Track Listing

1. Main Title
2. Overture/Going Through the Motions
3. I've Got a Theory/Bunnies/If We're Together
4. The Mustard
5. Under Your Spell
6. I'll Never Tell
7. The Parking Ticket
8. Rest In Peace
9. Dawn's Lament
10. Dawn's Ballet
11. What You Feel
12. Standing
13. Under Your Spell / Standing (Reprise)
14. Walk Through the Fire
15. Something to Sing About
16. What You Feel (Reprise)
17. Where Do We Go From Here?
18. Coda
19. End Credits (Broom Dance/Grr Argh)
20. Suite from "Restless
21. Suite from "Hush"
22. Sacrifice (from "The Gift")
23. Something to Sing About (demo)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1235 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.com
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 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

Customer Reviews

excellent
This is the best soundtrack recording I have ever bought!
It really brings back the episode for me every time I hear it and makes me smile. I probably would have just perfered an audio track of the entire episode, with dialogue, but this is great. If you are a OMWF episode fan or just a fan of the series get this you won't be dissapointed.

awesome
Wasn't actually to thrilled with the pictures, but I bought the CD for the music. It was awesome. Those actors have some great voices. Would like to see a collection of all of Anthony Stewart Head's singing from the show but... I won't hope too much. Hey Joss! You make it available, I'll buy it! Highly recomend this soundtrack to any how loved the episode!

Wonderfull music but falls short without the visuals
Joss Whedon is a genious and this cd is wonderfull to have(ie. to get to have a bit of buffy in the car). But get the episode first because after listening to the cd we just had to watch the episode again. Most of the songs just work so much better with the visuals.