The 5 Best Music Moments In Inglourious Basterds (& 5 In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood both have a handful of unforgettable music moments.

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Iconic soundtracks are one of the hallmarks of Quentin Tarantino’s style. Music is a crucial factor in Tarantino’s creative process. When he’s working on a new script, he takes out his record collection to find the rhythm of the story. With his World War II epic Inglourious Basterds, he didn’t get pigeonholed by the period setting and featured music from all eras. With his ‘60s-set L.A. odyssey Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he did get pigeonholed by the period setting because the ‘60s brought some of the greatest music of all time.

From using a David Bowie track to set the stage for two simultaneous assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler to playing a Vanilla Fudge cover over the Manson Family murderers getting their comeuppance, Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood both have a handful of unforgettable music moments.

10 Inglourious Basterds: “The Green Leaves Of Summer” By Nick Perito

Dimitri Tiomkin initially recorded “The Green Leaves of Summer” for the 1960 war epic The Alamo, but it’s since been covered by a ton of beloved artists, including Frankie Laine, Brothers Four, and the Springfields.

Tarantino played the Nick Perito over the opening titles of Inglourious Basterds. It sets the tone for the movie’s revisionist history beautifully.

9 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: “Treat Her Right” By Roy Head And The Traits

Tarantino’s sun-drenched vision of ‘60s L.A. was introduced to the sounds of Roy Head and the Traits’ “Treat Her Right” over the opening credits.

By the end of the opening title sequence, in which Rick and Cliff drive to a restaurant to meet Marvin Schwarz and Sharon Tate takes a private plane back to L.A., the audience is fully immersed in the film’s setting.

8 Inglourious Basterds: “The Surrender (La Resa)” By Ennio Morricone

Before Tarantino managed to get iconic composer Ennio Morricone to write an original score for The Hateful Eight, he reused a bunch of Morricone tracks from different movies.

When Aldo Raine summons the Bear Jew from the dark tunnel where he’s hiding, Morricone’s “The Surrender (La Resa)” builds up the suspense to his introduction as he clacks his baseball bat along the wall of the tunnel on his way to beat a Nazi to death.

7 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: “Don’t Chase Me Around” By Robert Corff

Taken from the post-apocalyptic MGM comedy Gas-s-s-s, the opening guitar riffs of Robert Corff’s “Don’t Chase Me Around” play as Cliff is leaving Spahn Ranch and all the hippies stand in a line berating him, which doesn’t faze him in the slightest.

When he gets to Rick’s car and finds that one of the tires has been slashed, he identifies Clem Grogan as the culprit. He walks up to him and, on the song’s final drum sounds, knocks him off his feet with a swift punch to the face.

6 Inglourious Basterds: “Bath Attack” By Charles Bernstein

Shoshanna finds herself in a very uncomfortable position when Private Zoller introduces her to Joseph Goebbels – depicted in the movie as an even more significant member of Hitler’s inner circle than he was in real life – and they all sit down to eat together. But at least Goebbels doesn’t know her true identity.

In the middle of dessert, the table is joined by none other than Hans Landa, the “Jew Hunter” who let Shoshanna escape from the LaPadite dairy farm. Charles Bernstein’s “Bath Attack” from The Entity gives him a suitably nail-biting introduction.

5 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: “California Dreamin’” By Jose Feliciano

Tarantino chose Jose Feliciano’s melancholic cover version of “California Dreamin’” very specifically. The movie focuses on the end of an era for Hollywood. The Manson murders marked a major turning point for the American film industry.

This slower, more somber version of “California Dreamin’” plays as Sharon Tate heads home from a screening of The Wrecking Crew and, after a long day of shooting, Cliff takes Rick back to his house to watch his F.B.I. episode.

4 Inglourious Basterds: “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” By David Bowie

On top of the Basterds’ own plot to assassinate Hitler at the premiere of the new Nazi propaganda film Nation’s Pride, the theater owner Shoshanna plans to burn him alive by locking the screening room doors and setting fire to a pile of film stock behind the screen.

As Shoshanna is getting ready to host the premiere, she applies her makeup like it’s warpaint, set to the sounds of David Bowie’s Cat People theme. It’s used much better in Basterds than it was in Cat People itself.

3 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: “Out Of Time” By The Rolling Stones

At the end of Rick and Cliff’s stint in Italy, the former tells the latter that he won’t be able to keep employing him when they get back to L.A. To mark the end of their working relationship, they go out drinking on the night that, in real life, the Manson Family killed Sharon Tate.

As Tate’s friends arrive at her house and the night sky of Los Angeles is lit up, the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time” segues the movie into its riveting final act.

2 Inglourious Basterds: “Rabbia E Tarantella” By Ennio Morricone

The final scene of Inglourious Basterds ends the movie on a pitch-black comic note as Aldo Raine carves a swastika into Hans Landa’s forehead to prevent him from getting away with his Nazi war crimes.

He declares it to be his masterpiece before Ennio Morricone’s “Rabbia e Tarantella” rings in the end credits. Morricone initially composed this track as the theme for Allonsanfàn.

1 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” By Vanilla Fudge

In Tarantino’s alternate history, the Manson Family murderers decided to avoid Sharon Tate’s house at the last minute and instead went to her next-door neighbor Rick Dalton’s house with the intention of killing the TV cowboy that taught them to kill.

However, they don’t count on Rick’s stunt double Cliff and his fiercely loyal pit bull Brandy being there to protect the homestead. Vanilla Fudge’s psychedelic cover of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” is perfectly paired with Cliff’s violent acid trip.

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