Kill Bill Volume 2 (soundtrack)
| Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack | ||||
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| Soundtrack album to Kill Bill: Volume 2 by various artists | ||||
| Released | April 13, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 46:12 | |||
| Label | Maverick Records | |||
| Producer |
Quentin Tarantino RZA Robert Rodriguez |
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| Quentin Tarantino film soundtrack chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   |
Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the second volume of the two-part Quentin Tarantino film, Kill Bill. First released on April 13, 2004, it reached #58 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Billboard soundtracks chart in the US. It also reached the ARIA Top 50 album charts in Australia. It was orchestrated by Tarantino's fellow filmmaker and personal friend Robert Rodriguez, as well as RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan.
Robert Rodriguez was hired by Tarantino to score the film. Rodriguez did it as a favour for his friend, Tarantino, asking to be paid one dollar for his work. Tarantino repaid this favour by directing a scene of Rodriguez's Sin City for the same fee. RZA said of the soundtrack:
"With Kill Bill I did score and songs, meaning that we put a lot of songs in [the movie] from old collections of records and I composed music for some scenes, natural music. When we did Kill Bill 2, you know, we brought Robert Rodriguez in. Check this out, he took my music and he kept the foundation there, though. With Robert he didn't want to remove any of the electronic [sounds]. He said 'No.' I was like 'Take out all the electronic stuff, you know, so it can be [more like a traditional score].' He said 'No, man. I like the electronic stuff. This is the reason I wanted to do this.' So he took the electronic stuff and kept it there, then built the orchestrations on top of it, you know what I mean?"
"About Her" by Malcolm McLaren sampled vocals from The Zombies's song "She's Not There" and Bessie Smith's song "St. Louis Blues" from the movie of the same name.
Numerous noteworthy tracks used in the film and to advertise it were not included in the soundtrack album:
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