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Early Childhood
Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
Remember how I said when I was little I wanted to listen to everything my older sister listened to? Well, this is another one of those. She came over one day raving about the movie and had the soundtrack in tow. Now, I was much too young for my parents to actually let me see Pulp Fiction, but they seemed to be fine with the soundtrack. It would be about another 8 years before I actually did see the movie, but I was an expert on the music in it, to be sure. I also felt like a total badass having an album with curse words in it (they weren't in the songs, they were in the little bits of movie dialogue sprinkled throughout the soundtrack).
Unlike my Cranberries cassette, I actually still have this thing. I'm not sure if it plays since it has been years since I've listened to it, but I always thought it was interesting it lasted this long. This was also the first CD I ever owned. Ah, technology!
Years later, and several Quentin Tarantino movies later, I realized the guy has consistently excellent taste in music. I tend to really enjoy the songs he puts in his films, Pulp Fiction included. I always felt his choices gave his movies a “You may not like this music, but I do and if you make fun of it I'm going to rip your ****ing head off” kind of vibe. When I was little and listening to this album, though, I was always really confused as to how an action movie could fit in music like this. The songs I would play over and over back then were **** Dale's Misirlou (even then I loved killer guitar work), Kool and the Gang's Jungle Boogie (which I love to this day), Urge Overkill's Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon, and Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man. In fact, Son of a Preacher Man used to be my favorite song on the entire album. Don't ask me why, I was a weird kid. This is definitely another nostalgia inducing album. As I listen to it again, I'm going right back to age 9 while I rock out to **** Dale. Trippy.
I think the biggest thing this album did for me was that after listening to it, I really didn't care what everyone thought of my taste in music. I like what I like, and if you don't then you are really just missing out. I think it also helped broaden my taste a bit as I rarely stick to one genre of music for too long. There are definitely unifying elements in what I listen to, but if you were to look through my collection you would see that I go all over the place. This album also set me up to love just about every Quentin Tarantino movie. I guess I was just raised to have impeccable taste.