Andromeda


GNP Crescendo US (0885444423673)
TV Series/TV film | Released: 2002 | Film release: 2000 | Format: CD, Download
 

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# Track Artist/Composer Duration
1.Season 1 Main Title (March of the High Guard) Alex Lifeson0:59
2.High Guard Theme (Season 2 Main Title)0:54
3.Andromeda Ascendant1:36
4.Dylan Hunt1:21
5.Cyber World2:42
6.Earthly Emotions4:36
7.Man and Machine2:57
8.Beka Valentine1:32
9.The Rev Bem Wayist Theme3:03
10.Slipstream - Tyr Anasazi2:39
11.Nietzschean Attack2:38
12.Deepest Space4:07
13.Dangerous Maneuvers3:56
14.The Magog1:45
15.Epitaph2:19
16.Strange Beauty2:21
17.Trance Gemini2:39
18.Exotic Worlds3:41
19.Sara1:56
20.Mad Pursuit3:02
21.Villains2:33
22.Battle Stations3:42
23.Rommie's Love1:58
24.Rhade's Lament4:48
25.Season 2 Main Title (reprise)0:55
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Andromeda - 04/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at (English)
Gene Roddenberry was essentially TV's answer to George Lucas. True that Roddenberry didn't have instant success when Star Trek first aired, but it has since become a phenomenon and spawned spin offs and vast amounts of merchandising. However, the one thing that Roddenberry never managed and Lucas has yet to do, is actually create something else to even come close to rivalling their biggest successes. Made since Roddenberry's death, Andromeda is another of those sci-fi shows featuring a crew of assorted aliens who may or may not have their own agenda in a galaxy in turmoil. In this case, the ship is captained by the bland lead from the recent TV version of Hercules. After having seen a few episodes, I couldn't honestly tell it apart from things like Farscape and so on - only to note that Farscape was far superior.

Admittedly the music for Star Trek on television has been the source of great discussion. When it's good, it's really good and when it's bad, well it tends to just be bland rather than actually notably horrible. Fortunately, most of the albums have managed to circumvent the less interesting sections and be quite entertaining. Andromeda takes the slightly more dramatic approach, although it seems to be yet another of those TV sci-fi scores that seems trapped in its own budget and time limits. The album does admittedly start badly. For whatever reason, Alex Lifeson wrote the season 1 theme, a march that sounds like digitally altered bagpipes and lots of insane digital percussion. Frankly it's dreadful. Matthew McCauley's second series theme isn't exactly hugely memorable, but has somewhat more the right flavour for such a programme. It crops up occasionally elsewhere, which is something that TV themes don't do nearly often enough.

It being something of a compilation of highlight cues from random shows, the music doesn't always have any specific meaning on its own, but McCauley's track by track liner notes do at least enable the listener to gain more insight into his writing. He certainly puts a lot more thought into the music than might be expected and while the results don't perhaps match the intention, it's nice to know that there is more thought beyond simply putting notes on the page (or computer). Certainly better than the music for similar shows, it is still perhaps mostly of interest for fans of the programme as while it works well in context, isn't sufficient to sustain interest throughout the running time, although worth persevering for the highlight cues. Although sounding like damnation through faint praise, it is distinctly above average as serial television music goes, but I'm yet to be convinced it's anything particularly special.


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