Bear McCreary - All Along The Watchtower (Long Mix)

When I watched the fourth season of BSG I had to create this version of Bear McCreary's "All Along The Watchtower". I used these four songs from the soundtracks to season three and four of the show:
A Distant Sadness (S3)
All Along The Watchtower (S3)
Kara Remembers (S4)
Kara's Coordinates (S4)
Here's a link to Bear's homepage:
www.bearmccreary.com/
and here's his KZbin channel (frakking subscribe to him!):
/ bearmccreary
(Check out the other soundtracks he wrote, it's great stuff!)

[@CortexNewsService]

13 years later, this still gives me chills.

[@VivienWitch]

same

[@tacticalderpy2077]

All this has been played before, and it will be played again.

[@JamesWilliams-eg1gm]

Rejoice! Death is not the end. I sure hope she's wrong. -true detective season 1

[@warthunder9155]

So say we all.

[@royalhunter3937]

@@warthunder9155 so say we all

[@joex8279]

@@warthunder9155 So say we all

[@sopcannon]

Skynet is born

[@Eldrad_Must_Live]

IT'S IN MY FRAKKEN PLAYLIST!!!

[@NicktheMac]

Well good! We don't want them to know our coordinates.

[@VoxClementia92]

The final moments of the 3rd Season of BSG are, in my opinion, the best moments ever broadcast. This music is some of the most epic frakking stuff the human ear has ever heard. Kudos, man.

[@elizawilson5981]

Agreed! The build up was epic!

[@GideonFerrante]

Up to the season finale, and most of season 4, but the final season was a letdown, especially the long winded anti-climactic finale with the idiotically pointless and out of place flashbacks. I expected so much more from the Final 5 twist and Starbucks reincarnation. Like, how about some flashbacks to Cylon Earth, instead (other than Chief buying fruit at a lame outdoor market)? Or seeing who Daniel was, or showing what happened to Starbuck after exploding, or using Tory as the constantly dangerous wild card instead of a boring affair with Baltar...oh and killing Callie). Maybe even seeing the Black Centurions on Cylon Earth in action? Ronald D Moore had turned into little more than a soap opera by that point...

[@danriceman7533]

Compare your stated expectations with current tv episode availability. Your expectations seem weak but not invalid. Get the LGBTQ elemental requirement out and just let folks create. I guaranty you'll get better results than the garbage currently being pushed.

[@MilkByCow]

Agreeing with this so hard in 2024

[@tribbleq]

100% agree, it still blows me away to think about and hear it.

[@TheG5Man]

I'll never forget this series and the first time this song began to emerge in it. Just pure brilliance all around. Absolutely love this arrangement.

[@elizawilson5981]

Me too. Even now at the end of 2022 it stays with me. I have long been a Bob Dylan fan but the musical buildup for these Battlestar Galactica scenes were tense and just bloody brilliant!

[@jackgriffin4530]

I love this version of "All along the watchtower" I love it so much I had the bass turned up too loud and blew out my subwoofer!

[@joaoafonso9443]

years on and this is still the best frakking version out there. So say we all!

[@MAGApepe]

so say we all

[@HatersGonnaHate1000]

"FTL is offline" "...Launch vipers" "How many?" "All of them! Every plane we've got, I want it up there! Now!"

[@seanmcgowan4083]

XO: The outage was fleet wide admiral It will take the fleet ships at least to be able to spool up their jump drives ....Admiral....we just dont have 20 minutes

[@mattmorgan-moriarty4445]

IT'S IN THE FRAKKIN' SHIP!

[@addemufc]

One of the best frakkin TV-shows ever. So say we all - Admiral William Adama

[@MichaelBristow137]

I had to stop because between crying, I almost squeezed my phone apart. This is maybe My favorite song of all time. Especially based off tears. This song always ma makes me cry. Even now, I'm texting this through tears. I don't know why it effects me so, but it does....

[@balbord]

I know what you mean.

[@thetwitchywarlock]

It does a very good job of evoking emotions, made for the most intense parts of the show. When i listen it i can imagine what people would feel if the show was a real scenario; Confusion, desperation, fear, anger, chaos, loss, and survivors guilt. hopeless, yet still drivin by the indomitable human (and cylon) will to survive despite overwhelming odds.

[@Jolron14]

ITS IN THE FRAKKIN´ SHIP!!!

[@zaheerakhtar559]

This'll become a timeless classic and shall inspire deeper resonance with different generations.

[@HiroNguy]

...And I see that it already has inspired newer generations.

[@midasredblade236]

so say we all

[@tinypurpleant]

ok listened to this far too many times now!!! its in my frakking head!!!!!

[@bluesk8erboi]

tinypurpleant Then you're a frakking skin job

[@nova9731]

+tinypurpleant Its not in your head! ITS IN THE FRAKIN SHIP!!

[@saadkhawar8039]

frak!!

[@razariel5693]

You can hear it too!??

[@huwjahsoul2833]

be strong, brother.

[@ToggBott]

There must be some kind of way outta here Said the joker to the thief There's too much confusion I can't get no relief Business men, they drink my wine Plowman dig my earth None were level on the mind Nobody up at his word Hey, hey No reason to get excited The thief he kindly spoke There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us stop talkin' falsely now The hour's getting late, hey All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While all the women came and went Barefoot servants, too Outside in the cold distance A wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching And the wind began to howl

[@mauds138]

mais je ne veux pas partir de cette terre

[@mauds138]

c'est chez moi ici

[@mauds138]

c'est chez nous

[@elizawilson5981]

I was sorry that series ended. Not enough science fiction out there.

[@Marcizz]

At least we have The Expanse though.

[@MIALanfear]

The last time I watched it I cried all the way through the finale :)

[@yamoshigodofsaiyans1569]

Ever notice bsg and stargate have similar story lines, oh ya also Babylon 5.

[@Effingbaddude]

@@yamoshigodofsaiyans1569 actually the first battlstar galactica was going to continue with time travel when they discovered earth was backward and lost it's history, but was rewritten as Quantum Leap

[@grantparker5670]

I appreciated that they did not try to milk it into irrelevance. They had a story to tell, they told it masterfully and laid it to rest.

[@bigmacdoubleyouv]

Amazing. Euphoric nostalgia wash over me.

[@mindcircus1985]

Gives me goosebumps.... Frak me!!! :-) I was buzzing when I 1st heard this, and it made me go back and watch BSG start 2 finish all over again lol. Epic... So Say We All!!!

[@johnst.baptiste3664]

Mind Circuz so say we all

[@lawnmowermanTX]

SO.... SAY......WE.....ALL!!!!!!!! ♥️

[@elizawilson5981]

I think I'm going to re watch it for a third time.

[@mroshutup3457]

thank god for the music he made ... his music made the show..

[@matthewwheeldon668]

Don't u mean thank the gods

[@matthewwheeldon668]

Lol

[@weeredfrog]

This is really really good. It always bugged me that there wasnt a long cut of cylon themes. They are woven so well into the show and really convey that feeling of claustrophobia and paranoia. I listen to this and im transported back to the cramped sweaty corridoors of galactica. Thanks

[@elizawilson5981]

Same.

[@shokteenik]

The saddest, most gut wrenching song of them all. Even after all these years.

[@leobowers2210]

Watched the ending last night. HOLY FRAK IT'S FRAKKING AMAZING

[@drbilldc]

🎶 There are toasters here among us, who feel that life is but a joke 🎶

[@CommandLineVulpine]

Love the bass and piano in this.

[@Vanilly06]

I must be a Cylon, the tune is stuck in my head ever since i heard this. Awesome man, just awesome, good job !

[@lawnmowermanTX]

Damn.... I know right!! We live in 2020 with artificial intelligence in our faces! Yeeeeah! Living the dream of Cylons dwelling among us on Earth!

[@vettefan87]

We are all Cylons. It started 150,000 years ago.

[@arik1912]

Same, every time I have a bad seizure and my brain is swelling I listen to the scene with Starbuck playing the piano over and over and it takes the swelling down.

[@jz4tigerblue]

I've watched the seire three time and it always have been satisfied every time I watch the serie and always a tear in the end of the serie with the taste of wanting to watch more.

[@frank-janvanelk3989]

Looks like we've got 18 toasters among us that disliked this frakkin masterpiece.

[@lanchester101]

Make that 21 toasters

[@frank-janvanelk3989]

25!? Looks like they've got a resurrection ship

[@sudoertor2009]

26 Frakin toasters more like

[@johnst.baptiste3664]

As a toaster, I'm all about this track, thank you.

[@skinniestfatman5641]

46 toasters now

[@padraigtakahashi7498]

This song is eternal. It gives me hope for a new future.

[@andrewsartscalemodels]

My all time favourite series. Miss it so much. 😪

[@josenavas9968]

Used my head phones...it was mesmerizing and overwhelming. 🕶

[@woodenscrotum7892]

The transition to Kara's Coordinates is absolutely orgasmic.

[@KitchenOps]

This is an amazing mashup... thank you so much for putting it together. Bear McCreary is one talented man.

[@susannamiller9834]

Somedays, all day long it goes thru my head. Bear is the Mozart of the 21st century

[@Wolf-wy8br]

I love how these lyrics are explained in the Lords of Kobol series novels.

[@lawnmowermanTX]

Which novels? Where can I read them? Perhaps we did come from Kobol and escaped one nightmare for another? Our secrets hidden?? Woah!

[@matthewbelcher1024]

Very nice! Kara Remembers is one of the best and my favorite song. The soul, rhyme, rhythm, the places it takes you to and emotion that comes from it is undeniable. Nice mix.

[@ArmyStinger150]

This has to be one of the best edits put together so far, that I've heard. Thanks for uploading this. BSG is the most awesome Sci-fi show ever...I've watched the whole series way too many times.

[@elizawilson5981]

Same here. By far the best sci-fi series ever. Far superior to the original Galactica.

[@davidhilt1040]

As I told a friend recently, take the sci fi out, and it still stands as one of the best war shows of all time.

[@Eliphas_Leary]

Enjoy it! That show is getting better and better with every season...

[@logicsfinest3471]

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

[@lawnmowermanTX]

“is” happening now!

[@adi-ndr]

and so i concluded that we ARE all descendants of the Final Five. i see everyone switched on by the song. :D and yeah, we've all probably gone in-frakkin-sane!

[@Legendaryburrito123]

It's in the frakking ship.

[@tangojoe9694]

This Needs To Be Cranked - LOUD!

[@Cliff_Dixon_42]

Tango Joe ABSO-FRAKKIN'-LUTELY!!

[@lor3nz42s2]

+Tango Joe I have surround sound with a subwoofer. Its epic.

[@MrFmlouder]

+Lorenz S -i listen to this in my car all the time everything vibrates preety bad i need to get a woofer really bad...

[@paulwildman7824]

Nope just wider wheels to hold the base!

[@groku5135]

CAN'T... STOP... LISTENING..... HAAAALP ! ! !!

[@TheThumper1972]

my favorite edit. I watched every episode as they aired. And have rewatched it about 10 times.

[@Cliff_Dixon_42]

Two words: *FRAKKIN' AWESOME!!!*

[@Evilweevil1986]

it's in the frakking ship!

[@magnu28948]

Awesome! I watched BSG in its entirety when I was post-op bedridden for 4 weeks in 2010. When the first clues started coming during S4 I was totally gobsmacked. How does anything get more exciting than this, I thought? I still play the various soundtracks. Good job on this my friend!

[@kashual]

Played this in my kitchen... Send help, my toaster has turned patriotic!

[@Majin288]

Amazing! Your mix is by far the best I have heard to date!

[@AranaktuTheAntisocial]

This song will never not give me goosebumps...

[@elizawilson5981]

Heard this on Battlestar Galactica and loved it to death. Enough said.

[@kittona8754]

Eliza Wilson , Jimi Hendrix is pretty cool, too, you know. :)

[@DarthHugsALot]

Kit Toner Bob Dylan

[@kittona8754]

I've never heard a bad version of Watchtower, DarthHugsALot. Although I have to agree with Eliza Wilson on this one; the dramatic build-up (over several episodes) to the BSG version makes it an absolutely spectacular experience. Eliza, Bear McCreary is a fantastic film/TV composer. He did the opening credits to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles too, which is a GREAT piece of music, along with Eureka, Caprica, Defiance....quite a few. Also does The Walking Dead. I'm a big fan.

[@MizzWGGrrrl]

Kit Toner I'm sooooo going to hunt up KZbin videos of Bear McCreary's music as per your references in comment above. 'Cause his cover of AAtW is wonderful. Signed: A. Lyon, aka Wicked Good Grrrl

[@kittona8754]

I'm glad I could put you onto his music, Andrea Lyon Talent like that deserves credit. :) I'd say his intro music for Sarah Connor Chronicles is my favourite. Let me know which you like best when you've listened.

[@TheAnimistOfficial]

its so majestically sinister yet welcoming. I LOVE it

[@danriceman7533]

And it will happen again. Love it and bring it.

[@erictrautsch7385]

Didn't realy got the meaning of this song when I saw the TV Show for the first and second time. But this year after I saw it the third time it just got stuck in my head XD after the piano scene it just burned in

[@alpha007org]

frakkin' awsome. Hail to Bear McCreary!!!

[@FlamethrowersAgainstSnowflakes]

So say we all!

[@JohnSmith-fw9ps]

So say we all

[@121luckyman]

Wait...Jimi Hendrix is a frackin' cylon?

[@jackupton6488]

Don't they confirm in the show (subtly hinting) that in a former life one of the cylons (I think sam) was actually Hendrix himself (or a precious version from the last earth)

[@johnst.baptiste3664]

Dylan is a cylon.

[@MCPrimetime]

Actually Bob Dylan

[@johnsondelvetto4387]

Bear mcreary

[@willmartin7293]

Who else but a Cylon could write such a song?

[@Tomtheflyboy]

Now this is an excellent tribute to Bear and BSG, awesome!

[@drow6602]

it's in the frakkin ship!

[@synthprax]

Damn. Still gives me chills.

[@hipp0cat11]

It's in my frakking mind!!! :s I can't stop playing it inside my mind. It's just stuck there... All day in school and at home ._.

[@paulanderson2963]

The contemplation of how old we all actually are uplifts and crushes me simultaneously. As collections of cells with a singular consciousness we identify our age as the period that began from the time we became physically separated from our mothers at birth. From a substantive point of view the compounds comprised of atoms and particles which we are made of were collected throughout our lives from our environment. These building blocks have existed from the time of the universe's creation. In reality we are all billions of years old. That's what this song in that scene with Kara means to me. The interconnected Universe where math, waves, particles and time make soulfilling music.

[@stevetheduck1425]

From a much earlier song: 'We are star-stuff, we are golden...'

[@branislavjevic8488]

BSG is a legend, Bear McCreary - maestro. Bravo Mr Leary!

[@danriceman7533]

the best mix I've found to date. I really enjoyed this man..... many thanks to you and Bear.

[@Celedam]

Excellent work. And with a long mix like this, you really feel the importance of that particular leitmotif.

[@connorshelton1489]

Oh my gods I love this song

[@stellarray6546]

Nice done man! Thanks :) I am really obsessed with the McCreary's version, gives me such a thrill!

[@susanmoran5226]

Some one got me a model of Galactica . Starbucks fighter plane and a cylon fighter for Christmas. I am writing this with a big smile on my face.

[@Eliphas_Leary]

That "some one" deserves a big kiss. Merry Christmas!

[@CwazyIndian]

Sweeeeet, I've been looking for this version since i finished watching season 3. Thanks!

[@harrywompa]

they fit very well together

[@dismafuggerhere2753]

Kara Remembers into Heeding The Call into AATWT

[@Eliphas_Leary]

That is the way!

[@viowave]

It's in the frakking ELEVATOR!!!!.... Do they play this kind of music now?

[@don20190]

This is frakking wonderful. I have been listening to this vid for years now. I wish I had it on CD. Please dont ever remove this .

[@Beta_Mixes]

A fleet of enemy basestars detected, more than 1200+ enemy fighters, friendlies count to 120 at best, battlestar damaged beyond repair, friendly civilian ships have their FTL drives still spooling , you are the acting CAG, the commander gives you wich command? "CAG!!TAKE THEM OUT!!"

[@Serenaar]

Ooh I had chills. Thank you! Favourited! :)

[@wibblelord2633]

What do you hear Starbuck? Nothing but the most incredible mix ever

[@MarleneBlackwinter]

It's awesome!! I love this piece of music you worked-up!!

[@johnst.baptiste3664]

Every time that I see this on my playlist, I have to listen. IT'S IN THE FRAKKING PROGRAM! Thanks for this, Eliphas.

[@johnst.baptiste3664]

I put this on one of the playlists on my channel. Hopefully it sends some people your way.

[@rethbell]

ah.. tnx a bunch pal for uploading and work commited, awesome show(didnt think that before start watching, then got proper hooked) this tune made my day, cant describe in word how cool this tune and ur upload is. many many many tnx

[@filosfile]

PAra los que admiramos la serie de Battlestar Galactica, es agradable y emocionante escuchar esta musica... Gracias por subirla!!

[@KR-wf5km]

Just awesome!

[@GillianCranston]

Fantastic!! Thanks for loading. I have been looking for this music for a long time.

[@VampireGranny]

This is an excellent edit. Well done, sir!

[@kidcopernicus]

Tight edit. Thanks for doing this - I've had this song stuck in my Cylon brain pan for so long. You're the best kind of KZbin citizen as well - givin props to Bear. Rock on.

[@carlamccoy]

Absolutely gorgeous! ^____^ I miss that awesome series.... time for a re-run :D

[@bobsigny]

Love this song!

[@glory777]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[@theeutecticpoint]

This is a fantastic mix! Thank you very much for mixing this and posting it. It's too bad Sci-Fi didn't include this as part of the soundtrack they sold. It's all there of course but you have to go skipping around all the different songs in order to get the full effect, and it's just not the same. But this? This is perfect, just close your eyes and immerse yourself.

[@CommandLineVulpine]

All I can imagine relistening to this is how frakking tanky the Galatica is - getting absolutely hammered point blank by a space station for like the entire runtime of this song.

[@louisdetulleo1347]

Awesome mix thanks for sharing!

[@PeterMKent]

This is the best.

[@stuartkseels]

Fantastic!

[@catherinebrimblecombe-clar2096]

This is so addictive!

[@andrewsartscalemodels]

Bear McCreays best work by far. Anything he did after this was but a poor shadow in comparison

[@RSwizard101vids]

IT'S IN THE SHIP, IT'S IN THE FRAKKING SHIP

[@spmoran4703]

The music is a cross between Hendrix All along the watchtower , and Pink Floyd Set the controls to the heart of the Sun.

[@pigineering]

This is awesome! Best thing I've heard all day

[@Arceoxys]

Holy crrrrrrrap, well put together. Good job.

[@emile1365]

Awesome. Simply awesome.

[@TrueRomanceIRL]

Love this man. Great Job!

[@dwatt1964]

Great Job! Loved the way you mixes this.