Various Artists - Soundtrack / Music From The Motion Picture Pulp Fiction
Artist Various Artists - Soundtrack
Album Title: Music From The Motion Picture Pulp Fiction
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Primary Genre Soundtrack: Film Soundtrack
Format CD
Released 09/27/1994
Label MCA Records, Inc.
Catalog No MCAD-11103
Bar Code No 0 08811 11032 1
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Pumpkin & Honey Bunny/Miserlou / Dick Dale & The Del-Tones (2:29)
(Al Green/Nicholas Roubanis)
2. Royale With Cheese / Dialogue (1:45)
(Al Green/Quentin Tarantino)
3. Jungle Boogie / Kool & The Gang (3:06)
(Al Green/Claydes Smith/Dennis Thomas/Donald Boyce)
4. Let's Stay Together / Al Green (3:17)
(Al Green/Al Jackson, Jr./Willie Mitchell)
5. Bustin' Surfboards / The Tornadoes (2:28)
(Al Green/Gerald Sanders/Jesse Sanders/Norman Delaney/Norman Sanders)
6. Lonesome Town / Ricky Nelson (2:15)
(Al Green/Baker Knight)
7. Son Of A Preacher Man / Dusty Springfield (2:28)
(Al Green/John Hurley/Ronnie Wilkins)
8. Zed's Dead Baby/Bullwinkle Part II / The Centurions (2:31)
(Al Green/Denis And Rose/Ernest Furrow)
9. You Never Can Tell / Chuck Berry (3:13)
(Al Green/Chuck Berry)
10. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon / Urge Overkill (3:10)
(Al Green/Neil Diamond)
11. If Love Is A Red Dress / Maria McKee (4:56)
(Al Green/Maria McKee)
12. Bring Out The Gimp/Comanche / Revels (2:12)
(Al Green/Revels)
13. Flowers On The Wall / The Statler Brothers (2:25)
(Al Green/Lewis C. DeWitt, Jr.)
14. Personality Goes A Long Way / Dialogue (1:02)
(Al Green)
15. Surf Rider / The Lively Ones (3:19)
(Al Green/Bob Bogle/Don Wilson/Nole Edwards)
16. Ezekiel 25:17 / Dialogue (0:54)
(Al Green/Quentin Tarantino)
17. Flowers On The Wall / The Statler Brothers (2:23)
18. Personality Goes A Long Way / No Artist (1:00)
19. Surf Rider / The Lively Ones (3:18)
20. Ezekiel 25:17 / No Artist (0:51)
Date Acquired 03/14/2011
Personal Rating
Acquired from FYE Burnsville
Purchase Price 4.49

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Notes

The tracks without artists are excerpts of dialogue from the movie.

Reviews
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's darkly funny crime classic Pulp Fiction manages to re-create the film's wildly careening sense of style, violence, and humor by concentrating on the surf music that comprises the bulk of the movie's incidental music and adding a few sexy oldies integral to the film's story ("Let's Stay Together," "Son of a Preacher Man," "You Never Can Tell"). Of course, the inclusion of dialogue and Urge Overkill's seductive cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" doesn't hurt either.


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Pumped with the same sweaty adrenaline as the movie, the soundtrack for PULP FICTION is an audio example of why director Quentin Tarantino was the most talked-about filmmaker of the 1990s. Meshing snippets of dialogue with a diverse and powerful ... Full Descriptionsoundtrack, PULP FICTION is dripping with the same seedy tension that characterizes Tarantino's films. There are moments of elegance too. Al Green's luxurious "Let's Stay Together" and Dusty Springfield's throaty "Son of a Preacher Man" show that the heart of a romantic beats behind Tarantino's mischievous grin. A generous sampling of surf rock from the likes of Dick Dale & his Del-Tones and the Tornadoes adds to the chaotic atmosphere of the three different stories within the film. The soundtrack for PULP FICTION is another homage to Tarantino's great love affair with American rock. The tongue-in-cheek delivery of Neil Diamond's "Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon," as done by Urge Overkill, brushes against the lonely-criminal sentiment of Ricky Nelson's gorgeous "Lonesome Town." Tarantino is definitely hip, and PULP FICTION's soundtrack will make you respect his ear for detail even if you haven't seen the film.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS: Amazon.com...

Dick Dale's surf-guitar provided the memorable title theme ("Misirlou"), for Quentin Tarantino's 1994 smash, and although that sound runs throughout the soundtrack (along with bits and pieces of dialog from the movie), this is a pretty eclectic bunch of really terrific songs. I don't know how it all manages to hang together, but it does (you might say the same for the interwoven stories in the movie). Where else are you going to find Chuck Berry, Maria McKee, Al Green, The Statler Brothers, Kool & the Gang, Urge Overkill (singing a Neil Diamond ballad!), Ricky Nelson, Dusty Springfield, and the Tornadoes (among others) one album? McKee's beautiful "If Love is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" is a standout, partly because it's less familiar. One of the few soundtracks of the '90s that went into the CD player and stayed there for weeks and months thereafter. --Jim Emerson
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