Pitchfork ranked the soundtrack at 15 on their 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time list, saying that "Old Black is featured in its purest form on the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch’s hallucinatory western Dead Man.
Pitchfork placed the soundtrack at number 15 on their list of the 50 greatest movie scores ever made, highlighting that Old Black is prominently featured in the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's surreal Western film, "Dead Man".