Dramatic spaghetti Western soundtrack cuts mingled with retro country tracks like Jim Croce’s ‘I Got A Name’ and specially composed contemporary soul and rap tunes from Rick Ross, John Legend, Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton.īest music moment: The sampledelic marriage of James Brown and Tupac on ‘Unchained’, bringing a historic defiance to Jamie Foxx’s after-dinner shoot-out rampage through the Candyland plantation.ĭue to the movie being something of a blaxploitation homage, Tarantino’s third soundtrack was rather more one-note than its predecessors. Johnny Cash, Charlie Feathers and Ennio Morricone cuts provided the steamy Western vibes, but too much of the record could count as mood music and ‘About Her’, Malcolm McLaren’s manipulated, string heavy version of The Zombies’ ‘She’s Not There’, was a drag and a half.īest music moment: The Bride facing off against Ellie in a trailer-based samurai fight, full of evil revelations and blink-and-you-miss-it eye extractions, to the tense drama of Morricone’s ‘A Silhouette Of Doom’.Ĭombining two of Tarantino’s core obsessions – Westerns and African-American culture – Django Unchained proved fertile sonic ground. 2 – and paying him just $1 for the privilege – Tarantino produced his only real dud of a soundtrack in the Kill Bill Vol.

1’s soundtrack chief RZA with his director friend Robert Rodriguez for Vol. His deep-diving soundtrack albums have been among the best in the genre, but which are Inglorious and which the top Dogs? Let’s rank ‘em up.

Ever since Mr Brown detailed his non-conformist interpretation of Madonna’s ‘Like A Virgin’ over lunch and the Reservoir Dogs took to the street in their Rat Pack suits to the choogling groove of ‘Little Green Bag’, music has been central to the cinematic oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino.

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