Buffy: Once More With Feeling


Decca Records (0011661905825)
Movie | Released: 2002 | Format: CD, Download
 

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# Track   Duration
1.Overture - Going Through the Motions2:59
2.I've Got a Theory - Bunnies - If We're Together2:22
3.The Mustard0:18
4.Under Your Spell2:56
5.I'll Never Tell4:01
6.The Parking Ticket0:45
7.Rest in Peace2:44
8.Dawn's Lament1:20
9.Dawn's Ballet1:12
10.What You Feel3:00
11.Standing2:11
12.Under Your Spell - Standing (Reprise)1:35
13.Walk Through the Fire3:44
14.Something to Sing About4:40
15.What You Feel (Reprise)0:46
16.Where Do We Go From Here?1:53
17.Coda0:40
18.End Credits (Broom Dance - Grr Arrgh)0:32
19.Main Title0:27
20.Suite from Restless5:04
21.Suite from Hush6:57
22.Sacrifice (from The Gift)2:57
23.Something to Sing About (Demo)4:30
 57:33
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Buffy: Once More With Feeling - 06/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at (English)
Buffy is one of those shows that I always enjoy when I watch it, but never become engrossed enough to feel the undying urge to watch it the following week. However, there are plenty of die hard fans of the TV series to the extent that it has largely eclipsed the film on which it is based. Quite who started the trend for American drama serials to have a musical episode, I'm not sure, but evidently Buffy creator Joss Whedon had always quite fancied the idea and so we have Once More With Feeling. Although the show's regular composer is Christophe Beck, the songs are all by Whedon himself, lyrics and all. The results are, perhaps unsurprisingly, a little variable, but largely successful.
Rather than going down one particular route, Whedon picks and chooses his musical styles, but the majority are in a spirited faux Broadway musical style sounds, notably the opening Going Through the Motions, I've Got a Theory and the witty duet between Anya and Xander, I'll Never Tell, plus the finale Where Do We Go From Here. I was actually expecting most of the songs to be rock based, but only Rest in Peace, performed by Spike (whose blond is almost as natural as mine), quite successfully tries to get down and dirty. There are quite a few rather brief interludes, the lovely, but regrettably short, Dawn's Lament, plus the very silly The Mustard and The Parking Ticket. The album is rounded out by four suites from more typical Buffy underscore by Christophe Beck, which are an interesting mixture of synth effects and orchestra that, if not brilliant as pure music, are certainly imaginative and above average for serial television music.

The vocal talent is a little mixed, quality wise, but as with Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost, the enthusiastic amateurism makes up for the lack of perfect intonation and occasional flatness of tone. All the songs are enjoyable enough, even if those such as Walk Through the Fire or Something to Sing About don't quite manage to become the big, memorable production numbers that was clearly hoped for. However, when the tunes aren't top flight, the lyrics are laced with wit that would have made Howard Ashman proud, even if Whedon cheats a little when it comes to rhyming and scanning. As improbable experiments go, Once More With Feeling is much better than anyone had any right to expect and both the album and the episode itself are great entertainment.


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