Many thanks to Mel for compiling much of this information. Mel has downloaded a great deal of Buffy music. If you would like to request any Buffy songs or scores by Christophe Beck, you may email her at mjck1@aol.com. If she has the music you want, Mel will send it to you.

When She Was Bad

Alison Krauss:

In When She Was Badm we hear Alison Krauss & Union Station’s ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ as Angel leaves Buffy’s bedroom (from the albums So Long, So Wrong, and Buffy The Album). In Entropy, we hear ‘That Kind of Love’ by Alison Krauss, after everyone argues about Spike and Anya.

Cibo Matto:

The band Cibo Matto played their songs ‘Sugar, Water’ and ‘Spoon’ in the Bronze during When She Was Bad. The band features Sean Lennon, the son of John Lennon. Xander and Buffy danced together to the song ‘Sugar, Water’. There is a Cibo Matto poster on the wall behind the Scoobies as they talk at Buffy’s locker.

Some Assembly Required

My Girl:

Eric sings “My Girl” in Some Assembly Required, a song written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White in 1965. The Temptations did a famous Motown cover of the song.

School Hard

Nickel:

In School Hard, the band Nickel play in The Bronze. We hear ‘1000 Nights’ as Xander dances and Willow helps Buffy study French and ‘Stupid Thing’ as Spike watches Buffy, Xander and Willow dance. Both songs are from their album Stupid Thing.

Inca Mummy Girl

Four Star Mary:

The music for Oz’s band Dingoes Ate My Baby was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary. James Marsters has performed with them on stage (off screen) a few times. The band themselves appeared in the season four finale Restless, as the band who play with Giles during the Exposition Song.

Four Star Mary songs can be heard in the following Buffy episodes:

• Inca Mummy Girl - The songs ‘Shadows’ and ‘Fate’ at the Cultural party in The Bronze.
• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - ‘Pain’ is heard in The Bronze.
• Dead Man’s Party - The Dingoes mime to ‘Pain’, ‘Nevermind’ and ‘Sway’ at Buffy’s party.
• Homecoming - we hear the song ‘She Knows’ at the Homecoming Dance - it’s the song Oz wrote for Willow.
• Living Conditions - ‘Pain is heard when Buffy and Willow move into their dorm room.
• Band Candy - the Dingoes mime onstage at The Bronze to ‘Violent’, when the adults are acting weirdly.
• Revelations - Dingoes Ate My Baby perform ‘Run’ in The Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Harsh Light of Day - ‘Dilate’ is played at the Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Initiative - Riley gets the song ‘Fate’ turned off at the party as it upsets Willow.

Reptile Boy

Act of Faith:

When Xander makes his pledge in Reptile Boy, Act of Faith’s song ‘Bring Me On’ (from the album Scream) can be heard in the background.

Louis Says:

In Reptile Boy, Buffy and Tom dance to ‘She’ by Louis Says, from the album Gravity, Suffering, Love and Fate.

Halloween

Epperley:

In Halloween, we hear ‘Shy’ by Epperley at the Bronze, while Buffy and Angel are talking.

Treble Charger:

We hear Treble Charger’s ‘How She Died’ (from their album Maybe It’s Me) as Willow walks in front of Oz’s van in Halloween.

Lie to Me

Creaming Jesus:

When Willow, Xander and Angel enter the Sunset Club in Lie to Me, we hear “Reptile” by Creaming Jesus, from the album Guilt by Association.

Sisters of Mercy:

In the first broadcast of the episode Lie to Me, the music playing as Ford enters the Sunset Club is “Never Land” by the Sisters of Mercy, from their album Floodland. In later broadcasts it was replaced by a track called “Blood of a Stranger”, specially composed for the episode. This was for copyright reasons.

Willoughby:

When Willow, Xander and Billy play pool in Lie to Me, we hear Willoughby’s ‘Lois, On The Brink’, from the album Be Better Soon.

The Dark Age

What�s My Line? (Part 1)

Vivaldi:

Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ from Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) plays in the background when Willow first meets Oz at the Career Fair in What’s My Line? (Part 1).

What�s My Line? (Part 2)

Ted

Bad Eggs

Surprise

Anything:

The song that plays during Buffy’s dream in Surprise is an original song called “Anything”, written by Buffy composers Shawn K. Clement and Sean Murray and performed by Cari Howe.

Rasputina:

The song ‘Transylvanian Concubine’ by Rasputina plays during Drusilla’s party in Surprise.

Innocence

Stowaway:

At the end of Innocence, Buffy and her mother wach the movie Stowaway, a 1936 musical starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye and Robert Young. The song “Goodnight, My Love”, heard in the episode, is sung by Faye and Young.

Phases

Lotion:

The band Lotion play their track “Blind For Now” from their album Nobody’s Cool when Willow and Cordelia are talking in The Bronze in Phases. In Revelations, we hear Lotion’s song “West of Here” (from The Telephone Album) as the Dingoes leave the stage.
There are two stickers for the band seen in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. One is on the locker behind Giles at the beginning of the episode, and the other is on the locker next to Cordelia’s.

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Four Star Mary:

The music for Oz’s band Dingoes Ate My Baby was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary. James Marsters has performed with them on stage (off screen) a few times. The band themselves appeared in the season four finale Restless, as the band who play with Giles during the Exposition Song.

Four Star Mary songs can be heard in the following Buffy episodes:

• Inca Mummy Girl - The songs ‘Shadows’ and ‘Fate’ at the Cultural party in The Bronze.
• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - ‘Pain’ is heard in The Bronze.
• Dead Man’s Party - The Dingoes mime to ‘Pain’, ‘Nevermind’ and ‘Sway’ at Buffy’s party.
• Homecoming - we hear the song ‘She Knows’ at the Homecoming Dance - it’s the song Oz wrote for Willow.
• Living Conditions - ‘Pain is heard when Buffy and Willow move into their dorm room.
• Band Candy - the Dingoes mime onstage at The Bronze to ‘Violent’, when the adults are acting weirdly.
• Revelations - Dingoes Ate My Baby perform ‘Run’ in The Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Harsh Light of Day - ‘Dilate’ is played at the Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Initiative - Riley gets the song ‘Fate’ turned off at the party as it upsets Willow.

Naked:

We hear Naked’s “Drift Away” playing in the background when Cordelia breaks up with Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. In Go Fish, we hear Naked’s song “Manns Chinese” being played at the beach party.

Nero’s Rome:

The song “Got the Love” by Nero’s Rome plays as Xander walks through the school halls in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. In Go Fish, we hear their song “If You’d Listen” as Buffy watches Gage at The Bronze. Both songs are from the album The Average White Band.

Passion

La Boheme:

‘Acte 10 Soave Fanciulla’ from La Boheme by Puccini plays when Giles returns home to find Jenny dead in Passion. The nomadic group called gypsies or Romany are called “bohemiens” in French. Bohemians and gypsies share some characteristics: Both groups are known for their vagabond lifestyle, for their merry poverty, and for their disregard of money for the pursuit of music, color, and relationships (how Jenny got involved with Giles even though she was supposed to watch Angel). It is pretty interesting to see the similarities between bohemians and gypsies considering Jenny was a gypsy.
The part we hear when Giles discovers Jenny dead is “O soave fanciulla,” from the end of act 1 when Rodolfo and Mimì first declare their love to each other (as Giles probably thinks that Jenny and him are about to do the same when this piece is played).

Morcheeba:

We hear Morcheeba’s “Never An Easy Way” (from the album ‘Who Can You Trust’) as Angel watches The Scoobies at the Bronze in Passion.

Remembering Jenny:

The piece of music which plays at the end of Passion, is called ‘Remembering Jenny’, composed by Christophe Beck. The vocals were provided by Anthony Stewart Head (Giles).

Killed By Death

Ode to Joy:

When Angel arrives at the hospital in Killed By Death he is rather unsympathetically whistling ‘Ode to Joy’ from Beethoven’s ninth symphony.

I Only Have Eyes For You

Splendid:

Splendid play their track “Charge” in the Bronze in I Only Have Eyes For You. In The Freshman Splendid perform “You and Me” in the Bronze. Their unreleased song “Tomorrow We’ll Awake” plays during Xander and Anya’s bedroom scene in Forever.
Angie Hart, the lead singer of Splendid, co-wrote the song “Blue” with Joss Whedon. This song played at the beginning of the episode Conversations with Dead People.
Angie’s ex-husband Jesse Tobias, who was also in Splendid, helped Joss and Christophe Beck to arrange Joss’s songs for the musical episode Once More, With Feeling.

The Flamingoes:

It’s been reported erroneously that James and Grace could not have listened to the song “I Only Have Eyes For You” in 1955 as it was not written until 1958-59. This is incorrect. Harry Warren and Al Dubin wrote “I Only Have Eyes For You” in 1934 for the film Dames. It is sung by Dick Powell on a ferryboat, and is reprised by Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and the chorus in the movie’s Broadway show. It’s also often played throughout the movie as background music.
The Flamingos parlayed the song into a Top Ten hit in 1959, which is when it became hugely popular. But there is no reason why James and Grace could not have listened to a record of the song prior to that.

Go Fish

Naked:

We hear Naked’s “Drift Away” playing in the background when Cordelia breaks up with Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. In Go Fish, we hear Naked’s song “Manns Chinese” being played at the beach party.

Nero’s Rome:

The song “Got the Love” by Nero’s Rome plays as Xander walks through the school halls in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. In Go Fish, we hear their song “If You’d Listen” as Buffy watches Gage at The Bronze. Both songs are from the album The Average White Band.

Becoming (Part 1)

Becoming (Part 2)

Sarah McLachlan:

The stunning song which plays as Buffy leaves Sunnydale in Becoming (Part 2) is by Sarah McLachlan and is called “Full of Grace”. It’s from her album Surfacing. The lyrics are:

Sarah’s song “The Prayer of St Francis” plays at the end of the season six finale, Grave. It appears on the bonus disc originally included with the limited edition double CD release of her ‘Surfacing’ album in 1997. The lyrics of “The Prayer of St. Francis” are: