Ghetto Pop Life
Dick Dale’s surf-guitar provided the memorable title theme (”Misirlou”), for Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 smash, and although that sound runs throughout the soundtrack (along with bits and pieces of dialogue from the movie), this is a pretty eclectic bunch of really terrific songs. I don’t know how it all manages to hang together, but it does (you might say the same for the interwoven stories in the movie). Where else are you going to find Chuck Berry, Maria McKee, Al Green, The Statler Brothers, Kool & the Gang, Urge Overkill (singing a Neil Diamond ballad!), Ricky Nelson, Dusty Springfield, and the Tornadoes (among others)on one album? McKee’s beautiful “If Love is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)” is a standout, partly because it’s less familiar. One of the few soundtracks of the ’90s that went into the CD player and stayed there for weeks and months thereafter. –Jim Emerson
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Customer Review: Great
Don’t think, just buy. Had this for ages listened to it thousands of times. Also it’s priceless just play the first track LOUD to any unsuspecting victim.
Customer Review: The soundtrack album that reinvented soundtrack albums
Brilliant film, brilliant soundtrack. Usually slinging disparate tracks together results in an album that sounds unfocused. Maybe it’s familiarity with the film that makes this album’s flow of tracks completey natural, maybe it’s simply that the tracks are strong, maybe it’s the snippets of dialogue. Whatever it is this combination of garage surf, disco, soul, crooning, country and classic rock has now virtually become an artistic entity in its own right. This soundtrack is peerless. The extra tracks in this edition consist of masterpieces by Link Wray, (the guitar through the damaged overdriven speaker sound of Rumble) and the Brothers Johnston (the disco balladry of Strawberry Letter #23), garage surf from the Marketts, doo wop from The Robins, and a 15 minute talk by Tarantino in which he discusses his approach to soundtracks.
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Ghetto Pop Life
Customer Review: Overall, good.
Some of the tunes on this album are brilliant and remind me a bit of Kanye West and what he is doing (and what others are not doing) in the genre. The production is awesome and sounds good on all media and some of the instrumentation is inspired.
There are a couple of tracks on here that sound like '90s West Coast throwbacks which don't really gel with the really strong tracks (The Only One, Ghetto Pop Life and Medieval) which are much more contempory. I agree with one of the other reviewers here who said he felt some of the lyrics were a little crude (not in the biblical sense!) and let down, what is, a very strong album. I also love the cover art.
This is in the mold of Kanye West with a bit of Nas - if that yanks your crank then buy this album.
Customer Review: —Ghetto pop life-hotter than a hot slice——-
Best album of 2004? Could well be…..
I know everyone bangs on about it but Dangermouse’s production just screams CLASSIC. He’s been using Protools for this one and the beats are crisper than frozen leaves. It makes the grey album production sound like it was done on fisher price’s ‘my first sequencer’. He’s taken mad breaks from all over but made them into a coherent album with a strong signature style.
Jemini (who once guested on a peter andre album!) has a strong enough flow to keep pace with the production and records with a string of punch-ins and overdubs that make parts of the album sound more like three MCs (a la Beasties or Pharcyde) than one. He holds down more topics than your average NY thug rapper, politicing on bush, drugs, big rims, food….er…and nuff more..
There’s a reason this album has killed it all over the world with a tenth of the promotion of bigger artists……Its just plain sick…
look out for the new dangermouse/ mf doom collaboration out 2005.
