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Like many soundtrack
albums, the Buffy one is a bit variable, with tracks ranging from
ones that are well suited to the series to others whose inclusion seems
designed solely to provide a sense of familiarity to more casual fans.
It's probably best to
deal with that first, especially since both Garbage and Hepburn crop up in
the first five tracks. The
former's Temptation Waits appears to have been included purely
because its lyrics feature the words "vampire" and
"demon", but even so it's still better than Hepburn's I Quit,
which manages to both downright annoying and so out of keeping with the rest
of the album. Undoubtedly the worst track out of all eighteen, it's
bound to have a lot of listeners reaching for the fast forward button.
The rest of it isn't too
bad as soundtracks go. As with most you're almost invariably going to
find some tracks that you could quite happily do without and being a TV
soundtrack there are bound to be tracks that you're disappointed not to see
included - Sarah McLachlan's Full of Grace would probably have been
on many fans' wish-list.
The whole thing is
topped and tailed by Nerf Herder's Buffy The Vampire Slayer Theme and
an all-too-brief example Chris Beck's excellent work on the show, which at
least serves as an excellent trailer for a CD of his scores. Other
stand-out tracks for me would probably have to be Guided By Voices' Teenage
FBI, Rasputina's Transylvanian Concubine and the Sundays' cover
of Wild Horses.
Some peaks and some
definite troughs then, but worth it, if only for the best three or four
tracks. It's not perfect, but it could have been a lot worse. I
mean, they could have included two Hepburn tracks.
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BUFFY
THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
THE ALBUM
COLUMBIA RECORDS
RATING:
7/10
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