Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition) [Collector's Edition, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 20, 2002)
• Original Release Date: October 14, 1994
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Collector's Edition, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B00006F1LX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,218 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny/Misirlou - Dick Dale & His Del-Tones

2. Royale With Cheese

3. Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang

4. Let's Stay Together - Al Green

5. Bustin' Surfboards - The Tornadoes

6. Lonesome Town - Ricky Nelson

7. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

8. Zed's Dead, Baby/Bullwinkle Part II - The Centurians

9. Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest/You Can Never Tell - Chuck Berry

10. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Interview With Quentin Tarantino

Customer Reviews

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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great soundtrack to a great movie, May 25, 2004

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John Alapick (Harveys Lake, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

The soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's breakthrough movie Pulp Fiction is arguably one of the best soundtrack albums you'll ever hear. Like Tarantino's other movie soundtracks like Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, it combines a few great songs that were past hits with tracks that most music listeners have never heard before. Unlike those soundtracks, Pulp Fiction is great from beginning to end with the more obscure tracks being arguably better than the more established songs.

All of the tracks here that were past hits are very strong. Kool & The Gang's "Jungle Boogie" is one of the best funk jams from the '70s. Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" is '70s soul at its best. Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell", Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man", Ricky Nelson's "Lonesome Town", and the Statler Brothers' "Flowers On The Wall" with its catchy chorus are also great tracks. Any movie soundtrack containing these tracks would be pretty good. But what really puts this album over the top are the more obscure tracks or "deep cuts." Dick Dale's "Misirlou" is a killer track that resurrected the surf guitar king's career. Urge Overkill's version of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" is an outstanding track which is even better than the original. The tracks "Bustin' Surfboards" and "Surf Rider" are also great. But it's the somber acoustic track "If Love Is A Red Dress" with Maria McKee's fantastic vocal performace and whistling hook that steals the show. The snippets from the movie are some of its best moments, especially "Royale With Cheese" and Samuel Jackson's closing "Ezekiel 25:17." The tracks are also sequenced very well, never putting songs from the same genre or mood together. All told, this is a great soundtrack to what was arguably one of the best movies of the '90s. Highly recommended.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This time they got it REALLY right., December 29, 2003

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Brent A. Anthonisen "Johnny Sideburns" (Alpharetta, GA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition) (Audio CD)

The initial release of the "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack was every bit as innovative as the film itself; after it was released to generally positive reviews everyone suddenly had to have snippets of film dialogue interspersing the songs featured in (or inspired by) their movies and Quentin Tarantino completed his video store clerk's revenge by being able to credibly claim to be influencing not only film for the last half of the 1990's but also film sountrack production as well.

The only trouble was that the original soundtrack CD, a complete blast to listen to under any circumstance, wasn't nearly as complete as it could have been. Most of the music from the "Jackrabbit Slim's" sequence was left off (most notably Link Wray's classic "Rumble", from the "uncomfortable silence" bit, made even more noticeable due to the, uh, uncomfortable silence).

This re-issue (sorry, "collector's edition") of the soundtrack, timed to co-ordinate with the re-issue of the previously bare-bones "Pulp Fiction" DVD in 2002 goes miles toward correcting this oversight, providing signature songs instantly recognizable from their respective scenes in the movie (assuming you've seen the movie as often as I have) and one, the Brothers Johnson classic cover of "Strawberry Letter #23" that I can't seem to recall from the movie to save my life...but it too is a welcome addition, completely in place with the rest of the songs.

It would have been nice to have added a couple more splices of film dialogue as well, but that's a piddling request in light of the very-badly needed material that finally makes its way onto the disc.

As for Tarantino's 16:09 "interview" that takes up the second disc, chances are you've heard it before...there really isn't much new ground broken here (although the revelation that "My Sharona" was QT's original choice for Ving Rhames, uh, "love scene" was pretty interesting), as Tarantino made sure to milk his status as Hollywood's "flavor of the month" for all it was worth back in the day to ensure we all understood his love for all things '70's and the manner by which his movies find their way out of his (no doubt vinyl) record collection. The second disc could very likely been put to better use than this, but of course it IS completely separate from the proper soundtrack itself so it's not as though it actually interferes with your enjoyment of a great soundtrack CD made even better the second time around.

54 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inflated reissue of fine soundtrack, August 30, 2002

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition) (Audio CD)

"Pulp Fiction" wasn't the first movie whose mood grew from the pop songs that became its soundtrack. E.g., "American Graffiti" found motivation in popular music much earlier, providing a huge boost to '50s music nostalgia. "Pulp Fiction" helped fuel a popular resurgence of surf music, but more importantly, it was the film whose director spent a great deal of time discussing his music-inspired methodology. At the time of the film's release, Quentin Tarantino consumed numerous interview inches discoursing on his technique for drawing a film from his record collection.

For those who didn't hear or read Tarantino's explanation the first time around, MCA's "Collector's Edition" soundtrack (issued to accompany the film's DVD reissue) adds a 16-minute "interview" (actually, a non-stop monolog), as well as four tracks left off the original CD. The extra songs are terrific, but expanding to two discs solely to accommodate the 1994 interview (disc one contains the music, disc two the interview) positions this more for Tarantino groupies than anyone else.

Those interested enough to sit through Tarantino's self-aggrandizing film-geek commentary (at least, more than once) will have already heard what he has to say. Those who just want to relive the film, and enjoy the music, are saddled with an extra disc at added cost. To be fair, the price increase also covers royalties for the four additional track, but the addition of an entire disc to convey an eight-year-old 16 minute Jolt-fueled ramble seems like a vanity project.

The four additional tracks (The Robins' "Since I First Met You," Link Wray's "Rumble," Brothers Johnson's "Strawberry Letter #23," and The Marketts' "Out of Limits") have been added to the end of the standard-issue track list. This "Collectors Edition" features the same running order as the original, with the same dialog clips (with the same lack of banding on several, making it difficult to program them out, should you tire of them).

Given Tarantino's method, the soundtrack necessarily captures the mood of the film very well. From the rush of Dick Dale's opening "Misirlou" through Urge Overkill's cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Now" and the Statler Brother's "Flowers on the Wall," this is equal parts film soundtrack and Quentin Tarantino mix-tape. What's odd is that the song order doesn't seem to match the movie. Perhaps as a mix-tape the album's producers felt the film's song order didn't hold up. This is a shame, since it reduces the listener's experience of the album as a film soundtrack (though, of course, a programmable CD player quickly solves the problem).

Original soundtrack (4 stars) - interview disc (1/2 star) + bonus tracks (1/2 star) = 4 stars.