Music : Smallville, Vol. 1: The Talon Mix

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Rating:

- Perfect
This cd was one that I bought with doubts but since listening to it, I cannot stop. I'll put it in while driving in the car and it is just 'perfect'.

Rating:

- where's the dj?
Smallville makes me like superman more than i ever have ... and i was a comic book geek for years. the songs are well chosen and i love that about tv shows like this one -- someone takes the time and cares. Alias (BUY the DVDs, Watch it on Sundays) is one of the few others like this right now, though only a score cd has been released (awesome in its own right ...) I'm not much of a top 40, alt-rock or pop fan, but i can't get enough of the remy zero theme. my biggest complaint is the omission, for whatever reason, of "God Is A DJ" by FAITHLESS (check out their album SUNDAY 8PM and their newest, NO ROOTS) The song WAS the soundtrack for the episode ZERO (about Lex and Club Zero, of course) and I had hoped inclusion here would expose more people to their brilliance. A shame America feeds such trite pop to its youth over the radio (do people REALLY listen to that stuff anymore? 10 songs over and over, whiny, annoying "DJs" who have been in that studio since the 80s, and more commercials than music) . Anyway, enjoy this ... and check out the others listed above. good times. ;)

Rating:

- Smallville fan here likes the music from the show
Hey, I'm a Smallville fan. This is the best tv to come along since Star Trek, and it's actually all I watch on television, which in our house stays dark except for Wednesday night and well, sometimes on Thursday if there's a good wrestling match on. (Ugh, not MY choice.)

WB makes no bones about featuring music to enhance its hit television show "Smallville." They promote the music after each show, but at least it's some of the best of the new "alternative rock."

My particular favorites are Five for Fighting's "Superman", the cut by Steadman, and of course the incomparable Eva Cassidy (Time after Time.) The funny thing is the theme by Remy Zero. Listen to their intro album "Remy Zero" and it's pretty lame. But the "Save Me" theme from Smallville is incredibly good. This is a must for Smallville fans to revel in.

Rating:

- Music better for younger crowd, CD enhanced in wierd way
I guess maybe I'm too old for the music on this CD, #1 "Save Me" by Remy Zero was just about my favorite tune. A couple of other tunes did all right, I think #11"Everything" by Lifehouse was one of those, but most didn't do much for me. Some people like #12 "Time after Time" by Eva Cassidy, I think the Cyndi Lauper version was better.
This CD has the strangest manner of enhancement I've run across, it appears that you can't listen to the music list on your PC the way I can with most if not all of my other enhanced CD's. You'll get a music video or two (but not Remy Zero's "Save Me", a short slide gallery & some other stuff. When I tried it out I found the online access to be very slow loading so the faster the connection you have the better. There's an interactive map with points of interest in Smallville (but not the Kent home & a few other bits I would expect), not the easiest thing to navigate, click on icons to bring up fake web pages for each. I tried the one for the Talon and the Luthor mansion, the Talon was OK - the Luthor mansion webpage included a slow loading, for me,but interresting looking Quicktime VR tour of the house.
I also noticed that the exclusive access weblink on the CD was smallville.net but that what you ended up arriving at was http://smallville.warnerbros.com, save that & you don't seem to need the CD for access.

Rating:

- Better than I expected.
As a casual fan of the show I decided to obtain this cd because I liked the song Superman (It's Not Easy). I have always felt and still do feel that this song would have made a better opening theme song for SMALLVILLE than Save Me. I never cared for that song. Except for Save Me I would have given this cd 5 stars as I like the remaining eleven songs included on this cd. I gather many people like Save Me so I guess I may be in a minority as far as this song is concerned.

I found some of the tracks to be truely wondrous. I don't usually go in for remakes but I have to admit that both Time After Time and Don't Dream It's Over are almost as good as the originals. Actually Time after Time is better than the original and how can something so sad be so beautiful as well? Also, the new more modern arrangement for these songs seems to fit the show better than if the tv shows producers had decided to play the 1980's originals. I'd also like to mention Nuclear and Everything. Nuclear is an upbeat song that seems to improve the listeners mood. The romantic ballad Everything starts out soft and actually builds in sound and intensity during the final portion of the song.

All in all not a bad cd. the pc extras didn't appeal to me but then I bought the cd for the music and not the extra pc features. In general such features on a music cd hold little interest for me. I await a sequel cd but find it hard to believe it could be as good as this one.

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