Pulp Fiction is celebrating its 30th birthday this year with a special reissue of its soundtrack. Released on October 17th via Interscope Records, the reissue is available digitally as well as in two collector’s edition formats: an orange cassette and a glow-in-the-dark vinyl.
The 1994 Quentin Tarantino film starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and has since become a cultural touchstone of both Tarantino’s style and modern American cinema. But its soundtrack—featuring music from Dick Dale, Kool & The Gang, Dusty Springfield, Al Green, Chuck Berry, and The Tornadoes—has also been widely acclaimed.
Crowned the No. 7 Greatest Soundtrack of All Time by Rolling Stone, Pulp Fiction’s soundtrack has sold 6.3 million albums in the USA alone. It is widely credited with igniting a surf rock resurgence, as well as introducing artists like Dale and Springfield to a fresh generation of listeners. In a 1994 interview where Tarantino discussed why he chose surf rock for Pulp Fiction’s soundtrack, he shared: “It just seems like rock ‘n’ roll Ennio Morricone music, rock ‘n’ roll spaghetti Western music.”
