i love this theme than the other first doctors cuz this one just feels right. like, you can tell that the sound is like rly old and loose n it feels like its broken. just the right amount :P
An absolute masterpiece. People in 1963 won't have heard music anything remotely like this. It must have blown them away. One of the first (and finest) pieces of electronic music for sure
@AsarathWitch I am not a fan (yet) but I hear that it's also the same Dr. as well. Something about him being able to change his face... That's what I remember a fan telling me anyway.
The Original music was realised by Delia Derbyshire in 1963, her creativity made the greatest sounds in living history, there nothing to beat the spookiness of the Doctor Who theme tune, and of course no one can remake it, murray gold's attempts are not as good as what Derbyshire had conducted.
So, by that standard, since The Beatles just starting to roll, that *their* music of the same time is now "rather old so it won't... sound great anyway"?
Would you like if we just trashed *everything* 'too old to be worth it'? The (real) first "Star Wars" movie? All the "Star Trek-TOS" episodes? Everything?
It would a bloody boring place here, even worse than it is already...
The pilot episode sound is quite hissy and mushy;for the DVD the sound for the Dr.Who was left as it was because if you cleaned it up the treble sound would go even more mushy!
Oh gee---then what *specfic* date would you like *all* items recorded prior to that be destroyed complely, forever? One just *cannot* tolerate the 'mushy' recording of President Kennedy's assassination, the first landing of a human to walk on another planet, maybe up to and including all the 'amateurish' filming of 9/11 perhaps? Would that meet your scale of perfection?
The theme tune was created using a two part combination of plucked bass string and hand timed valve oscillator swoop;these were recorded separately then edited together and combined as one reel of tape,the low frequency oowoooo sounds and low frequency notes were done with a wobbulator(played in on a separate tape)and the melody was a combination of different frequency test-tones(played in on another tape)and the hissing sounds were pieces of white noise recorded filtered and cut together.
Yep---the*Special* Sound-Effect created for the sound the TARDIS makes when she's materializing or de-materializing (or stuck in between 'cause HimSelf pushed the wrong control... ), which I believe is the same one today as in "An Unearthy Child", *45* years ago---was make by running a house-key along a piano-wire and then fiddling with the speed and pitch!!!! SFX!!! GOSH-WOW!SENSE-OF-WONDER!!!
Thanx *muchly* for the support---and even more for the self-censorship. I want to keep the area as open to General Use (ie., someone underage could be looking about) as possible without requiring dictator-censoring by myself.
Auntie Beeb's showing something with the same name now. But one was about a genocidal maniac, & the other, though he has found an old police-box---it's *obvious* it isn't *any* TARDIS---it doesn't *move*...time/space, nowhere/nowhen! When the 3rd Doctor'd all his knowledge of time travel& temporal-theory wiped, *and* the De-Materialization Circuit removed from the TARDIS, he went all over. So this 'Second Doctor' is a fake (& doesn't look like the 2nd Doctor either).
I agree---the original BBC Radiophonics Workshop theme (as used for the first 4 Doctors), was also, musical history-wise, the very first piece of totally electronic music. And even though the Beeb is still using the tune itself---nothing has *ever* bested the original. Or lasted as long, whether in number of years or number of Doctors!
It was recorded directly off air '63, (the day-later recast of "Unearthly Child", since the US was upstaging its original broadcast with an assassination in Dallas), on a reel-to-reel video-taper (no VCRs or DVDs in '63) I think it's a little weird to want to 'improve' an *actually* as-broadcast copy? Um, you might end up with something like... the merde the Beeb is broadcasting *now* and calling it "Doctor Who". An unused blue police-box does not imply a decent story-line...
I LOVE that they kept the same tune :)
xXHoopsx 4 weeks ago
I've been off on a Tangent for a couple of years---I am *so* pleased to see that these are still all here---And *enjoyed*!!
Almost able to overlook the occasional Mundane arriving without their frontal-lobe in gear.
Do it with Style---or don't bother doing it!
------Maetel, hime no Lametelle
Maetel 4 months ago
AM I HIGH?!?!?!?!?
gunsrocks0978 5 months ago
i love this theme than the other first doctors cuz this one just feels right. like, you can tell that the sound is like rly old and loose n it feels like its broken. just the right amount :P
GrimnEvil4Ever 7 months ago
All they have done to this music is just changing the sounds
harleyrocks3 9 months ago
@harleyrocks3
So then, in addition to having the music being restricted to a one-note melody, would you change the lyrics
Maetel 4 months ago
This 'out-of-tune' version is so much better than the remastered version, in my opinion.
ParaSpikyHyperGoomba 1 year ago 2
An absolute masterpiece. People in 1963 won't have heard music anything remotely like this. It must have blown them away. One of the first (and finest) pieces of electronic music for sure
bigturd3 1 year ago 3
Ah. Delia Derbyshire in full effect . . . ;-)
Pureteenlard 1 year ago
epic.
none less,none more.
Carthsting 2 years ago 2
Actually nobody was 'shit scared' of this music, they were just amazed. I was nine when it first came out and I love it soooo much.
Drwhosmate1 2 years ago
oh come now, come now
yes, my child
chesterfield, err chesterton
(sees a dalek) THE DALEKS!!!!
mueltrickson 2 years ago
FREAKING LOVE THIS.
♥
lemons349 2 years ago
I'm a big fan of the Tenth Doctor, but wow, this is just brilliant!
jhorst24 2 years ago
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kearjojo 2 years ago
i bet old people back then were shit scared when they first heard that elecronic music back in 1963
filtermadg 3 years ago 4
This=win
5/5
quarxyz1 3 years ago
it's interesting that thye kept the same theme through all the years.
AsarathWitch 3 years ago 7
Can't improve on perfection!
Maetel 3 years ago 18
@AsarathWitch because its so epic
bloodhorns1 8 months ago
@AsarathWitch This version's the best one though, eh?
diskochimp 6 months ago
@AsarathWitch I am not a fan (yet) but I hear that it's also the same Dr. as well. Something about him being able to change his face... That's what I remember a fan telling me anyway.
malandr0bem 5 months ago
The Original music was realised by Delia Derbyshire in 1963, her creativity made the greatest sounds in living history, there nothing to beat the spookiness of the Doctor Who theme tune, and of course no one can remake it, murray gold's attempts are not as good as what Derbyshire had conducted.
doctoroftardis1963 4 years ago 3
Yeah---she was incredible... didn't she eventually go off and join the Sisterhood of the Flame? ::looks innocent::
Maetel 3 years ago
Was that the lady who made that album White Noise: An Electric Storm? Very interesting album.
FaerieCrone 3 years ago
I have *no* idea!? I don't think I've heard of it before---sorry...
Maetel 3 years ago
The 1st doctor. Amazing
hilarioph 4 years ago 3
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It is rather old so it won't look and sound great anyway
AnthonyUK 4 years ago
So, by that standard, since The Beatles just starting to roll, that *their* music of the same time is now "rather old so it won't... sound great anyway"?
Would you like if we just trashed *everything* 'too old to be worth it'? The (real) first "Star Wars" movie? All the "Star Trek-TOS" episodes? Everything?
It would a bloody boring place here, even worse than it is already...
Maetel 4 years ago
The pilot episode sound is quite hissy and mushy;for the DVD the sound for the Dr.Who was left as it was because if you cleaned it up the treble sound would go even more mushy!
AnthonyUK 4 years ago
Oh gee---then what *specfic* date would you like *all* items recorded prior to that be destroyed complely, forever? One just *cannot* tolerate the 'mushy' recording of President Kennedy's assassination, the first landing of a human to walk on another planet, maybe up to and including all the 'amateurish' filming of 9/11 perhaps? Would that meet your scale of perfection?
Maetel 3 years ago
The theme tune was created using a two part combination of plucked bass string and hand timed valve oscillator swoop;these were recorded separately then edited together and combined as one reel of tape,the low frequency oowoooo sounds and low frequency notes were done with a wobbulator(played in on a separate tape)and the melody was a combination of different frequency test-tones(played in on another tape)and the hissing sounds were pieces of white noise recorded filtered and cut together.
AnthonyUK 4 years ago 11
Yep---the*Special* Sound-Effect created for the sound the TARDIS makes when she's materializing or de-materializing (or stuck in between 'cause HimSelf pushed the wrong control... ), which I believe is the same one today as in "An Unearthy Child", *45* years ago---was make by running a house-key along a piano-wire and then fiddling with the speed and pitch!!!! SFX!!! GOSH-WOW!SENSE-OF-WONDER!!!
Maetel 3 years ago
@AnthonyUK
Damn creative for the time, thanks for the detail.
joesphx19 7 months ago
@AnthonyUK if you reverse it the white noise sounds like drops of water. seriously, try it.
animationdude56 6 months ago
Always good to see that there are still people favoring the classic theme. :)
(Also the music style is actually called "musique concréte")
bobterwilliger 4 years ago 5
LOL maetel!
F*** you smithy!
gabrielnyc 4 years ago 3
Thanx *muchly* for the support---and even more for the self-censorship. I want to keep the area as open to General Use (ie., someone underage could be looking about) as possible without requiring dictator-censoring by myself.
Maetel 4 years ago
hurrah for doctor who
sssm123 4 years ago 2
Auntie Beeb's showing something with the same name now. But one was about a genocidal maniac, & the other, though he has found an old police-box---it's *obvious* it isn't *any* TARDIS---it doesn't *move*...time/space, nowhere/nowhen! When the 3rd Doctor'd all his knowledge of time travel& temporal-theory wiped, *and* the De-Materialization Circuit removed from the TARDIS, he went all over. So this 'Second Doctor' is a fake (& doesn't look like the 2nd Doctor either).
Maetel 4 years ago
the best doctor who theme yet
sssm123 4 years ago 2
I agree---the original BBC Radiophonics Workshop theme (as used for the first 4 Doctors), was also, musical history-wise, the very first piece of totally electronic music. And even though the Beeb is still using the tune itself---nothing has *ever* bested the original. Or lasted as long, whether in number of years or number of Doctors!
Maetel 4 years ago
you can get a better one of the dvds as they have been remastered
smithythe2nd 4 years ago
Not really. I own Doctor Who - The Beginning Collection (1963)
ravendon 4 years ago
Thanks, ravendon. The original is difficult to 'improve'...
Maetel 4 years ago
me 2 =)
cybertaylor5 4 years ago 2
It was recorded directly off air '63, (the day-later recast of "Unearthly Child", since the US was upstaging its original broadcast with an assassination in Dallas), on a reel-to-reel video-taper (no VCRs or DVDs in '63) I think it's a little weird to want to 'improve' an *actually* as-broadcast copy? Um, you might end up with something like... the merde the Beeb is broadcasting *now* and calling it "Doctor Who". An unused blue police-box does not imply a decent story-line...
Maetel 4 years ago