Glee the Music, Vol. 1... and counting.
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Glee The Music, Vol. 1 in essence is a compilation of cover songs that were featured on several key moments of the 1st episodes of Glee season one.

The word that best describes this album, heck... the whole Glee concept is 'diversity'. The album features a combination of showtunes, classic rock, power ballads and hip hop/r&b. With Glee you jump from Kanye, to Celine Dion, then to songs from the musical Cabaret, then Queen, then Chris Brown... and so on. This seemed to be the formula for most of season one's first half. The songs seemed carefully selected and actually remind me of the scenes they were featured on, and demonstrate the full palette of characters and personalities.

For anyone else that doesn't follow the show this album won't be as meaningful. I mind you, the covers are actually pretty good and a good way to introduce you to all sort of artists of yesterday and today, but if you a bit more of a musicologist then you might as well just go searching for the original versions. Some of these tracks do have a glee-ish fair though that you won't get elsewhere. Best example of this is probably the show's signature song, "Don't Stop Believing", a cover of Journey's classic that showcases how a glee club actually makes their voices work together perfectly rather than just singing a "glorified karaoke version".  But I supposed this is "not for everyone". Glee fans can't go wrong with it. Everyone else listen to previews to check if you might dig it. My only complain with this album is that it omits some other favorites from this portion of the season. I guess with CD releases you just can't have it all.
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I started watching "Glee" in probably the second season.  After I watched a couple of episodes, I believe that I went back and saw the episodes from Season One that I missed.  While I'm surely not the target audience for this teeny-bopper-targeted material, I still really like the show.  Sue Sylvester kills me.  And Brittany S. Pears is hilarious, reminding me of Lisa Kudrow on "Friends."  And of course, Lea Michelle is an awesome singer, giving Barbara Streisand a run for her money.  And the rest of the cast is very good as well.

While this film's a little "weepy" -- they bring in fans between songs for real-life interviews, where some of those fans have been treated poorly and overcome it, a general theme of "Glee" -- it didn't water the movie down much for me.  I wasn't crying like the little girls up front, the girls who wanted to be the next Lea Michelle, but it was still touching without being over-the-top sappy.  There is one scene that was memorable:  a little Warbler wannabe -- he is no more than four years old tops -- is all dressed up in the Warbler gear, he's singing and he's dancing in front of his TV while the Warblers are performing behind him.  I was howling, and I'm sure that Blaine got a kick out of it as well.

With regards to the music, if you've watched the television series, you've heard most of the songs.  Most of them are recycled from various episodes, spiced up a bit with some nice choreography, particularly great dancing by Ms. Pears.  But even still, it's nice to see that the singers on the show are really good, as you're never quite sure how good they are while watching on TV.  "How much overdubbing did they do?" is what I usually think.  Well here, while there's surely mixing going on, it's pretty much them singing live.

More like really a 3, but I'll round up to a 4 today since I'm in a good mood.  "Glee" the movie will do that to you.
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The first song is good. The rest of it is like show tunes or something. I don't like show tunes.
3307035
loved it the moment I heard it on Glee by Melissa Benoist... beautiful voice. Just had to add it to my MP3 collection.
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This CD comes with every song that is on the actual show, naturally, except for the individual titles that are played at the end of each episode. Other than that its a great soundtrack and here is all the song titles just in case you wanted to look them up on youtube or something haha!
1.irony -TV Mix-
2. Ichinichi no Hajimari
3. Ore no Imouto ga(ry
4. Baka Aniki!
5. Aniki Nichijou
6. Agete Yukou!
7. Shinsou no Reijou
8. Kore ga Otaku no Ikiru Michi
9. Kuroneko wa Tango
10.\(^o^)/
11. Osananajimi
12. Pokaan
13. Hitotoki
14. Honeorizon
15. Uousaou
16. Suberikomi Safe!?
17. Akihabara March
18. Otaku wa Tsurai yo
19.gdgd
20. Anun
21. Surechigai
22. Itami
23. Yokatta ne
24. To Aru Nichijou no Haikeiongaku
25.wktk
26. Gogo no Tea Time
27. Jitome
28. Shittori
29. Rakutan
30. Kenokan
31. Ketsui
32. Kinpaku
33. Pinch!
34.kua wse drftgy fujiko lp
35. Tsuuji Aeta Kokoro
36. Kaerimichi
37. Ikkenrakuchaku
38. Meteor Impact
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used for wedding music, quite nice as opposed to the Glee stuff.  alternate to a vocal version from "idea of north"
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Glee casts are so talented and their performances just make me happy & give power! It would be nicer if this included their performances in season 2 though.
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So I already owned and loved the music book published in the 90's, but when I saw that only two songs were repeated between the two books, I decided it would be a worthwhile purchase.  I'm really happy with the 12 additional songs that were introduced in this book (Clancy's Theme is my favorite from the film and it is in this book).  The two duplicate songs (the Main Theme and Jessica's Theme) are not exactly the same.  I find that I like the new transcription of the Main Theme, but I prefer the first version of Jessica's Theme, so overall, there are 13 songs that I will play out of this book, as well as the seven that I'll continue to play from my first Man from Snowy River songbook.
I'd say the songs are intended for an intermediate level player.  I was able to decently sight-read them, but will have to polish up some of the counting and trickier spots.
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well, I bought it for this one reason only - to have something as a fan.
The, I listened to it.
IMHO, Buffy's music from seasons 1 and 2 is very average, now seasons 3 and 4 - this is something special.
My most favorite Buffy's track (probably from the whole show run) is
A Really Big Sandbox (from "Restless"). I think it sums up pretty well the nature of the slayer; this track is so mystical, spiritual and original.
Second best would be Faith's End (from "Graduation Day").

There are 2 tracks that are sooo sad and beautiful, can potentially bring sensitive ones to tears:
Slayer's Elegy (from "The Wish")
Sacrifice (alternate version, from "The Gift").
Remebering Jenny is also very good.
other good ones are Moment of Happiness, Loneliness of Six, Sugar High, From the Grave.
Everything else is pretty poor.

Rounding up though, 5 amazing tracks on one CD  - I would rate it very high and worth a buy.
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I have every CD Glee has produced so far...and this one is right up there witht he best of them!
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I have purchased over 100 songs in the last two months after marathoning "Grey's Anatomy."  The music directors of the series should be given awards for their choices. Even when the self-righteous hypocritical characters irritate me, the music continues to draw me back.  I have also been introduced to so many new artist and their music beyond the show.
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There were many songs in this collection with so much to like.  There was obviously some that I am not familiar with or wouldn't feel are my type of music - but i'm sure its hard to put together 500 songs that would appeal to a lot of people.  It works well on my karaoke, and I'm quite satisfied!!!!
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We have bought every volume to date.  We are suckers for Glee.  WE like the tv show, even though it's a bit adult and we love the music for in the car, it's more family friendly when you can only hear and not see the video that goes with the songs.  We recommend the CD's.
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Great songs from glee in this concert.  Some good ones were a Total eclipse of the heart,  Jessie's girl and Don't rain on my parade.
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For the most part the second half of season 2 is enjoyable and packed with great musical numbers. Storylines from the first half continue such as Kurt at Dalton, Finn/Rachel, and Puck/Lauren. The Dalton Warblers, who were a cool addition at first become overexposed in this half. There are literally random musical numbers with them that have no relevance to the plot (See Bills, Bills, Bills and Animal). Blaine (played by breakout star Darren Criss) gets a larger role but very little character development. I've seen a lot of fans complain about the behavior of some of the characters this season, and while I agree with them on some points, I think that the way Finn or Santana act is exactly how some teenagers act. For instance Finn, who was cheated on by Quinn with Puck in season 1) steals Quinn from Sam. Quinn goes back to being a little like her season 1 self and pursues the prom queen crown aggressively. Finn's behavior in some of these episodes is douchey, but I felt that the reason he did some of the things he did (treating Sam like crap) was because he was still insecure about what happened with Quinn in season 1 and Rachel's small fling with Puck re-opened those wounds. By getting Quinn back he probably felt like he was getting back his pride as immature as that sounds. A story I really enjoyed was the original songs that Rachel was working on. My Headband is probably the funniest moment ever in Glee! Stand out episodes for me were The Sue Sylvester Shuffle, Blame it on the Alcohol, Rumours, Funeral and the season finale New York.
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it is ok. I had to download the music into ONE folder.  I originally had folders for each album and I could only get the first song on each album. I don't use the games, video features.
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I like almost every one of the 14 songs on the disc.  There were only two I didn't much care for.  I like the diversity of her song choices.  I think she's starting to grow as an artist.  Saw her in concert last week and she was excellent.  Did lots of her new material.  Highly recommend.