Weeds: Music from the Original Series [Soundtrack]
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Weeds is a funny title for a show about a funny plant, so you can expect the soundtrack to have a good sense of humor too. It does. "Little Boxes" takes aim at suburban life, while, per usual, Nellie McKay uses her slightly precious sound to typical, sarcastic effect. Michael Franti & Spearhead's "Ganja Babe" and NRBQ's "Wacky Tobacky" capture the subject matter so well that listening could lead to a contact high. And tracks from the New Pornographers and Sufjan Stevens are there to remind us that Showtime knows What's Hot Now. Don't worry if you've never seen the show--you don't need to enjoy Weeds to appreciate this excellent compilation. Of course, there's no conclusive, scientific evidence of harm to those who do. --Leah Weathersby
Product Description
WEEDS is from the mind of Jenji Kohan (Creator/Writer/Executive Producer), an award-winner whose credits include "Sex and The City," "Boston Common," "Gilmore Girls," "Will & Grace" "Tracey Takes On," and "Adventures In Television."
Nancy Botwin, played by Mary-Louise Parker, struggles with the sudden death of her husband and agonizes over how she'll support and raise two young boys on her own. Without any discernable career skills, the widow Botwin finds good-paying work as the local pot dealer in the pristine, new LA suburb known as Agrestic. There's definitely a double meaning when this girl puts on her Mary Janes.
• Showtime is launching "Weeds" with much fanfare as their string of innovative original hit programming grows (Queer As Folk, Fat Actress). • The Network is airing "Weeds" five nights a week at 10pm, starting Sunday August 7th. • The show prominently features interesting music (think Queer As Folk, Sopranos).
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Weeds: Music from the Original Series [Soundtrack]
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- Weeds Soundtrack is AWESOME!
- Great mix
- HEY KIDS - BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK!
- Terrificlly original and slightly odd music from a terrificlly original and slightly odd show.
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Weeds: Music from the Original Series
Original TV Soundtrack
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Similar Items:
- Weeds - Season One
- Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends
- Weeds - Season Two
- Six Feet Under
- Ear to the Ground
ASIN: B000ARWIDU
Release Date: 2005-09-13 |
Tracks:
- Malvina Reynolds - "Little Boxes"
- Nellie McKay - "David"
- Peggy Lee - "A Doodlin' Song"
- Sufjan Stevens - "All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands"
- Michael Franti & Spearhead - "Ganja Babe"
- All Too Much - "More Than A Friend"
- Sons & Daughters - "Blood"
- The New Pornographers - "The Laws Have Changed"
- Joey Santiago - "Fake Purse"
- NRBQ - "Wacky Tobacky"
- Marion Black - "Who Knows"
- Martin Creed - "I Can't Move"
- The Mountain Goats - "Cotton"
- Joey Santiago - "Birthday Video"
- Flogging Molly - "If I Ever Leave This World Alive"
- The Be Good Tanyas - "The Littlest Birds"
- Hill Of Beans Satan Lend Me A Dollar
Amazon.com
Weeds is a funny title for a show about a funny plant, so you can expect the soundtrack to have a good sense of humor too. It does. "Little Boxes" takes aim at suburban life, while, per usual, Nellie McKay uses her slightly precious sound to typical, sarcastic effect. Michael Franti & Spearhead's "Ganja Babe" and NRBQ's "Wacky Tobacky" capture the subject matter so well that listening could lead to a contact high. And tracks from the New Pornographers and Sufjan Stevens are there to remind us that Showtime knows What's Hot Now. Don't worry if you've never seen the show--you don't need to enjoy Weeds to appreciate this excellent compilation. Of course, there's no conclusive, scientific evidence of harm to those who do. --Leah Weathersby
Album Description
WEEDS is from the mind of Jenji Kohan (Creator/Writer/Executive Producer), an award-winner whose credits include "Sex and The City," "Boston Common," "Gilmore Girls," "Will & Grace" "Tracey Takes On," and "Adventures In Television."
Nancy Botwin, played by Mary-Louise Parker, struggles with the sudden death of her husband and agonizes over how she'll support and raise two young boys on her own. Without any discernable career skills, the widow Botwin finds good-paying work as the local pot dealer in the pristine, new LA suburb known as Agrestic. There's definitely a double meaning when this girl puts on her Mary Janes.
• Showtime is launching "Weeds" with much fanfare as their string of innovative original hit programming grows (Queer As Folk, Fat Actress). • The Network is airing "Weeds" five nights a week at 10pm, starting Sunday August 7th. • The show prominently features interesting music (think Queer As Folk, Sopranos).
Customer Reviews:
LOVE IT!.......2007-01-08
I love this ecclectic collection of songs. I'd never have known about so many of the bands that are featured on this CD, but now I am a fan of more than half of them. This is a great CD.
Weeds Soundtrack is AWESOME!.......2006-11-10
The 'Weeds' soundtrack is a wonderfully eclectic blend of musical genres with one underlying theme. Starting with Malvina Reynolds scathing ode to suburbia, followed by Nellie McKay's bouncy tune - "David". Classic Peggy Lee. Ethereal Sufjan Stevens. Michael Franti and Spearhead light up "Ganja Baby"! Seventeen winning songs that end with Hill of Beans "Satan Lend Me a Dollar" - just TRY not sing when that starts playing!! Well worth the money.
Great mix.......2006-11-10
I've listened to this ST straight througha number of times. A solid, exciting, mellow mix of good music whether or not you like to "medicate."
recommended for the music lover or pothead to enjoy.
HEY KIDS - BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK!.......2006-08-27
Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes" is indeed an older song. Still not funny to the people of Daly City, who DO live in boxes that are red, green, yellow and purple. When you become a doddering old grandpa trying to explain the significance of NIRVANA's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and your grandkids are staring back blankly, you'll come to understand the respect that is shown here for a song that ripped the flesh off the mindless masses of the 1950's - which are trying to re-assert themselves today (read any newspaper lately?). Aside from Roy Zimmerman, there are no satirists working today that have the bite and charm of Malvina. Her song about the mouse that f***cked up the computer was 40 years ahead of its time. Let's talk, after you put on a few more years!
Terrificlly original and slightly odd music from a terrificlly original and slightly odd show........2006-07-20
I rented the first season of Showtime's "Weeds" on a whim this past weekend. I had heard good things and the show featured an intriguing and fresh concept as well as a talented, diverse and funny cast. My gamble paid off as I quickly breezed through the entire series and found I had discovered a great show. Besides the aforementioned assets, the other thing that struck me about "Weeds" was its eclectic mix of terrific music. Some of them are odd little numbers, all of them though display the same subversive wit and in-your-face, literal lyrics that the show's writing itself does. My biggest (and maybe only) complaint about the show and its soundtrack is the horrible theme song, "Little Boxes." Yes, I get why it is appropriate and used in the show, and I also understand that the sheer oddity in which it is performed is why many people will like it, or at least find it curiously entertaining. But to these ears it is an utter chore to endure during the opening credits, much less in it's extended form here. I'd compare it to nails on a chalkboard, but that would be an insult to both that person's nails and the chalkboard. Other than that song though, this is a terrific, eclectic mix album. It may get old listen after listen after listen. I'd wager most would agree, you have to be in the mood for many of the songs included here, and there isn't really a "typical" song, like you'd hear on top 40 radio (a refreshing, good thing in my book) in the bunch. But as an album to pull out now and then, or to just appreciate some dry, witty, poetry and prose style lyrics (se "Wacky Tobacky" and "Satan, Lend Me a Dollar" for two big examples), this album might just be some sort of masterpiece. Like the series, this album is a true original - and in this day and age (in both music and television) that is a compliment of the tallest order.
Average customer rating:
- Quirky and fun mix of tunes
- Cool crazy tunes -no pruning required!
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Weeds: Music from the Original Series, Vol. 2
Original TV Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Lion's Gate Records
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Similar Items:
- Weeds: Music from the Original Series
- Weeds - Season One
- Weeds - Season Two
- Ear to the Ground
- Six Feet Under
ASIN: B000HLDEW8
Release Date: 2006-10-17 |
Tracks:
- Elvis Costello - "Little Boxes"
- Zeroleen - "All Good"
- Of Montreal - "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games"
- Jenny Owen Youngs - "F***, Was I"
- Fern Jones - "Strange Things Are Happening"
- (The Real) Tuesday Weld - "Bathtime In Clerkenwell"
- Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Young Jay - "Shane Digs Gretchen"
- Rogue Wave - "Kicking The Heart Out"
- Regina Spektor - "The Ghost Of Corporate Future"
- Dengue Fever - "One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula"
- Aidan Hawken - "Neighborhood"
- Squirrel Nut Zippers - "It Ain't You"
- Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Young Jay - "From Agrestic to Las Vegas"
- The 88 - "Not Enough"
- Sufjan Stevens - "Holland"
- Gwendolyn Sanford & Brandon Young Jay - "Huskaroo TV Spot"
Customer Reviews:
Quirky and fun mix of tunes.......2007-03-10
When I played this I just got happy. What an eclectic mix of great songs. Not unlike the show.
Cool crazy tunes -no pruning required!.......2007-01-09
Geat CD filled with cool and crazy tunes you are unlikely to hear anywhere else. It lost a star for me for two reasons-I prefer the original version of "little boxes" and am not a great fan of cover versions, and secondly because there is one track I dislike enough that I skip over it every time-a strangely dicordant and jarring anomaly considering the other great music selected for this album. I own both WEEDS original soundtrack CD's and spin them endlessly!
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