Joss Whedon

Greetings, Park Benchers! I’m Shan, and I’ll be your guest blogger today. I normally blog over on The Nonsensical Ravings of a Lunatic Mind about television, movies, sci-fi, pop culture, news and UGA football. While the wonderful Liz is away, she’s graciously asked me to help keep you entertained.

With the recent release of the 100% awesome Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and the fact that after looking high and low for the soundtrack to Buffy’s "Once More With Feeling" on iTunes, I finally found it for download on Amazon’s MP3 site, I thought I would discuss the "singers" from those two seminal works.

This is a perfect confluence of topics to address, since I like making lists (typically, in a feature I call "The Canon"), regularly play a couch potato version of Randy, Paula and Simon with weekly American Idol reviews (the only reality show to make it past my "quality television" filter, though "quality" is a dubious term for AI), and of course, because I’m a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer nerd. So, without further ado:

The Canon: Best Whedonverse Singers

First, a few caveats. I’m only considering the pure musical episodes, meaning "Once More With Feeling" and the entirety of Dr. Horrible. So you won’t see any reference to Christain Kane, Julie Benz, Andy Hallet or David Boreanaz (Manilow!) singing on Angel, or anyone belting out "The Hero of Canton, The Man They Call Jayne" on Firefly. And I’m only ranking "series regulars," so you won’t find the sublime Hinton Battle, who portrayed the demon "Sweet" on "OMWF." ("What You Feel" is probably my most played tune from the soundtrack). Or David Fury (how many of my fellow geeks regularly proclaim "they got....the mustard....out!" loudly when getting your dry cleaning? Just me? Moving on...) or Marti Noxon (parking tickets never seemed so heartbreaking). Finally, I realize that not everyone in the Buffy cast was completely enthused, or confident, about doing a musical, so there’s no stigma attached to being at the bottom of the list.

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