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1* Music/ChristopheBeck's music for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was beautiful, although it was Rob Duncan who scored the final episodes. They also had awesome song choices: Music/MichelleBranch's "Goodbye To You" used in conjunction with [[spoiler: Giles and Tara leaving]] at the end of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E8TabulaRasa Tabula Rasa]]", Music/SarahMcLachlan's "Full Of Grace" at the end of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2 Becoming, Part 2]]" (in one of the [[TearJerker saddest sequences]] on the show), Aimee Mann's "Pavlov's Bell" in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E8Sleeper Sleeper]]", and Angie Hart's "Blue" in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E7ConversationsWithDeadPeople Conversations With Dead People]]" were all awesome, awesome, awesome. How awesome is Beck's music? He'd left the show by season five, but they ''brought him back'' to score "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]" (the final WB episode) and "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling]]".
2* Music/NerfHerder's opening theme tune, especially after it was re-recorded for the third season onwards. Awesome rock that represents the series campy and actiony yet somewhat serious tone.
3* Music/SarahMcLachlan contributed "Prayer of St. Francis," which played over the scenes of Buffy and Dawn crawling out of the grave and Willow and Xander up on the hilltop in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E22Grave Grave]]". Also beautiful and poignant.
4* Many of Beck's individual scores are simply amazing such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5C92qy7mX8 Close Your Eyes]] used throughout Season 2 and coined as the Buffy/Angel Love Theme for good reason, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNFdIoe9W_c Slayer's Elegy]] from Season 3, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0a9b2ucnrU Sacrifice]] from Season 5's "The Gift."
5* The Final Fight has been used in commercials unrelated to Buffy as well.
6* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2ZX8UqHaQ Chinese Burn]]" by Curve serves as Buffy and Faith's hotblooded rave music in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]" and it is memorably psychedelic; the lyrics also foreshadow Faith's [[FaceHeelTurn downward spiral]] starting in that episode.
7%%The following examples have been commented out for violating the Administrivia/ZeroContextExample policy. Don't just list song titles. What makes EACH ONE awesome?
8%%* The most awesome MusicalEpisode ever, "Once More, with Feeling". Specifically, "Rest In Peace", "Under Your Spell", "What You Feel", "Bunnies", and "Walk Through the Fire".
9%%* All beaten out by Giles singing the "Exposition Song" in "Restless".
10* The music during the final battle in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]" was truly epic.
11* "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]". Giles walking up the stairs to what he thinks is going to be a romantic tryst with Jenny, only to find her corpse in the bedroom. All the while a beautiful rendition of "O soave fanciulla" from Puccini's "La Bohème" plays, one of the all time great love songs.
12* Get ready to weep copiously whenever "Remembering Jenny" is played.
13* The "Danse Macabre" in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]". Creepy sinister music for the creepiest, most sinister episode of the show.
14* The music playing right at the end of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E9Smashed Smashed]]" is stunning.
15* Both Creator/JamesMarsters and Creator/AnthonyStewartHead are talented musicians in their own right. This makes James Marsters' solo "Rest in Peace" all the more awesome. Creator/AmberBenson as well. She and Marsters both sing on some of the tracks on one of Anthony Stewart Head's albums.
16* Spike sings "My Way" twice in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E8LoversWalk Lovers Walk]]". The first version exaggerates the melancholy of Music/FrankSinatra's original, while the TriumphantReprise at the end plays up the defiance of Music/SidVicious's cover. (He's actually singing along to Creator/GaryOldman's cover from ''Film/SidAndNancy''.)
17* The music played by Oz's band, [[FakeBand Dingoes Ate My Baby]] (which was provided by real band Four Star Mary) was consistently awesome. Special mention goes to "Violent", which they perform in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E6BandCandy Band Candy]]".

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