#Chameleon Circuit

[bodhrancomedy]

Spotify keeps ambushing me with Chameleon Circuit and it’s like being hit with a tree trunk each time.

[valeron99]

Just one more thing before you fall, You'll be getting your reward. Back in time for those you know Martha, Donna, Jack and... Rose.

[etherealspacejelly]

I USED TO BE OLD❗️❗️❗️

BUT NOW I FEEL YOUNG❗️❗️❗️

CUZ I WAS A BOY WHEN I LEARNED HOW TO RUN❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️🔥💯💯💪💪🔥💯

[stargazerlily7210]

Do new Whovians know about Chameleon Circuit?

Not the chameleon circuit, the ever broken TARDIS mechanism.

Chameleon Circuit, the fan band from, like, 2009-2011?

Because their music honestly still holds up. I'd forgotten about them until the 2023 specials threw me right back into my DW hyperfixation head first. But damnit if they're not at least as good as I remembered. Some of the songs are even better than I remembered!

Now, unfortunately, they only made the two albums in 2009 and 2011. Therefore, most of their songs refer specifically to events and characters from series 4 and 5, the ones that don't are more about the general lore.

So I wouldn't recommend checking them out unless you've seen series 4 and 5.

But they're on YouTube and Spotify, if you're interested in some utter bops.

May I recommend:

Gallifreyan History 101, The Sound of Drums, Mr. Pond, K9's Lament, and The Doctor is Dying/Still Got Legs (yes they're two different songs but I like listening to them together)

To start you out

You're welcome.

[starburstcosmos]

i need another chameleon circuit song to explain that episode to me like big bang two

[causalityparadoxes]

I'm blasting Chamelon Circuit music while i blog about the Giggle, and honestly occasionally hearing lyrics like:

"Though in terms of canon i do not quite understand. What was Russell thinking what the hell was going on"

And

"I Just hope it doesn't get messed up by Russell T Davies!"

From a Doctor Who Fan album made in 2009

Reminds me that we've always been doing this shit. Fans have been been getting at mad rtd since 2005. It was only with nostalgia and hindsight that people propped him up as infallible. So honestly i just can't be that mad lmaO

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

L + Ratio + the time lords returning + the earth will be burning + the last white-point star is a trap for the master + the doctor is dying + the doctor is dying + the doctor is dying + the doctor is dying

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Am I the only one who likes to shove the Shalkaverse Doctor in between John Hurt and Christopher Eccleston? Like, The Day of the Doctor didn't actually show Nine's first seconds, just the War Doctor beginning to regenerate. So couldn't the Shalka Doctor have come after the War Doctor? And he rebuilds the Master as an android, not realizing that he is actually under a Chameleon Circuit at the end of the universe. In Time of the Doctor, Eleven even mentioned having an android boyfriend at one point.

It's not a perfect theory, but it makes me happy.

[captainjackscoat]

OKAY WILD THEORY BUT

WE KEEP MENTIONING SUSAN FOREMAN SO SHE MUST BE IN THERE SOMEWHERE

RUBY DOESN'T KNOW HER REAL PARENTS, AND THERE IS NO DNA FOR THEM ANYWHERE

CHAMELEON CIRCUIT: "This dimensionally transcendental circuit controls the exterior shell's Cloaking Device and Camouflage Unit. The Camouflage Unit allows the shape, colour, mass and texture of the Shell to be altered to blend in with its surroundings. This feature is designed to help prevent changes to history."

THE DOCTOR HASN'T HAD SUSAN'S PARENTS YET

WHAT IF RUBY IS SUSAN, THE VHS IS THE CHAMELEON CIRCUIT (OR SMTH IS THE CHAMELEON CIRCUIT), AND RUBY'S MOTHER IS FROM THE FUTURE?????

[kimberellaroo]

It would be kind of cool if the TARDIS chameleon circuit started playing up and for a while it kept changing shape at random.

Like just for a whole season, on top of the usual adventures and shenanigans, there'd be this added element of "ok kids, what is it going to look like today?" And the fun of trying to find the TARDIS again when it's changed shape. One day it's the Taj Mahal on a 15th century Scottish moor. Next day it's a stereotypical rickety timber outhouse with the obligatory moon shape cut in the door on an alien space station. Next day it's a fridge.

Until the doctor gets sick of it, finally manages to get it to revert back to police box and jams the circuit again.

[vammieposts]

DOCTOR WHO MUSIC RABBIT HOLE WOAH

i love finding doctor who in random places, just now I was struggling to find the lyrics of a Belgrado song bc I was hoping to be able to translate it but I ended up on their bandcamp which led me to this persons profile which led me to this other album with this as the cover!?!? hi cybermen i wasnt expecting to see you guys here. but this ended up leading me down a several hour long rabbit hole of doctor who music as a genre

Ok so as I write this post i'm discovering more and more really good doctor who inspired music that I personally enjoy/think others will enjoy

Chameleon Circuit - probably the most well known doctor who fan band, very fun, rock, 2008-2014, according to wikipedia they invented the term "Time Lord Rock", or "Trock", which is used to describe music created for and by doctor who fans about doctor who

Hero of a Hundred Fights - The Remote, The Cold (2001) - Faction Paradox stuff, sort of math-rock, they're really good! lots of BIG SOUND as my brain describes it, and cool lyrics+art, from Wisconsin according to wikipedia, my fellow eda fans, this is for YOU (tbh this and solid space are my favorites so far, chameleon circuit is good but doesn't appeal to me much personally)

Solid Space - Space Museum - as I described above, this stuff has a fun sort of electronic atmospheric feel, makes you feel like you're in a big empty fancy building at night, the kind of music you can wiggle slowly to and feel like a little robot person, has songs called the Tenth Planet and Earthshock, if you like cybermen you'll like this lol

DOCTOR IN DISTRESS - of course, I couldn't possibly leave this out could I? Very Important Song

Viva Computer - This Town will Never Let Us Go - calm, fun electronicy, as you can probably guess based on the songs namesake, faction paradox!

Starvefish - This Town Will Never Let Us Go - Also faction paradox!

The Go Go's - I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek - a beautiful product of dalek mania, my favorite christmas song, and the most confusing description of a dalek I've ever heard which includes at least one large toe. Included on the compilation, "Who is Dr Who"

The Art Attacks - I am a Dalek! - fun song! rock, feels very 80s but i don't know much about music tbh oh wait its 1978, pretty close!

Time Crash - another "Time Lord Rock" band, if you want to find them on youtube don't mix it up with the Time Crash: Children in Need special tho. I like the lead's voice a lot! its very chill and fun!

Also, these aren't doctor who themed, just related via actors, but Peter Capaldi was in a post-punk band called the Dreamboys and Billie Piper was a pop artist!

Some Doctor who Music fun: (doctor who, Delia Derbyshire, and the BBC radiophonic workshop have a really interesting place in electronic music history soo have fun learning)

But yeah there's my collection from this morning, and these are just my own personal taste plus a couple that are really good and I think others will enjoy so please rb with your favorite bands and songs you think should be added!

[thefugitivedoctorweek2025]

Happy Fugitive Doctor Week!

The prompt of the day is:

You’re gonna love this

Psychic Link

Showing Off

Chameleon Circuit

New Friends

Feel free to incorporate as many or as few of the bullet points in your work as you like 😊

Happy creating!

[hobgoblinns]

Omg chameleon circuit, I haven't listened to it in so long. I used to listen to Exterminate Regenerate on repeat

YES!!!! there are other trock bands i adore as well but chameleon circuit will always be the og. they were like the soundtrack to my doctor who obsession when i was 12

[etherealspacejelly]

Also not even a Whovian, started listening to Chameleon Circuit and I am in LOVE with the singer's voice.

YES THANK YOU ITS SO GOOD RIGHT??? genuinely like even if you divorce it from context the songs are still so good but if you know the Lore the lyrics hit so hard like those boys were so talented and i wish they had done more GOD i love chameleon circuit can anyone hear me

[infatuatedlilbitch]

I am getting way back into Chameleon Circuit and I think this is a really positive life direction for me

[crownjewel123]

nobody:

my brain since the doctor donna reunion: HE IS LIKE FIRE, 🔥 burning 🔥 through TIME! As OLD AS FOREVER, and VAST in his prime. I saw his blue spaceship materialize. He looked out and said to me, “RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!”

I don’t know why I never thought to ask him for his name. But I really don’t think he’d have told me the truth anyway! (And that’s okay!)

It’s completely terrifying but its so so exciting

He said I was brilliant and I could CHANGE THE WORLD!

SO many places I’ve been, there’s SO MUCH MORE to see. We’ve got galaxies, and planets, and moons… AND AN AWFUL LOT OF RUNNING TO DOOOOOOOooOo