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| Scrubs | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 1054
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 162353
UPC: 720616235329
EAN: 0720616235329
ASIN: B000066BZU
Release Date: September 24, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Superman - Lazlo Bane | | • | All In My Head - Shawn Mullins | | • | Fresh Feeling - Eels | | • | Good Time - Leroy | | • | Good Life - Francis Dunnery | | • | New Slang - The Shins | | • | Beautiful World - Colin Hay | | • | Hold On Hope - Guided By Voices | | • | Fighting For My Love - Nil Lara | | • | Dracula From Houston - Butthole Surfers | | • | Hooch - Everything | | • | Hallelujah - John Cale | | • | Have It All - Jeremy Kay | | • | End Credit Score - Jan Stevens | | • | Overkill - Colin Hay |
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The medically minded Scrubs is an eccentric affair, populated by a zany cast of residents saving lives while learning life's little lessons in the process. Though lacking the show's oddball humor, its soundtrack is undeniably earnest, with a rich understanding of the pleasures and hardships faced by the hospital workers. The show's theme song, Lazlo Bane's quirky banjo twanger, sighs "I'm no Superman," as an uncharacteristically subdued Guided by Voices track cautions to "Hold on Hope." Ex-Men at Work frontman Colin Hay lends his sage advice with acoustic renditions of "Beautiful World" and the chestnut "Overkill," while Eels' "Fresh Feeling" begins with a tuning orchestra and turns into a tripping beatfest. The highlights, though, belong to Francis Dunnery, sounding uncannily like Peter Gabriel on the high-tea string elegance of "Good Life," and the Shins, with "New Slang," a humble campfire song. Puttering along pleasantly, Scrubs, while a little bland, is nevertheless a life-affirming collection that's as hopeful as the aspiring young doctors on the show. --Annie Zaleski
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 Great Soundtrack April 13, 2006
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
Scrubs is one of the wittiest shows on television. It's also one of my favorites. Unlike many shows, Scrubs is a carefully integrated show. Like life itself, minor characters reappear in episodes and not just as a cardboard-character, but as fully developed individuals with their own lives and back stories that sometimes play into the main plot of the show. Continuity is important and the writers, producers, and directors go to great lengths to maintain that. Things that happened in an episode two seasons before can have ripples two years later. Every part of the show is a part of this careful integration, including the music. The music that is used on the show isn't usually the typical type of stuff that one can hear played on pop radio stations (though there are some songs like this). Not only that, each song is carefully selected and instead of distracting from the action on the small screen the songs augment whatever is happening on screen. In this way, the Music from Scrubs is more like a movie soundtrack than a television soundtrack. Not only that, but because of the sometimes obscure and relatively unknown selection choices, Music from Scrubs is a great soundtrack with almost an entire cd that is enjoyable to listen to over and over and over again. Of the 15 tracks on the album, the only song that I really don't enjoy listening to is track #4, "Good Time" by Leroy. I love every other song on the album. From the shows theme song, "Superman" by Lazlo Bane to the sad ballad of unrequited love, "Good Life" by Francis Dunnery to the upbeat "Hooch" by Everything, this is a great collection of music. Having worked in radio on and off during my life and being involved in theatre, I have built quite a collection of movie soundtracks. The Music from Scrubs is one of my favorites, if not favorite soundtrack that I own.
 got it for Colin Hay's "Overkill", but the rest is great too. January 1, 2007
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
Like many cool things, I am late to the "Scrubs party", having never seen a single episode in all of the years that it was on in first run scheduling. Lucky for me, it seems to be on many hours a day now on Comedy Central and other channels, so now I kick myself daily for not having enjoyed this show when it was in the proper sequence. I may have to invest in the DVDs to watch the correct order of this terrific show. It has everything that I love about offbeat comedic situations and characters that are truly original.
While doing my daily dose of catching up, I saw an episode in which the main character was coming to work after having a rough night of no sleep due to stress. As he passed a bench on the street, a man was strumming a guitar. That man was Colin Hay, the lead singer from "Men at work", who launches into a solo version of Overkill... "I can't get to sleep..." This was a great two and a half minutes of television, and made me a fan of the show on the spot. Colin was in various incarnations within the hospital through out the entire song still strumming that guitar and delivering one of the finest solo rendition I have heard in a long time of a song I have long forgotten from 20-something years ago. I had to have that song, so I now have this CD.
The whole CD is easy to listen to, and while I might not be in the target demographics, it is not so "young" that I can't enjoy most if not all of the songs. It might be a compilation, but other than the opening song "Superman" and off course that acoustic solo version of "Overkill", everything was new to me. What is constant is the style, so I have let this disc play through many times now and enjoy the entire group of songs. This makes a nice driving CD or a "background" CD around the house.
WANTED STEAK, got hamburger, but good hamburger November 18, 2003
20 out of 30 found this review helpful
I bought this CD for two songs - OVERKILL and SUPERMAN. First, I was disappointed that SUPERMAN was the slow song, when the upbeat version mostly used in the SCRUBS intro was what I had really hoped for. OK, I'm guessing, maybe there isn't really a fast version of this song except for the short piece recorded for the show. But then I knew I'd been cheated when the whole version of OVERKILL wasn't put on the CD! I had taped the episode this was on, and they used a whole verse in the show that was NOT put on the album! I really doubt Colin Hay recorded an extra verse for the show, which means there is a longer acoustic version of OVERKILL floating around out there somewhere. Is there some reason they couldn't put the whole song on this CD? Does anyone know where the full-length version of this song is?
Good TV Show Soundtrack January 7, 2004
14 out of 27 found this review helpful
A good compilation of music that underscores an under-rated show. Some of the songs seem a bit melancholy, but still are easy to listen to.
 Okay, but it's missing 2 must-have Scrubs songs October 10, 2002
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Scrubs is a great TV show, and the song selections on it are terrific, and so that makes this CD worth owning...But! BUT! BUT!! Two of the most memorable songs from the show are AWOL. ONE: Nil Lara's "Fighting For My Love" (From the ep "My Drug Buddy")
Remember the first time JD and Eliot hooked up, and the great song that played?
("Now I'm standing next to you. I think I've changed my point of view.") TWO: The UNDERDOG theme (from the ep "My Hero")
C'MON!! To me this is like the Dr Cox theme song. It's abscence is just about unforgivable.
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