"Pulp Fiction" by Quentin Tarantino - a selection of the best soundtracks
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"Pulp Fiction" is a legendary film by Quentin Tarantino, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and, in fact, the director himself. Before the viewer unfolds several stories at once: the robbery of a cafe, philosophical discussions of two gangsters, the rescue of a girl and a boxer, who was struck for life ... The title refers to the popular in the middle of the last century American magazines: in their style were designed and posters of the film. Today, "Pulp Fiction" is the owner of more than forty film awards, including the "Palme d'Or"! Not without reason this film is considered to be one of the greatest achievements in the career of the American film director... However, today we will talk not about the film itself, but about its musical accompaniment! Yes, yes, today we will remember the soundtracks from Pulp Fiction.
The soundtrack was released in September 1994. Most of the album is surf-rock tracks: there are old but still hot songs, dialogue from the film and, of course, a great cover of "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon". In a word - the soundtrack perfectly recreates the atmosphere of the film! It's not for nothing that Rolling Stone put the album on its list of the greatest soundtracks of all time... As of May 2014, the disc has sold about 4 million copies....
"Misirlou."
Dick Dale's fiery, quivering guitar playing literally lights up Pulp Fiction almost as excitedly as Amanda Plummer threatening to "execute every last one of them" in the opening scene... It's pretty safe to say that this watery guitar sound also defined this gorgeous film... The Boston surf guitarist released this track in 1962: as Dick Dale himself claimed, he recorded it 95 times!
"It's a very strong trump card to have 'Misirlou' at the very beginning of the film!" - Tarantino said in 1994. "It just tells you that you're watching an epic, you're watching a big cool film... It's just challenging!"
"Jungle Boogie"
Tarantino said he chose the track because it was "intense" and carried with it "a seventies feel..."
"Let's Stay Together"
In Pulp Fiction, "Let's Stay Together" plays when Marcellus Wallace asks Butch Cullidge to fall down in a boxing match. Tarantino said he used the track in this scene as a "hypnotic score" ....
"I really want the songs I use in the film to work at the very core of the scene..."
"Bustin' Surfboards"
Everything about this track is great: the stupefied dips in bars, the calm drumbeat and the ocean sound effects...
"Lonesome Town"
Songwriter Baker Knight, who would later be diagnosed with agoraphobia, said the song was personal to him and that the "Lonely Town" in question was the city he lived in:
"It was Hollywood," he said. "I was sitting in the middle of it all. I was broke, didn't know what I was going to do. My manager was giving me a few dollars, supporting me, paying my rent..."
"Son of a Preacher Man"
The song plays as John Travolta's character Vincent Vega talks to a drugged Wallace on an intercom, trying to imagine what she looks like.
"That scene was in my head for six or seven years," Tarantino said in 1994, "and it always made me imagine 'the preacher's son'..."
"Zed's Dead, Baby/Bullwinkle Part II."
"You Never Can Tell"
Chuck Berry wrote this song while serving time in Springfield, Missouri's Federal Medical Centre prison. But perhaps more interesting is the fact that rock's great guitar hero barely plays guitar in his 1964 single, which combines a huge number of boogie-woogie piano and saxophone solos!
"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon."
"If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)"
The only original song from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack is easy to miss when watching the film, but impossible to forget. And remembering this song, you will certainly remember a scene from the film....
"You really do what films do better than any other art form... And if you do it right, you can never hear that song again without thinking of that image from the film..." - Tarantino said.
"Comanche."
The track "Comanche" was not Quentin Tarantino's first choice for the scene in which Marcellus Wallace is abused by a pawnshop owner and a security guard... No, his first choice was "My Sharona" by The Knack.
"There's a really good element of sodomy in 'My Sharona,' if you think about it," he said in 1994. I thought it was so funny... The director approached the band, but one of the members of The Knack turned out to be a born-again Christian or something. Of course, he turned it down..."
Looking back, Tarantino said he's glad things worked out the way they did because "My Sharona" would have been "too cutely comical" in his words.