Quentin Tarantino’s soundtracks have always been a synonym for cool. Can a person who has seen Pulp Fiction hear Urge Overkill’s "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" even again without thinking of Uma Thurman? And do you not always see Michael Madsen torturing a cop when you hear "Stuck In the Middle With You"?
Originally it looked like Ennio Morricone was going to compose an original soundtrack for Tarantino’s view on WWII but eventually that fell through. So we now have a soundtrack that features a couple of songs from Morricone’s older work along with some Lalo Schifrin and Charles Bernstein. And after having seen the movie, all it takes are the opening notes of Nick Perito’s “The Green Leaves Of Summer” to take me right back to the opening scene and put a big smile on my face.
The wildcards here are Billy Preston’s funky “Slaughter” and David Bowie’s “Cat People”, both of which probably only makes sense if you’ve seen the movie but they’re still solid songs in their own right. The exact opposite are the German cuts in the middle of the album (“Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht Unter” and “Ich Wolt Ich Waer Ein Huhn”). They were featured in the movie and they worked there, not so much on the album.
Oh well, I’ll still happily skip along from track to track all the way to the DVD release date.
Score: 7 out of 10
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