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The Eighth Doctor’s new theme music

Huh.  This actually has some incredibly interesting background sound going on.  And that middle eight.  That middle eight!

I kind of really want to start including this in discussions about the evolution of the Doctor Who theme song, even though I know it’s not one of the television themes.

Is this how it’s going to be?  I feel bad, you get music?

Eh.  Could be worse.  And at least it’s good music.

Rock’n’roll people on Tumblr are coming out of the woodwork.

This is awesome.

Here, have some more.

Hate sucks.

Here, have some Buddy Holly.  It’s impossible to hate Buddy Holly.

Right?

I’m leaving the place I love most in the world, and I know I won’t be back for a long time.  I already miss it more than I could ever say.

So what the hell.  Have a fantastic song.

Just because I feel like it today.

I think I’d like to make “well… all right” the go-to theme of my everything.  Both the song and the concept.

This is the auditory definition of unresolved tension.

I swear, I would do just about anything for a full Anthony Stewart Head cover of this song.  I mean.  Seriously.  The man can sing like nothing else.

Here, for the record, is the original song.

Last one.

A fitting end, I think.

Real rockabilly feel.  You can see the influence on so many other artists.

Next one’ll be the last, I promise.

Another well-known one.

Possibly the last.  Who knows?  Seventy-five is, after all, a banner year.

Another favourite.  Slower.  Beautiful.

Probably my all-time favourite Buddy Holly song.

(Yes, I pick the weird ones.  But really, how can you not love this?)

With the Crickets this time!

Probably one of their best-known songs, but still worth adding to the list.

Off-topic post!

There will probably be several of these today, all tagged the same way if you want to filter them out.

But why would you?

The Prettiest Doctor Who Songs: This Is Gallifrey - Our Childhood, Our Home

“Ah, you should have seen it, that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south, the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver. When they caught the light every morning, they lit the forest on fire”

“This is Gallifrey” has long been my favourite of Murray Gold’s work on Doctor Who, and I will leap at any opportunity to share it.  If you can spare three and a half minutes, please just stop whatever you’re doing and listen to it unencumbered.  It’s beautiful.

If you’ve got a bit more than three and a half minutes, here are several others that are simply staggering (for a variety of reasons).  Some are well-known; some less so.

“Vale Decem”

“Songs of Captivity and Freedom”

“I Am the Doctor”

“A Useful Striker”