Just a quick question...I know this is supposed to be released, today...if you go to Wal*Mart and buy it...will it be edited??? Like they do a lot of music? I know it doesnt have very bad language and it might slip by...but I dont want to go buy something only to come home and discover it's been censored to protect my virgin ears...that would suck.

I can't imagine there's anything that would be cut. I doubt they'll have a censored edit.

It was on network TV... how bad do you think it would get?

what would have been nice is if they put the actual episode in there as a special dvd thing. the only thing that could possibly edited are some of the sex references (i do not own it yet so i dont know if there is any in this episode

well i got it here...im gonna open it and give it a listen...I know in the couple songs off this when I downloaded it off Kazaa...Spike said the B-word...and I believe Anya said peni$....ill risk it and open the plastic.

I checked it out....it is NOT edited

To those that have purchased this at either Circuit City or Best Buy...it isn't in either ad flyer. How much did you pay?

It was like $11 and change.... It was marked like14, but rang up for less! (at walmart)

I think the Best Buy price is $14.99 (same as their Web site). I'm curious to know Circuit City's B&M price, as their stores are often different than their online prices ($11.99). I wish I could find this at a local Wal-Mart.

It actually is in the Circuit City flyer (listed as BtVS: Soundtrack, but with no picture) under the 9/24 releases. The clerk had to get it from the back, but for $11.99 I could wait a few extra minutes.

Listening to it right now. A few very minor changes; probably only noticable because I've been listening to a cassette dub of the episode off and on since it first aired. But no editing for content.

Paid 14.99 at Best Buy, didn't feel like searching for a deal or used, wanted to send a message that content like this will sell. And apparently it does, there were only two copies left at lunch, and it looks like they had a good handful.

Did anybody else get this? I'm listening to it again, and I just cannot get over how damn_good this music is. It's been nearly a year, and I still am touched and moved by the lyrics. Whedon must have been sitting in a sunbeam direct from heaven when he wrote this. It is sheer genius.

And there are only about 12 of us that even know about it

I love both Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel series (I'm still trying to give Firefly a chance, though) and think the soundtrack is brilliant. I wish I had received the DVD of the episode "Once More With Feeling" like some Variety subscribers. Oh well, I guess I'm stuck with the VHS I made from the television airing for the time being. I've talked to a lot of people who are older (in their 40s and 50s) who are also Buffy fans, so I know it's appreciated widely. I'm not sure why it's not discussed more. In fact, the clerk at Circuit City asked me if the CD was for a younger girl in my household. When I told her it was for me, she admitted she was a big fan.

F 'em man. Everyone else don't know what they're missing.

The Dallas Morning News ran a positive CD review for Once More With Feeling on October 6. I tried to post it before, but they begin charging for their archived stories after a week. Utilizing an alternate search, I was able to find it again. I’ll quote the entirety of the text as well as provide a link, which requires registration and may not be around for long.

http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainm...cd2.d3f44.html


'Buffy' vamps, and results are tuneful

Creator Whedon introduces song to enhance story line

10/06/2002

By MANUEL MENDOZA / The Dallas Morning News

The genius of musicals is simple if hard to pull off: They tell a story in song. The genius of Once More, With Feeling is a bit trickier: It uses the musical to advance a plot already under way.

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, decided to switch gears and use this original song cycle as a crucial chapter in his long-running drama series.

The soundtrack is a must for Buffy acolytes. Theater lovers will also find it adept at telling an engaging story in which the power of musicals is a major theme.

In part because the slayer is harboring a terrible secret, Buffy and her gang have become alienated from each other. Accustomed to vampires that kill and maim, they are thrown when a song-and-dance demon (three-time Tony winner Hinton Battle) has the whole town breaking into show-style tunes.

Through the songs – mostly pop-rockers and ballads written by Mr. Whedon – the characters reveal their feelings.

As usual with Buffy, the story is full of humor as well as poignancy. One funny, moving song, "I'll Never Tell," is a takeoff on the he-said-she-said exchanges favored by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Tara Benson has Once More's prettiest tune, an ecstatic love ballad called "Under Your Spell." Later, the entire cast harmonizes on the big confrontation number, "Walk Through the Fire," reminiscent of West Side Story's "Tonight."

Yet Mr. Whedon never parodies musicals, wisely telling his story his own way.

Some of the cast have great voices, including Ms. Benson, Anthony Stewart Head ("Standing"), James Marsters ("Rest in Peace") and Emma Caulfield, who gets one of the funniest moments, expressing her fear of "Bunnies."

Small moments for Buffy writers David Fury ("The Mustard") and Marti Noxon ("The Parking Ticket") offer hilarious asides.

But it's the journey that Mr. Whedon has constructed, and the way that the characters illuminate their flawed personalities through song, that makes Once More such a special accomplishment for a TV show.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is especially winning because she's not a natural singer. Instead, she uses her considerable acting gifts (and three months of vocal training) to hold this touching story together.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Grade: B+
Once More, With Feeling (Mutant Enemy/Fox Music/Rounder) In stores now.

Dead on review. It's a crying shame the world doesn't stop for one hour on Tuesday nights to watch one of the best shows ever made.

I suppose when we're all old and crotchety, they might run some Special Look Back's at the series and say how it was a shame not many people watched, and we'll just sit there in our rocking chairs, grinding our teeth (well, dentures), trying to digest our Metamucil.

One of the problems, as Blender pointed out, is that you have to have background knowledge of the show to fully understand the music. If you don't know about <deep breath> Spike & Buffy, Dawn's feelings of isolation, Giles leaving and Willow using magic on Tara, the songs don't have as much of an effect. Heck, you wouldn't even know that Willow & Tara are witches (making Xander's great line about witches in "I've Got A Theory" much less funny)

You'd never know that Spike's song is about Buffy.
You'd never know why Willow & Tara are fighting (or even that they're together, for that matter - "willow tree" isn't capitalized in the lyrics).
And so on...

Yes, it's great music. I love this CD. But it doesn't really have an appeal outside of fans of the show.

Ideally, this should have been packaged with a DVD which would contain both the episode, a intro to the show for non-fans & a wrap-up of the season in which this took place. They then should have released it over the summer, to allow non-Buffy watchers to get into the show much easier.

Of course, that's totally unrealistic. But in my work-crazed mind, it's making perfect sense.