Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01/11/2003 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: CD: Columbia B00002ZZ4R. 4966332. This original Buffy album has been
around since about Season 2 and I just wanted to remind you how good
it is.
It is available at various prices so shop around
if you haven't already snapped it up.
Hurling itself into the frantic Nerf
Herder theme, the CD then settles down into the laconic and assured music that
has been well placed in the programme.
 The
self referential 'Teenage FBI' is its own jab at the youth of the
cast. The blasting 'Keep Myself Awake' is a reminder that falling
asleep in a town full of bloodsuckers is, as they say, not an option.
'Already Met You' may or may not have been referring to Spike and
the words 'already ate you' occur to me here.
Slowing
it down to brood a little on the desperate love of Buffy and Angel, the Alison
Krauss song 'It Doesn't Matter' twists the knife, or stake and The Sundays' slower
'Wild Horses' pulls it out to leave a gaping wound.
'Transylvanian
Concubine' brings Drusilla to mind and Christophe Beck's heartbreaking love theme
will have you weeping in the aisles and reaching for the boxed set of Season Two
where so many of these songs were featured.
I cannot mention every
track but each one has its own merits. 'Lucky' is a mournful dirge that still
demands top of the voice singing along especially in the car! Hepburn's 'I Quit'
is a powerful anti-love song that again is ideal for shouting out loud. Hmm, feel
a need for karaoke?
This CD is a brilliant combination of tracks that
vary across moods but offer constant playability. It is enjoying a revival at
the moment as we mourn the passing of BTTVS and a new kid is on the block with
the release of Radio Sunnydale - I can resist, I can Santa will bring it to me!
Sue
Davies 
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