{"id":8348,"date":"2026-01-27T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/quentin-tarantino-chooses-his-10-favourite-records-27610\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:22:40","slug":"quentin-tarantino-chooses-his-10-favourite-records-27610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/quentin-tarantino-chooses-his-10-favourite-records-27610\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino chooses his 10 favourite records"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Originally published in Uncut Take 1 [May 1997], the Oscar-winning filmmaker chooses his favourite records, from Dylan classics to film soundtracks,<\/em><\/strong> an R&B smash and a rockabilly essential… <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Originally published in Uncut Take 1 [May 1997], the Oscar-winning filmmaker chooses his favourite records, from Dylan classics to film soundtracks,<\/em><\/strong> an R&B smash and a rockabilly essential\u2026 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan
Blood On The Tracks<\/strong>
\u201cThis is my favourite album ever. I spent the end of my teenage years and my early twenties listening to old music \u2013 rockabilly music, stuff like that. Then I discovered folk music when I was 25, and that led me to Dylan. He totally blew me away with this. It\u2019s like the great album from the second period, y\u2019know? He did that first run of albums in the Sixties, then he started doing his less troublesome albums \u2013 and out of that comes Blood On The Tracks. It\u2019s his masterpiece.<\/p>\n

Bob Dylan
\u201cTangled Up In Blue\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cOK, maybe I\u2019m cheating here. I know this is off Blood On The Tracks, but it\u2019s my all-time favourite song. It\u2019s one of those songs where the lyrics are ambiguous you can actually write the song yourself. That\u2019s a lot of fun \u2013 it\u2019s like Dylan fooling around with the listener, playing on the way he or she interprets the lyrics. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to take individual songs off Blood On the Tracks, because itworks so well as an entire album. I used to think \u2018If You See Her, Say Hello\u2019 was a more powerful song than \u2018Tangled Up In Blue\u2019 but, over the years I\u2019ve kinda realized \u2018Tangled\u2026\u2019 has the edge, just for the fun you can have with it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Freda Payne
\u201cBand Of Gold\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cI\u2019m a gigantic music fan. I love fifties rock\u2018n\u2019roll, Chess, Sun, Motown. All the Merseybeat bands, Sixties girl groups, folk. This is just so cool: it\u2019s a combination of the way it\u2019s produced, the cool pop\/R&B sound and Freda\u2019s voice. Its kinda kitschy in a way \u2013 y\u2019know, it\u2019s got a really up-tempo tune \u2013 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elvis Presley
The Sun Sessions<\/strong>
\u201cThis 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 \u2013 but no one collection ever touched the album. When I was young, I used to think Elvis was the voice of truth. I don\u2019t know what that means, but his voice\u2026 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\u2019re ashamed of that man in Vegas. You feel like he let you down. The hillbilly cat never let you down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Ochs
\u201cI Ain\u2019t Marching Anymore\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cOK, from now on these aren\u2019t in any order. It\u2019s the same with movies: I have my three favourite \u2013 Taxi Driver, Blow Out and Rio Bravo \u2013 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\u2019d write songs which would seem very black and white, and then , in the last verse, he\u2019d say something which, like, completely shattered you. A song I love very much on this album is \u2018Here\u2019s To The State of Mississippi\u2019 \u2013 Basically, it\u2019s everything the movie Mississippi Burning should have been.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Ochs
\u201cThe Highwayman\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cI\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elmer Bernstein
The Great Escape<\/strong>
\u201cI used to have a huge collection of film soundtracks. I don\u2019t get enthusiastic about them any more, though, because now most soundtracks are just a collection of rock songs, half of which don\u2019t 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 \u2013 it\u2019s so damn effective. It took me ages to get hold of a copy, and, Jeez, I almost wept when I finally did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bernard Herrmann
Sisters<\/strong>
\u201cThis is from a Brian De Palma movie. It\u2019s a pretty scary film, and the soundtrack\u2026 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\u2019t last a minute. When I\u2019m first thinking about a movie I\u2019ll start looking for songs that reflect the personality of the movie, I\u2019ll 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\u2019s 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 \u2018Little Green Bag\u2019 kicks in \u2013 you just know there\u2019s gonna be trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerry Goldsmith
Under Fire<\/strong>
\u201c\u2018The Main Theme\u2019 is one of the greatest pieces of music written for a movie. It\u2019s so haunting, so beautiful, \u2013 full of pan flutes and stuff. It\u2019s shattering y\u2019know \u2013 like a Morricone theme. Oddly enough, \u2018The Main Theme\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Nitzsche
Revenge<\/strong>
\u201cOut of all the soundtracks, this is the best. It\u2019s from a Tony Scott movie \u2013 he directed True Romance \u2013 and it\u2019s a very lush, elegant score. You don\u2019t need to know the film to enjoy the soundtrack: It works in its own right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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