Christophe Beck - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score
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Artist: Christophe BeckBrand: BECK,CHRISTOPHE
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Music Label: Rounder / Pgd
Soundtracks:
- Massacre (from "Becoming")
- Angel Waits (from "Passion")
- Remembering Jenny (from "Passion")
- Twice the Fool (from "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered")
- Moment of Happiness (from "Innocence")
- Loneliness of Six (from "Lover's Walk")
- Sugar High (from "Band Candy")
- Tai Chi (from "Band Candy")
- Kralik's House (from "Helpless")
- Magic Snow Music (from "Amends")
- Slayer's Elegy (from "The Wish")
- Faith's End (from "Graduation Day")
- Drink Me (from "Graduation Day")
- One Last Moment (from "Graduation Day")
- Haunted (from "Fear Itself")
- From the Grave (from "This Year's Girl")
- Demon Got Your Tongue (from "Hush")
- Golf Claps (from "Hush")
- The Princess Screams (from "Hush")
- Spellbound (from "Who Are You?")
- Fyarl in the Morning (from "A New Man")
- A Really Big Sandbox (from "Restless")
- Spaghetti (from "Restless")
- Body Paint (from "Restless")
- Xander's Nightmare (from "Restless")
- The Tower (from "The Gift")
- Losing Battle (from "The Gift")
- Apocalypse (from "The Gift")
- Sacrifice (alternate version, from "The Gift")
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Hit: 5 Stars
When one thinks about BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, there are certain names which spring immediately to mind: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joss Whedon, Nicky Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Tony Head, et al. One name I don't necessarily think of is Christophe Beck, the man who arranged and performed the musical scores for the entire series. This is a stupid oversight on my part, because while Beck had only one single cameo appearance in the seven years BUFFY was on the air, he was as much a part of the show's success as any of its actors, writers, producers or directors.
To say that Beck is a musical genius is merely to recite the obvious, but it becomes even more apparent when one can listen to his works by themselves as stand-alone tracks, rather than as background accompaniment. THE SCORE is not, by any means, a comprehensive anthology of all Beck's output for BtVS: in fact it's only a selection of his better known compositions from Seasons 2 - 5. The diversity of the material, however, is really astonishing. Like BUFFY the show, Beck's music runs the range from comedic to tragic, from slow and tender ballad instrumentals to crashbang fight scores, with everything imaginable in between. The show defied easy categorization, and so does the music, with the exception that most of it is damn good.
THE SCORE has twenty-nine tracks taken from sixteen episodes of BUFFY, most of which are (not surprisingly) fan faves. Among the very best, in my opinion, are:
"Angel Waits" (from "Passion"). If Angelus had a song stuck in his head, this is probably what it would sound like: creepy, sinister, like the soundtrack to a bad dream.
"Remembering Jenny" ("Passion"). This is probably my favorite of the tracks, played when Giles and Buffy are at Jenny Calendar's graveside. As beautiful as Robia LaMorte and as tragic as the death of her character.
"Tai Chi" ("Band Candy"). Just as Sarah Gellar and David Boreanaz were able to communicate a great deal as actors without speaking, Beck had an almost eerie ability to sum up the unspoken feelings between Buffy and Angel in his music.
"Loneliness of Six" ("Lover's Walk"). This was one of the best episodes of an excellent season, and Beck's use of single, melancholy guitar to describe the mood following Spike's relationship-annihilating visit to Sunnydale is masterful.
"Magic Snow" ("Amends"). A two-kleenex score which manages to be ridiculously sweet without every crossing the line into sickly.
"Slayer's Elegy" ("The Wish"). This is a very sad, haunting, powerful piece of music which makes excellent use of a chorus, chronicling the death of Buffy at the hands of the Master.
"Spellbound" ("Who Are You?"). More minimalism, this time with a piano, evokes a half-melancholy, half-creepy mood that is pure Buffy.
"A Really Big Sandbox" ("Restless"). The job of background music is to enhance the mood already created by the story, and Beck's use here of eerie, vaguely Moroccan choral sounds to accompany Buffy's walk into the desert is spot on.
There is of course plenty more here, including comedic razzle-dazzle ("Twice the Fool") ("Sugar High"), slambang fight music ("Faith's End") ("Xander's Nightmare"), more creepy, Resident Evil style mood music ("Kralik's House") and of course many emotionally stirring tracks pertaining to B & A ("Drink Me", "Moment of Happiness"), but the point is there is something here for every emotional state. I myself was surprised how certain tracks had my mind replaying whole scenes from various episodes, as if they were on a flatscreen in front of me. My only real beef with the album is one Beck had no control over, i.e. that most of the songs are very short (two minutes) and need a lot of replaying to be enjoyed fully. But that's pretty hefty, Comic Book Guy nerd-nitpicking on my part, idn't it?
Anyway: Christophe Beck may not be a household word, even to Buffy fans, but he should be, and this album proves it. And that's the score on THE SCORE.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score Poster
Buffy fans rejoice! The Emmy-winning score to the cult hit show is now available! Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score features 29 tracks, including "Massacre" (the Emmy-winning score from Season 2 episode "Becoming"), "Loneliness of Six" (from Season 3 episode "Lover's Walk"), and "Haunted" (from Season 4 episode "Fear Itself"), all scored, mixed, and produced by longtime Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel) composer Christophe Beck. A must-have for any serious Buffy fan!Pop Music CDs
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