Expert: Crystal - 11/4/2006

Question
I have just bought season one of 90210 on DVD in Australia and am disappointed to see/hear that the original songs in the episodes seem to have been replaced with different music. I haven't seen the show for years but I recall when I first watched season one on t.v. that there were lots of early 90's songs featured in the episodes, whereas the songs are more rock type music with guitar etc, not at all early 90's dance etc. An episode that comes to mind is 'isn't it romantic' when Brenda is getting ready for a date with Dylan and Kelly and Donna are helping her, I thought the song was some early 90's dance type song, instead in the episode it is soft kind of rock. Also when Brenda is upset wityh Dylan after he stood her up at the movies and she is listening to music at home, the music is very different than I remember. Do you know the original songs featured in season one episodes and why it might be the case that they aren't featured on the DVD release? This has been very disappointing as part of the enjoyment along with the fashion and actual show was the music!

Answer
Hello Kirsten,

One website that you can check out to see what songs were used in each episode is www.tv.com. They have a complete 90210 episode guide, unfortunately all songs may not be listed. That's due to no one on that site knowing what the song/artist is yet, the site is constantly being updated.

I've heard that the reason that some music was changed on the DVD release was due to music rights issues. Either it would have been too expensive or too time consuming to get each song that was replaced. However, the studio did secure one of 90210's original music supervisors when it came to changing the songs.

Hope this answered your question. Maybe we'll get lucky and more of the original music from Season 2 and on will be intact for the future releases.

Take care,
Crystal