Doctor Who

Coming soon.

The revived Doctor Who's third series (the 2007 one) is represented by this soundtrack. It contains a little beyond the third season, it has a song from the Dec 25, 2006 Christmas episode, as well as the Dec 25, 2007 Christmas episode (which at the time it came out was before the story had aired). This soundtrack, like the other one was done by composer Murray Gold, who has handled all the music for the new Doctor Who.

It's turned out to be fabulous. It's orchestral unlike the old series. That could be down to budget, but the old show's music never sounded like this, and I'm convinced it's a large part of the overall feel of the series now. There's all kinds of things on here. There's a few actual songs (with lyrics), but most is soundtrack stuff - and it's really good. As with the series itself, the third series (29th overall) soundtrack is better than the stuff that preceded it.

If you were a fan of the 2007 series of Doctor Who, then you should be all means check it out. I know lot a lot of people like listening to soundtracks (mostly because of there being no lyrics), but this is fantastic! Even my two year old loves listening to this, and she's never seen the show! When track 2 comes on, "Hey, it's Martha's song!"

One minor nit, though.. The show tune number from the Dalek episode "Daleks in Manattan" is here. Unfortunately, it's not the original version. The woman who sang the song from the Christmas 2007 episode sings it here (Yamit Mamo), and while it's a good version, it's not the original. I really wish the original version was on here instead.

NOTE: This CD is not available in the US, the link here is to Amazon's UK store.

I've been a huge Doctor Who fan for a very long time. It may very well be my all time favorite TV show. I have quite a boatload of Doctor Who CD's, but most of them are European imports, and are audio versions of lost TV shows from the 1960's - really fiddly stuff, and since there's so many of them, I never bothered listing them here, as my descriptions would be just one line, really. Perhaps one day when I'm supremely bored.

Anyway, when the show returned in 2005, it returned with something it never really had before - supremely good music. Oh sure, the old show had great pieces here and there, but never was uniform in it's quality of music. The new show has a level of music quality that was never heard before, so it was nice that after the 2006 series (the second since the show returned), they put out a soundtrack. Obviously with about 28 episodes or so, they can't include everything, but they did include most of the major musical sequences so far. There's a lot of good stuff, and I thank Murray Gold for creating all this stuff.

Not a lot to say here, but what can you say? It's a TV series soundtrack CD. :) You either like the music, or you won't.