Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Product Summary Label: Warner/reprise/maverick UPC: 00093624974444 Release Date: 8/18/2009 Buy.com Sku: 211420710 Item#: M4PN5N Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Green Leaves of Summer, The - Nick Perito ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Verdict [Dopo la Condanna], The - Ennio Morricone ~ Original Soundtrack 3. White Lightning (Main Title) [From White Lightning] ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Slaughter - Billy Preston ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Surrender [La Resa], The - Ennio Morricone ~ Original Soundtrack 6. One Silver Dollar [Un Dollaro Bucato] ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht Unter [From Die Grosse Liebe] - Zarah Leander ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Man With the Big Sombrero, The - Michael Andrew ~ Original Soundtrack 9. Ich Wolt Ich Waer Ein Huhn ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Main Theme From Dark of the Sun - Jacques Loussier ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Cat People (Putting Out the Fire) - David Bowie ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Tiger Tank - Lalo Schifrin ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Un Amico - Ennio Morricone ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Rabbia e Tarantella - Ennio Morricone ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info More than most Quentin Tarantino soundtracks, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is about the movie, standing as a companion to the film instead of as its own entity. Ever the iconoclast, Tarantino hardly feels beholden to his film's WWII setting, threading in Billy Preston's blaxploitation funk "Slaughter" and David Bowie's new wave "Cat People" between Jacques Loussier, Lalo Schifrin, and a heavy dose of Ennio Morricone, who contributes four of the album's 14 tracks. Of course, Schifrin and Morricone aren't exactly period-correct to WWII either, but one of the major thrusts of Tarantino's film is that it's a movie about World War II movies, so blurring the lines is logical and consistent with his body of work. This also applies to the soundtrack, which has the same kind of genre-bending eclecticism as any of his other films (all it lacks is excerpts of the film's dialogue). Every cut here is interesting, sometimes wonderful-- the Morricone is vivid, as are the obscure soundtrack selections from Charles Bernstein and the Film Studio Orchestra. More than most Quentin Tarantino soundtracks, Inglourious Basterds is about the movie, not the album, standing as a companion to the film instead of as its own entity. Ever the iconoclast, Tarantino hardly feels beholden to his film's WWII setting, threading in Billy Preston's blaxploitation funk "Slaughter" and David Bowie's new wave "Cat People" between Jacques Loussier, Lalo Schifrin, and a heavy dose of Ennio Morricone, who contributes four of the album's 14 tracks. Of course, Schifrin and Morricone aren't exactly period-correct to WWII either, but one of the major thrusts of Tarantino's film is that it's a movie about World War II movies, so blurring the lines is logical and consistent with his body of work. This also applies to the soundtrack, which has the same kind of genre-bending eclecticism as any of his other films (all it lacks is excerpts of the film's dialogue), but even if it is in the same spirit, it doesn't have the feel because these selections, as a whole, require familiarity with the film in order to sound cohesive (a problem also shared with the soundtrack to Kill Bill, Vol. 2). That said, every cut here is interesting, sometimes wonderful -- the Morricone is vivid, as are the obscure soundtrack selections from Charles Bernstein and the Film Studio Orchestra -- and once you've dialed into QT's wavelength, this soundtrack does provide plenty of pleasure. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Producer: Kathy Malloy; Susan Rose   Associated Artists and Works California Dreams Original Soundtrack Original Soundtrack   Technical Info Release Date : 08/18/2009 Original Release Date : 2009 Catalog ID : 520377 Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 37m : 8s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00093624974444    Product Image