Interscope Records celebrates the 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s landmark film and soundtrack Pulp Fiction with a glow-in-the-dark vinyl edition. The music featured in the movie was the perfect marriage with the smash hit film of 1994. Unusually, no score music was commissioned for Tarantino’s film, so the album stood as a celebration of the stirring collection of pop, rock, surf music, country, soul and rock ‘n’ roll that was such a key part of the movie’s success. The album features a fascinating cross-section of well-known hits, obscure revivals and remakes, combined in a package that was so popular, it sparked a surf music craze, helped launch the career of Urge Overkill, and brought Dick Dale, Kool & the Gang, Dusty Springfield and others to a new generation.

Dick Dale’s “Misirlou,” with his group the Del-Tones, became the opening music for the film and the album, making the American surf guitar king cooler than he’d been for decades. British instrumental favourites the Tornadoes’ “Bustin’ Surfboards” and 1960s American surf group the Lively Ones’ “Surf Rider” kept that flavor going, and the rock element was further enhanced by Ricky Nelson’s 1958 US top ten hit “Lonesome Town” and Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell.”

Chicago alternative rock band Urge Overkill were given a huge boost by the inclusion of their cover of one of Neil Diamond’s first hits, the 1967 American top tenner “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon.” Springfield’s soulful “Son of a Preacher Man,” from her classic 1968 album “Dusty In Memphis,” was accompanied on the album by another much-travelled soul standard, Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”

Kool & the Gang, who had much earlier reaped the benefits of having their “Open Sesame” on the multi-million-selling Saturday Night Fever soundtrack of 1977, enjoyed another upswing as their first big crossover pop hit of late 1973, “Jungle Boogie,” also became part of Pulp Fiction.

Former Lone Justice frontwoman Maria McKee contributed her own composition “If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags),” and another of the most striking inclusions was “Flowers On The Wall,” a No. 2 country success in 1966 for the long-running Staunton, Virginia group the Statler Brothers.

The Pulp Fiction soundtrack reached No. 21 on the Billboard album chart and went on to estimated album equivalents of more than six million in America alone.

The film Pulp Fiction centers on the interwoven lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster & his wife, and a pair of dining bandits, as their lives unfold in four tales of violence and redemption. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction stars Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Laura Lovelace, Phil LaMarr, Frank Whaley, Burr Steers, Ving Rhames, Paul Calderon, Bronagh Gallagher, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Uma Thurman, Jerome Patrick Hoban, Michael Gilden, Gary Shorelle, Susan Griffiths, Eric Clark, Joseph Pilato, Brad Blumenthal, Steve Buscemi, Lorelei Leslie, Emil Sitka, Brenda Hillhouse and Christopher Walken.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Pumpkin And Honey Bunny / Misirlou – Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer / Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
2. Royale With Cheese – John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson
3. Jungle Boogie – Kool & The Gang
4. Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
5. Bustin’ Surfboards – The Tornadoes
6. Lonesome Town – Ricky Nelson
7. Son Of A Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield
8. Zed’s Dead, Baby / Bullwinkle Part II – Maria De Medeiros, Bruce Willis / The Centurians

Side B

1. Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest / You Never Can Tell – Jerome Patrick Hoban / Chuck Berry
2. Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon – Urge Overkill
3. If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags) – Maria McKee
4. Bring Out The Gimp / Comanche – Peter Greene, Duane Whitaker / The Revels
5. Flowers On The Wall – The Statler Brothers
6. Personality Goes A Long Way – John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson
7. Surf Rider – The Lively Ones
8. Ezekiel 25:17 – Samuel L. Jackson

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