Fave classic version: 1980’s Howell version for sure. Also helps that it was the first theme I ever heard as I started watching classic who reruns from late 4th doctor onwards. Plus the synthesisers go hard as hell.
Fave nuwho version: s4 + specials version. I just love the extra layers of strings as well as the addition of piano to the melody.
Does anyone have a list over which classic Who stories have been released?
The streaming service I have for music has a very frustrating search engine.
There is The Daleks, The Krotons, The Invasion, Revenge of the Cybermen, The Sunmakers, The Five Doctors, The Visitation, The Caves of Androzani and Survival… Did I miss something?
Dominic Glynn also has some remixes based around stories he worked on:
There was also the 50th Anniversary Album but that was taken down from Spotify sometime last year or the year before.
In the past there were releases for The Leisure Hive, Meglos, Full Circle, Terror of the Zygons/Seeds of Doom, Pyramids of Mars, The Curse of Fenric, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, The Daleks and The Mutants and ones which covered the Radiophonic Workshop’s output during the 60s and 70s.
Thanks Can’t believe I forgot Ghostlight, I love that soundtrack! Time and the Rani has been added to my library!
Yeah those Dominic Glynn remixes are good. It’s a shame the rest you mentioned are unavailable… The Edge of Destruction is coming on vinyl so hopefully it will have a standard release as well
Also, about versions of the theme tunes, I knew that the 2005 version was great when back when I started watching this show I was already singing “DOO-WEE-OOO~!” during the second episode.
For me the best version of the theme tune is Segun Akinola’s version, it just gives me all the right feelings. It is also my ringtone
I also really like Dominic Glynn’s Gallifrey One Remix of the theme tune interspersed with Colin Baker quotes
The best canon theme tune is easily the one from Big Finish’s Mary Shelly Trilogy with the 8th Doctor:
The only one that could have beaten it was the one that they recorded for the Edge of Time game, but didn’t end up using (they just kept 13s for annoyingly understandable brand unity reasons):
Other soundtrack favorites that haven’t been mentioned above:
Love Don’t Roam
Aristotle We Have Been Hit
There’s A Man I Know (8’s Big Finish theme, I particularly love the slightly bouncier and more triumphant variant that plays at the end of Doom Coalition)
Legend of the Cybermen (the theme song’s already been mentioned, but I want to call out the rest of the music suite as well for being particularly excellent)