`Pulp Fiction Collector's Edition' Soundtrack Album Adds Bonus Tracks and Tarantino Interview to Surf/Exotica/Oldies Classic.

Entertainment Editors & Music/DVD/Retail Writers

LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 19, 2002

The triple platinum original soundtrack album to "Pulp Fiction" that resurrected surf music and instigated a wave of neo-exotica has been digitally remastered and converted into a special "Collector's Edition" to coincide with the simultaneous release of the film on DVD.

"Music From The Motion Picture PULP FICTION a Quentin Tarantino Film/Collector's Edition" (MCA/UME), released August 20, 2002, expands the original album into a two-CD set. Disc One features the original lineup, including dialogue excerpts (the album is tagged with a Parental Advisory sticker), plus four bonus tracks of songs used in the film but not heard on the soundtrack album: "Since I First Met You" by The Robins; "Rumble," a definitive Link Wray instrumental; "Strawberry Letter #23" by the Brothers Johnson; and the instrumental "Out Of Limits" by The Marketts.

Disc Two boasts a 16-minute-plus interview with writer-director Quentin Tarantino done at the time of the film's 1994 release in which he talks about how and why the various songs in the film were chosen.

A major hit, "Pulp Fiction" not only established Tarantino's career but revived that of one of its stars, John Travolta. Also starring Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman, the film won the prestigious Best Picture prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning one for its screenplay.

Its music is as cleverly and hilariously twisted as the film. An eclectic mixture of great oldies like Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" and Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man," and classic surf instrumentals such as Dick Dale's seminal "Misirlou," the soundtrack sailed into the Top 25 and stayed on the Top 200 Albums chart for 107 weeks. Suddenly surf music was hip again, prompting innumerable reissues. Meanwhile Urge Overkill's version of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon," featured in a memorable dance scene, made it onto the pop charts as well as onto alternative radio.

Also included are Kool & The Gang's "Jungle Boogie," Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell," Ricky Nelson's "Lonesome Town" and The Statler Brothers' "Flowers On The Wall." The remaining tunes are "Bustin' Surfboards" (The Tornadoes), "Bullwinkle Part II" (The Centurians), "Comanche" (The Revels) and "Surf Rider" (The Lively Ones). The sole original contemporary track is "If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags)" from Maria McKee.

When it comes to soundtrack albums, "Pulp Fiction" is a royale with cheese.