This soundtrack is excellent---for an excellent episode, and one of my favourites, for sure!
I LOVE this CD, and play it often. It was my favourite present from a friend. And, I have been able to use it to prove that, indeed, there IS a line saying: "Hey, I'm not wearing underwear"....people who have only seen the episode do NOT believe me, but it is there.
Description:While the idea of infusing a weekly TV series with a Broadway musical ethos isn't exactly a new one--think Randy Newman's ambitious Cop Rock--it became something of a turn-of the-century television mini-trend. But few have reached as far--or succeeded--like this November 2001 episode of Fox Network's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Penned bWhile the idea of infusing a weekly TV series with a Broadway musical ethos isn't exactly a new one--think Randy Newman's ambitious Cop Rock--it became something of a turn-of the-century television mini-trend. But few have reached as far--or succeeded--like this November 2001 episode of Fox Network's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Penned by series creator-producer Joss Whedon and performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar and cast, it's a loving, loopy musical pastiche that takes potshots at everything from Andrew Lloyd Webber to alt-rock. Paralleling the show's lovable pop culture tweaking, the musical styles here (the episode's musical conceit is a curse visited upon Buffy's hometown of Sunnydale) range from a patent footlight chorus of demons being interrupted by Gellar's hard-rocking stake thrusts on "Going Through the Motions" to Spike the Vampire's goth-metal complaint "Rest in Peace," with everything from parking tickets and mustard stain removal to climactic duels with the supernatural getting the Broadway send-up. Also includes strong orchestral score-suites from three other episodes, as well as Whedon and wife Kai Cole's demo for "Something to Sing About." --Jerry McCulley... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : WB Television Network, The Release date : 24 September 2002 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0011661905825 UPC: 011661905825
“This soundtrack is excellent---for an excellent episode, and one of my favourites, for sure!
I LOVE this CD, and play it often. It was my favourite present from a friend. And, I have been able to use it to prove that, indeed, there IS a line saying: "Hey, I'm not wearing underwear"....people who have only seen the episode do NOT believe me, but it is there.
Joss Whedon is truly talented, and sure came up with something very special with "Once More, With Feeling". If you are a fan, this is definitely a must-have.
Great music, great lyrics, along with some extra music from other episodes of Buffy---all makes for one CD that is definitely worth the sticker price!” read more