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Quentin Tarantino recommended Revenge by Jack Nitzsche in Music (curated)

 
Revenge by Jack Nitzsche
Revenge by Jack Nitzsche
1990 | Soundtrack
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Out of all the soundtracks, this is the best. It’s from a Tony Scott movie – he directed True Romance – and it’s a very lush, elegant score. You don’t need to know the film to enjoy the soundtrack: It works in its own right."

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Under Fire by Jerry Goldsmith
Under Fire by Jerry Goldsmith
1992 | Soundtrack
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"‘The Main Theme’ is one of the greatest pieces of music written for a movie. It’s so haunting, so beautiful, – full of pan flutes and stuff. It’s shattering y’know – like a Morricone theme. Oddly enough, ‘The Main Theme’ works really well, but they never play it over the opening credits. They play it over the middle and during the closing credits, which is very strange"

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Quentin Tarantino recommended Sisters by Bernard Herrmann in Music (curated)

 
Sisters by Bernard Herrmann
Sisters by Bernard Herrmann
1975
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This is from a Brian De Palma movie. It’s a pretty scary film, and the soundtrack… ok if you want to freak yourself out, turn out all the lights and sit in the middle of the room and listen to this. You won’t last a minute. When I’m first thinking about a movie I’ll start looking for songs that reflect the personality of the movie, I’ll start looking for songs which can reflect the personality of the movie. The record I think most about is the one which plays during the opening credits, because that’s the one which sets the tone of the movie. Like in Reservoir Dogs, when you see the guys all walking out of the diner, and that bass line from ‘Little Green Bag’ kicks in – you just know there’s gonna be trouble."

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The Great Escape by Elmer Bernstein
The Great Escape by Elmer Bernstein
1963
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Album Favorite

"I used to have a huge collection of film soundtracks. I don’t get enthusiastic about them any more, though, because now most soundtracks are just a collection of rock songs, half of which don’t even appear in the movie. This is a real classic. It has a great min theme which brings the movie right into your head. All the tracks hold up – it’s so damn effective. It took me ages to get hold of a copy, and, Jeez, I almost wept when I finally did."

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Quentin Tarantino recommended The Highwayman by Phil Ochs in Music (curated)

 
The Highwayman by Phil Ochs
The Highwayman by Phil Ochs
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Album Favorite

"I’m cheating again. This is an Alfred Noyes poem, which Ochs arranged for music. The vocal has made me burst into tears more times than I care to remember."

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I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
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"OK, from now on these aren’t in any order. It’s the same with movies: I have my three favourite – Taxi Driver, Blow Out and Rio Bravo – and after that it depends on my mood. This is one of my favourite protest/folk albums. While Dylan was a poet Ochs was a musical journalist: He was a chronicler of his time, filled with humour and compassion. He’d write songs which would seem very black and white, and then , in the last verse, he’d say something which, like, completely shattered you. A song I love very much on this album is ‘Here’s To The State of Mississippi’ – Basically, it’s everything the movie Mississippi Burning should have been."

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The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley
The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley
1976 | Pop
8.3 (3 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This has been a hugely important album to me. I was always a big rockability fan and a big Elvis fan, and to me this album is the purest expression of Elvis there was. Sure, there are better individual songs – but no one collection ever touched the album. When I was young, I used to think Elvis was the voice of truth. I don’t know what that means, but his voice… shit man, it sounded so fucking pure. If you grew up loving Elvis, this is it. Forget the Vegas period: if you really love Elvis, you’re ashamed of that man in Vegas. You feel like he let you down. The hillbilly cat never let you down."

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Band of Gold/Contact/Best Of/Reaching Out by Freda Payne
Band of Gold/Contact/Best Of/Reaching Out by Freda Payne
2009 | Rock
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"I’m a gigantic music fan. I love fifties rock‘n’roll, Chess, Sun, Motown. All the Merseybeat bands, Sixties girl groups, folk. This is just so cool: it’s a combination of the way it’s produced, the cool pop/R&B sound, and Freda’s voice. Its kinda kitschy in a way – y’know, it’s got a really up-tempo tune – and, the first few times I heard it, I was, like, totally into the coolness of the song. It was only on the third or fourth listen I realised the lyrics were so fucking heartbreaking"

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