Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack, Explicit Lyrics]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 1994)
• Original Release Date: September 27, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack, Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002OTL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,700 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #32 in Music > Country > Classic Country > Nashville Sound
  • #56 in Music > R&B > Funk > General

Track Listings

1. Misirlou - Dick Dale & His Del-Tones

2. Royale With Cheese - John Travolta

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. Bullwinkle Part II - The Centurians

9. You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry

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

11. If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags) - Maria McKee

12. Comanche - The Revels

13. Flowers On The Wall - The Statler Brothers

14. Personality Goes A Long Way - John Travolta

15. Surf Rider - The Lively Ones

16. Ezekiel 25:17 - Samuel L. Jackson

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

Product Description

1998 reissue on Simply Vinyl of MCA's smash soundtrack toQuentin Tarantino's 1994 film starring John Travolta, SamuelL. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis. Contains classicslike Urge Overkill's cover of 'Girl, You'll Be A WomanSoon', Dusty Springfield' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 43 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 (Wilkes-Barre, 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.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant and overcharming..., July 1, 2000

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Francois Couture (Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

I immediately fell in love with Pulp Fiction Soundtrack. In fact, after watching the movie (which, by the way, is excellent, and I would not hesitate to put it higher than 95th in the list of the hundred best movies of the century by the Academy) over six times, I realized that not only Tarantino's authenticity and originality were astonishing, but the music itself was fairly sufficient to call it a masterpiece.

The idea of putting some dialogue in the soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal, for it may make us recall some terrific scenes of the movie, which we could listen to or watch, or both, over and over again.

The unequal terrific thing about that soundtrack is that it covers globally and perfectly the most important parts of the movie. Listening to it carefully and trying to associate the songs with the scenes in which they are heard should be the same, or so, as watching the movie. All the important songs are there, nothing's missing (or at least, it doesn't give you any impression something's missing).

Brilliant was the idea to put the songs in chronological order or almost, for it gives you a very strong feeling you are watching Pulp Fiction itself.

The violent ending of Ezekiel 25:17 will let you in an overwhelming feeling of satisfaction. You will absolutely not regret buying this one... guaranteed!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5-Star Soundtrack For A 5-Star Movie, August 29, 2004

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Yuri Cunha "Juggalo" (Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

I will not talk about the movie, you already know it rocks, you already know it's one of the best films ever made, almost everyone agrees with that, a movie masterpiece.
This soundtrack is as good as music as the film was in characters and situations... Tarantino has done an amazing job in this soundtrack.
Even though I'm not much of a fan of music from the 50s, 60s and 70s, this soundtrack just made me love nearly every single song in it. The best songs are: Let's Stay Together, Lonesome Town, Son Of A Preacher Man, You Never Can Tell, Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon and Flowers On The Wall - all of them magnific songs. Not to mention the dialogues and the instrumental music - Misirlou and Surf Riders are movie classics.
Overall, this is a CD everyone should own. Soundtrack collectors, music fans... Everyone. If there was a Top 100 Soundtracks, you could be sure: Pulp Fiction would be in Top 5.