So. Many. Bangers.
While the general consensus usually states that Quentin Tarantino established his unique and shitcool aesthetic by combining ‘Little Green Bag’ with that epic slow-mo shot at the start of Reservoir Dogs, we’re going to opt for something a little bit different from his fantastic directorial debut that highlights those credentials.
No, it’s not the ear-slicing scene set to ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ by Stealers Wheel, but rather Harry Nilsson’s wonderfully chill ‘Coconut’, which played over the final credits as the audience tried to make sense of the bloody carnage that had just unfolded.
Simply put, it could be argued that Martin Scorsese is the only other director that uses music better to complement a scene than Tarantino does and with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood set for release very soon – you can read our review here – Tarantino has cherry picked his favourite tracks from his own films.
To make things even better, the maverick director has also picked a few tunes from some of the other films that have his unique fingerprints on them – he wrote From Dusk ‘Till Dawn, True Romance, and Natural Born Killers – and tracks from those films feature on the Spotify playlist too.
Think you can predict Tarantino’s tastes?
Well, to quote the title of the Chuck Berry track that played during the famous Jack Rabbit Slim sequence in Pulp Fiction, you never can tell.
Have a listen to be playlst below, featuring an intro from the great man himself.
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