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Kill Bill: Volume 1

Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 2003-09-23
Manufacturer: Maverick
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
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Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Fashion be damned: Pop culture is just one big Hometown Buffet for writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Nowhere has that sensibility been more apparent than on his hand-picked soundtrack choices, and this oft tongue-in-cheek tale of a female assassin's revenge (his first film in six years) is no exception. With dizzy, almost palpable glee, Tarantino evokes the international hall-of-mirrors influences that energize martial arts films and much of Asian pop culture in general. Thus the hip-hop of Wu Tang's RZA (who, along with composer Charles Bernstein, concocts what passes for the score's traditional cues) somehow finds itself but one ingredient in a heady souffle that includes vintage TV and film cue rarities (Al Hirt's main title from The Green Hornet, Bernard Herrmann's haunting theme from Twisted Nerve, the spaghetti western melodrama of Luis Bacalov's "The Grand Duel," Isaac Hayes in full blaxploitation mode on "Run Fay Run"), Charlie Feathers' vintage rockabilly and a pan-kitsch sensibility that encompasses Zamfir, Nancy Sinatra's angst-in-the-pants take "Bang, Bang" and Santa Esmeralda's disco-era workout of "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." Tarantino's contemporary Japan-Pop selections are no less giddy, ranging from Meiko Kaji's sultry "Flower of Carnage" to The 5.6.7.8's loopy "Woo Hoo." It's everything we've come to expect from a Tarantino score (including dialog excerpts and a few sound fx stingers), with a madcap trip around the pop music world thrown in for good measure. -- Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) ends up in your disc player longer than you expect   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
ends up in your disc player longer than you expect. hard to go w/out singing along to it, or talking w/the dialogue. in particular it's a good buy if you like the movie.

2) Tarantino isn't about soundtracks   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
The soundtracks for Kill Bill I and II are ok. They have their moments. But overall Tarantino films aren't about the soundtrack, they're about the story and the people in them. Tarantino uses his soundtracks as a sort of subliminal plot device. They're all kind of homages to other moments in other films and shows, just like the visuals in any Tarantino flick. For example, the ads for Red Apple cigarettes in the airport in Japan, referring back to the Red Apple cigarettes in Pulp Fiction.His soundtracks are really not so much about the music, as they are about adding into the story. So apart from the few good musical moments (Bang Bang, Battle Without Honour or Humanity, etc.), there aren't a whole lot of things that are specifically about the films. Pulp Fiction soundtrack was the same.It just seems like the marketing machine nattering at Tarantino saying "We MUST have a soundtrack to flog!! And stuffed Uma Thurman and David Carradine toys! And the Kill Bill Speak'n'Spell that only spits out four letter words for the kiddies!". Marketing knows no boundaries or reality.:-P

3) Kill Bill 1   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Felt like I was watching the movie instead of Listening to it.most enjoyable.

4) Great movie   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
This is very much a modern day samurai/kung fu/spaghetti western style movie. Check out the music, much of it taken directly from the fore mentioned kung fu genre and the spaghetti westerns. It's epic.

5) Kill Bill original soundtrack vol 1   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Thank you very much, very good music. I very like Tarantino. Music from his films is very very good.