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Kill Bill: Volume 1
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Kill Bill: Volume 1
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
 
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Fashion be damned: Pop culture is just one big Hometown Buffet for writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Nowhere has that sensibility been more apparent than on his hand-picked soundtrack choices, and this oft tongue-in-ch...  more »

     

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All Artists: Ost
Title: Kill Bill: Volume 1
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Maverick
Original Release Date: 10/10/2003
Re-Release Date: 9/23/2003
Album Type: Enhanced, Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093624857020

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Fashion be damned: Pop culture is just one big Hometown Buffet for writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Nowhere has that sensibility been more apparent than on his hand-picked soundtrack choices, and this oft tongue-in-cheek tale of a female assassin's revenge (his first film in six years) is no exception. With dizzy, almost palpable glee, Tarantino evokes the international hall-of-mirrors influences that energize martial arts films and much of Asian pop culture in general. Thus the hip-hop of Wu Tang's RZA (who, along with composer Charles Bernstein, concocts what passes for the score's traditional cues) somehow finds itself but one ingredient in a heady souffle that includes vintage TV and film cue rarities (Al Hirt's main title from The Green Hornet, Bernard Herrmann's haunting theme from Twisted Nerve, the spaghetti western melodrama of Luis Bacalov's "The Grand Duel," Isaac Hayes in full blaxploitation mode on "Run Fay Run"), Charlie Feathers' vintage rockabilly and a pan-kitsch sensibility that encompasses Zamfir, Nancy Sinatra's angst-in-the-pants take "Bang, Bang" and Santa Esmeralda's disco-era workout of "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." Tarantino's contemporary Japan-Pop selections are no less giddy, ranging from Meiko Kaji's sultry "Flower of Carnage" to The 5.6.7.8's loopy "Woo Hoo." It's everything we've come to expect from a Tarantino score (including dialog excerpts and a few sound fx stingers), with a madcap trip around the pop music world thrown in for good measure. -- Jerry McCulley

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Matthew G. from MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Reviewed on 8/8/2006...
awesome, amazing. except for a song or two, one of my favorite soundtracks. and of course the song that is one of the best is by bernard herrmann of "taxi driver" fame. the meiko kaji track is enough to bring a tear to your eye.

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Makes me want to watch the movie (again)
Z. G. Williams | 04/30/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack proves that Tarantino knows how to pick his music. From Nancy Sinatra's voice to short sound clips, you're able to reminisce to the time when you first saw the movie. However, as with most movie soundtracks, this will likely be more to a fan's liking over someone who didn't watch or just didn't like the movie."