The Dead Zone SoundTrack Makes The Grade

The Kansas City Star gives a list of TV Soundtracks worth looking at.

“The Dead Zone”

(Lions Gate)

** 1/2

Not to be confused with “The Dead Zone: Music From Season One,” this compilation includes music “from and inspired by” the TV series. The only two songs on both are Jeff Buckley's stellar “New Years Prayer” and Anthony Michael Hall's cover of Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah,” which is about four dollars short of Rufus Wain wright's money cover on the “Shrek” soundtrack. The rest is a decent mix of adult-contemporary rock and pop (Grant-Lee Phillips, Ron Sexsmith), alt-pop (Truman, the Woods), neo-punk (the Vandals) and funk-fried reggae/rap (Kia Kidari). The fish out of water here also delivers the album's standout cut: “Blind Pilots” from the Cooper Temple Clause, who cast some much-needed darkness on the edge of this bright, clean town.

“Golden State”