Desperado: The Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Various artists
ReleasedAugust 15, 1995 (1995-08-15)
Genre
Length59:33
Language
  • English
  • Spanish
LabelEpic
Sony
Robert Rodriguez film soundtrack chronology
Four Rooms
(1995)		 Desperado: The Soundtrack
(1995)		 From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996)
Los Lobos chronology
Music for Papa's Dream
(1995)		 Desperado
(1995)		 Colossal Head
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Desperado: The Soundtrack is the film score to Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado. It was written and performed by the Los Angeles rock bands Los Lobos and Tito & Tarantula, performing traditional Ranchera and Chicano rock music. Other artists on the soundtrack album include Dire Straits, Link Wray, Latin Playboys, and Carlos Santana. Musician Tito Larriva has a small role in the film, and his band, Tito & Tarantula, contributed to the soundtrack as well.[2]

The album track "Mariachi Suite" by Los Lobos was awarded a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 1995 Grammy Awards.[3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Canción del Mariachi ("Morena de Mi Corazón")"Cesar RosasLos Lobos and Antonio Banderas2:06
2."Six Blade Knife[fn 1]"Mark KnopflerDire Straits4:34
3."Jack the Ripper[fn 2]"
  • Link Wray
  • Milt Grant
Link Wray & His Ray Men2:31
4."Manifold de Amour"
Latin Playboys2:03
5."Forever Night Shade Mary"
  • Hidalgo
  • Pérez
Latin Playboys3:00
6."Pass the Hatchet"
  • Earl Stanley Oropeza
  • Ray Theriot
  • Roger Leon Jr.
Roger & the Gypsies3:00
7."Bar Fight[fn 3]"Los LobosLos Lobos1:54
8."Strange Face of Love[fn 4]"Tito LarrivaTito & Tarantula5:51
9."Bucho's Gracias / Navajas Attacks[fn 5]"Los LobosLos Lobos3:56
10."Bulletproof[fn 6]"Los LobosLos Lobos1:42
11."Bella"
Carlos Santana4:29
12."Quédate Aquí"Mildred VillafañeSalma Hayek2:05
13."Rooftop Action[fn 7]"Los LobosLos Lobos1:36
14."Phone Call[fn 8]"Los LobosLos Lobos2:16
15."White Train (Showdown)[fn 9]"LarrivaTito & Tarantula5:57
16."Back to the House That Love Built[fn 10]"LarrivaTito & Tarantula4:41
17."Let Love Reign"Los LobosLos Lobos3:22
18."Mariachi Suite"Los LobosLos Lobos4:22
Total length:59:33

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Features dialogue "There He Was" by Steve Buscemi
  2. ↑ Features dialogue "The Bartender Never Gets Killed" by Cheech Marin
  3. ↑ Features dialogue "Is There Something in the Guitar Case?" by Antonio Banderas and Cheech Marin
  4. ↑ Features dialogue "But You Had to Do It the Hard Way" by Antonio Banderas
  5. ↑ Features dialogue "I Use It to Pick Up Girls" by Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek
  6. ↑ Features dialogue "Forgive Me, Father" by Antonio Banderas and Steve Buscemi
  7. ↑ Features dialogue "You Look Great" by Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek
  8. ↑ Features dialogue "Easier to Destroy Than to Create" by Antonio Banderas
  9. ↑ Features dialogue "Bring Your Guitars" by Antonio Banderas
  10. ↑ Features dialogue "Did I Thank You?" by Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek

Personnel

  • Tom Baker – mastering
  • Antonio Banderas – speech
  • Steve Berlin – mixing
  • Richard Bosworth – engineer, mixing engineer
  • Steve Buscemi – speech
  • Bill Jackson – engineer, mixing
  • Tito Larriva – producer
  • Los Lobos – producer
  • Cheech Marin – speech
  • Charlie Midnight – producer
  • Thom Panunzio – mixing
  • Karyn Rachtman – executive producer
  • Robert Rodriguez – executive producer
  • Cesar Rosas – engineer
  • Carlos Santana – performer
  • Quentin Tarantino – speech
  • David Tickle – mixing
  • Andy Kravitz -Engineer

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "Desperado - The Soundtrack". Spotify. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  3. ↑ Aldama, Frederick Luis (2014). The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez. University of Texas Press. p. 43. ISBN 9780292761247.
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