Desperado: The Soundtrack

Desperado: The Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	August 15, 1995 (1995-08-15)
Genre	Chicano rock Ranchera Hard rock
Length	59:33
Language	English Spanish
Label	Epic Sony
Robert Rodriguez film soundtrack chronology
El Mariachi (1993) Desperado: The Soundtrack (1995) Four Rooms (1995)
Los Lobos chronology
Music for Papa's Dream (1995) Desperado (1995) Colossal Head (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
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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.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Canción del Mariachi ("Morena de Mi Corazón")"	Cesar Rosas	Los Lobos and Antonio Banderas	2:06
2.	"Six Blade Knife [fn 1] "	Mark Knopfler	Dire Straits	4:34
3.	"Jack the Ripper [fn 2] "	Link Wray Milt Grant	Link Wray & His Ray Men	2:31
4.	"Manifold de Amour"	David Hidalgo Louie Pérez	Latin Playboys	2:03
5.	"Forever Night Shade Mary"	Hidalgo Pérez	Latin Playboys	3:00
6.	"Pass the Hatchet"	Earl Stanley Oropeza Ray Theriot Roger Leon Jr.	Roger & the Gypsies	3:00
7.	"Bar Fight [fn 3] "	Los Lobos	Los Lobos	1:54
8.	"Strange Face of Love [fn 4] "	Tito Larriva	Tito & Tarantula	5:51
9.	"Bucho's Gracias / Navajas Attacks [fn 5] "	Los Lobos	Los Lobos	3:56
10.	"Bulletproof [fn 6] "	Los Lobos	Los Lobos	1:42
11.	"Bella"	Carlos Santana Chester Thompson Sterling Crew	Carlos Santana	4:29
12.	"Quédate Aquí"	Mildred Villafañe	Salma Hayek	2:05
13.	"Rooftop Action [fn 7] "	Los Lobos	Los Lobos	1:36
14.	"Phone Call [fn 8] "	Los Lobos	Los Lobos	2:16
15.	"White Train (Showdown) [fn 9] "	Larriva	Tito & Tarantula	5:57
16.	"Back to the House That Love Built [fn 10] "	Larriva	Tito & Tarantula	4:41
17.	"Let Love Reign"	Los Lobos	Los Lobos	3:22
18.	"Mariachi Suite"	Los Lobos	Los Lobos	4:22
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.

External links

• Desperado: The Soundtrack at AllMusic
• Desperado: The Soundtrack at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
• Desperado: The Soundtrack at Discogs (list of releases)