The eagerly awaited album to the '4th movie by Quentin Tarantino', Kill Bill Vol. The albums were like an indelible mix tape, and every soundtrack under the sun was soon imitating its style, whether Tarantino was in the movie or not ( Desperado, Boogie Nights, From Dusk Till Dawn, Magnolia, Out of Sight, ]Ocean's 11, Clerks). No genre was safe R&B, rockabilly, surfer-rock, kitschy blaxploitation tunes. To Tarantino, the pop tunes are the actual score of to his film: half-remembered hits from the 60's and 70's, quirky B-sides and forgotten film scores mixed in with cool monologues from the films. Sure Dogs came out in 1992, but 1994 was when everyone started listening to it.
'There have been more than a few influential film soundtracks in the nineties ( The Crow, Trainspotting, The Saint, The Matrix), but no album or albums had more influence over film soundtracks than the one-two punch of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs in 1994. In the spring of 1996, while Pulp Fiction fever was still around, a friend told me, 'the coolest thing about being Quentin Tarantino is that he gets to make everyone else listen to his personal music collection.
