Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture
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Free Music Notes for Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture
Free Music Review: the best soundtrack of the 90s!
Hit: 5 Stars
i am a fan of quentin tarantino. not a hardcore fan, but a fan nonetheless. i have loved all his movies that he has made the best being Pulp Fiction and then Reservoir Dogs. by getting the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction, and reading the track list for RD, i cam to the assumption that Mr. Tarantino loves old music. I've got one thing to say about this CD: if you like older music like Dick Dale and Dusty Springfield, then you will want this soundtrack and like it. If you want modern music that was inspired by the movie, you're not gonna get it. A bonus of this CD is the inclusion of some of the best dialogue from the movie except the first bit of dialogue which wasn't necessary. BUY THIS CD!Free Music Review: Bring on the Surf Music!!
Hit: 4 Stars
What I really like about Pulp Fiction is the way the director used rock n' roll to set the tone and mood for each scene. The thumping guitar licks really underscore the violence. What I don't like about the cd is that they left out Link Wray's 'Rumble' and 'Ace of Spades' - some of the best theme riffs of the movie.Free Music Review: What happen to Rumble?
Hit: 3 Stars
A song I haven't herd for over thirty years, it was the first song I learned to play on guitar. It brought back so many good times I had with my friends and they didn't even put it on the CD? If it was there I would have bought the CD but it wasn't. Sorry no sale.Free Music Review: Love the film, love the music, don't love how it's organized
Hit: 4 Stars
I absolutely love the music from "Pulp Fiction." Many of the songs feel so integral to the scenes, such as Bruce Willis singing along to "Flowers on the Wall," just before he runs into the very man he desperately needs to avoid. Hearing Dick Dale's surf-music theme "Misirlou" puts me instantly in the mood to see the movie again, no matter how recently I just watched it. Urge Overkill's rendition of "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" was phenomenally paired with Uma Thurman's experiments with John Travolta's heroin.But as much as I love the movie and the music, this collection leaves something to be desired. The "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack contains an interesting mix of lots of fun songs, and is fun to listen to. I would give the collection of music 5 stars, and the organization of the CD (discussed below) 1 star--hence my 4-star compromise.
My biggest objection is that the dialogue snippets just interrupt the flow of the CD. And some of the dialogue selections, in my book, aren't even the most memorable exchanges in the movie. For instance, instead of giving us Samuel L. Jackson's wonderful "Say 'WHAT?' again" exchange before blasting his victim, we get the Jack Rabbit Slim's rather inane dance competition introduction. The Royale with Cheese and the discussion about eating pork work fine. The "Zed's Dead, Baby" discussion, while enjoyable in the movie, doesn't work as well when cut out of context. In reality, if the producers of the soundtrack wanted to include movie dialogue, they could have included the Ezekiel quote at the beginning on the soundtrack, and then left off the rest.
Don't get me wrong. I have enjoyed ways that other soundtracks departed from being a strictly musical experience. Emma Thompson's reading of "Sigh No More" on the "Much Ado About Nothing" soundtrack really sets the tone for the soundtrack, and coming at the beginning of the CD, does not detract from the music.
My other dislike about the soundtrack is that the songs do not appear in the same sequence as in the movie. They aren't chronological for the "true" order of events (as opposed to the sequence-switching that Tarantino did). For me, a movie soundtrack should be a mini experience of the movie. The songs on the soundtrack appear in no discernable order. The organization does not even work aesthetically.
If you have a CD player that enables programming your preferences for a particular CD, however, all of these objections could be resolved. You could omit the excess dialogue and re-order the music in a more appealing sequence.
Free Music Review: I usually don't like Soundtrack compilations, but....
Hit: 5 Stars
This is got to be the best one ever. It's a great array of different songs that fit the tone of the movie and are mostly relevant with the time period it took place in. With songs like "Misirlou", "Jungle Boogie", "Let's Stay Together", "Bustin' Surfboards", "Girl You'll be a Woman Soon", Flowers ion the Wall", "Son of a Preacher Man", and "Surf Rider." Plus dialogue like "royale With Cheese" make this soundtrack a necessity for anyone. Al Green, Kool & the Gang, and Dusty Springfield. Come on get it, it's excellent stuff.