Weeds: Music from the Original Series/O.S.T.
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Free Music Review: Terrificlly original and slightly odd music from a terrificlly original and slightly odd show.
Hit: 4 Stars
I rented the first season of Showtime's "Weeds" on a whim this past weekend. I had heard good things and the show featured an intriguing and fresh concept as well as a talented, diverse and funny cast. My gamble paid off as I quickly breezed through the entire series and found I had discovered a great show. Besides the aforementioned assets, the other thing that struck me about "Weeds" was its eclectic mix of terrific music. Some of them are odd little numbers, all of them though display the same subversive wit and in-your-face, literal lyrics that the show's writing itself does. My biggest (and maybe only) complaint about the show and its soundtrack is the horrible theme song, "Little Boxes." Yes, I get why it is appropriate and used in the show, and I also understand that the sheer oddity in which it is performed is why many people will like it, or at least find it curiously entertaining. But to these ears it is an utter chore to endure during the opening credits, much less in it's extended form here. I'd compare it to nails on a chalkboard, but that would be an insult to both that person's nails and the chalkboard. Other than that song though, this is a terrific, eclectic mix album. It may get old listen after listen after listen. I'd wager most would agree, you have to be in the mood for many of the songs included here, and there isn't really a "typical" song, like you'd hear on top 40 radio (a refreshing, good thing in my book) in the bunch. But as an album to pull out now and then, or to just appreciate some dry, witty, poetry and prose style lyrics (se "Wacky Tobacky" and "Satan, Lend Me a Dollar" for two big examples), this album might just be some sort of masterpiece. Like the series, this album is a true original - and in this day and age (in both music and television) that is a compliment of the tallest order.Free Music Review: 'And they all look just the same'
Hit: 4 Stars
WEEDS is an instant American Classic of a series made for television - albeit Showtime television available only through cable. It is a funky, funny, socially erudite, brave little parody on suburban life in 2005 where instant new towns are popping up on the hillsides of California with identical houses, identical people doing identical lives - and the influence of the drug culture stemming from the most absurd places. This cloned model town of WEEDS is Agrestic, and does it have its wacky population! Much of the success of the show lies in the astute portrayals by Mary Louise Parker and Elizabeth Perkins and an entire entourage of funky folk.
How to set this little show to music? Well, this CD gathers many of the tunes from the first season and allows even the non-WEEDS watcher to see exactly what the mood of Agrestic is. The show opens with clever titles (everything is cloned) and the background music is Malvina Reynolds mawkishly singing 'Little Boxes': it is hilarious. There are many similar good bands on this entertaining but very off beat CD - Peggy Lee sings 'A Doodlin' Song', Hill of Beans offers 'Satan Lend Me A Dollar', The Mountain Goats strum 'Cotton', and NRBA does a terrific 'Wacky Tabacky'.
This is one of those CDs to keep in your car to lighten the drudgery of primetime freeway traffic as you drive by the hillsides of communities that 'all look just the same'. A little voyeuristic perhaps, but good for a bunch of chuckles. Let's hope the show and the music return for another season...or several. Grady Harp, October 05
Free Music Review: Weeds Soundtrack
Hit: 4 Stars
An amazing series and an amazing soundtrack. My only gripe is that it somehow manages to avoid including Kava Kava's 'Don't Stop the Music' from episode 1 which I had to track down on itunes. That said Ganja Babe by Michael Franti and Satan Lend Me A Dollar more than make up for this oversight. How I love that track! More series should take notice and go for the obscure KCRW end of things. Here's hoping theres a second series soonFree Music Review: weeds soundtrack
Hit: 4 Stars
Good cd just not enough songs, the one I wanted wasn't even on it, they need an updated cdFree Music Review: HEY KIDS - BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK!
Hit: 3 Stars
Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes" is indeed an older song. Still not funny to the people of Daly City, who DO live in boxes that are red, green, yellow and purple. When you become a doddering old grandpa trying to explain the significance of NIRVANA's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and your grandkids are staring back blankly, you'll come to understand the respect that is shown here for a song that ripped the flesh off the mindless masses of the 1950's - which are trying to re-assert themselves today (read any newspaper lately?). Aside from Roy Zimmerman, there are no satirists working today that have the bite and charm of Malvina. Her song about the mouse that f***cked up the computer was 40 years ahead of its time. Let's talk, after you put on a few more years!
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