Sunday, February 24, 2013

Slayer Soundtrack Sunday ~ Homecoming

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This week I've posted some of the songs from the episode "Homecoming," Season 3 - Episode 5.

More about the Episode Here

At the beginning of the episode, the song "Fall Into Loneliness" by Lori Carson plays at The Bronze as the gang discusses renting a limo for the Homecoming Dance. (Later, Buffy and Cordelia end up sharing the limo, which gets hijacked, putting them both in danger). In addition to Buffy, Lori Carson's music has been featured on Dawson's Creek, Melrose Place, Baywatch, CSI Miami and Roswell.



Next is "Jodi Foster" by Pinehurst Kids. This song plays while the kids are having their pictures taken for Homecoming.



The poignant song "How" by Lisa Loeb plays when Xander and Willow kiss. This is foreshadowing for what happens in "Lover's Walk" when Cordelia almost gets a spike through the heart after catching Xander and Willow kissing once again, leading to her final break-up with Xander. Lisa Loeb is best known for her song "Stay" which easily could have been a Buffy song.



Next is the song "Fire Escape" from the band Fastball that provides the background music as Buffy and Cordelia run their competing campaigns to be Homecoming Queen of the school. Fastball is a band from Texas that had a huge hit in 1999 with the song "The Way" from the Album "All the Pain Money Can Buy." The song used in Buffy, "Fire Escape" is also from that album.

I like the first few lines of this song because they fit Buffy's confusion over how to be a Slayer yet fit in with the highschool kids. It also captures the predicament of Xander, who feels he never measures up to Cordelia's standards, and poor Willow who is trying hard not to be jealous but can't fight her long-time feelings for Xander, in spite of her new relationship with Oz.

Well I don't wanna be President, Superman or Clark Kent,
I don't wanna walk 'round in their shoes
'Cause I don't know who's side I'm on
I don't know my right from wrong
I don't know where I'm going to
I don't know about you



The theme of "being yourself" is completely appropriate for this episode, since Buffy goes way out of her comfort zone trying to prove herself by being Homecoming Queen. Also, Cordelia proves that she isn't quite as shallow as she appears sometimes.

And the video starts out like an episode of Buffy, with a teenage girl making toast in the kitchen. The normalcy is juxtaposed with band members showing up as dead bodies - a true Buffy touch.

Finally there is a song by the band Four Star Mary, the real band behind Oz's fictional band "Dingoes Ate My Baby" plays the song "She Knows." Four Star Mary is an alternative rock band from California and their songs were used more than any other band in the Buffy series, thanks to Oz being featured at the Bronze so many times. Read More Here


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