| By Glenn Gaslin Soundtrack: Grindhouse
Film starring Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Kurt Russell, Josh Brolin. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Released by Maverick Records.
Some songs just sound like they belong on a Tarantino soundtrack - your rarely-heard oldies, soul ballads and surf tunes with a dark fuzzy edge. Most were recorded before the guy even started making movies, but that doesn't change the fate of something like T. Rex's "Jeepster," or Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's "Hold Tight," or the Smith version of "Baby, It's You." They all feel at home on the soundtrack to Death Proof, Tarantino's half of Grindhouse, a high-concept schlock-tastic double-feature throwback to '70s exploitation film. Rodriguez's half, the fast-and-splattered zombie thriller Planet Terror, gets its own soundtrack, with more traditional horror-movie music composed by do-it-yourselfer Rodriguez. The mixtape Tarantino puts together for his stuntman-on-a-killing spree flick has an exotic vacation-gone-bad feel, with bits of dialogue thrown in, and he's even dug up the most evil-sound tune from doo-woppers The Coasters, "Down in Mexico." It's like the dark side of the Grease soundtrack, rammed straight into the Wall of Sound. Turn that up. |
