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Dead Zone

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As a big fan of the Dead Zone, I jumped at the chance to get the soundtrack. It was great and I loved it. I played it so much that I wore the CD out and had to buy a new one. I purchased this CD in December 2005 and when i got it I popped it in and realized that this CD is not the same as the first one I had. After some research, I found out that there are 2 versions of the soundtrack -- version one = "Music from Season One" and is more of a jazzy, bluesy CD. Version two = this CD and is more rock based. Haven't been able to find version one, but here are the track listings:

The Dead Zone Music From Season One Original Soundtrack Album

1. New Year's Prayer
2. Have A Little Mercy
3. Esta Noche
4. Hallelujah
5. The Perfect Flaw
6. Alaska
7. I'll Be Seeing You
8. Strutting with Kira
9. Perfidia
10. Ay He Nockio
11. It's Murder Out There
12. War Paint
13. Uptown Music
14. Alive
15. Sleepwalk
16. Sarah's Love Theme
17. Illusion
18. Melting

New Track Listing (This CD):

"Music From and Inspired By the Hit Series 'The Dead Zone'"

1. Here It Comes - Longwave
2. Morning Light - Truman
3. Blind Pilots
4. New Years Prayer - Jeff Buckley
5. Someone Like Me
6. Dirty Secret - Grant Lee Phillips
7. Beautiful Thing - Andy Stochansky
8. Good Times
9. Help Me (I'm Going Out of My Mind) - Stereophonics
10. Unseen Tears of the Albacore - The Vandals
11. Revelation - Fredalba
12. Hallelujah
13. Tomorrow in Her Eyes - Ron Sexsmith
14. 6 Ft. Under - The Woods
15. True Soul

The "new" version is good, but the first was better; therefore; only 4 out of 5 for this soundtrack.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SOUNDTRACK AND NOT THE ONE CURRENTLY ON SALE FROM AMAZON.COM, ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE TRACKS ARE THE SAME! Cheers, Lozzie xxx

Anyone who has ever seen The Dead Zone television series starring Anthony Michael Hall, will probably appreciate that the production team take a great deal of time and effort over even the smallest elements of the show. This attention to detail seems to be a running theme, and the soundtrack for the first season of the show is no exception to this rule. This album stands alone as a varied and eclectic collection of music spanning 5 decades.

Beginning with Jeff Buckley's haunting song "New Years Prayer" a remixed version of which is used in the programme's opening credits, the album moves at a dizzy pace through Cuban Son (The Puentes Brothers), Native American music (Chris and Deanna Gestrin), pulsing club music (Meat Katie), rap (War Paint ft. Buc Fifty) and three 1940s swing classics sung by Pat Caird. Her rendition of "I'll Be Seeing You" is particularly evocative, and is a perfect compliment to the moving final scenes of the episode "Enigma", which by his own admission still makes the programme's beefy leading man cry like a baby whenever he hears it. Also included is the 60s slide-guitar classic "Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny and the beautiful 1967 R & B song by Jean Wells, "Have A Little Mercy On Me".

One of the show's producers is Shawn Piller, and the album is also a shameless plug for his wife Lindsay Price. Her elegant and soulful song "Melting" is included, despite not actually being used in the show itself as far as anyone can make out. Piller has his own record label and stable of talented young acts, including The Woods from Los Angeles and Fredalba. Also included on the album is Anthony Michael Hall's rendition of the Leonard Cohen classic "Hallelujah". Hall experimented a lot with music in his early 20s, eventually producing an album called "Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors" (now sadly deleted). But his version of Hallelujah, which I had the privilege to see him perform live in New York a couple of years ago, shows just how very much this actor has grown up since his 80s film career. Likewise another man who made his mark in the 80s, Roy Hay from Culture Club, demonstrates his "new" maturity. He is the composer for The Dead Zone, and his incidental music is a huge part of the show. On this compilation he is showcased with the track "Sarah's Love Theme". Moving stuff.

I love The Dead Zone. I own all of the. I was so said that they stop the show. I miss it a lot. It was a great show.

I never watched the Dead Zone but I was a big fan of the show Wildfire seen on the Family channel. Morning Light was the theme song of the show and is the best track on the CD.

I bought this CD largely on the basis of the review stating that Jeff Buckley's "New Year's Prayer" was used as the opener. I know I missed the first season and all or part of the second but New Year's Prayer on this CD sounds nothing like the opening instrumental piece used 3rd & 4th seasons.I don't recognize any of the music or even get a sense of the show from it. Some of it isn't bad, Anthony Michael Hall's "Hallelujah" has some good to it, but most is better for the 18 yr. old crowd, not me. I think at least as little of the packaging, instead of a plastic jewel case you get a paper folder with a plastic CD hold tray glued into it. What liner notes there are will be found under that- in tiny print they're hard to read under that thing.

Where can I get the original soundtrack? My daughter wants it for her birthday on Feb 5th and I can't find it anywhere! HELP!

msfields@earthlink.net