Stuck In the Middle With You by Stealers Wheel

A song that you discovered on a film soundtrack. Safe to say that Quentin Tarantino raised the bar in terms of song choice for his soundtracks. It’s also pretty safe to say that the cultural impact of his first two movies still resonant, particularly with people of my generation who were lucky enough to see them at the cinema. I love movies, my childhood is peppered with memories of rainy Sunday afternoons watching old westerns, or lavish musicals, and when I review those ‘100 lists of movies you must watch’ I find that I’ve already seen most of the older ones. They were born from studios, from the cogs of that industry that churned out movies with ease. Later on, with Star Wars the dominant favourite, I started to realise the movies I was watching were all by the same few directors. Spielberg, Hughes, Zemeckis, Donner, Scorcese, Reiner, and all produced films still popular today. Behemoths of the industry indeed. So, for me at least, Tarantino was the first real introduction to indie…