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Awesome Music: Quentin Tarantino

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Reservoir Dogs

The Reservoir Dogs opening sequence with "Little Green Bag" by George Baker Selection playing as the characters walk by looking (super fucking) cool.
Also: "Stuck In The Middle With You". Gives a whole new meaning to the term Ear Worm, doesn't it?

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction has one of the most powerful kick-ins of all film - Misirlou!
From "Pulp Fiction", Preacher man by Dusty Springfield. The music fits perfectly with the scene.
Surf Rider finished the film awesomely.

Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown kicks off with Across 110th Street, a song inspirational even to the whitest of honkies.
Strawberry Letter #23 by The Brothers Johnson, during the scene where Ordell bumps off Beaumont.
Street Life by Randy Crawford, when Jackie arrives at the mall before the climax.

Kill Bill

Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Nancy Sinatra, over the opening credits. The minimalism of the song only increases the anticipation for the bloodshed ahead. Plus, the guitar is awesome.
Battle Without Honor Or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei is famed for its use in fight scenes in Kill Bill. As said in xkcd, it makes anything and everything better.
Not on the soundtrack, but still awesome, Death Rides a Horse (originally written for the movie of the same name), which plays when the Bride calls out O-Ren Ishii.
Also the re-use of Ennio Morricone's "L'Arena" (originally written for The Mercenary) for the Bride's escape.
The Lonely Shepherd, which plays when Beatrix gets her Hattori Hanzo sword, then again in the ending credits of Vol 1. Always gets this troper's blood pumping.
Not to mention Morricone's A Silhouette Of Doom. It's called A Silhouette Of Doom and it's written by Ennio Morricone. What more do I need to say!?
Let's not forget Santa Esmeralda's Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, particularly the use of the instrumental break in the song as a lead-in to the Bride's battle with O-Ren Ishii.

Death Proof

Down in Mexico by The Coasters. The scene would be a lot sexier if she wasn't dancing for an aged Kurt Russell, but still...
Hold Tight by Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich.
It's So Easy by Willy DeVille.
That theme that plays when Kim, Zoe, and Abby are chasing Stuntman Mike is all kinds of awesome!
"Jack and Jill" is a really touching song, just a lonely melancholic piano playing in a moment of passiveness. You won't really thing it would be THAT kind of Mood Whiplash after watching the rest of the movie, but...

Inglourious Basterds

The theme to The Battle of Algiers which Quentin Tarantino used in Inglourious Basterds.
David Bowie's "Cat People" as used in Inglourious Basterds. Should be completely out of place, but fits perfectly.
If you ever have the chance to have theme music announcing your arrival anywhere, you want it to be "The Verdict". You know it's true. Tarantino and Ennio Morricone cannot be denied.
- Speaking of Morricone...Rabbia E Tarantella. Enjoy.
Hugo Stiglitz *DUH NEHHHHH*