When the action is mounting and the heroes are ready for battle, these needle drops make everything feel more epic.

Tunes — well-chosen ones — turn normal movie scenes into electric ones. Needle drops, they're called in the film world. (And don't laugh: Several of the filmmakers below are, indeed, dropping ...

We could write this article about almost any song used in Quentin’s 10 films — nine if you count Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 as a single movie — and make a convincing case for why it’s the best needle ...