Misirlou

Like, you've heard the song.

Misirlou?

Um, yeah.

Uh, and then I lo- so one of my favorite songs, and it's, it's weird that I say this, but, like, Let's Stay Together by Al Green, I love that song so much, and I don't know why.

Aside from all the cinematic stuff, that is not the reason why we talk about it.

The movie's soundtrack helped to revitalize interest in Dick Dale's surf rock guitar masterpiece, "Misirlou," that's the song that's in the opening of the movie, along with Kool & The Gang's "Jungle Boogie" and Link Wray's instrumental "Rumble".

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The bootlegs which were charting included live captures from Cadiz, Milan, Verona, London, and Hamburg.

That's kind of the...

So and anyways, I literally looked up on Spotify surfer rock, and I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, and I see, uh, Miserlou, the title.

And my first thought is, "Okay, Pulp Fiction.

I know this song." [laughs] Um, my, the fun, the, another funny story about it, when I told my mother about, like, the music that I found, I was like, "Mom, listen to this." Um, my grandmother used to play that song for her on the piano.

Shout-out surf guitar legend Dick Dale.

Uh, please note the great, big, shameless, obvious, and tremendously effective sample of Dick Dale's iconic 1962 version of the song "Misirlou." Uh, "Pump It" is the second-best pop culture reappropriation of "Misirlou" after Pulp Fiction.

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