Jackie Brown | Original Movie Soundtrack

AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine  [-]

Quentin Tarantino established himself as one of the few filmmakers to effectively use pop music with his first film Reservoir Dogs, a movie where the music was integral to the success of the film yet also worked well as a collection of songs. Jackie Brown, Tarantino's long-awaited third feature, finds him exploring new territory, creating an homage to blaxploitation flicks as well as a surprisingly subtle character study and love story, and its soundtrack appropriately finds him in new territory as well. The soundtrack still features snippets of dialogue, which simply aren't as effective separated from the film as those from Pulp Fiction, but the unified collection of '70s soul and funk is refreshing. He has wisely selected a batch of songs that haven't been worn out by oldies radio, building the bulk of the album with cult favorites like Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street," Bill Withers' "Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)," Randy Crawford's "Street Life," Minnie Riperton's "Inside My Love," the Vampire Sound Inc.'s "The Lions and the Cucumber" and Pam Grier's "Long Time Woman." Only "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time," "Strawberry Letter 23" and "Natural High," as well as the Grass Roots' "Midnight Confessions," are familiar oldies items, but they play an integral part in the film itself and help make the soundtrack a thoroughly enjoyable, compulsively listenable experience.

Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film is an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch. It is the first (and to date, only) film that Tarantino has adapted from a previous work

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1. 0:00 "Beaumont's Lament" 2. 3:48 "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack 3. 4:38 "Strawberry Letter 23" by The Brothers Johnson 4. 9:36 "Melanie, Simone and Sheronda" ( 5. 10:08 "Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)" 6. 13:20 "Tennessee Stud" by Johnny Cash 7. 16:14 "Natural High" by Bloodstone 8. 21:07 "Long Time Woman" by Pam Grier 9. 23:59 "Detroit 9000" 10. 24:06 "(Holy Matrimony) Letter to the Firm" by Foxy Brown 11. 27:32 "Street Life" performed by Randy Crawford 12. 31:49 "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" 13. 35:10 "Midnight Confessions" by The Grass Roots 14. 37:54 "Inside My Love" by Minnie Riperton 15. 41:52 "Just Ask Melanie" 16. 42:35 "The Lions and the Cucumber" by The Vampires' 17. 47:42 "Monte Carlo Nights" by Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods