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Once More With Feeling on CD
Oct. 1st, 2002 09:18 amI got the CD yesterday. And listened to it last night.
If you a Buffy fan, you are no doubt going to buy this or borrow it, so anything I say is irrelevant. And it's not like I am going to recommend against buying this. But it is not perfect.
The mistake they made first: To paraphrase David Fury's character, They left the spoken out. Any and all dialogue interspersed or attached the songs is gone. While we can now hear every line and note of the music, we are missing Dawn's dialogue during Sweet's song, and more importantly we lose the line Dawn speaks at the end of "Something to Sing About." This seems to me to be the kind of mistake made by someone who has not produced a cast album. In many cast albums, key lines of spoken dialogue are left intact. This should have been done so here. It certainly doesn't harm the album much, but after a year of listening to MP3s made from the show itself, something is missing.
Now, the good. Well, the music itself is still great. We hear guitar chords and opening and closing notes missing or drowned out on TV and get a sense of how good a job Joss and Chirs Beck did in writing these songs.
Everything is included, even the Mustard and Parking Ticket bits, the latter with a line we really didn't need to hear.
Then after the musical comes the real treat: music by Chris Beck from "Restless," "Hush," and "The Gift." Remember the creeepy music that accompanied the Gentlemen? It's here. Few shows on now use the soundtrack better.
Lastly, we get a demo of "Something to Sing About" sung by Joss' wife, Kai Cole (with help from Joss in Spike's part). Ms. Cole is a better singer than Sarah Michelle and she is accompanied by only a piano, so we get to hear the song in a new, more intimate way. I wouldn't mind hearing many other tracks re-orchestrated for piano or guitar only.
So what are you watiing for? Buy it already.
If you a Buffy fan, you are no doubt going to buy this or borrow it, so anything I say is irrelevant. And it's not like I am going to recommend against buying this. But it is not perfect.
The mistake they made first: To paraphrase David Fury's character, They left the spoken out. Any and all dialogue interspersed or attached the songs is gone. While we can now hear every line and note of the music, we are missing Dawn's dialogue during Sweet's song, and more importantly we lose the line Dawn speaks at the end of "Something to Sing About." This seems to me to be the kind of mistake made by someone who has not produced a cast album. In many cast albums, key lines of spoken dialogue are left intact. This should have been done so here. It certainly doesn't harm the album much, but after a year of listening to MP3s made from the show itself, something is missing.
Now, the good. Well, the music itself is still great. We hear guitar chords and opening and closing notes missing or drowned out on TV and get a sense of how good a job Joss and Chirs Beck did in writing these songs.
Everything is included, even the Mustard and Parking Ticket bits, the latter with a line we really didn't need to hear.
Then after the musical comes the real treat: music by Chris Beck from "Restless," "Hush," and "The Gift." Remember the creeepy music that accompanied the Gentlemen? It's here. Few shows on now use the soundtrack better.
Lastly, we get a demo of "Something to Sing About" sung by Joss' wife, Kai Cole (with help from Joss in Spike's part). Ms. Cole is a better singer than Sarah Michelle and she is accompanied by only a piano, so we get to hear the song in a new, more intimate way. I wouldn't mind hearing many other tracks re-orchestrated for piano or guitar only.
So what are you watiing for? Buy it already.
