Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture

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 dialog 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) 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

• Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack)
• Kill Bill: Volume 2
• Jackie Brown: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture (1997 Film)
• The Big Lebowski: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• From Dusk Till Dawn Music From The Motion Picture
• Django Unchained O.S.T.
• Easy Rider: Music From The Soundtrack (1969 Film)
• Almost Famous