Moreover, it will contain score music from the great, the one, the only... Christophe Beck! The album producer(s) and Beck have chosen the perfect episodes to represent on the CD:

* "Hush", the award-nominated episode, which featured some amazing thematic work from Beck in the fashion of Danny Elfman;
* "Restless", the season four finale, which featured some great experimental and atonal music, a great amalgam of some great musical styles;
* "The Gift", the season five finale, which Beck scored instead of the crappy (yes, crappy) Wanker. The big finale cue, "Sacrifice", has been included on this CD.

No, this isn't promotion; this is just an excited fan getting what he's been waiting for :) Here's the complete tracklisting, as shown on HMV.com, which offers a more detailed listing than PeterK (wink wink, nudge nudge):

1. Main Title
2. Overture / Going Through the Motions
3. I've Got a Theory / Bunnies / If We're Together
4. The Mustard
5. Under Your Spell
6. I'll Never Tell
7. The Parking Ticket
8. Rest In Peace
9. Dawn's Lament
10. Dawn's Ballet
11. What You Feel
12. Standing
13. Under Your Spell / Standing (reprise)
14. Walk Through the Fire
15. Something to Sing About
16. What You Feel (reprise)
17. Where Do We Go From Here?
18. Coda
19. End Credits (Broom Dance / GRR Argh)

BONUS TRACKS
20. Suite from "Restless" (Willow's Nightmare / First Rage / Chain of Ancients)
21. Suite from "Hush" (Silent Night / First Kiss / Enter the Gentlemen / Schism)
22. Sacrifice (from "The Gift")
23. Something to Sing About (sung by Joss Whedon and wife Kai Cole)

If I'm not mistaken, "First Kiss" from "Hush" would mean we're gonna get the Buffy/Riley love theme :)

amazon.com already lists the item at $13.99. It also has five music excerpts (the first five tracks, so no score excerpts).

CDNow also has it (but no soundclips yet), at $15.49.

Kosh

You can hear clips from EVERY track, including Beck's score suites. High quality clips.

I'll probably go buy it over the weekend.

What I'd like to know though for those of you who are fans of the show AND who bought and listened to the CD, is this:

Which scenes in "Restless" are underscored by "First Rage" and "Chain of Ancients", and which scene in "Hush" is underscored by "Schism"?

Even if I recall those episodes scene by scene, I can't seem to remember scenes that make sense given those track titles.

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Which scenes in "Restless" are underscored by "First Rage" and "Chain of Ancients", and which scene in "Hush" is underscored by "Schism"?

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"First Rage" & "Chain of Ancients" covers the climactic scene where Buffy (in her dream) wanders out onto the eerie desert landscape. Tara appears, and then the first slayer, Tara voicing the first slayer's thoughts. Then the F.S. and Buffy battle. The suite on the CD reverses these two cues.

The selections from "Hush" seem like the best from the episode, really. As for "Restless", well, they sound great, but I was hoping to get the fabulous percussive cue during Xander's wild labyrinthine chase, when he starts crawling out of the van, and into a room with the demonic Anya, and ending all the way back to his basement. That was some great music there.

Anyways, yeah, I think all of us Chris Beck fans should be thankful for this release. It took some time, BUT they got it right, I think. Haven't listened to it yet, but from a theoretical perspective, hehe, it sounds solid.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer:Music from the Second Season (agency promo - 23 tracks - 42:28)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer:Music from Season Three (agency promo - 26 tracks - 57:24)

They're available on the Web. I don't remember the websites, but that's where I got them myself. I also often see some tracks from the promo on KaZaA and other such music exchange programs.