“Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon” by Urge Overkill

"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" is a Neil Diamond song, one he wrote and took into the US top 10 in 1967, but Urge Overkill made it their own on the Stull EP in 1992. Their version found a second life two years later, when it landed on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.

The band slow it right down and play it straight-faced, with a lounge-lizard croon and a guitar that shimmers and twangs like it's been left out in the desert heat. The song is still about a man pleading with a young woman whose friends and family keep running him down, asking her to make up her own mind about him, but here it sounds less like a pop plea and more like a late-night confession in a dim bar.

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