"it's always funny until someone gets hurt....
and then it's just hilarious"
1. 'Pumpkin And Honey Bunny'/ Misirlou
2. 'Royale With Cheese'
3. Jungle Boogie
4. Let's Stay Together
5. Bustin' Surfboards
6. Lonesome Town
7. Son Of A Preacher Man
8. 'Zed's Dead, Baby'/ Bullwinkle Part II
9. 'Jack
Rabbit Slims Twist Contest'/ You
Never Can
10. Girl,
You'll Be A Woman Soon
11. If Love Is
A Red Dress
12. 'Bring Out
The Gimp'/ Comanche
13. Flowers On
The Wall
14.
Personality Goes A Long Way
15. Surf Rider
16. 'Ezekiel
25:17'
Reviews
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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