Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition) - Soundtrack

"Pulp Fiction" wasnt the first movie whose mood grew from the pop songs that became its soundtrack. E.g., "American Graffiti" found motivation in popular music much earlier, providing a huge boost to 50s music nostalgia. "Pulp Fiction" helped fuel a popular resurgence of surf music, but more importantly, it was the film whose director spent a great deal of time discussing his music-inspired methodology. At the time of the films release, Quentin Tarantino consumed numerous interview inches discoursing on his technique for drawing a film from his record collection.

For those who didnt hear or read Tarantinos explanation the first time around, MCAs "Collectors Edition" soundtrack (issued to accompany the films DVD reissue) adds a 16-minute "interview" (actually, a non-stop monolog), as well as four tracks left off the original CD. The extra songs are terrific, but expanding to two discs solely to accommodate the 1994 interview (disc one contains the music, disc two the interview) positions this more for Tarantino groupies than anyone else.