Just look at Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown, Django Unchained or Death Proof. Now Quentin has famously used songs and scores from exploitation, blaxpoitation, kung fu and giallo movies before. Even before the film has hit theaters, it introduced me to Neil Diamond's Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Then along comes Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. It's something I had yet to hear before or since.Īlbums like Queens of the Stone Age's Songs For the Deaf have experimented with the 'radio station' concept to much pleasure. Wolfman Jack, the famous disc jockey from the film appeared between songs like some sort of host. What set it apart from Gump, or any other soundtrack for that matter, was that it took the 'genre' and made it conceptual. The soundtrack, like Forrest Gump, was in regular in rotation. If I were to really go back, it can be traced to American Graffiti. Making a series worth of NOW That's What I Call Music and countless infomercials for music compilations entirely irrelevant. What I noticed with these movies that had this type of rhythm and feel, was that the soundtrack itself encapsulated that particular period. Movies filled wall to wall with songs that propped up some of the more iconic scenes in cinema history. GoodFellas, Casino, Dazed and Confused, Trainspotting, Boogie Nights, Velvet Goldmine. I started noticing a trend of "soundtrack movies" in the 90's. A similair problem would plague my obsessive listening to the Casino soundtrack. In that sense the soundtrack that I had wasn't a complete one. But still an itch that needed to be scratched. A problem that could be corrected with the eventual purchase of Rumors. I remember rewatching it and noticing the absence of Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way. Beyond just the glorious soundtrack that carries us through the decades of US history. A viewing of the film made it a favorite. It was just at the right time when I was discovering The Beatles, The Who and other 60's groups. All starting with the discovery of the Forrest Gump soundtrack in my aunt's attic amongs a shoebox of CDs. Soundtracks became a gateway to many of my favorite songs today. Until I bump into a bag with $500 and am able to afford Premiere Pro, this is the closest to editing I can get. If I want to get adventurous, I try to make it as eclectic as possible. Making sure the song before it and the song after it make a smooth transition. One of my favorite things to do is sequencing music playlists.
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