The Bronze
The Bronze is a nightclub in Sunnydale. It hosts live music and serves as a key place which the Scooby Gang spend time for leisure. In the opening episodes, Sprung Monkey and Dashboard Prophets establish that much of the music featured at the club is of the alternative rock and roll, though numerous styles of music are also later heard.
The Bronze appears in 66 of the 144 episodes of Buffy. The Bronze acted as a way for the production team to showcase new bands from the Los Angeles area, as well as more well known artists and bands such as Aimee Mann, Cibo Matto and Michelle Branch.
Some key musical moments at the Bronze:
- Buffy and Angel dancing to Sophie Zelmani's "I'll remember you" ("Angel")
- Buffy taunting Xander by intimately dancing with him to Cibo Matto's "Sugar Water" ("When She Was Bad")
- Buffy and Faith flirtatiously dancing to Curve's "Chinese Burn" ("Bad Girls")
- Jonathan, the superstar, performs various hits from Royal Crown Revue ("Superstar")
- Oz along with the other Scoobies hears the band, "Shy" (a fictional front for the real-life band, T.H.C.), and their lead singer Veruca ("Beer Bad"/"Wild at Heart")
- Giles performs 'Giles's Epiphany' along with Christophe Beck and Four Star Mary ("Restless")
- Willow and Tara dance together during Melanie Doane's "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" ("Family")
- Michelle Branch plays "Goodbye to You" - A performance which became particularly well noted amongst fans due to the meaning of the episode ("Tabula Rasa" featured the break-up of Willow and Tara; the departure of Giles to England; and the beginning of Buffy and Spike's relationship). The version used on the show was slightly different from the radio version. ("Tabula Rasa")
- The Breeders performed in the episode "Him" that aired November 5, 2002.
- Angie Hart performs "Blue" with her band Splendid. The song was co-written by Hart and Joss Whedon ("Conversations with Dead People")
- Aimee Mann performs "This Is How It Goes" and "Pavlov's Bell" ("Sleeper")
Read more about this topic: Music In Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Angel
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