decide. I don't think there's anything to be said about that mad, brilliant moment.
5) ... and an honourable mention to Murray Gold for the montage at the end of The Pandorica Opens, which was absolutely spot-on scoring. (I've grumbled about Murray in previous seasons, but it turns out the person they needed to get rid of was whoever kept playing his scores SO BLOODY LOUD. There's nothing wrong with the music now that it's not drowning out everything else.)
( The rest of the days. )