Hell, Jack Nitzsche's "The Last Race" and Eddie Beram's "Riot in Thunder Alley"- a deliciously schlocky combo of fuzz bass, cheesy new-for-1967 sitar, and cod-Latin drumming that will have you instantly imagining teenage rabble cruising down two-lane blacktop to a middle-aged man's idea of rock'n'roll menace- were already B-movie standards before being repurposed by Tarantino. Despite the years that separate them, most of Death Proof's tunes do sound like they could have been plucked from three decades of double features at the drive-in, even if April March's "Chick Habit" really sounds like interstitial music from the Powerpuff Girls. But with Tarantino's pop song sound markers becoming iconic in their own right- I'm pretty sick of seeing Michael Madsen hacking off that cop's ear every time I turn on the oldies station- the guy obviously knows a thing or two about picking a memorable song to match a memorable image.
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