That theme song tho

I've watched the entire first serial and am preparing my notes. But first I wanted to spend a moment on the opening theme music.

I'm rarely drawn in to something so quickly, but that theme had me like what.

I lack any basic vocabulary for describing music, so what follows is the equivalent of a three year old's crayon drawing of a fire truck.

Sonically, this music moves from surf-laden garage rock to all out psychedelia in about 30 seconds. It wouldn't sound entirely out of place on an early Kinks album. Those (bass?) cords rumble in the gut like some 60s pop hit overplayed in every Vietnam movie, but then some pioneering theremin-esq shit comes in and it goes next level.

It immediately reminded me of one my favorite pieces of music ever. Gabriel Yared, whose mostly known for his superior "rejected" soundtrack to Wolfgang Petersen's fart-fest of a movie, Troy, composed a few pieces for Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve Qui Peut (1980). One track in particular, Le commerce, contains passages that are hauntingly like elements of the Doctor Who theme. I couldn't find the exact version that I have on the OST, but here is a reworked medley from Youtube:

You can't tell as well here, but trust me, track down the OST and listen. Shit's eerie as fuck.


UP NEXT: we finally get underway with "An Unearthly Child"