23- Black Market

[Washuluver87]

Screw you all this song makes me want to kill a bunch of meatbags Cylons rule and the human infestation will be eliminated.

[Toffelielain]

love the bass

[vertoalias]

the game made this song more than the tv series did, as much as i loved this song when playing the game when i watched the tv series i was disapointed that this song was only playing in the background and you could hardly hear it

[DARKLINKIN522]

VERY-COOL



[TheDinoMatt]

Middle Eastern instruments + Rock = Epic. 

(pretty much middle eastern. probably a stereotype)

[Alexon88]

Music is and will always be 50% of the fun

[TheQuilanvos]

This sounds so much like something it would be in Prince of Persia... I LOVE IT!

[dizrupted]

This is such a good track =) Now I get a feeling in my fingers to jump into my Banshee and toast some colonials =D

We are the colonial birthcontroll - hunting season is opened

xD

[Willsr14]

@dizrupted Bring it on Toaster >:D

[GreenyFool]

Funny, makes me wanna jump into my Maul and toast some toasters. :P

[Desolator84]

I'm very interested in this sort of music but i can't find more because i don't know how to define it. Instrumental Middle Eastern metal? Something you'd hear on C&C Generals as GLA music. I need this like bread.

[Willsr14]

@Desolator84 Try all along the watchtower, that may be to your tastes :)

[AGTLI]

@Desolator84 Most people just call it Epic. type in Epic Music and do a bit of hunting and you should get quite a few songs with eastern themes. Lots of Latin as well.

[localfive0]

This makes me want to hunt down some toasters on BSG Online.

[joshualuntsford]

@localfive0 good online game

[Willsr14]

Yes!! they use this in battlestar Galactica online!! i love this while screwing up some raiders :P

[MrJibi06]

@Willsr14 And that's f***ing good to hear that when you have a toaster in your target !!

[Willsr14]

@MrJibi06 Hell yeah :D i love the part at 2:52 onwards when that tune comes on, it just makes you wanna screw some cylons up :P

[tomcohen]

Im here becuase TLO!!!!!!!!

[missdexterity]

bear mccreary is a frakking bamf. i mean who else could compose a song so great that it makes up for such a crappy episode?

[ViperLord21]

I didn't dislike Black Market as much the second time I watched it. The plot with Lee and his Caprica girlfriend was contrived and unnecessary, but the episode does have it's interesting elements. The scenes with Baltar and Roslin and Zarek were quite good.

[ymatheys]

wow, somewhere around the middle this thing started to sound like just some guitar slashes, i almost lost my ears because i left it on full volume, which means i love this soundtrack! :P

[sirtimofthestrat]

Lee was only a useful character as an antagonist (to his father, Roslin, Starbuck ect.). Standing him on his own was an attempt to humanize him. If this episode had been earlier in season 2, with more expansion upon Lee's girlfriend from Caprica it would've been great. But because its a one off and Lee doesn't change at all from the experience we go on hating him... Not the best episode, but I don't think there is a bad one personally

[vinniewarlock]

Four Tugs from Prometheus didn't like this song.

[Mattingly97]

You wont shoot me-

*shot in the chest by Lee*

perfect scene....serious with a bit of comedy

[Beagle2063]

Lee was too perfect...Captain Apolo...like a comic book character, so they had to make him more human.

And what's more human than hookers?

[MrZingnigga]

Taking a Break from All Your Worries is one of the best episodes of the series. Day in the Life and Hero are probably about the same as Black Market (I'd put all 3 in my bottom 5).

[tehoken]

@MrZingnigga thumbs up ;) Taking a Break was one of my all time fave episodes of BSG, I didn't realise till much later it was Directed by Edward James Olmos :O that man is actually the BEST thing that could possibly have happened to the show :P most of my favourite aspects of the show can be traced back to him. (this episode, the phrase 'So Say We All' and the total lack of Aliens to name a few)

[martinf74]

I really enjoyed Black Market! 

[mdeschayn]

While this episode isn't good, there are plenty of episodes from Seasons 3 and 4 that are much, much worse. Episodes including: Hero, Taking a Break from All Your Worries, A Day in the Life, Deadlock...

[IcyScythe]

definitely the crappiest episode of BSG.

[MrZingnigga]

my problem with the episode is not lee's relationship, but that the black market was not demonstratably bad. the sale of children is somewhat manipulative on the part of the writers.

[BloodiestMargie]

@MrZingnigga Ron D. Moore agrees with you, according to his podcast commentary.

[islanumblar]

I didn't find this ep as bad as most say it is, but Lee's relationship out of nowhere seemed a little stupid so late into the show

[DEFkon001]

There's parts of this that ironically remind me of a piece for an old PC game. "Unreal Tournament 2004" The track was called "Arctic stronghold Theme" or "SND ONS07". It's a little more "electronic" sounding the but the electric guitar in both songs have a similar feel to it. 

[Talon3000]

@DEFkon001 i'm more reminded of Jimmy Pages "Come With me"

[DEFkon001]

@Talon3000 Yeah I can hear that too. Mostly in the rhythm of the building guitar. The part that catches my ear the most though is the exotic phrygian, or dominate scales that the melody is built on giving this, (and most of the BSG soundtrack) that middle eastern vibe. - A good example of what I mean is "Egyptian Danza" by Al Di Meola. Most of Al's work has electric eastern vibe as well.

[Joyride37]

As much as I'd like to pretend this episode never happened. This song is pretty damn badass. Even at BSG's supposed worst, it's still the best in my books. ;)

[MrZingnigga]

this might be the worst episode of the series, but that just tells you how good bsg is

[acleverboy]

best....

[Kaptaintripps72]

"You won't shoot. You're not like me..." Think again sucker, this is Lee Adama you're talking to... he told Lee to his face earlier he knew who he was, and who's son he was... I guess he underestimated them both and learned the hardest lesson of all...

[Fedaykin4321]

This song is amazing, and so is this episode. Normally I don't like it when series divert from the main plot to tell random humanity lessons like this one, but I loved it this time. Nobody wins, good or evil. Kinda like the real world.

[StinkyGreenBud]

Wow thats a sick fucking tune. Never watched the show but it seems it has some kickass music.

[Neakal]

The music is excellent yeah. Should take a look just for that alone. That said, Black Market was actually one of the few sub-par episodes, despite the awesome tune.

[cenariusbg]

What a comment :D

[hmvb15]

I love how even though this is one of the worst episodes of the series, Bear still brings it and makes some amazing music!

[scarrenboy]

at 4.27 this sounds like Rage Against The Machine... Adama raged against quite a few!

[Gormanmod]

win

[Einsatz24]

Didn't like this theme and the episode at first. But after re-watching the episode and listening to that song a few times over I really started to like it.

[BaronVonSneak]

The music's pretty good, but the guitar part isn't really to my taste and doesn't really fit with the show.

Then again, the episode it was in was pretty bad too. I prefer to regard it as not canon. :P

Actually, all the episodes between Epiphanies and Downloaded (Black Market, Scar, Sacrifice, Captain's Hand) were pretty mediocre. And Sacrifice especially pissed me off, because Billy deserved a better episode to die in.

[coloraturax]

Billy!! :(

[nacsit]

i knew i heard these volins somewhere. its from Offspring All kids arent alright. Bear is amazing. he changed my vision of the world, Masterpiece

[mrd16140]

bad. ass.

[Chessykatzenz]

It kinda sounds like the music playing at the end of "The Matrix" in a few parts.

[luckyday465768]

its not actually, but what is the name of the matrix one you were talking about?

[VictimofChanges73]

It sounds like "Wake Up" by Rage Against The Machine. That's what they play at the end of the Matrix.

[luckyday465768]

It actually does sound like it I think it is based of of it, the BSG way.

[anubisfike]

At 2.30 the guitar starts sounding alot like something out of Ultimate Doom or Doom 2.

I just noticed now.

Possibly similar to Doom 3 also, the music playing at the main menu.

[ProphetoftheMachines]

Funny thing is, this song is played for only about 40 seconds through the whole episode. "Standing in the Mud" is even played more than this.

[fooby50000]

awsome song. this is the song i had playing through my xbox , while i was doing the last level of halo3 on legendary for the first time.... made it so epic

[samsterii]

For good similar music try Hanns Zimmer and sound tracks of his like "Blackhawk Down".... "Thin Red Line" ...or "The Last Samari" Then when you are ready to crank.... Metallica S& M, or really good recent stuff from Nightwish. Their new vocalist is very good. IMHO of course.

[samsterii]

This track is different, and I like it. The whole series up to the end of 4.0 is at BlockBuster video. Most is in the one dollar area but for 4. The black man is in many movies btw. Forgot his name but he's a supporting great actor good guy or not.

[mml6333]

Bill Duke is the actor's name

[Neakal]

On a different note, anyone knows any other artists that do this sort of music?

[elitisty]

Neakal:

Tyler Bates had something along the same lines going on the 300-soundtrack, and Brian Tyler had some nice arabian / oriental sounds on his Children of Dune soundtrack.

[Neakal]

Thank you. I'll look into those. I remember some of the tunes from 300 that did resemble this one.

[doomroe3]

nope. six discs in one set.

[doomroe3]

best song in the season two soundtrack with the least views? lol.

[sg15z]

Wow the song is way better than the episode. Though it sounds familiar....hm

Oh Black Market. The one episode that I prefer to pretend it never happened. lol

[doomroe3]

hey look at the bright side of that episode, it set into motion lee becoming the commander of pegasus which lead to that awesome scene where it was destroyed, as well as seeing that annoying fuck from predator die again lol.

[A7XRules4life]

I haven't seen that episode. I missed the second half of season two and all of season three.

[doomroe3]

i suggest going out and buying all the seasons, the show is amazing, their will never be a show like it ever again, sadly it's over though.

[A7XRules4life]

I know, I just have to find them and hope I have the money. Is season 3 split up like Season 2?

[MozilliusV]

rofl, the black guy from predator, that is so funny that you recognized him too!! hahahaha

[doombringer117]

I liked that episode x.x

Wasn't as good as the other episodes, but I still thought it was good

[HisDivineShadow245]

You and me both. I feel like this episode was unfairly pegged as a bad episode by everyone when it really wasn't as terrible when a body watches is with an open mind.

Was it one of the best? Not really. But I think suggesting that it is as terrible as some people make it sound is unfair.

[mml6333]

I agree with you, mostly. I thought it was a great episode because you saw Lee in a completely different light, he's buying hookers and committing murder... Nobody's perfect.

[HisDivineShadow245]

I think that last sentence is pretty much the theme of the entire series. :D

[napoleonicstrike]

Wow, this song is way better than the episode it was in.

[chilliroach]

the guitar part sounds like "wake up" from rage against the machines:)

[Splertiki]

I love how they mix up the songs in BSG. It's absolutely great to never be treated to the same old song over and over again. In a world as small as ours we have so many different styles, I'm assuming in a world with so many planets there would be a great number of different styles.

[BlackValkyire]

I noticed that too, how he never really gives you the same thing over and over all the time. Granted there's a few repeats, like in the first 2 seaons when Gaias kept seeing 6, and also a common theme of the tribal drums...but still, alot of creative work!

[Timeandskittles]

I really like 2:30

[krisfaun]

oh blackmartket. one of those fillers i fall asleep watching

[mikz130]

is it me or is this the weirdest bsg song??

[Neakal]

It is different than the rest. And I think it really gives a sense of the whole "Dark side of the fleet" thing. Plus I really enjoy this sort of instrumental combination (sitars and electro-guitars). I wish the episode had done the song justice though.

[sniper11789]

ya i do to

[scarrenboy]

I think Pegasus is the weirdest in comparison to the rest of the McCreary stuff

[H3dgie]

It may not sound like the rest of his music, but it works very well with the scene.

[A7XRules4life]

Yeah, me too.